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- 143 - Don't be a ButterBall Christian (Spiritual Gluttony)Spiritual Gluttony: The act of feeding upon those things that divide us rather than unify us.---All across the United States this week, the dressing will be prepped, casseroles will be assembled, and turkeys will be basted and baked! Thanksgiving is back once again and even though gatherings will most likely be a bit smaller this year, it’s still a time to express our gratitude for life and our love for one another. Oh and one more thing: a time to EAT!SO what better time than America’s favorite food holiday to talk about gluttony! Now, just know we aren’t here to discuss your eating habits and consumption levels. We’ll let you handle that after you face yourself in the mirror that following Friday. But we are talking about Spiritual Gluttony.You know, Spiritual Gluttony. That feeling of needing to know one extra sermon or have just a couple more volunteers. Maybe the church altar call wasn’t as “responsive” as you’d have hoped or maybe you just need to quit being a glutton for reasons to be angry by reading your cousin’s tweets.If it robs you from love then it robs you from Christ and robs Christ from others. So let’s come together (6 feet apart but together) and share in a nice, healthy time of love rather than junk that just makes us desperate for more divisiveness.---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/---20 min
- 142 - Don’t Let Your Inconvenience Become Someone Else’s BurdenHow we respond to life’s inconveniences can create a God-filled joy and blessing or can conjure up anger and burden.---Sometimes things don’t go our way. Maybe we woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Maybe we slept through our AM alarm. Or it could be like what we just learned: that you lost the keys to your bike lick so your bikes are fastened to your camper when you intended to go for a ride.There are many instances in our daily lives that just don’t go our way. Plans get changed. Intentions are left unmet. Sometimes life throws us curveballs but how we respond to these instances can tell us a lot about our faith.This week we are talking about how to not make mountains out of molehills. How to recognize what is actually a problem and what is merely an inconvenience. We talk about how our responses can create or rob us of our joy and how to find blessings in the midst of annoyance.Faith is a beautiful thing so why not give it the right room to grow.---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/---17 min
- 141 - Is Faith the End of the Conversation or the Beginning?Do we use our faith to open conversations up or close them down? Is faith a reason to talk or to end the discussion?---We have all done it: used our faith as an excuse to end a conversation. Maybe the topic is messy. Maybe we feel as if the other party doesn’t have a lick of reasoning in them. Maybe we just feel we are superior. But when is this a justifiable answer?This week, we are recording from the great Ouachita national forest. On a refreshing hike, Elaine poses the question, “is using your faith a justifiable end to a conversation”. Spoiler alert, most of the time it isn’t!This isn’t a conversation about putting yourself into negative situations or to feel as if you have to have all the answers. Quite the contrary! This is a tool to help us identify when we are truly at a loss in our understanding of what answer we feel is truth, how to not use our faith as a copout or a crutch, and how to identify the difference in a supernatural reliance on God, versus having a selfish dominant view of our faith and using it as a trump card (puns only minorly intended)---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/26 min
- 140 - I Voted! A Christian’s Guide to Political PartiesHow should Christians vote? Are there Christian political parties? How do we get along with people who think differently!?---It’s almost election day. Time to rush to the polls! (Or hopefully, you turned in your mail-in ballots). This is that time of year where we get to rouse up all that tension and piss off those select family members right before we are forced to sit and have a big turkey dinner together. Man, this year has flown by.Every election cycle it becomes even more evident just how much our faith gets tied up in our politics. But why is that? And are we to understand other people’s political choices when we are so busy trying to defend our own?This week we are talking about a Christian’s guide to political parties. We discuss how a Christian can be a part of any political party, how most people actually desire the same things, and how like love and hate, different political parties are more alike than they are different. It is one of the most difficult asks we could give, but we ask of you this: This election season, please try to refrain from needless debates that just weaken your own mental health. Try to see people for what they are, a piece of God’s glory with their own lenses they filter the world through. If you can see the human in them, then you can find the God in you.---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/---35 min
