Spiritual Arson

What sacrifices have you made for the Lord? What persecution have you endured? What are you willing to endure? In today's episode, Adam and Tanner welcome guest Gary Miller, host of The Narrow Gate podcast and a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Before joining, Gary was a Baptist preacher with a fire in his belly and a sincere desire to find and follow his Savior - which led him to discovering the Book of Mormon and ultimately abandoning his identity to be baptized into the Restored Church. Gary has taken his fair share of hits and persecution for this decision and offers a ton of insight on how to handle it with dignity.

Have you ever been reading a book or a paper and, a few paragraphs or even a few pages later, find out you have no idea what you've actually read?

Your brain has gone through the motions of recognizing the letters, words, and sentence structures, but the meanings they were supposed to convey have been totally lost on you? How often are you religious experiences - especially those related to ritual and ceremony - exactly like that? How often do you go through the motions but not get the intended meaning or totally get lost in the ritual the way you get lost in a great book? In this episode, Adam and Tanner talk about the problem of Ritual Comprehension and how to increase it.

In this episode Adam and Tanner bring their wives along to answer listener questions, talk about their perspectives, and share their insights on femininity, family, and the Gospel.

While the first three episodes in this series have had some insights and ideas about what it means to be a Man of God, today's episode is more about questions than answers. Why do men hate going to church? How can we get engage each other in a more meaningful way? Where do pride, shame, self-sufficiency, and affluence all factor in to this? Can this generation of men be re-engaged or do we have to start with the up-and-coming generation to make it work. Adam and Tanner have very few answers but the questions are worth asking.

You've been told your whole life you live in a man's world and, while the top tier decision makers in government and business may be mostly men, the average man lives in a world created, curated by, and intended for women. Oh, and it's your fault that you do because you haven't created the masculine space, time, and presence you need to make your own one of men. In this episode, Adam and Tanner talk about why this isn't what Christ wants from us, their ideas on why and how it happened, and how to start to combat the problem.

While the first episode of this series focused on the creation of order from chaos, this episode is all about the righteous use of violence, man's relationship with fear, and how to help our boys train their physicality.

While the Gospel is applicable to men of all shape and character, is there a type of masculinity that is particularly Godly? Does the Church foster that? What is the responsibility for raising boys to men who are both good and good at being men? Adam and Tanner take these and other questions head on in the beginning of their series on Godly masculinity.

In this episode Adam walks Tanner (and the rest of us) through the four different temperament types, how they relate to religion, and why it's important to understand each one. This is something Adam has been developing for nearly two decades and will be the topic of his upcoming book.

From priestcraft to Klan rallies, Adam and Tanner cover it all in today's episode. Who would Christ dine with? How much is our perception of sin and the nature of Man impacted by the culture around us? Why blame the Church when your parents screwed up? Is making money the only sign of priestcraft? Can a desire for one's ego and the building of Zion exist simultaneously? And many, many more questions.

This week Adam and Tanner took questions from you covering everything from signs of the Second Coming to how to make progress once you're no longer struggling with major sins.