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  • S1E13 Practices on the Wisdom Path

    Marshall, Macon, and Alex talk about Spiritual Disciplines, Practices, and the structures that help us along the Wisdom Path.

    show notes:

    * sodastream (not a sponsor, but we are ready to sell-out)

    * coconut water

    * topo-chico

    * Smokey and The Bandit

    * Talkin’ ‘bout practice

    * Stations of The Cross

    * a rock

    * Police Academy 6

    * but, actually, it was Police Academy 5. We thank you, in advance, for not getting your facts from HFP.

    * “Hey Dork”

    * Joseph of Arimathea

    * where Alex and Marshall go on a retreat together

    * John Stott was also known for his naps: Half Hour Horizontal

    * Angels and Bells

    * More Cowbell

    * STIM - Student Training In Missions

    * Obsidian.md

    * Picture of Macon’s Obsidian Daily Note Practices Section

    * Karatekas

    * Dallas Willard

    * Spirit of the Disciplines

    * You remember Rachelle

    * Inside Scaffolding. Outside Scaffolding.

    * James Bryan Smith his books

    * Centering Prayer

    * Crossfit’s Workout Of The Day

    * Cramming a 4.5 year reading plan into 6 years: This Morning with God

    * don’t forget to scroll down to see it blurbed by J. A. Kirk!

    * Thrusters and Burpees are the worst.

    * dee doo deet!



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    1 hr 9 min
  • S1E12 An Easter Episode

    Marshall tricks Alex and Macon into writing his Easter sermon, while we talk about Good Friday, expectations of rescue, living our best lives, and our eventual death.

    show notes:

    Jesus Revolution

    Jesus People

    Crashdog

    Dungeons & Dragons

    the game Liza missed

    no, actually, they couldn’t have called it Magicland

    Mid

    Tolkien’s World

    A Christmas Episode

    Easter follows the Lunar Calendar

    Jesus Flipping Tables (Luke was unavailable for comment.)

    All Night Long

    All Night Long, but Singer-Songwriter

    Daily Lectionary for Holy Week

    yay yay Jesus

    Gary Deddo, speaking about "One God, Three Persons" for the TF Torrance Reading Group

    You don’t listen to HFP for “facts” but just in case: it’s Ash Wednesday where you get the ashes, not Maundy Thursday.

    Live your best life now. Faster.

    Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front : “Practice resurrection.”

    Two Birds Film: Look And See

    The Denial of Death

    All Illusions Must Be Broken

    I got it right the second time, first try.

    St. Peter, making his exit, Caravaggio take.

    The Story of You

    Smoldered, is obviously the past tense of smolding.



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    1 hr
  • S1E11 Why does a Church need a vision?

    Taking our first listener question. Not a question from our first listener, but the first question we’ve gotten from a listener. Alex, Marshall, and Macon work out why churches have a vision, and why it can be helpful.

    Show Notes:

    Thunderstruck

    The Beatles

    The Rolling Stones

    Led Zeppelin

    The many faces of Marshall

    The Foo Fighters

    Peter, Paul, and Mary

    Hoochie Koo

    U2

    What is a Boy Band?

    Bye Bye Bye

    Chuck Berry

    Of course, everyone knows where Chuck Berry got his sound.

    Iron Maiden & Eddie

    Guns n’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction

    Best Aerosmith Unrequited Love Song

    INXS - What You Need turns out to be a perfectly executed 1980’s Music Video

    Here’s the Mail

    Turns out Nothing Ever Happens on 38th Street.

    Miracle on 34th Street Mail Scene.

    Cedar of Lebanon

    Becoming Brave, by Brenda Salter McNeil

    Four Disciplines of Execution

    Don’t Worry About Your Ministry Brand

    Can you Match Pitch?

    Forging Elite Fitness

    Marshall’s Cell Number



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    1 hr 13 min
  • S1E10 Stories and Soulwork

    Movies restore Marshall’s soul, and he reviews the last few he’s seen. We talk about that kind of soulwork as well as Macon’s morning restorative (aka, “survival”) practices. Finally, we return to fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and the over-arching need to sit down with a good storyteller, regardless of medium or genre.

