Alex, Marshall, and Macon discuss whether all their Advent/12 Days of Christmas talk amounted to anything, and while on the subject, will they execute New Year New You goals in the same way? Plus: teaser for the Theological Crossover you didn’t know you needed.

Show Notes:

It was neither Vader, nor an admiral, it was C3PO.

Alas, the video didn’t work out. Maybe next time.

Charlotte is not ECU

Beastie Boys drop the beat. But Key and Peele illustrate the drop the best.

There are totally hundreds of songs with a great drop. Here are 25.

Actual video of it coming right back at Alex.

The Quiet Collection

Alex, right now.

Hipster Coffee

It stands for autonomous sensory meridian response.

Making Room in Advent

We talkin ‘bout Practice?, and HFP on Practice

Everyday Sublime Podcast on Yin Pranayama / Gathering the Qi

Reality and Scientific Theology

God’s Trombones

The Goal

Aidpose Tissue

You could do it Funky, Metal, or Epic, but you know where you need to start when making a cha-change.

Biblical Critical Theory

Journey of 1000 steps

All you need to know about Baby Steps

You could work your way back to your original spot, or to your favorite disco.

* Uh, Universe? These lyrics are perfect for an Emo cover. Why does this not yet exist?

* “See link for making a cha-change.” - Universe

Alex has a gift, friends.

The Trinitarian Faith

Torrance and The Templeton Prize

The Theological Crossover we didn’t know we needed

* Torrance/Peterson vs Willard/Ortberg

Torrance and Peterson be like this

Reading for next episode:

Thinking and acting in Christ: Torrance on Spiritual Formation

Chapter 11 in the book Torrance and Evangelical Theology

At the end of the year, Alex, Marshall, and Macon reflect on what it means to do difficult things, why we do them, and what happens when we do. Unrelated: Marshall ran his 5th marathon.

Show Notes:

This is the 62nd episode, overall

* 13 Episodes in Season 2, starting here.

* 6 Summer Shorts, starting here.

* 23 Episodes in Season 1, starting here.

* 20 Episodes in the Pre-Season, starting here.

French Revolutionary Calendar

Revolutions Podcast Season 3: French Revolution, Episode One of Fifty-Five.

For Marshall:

Kiawah Island Marathon Race Route

Qualifying for the Boston Marathon is complicated.

Today, we salute you, Mr.Ride The Bike Alongside His Wife Wile She Runs A Marathon.

Marshall is a Marathon Runner. It will take him one hour to get prepared.

Video of Marshall blowing by a runner on his way to a Qualifying time.

Let me win but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

Special Olympics athlete oath

Better Man

* the clip

* the song

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, Eugene Peterson

CrossFit on Neuroendocrine Adaptation (scroll down to that section)

How Do You Like Me Now?

The Blindside

Janice’s Book: Restore My Soul ← a good thing to read for that New Year New You moment!

The Real El Guapo

Alex, Marshall, and Macon talk about Advent traditions, or not, practices, or not, and the listener is left wondering: if Macon:Torrance::Marshall:Peterson, then Alex:??

Show Notes:

Whoomp there’s my butt. ← this would be a good video to, like, learn to read with.

Killers of the Flower Moon

It’s me, I’m the problem

It’s called the Karpman drama triangle.

Reading: how does it work?

Christian Laettner’s Shot. It has it’s own Wikipedia entry.

Making bank on a buzzer beater.

Schweddy Balls

Jesse Tree ← apparently an actual thing

Jesus Storybook Bible

Behold the Lamb of God

Jesse’s Girl but Emocore

Of course: Jesse’s Boy

Joyful, Joyful - Sister Act 2

Seems like they do ok.

Holy Luck, Eugene Peterson

Chrysostom Society

A Radiant Birth

Malcom Guite. → Legit Hagrid Vibes.

Making Room in Advent

Frisson is completely wrong. Friction is the right word. Management apologizes for the error.

Piebald Life - the internet has not forgotten it

Perelandra

Build The Life You Want

It’s pronounced Frankenstein

A Christmas Together: John Denver and The Muppets

Joy

The Silent Stars

Handel’s Messiah - A Soulful Celebration

O Holy Night

On Sara recording an album in prison.

