Podcasts by Become Good Soil
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149: A Christmas Feast (Part 1) from 2023-12-12T15:54:05
Let's remember the beauty, cost, and largeness of the Tale that has woven our ordinary lives into its surprise, delight, and power.
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148: DadAwesome, with Jeff Zaugg (Part 2) from 2023-12-06T02:55:44
What story are we inviting our kids into?
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147: DadAwesome, with Jeff Zaugg (Part 1) from 2023-11-21T15:08:25
If I can only lead my child where I’ve gone myself, what’s next in my initiation?
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146: Wild Courage, with Jeremy Morris from 2023-11-07T19:47:42
In the Kingdom of God, we are never behind, and it is never too late.
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145: Resilient, with John Eldredge from 2023-10-25T01:42:39
Salvation is a process, not an event. – Resilient Friends, Steady. Strong. Resilient. What would it be like for these words to describe the sons of God in this hour on earth? It’s hopeful. ...
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144: Jesus, Our Older Brother (Part 2) from 2023-10-10T18:40:04
As we see how Jesus engages men and women, we discover his brotherly love, care, and invitation.
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143: Jesus, Our Older Brother (Part 1) from 2023-09-26T16:25:59
Jesus became a brother to mankind so we might more fully come home to the Family of God.
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142: Rise, with Rob Porter (Part 2) from 2023-09-12T14:49
Let's rediscover the innocence and hope of asking questions.
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141: Rise, with Rob Porter (Part 1) from 2023-08-29T16:28:39
It’s not up to me. I am being led by a good Father brilliantly orchestrating my masculine initiation. What would it be like for that to be true?
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140: Eugene Peterson, with Winn Collier (Part 2) from 2023-08-16T13:41:32
Not only is Winn a man through whom God is bringing the life and legacy of Eugene Peterson, he has his own rich life and legacy.
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139: Eugene Peterson, with Winn Collier (Part 1) from 2023-08-01T17:12:29
No description of Eugene Peterson rings more true than this one: he beheld the Presence of God.
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138: The Cost of Non-Discipleship, with Cherie Snyder from 2023-07-18T14:00:29
Cherie Snyder offers what she has lived and who she has become through 25 years of discipleship to Jesus.
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137: Fires, Part 2 from 2023-06-29T15:55:58
Thirty local Fires have been launched, and more are being lit. They all start with one man and one match.
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136: Fires, Part 1 from 2023-06-19T03:38:40
Wild at Heart Fires offer a context for the authentic masculine community essential for our hearts to thrive.
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135: Mastering the Art of Living, with Aaron McHugh from 2023-05-23T21:50:30
A decade of small and hidden choices has led to a life to really celebrate. Join Morgan and Aaron for this declaration of hope.
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134: Parts Work, Part 6 from 2023-05-09T16:16:48
We return to the big ideas of parts work in a fresh session where Cherie and Morgan taught as a team.
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133: Parts Work, Part 5 from 2023-04-25T03:58:27
A trusted guide offers a personal experience of care for the fragmented parts of your soul.
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132: Parts Work, Part 4 from 2023-04-11T16:00:01
Some have become disintegrated and marred, but there are no bad parts of our hearts as men and women made in the image of God.
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131: Parts Work, Part 3 from 2023-03-28T12:54:03
It is the wholehearted soul who is truly free and able to let God be the center of his story.
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130: Parts Work, Part 2 from 2023-03-14T17:00:57
A few BGS Intensive alumni give us an in-depth look at parts work in the intersection of our daily lives.
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129: Parts Work, Part 1 from 2023-02-28T15:46:59
How do we participate in a process through which every disintegrated and fractured part can be brought back into alignment and connection with God?
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128: The Salt Life, with Jared Sayers from 2023-02-14T18:03:02
Let God use Jared’s story to shine a light into your heart as you attune to who God wants to be for you and what he is calling you into.
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127: Stories from the Frontlines, Part 3 from 2023-01-30T22:33:49
The Becoming a King Retreat is an invitation back onto the narrow path that leads to life.
