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153 | Compete for the Outcome
We're good at doing, but we tend to question the value of pausing. This intentionally brief podcast is about a shift - from saying more to praying more. The world down...
152 | Celebration Is Essential
The celebration of key events happens regularly in childhood. But then we get older and they stop. We hit a milestone dead zone where important things go unacknowledge...
151 | Return to Basics
How does the trained professional survive hard times? By simplifying. It is the dominant strategy of the mature through the ages: double down on first principles. But ...
150 | The Only Safe Place to Take Shelter
We live in unprecedented times where scarcity and fear strike in the middle of the day and the dead of night. Yet God promises to provide and sustain us. How can we ho...
149 | What Does a Mature Man Do In a Crisis?
When hard times hit the fan, how shaky is your foundation? The pull is often to gain control...or at least more information. But doing so causes us to miss the deeper ...
148 | Sabbath is Play, not Rest
What did God mean when he meant Sabbath? Most of us have no clue. Culture and tradition have made it boring and burdensome. So we shrug and settle for a nap or a beer....
147 | Sara Hagerty - Adoring God In The Middle Of The Mess
How do you avoid losing hope? For better or worse, it's an everyday question. Answer? It may mean doing the hard thing, which is adoring God in the middle of the mess....
146 | Brad Beck: Astronauts, Emergency Medicine, and Your Calling
Where to start? Brad Beck has flown T-38s, worked at NASA, traveled the world, been an ER doc, and that’s only half the story. And even so, he’s still great to work wi...
145 | Allen Arnold: Dismissal, Diminishment, and the Urge to Hide
It is, unfortunately, a common experience: you enter a room, and everyone else seems to belong there. But not you - you're the outsider. And then comes the impulse to ...
144 | Everyone Else Has it Easier, Right?
144 | Everyone Else Has it Easier, Right? by And Sons
143 | The Age of Criticism
What do we do when, not if, we face criticism? Often the critique has truth in it, but the internal messages that go along with it aren't the most accurate. Our cultur...
142 | Cost to Joy Ratio
An elegant tool, from a more civilized time. Wait, that's not right. A simple tool, for a cluttered time? Better. Pursuing joy and life can feel like uphill and diffi...
141 | Dreaming, Hope, and God’s Sharing of His Heart with Humanity
Dreams (and we mean aspirations) are difficult. They are, on the one hand, a way God tells you about your future. They are, on the other, vulnerable, sabotaged, and of...
139 | Framing the Season
FRAMING THE SEASON 1. What are you doing, Jesus, in me in this season? 2. What’s the theme of this season? 3. What do I need to know about my role in your larger mis...
138 | Body and Soul (Human Nature Pt. 4)
Referenced in the show: Space, Time, and Incarnation Thomas F. Torrance Deus Caritas Est by Pope Benedict Fill These Hearts by Christopher West For Sigmund Freud, neph...
Merry Christmas from And Sons
Merry Christmas from And Sons by And Sons
137 | No Smartphones for a Month
In an effort to fight the creeping, medicating, overextended presence of our smartphones, the And Sons team and four Ransomed Heart team members gave up their smartpho...
136 | Advent, Hope, and Longing
The season of advent is evoking a lot of longing for us this year. It seems you can't say the word hope without feeling the pain of all the things not yet realized. Th...
135 | Using the Fruit to Find the Root
"You will know them by their fruits" Matt 7:16 It's a litmus test Jesus gave us for false prophets, and yet it extends deeper than just teachings. The fruit of an act...
134 | Deep with a Few or Shallow with Many
Friendships are one of the deepest places of pain for just about everyone these days, it seems. How do we become the kind of men who have friendships going back 30 yea...
133 | The Image of God (Human Nature Pt. 3)
Put on your Hebrew hat, it’s time to tackle one of the most productive concepts in the Bible. The Image of God. No single podcast can capture all that’s intended by th...
132 | There Are No Rational Autonomous Selves or Social Animals (Human Nature Pt. 2)
In this episode, Blaine and And Sons team member Justin Lukasavige explore our idea environment as part of a continuing conversation on human nature. The team first un...
131 | Worldview 101 - Learning to See, Anthropology, and the Centrality of Human Nature (Pt. 1)
131 | Worldview 101 - Learning to See, Anthropology, and the Centrality of Human Nature (Pt. 1) by And Sons
130 | Morgan Snyder: Mentoring and What You're Actually Asking For
This one feels like the title is the description. So, there you go.
129 | Dan Allender: The Glory We Bare
It's too easy to focus on the damage of our story. Too easy to focus on what needs healing, or whats been stolen. We all have an innate glory in the image of God that ...
128 | Holding on to the Epic
It's a common experience: we have a breakthrough moment with God, we see miracles, we get a taste of the life we wanted, and the next week, it's gone. In this episode,...
127 | The Books inside Vol 2
Inside the covers of the print magazine are things that we believe are important and somehow connected to the masculine journey, if sometimes loosely. The books inside...
126 | Loneliness & Community
We're betting you are lonely. It's something we can assume is the case for pretty much everyone on the planet, but even more so for someone trying to walk with maturit...
125 | John Mark Lohner: Shame and The Gospel
"Do Not Be Ashamed" by Wendell Berry You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and be...
124 | State of the Soul
Back in the studio, Blaine and Sam talk about soul care these days. What are we doing to care for ourselves, and what do we think about to orient our story?