    Show Notes:

    Cocaine Bear

    Elizabeth Banks

    Pitch Perfect

    Ray Liotta

    Care Bears

    Fighting Grizzlies

    Creed III

    Not to be confused with Creed

    Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumaina

    Kang the Conquerer

    65

    Muppets From Space

    Pigs In Space

    Worldbuilding

    Rings of Power

    Internal Chronology vs Publication Date, a short reddit discussion.

    Enneagram 1 - The Reformer

    Restorative Rhythm of the Night ← actual video of Marshall’s restorative practice

    Not to be confused with this Rhythm, which, surprisingly, is even more 80s than the Rhythm above, though both relate to nightly rhythms.

    At The Table Podcast: E166 Work Harder at Resting.

    Restorative Banjo

    Daily Lectionary Readings

    Yin Yoga

    * Trigger Point Yin: session for Runners

    * 50 min of a Yin Yoga Session

    "Muscle Fibers Relax When the Nervous System Signal Is No Longer Present"

    Meat and Nuts breakfast

    Sample Deep Book/Paper: Resisting Reductionism: Why We Need a Truly Theological Anthropology to counter the Dehumanization of God’s Humanity

    Brandon Sanderson

    Battlestar Galactica Original

    Battlestar Galactica Reboot

    Greenhouse Retreats

    Rohr on Enneagram Threes

    The Stand

    The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

    Team of Rivals

    A Man Called Cash

    Paul Simon: The Life

    Jim Gaffigan on his wife’s brain tumor

    The Wheel of Time

    Pellinor

    They’re called Embedded Stories or Nested Stories.

    Hero’s Journey

    Brenda Salter McNeil preaching on The Woman At The Well

    Sword Drills

    Oh, that tournament.



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    55 min
  • S1E09 Process Engineering for Life and Sermons

    Alex and Marsh ask Macon how he applies “process engineering” to other places in his life. Macon lets Alex and Marshall know that they both have a PKMS, it just might not be very good. Plus a theory about how all three of us accidentally learned to value the bottom-up way of life when we were on the College Pro Christian Tour.

    Strap on your Nerd Hat.

    Show Notes:

    Jason Sudeikis as Backup Dancer

    He can dance if he wants to. ← this video is a special kind of amazing.

    Why Can’t This Be Love? ← uh, clearly this isn’t David Lee Roth.

    The Capital Centre

    It’s not Punk, but it’s Indie. (And, no, it’s not nearly as good.)

    Alex’s Favorite Problem No.1: Context

    Poetry In The Forest

    A 15 Min, Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

    Field Notes

    Ubiquitous Capture

    The call is coming from inside the house.

    Lean

    5S

    Gemba

    Mark Manuscript Study

    Happiness Study

    Look out for cyclists

    Between the Lions

    Frederica Mathewes-Green wrote The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God

    “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” — Albert Einstein

    The Weekly Review

    Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS)

    Obsidian.md

    Enneagram 8 - The Challenger

    Consider the dachschund.

    KLF - 3AM Eternal

    Microsoft One Note

    Plinko

    How to pronounce Pericope

    Probably want to wear one of these when pronouncing pericope properly.

    Evernote

    Consider six dachschunds.

    How InterVarsity started.

    This is how we do it

    You totally redeemed yourself

    Franklin Covey Planner

    OmniFocus

    Drafts

    Focused Podcast

    Time Blocking

    Death by Meeting



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    1 hr 5 min
  • S1E08 - Friends across Space and Time

    Special Guest: Rachelle McClintock

    Marsh, Alex, & Macon work through with Rachelle: How do we get to having real and deep friendships? What are the qualities of such relationships? How do we know if they will stand the test of time?

    Show Notes:

    What is an exec team?

    Windy Gap

    Voxer

    Marco Polo

    DTR: actually a term.

    The Fellowship of The Ring

    The Mines of Moria

    Systematic Theology III (We took this class through Fuller Seminary, though now the professor is at Grace Communion Seminary.)

    Lectio 365 App

    All The Single Ladies

    Long Obedience In The Same Direction - the book

    …long obedience…in the same direction… - the Nietzsche quote. (line 27)

    Eugene Peterson (again)

    "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time." Easily top 10 80’s Rock Songs with a Synthesizer.

