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Alex, Marshall, and Macon use their words to work out the relationship between The Word and the words of Scripture.

Show Notes:

You cut me deep

RIP Red Shirts

Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning

Remains of the Day

The Breakfast Club

PSA: Fast and Furious Series Timeline in Chronological Order

Divine Meaning

Macon and Alex talk through the implications that Yogic/Taoist language might well describe human experience in a helpful way without needing to worry about making an ontological move into believing how the universe is in reality.

Show Notes:

Phlogiston theory (Alchemy!)

The problem of “truth” between “paradigms” is called “incommensurability.”

Euclidean geometry vs non-Euclidean geometry

Asana

Yin Yoga

Goju Ryu, specifically

Enneagram Energies

Pythagoreanism was also a religion

Mawashi geri actually means “roundhouse kick.” Gedan Barai means “low block.” Management regrets the error.

Alex, Marshall, and Macon work through Macon’s observation that Kings are promised in the Abrahamic Covenant. Does God’s statement to Abraham, “Kings will come from you,” square with “they’ve rejected me as their King,” which is what God tells Samuel? Necco Wafers are on the line.

Show Notes:

Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

Bob Dylan

Woodie Guthrie

Indigo Girls

Secure yourself to heaven

Chuck Berry

cousin to Marvin Berry

One Shining Moment

Can’t Stop the Feeling

GLOCKENSPIEL SOLO!!!

Macon, Marsh, and Alex talk about the implication of David’s anointing by Samuel prior to him confronting Goliath. Do we really all have our own Goliath?

Show Notes:

Sandlot

Thunderbolts*

Hawkeye

America’s a$$

Rating Power Index is a Sports Rating System

All of us have an El Guapo to face someday!

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible

…though Kings are promised to Abram in Genesis 17

Malcom Gladwell’s TED Talk on DvsG

Alex, Macon, and Marshall update on movies and Easter services before talking through Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday services. What are we trying to teach and do in each of them? Is what we do in them in 2025AD a helpful interpretation of the Biblical events of 30AD? It’s a long distance. We accidentally re-derive hermeneutical principles along the way.

Show Notes

Easter Monday is actually a thing. It’s part of the Easter Octave and celebrated by a couple smaller denominations: The Roman Catholic Church, The Orthodox Church, and The Anglican Church.

The Ballad of Wallace Island

Wallace and Grommit

SouthBy

The Amateur

Cocaine Bear was discussed in S1E05

Snakes on a Plane

Sharknado

Sharkando 2

Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo

Dr. Teeth

Eazy-E - “Still Talkin’” references “boogaloo,” but super NSFW so no link

Easy A

Never Forget: The Menunos Scale was discussed in S2E9

Necco Wafers come in 8 different “flavors”

(I’m never getting those 4 minutes back.)

Get help somewhere

Stamp Cost over time

Chatham Chocolate Fountain Video Cam (The Deacon was taking a break at the time.)

Hans & Franz

The Church of the Brethren includes Feet Washing in their Communion & Love Feast Service.

Alex & Macon discuss a new term for where we are right now, “metamodern,” and how we got here from modernity, through post-modernity, and that Kids Today (tm) are making a turn, probably away from cynicism, possibly towards Hope.

Show Notes:

Actually it was Lord’s Gym

Actually they were Puka Shell Necklaces

Highly Recommended: From Postmodernism to Metamodernism

Ted Lasso

Top Gun Maverick

Wheaties are great, but this is the real Breakfast of Champions

Alex and Macon talk about sportsball, hiring new pastors, and how the various Biblical Atonement metaphors work together.

Show Notes:

12 times Messi was amazing

Creed is making a comeback.

Always make sure to match your stole with your viper.

Atonement Metaphors in the Old Testament:

* Kipper - covering of sin through the provision of an equivalent. A Cultic/Forensic (aka Legal)/Banking metaphor. (cf sacrificial practices of Israel.)

* Padah - saving from the power of sin, darkness, oppression. A Dramatic / Victorious metaphor. (cf the Exodus from Egypt.)

* Goel - redemption out of slavery or forfeited rights through a kinship in blood and property, and the rightful avenger of death of a family member. A Familial/Brotherly/Fatherly metaphor. (cf Boaz for Ruth.)

Further Up and Further In

Marshall, Alex, and Macon discuss whether what kinds of fans want to see “the best” teams play each other and which kinds of fans want Cinderella Stories. Do hardcore fans want the first, and recreational fans the second? Are folks who only come to Christmas and Easter recreational Christian fans? And is there anything surprising to do on Easter? Finally, they discuss a church’s “Brand,” if “Diversity” is a brand, and whether this is even a valid way of thinking about Church.

Show Notes:

Snow White

Death of a Unicorn

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Dianetics

Grimsley Whirlies Varsity Baseball

Inspo Board

Let the Hate flow through you

in fact, it was University of Houston

Chalky

Name Image and License

Necco Wafers

it’s an adverb

Surprise The World

Necco Wafers' main and proper use

Roses Discount Stores

Lessons and Carols

Merry Friggin’ Christmas

The answer is simple: Volume.

There’s a Journal of the American Society for Church Growth. Vol 14, Issue 3: What is Wrong With the Homogenous Unit Principle?

Lausanne has been on the subject since at least 1978.

Macon and Alex discuss the temptation to forget, how it’s different than the temptation to dis-believe, and how the practices are related to remembering and forgetting.

Show Notes

TD Jakes

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose

You can’t do that on Television

Hedonic Adaptation

Practices

Cues

Alex and Macon talk through the incredible grace shown to us in Christ’s atonement all the while being really, truly, and actually Human, including getting surprised at the well.

Show Notes:

The Chosen

Last time, on Hold For Podcast

Atonement

On Universal Atonement but not Universal Salvation, this Editor’s footnote (p189, Atonement) does a great job of summarizing TFT on how he thinks through unlimited atonement.

“For Torrance, the apprehension of the cross involves a conversion of the reason in which we bow our own reason before the reality and mystery of Christ and seek to understand it (as far as we may) out of itself without reducing it to logical schemata of our own making which inevitably break it up into separate elements and distort it. We need to hold together what scripture holds together, refusing to categorize it in ways that distort that wholeness. If we cannot understand how scripture holds together certain things which we find difficult (such as the unconditional love and forgiveness of God for all, the finished work of Christ, the gospel imperative to repent and believe, and the fact that some refuse and are judged by the very gospel that offers them life) then it is not open to us to resolve the tension through a man-made logical schema, which emphasizes some elements at the expense of others. We need to be crucified with Christ in our natural reason and through the transforming of our mind begin to penetrate into ‘the interior logic of scripture’ so that we may learn to think as scripture thinks and hold together what it holds together in Christ. Both universalism and limited atonement for Torrance fail to do that.”

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The Divine Institution of Nametags