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126: Stories from the Frontlines, Part 2 from 2023-01-18T10:41:34
We hear another fresh batch of stories from the frontlines of the Becoming a King Retreat.
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125: Stories from the Frontlines, Part 1 from 2023-01-03T18:58:36
Few things will facilitate our masculine initiation more deeply than offering strength, love, and service on behalf of other men.
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124: A Soul’s Review from 2022-12-20T15:59:30
Pause with God to review this past year, uncovering its treasures and clarifying insights for the journey ahead.
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123: The Carpenter’s Gift from 2022-12-06T22:29:10
Take up a childlike heart again this Christmas and be swept up into the awe and beauty of Immanuel—God with us.
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122: But It’s Worth It (Part 2) from 2022-11-23T00:19:59
In our masculine initiation, it is often through the megaphone of pain that God rouses parts of us long dormant.
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121: But It’s Worth It (Part 1) from 2022-11-08T23:31:30
In time and over time, we're invited to follow the path and process of Jesus, passing through death into more and more life.
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120: Land I’m Livin’In (Part 4) from 2022-10-26T03:28:53
We can choose to be with God rather than try to impress him. We can experience friendship with God that far outweighs the fleeting nature of our talents.
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119: Land I’m Livin’In (Part 3) from 2022-10-11T22:15:19
Over a lifetime of maturing, we are intended to become the children, the friends, and, finally, the lovers of God.
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118: Land I’m Livin’In (Part 2) from 2022-09-28T02:43:47
Join us as we weave together story and song to shepherd our hearts ever deeper into the hope and heart of a God unbound by death.
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117: Land I’m Livin’In (Part 1) from 2022-09-15T16:40:49
The one who knows us best is the one who loves us most.
116: Love Wins, with Tommy Colwell (Part 2) from 2022-08-30T17:38:16
Our stories do not define us; the Author of them does.
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115: Love Wins, with Tommy Colwell (Part 1) from 2022-08-16T16:44:25
There is perhaps no promise greater than the bottom-line reality that God's love gets the last word. And all will be made new in the light of this love.
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114: A Consecrated Life–2019 BGS Intensive, Part 8 from 2022-08-02T17:29:36
Your heart's healing is not about you, nor is it primarily for you. It’s primarily for others.
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113: Doing the Tiger–2019 BGS Intensive, Part 7 from 2022-07-19T13:53:03
We will have life and have it to the full only if and when we are willing to die.
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112: Taking Care of My Side of the Street–2019 BGS Intensive, Part 6 from 2022-07-05T07:10:01
I’m sorry. I was wrong. Will you forgive me?
These three phrases can transform every relationship.
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111: Men Without Chests–2019 BGS Intensive, Part 5 from 2022-06-21T22:50:45
Wholehearted living is no longer a choice—we must cultivate daily habits that root us in the life and presence of God.
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110: Twenty Seconds of Insane Courage – 2019 Intensive, Part 4 from 2022-06-07T21:04:12
Where do you feel uncomfortable? When do you feel weak? In what ways do you feel uninitiated? Where is God asking you to risk?
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109: Robust Well-Being – 2019 BGS Intensive, Part 3 from 2022-05-24T17:08:41
What has been your experience of being loved without condition by someone who had robust well-being to share?
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108: Restoring the True Man – 2019 BGS Intensive, Part 2 from 2022-05-10T19:22:43
We uncover what needs to die in us in order that we might really live, becoming men who have nothing to hide, nothing to fear, and nothing to prove.
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107: Entrusted with Power – 2019 BGS Intensive Series, Part 1 from 2022-04-25T15:44:54
Over 20 years ago, I found myself navigating a man’s world but largely feeling like a boy. Balancing a young marriage, young children, and a young career had punted me into the deep end.
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106: Coming Home, Part 3 from 2022-04-12T18:02
The cure for our waywardness and nagging discontent is to come home to receive the overflowing love, attention, and care of God.
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105: Coming Home, Part 2 from 2022-03-29T17:26:35
What if coming home to a new and secure attachment to God is the primary definition of salvation?