Oh hey, here are some rules about 12 Days of Christmas

Suggestions for Revised Advent imagery

Mary, did you know?

Buzzed the tower.

Comment below if you know the perfectly valid reason for the icon associated with the title of the episode.

Show Notes:

There and Back Again

K1

Sadly, not a series on: Styx and Stones ← BUT AWESOME SERMON SERIES IDEA!

* remember: God Gave Rock ‘n Roll To You

The unassumed is unhealed. (Here’s more theological reading on the matter.)

Carl Henry Paragon of Evangelical Protestant Modernity.

Previously on Hold For Podcast:

* S2E7 - Anti-Establishment actually got us going in this direction

* S2E8 - Left Turn

* S2E9 - Wake Up

Double-Plus Ungood

Redlining

No, seriously: End Qualified Immunity

Illustrating Banking Corruption at the level well above Redlining: The Big Short

Anathema

I’m a lover not a fighter.

Skin in the Game is also a good book.

Struggle Sessions aren’t just for China anymore!

Alex, Marshall, and Macon take a break from seriously talking about serious things for an episode of picking favorite children in a game of Either/Or.

Show Notes:

Freelance

John Cena ← JUST LIKE YOU!

The Menunos Scale was discussed in S2E9

The Lost City

The Marvels

Nate Bargatze as George Washington

Welcome To the Jungle

* but do it Vintage Ochestral

Jungle Love

* but nothing like Steve Miller Band

Jungle Boogie

* but Muppets

Jungle Book

* but AK meant The Bare Necessities

Franklin Barbecue

Barre

Orange

Orange Theory

The Garage Gym Revolution

Suzuki Samurai

Three on the tree / Four on the floor

Renault 5

December, by George Winston

Graceland, by Paul Simon

All I do is win

Grimace

Not to be confused with Big Red

Not to be confused with Big Red

Liminality is discussed during S1E23

Third Eye Blind, Semi-Charmed Kind of Life

Red, no Blue

I Beeped You

Camp Willow Run

Steve Martin’s Holiday Wish

Miss Congeniality and World Piece

Unbelievable or I’m Too Sexy

I’m Too Sexy Look What You Made Me Do mashup

Unbelievable No Sleep Till Brooklyn mashup

We leave the Unbelievable I’m Too Sexy mashup as an exercise for the reader.

Marshall, Alex, and Macon continue their conversation about “Woke,” Justice, Economics, and the difficulty of holding a church together in the 2020s.

Show Notes:

Grand Turismo

Maria Menunos

* Repping Noovie

* HealSquad

How far should you run in your marathon training before the marathon?

Smell my Victory!

Thieves, the scent

The Envelope Budgeting System

The Business Reply Envelope

PCA

Eric Mason, Woke Church

Vodie Baucham, Not sure which book.

Rage Against The Machine, Wake Up

Wake Up, but with Trombones ← recommended!

A Theology of Liberation

Recommended on Liberation Theology: Chapter 5 of Freedom, Necessity and The Knowledge of God.

Colossians 1:24 “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body—for the sake of his body, the church—what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.”

Founding Brothers ← to understand how close we came to not having a country

Thomas Sowell

Cato Institute

Alex and Marshall talk Macon through another church leaving, which leads Macon to the question: Why have the last two churches ‘slid left’ out from under us? Is it us?

Show Notes:

Young Rock - alas, cancelled after three seasons.

Quantum Leap Reboot - No sign of “oh boy.”

It was actually…”I’m taking them all back.”

One Officiates a Funeral. Here’s how.

Ted Lasso Final Game Halftime Speech

November Rain

You’ve got a friend in me.

Nothing else matters.

Paradise City

How do you pronounce Rorschach?

Imagine at your funeral, after the final prayer, you hear this baseline start…The Seven Nation Army

How do you pronounce Parousia?

I Can Only Imagine - Country Version

When The Man Comes Around

Thank God I’m a Country Boy

Loud and Heavy

Pickup Man, for when you want some honky-tonk in that Sanctuary

Aaron Tippin

Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)

The Segway:

* This Is Going to Change the World

* BBC agrees with Marshall about Mall Cop

* This is even an answer on Chegg.

