Alex, Marshall, and Macon stomp around in the idea of The Powers in N.T. Wright’s new book Jesus and The Powers. Is it helpful? Does it add anything? How do we work with this idea?

Show Notes:

John Chrysostom

the 50 minute address mentioned: Alan Torrance - The Continuing Priesthood of Christ

Get Heavy Hands and Build Yourself a Great Body!

Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Lyrics Version

Metal cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart (hang on until the 2:30 mark for the breakdown)

How did this get made?

Dune 2

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Naaman & Elisha

Derek Webb - A New Law

Tom Petty - Won’t Back Down

The only cover of Won’t Back Down that is equal in excellence to the original.

The Waiting is the hardest part.

The podcast in question: Good Faith - The Unseen Spiritual Powers Shaping Our World

N.T. Wright is interviewed about his new book Jesus and The Powers

How do you say Recidivism?

Manichaeism

The Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got

Rob Porras, Macon’s Youth Pastor, back in the early 1990s

Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics: “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies”

Surprise Surprise Surprise

James Clerk Maxwell

Darwin’s Bulldog

Marshall is back and makes a ruling on the Psalms and VBS. Then Alex, Macon and Marshall wrap up the hero discussion together. Plus bonus movie reviews!

Show Notes:

Greek Phalanx

Carthago Delenda Est

St. Francis Springs

Jody Owens

Eugene Peterson on Psalms

Sweet Caroline punk cover

WinShape

(Bonnie Tyler is actually link #2 here.)

Total Eclipse of The Heart

Weezer’s Hero is the best of all the hero songs. Fight me.

Loser

Ironic

The best part of You Can’t Do That On Television #GenXtvFTW

Movie: Thelma

Shaft

The Beekeeper

Alex, Rachelle, and Macon discuss the proposition: It is proper to use The Hero’s Journey help us understand ourselves. Alex is For the proposition. Macon is Against. Rachelle is the referee.

Show Notes:

Hero

Holding Out For A Hero

We Don’t Need Another Hero

Anti-Hero

My Messy Beautiful Family - the complete series (SFW)

Peak Therapeutic Culture

Boundaries

Greenhouse Retreats

Growth Mindset

Lee Simmons on HFP

Previous Rachelle on HFP (Alignment Etc.)

The Hero’s Journey

The Hero’s Journey applied to Star Wars: A New Hope

Wild at Heart

Early Rohr The Male Spiritual Journey

Early Rohr The Female Spiritual Journey

Jordan Peterson’s Message to Young Men

The Mistborn Saga

Fast & Furious Family

Alex, Marshall, and Macon talk about sticky scripture passages, whether to preach them, and if so, how to do it. Along the way they touch on the challenge of the 20 (for real people stick to 20) minute sermons and how to teach bigger ideas than what’s in that Sunday’s 30 lines of text.

Show Notes:

Scatalogical is a real word.

Richmond Marathon

Ultramarathon - not to be confused with an Ultramanathon

Issue

A good segway

What is a yute?

Mutual Assured Destruction

Revised Common Lectionary

Haddon Robinson

The Jefferson Bible

The Bible Project on Jewish Meditation Literature

Agape

For Alex next time

The Inductive Bible Study Method

Anchor Points

Alex explores Rachelle and Macon’s recent (and separate) work experiences. It leads to a conversation about what it means to succeed, toil, gain, and release in our work-life.

Show Notes:

Eagle Scout 12 Steps

The Chosen

The McClintock Agency

Enneagram 3

nonsellersremorse.com is available!

Enneagram 8

Ackshually

We shall be as gods.

Technical Debt

Business Jargon: Headwinds

Inside Baseball Explainer on USPS proposed 2024 changes

It was 2006

Macon tries out a theory of knowledge (and reality) on Alex to answer, among other things, why should we care about Theology?

Show Notes:

(Baby You Can) Drive My Car - Bobby McFerrin cover

The Arsenio Hall Show (woo woo woo woo)

Bobby McFerrin and audience member (not TAH show, tho)

Big Audio Dynamite - Rush

U2 - War

Vigilantes of Love

Vertical Horizon

Michael Jackson - Bad

My Messy Beautiful Family (aka Your Screwed Up Family)

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

James K. A. Smith

John Chrysostom

Visualizing Muscle Growth (PubMed)

Theology and Science at the Frontiers Of Knowledge Book 1 - Reality and Scientific Theology

Where we talked about Reality and Scientific Theology

Transformation and Convergence in the Frame of Knowledge

Karl Popper

Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Lesslie Newbigin

David Bailey, Founder and CEO of Arrabon, join Alex, Marshall, and Macon to talk about growing up in Richmond, VA, reading the Bible at the age of eight, and how Jesus formed and is forming him into a man with the heart, vision, and know-how to develop reconciling communities.

Aarabon

Dr. John Perkins

The alternate universe where David stays with the keytar. (He looks surprisingly like Herbie Hancock.).

The 700 Club

Kirk Whalum

East End Fellowship

God of the City

Urban Doxology Project

* worship resources

* youtube

Renovation of the Heart

Romans 12:2

The Transforming Center

Pastor Don, The Urban Mystic

Andy Crouch

James Hunter

A People, A Place, A Just Society

WeAreArrabon

Lee Simmons joins Alex, Marshall, and Macon to talk about important things like the Fast and Furious movie series, as well as what it’s like following the Lord while living with sickness and fatigue. There’s no NOS for rushing through that, but she talks about a way of being in the small hurts that helps with the big hurts.

Lee Simmons

Grace Community Church

This kind of gravy, though

Fast and Furious watching order suggestion

Fast and Furious Funko Pop

How Did This Get Made on Fast and Furious

Flanelboard

A disease of high achieving.

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, by Tim Keller

Family Groups

Marsh, Alex, and Macon learn about Living at the Pace of Prayer with Will Dungee of Cantag Coaching, and experiencing the militant, garrisoning, Peace of God.

Listener note: the production of this episode leaves in all the pauses on purpose. If your podcast practice is to listen at a faster pace than 1x, or have an app that shortens the pauses, you’ll miss out on some of the wisdom.

Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC.

Grace Community Church, Greensboro, NC.

Bapticostal - a neologism established enough to have a Wikipedia entry. Though, like most religious, political, and sociological wikipedia entries, it’s certain to be inaccurate.

Inbox Zero - a way of life

Chances are high that you’ll run into Will &/or Marshall here.

Be anxious for nothing

On Brother Lawrence

Will before he had one lesson

You can get in touch with Will here.

Marsh, Alex, and Macon come back to the subject of money, families, budgeting, and whether we have one or not. Budgets, not Families. We definitely have the latter.

Show Notes:

Jim Nantz

Vern Lundquist

I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it

Wicked Little Letters

We totally forgot to raise the issue of Swearing

James 3:10

Naked vs Nekkid

imprecation

Civil War - the movie, but not a movie about The Civil War

De La Soul - Say No Go

Sturgill Simpson - Breakers Roar

Me myself and I

In the event that you are looking for chips to play in 2024.

Big gulps huh?

making bids to connect

improv yes and

the Athletic Stance

mo money, mo problems

Larry Burkett, founder of Crown Financial Ministries

…slightly ahead of snl’s approach

The Envelope System

Burlington, NC Outlet Village

Turks and Caicos

Domo Arigato

Greensboro High School, now Grimsley High School, opened in 1899

Financial Peace University

Debt Snowball

YNAB

no sheetz

If you don’t Budget, can I interest you in Budgies?

Grits are also groceries, despite what they say.

Phototropism and Geotropism

Why keep your score in CrossFit

All I do is win