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Coronations, Levels of Hell, & Locusts May 07, 2023

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Show Open
4:00: Molly got too ambitious with her seedlings
8:31: Building a shop
10:18: Are there levels of hell requisite for levels of sin
12:41: Watching the coronation with Grammy.
16:08: Magna Carta and the end of Monarchy power
20:07: Prime Ministers and doing away with Kings
22:44: The difference between Canada and America
28:51: America is not a Democracy
29:58: Will punishment in hell be worse for some than others
35:44: Jesus’ pre-existent being vs. post resurrected being
37:12: Bad Christian pickup line
37:42: Experience of Heaven as a someone saved from a lot vs. someone who wasn’t.
40:57: …because if you If you exercise, you enjoy the journey and the goal more.
43:00: Earning rewards in Heaven vs. earning God’s favor
46:55: Spiritual food, earthy vegetables and doing things from joy than necessity and dandelion eating rabbits.
47:41: Rabbits eating dandelions
49:05: Dandelion ginger beer report
50:48: Tea Report
52:25: The Year of the Locust by Andrew Osenga
53:35: Judges bible study and a swarm locusts and the link to being covenant breakers.
1:01:07: Show Close

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Strength Through Adversity & The Eradication of Masculinity Apr 28, 2023

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Show Open
1:50: A chicken update.
5:00: Clark’s Fork, short history of Pompey’s Pillar and Lewis and Clark.
7:40: Recap of Nat Geo’s special on Lewis and Clark.
9:35: Recap of Chicken People documentary.
12:50: We’re back and the Little Green Clean machine.
15:30: Incoherency and seedlings and growing plants.
18:57: Adversity stimulates growth and a study in James.
20:33: JR’s shoulder injury, resistance and strength training.
23:03: God designed us to make us strong through resistance.
24:38: Violin recitals, kid failures, and mom differences.
27:30ish: How hard do we push our kids?
27:50: A liberal bias and the way men are floundering in America.
30:28: High tolerance for spicy is a sign of high testosterone.
34:XX: The eradication of masculinity in pop culture.
36:35: Boys need the symmetry of men and women in the home.

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38:04: Tucker Carlson’s advice for young people.
41:30: Show Close

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No God, No Passport, No Problem?! Apr 14, 2023

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2:03: All-inclusive resorts are a perverted reflection of eternal paradise.
3:53: True rest poem - John Sullivan Dwight.
8:10: Leaving God out and the affect of luxury on the heart.
11:35: Tower of Babel, weird things people people read, and dandelion wine.
17:38: What happens when you don’t have your passport.
28:00: Meanwhile, back in Minneapolis…
34:08: Kids are sinners and Faith is going through some things.
38:00: Homemade chicken fingers recipe.
40:30: JR’s still nerding out on steak and beef, and wants his own cow.
45:12: Garden Update.
47:09: Philosophy of gardening- Ruth Stout and her method of planting potatoes.
50:46: Changing diets, more tea and pre-making sausage.
54:42 Interesting things we’ve learned about green tea.
59:22: Reflections on God being glorified and Jesus’s outlook leading ip to the crucifixion. Sinclair Ferguson: Lessons from the Upper Room.

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Reality Podcasting with a Redemptive Twist Mar 24, 2023

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1:48: Green Tea facts.
5:06: Last show for probably three weeks.
6:00: Molly’s running around like a chicken with her head cut-off.
7:27: Our lives are kind of in seasons with work and things.
9:30: Gardening plans and managing a greenhouse.
11:08: Our kids love basil.
13:12: Going non-stop, some housekeeping and our Telegram group.
14:07: Snow conditions.
16:04: Ski Patrol spring evac and a gnarly day.
23:10: JR’s personal bible study/devotional - Be Thou My Vision.
28:32: Molly’s personal bible study/devotional.
34:24: Going slowly through Philippians and seeing it’s reality.
37:03: Kids’ friendship update, 5th grade girls and enigmas in 2nd grade, shorter dates and more structure.
46:44: “It takes meeting at a bar to be friends!”
51:53: Walter at Goodwill schools Molly on reparations. Canavox vid.
57:44: Chicken update!

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Fulfilling Relationships & Satisfaction in God Alone Mar 20, 2023

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Show Open: Molly’s discombobulated, 4yo woes.
3:53 Titus makes breakfast sausage and our recipe/process.
7:48: Breakfast sandwich eggs differences.
9:25: Telegram group and show updates.
11:00: One pot pasta dinner from last night.
13:02: Nifty facts about pasta.
14:10: Chicken update, ideas about feeding them, fertilizer.
17:28: SNL references, casts, Chris Farley died at the age JR and Molly are now.
21:25: Judo complications with one of our girls, character development, taking’s seasons off.
28:13 Molly shocks J.R. by watching someone else’s kids!
32:06: Conversations with our girls about friendships- mankind is built for relationship with other human beings.
35:15: The challenge of being in relationship with others while recognizing that what we need is God -satisfaction in God alone.
39:15: God using seasons of relationships to shape our hearts and open our eyes to other outsiders and changing our perspective.
42:09: How to communicate these concepts to our kids.
44:45 JR responds with a few thoughts.
47:55: A David Powlison quote to close the show.

