Deeper

After a week away due to illness, Dan and Austin are back in the studio to talk about Rahab. There's so much to learn from her boldness, her faith and her humility. How can we, with our priviliged lives, emulate her faith? Austin asks about the Purity Death Spiral and how it effects the practice of enfolding. Can we be too stringent on less meaningful things to a point that excludes people from finding God? Find out here on today's episode of Deeper. 

Everyone we know has a tendency to make God comfortable, to change His personality to something that fits how they want him to look. That probably means we are guilty of the same thing! Today, Austin and Dan continue to revisit the ways we make God in our own image; and learn how to healthily confront people who may have done the same. 

We often find ourselves in a cultural soup, where it can be tricky to discern what is cultural and what is scriptural. Tim, Dan and Austin talk about ways to discern what is biblical and what is cultural, and the different ways we can "see outside of our own soup". They also talk about the promises of the old testament and how to tell if we are interpreting through our own lenses rather than that of the time. 

It seems like we all have a habit of thinking we are the main characters in the world, and sometimes even in scripture. But we aren't the main characters in the world's story, God is. How can we cure ourselves from our main character syndrome? 

In today's episode, Dan and Austin delve into community engagement. What is our role as believers when we lack the power to fix big issues in society? Also, Austin has some strong opinions on Prosperity Gospel and Dan talks about how to "recover" from teaching or living bad theology. 

There's a lot of discussion about equality and justice in the world today, but often we only care about it when it effects us personally. In today's episode, Dan and Austin look into ways to expand our framework of justice to include more people and perspectives while remaining faithful to scripture. 

With the rise of social media and the easy access to a wide variety of leaders, it's become ever easier to fall into a cult of personality. How do we recognize if our leaders have taken the place that Jesus should have in our life? What does it mean to be humble, and how is it different from being humiliated? Hear some discussion on these questions and more in this week's episode of Deeper!

Listen to last week's sermon here: https://episodes.castos.com/61f01524104198-81913680/1540270/Fathers-and-teachers.mp3

As believers, our calling is to tear down walls- not build them. Dan and Austin spend time today looking at what it means to have internal "walls" that allow us to categorize people as "us" or "them". We examine our personal walls, our strategies for seeing the image of God in people we are different from, and our need to just listen to people we differ with. 

What traits do a successful businessman and an exiled king share? In today's episode, we look at David's pride and Nabol's greed; and the ways we might accidentally emulate them in our modern context. We examine social media fights, our responsibilities as a wealthy society and the humbling challenge of learning from our enemies. Also, we spend some time admiring Abigail's strength, wisdom and diplomacy, and see what we can learn from her boldness. 

The sermon we are discussing can be found here: https://bit.ly/3QbnZgg

It's so easy to get caught up in tunnel vision in our faith walk, but also in "real life". How can we recognize tunnel vision in ourselves? When is it ok to hyperfocus on something? And are we ever excused from helping people in need simply because they have already been helped? Join Austin, Pastor Dan and Pastor Tim in our 16th episode of Deeper!


Link to previous sermon: https://bit.ly/3OhGRsL