Escaping Moral Adventure

On your journey to get unstuck and live a more intentional life (i.e., escape moral adventure), it's important to be equipped with the proper tools. Today, we'll discuss one of those tools:  Fasting. We’ll chat about what we can learn from the Bible about this topic, some purposes for fasting, as well as a few tips.

Below are resources we used to gather information for this episode:

1. The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction by Justin Earley 

2. https://www.christianity.com/bible/9-reasons-fast-other-than-swimsuit-season.html

3. https://www.christiantoday.com/article/5.reasons.why.christians.fast.during.lent/105105.htm

4. https://www.gotquestions.org/fasting-Christian.html

Oftentimes, when we hear the word 'love', we think of it as a feeling or emotion. However, when God calls us to love others, he’s calling us to love them with agape love – a love that is an act of the will and unconditional. Not a 'warm and fuzzy' kind of love. Today, we chat about agape love and its role in marriage.

During the episode, we refer to the following resources:

1) You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity by Francis Chan 

2) Gotquestions.org

3) The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman 

For more information on 1 Corinthians 13, click here: https://www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/13/1-Corinthians-chapter-13.html

Have you ever felt bad about how you reacted to something? Something happens that is stressful or unpleasant, you get upset or angry, and you say or do something you wish you hadn’t?

In today’s episode, we discuss the difference between reacting and responding, as well as the importance of taking responsibility for your actions and choosing to be response-able.

During our chat, we refer to our ‘principles’. For more information on establishing foundational life principles, check out our two-part series called “Becoming Unshakeable: 7 Foundational Principles for Life.” Links below.

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We also refer to the following books:

1) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

This week’s episode is part 2 of our two-part series in which we discuss the importance of having a set of strong, unchanging foundational principles that are used to guide and direct your life. We share and discuss our principles and encourage you to establish your own as well.

We mention the “new command” and what it means to “love.” We chat a bit more about this concept in the “How to Love your Neighbor” episode which you can find here:

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We also refer to the following:

1) Transformed by Chip Ingram (Bible Study)

2) Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt (book)

3) The Mingling of Souls (Bible study and book)

4) Francis Chan video clip on living eternally. You can view the full sermon here.

Become unshakeable no matter the circumstance.

This week’s episode is part one of a two-part series in which we discuss the importance of having a set of strong, unchanging foundational principles that are used to guide and direct your life. We share and discuss our principles and encourage you to establish your own as well.

During our discussion, we referred to a previous episode in which we mentioned taking an inventory of your time. You can find that full episode, “Signs You’re Stuck In Moral Adventure,” here: 

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We also mentioned the decision-making episode from the Point Taken podcast. That episode, “How to Make Decisions And Never Look Back [Part 2],” can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CzcZzlXIqAuwaTIQpJQ45?si=_X03WIEeSK24KjSWywJvqw

The thought of being obedient can make us cringe. “Wouldn’t it be better to not be obedient to anything?” Unfortunately, whether we want to be or not, we’re all obedient to something or someone. We can be obedient to our emotions, mood, work, spouse, self, etc. without even realizing it. In this episode, we discuss things we may unintentionally become obedient to, as well as a better approach - to become obedient to a set of principles. This takes intentionality.

During the episode we reference the following books:

1) 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

2) The Mingling of Souls by Matt Chandler

We also mentioned the “How To Love Your Neighbor” episode, which can be found here:

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Moral Adventure is the posing of questions, criticisms, difficulties, or rationalizations resulting in the avoidance of taking right action. Being stuck in moral adventure is more common than you may think, but what might that even look like? In this episode, we give a few specific examples of how you might be stuck and possible ways out.

You can find our “How to Love Your Neighbor” episode, which we mentioned in today’s show, on the following platforms. Just simply click a link below.

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We also referenced the following books:

1) Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

2) The Common Rule by Justin Earley

Many people give up on their New Year’s resolutions after just a month. So, instead of making a New Year’s resolution, we choose a focus word for the year. In this episode, we share our focus words and discuss how we plan to integrate these words into our daily lives. We hope this will help give you some ideas for how to possibly integrate your own word into your daily life as well.  

We referenced two books during the episode:  

1) "Gospel Fluency" by Jeff Vanderstelt 

2) "Storyworthy" by Matthew Dicks 

The 'homework for life' concept comes from "Storyworthy."  

Check out Episode 1 to learn more about Escaping New Year's Resolutions: https://youtu.be/rJEUr0ntW84.

In this episode we discuss what it means to love your neighbor. Can you love someone without liking them and is love a feeling?  

We know loving our neighbor is important because Jesus commands us to do it. But what does ‘love’ even mean? And how can we practically love our neighbor?  We'll discuss the definition of love, as well as four principles we believe are necessary to follow in order to love your neighbor well.  

During our chat, we referenced the book “The Servant” by James Hunter. We also mentioned a couple scriptures without their reference. Those are below.  

2 Chronicles 16:9a (NLT) The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.”  

James 1:17 (ESV) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

The new year represents a great time to start something new, stop a bad habit or just make a change in general. However, the most common approach, a New Year's resolution, typically fails. We'll discuss an alternative to New Year's resolutions aimed at providing the motivation to act without the likely failure and disappointment that comes from failing to keep a new year's resolution.  

In this episode, we reference a book called "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. You can find more about this book here: https://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/