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49:33: Comments about Josh Butler’s article removed article from TGC.
54:23: Comments on the Chris Rock special comments on stuff that’s worth ingesting.
56:43: JR voices Playstation’s new VR game, Zenith as the villain.

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Chickens, Cats, & Dealing with Deliberately Mean People Mar 05, 2023

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Show Open
3:30: Murdered chicken update, general baby chicks update.
12:30: And this week our cats almost died.
13:10: A fresh loaf of bread and a dead mouse.
14:38: Back to the cats…
22:21: Back to the chicks and processing guilt and shame. Issue of discipleship of the kids.
23:28: Stories of hiding things from our parents.
27:35: A kid comes forth.
30:14: God works in our lives with themes, ours seems to be “handling the fact that I meant [the bad thing] I said or did.”
32:00: A friend’s kid kicked another kid on the bus.
33:47: How do you help a kid who correctly perceiving others being deliberately mean to them.
36:18: Not underestimating the sin in people but training our kids to be confident in Christ, but not retreat.
38:38: Baby chick is asleep, they chirp from their throats? and science doesn’t know how or why a cut purrs.
42:18: How the human body stores emotional energy and the connection between our physical body and emotions.
47:37: Rabbit thumping and wiggling legs in church.

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Guilt, Fear, & Freedom to Live Feb 26, 2023

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Open: Phone issues, Visible, and saving money.
4:00: A kid interrupts.
6:39: We got chicks! But we’re missing one. Did a kid murder one?
11:07: Browser tabs and marital humor.
14:14: Being faced with a tremendous about of guilt.
15:18: A question for Islam: What do you do with your guilt?
18:18: How’s that anger working out for you?
19:45: Wanting our kids to find out the sin early so we can guide to repentance and love.
18:50: Responding to our kids when we know someone is guilty.
21:34: Training our children in confession and receiving forgiveness and living in Christ’s righteousness.
24:29: What we want our kids to hear from Psalm 51.
27:09: An internal sense of fear we have to work out.
30:34: Our 8yo asks, “What’s the most important verse in the Bible?”
33:14: Our pastor’s answer…but it’s still adequate.
34:14: Crystallizing the gospel message.
36:14: Recognizing God helps us lead Godly lives and has benefits in this life and the life to come.
39:16: One more thing: Ginger bugs and Ginger Beer results!
43:29: Something Molly really appreciates about the Telegram.

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Growing Sprouts & Growing Relationships Feb 17, 2023

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Intro, winter road travel.
05:16: An appropriate view of animals vs. humans.
07:30: Elese is outraged at the vet having scantily-clad women in the window.
08:52: A child’s joy in her body and tankinis.
10:27: Planning for chickens.
12:36: Growing broccoli sprouts.
15:24: Kid’s valentine boxes and an easy puff pastry snack, and another snack idea.
17:56: Molly’s gardening heritage and what drove her from not wanting to garden to having a garden.
20:59: Back to broccoli sprouts.
22:08: Counter-cultural Spanish language lessons.
24:51: The absurdity of gender fluidity and an Arkansas “woman.”
26:28: A good friend is someone who makes you better for Jesus because you’ve been around them.
29:13: Molly was frustrated playing tennis in high school against opponents who weren’t as good she was.
31:22: Relationships that refresh and don’t drain.
33:10: Trusting God with a legacy of work when short on resources.
37:58: A microscope on the the swirling challenges of life of those around us.
39:26: Being someone who sees people where they’re hurting and being a blessing to them.
39:55: Someone who gave a more detailed answer.
44:40: People don’t seem to thinking deeply or have the knowledge to respond well.
46:47: Getting solid counsel from Scripture in the midst of disasters around us.
47:39: Jesus’s answer to the question, “Who’s fault is this?”
48:46: Living right with God.
52:59: Two humorous stories from listeners listening to us.
54:00: Some final random things Molly’s learning from homeschooling.
56:54: Show close.

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Sourdough Crackers & Seeing the World Accurately Feb 11, 2023

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:36: Canavox weekend recap.
4:04: Introductions.
7:19: Reality TV, a MILF reality TV show.
9:10: People who listen from overseas and VPNs.
13:19: Kids bring a lot of drama and Molly has no capacity for extra drama.
11:50: Deemphasizing vegetables and adding more fruit to our diet.
14:08: Trying to adapt palettes and grocery budgets.
15:06: Crackers and cheese and food and crackers.
17:04: Sourdough cracker recipe and preferred chip and cracker flavors
20:46: Karl Barth and adulterous relationships
23:45: Does it matter to his work as a theologian?
25:55: An appropriate application of the Beatitudes?
30:30: Does an impure heart prohibit us from seeing God accurately?
32:52: How do we approach God with certainty?
37:18: Difference in writing commentaries vs. launching a relationship.
39:18: JR has a really good point.
41:13: Francis Schaeffer’s crises of faith and the contrast to Barth.
43:21: When we’re feeling distant from God, we need to move to Europe
44:55: Show close, a couple of notes.