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Ep. 183: Weariness & The Joy of a Long LIfe Oct 25, 2024

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Intro: Book recommendations, buttery pull-apart bread recommendation!
8:40: 12yo birthday parties and southern-style chili.
14:31: Ecclesiastes: it’s a wonderful [brief] life; contentment = reality - your expectations.
20:48: This music trio is not comprised of spring chickens!
27:30: There is so much beauty of living a long life when aging is taken with redemption.
28:41: Thoughts on weariness and stewarding your children’s souls.
36:56: Jesus answers all the meaningless in Ecclesiastes in the book of Mark!
39:14: You’re Only Human is a modern narrative of Ecclesiastes. Your finitude is a feature, not a bug.
43:19: Show Close

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Ep. 182: "Go Touch Some Dirt," Perceptions of Reality, & Cat Purrs Oct 18, 2024

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Intro: A new milk frother and ball gowns, health, fasting, and tea.
10:40: The glycemic index level of homemade sourdough bread and the deep impact of metabolic efficiency.
14:20: Parent-teacher meeting results, school lunch ingredients.
19:00: Pumpkin Gingerbread Apple Muffin recipe.
21:40: A TedX from a 7yo girl about parents setting up kids for success in life.
24:14: Some Canavox advice on helping parents with LGBT issues with their kids and the affect of the digital world on our perceptions of reality.
26:35: “Go touch some dirt” and Jonathan Haidt.
28:34: Thoughts on growing old.
36:43: Masculinity and the value of a human person.
43:00: Casey and Callie Means, nihilism, and how we see the world.
52:00: Athletic women injure themselves way more during their cycles than not.
55:12: Show Close

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Ep. 181: Everything is Fine. The World is Burning but...Everything is Fine. Oct 11, 2024

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Intro: Last week’s events, touring.
6:04: Titus’s boot size, lemon trees, indoor plants.
9:44: Composting is wild, peach pits, apple cores and wheelbarrow trees.
14:59: Our chickens are molting and it looks like a pillow fight.
17:53: Monster cookie bars, S’mores Cookie Bars, Mel’s giant chocolate chip cookie and tablespoons of butter.
22:40: Dairy cows, Tillamook Dairy Farm providers, PETA, and all the milk.
30:11: The struggle to prioritize mental headspace, lessons from Little House on The Prairie. The importance of reorienting with daily devotions.
38:01: We’re living in the end times…but that’s not the end and the revelation of Jesus Christ Bryan Clark Tom Schriener.
48:50: Show Close and Telegram group update.

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Eating Caterpillars, Steven Lawson, & The Spectrum of Sin Sep 27, 2024

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7:15: Telegram, Praying Mantises, Lady Bug insect kits.
11:20: Molly eats caterpillars for dinner, Molly gets a tension headache.
15:48: Being shocked by someone’s sin and Stephen Lawson
20:25: Idols of the Heart and flattening out the spectrum of sin
22:27: Ed Welch and leftover halloween candy
26:00: The language of “watch yourself lest you too fall into sin.”
27:44: But the sin is actually egregious and Julie Roys took it up.
32:34: Severity of sin and an interesting paradox in Scripture
36:07: A take on RFK and Olivia Nuzzi via House Inhabit.
SUBSTACK
44:56: 3 Sermons on the theme of idols: Stacy Gaylord (ME? A Slave?) Jeff Hamling (Sound of Silence), Bryan Clark (The Fall of the Great Prostitute).
54:26: A spelling test of the old testament and the root of the word “Proverb.”

