Alex is back from teaching young InterVarsity Staff how to Preach. Macon discovers that he disagrees with Marshall and Alex about what is happening when you “Preach” and whether it’s different from what IV Staff do at a Large Group. Spoiler: the divide is mainly around what we think is happening during the Eucharist.

Show Notes:

Kokomo

Seven Mile Bridge

AK Walk-Into-Work Song

IV even has a Large Group Meeting Handbook

Pericope

Homiletics

Current chapter/verse setup of the Bible is thanks to Nathan and Stephen.

The Prayer of Humble Access

Spiritual Communion Prayer

Nicea, a heated mess, a mess which heat is applied to it

The Divine Liturgy of Chrysostom

Some excerpts for how Macon and Marshall can add to Alex’s next trainings.

Marshall and Macon discuss the spiritual development approaches they tried as young men which didn’t work at the time. Was it the approach? Was it the young man? Was it just how it was in the 90s?

Show Notes:

The Chipmunks

Duke - Miami Football

Cajun Man

The Episode in Question

Andrew Murray

* With Christ in the School of Prayer

* over 240 more books and tracts

Quiet Time

How to journal like Alex

Center of Quiet

The Jesus Prayer

Doug and Rachel Flaherty, residents of Asheville, NC, join Alex, Marshall, and Macon to talk about life 30 days after Hurricane Helene. From 3 days before it hit, to understanding how cut off Asheville was, through the current state of their emotions and souls, we hear about it all.

Show Notes

Hurricane Helene

Asheville Arts District

The Anxious Generation

“1000 year…2000 year event”

A good rundown of thinking about the damage.

FB Post on the loss experienced

“Amongst the vast destruction of Helene lies my cynicism of my fellow Americans.”

Psalm 37

Beloved Asheville

Manna Foodbank

Valley Hope Church

Alex and Macon discuss their morning rituals, how they put them together, why they’re still sticking with them, and how their current rituals didn’t work with small children.

Show Notes:

Handel’s Messiah. all 2.5 hrs of it.

How preparing for Lent 2024 was.

On Torrance and Atonement

The Christian Doctrine of God

The Trinitarian Faith

apparently they’re called Zafu cushions

Breath Prayer

It’s Yin Yoga

Switch: How to change when change is hard

Marshall, Alex, and Macon work though Saintly prayers. Which first needs a take on what Prayer is, then if it’s ok to ask anyone to pray for you, then they wander back to Saints.

Show Notes:

84-93 Rock & Roll for Teenage Ennui aka Proto-Emo

Why Can’t This Be Love?

Lord Business

Lego Batman

Let it Be (sorry not sorry)

Mark Grace era Cubs

No Crying In Baseball

Footprints in the sand

Despair.com

Alex and Macon talk about being a Jesus follower and Leadership in secular work. It’s not being a softie: this is foolishness. Rather, like most things in following Jesus, it’s groping for the Wise thing, not the technically correct thing.

Show Notes:

Proud to be Americans, where at least we know we’re Free.

French Huguenots

We’ve got the continent going for us, which is nice.

Pipe-weed, Sweet Galenas, Westman’s-Weed

list of Inklings

SAMA

Pivoted like the way Gino handles these Helicopters.

How Relaxed? No notice, Low regulation

The football game in question.

2100 Productions

MBWA - turns out it was an HP thing.

D2C eComm 3PL

theodicy

Revising Prose

Corporate Speak

Outkick the coverage (AK is referring to the first definition here)

Alex, Marshall, and Macon respond to an African counter-critique of the Western concern over the Prosperity Gospel.

Show Notes:

Beep Test

Langham Partnership

Out of The Margins Podcast

Independence: may induce an awakening of rational thought

Out of The Margins Episode: Redefining The Prosperity Gospel

Greenhouse Retreat: From Disappointed to Audacious

The Bible Project podcast: Does God Lead Us into Temptation?

Rich Dad / Poor Dad

Langham Literature for indigenous authors and publishers

Macon, Marshall, and Alex reconnect after the summer and compare notes on another year of dropping kids off at college, where the exactly right thing is still often the very difficult thing.

Show Notes:

Wild Cave Expedition Tour - Raccoon Mountain Caverns

Spelunking

Linville Caverns

St. Louis City Museum

I would do anything for love. but Metal.

Travel by Map

Cameron Indoor Stadium

Cameron Crazies

Batman, on whether he has a Greatest Enemy

Next week we will be discussing this podcast episode: Redefining Prosperity Gospel

Marshall, Alex, and Macon work through whether it is proper to apologize for something someone else did. Is it proper? Is it just for Christians? Does it help? Is it true?

Show Notes:

* The Shining: Film, Novel

* Misery: Film, Novel

* Stephen King

* The Dark Tower

* Tom Clancy

* The Stand

* This Present Darkness

* Frank Peretti

* It's been One Week

* Segways

* Paul Blart

* Struggle Session

* Nehi

Macon and Alex talk about talking about gender and sexuality. Can you have a “Big Tent?” Can you disagree with each other and still love and abide with each other?

Show Notes:

Twisters

Deadpool

Deadpool 2

Logan

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Just when Macon thought he was out, Alex pulls him back in.

It’s 1st Corinthians 8:11-13