"Anything worth discovering is better explored than explained." No where is that truer than the learning to live in relationship to Jesus. American Airlines pilot, part-time historian, and long-time adventurer, Jeff Andrechyn returns to the podcast and joins Wayne as they share some of the books they've been reading about our recent explorers leading up to the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on January 20 this year. Their example can provide some valuable encouragement as we learn to go beyond human conventions and ride on the winds of the Spirit.

Podcast Notes:

Previous podcasts with Jeff

Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

American Moonshot by Douglas Berkley

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What does it mean to parent in grace? Wayne's daughter, Julie Williams, is back to continue their exploration of parenting springing off the book, Parenting by Paul David Trip. They are in chapter 2 about grace and the importance of living in it for ourselves, and from that extending it to our children. Raising children to know Jesus is more than impressing the rules upon them but demonstrating to them the grace that makes it safe for us to engage God even as he is transforming us. They talk about the growth curve with parenting and giving yourself the freedom to make mistakes and learn without living in regret.

Podcast Notes:

Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp

Loving Our Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk

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Wayne's co-author om So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore, joins him for today's podcast and shares some interesting insight that he has been exploring over recent years. He talks about three basic needs that we has humans have—for love, for worth, and for safety, especially when we freel vulnerable. These needs can only be met by God, and when we don't find this in him we will seek to find it in other people. But humanity can't love like he does and when someone doesn't treat us the way we think we deserve, we'll feel threatened, which will lead to fear and eventually to anger. Depending on our personality this anger either goes inward expressing itself in self-abuse, depression, and addiction, or it goes outward leading us to abuse others and seek to control them for our own joy. The good news is we can reverse the realities on this chart, but finding our love, worth, and safety inside a relationship with God and then share that with others.

Podcast Notes:

Dave Coleman's previous podcasts

Study Dave referred to about the impact of religion on kids

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[NOTE: We realize not everyone will have watched this series, and others will have significant concerns about the graphic violence and sexuality it portrayed. This podcast also includes plot spoilers for those still watching it.] In this continuation of a previous podcast, Wayne discusses the Game of Thrones finale with long-time GOT fans, Kyle and Jess Rice. They talk about literary portrayals of power, and how the attempt to force freedom on others always makes a tyrant out of he or she that would be king or queen. It's a story as old as the fall and makes the Incarnation that much more incredible, that the leader of the most powerful kingdom earth has ever known is being built by the Servant of all. Jesus invites us to a kingdom; he does not conscript us, and that makes all the difference.

Many of you were with us fifteen years ago, when Brad and I discussed a novel we were helping to rewrite and launched a publishing company to put it in the world. It appears some people never learn from their mistakes, because Wayne is about to do it again, in spite of what happened last time. Last November he was sent an amazing story called THE CITY, inspired by a family and written by a first-time author, a young mother of three in France. She wanted to know if Wayne would rewrite the story and help publish it for the English-speaking world. Though Wayne was inclined not to, given what had happened before, he couldn't let go of this story that was too good not to be told. So here we go again, and helping him in this venture and joining him on this podcast to talk about it are Kyle and Jess Rice, good friends who are building the publishing company as well as coming alongside Wayne and in the coming months Lifestream to help expand this message of living loved to a younger generation.

Podcast Notes:

Kyle Rice's previous podcast

Click here for Game of Thrones Extra

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"A power structure that is accountable only to itself will always end up abusing the powerless." So says James Carroll in an article in the June 2019 Atlantic Monthly entitled, "Abolish the Priesthood." As a former priest and Catholic reformer, Carroll concludes the only way to save the Catholic church is to abaondon the priesthood and give it over to be run by the people themselves. His words sound a note that ripples far beyond the Catholic Church and give Brad and Wayne plenty to reflect on and discuss as they talk about how the clerical system is a holdover from the Roman Empire, not the teachings of Jesus or the example of the early believers. A new expression of the church is taking shape out of those who "loved him at the first and didn't let go of their affection."

Podcast Notes:

The Atlantic Monthly Article on Abolishing the Priesthood

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You can't force anyone into a relationship, but you can invite them. Julie Williams stays over from last week's podcast to answer some email from listeners. First up is a question about spanking and whether or not it's a good tool for disciplining children. Wayne and Julie both talk about their experiences and perspectives in this area, which have changed greatly over time. They also answer a question about their father/daughter relationship through various ages—both where it worked well, and its failures. They also answer a question about losing that relationship in the teenage years and what parents might do to win back a place in their child's heart.

Podcast Notes:

Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp

Loving Our Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk

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For the years our children are growing up in our homes, there is no greater glorious calling than to help them learn how to live fruitful and responsible ives. Wayne's daughter, Julie Williams, returns for their continuing discussion about parenting with Chapter 1 of Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp. The chapter is about Calling and deals with the priority parenting has to have to navigate it effectively.  Wayne and Julie talk about experiences from their own lives as parents and as children to celebrate the joy of parenting, whether it be young children, or adult ones.

Podcast Notes:

Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp

Loving Our Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk

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Wayne's finished up his two-week trip to Europe in Vallorbe, Switzerland at the home of his good friends, Silvio and Dominique Viotti. Silvio has been on a couple of podcasts so Wayne took the opportunity to talk to Silvio about what Father seems to be doing in sees God doing in Europe. Wayne shares some of his experiences in Norway, Italy, and Switzerland and why so many people let fear sidetrack them from the path Jesus is inviting them to explore. Living in a growing trust in Jesus' wisdom is a far better way to navigate life than being driven by our fears. So many people start well and then miss the fruit of the journey as the retreat back into their own wisdom.

Podcast Notes:

Previous podcasts with Silvio

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One of the great wonders of our redemption in Christ is joy and freedom of finding our way beyond the brokenness of our humanity and how it manipulates our behavior to capture our spirit. A recent article in Christianity Today invites Brad and Wayne into a discussion about the transformation that comes from a relational engagement with the God who made us and knows how to walk us out of the twisting and isolation of the addictive behaviors of sin.

Podcast Notes:

Christianity Today article: What Can Drug-Addicted Doctors Teach Porn-Addicted Pastors?

"Yes, and”: What Improv Comedy Taught Me about the Annunciation

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