Grace Community Church paper on Women in Leadership

The Law of Non-Contradiction

PCA - The Presbyterian Church in America

Apophatic theology

Retributive justice

Qualified Immunity

How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black

Alex and Macon discuss the Individual/Institution dichotomy with its asymmetries of power, information, and the resulting difficulty of discerning the truth of things in a world where you don’t have scale without abstraction.

Show Notes:

Macarena - Original Version ← with more saxophone than you ever expected

Macarena - the one you know

So many songs about traveling!

YMCA

A Blues Traveler Top 10

Stadium Rock

Jump Around

The Hook Brings You Back ← with more harmonica than you probably needed, but the music video stands up still in 2023

1999

Ken’s job is just beach.

Cajun Man

Back in 2020, MIT published A Complete History of Pandemics

It was actually Bethel, New York.

Jesus People

Family Ties

It’s actually Two Minutes of Hate, but 70+ years of inflation gets us to Five Minutes, at least.

The amazingness of having bread on the shelves.

Chapter 8, Do Christians Worship the Same God as Those from Other Abrahamic Faiths?, in Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God.

Luke 18:9

Founding Brothers ← recommended

Alex, Marshall, and Macon interview Janice McWilliams about her book, Restore My Soul. The three of us adore this book and highly recommend it.

Janice also has a blog, and deserves legit respect for animated gif selection in her posts. For the person considering her book check out these posts:

* Why my book addresses thoughts

* Why my book addresses emotions

* Why my book addresses rhythms

* Why my book addresses fulfillment

And while you totally should get her book and read it, you don’t have to read it in order to take advantage of the resource she offers at her site:

Make Great Hormone Soup with these 50 Self-Care Ideas!

Show Notes:

You might not know that Alex wrote a book: The Small Group Leaders Handbook

Turns out, Janice did that, too. Proof:

Unmentioned rhythms:

* the one that's going to get you

* the actual Night

* the actual Night, but Metal.

No mention if reframing requires freezing them first. Just in case here’s an instrumental Cello version but softer, for self-care.

Self Care Barbie

Obvi, Jesus needed this Tim Ferris Podcast Episode.

Yin Yang, but pronounced correctly.

Step-by-step Sun Salutation

Sun Salutation, but a cat.

James Bryan Smith: The Good and Beautiful God

Most emotions last 90 seconds.

Make Great Hormone Soup!

Macon wanted to introduce our Listener to his most favoritest theologian, Thomas F. Torrance (aka TF Torrance). Alex and Marshall help him unpack the theological themes of Torrance from an early and short paper published in 1949.

Listener, you might want to read it before listening to the episode, but you don’t need to in order to enjoy the episode.

The paper in question: Thomas F. Torrance, "Universalism or Election," Scottish Journal of Theology 2 (1949): 310-318; #1949-033

If, in the end, you’re unimpressed by TFT, that is entirely the fault of Macon, and should have no bearing on your appreciation of the theological Titan, TF Torrance.

Fanboys gonna fanboy.

Show Notes:

Ted Lasso

Turns out, Marsh is on the cutting-edge of fashion right now. Footage of Marsh at the last funeral he attended. He's so hot right now.

Mahomes on Jacob’s performance on the mound.

The only Who Let The Dogs Out video you will ever need.

T.F. Torrance’s Life and Achievements

Actually, it was Scottish Journal of Theology. Though Scottish Theology ought to have its own Journal, too.

Bishop John Robinson

The Trinitarian Faith

It wasn’t WWI. Torrance was a chaplain in WWII. Management regrets this error.

Nicean Creed

T.F. Torrance, on Karl Barth.

The Filoque Controversy

Every day, we were Joel Miller.

Robinson’s argument, version 2019 —> David Bently Hart: That All Shall Be Saved

The passage Torrance translates on the last page of the paper is 2nd Corinthians 5:11-21.

Torrance wrote more fully about election in Christ in the paper: Predestination in Christ.

You couldn't only imagine that it could be this good. 10000% improvement.

“…his name is literally “Darth Father”

Inconceivable!

30 years ago, PFR asked, “why you would walk away from Love?”

Abjure was not the word. It means, literally, the extreme opposite of what Macon was trying to say.

Tendentious was on point, though.