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Episode 7: How to Get "Unstuck" Spiritually Jun 02, 2020

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Today’s Key Idea: Jesus desires internal transformation and not just external obedience.

Patrick welcomes Dr. Steve L. Porter as a guest on the show today. Dr. Porter is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Biola University (La Mirada, CA). He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Southern California under Dallas Willard and M.Phil. in philosophical theology at the University of Oxford under Richard Swinburne. Steve teaches and does research on the dynamics of human change from psychological, philosophical, and theological perspectives. Steve has authored or edited various books and articles. Recent edited books include Neuroscience and the Soul: The Human Person in Philosophy, Science, and Theology and Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue: Moral and Spiritual Change in Christian Perspective. Alongside two others, Steve edited and completed Willard’s posthumous publication The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge. Steve is co-founder of the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach, which is a grade 6–12 charter school committed to an intellectual virtues model of education. Steve and his wife Alicia live with their son Luke and daughter Siena in Long Beach, CA.

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Galatians 5:17-21

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Episode 6: Self Care: How to Take Care of Yourself Without Being Obsessed with Yourself May 26, 2020

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Today’s Key Idea: Self Care is a means to love God and love others in a healthier way

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Gnosticism

For Better For Kids by Patrick and Ruth Schwenk

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Episode 5: Learning to Be a Better Listener and Why it Matters May 19, 2020

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Today’s Key Idea: We Love One Another By Listening to One Another

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The Listening Life by Leighton Ford

Genesis 1-3

James 1:19

Psalm 103

“Listening is like Spiritual Hospitality”- unknown

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Episode 4: Why We All Need Community and How To Find It May 12, 2020

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Today’s KEY IDEA: We were made to live interdependent lives, and not independent lives.

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Genesis 2:18
Relationships: A Mess Worth Making by Timothy Lane & Paul Tripp
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Bait of Satan by John Bevere

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Episode 3: The Three Barriers We Face to Spiritual Growth (and how to overcome them) May 07, 2020

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Today’s KEY IDEA: Growth comes with a battle

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Episode 2: How God Changes Us (Spiritual Disciplines) May 06, 2020

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Today’s KEY IDEA:Spiritual disciplines in and of themselves don’t change us. THey are means to opening our hearts to more of God’s love and truth.

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Episode 1: How to Have a Rootlike Faith May 05, 2020

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Today’s KEY IDEA: Our goal isn’t to be like Jesus, it’s to be with him. Becoming like him is a byproduct of being with him.

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Introducing Rootlike Faith Apr 17, 2020

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