This week Alex, Marshall, and Macon wander around the space of money, wealth, fund-raising, and how giving to the church might be different than giving to other ministries or things.

Show Notes:

Just Push Play

Je Ne Sais Quoi

Alex and Marshall preached through Easter

Eggstravaganzas were likely going to be point 13 on this list.

see last week’s show notes

Not Kong v Godzilla, but Godzilla x Kong

Mothra

Sonic Assault: the onomatopoeia of bands

Titans

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

5 movies in the original Planet of the Apes series

Langham Partnership US

Who is John Stott?

Financial Peace University

You Need A Budget (YNAB)

Tithe the mint, not to be confused with Mint

Parachurch

gracegso.org

Stokes Fog Machine (“no need dry ice!”)

So you’re telling me there’s a chance!

Are we talking practice?

Line Item vs Program Budgeting

Alex, Marshall, and Macon discuss the end of Lent, and handling the folks coming for their second of two visits to church this year.

Show Notes:

The Holdovers

O Captain! My Captain! ← movie scene

O Captain! My Captain! ← poem

The Breakfast Club

High School Musical - We’re all in this together

We were on the Final Countdown of not mentioning Pitch Perfect, but we fixed it.

Narrative and Metaphysical Ambition: On Being In Christ

It wasn’t Kahn. It was David Kelsey. Management regrets the mis-remembering the last name, but honestly who would remember that name anyway?

Hans Frei

Not to be confused with the book, The Post-Evangelical

ChristianLee (Simmons)

Fran the workout

Explaining how Fran came to be

Luke 4:1-13

Roll Away Your Stone

On why the Father ran.

Quit kissing up to the Host!

They totally would have gotten away with it, too.

Inception

1 Corinthians 15

The Champion

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

A different kind of Verve

Wake Up

Wake Up, but covered by Brass and Horns. ←this is super good

Bonus Link: It’s not Monkeys On Cats, but it’s pretty close: Baby Monkey

Alex, Marsh, and Macon talk about being married for 24+ years, marriage counseling, and a particular set of skills.

Show notes:

We’d be better at this if we took this class.

Gangnam Style but Metal

Wonka Chanting Monks

Chant, released 1994 (management regrets the error)

this is a very different vibe from Sadness - Part i, but it did come out before Chant, in 1990

Jars of Clay - first album

Appetite for Destruction

Kung Fu Panda 4

Skadoosh

School of Rock

Awkwafina

Onomatopoeia

Mr. Way Too Much Cologne Wearer

Prepare/Enrich

Gunwale - this is probably a metaphor for marriage counseling

The Five Love Languages

Not all marriages have these kinds of fireworks, but #goals.

You complete me.

a particular set of skills

Day by Day by Decades:

* Day by Day 1970s

* Day by Day 1990s

* Day by Day 2020s

You’re Welcome

Alex, Marshall, and Macon talk about philosophies of phunerals, pet-peeves, and what we want in our own, maybe.

Show Notes:

The Tri-State Area

Fast X

Lee Simmons

Ecclesiastes 7:2-4

Better than the Geneva Collar. (The Geneva Collar.)

Psalm 95:7b-8

The Ted Lasso Final Speech

Carmina Burana

Homegoing Celebration

When The Saints Go Marching In, or, if you want, a bit more reverent.

Can’t Fight This Feeling. No self-respecting metal band has covered this and made it public. So here’s what you get instead.

Time for Me to Fly. Again, punk and metal bands aren’t touching this. BUT THIS COVER REDEEMS IT ALL.

I’ll Fly Away

Keep On Loving You. This one is a bit more tenacious.

Roll With The Changes. Finally: A punk cover, or, at least, one that looks over at the punk section of the record store with some of it’s guitar and drum rhythms. Look, I know it’s more like straight-up rock and roll, but on the spectrum is closer to punk than REO ever was.