    Survivorship Bias

    John Hughes Movies

    How do you pronounce Zildjian?

    Enneagram 3 The Achiever

    Jerry Sinefield on Smartless

    If I link this song, maybe will Marsh stop singing it at the end of our recordings.



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    1 hr 7 min
  • S1E07 People and Stories

    Show Notes:

    Rihanna’s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show

    The Champions: UNCC Women’s Tennis

    First it was a Joke. Then it was Real, sort of: The Ocho .

    S0E13 Deconstructing Deconstructing

    Tolkien, Lewis, and Fairy Stories (Marshall gets it right, of course.)

    We shall be like gods

    Nick at Night (not the Biblical one)

    Nic at Night (the Biblical one)

    You can’t do that on television (though they did).

    Bare Necessities (safe for work)

    Quantumaina

    What is this? A Center for Ants?

    Cocaine Bear (again)

    Emerging Culture Curriculum by Jimmy Long

    Seriously, Macon is pronouncing modernity (and post-modernity) correctly.

    U-N-I-T-Y (asking the important question, “Who you callin’ a B*tch?”

    Thomas F. Torrance, "Predestination in Christ," The Evangelical Quarterly 13 (1941): 108-141. (Heavy theological lifting in this essay, one-hundred percent worth it.)

    Goodnight, Ned



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    59 min
  • S1E06 Does God Prefer the Poor?

    Macon asks Marsh and Alex whether God prefers the Poor. Old Testament, New Testament, Modern Commentators, Motivational Psychology, we try it all on in order to figure it out.

    Show Notes:

    Octordle / Wordle

    Pitch Perfect. Again. Until Alex remembers.

    Des Moines. It’s French.

    Joy In the Margins

    The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor (a classic Slow Jam)

    The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. A great podcast series for people interested in the inside-baseball on 2000’s Evangelical Cool Kids.

    Steph Curry Eeating Fresh

    We would see Jesus

    Grace Community Church Mission



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    58 min
  • S1E05 The Abiding Problem

    One of Marshall’s favorite problems is working on understanding what it means for people to “abide in Christ.” Alex and Macon try to relate, even though it feels very “woo, woo.”

    Show Notes:

    I’m always angry. (Best quote in all of the MCU, followed by, “I could do this all day.”)

    Cocaine Bear (It’s real and it’s spectacular.)

    S1E01 Favorite Problems

    Macon’s Favorite Problem #1

    Alex’s Favorite Problem #1

    12 Life Lessons From…Gian-Carlo Rota: “Use Feynman’s Method” section

    Kids In The Hall Theme Song (Clearly, they were some of the earliest listeners to HFP.)

    The Spirit of the Disciplines

    Abide In Christ - Book Abide In Christ - PDF

    John 15

    Andrew Murray

    Life In The Spirit —> The Spirit of Christ - Book The Spirit of Christ - PDF

    Dharma Talks in the Yoga session

    Eugene Peterson

    The Practice of The Presence of God

    The Liturgy of the Ordinary

    Brother Lawrence



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    1 hr 3 min
  • S1E04 The Context Problem

    One of Alex’s favorite problems is observing, understanding, and communicating ideas from one context into another. It touches sociology, psychology, pedagogy, culture, communication, and issues of translation.

    Marshall and Macon try to get Alex to more clearly articulate the problem itself, but first Macon did one of Alex’s retreats and survived.

    Show Notes:

    Pitch Perfect 1, 2, 3.

    Sponsor 1: Greenhouse Retreats for January.

    Sponsor 2: Plexus.

    Galatians has 4 chapters.

    So does Jonah.

    There are many lesser podcasts, as it turns out. (None of these are the podcast that Alex refers to though.)

    Alex is Galvinizing, but metaphorically (one of six types of Working Genius).

    Enneagram 3.

    Shop-Vac

    Malcom Gladwell has podcasts.

    Here's the episode (S0E12) where Macon and Marsh pre-critique Alex’s Counter Culture Sermon Series.



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    1 hr 7 min

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Three long-time friends, two Pastors and one CEO, explore the spaces between Ministry and Business, Professional and Amateur Christianity, and Faith and Disbelief, with joy, love, and a grain of salt.…