Wild at Heart - John Eldredge

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E811 | Take the Next Step Feb 17, 2025

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Our Wild at Heart podcast reaches countless people around the world with weekly conversations on how to love God and live free. Yet it's actually not the epicenter of our work but simply an entry into a world of incredible resources for the restoration of your humanity and for a deeper life in God. In this week's podcast, John and Allen take you on a tour of some of our top video offerings—including the Wild at Heart and Captivating Retreats, the Wild at Heart and Captivating Experiences, and our new Survival School Advanced Retreat.

There's also the book A Year with Men: A 12-Month Plan for Your Guy's Group. And you can lead or be part of local Men's and Women's Fires taking place around the globe. Don't try to do this journey alone. Take the next step with a few like-minded people in your part of the world.

For more on the Retreats and Experiences, visit WildatHeart.org/Events.

A Year with Men: A 12-Month Plan for Your Guy's Group is available wherever you buy books.

The Captivated Podcast about Women's Fires is E88, From Loneliness to Belonging: Creating Christ-Centered Community for Women.

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Episode Number 811

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E810 | What Are Your Dailies? Feb 10, 2025

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If someone came and lived with you as your disciple for a week, what would the effect on them be from adopting your ways of life? That's just one of the intriguing questions John asks the Wild at Heart team during this Q&A session from Survival School. The focus is on our dailies, because the choices we make each day determine the trajectory of our lives—from spiritual practices like soul care and sacred nourishment to simple barometers like how much time we spend in the news, how late we go to bed, and how hard we push ourselves on the weekend. Your life is built on the dailies. The question is, what kind of life are you building?

For more details on how to lead or attend a local Survival School retreat, visit WIldatHeart.org/events.

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Episode Number 810

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E809 | John Eldredge Answers Your Questions - Part 2 Feb 03, 2025

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In the second half of this series, Allen asks John the questions listeners are most curious about. This week's topics include why it's so hard to hold on to the breakthroughs obtained at Wild at Heart retreats, how women can host local Captivating Fires, and what our relationship will be in the coming Kingdom to those who've gone before us. We'll even answer the number one topic people write in about...a question that may surprise you.

Show Notes:
William Augusto's instrumental compositions can be found in his Soaking in His Presence albums (available wherever you get your music).
The stock music used in the Wild at Heart podcast is titled “When Laid to Rest” by Patrick Rundblad and available here.
For more on Captivating Fires, listen to the February 5, 2025, Captivated podcast featuring Stasi Eldredge here.

Information about Freedom in Christ is available at Neil T. Anderson's website.
Send your questions for future Ask John Anything podcasts to questions@wildatheart.org

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Episode Number 809

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E808 | John Eldredge Answers Your Questions - Part 1 Jan 27, 2025

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We recently gave podcast listeners and viewers a way to ask John anything...and did they ever! In the first half of this series, Allen brings John some of the top questions—including how to discern the holy from the unholy, advice to singles who long to be married, ways to teach your kids about spiritual warfare, and how to rethink the Sabbath.

Show Note: The book John references is Preparing for Heaven by Gary Black Jr.

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Episode Number 808

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Discerning What's From God Jan 20, 2025

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The growing global chaos doesn't just affect us externally. It also leads to internal confusion, weariness, and despair that makes us more vulnerable to the counterfeit spiritual experiences breaking out around the world. In this series conclusion, John and Allen reveal three ways to navigate these times of intense instability. We must get to know the real Jesus better, stay rooted in Scripture, and seek confirmation from those who walk with God. Because as things heat up, spiritual maturity is no longer an option.

Show Notes:
Access Jon Tyson's podcast here.

Find John Eldredge's book, Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus, on Amazon.

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Episode Number 807

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The Outbreak of the Spiritual Jan 13, 2025

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From YouTube to anime to technology, the spiritual is increasingly breaking into our world. While this may seem like a good thing, it's a mixed bag. The unseen realm is filled with both good and evil, and the forces of darkness often present themselves as angels of light. Believers are ill-equipped to navigate this world as long as they engage it with more fascination than maturity in Christ. In Part 2 of the series, John, Blaine, and Allen discuss how to see what's really going on, get free from spiritual oppression, and embrace what God's up to in these unprecedented times.

Show Notes:
Read Chapter 9 (Lions, Cobras, Snakes) of Experience Jesus. Really.

The conversion story of Matthew Crawford is at mcrawford.substack.com.

Follow Blaine's writings at https://blaineeldredge.substack.com.

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Episode Number 806

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How Is God Calling Us to Mature? Jan 06, 2025

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We're in an extremely momentous and highly unstable time where civilization seems to be on the brink of a massive freefall. To make sense of it, we must accept Jesus' view of reality over all other voices. John, Blaine, and Allen begin this timely series by naming three major trends that are creating the perfect storm. Maturity is no longer an option if we want to partner with God in the larger story that he is telling.
Show Notes: Follow Blaine's writings at https://blaineeldredge.substack.com.
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Episode Number 805

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What Needs to Change This Year, God? Dec 30, 2024

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What needs to change this year for you to flourish? The mistake most make is trying to fit God into already busy schedules. John and Allen offer a radical realignment for the new year. Rather than give God the margins of our kingdoms, we can choose a life centered in God and his Kingdom. Discover the beauty of a partnership model, one where you structure your days to be more deeply rooted in God.

Show Notes: The Wild at Heart podcasts for how to consecrate your year and ask God for advance words are Is Your Soul Ready for 2024? (1.1.24) and Believing in God Isn't the Same as Having a Life in God (1.8.24).

Other resources include the Wild at Heart Daily Prayer and Bedtime Prayer(Both available in the WAH app, link below), the Lectio 365 app, and the Pray As You Go app.

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Episode Number 804

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Christmas and the Return of Jesus Dec 23, 2024

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If you're coming into this Christmas exhausted or empty, it may be because you're focused on secondary things—from finding the perfect gift to enduring the imperfect family gathering. In this timely message of hope, John and Stasi reorient us to the deeper, truer story of Advent season—which is both a celebration of Christ's first coming as a babe in the manger and an anticipation of his second coming as King. Your Christmas joy will increase exponentially as you look not only back at Jesus' arrival into our world, but forward to his return.

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Episode Number 803

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How You're Coming Into Christmas Dec 16, 2024

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Where do you find yourself as Christmas nears? Are you entering into it with Jesus or lost in the rush of too little time and too much to do? The pull is to either up your game and be amazing...or lower expectations and settle for little hope and joy. In this third week of Advent, John asks Stasi, Jamie, and Stacey about the story they're telling themselves this Christmas, lessons from past holiday experiences, and the unique pressures women face in this season.
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Episode Number 802

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