- 139 - Christians, Astrology Is A Sin! (except when it isn't?)Astrology is sinful! Except, where does it say that in the Bible? Do Christians even realize what astrology is?---People love the stars. We’ve looked to them for inspiration. We use them to tell time and direction. We even depend on them for our entire existence. Without stars, the night sky would look a lot less spectacular, and well, day wouldn’t exist at all!There are so many parallels between Christ and the sun, angels and stars, and God with the heavens. Yet in spite of this, The stars have gotten a bad rap. In many circles, understanding the heavens has become less about seeing the image of Christ they contain and more about the fear of our assimilations.This week, we are wrapping up our October Halloween series talking about Biblical Astrology. We discuss why astrology has received such a bad reputation, how followers of God throughout history have actually used the stars as a predictor of things to come (wise men or revelation ring a bell?) and how reading the stars is not a sin, at least not in and of itself. Rather, it’s not what we do but how we use it and to whom we try and seeSo, let’s sit back and have a gaze at such a misunderstood topic this hallow-week. That is, if the stars allow it.---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/---38 min
- 138 - Jesus Is My Favorite "Necromancer"What does the Bible say about necromancy? What makes using “witchcraft” and performing a “Miracle” so different?---Talking with ghosts, predicting the future, and raising folks from the dead; these are just a few things that the Bible strictly forbids…. Except when it doesn’t? From praying to saints and asking forgiveness for those passed to summoning those who have long departed or just bringing them back all together, the Bible is full of events that seem to mimic the very things it forbids. But what is the difference? What makes a prophet different from a divinator? What separates necromancy from resurrection? How does one man making a rod turn into a snake not make him a sorcerer when all the others that did the same were?This week, we are talking about all things magic and what separates it from God. We discuss how all the power of God placed in creation can be harnessed in many different ways but “spoiler alert”, it all comes down to one’s intent.God is our filter. Many of the things that are miracles can also be malicious if we have selfish ambition. Now, we are not encouraging you to go grab an ouija board, okay? Performing supernatural works is not a test of faith, but even more a test of intent. So before you light your torches and sharpen your pitchforks, we invite you to take a dive into this little journey through the magic of the Bible and learn a bit more about the divine “magic” all around us.---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/---46 min
- 137 - The Fear of the Unknown (And how it stifles our faith)Halloween, Pokemon, Ouija Boards oh my! - Christians tend to fear what they don’t understand and fear robs us of our authority in Christ.---It’s OCTOBER! If you have been listening to our podcast for any time at, you know what this means… A month of diving into the spookiest and craziest parts of Christianity! This week we are talking about the fear of the unknown and how fear can stifle our faith.Humans fear what we do not know. We’ve kind of done this since we have existed. I mean, all it takes is a sneaky snake and a little whisper that there is some knowledge hidden out of site and we demand to know what it is. After all, knowledge is power, right? And while this phrase can often be seen as humanity’s downfall, there is some truth to it.THis isn’t a gnostic gospel message but rather a call to try and understand before we react, sympathize before we rebuke, and shine the light on the shadows instead of making up tales of how they creep. So let’s start off this halloween season on a serious note, but don’t worry, the spooky stuff is just around the corner. Don’t believe me? Here’s a schedule for the next 2 episodes:Oct 19: Jesus is my favorite necromancerOct 26: Ezekiel, John, and other Biblical astrology practitioners---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit Spirituality Untamed: http://spiritualityuntamed.com/---32 min
- 136 - Living free from unspoken expectations (With Kurtis Vanderpool)How can we truly live free from the unspoken expectations held against us by others and ourselves?---Many times Christians hold themselves and have others hold a certain level of expectations that are simply not healthy. From relationships and community to our own desires, how do we quench those unspoken expectations?This week, we are talking with Kurtis Vanderpool: Author, Public Speaker, and Life Coach. We hear Kurtis’ deconstruction journey and why he and many others continue down such a seemingly uncertain road despite the seeming uncertainty. Kurtis talks of what it means to live free of unspoken expectations and how the love of Christ draws an authentic community to us when we need it most.This week we talked about:• Pursuing Christ beyond the walls of the church• Relationships with past church members ofter deconstruction• Why one would leave the comfort of religion to chase Christ into the unknown• Allowing God to guide true community• Standing alongside others when they need support• “Living Free”GUEST INFO:Kurtis VanderpoolLife Coach, Best Selling Author, SpeakerMany of us are born with incredible gifts just boiling up within us. The problem is, our churches and religious organizations don’t always value those gifts. That’s where I come