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Molly Returns to a School Board Meeting & Hymns of Glory Sep 20, 2024

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Intro: Money spending, electric rates.
6:14: Engines, different perspectives on energy development.
10:45: There’s no money in people being healthy, large companies that feed on each other.
15:41: Molly’s second school board meeting was very eye-opening.
23:30: Dark and oppressive feelings, spiritual battles and hymns of glory. Petra Phil Wickham
31:02 “I’m with Him” vs. “He’s with me” and the object vs. strength of faith.
36:37 A model of the Lord’s Prayer without it becoming rote 3 Reasons NOT to Pray the Lord's Prayer
44:10: Incorporating the Lord’s Prayer into the home.
53:00: Show Close

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Serving Your Family & Conquering Fear Sep 06, 2024

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Show Open
6:25: The first week of school! A recap of why we put three of our kids in a hybrid school.
11:00 Titus’ curriculum this year.
12:35: The girls’ first week so far (including Molly)…
16:00: Winding up the cats.
18:00: Moving to in to new models and philosophies
20:00: Making decisions and being so married to things you can’t be flexible when life circumstances changes. You’re Only Human (link)
23:00: A balance pivoting and serving the family well
26:53: Foraging and activities at the cabin
38:37: Further adventures of building mental fortitude and resilience in the kids
35:30: We’re either growing or shrinking and there’s self-esteem to be gained by trying something new: success or failure independent.
39:30: Alex Honnold, fear responses and building confidence when it doesn’t feel risky to keep doing the same.
45:57: Show Close

Why I Stopped Watching Porn

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Molly Goes To A School Board Meeting Aug 23, 2024

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Intro: Sheep, goats, and Molly hitting them in the head with apples.
5:30: Molly gives testimony at a school board meeting about prurient books in school libraries.
14:30: [Story Pause] Some info about pornography that Molly learned while prepping.
18:11: Creating an on ramp addiction and fueling anxiety.
20:40: Hijacking your ability to set goals and shutting of the pre-frontal cortex.
24:51: Relational consequences of pornography and the problem with crafting a sexual harassment policy.
29:03: [Back to the Story]
30:13: Two in the midst of a mass
34:45: How to be equipped to engage like this?
39:10: “Queering” the research.
40:42: A gender clinic researcher gets raided by the FBI.
43:42: Clinics and orgs that have said, “no way.”
44:50: Monthly reading groups around natural law and sexual studies.
50:37: Final thoughts from Molly about times of transition.
54:28: Your body accelerates your aging twice.
56:05: JR think his kids don’t know what unknowns really are.
58:28: Show Close

The Anxious Generation

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Eye Health, Public Testimony, & The Intersexed Aug 16, 2024

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Show open: Cousins are in town, phone/watch usage for kids, eyeglasses.
13:27: Feeling the onset of age through eyes and considering regular health checks
17:45: Eye exercises and muscular eye health
26:48: Less controversial: theological contemplations on death to sin so don’t sin and three metaphors.
36:20: More controversial: Olympic lookalikes, Arcadian Wild, impressive performances and God opens a pathway.
42:27: Acappella gospel hymns at Olympic press conferences
45:55: Being a light and the balance of doing a good job and being an overt witness.
49:40: Jesus T Shirts and balancing evangelism vs. reality
52:53: Male boxers in a female league. Some important considerations relating to intersexed people and why men and women should be in different categories.
1:01:52: In the early days, intersexed people were used to disprove the binary, but it doesn’t and now transgender activists are becoming clear on genetics.
1:07:15: Where it gets tricky for Molly: thinking pastorally, care for a soul.
1:17:10: Show Close

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Ep. 175: Intuition, Deceitfulness of the Heart, & a New Favorite Book Aug 09, 2024

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Intro: Drinking glassware quirks, open house happy hours, updates from the last three weeks.
8:45 Jesus juking, waves of exhausting heat, and Faith is outraged at Rapunzel’s hair cutting in Tangled.
14:02: The verses Molly’s been working on with the kids and a philosophy of intuition
17:03: JR finds the DC Talk lyrics
18:40: Our experience with a sexual predator. Abuse Prevention
22:25: the paradox: don’t follow your heart but also, the intuition…
26:20: Where the heart is deceitful. The 77’s song.
30:52: Being weird and a convo with Titus about goat milk.
35:55: What cholesterol is and what big medical says it is.
41:38: More weird diet things Molly’s learned- discuss!
44:25: When the tide turned on cigarette companies.
48:54: J.R.’s almost favorite book. Kindle Audiobook Paperback