Welcome to Episode 194 of the Thinklings Podcast!

We hope your summer is going super well and you’re reading tons of great books and discussing them with your friends!

We do our normal things in this summer episode! Thinkling Little does the best introduction you’ve ever heard, Thinkling Carter talks about shooting wild birds (an Albatross perhaps), and Thinkling Stearns wraps up the episode with a devotional in 1 Timothy!

Main Topics in Episode 194:


Books & Business

C.S. Lewis
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lingua Latina
1 Timothy 1



Final Meditation:
Thinkling Stearns shares a final meditation from 1 Timothy 1.

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Welcome to Episode 193 of the Thinklings Podcast!

Is Andy back from his honeymoon?

What is Tim doing on his “home”-ie moon?

These are questions we address in this awesome Summer episode!

After Books & Business, Thinkling Little discusses Ecclesiastes 11!

Thanks for listening this week!

Main Topics in Episode 193:

Books & Business

Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves - C.S. Lewis
Poetic Diction - Owen Barfield
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 11



Final Meditation:

Thinkling Little shares a final meditation from Ecclesiastes 11.

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Welcome to Episode 192 of the Thinklings Podcast!

After a few moments of introductory fun, led by Thinkling Little due to it being a summer episode, we cover our normal bases. During Books & Business, we get a few book thoughts as well as Tim's conception of what “random” means (truly a “summer in left field oddity).

After Books & Business, Thinkling Carter discusses Psalm 84!

Thanks for listening this week!

Main Topics in Episode 192:

Books & Business

Answers to Catholic Claims - James White
Random Tim
Samuel Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Psalm 84



Final Meditation:

Thinkling Carter shares a final meditation from Psalm 84.

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Welcome to Episode 191 of the Thinklings Podcast!

Episode 191 is our first Summer episode of 2024! As you will hear a handful of times in this week's episode, Summer episodes are truncated. We still do most of our usual things, but we intentionally try to be brief so we can all run along to the many summer festivities we have.

One such festivity may be a wedding! Speaking of weddings, congrats to Andy & Melissa! The best wedding gift you could give them would be leaving us a 5-star review and comment in Apple Podcasts!

Thanks for listening this week!

Main Topics in Episode 191:


Books & Business

Every Woman a Theologian - Phylicia Masonheimer
C.S. Lewis
God in the Dock
Perelandra
2 Chronicles 33



Final Meditation:
Thinkling Stearns shares a final meditation from 2 Chronicles 33

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Welcome to Episode 190 of the Thinklings Podcast!

In this episode, we conclude (for now) the recent Hebrews 1 study focusing on the seven OT passages that describe Jesus. This conversation, led by Thinkling Carter, follows a bright and bouncy opening to the podcast, which features all our normal frivolity, books, business, sponsors, and bad jokes.

Thanks for listening this week!

Main Topics in Episode 190:

Coffee
Books & Business

Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
Clear Winter Nights - Trevin Wax
Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood - Aimee Byrd
Hebrews 1



Main Content & Final Meditation:

Thinkling Carter shares thoughts from Hebrews 1:8-12

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Welcome to episode 189 of the Thinklings Podcast!

This is a TALQ episode, where Thinklings Answer Listener Questions (get it?).

We also have our normal items, with a lot of folly and Books & Business!

Key ideas in Episode 189 - Proverbs 31

Books & Business

Exodus 1-18
Carolyn Weber
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord’s Table
John Piper
Pastoral Qualifications
Spiritual Blindness
2 Corinthians 4



Main Content:

Questions we answer:

When will Books & Business be updated on the website?
Should we be actually “breaking bread” at the Lord’s table?
What do we think of John Piper?
How does being “Satan’s seed” affect the ability to discern the truth?
Should we train pastorally unqualified men to fill the pulpit/preach?

Final Meditation:

Thinkling Carter shares a thought on 2 Corinthians 4!

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Welcome to episode 188 of the Thinklings Podcast!

We have a full slate of great things in this podcast:


Folly - a bunch of jokes and laughing
Coffee Sponsors
Weekly Wisdom
Books & Business
Proverbs 31


Key ideas in Episode 188 - Proverbs 31


Books & Business

Exodus 1-18
Every Woman a Theologian - Phylicia Masonheimer
Joshua - John Goldingay
Clear Winter Nights - Trevin Wax
Malcolm Guite
Phantastes - George Macdonald
Sex and the City of God - Carolyn Weber
Proverbs 31



Main Content & Meditation:
Thinkling Little leads a study of Proverbs 31!

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Welcome to Episode 187 of the Thinklings Podcast!

This is a TALQ episode where we answer listener questions! Here are the questions we discuss in this episode, after Books & Business, of course:

What kind of interlinear would you recommend?
What Greek textbook does FBBC use, and what books would you recommend for a student to “keep his Greek?”
What do you think about Susan in the last battle? Is she worldly, or does she lose salvation??
What premarital books would you recommend?
Is there anything in the works for a “thinklings moot” (a meeting of thinklings listeners/live podcast experience, etc..)?
How do you best care for someone who is/has gone through something difficult?

Key ideas in Episode 187 - TALQ 2

Books & Business

Surprised by Oxford - Carolyn Weber
Flirtation Experiment;
Stop Calling Me Beautiful - Phylicia Masonheimer


Reading
Writing

Main Content:

We answer questions that were emailed to us!

Final Mediation:

Psalm 66

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Welcome to Episode 186 of the Thinklings Podcast!

Special Guest Alert!

We were thrilled to have S.D. Smith (Sam), author of Green Ember and other titles, as a guest on this episode.

After Sam participates in some Books & Business, we dive into his writing process and philosophy!

You do not want to miss out on this one!

Key ideas in Episode 186 - S.D. Smith

Books & Business (11:04)

The Green Ember - S.D. Smith
Surprised by Oxford - Carolyn Weber
Finally Free - Heath Lambert
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport


Reading
Writing
Imagination
Ecclesiastes

Main Content (20:42):

We interview Sam Smith about his books and writing process!

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Welcome to Episode 185 of the Thinklings Podcast!
This week’s episode discusses Hebrews 1:7 and its quotation from Psalm 104! This is the third episode of the series "Jesus is That Guy,” and you can go back and listen to those previous episodes if you missed them (Ep. 166 from December 2023 & Ep. 174 from February 2024).

Of course, we do some Books & Business and Weekly Wisdom, too; we're not barbarians!

Thanks for listening to this week's episode!
Key ideas in Episode 185 - Jesus is That Guy, Part 3:

Books & Business (6:14)
Weekly Wisdom - Proverbs 30
Conquered Conquerors - Danilo Verde
Poetic Diction - Owen Barfield
Pursuing Peace - Robert Jones
Hebrews 1
Psalm 104

Main Content & Meditation (17:33):
Thinkling Carter - Jesus is That Guy, Part 3 - Hebrews 1:7 quotation of Psalm 104:4

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