In My Dreams. I’m not sure that any punks even know that REO Speedwagon as a song with this title.

Heat death of the universe. Also would be a good name for a metal band.

Alex, Marshall, and Macon work their way from hecklers to bullies to global war to martyrs. No animals, friends, or feelings were harmed in the making of this podcast.

Show Notes:

Dune 2

(Spoilers between 5:00 and min 7:30

Dune 1 Nerdist Recap

Six Dune Books by Frank

Twenty-two books by Brian, Frank’s son

Gratuitous Tennis

Our discussion of Lent

Emily P. Freeman:

* How To Walk into a Room

* The Next Right Thing

She also did The Quiet Collection, which Macon listened to during Advent.

First CityWide Change Bank

Driscollian - see The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

Macon’s Philosophy Professor relative (is a cousin-in-law a thing?)

Boundaries is a good book.

The examples of Saints Perpetua and Felicity

Preston Sprinkle - Theology in the Raw

Steelmanning

Setting up the pins and knocking them down

You’re Welcome

Are we just pretending that the Resurrection hasn’t happened yet during Lent? Marsh, Alex, and Macon stomp around in the liminal space that is Lent.

Show Notes:

We will not be talking about Alf. Likely ever.

Before there was Amazon, before there was Toys R’ Us, there was Lionel Playworld

Alex is now 50.

It’s a good age, but no Age of Ultron.

Valentines Days Ash Wednesday Vibes

If you’re doing it right, you say only:

Remember, man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.

Malcom Guite: A Word in the Wilderness

Jordan Peterson on Genesis 1

Making Room in Advent

Brother Lawrence

I guess Presbyterians can be hippies and loosey goosey. Every Morning is Easter Morning, by Avery and Marsh. This is likely how we sounded.

Imalet you finish

Left to their own devices, Alex and Macon follow up on their Mentor discussion, wonder about band name etymology, the excellence that is GenX, ending with how and whether one can know anything at all.

Show Notes

Nickelback

* This is How You Remind Me

* Is it a cover if the lyrics are changed, but the spirit and melody stays the same? Regardless: is also has an Official Animated Video

* For some, Primus might be more your style.

Nickel Creek

Ni is number 28

Harvard Business Review on Managing Up : It’s Harvard, so caveat emptor.

When considering Boomer and Millennials.

The book on GenX before books on GenX were cool, before books on GenX were passe.

The Fugitive

Friends

Weekend at Bernies

42

Reality and Scientific Theology

epistemology

bernoulli’s principle

John Philopinous

Neoplatonism

Alex, Marshall, and Macon talk about having and being Mentors, though it’s not exactly clear what it means to have and be a Mentor, so they stomp around there, too.

Show Notes:

Currently at 4.9 out of 5 Stars

Rachelle McClintock was an Epic Guest

You can’t always get what you want. Fun.

You can’t always get what you want. Funky.

Firework Oreos

Future Mentor for Alex

Storage Trailers

Rubber Duck

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

We’re having a DTR

Zoolander

Je ne sais pas

There is another

The Book of Clarence

The Life of Brian

Dune part 2

Dune

Dune Messiah

Marsh, Alex, and Macon discuss better and worse ways to think about and talk about how it is that our souls grow-up into Christ. Plus tv shows where Bad People get beat up on the regular.

Show Notes:

American Fiction

Soundtrack AF

It’s Lee Child, and here are his Jack Reacher Books

Reacher Amazon Series

Jack Reacher: Alpha Enneagram 8

Alan Ritchson on being a Christian and playing Reacher

Joe Moore appears here the first time and the second time.

The paper we read: Thinking and acting in Christ: Torrance on Spiritual Formation, by Geordie Ziegler. (More Ziegler here.)

Dallas Willard: The Divine Conspiracy

John Ortberg

T.F. Torrance

Eugene Peterson

Farming as Spiritual Discipline

Matthew 11: 28-30 The Message

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.