in.Hi, I’m Kurtis and I help spiritual misfits like myself become powerful leaders in their own unique and life-giving way.Through regular content on my blog and podcast, as well as products, and one-on-one coaching, we are committed to raising up leaders that will guide God’s people through great times of change and uncertainty, leaders just like you.Website: https://kurtisvanderpool.comInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/kurtisvanderpoolYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxfBWGhc6XXpDaQSSpHtKQ---RESOURCES:Giving Up Sunday: Why 37 million American Christians still love Jesus but want nothing to do with the church and how churches must change to survive. - https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Up-Sunday-Looking-community-ebook/dp/B07H529KRJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1551915834&sr=8-1---WEEKLY QUESTION/s:• Ask yourself, “What do I truly want?We’d love to hear from you! send your response to [email protected] or find us on social media! Links below!---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---Spirituality UntamedIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. Visit Spirituality Untamed: http://theprodigaldaughter.com48 min
- 135 - It's Okay to NOT Grow (During the Appropriate Season)Fall is upon us. The trees are beginning their transition from lush and thriving to reserved and docile. This season is a season of beauty, comfort, and echos the metaphors of creation. The earth begins to take her rest from a bountiful time of productiveness. She rests her feet and settles in to recoup, renew, and reemerge on the other side stronger than ever.This week we are talking about NOT growing. So often we are shamed (in every corner of our lives) for not growing. We are told that we need to bear more fruit. We need to prune back to produce more crops. It’s a constant barrage of more. But everything needs a Sabbath, even our growth.Leviticus talks of how in the seventh year to stop working the vineyard and to cease pruning the plants. Just let them be. They need this time of rest. There is so much here we can learn from. So whether you were convinced you had to always be growing or have taken on guilt for being content, let this conversation serve as a reminder that in the right season, growing is the WRONG goal to strive for.WEEKLY QUESTION/s:• Have you ever felt guilty for NOT growing?We’d love to hear from you! send your response to [email protected] or find us on social media! Links below!---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTERIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit The Prodigal Daughter: http://theprodigaldaughter.com---35 min
- 134 - Giving Yourself Grace (and Identifying Spiritual Triggers)We all have moments where we have to offer up a little grace, but how often do we extend that grace to ourselves?---The spiritual journey is kind of like those gumball machines we used to use as a kid. You know the ones; you drop the quarter in and give the knob a turn and the little gumball falls out of the bin and spirals around and around until finally you can get your hand on it. Except in this analogy, we are the gumball…Sometimes we feel close to God. Other times we struggle to even believe the there is a God. But through it all, we MUST give ourselves grace. Grace is the thing that allows us to progress further down our journey. Think of that gumball again. Sure, there were ties it seemed out of view but it always circled back, this time a bit closer to you finally being able to grab ahold of it. It takes the back and forth, the spinning closer and farther away to draw closer to our objective.There’s a reason Jesus always spoke in parables and if Christ is indeed God, it’s not a far cry to assume parables are sewn into the fabric of creation. God wants us to find the beauty that is Him in every aspect of life. And He gives grace for us to enjoy that journey. So if God can give us grace, we have to learn to give ourselves grace as well.---WEEKLY QUESTION/s:• What areas are triggering to bring back your previous beliefs and why?We’d love to hear from you! send your response to [email protected] or find us on social media! Links below!---JOIN THE COMMUNITY:If you'd like to keep the conversation going, we want to invite you, our reckless listeners, to join The Reckless Community! Follow this link and ask to be a part!http://bit.ly/trp_community---CONNECT:Web: http://therecklesspursuit.com/Facebook: http://bit.ly/trp_fbYoutube: http://bit.ly/trp_youtubeTwitter: http://bit.ly/trp_twitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/trp_insta---ITINERANTEnjoy history, folklore, and campfire stories? Check out Cody’s podcast, Itinerant: Biblical History Beyond the Bible: http://itinerantpodcast.com---SPIRITUALITY UNTAMEDIf you are a woman looking to find your God-given purpose and let it loose, Elaine has a podcast for you. visit SPIRITUALITY UNTAMED: http://theprodigaldaughter.com---39 min
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We are for the spiritual nomads, the outcasts, and the ones who desire to ask the hard questions. A shelter in the desert, a safe place to share our thoughts, our hopes, and our dreams. We are pursuing the Truth and we don’t care about the consequences. We invite you to come and sit at our table and be a part of our tribe. We are brave. we are bold. We are, The Reckless Pursuit.