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25. The King Gets the First & Last Word | John Ortberg Jul 18, 2025

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Today, we’re keeping the gentleness discussion going. We are invited to get out of our hurried, harsh, screen-ridden worlds and into God’s world–the real world, full of life and joy. We’re reflecting on this truth from Jesus in Matthew 11: “I am gentle and lowly in heart.” Gentle and lowly? What countercultural words. And this isn’t the watered-down kind of gentleness; this is full-on fruit-of-the-spirit gentleness. Like John teaches, people can often misunderstand this. It’s not softness, weakness, or meekness. Gentleness is steady, and it actually begins at home in overcoming our harsh inner critics.
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24. How to be Gentle in a World of Outrage | John Ortberg Jul 17, 2025

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In our culture, revenge is pervasive. In fact, John unpacks research showing a hidden framework for understanding human revenge, rage, and violence. In practice, revenge actually operates like an addiction in our brains. The cycle begins with grievance. And every little grievance - from a driver who maybe cuts us off, to a coworker who forgets our name - can trigger imagined injustice. We indulge our outrage and a desire for revenge. But the way of Jesus - the fruit of the spirit, love - interrupts that loop. Love doesn’t deny pain or injustice; it just refuses to use power to harm. It chooses to show up instead as gentleness and grace.
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23. What God Is Doing Inside Angola Prison | John Ortberg & Len Vanden Bos Jul 16, 2025

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Today’s journey of We Should Get Out More brings us to something a little different: a chat with Len Vanden Bos, chaplain of the Buffalo Bills– where John and Len visit one of the largest maximum-security prisons in the U.S. John and Nancy recently visited and what they saw was staggering. Angola holds countless stories not just of pain and injustice, but amazingly, deep transformation and freedom. Tune in for a meaningful chat about true surrender. People who aren’t being formed by algorithms, but truly the Holy Spirit.
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22. Be Authentically Faithful with People | John Ortberg Jul 15, 2025

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Today’s episode of We Should Get Out More might just be an introduction to your new favorite Bible verse. It’s an often-overlooked passage in Romans 16:22: “I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.” And while this might seem like a verse you’d look past, it’s significant because it’s Paul offering dignity to someone the world considered insignificant. Tertius was a scribe (maybe even a slave) whose name means “third.” In the ancient world, people were often reduced from a name down to a number. But counter culturally, Paul stops mid-letter to let Tertius speak.
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21. What It Really Means to Become a Good Person | Rick Blackmon & John Ortberg Jul 14, 2025

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Dr. Rick joins today to discuss what it really means to become a good person. Despite all his years of counseling, Rick shares that no one has ever walked into his office saying, “I want to be a good person.” However, by the end of their sessions, that desire is typically surfaced. It’s the realization that we all want to become someone who is grounded. Generous. Integris. That little question: Am I a good person? quietly lingers within each one of us.

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20. How to Build Spiritual Resilience in a Distracted World | John Ortberg & Glenn Packiam Jul 11, 2025

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Today, John talks with Glenn Packiam about how resilience begins with recovery: the ability to return to a place of spiritual rest. Like a stress test measuring how fast your heart returns to normal, true spiritual health isn’t the absence of struggle, but the speed at which we return to God after it. There is no such thing as a life without trouble, which is why Jesus promised that he would be with us to the very end of the age.
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19. Micro-Habits Are the Secret to Staying Connected with God | John Ortberg & Steve Cuss Jul 10, 2025

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Today, John talks with Pastor Steve Cuss who shares his practice of “tripping over God’s presence” 10 to 12 times a day through intentional micro-habits. These small moments that look like savoring a meal, noticing a sunset, holding a loved one’s hand, or hearing from a friend are more than pleasant. They are reminders that life is good and full of God’s presence if we could notice, tune in, and appreciate what has always been there under all the noise.

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18. This is What Happens When You Stop Chasing Fake Rabbits | John Ortberg Jul 09, 2025

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Social media loves to make promises. Promises about optimizations, quick fixes, the perfect skin, the perfect parenting hacks, and on and on. These promises are tempting, but the problem is that social media rarely delivers on the promises it makes. This keeps us consuming more and more looking for the next best hack. We arrange our lives around this pursuit, only to find out—sometimes painfully—they’re not real.
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17. Doom Scrolling and Its Alternative | John Ortberg Jul 08, 2025

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What if you stopped doomscrolling and started life-scrolling instead? In today’s message, you’ll discover a better way to navigate screens and the bad news cycle — by tasting real goodness, practicing gratitude, and sharing hope like the bees do their waggle dance. Let’s get out more, root ourselves in God’s presence, and bring goodness into the real world together.

16. Cancel Culture and Kindness | John Ortberg Jul 07, 2025

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John invites us to consider how our digital lives often differ from kindness and tend toward condemnation. All one needs do is get online and look at the Subtweets and group chats that exclude others. There are endless examples of passive-aggressive stories and soft blocks. We’ve been trained to cancel people but Jesus did something different. He didn’t cancel people, he canceled sin.
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