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104: Coming Home, Part 1 from 2022-03-15T14:58:54
What is in the way of growing your attachment to God as your source of pleasure, joy, and comfort?
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103: Work: Repairing the Sacred Secular Divide from 2022-03-02T17:56:15
There simply is no distinction between sacred and unsacred work in the world.
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102: I Am Being Led from 2022-02-15T21:59:04
What if, even in the midst of bewildering pain and disappointment, we are actually being led by our Father?
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101: From Life to Life, with Bill Lokey from 2022-02-01T20:26:09
There is nothing more clarifying than proximity to birth and death and the invitation these twin experiences provide to consider what we most deeply want.
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100: Your Stories from 2022-01-18T17:53:20
To mark this sacred milestone of 100 episodes, it is my deep joy to celebrate your stories!
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099: I Was Sure, with Adam Paulson from 2022-01-04T18:07:55
How have you responded to the reality that sometimes your very best strength is not enough to achieve the outcome you long for?
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098: Joseph from 2021-12-15T02:17:25
What was going on in the heart and soul of Joseph that caused him to risk everything on God?
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097: The Becoming a King Experience from 2021-12-07T23:23:01
What if there was an ancient path that led to life as it was meant to be?
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096: What’s Your Bias? from 2021-11-24T02:52:05
Reckoning with our unconscious biases is a form of initiation that will help us increasingly see more of how God sees.
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095: Advent, with Simon Kyne from 2021-11-10T02:51:05
Advent is yet another powerful context for our masculine initiation, an opportunity to relinquish our inferior self-will in order to joyfully receive more of our King and his Life.
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094: Through the Bible, Part 3 from 2021-10-26T17:18:14
What if you were to turn with an open heart and a beginner's mind toward the Bible for a fresh revelatory quest?
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093: Through the Bible, Part 2 from 2021-10-11T20:50:58
There is a narrow road to know the Scriptures—and the God who wrote them—with more of ourselves, more deeply.
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092: Through the Bible, Part 1 from 2021-09-28T14:28:48
What do we do with this collection of ancient texts? What if a community could engage our questions and face the strangeness of the Bible with us?
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091: Soulcraft, with Sam Jolman from 2021-09-13T17:34:31
Sam Jolman has become a craftsman in the restoration of the masculine soul. In this episode we each get a seat in his counseling office to dive together into the masculine journey.
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090: Theology of the Body, with Christopher West from 2021-08-28T21:51:37
Join Christopher and me as we unpack the mystery and wonder of original design and the compelling intersection of body, soul, and the life of God.
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089: The Wild at Heart Experience from 2021-08-16T15:41:30
The relentless mission of Jesus is to heal and restore every aspect of our personhood. To rebuild what has been devastated.
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088: Blurring the Lines of Vocation and Family from 2021-07-31T00:50:35
What if maturity looks like blurring the lines between vocation and family? What if you could come home? And what if it changed everything?
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087: The Company Men from 2021-07-22T15:05:35
A modern-day parable, The Company Men depicts one man’s masculine initiation. As usual, the process begins with a man at the end of his rope.
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086: Back to the Garden from 2021-07-07T16:59:27
What if pursuing and cultivating wholehearted relationships with those under our care is a holy invitation back into the garden of simplicity with God?
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085: Defending the Defenseless from 2021-06-22T17:24:01
The Father is a wild one, undivided in his commitment to meet us where we are and father every uninitiated place in us.
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084: Becoming a King Campfire, Part 2 from 2021-06-08T19:15:03
May the words of these men who are risking it all on God and his Kingdom strengthen you and fuel you for what’s ahead.
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083: Becoming a King Campfire, Part 1 from 2021-05-25T12:02:28
Over the past year I’ve had the honor to share campfires with allies to connect and hear stories of the men bravely working through Becoming a King.
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082: Unbridled Optimism, with Peb Jackson from 2021-05-11T20:02:20
Slow down and receive with me the treasure of an intimate conversation with a man to whom God has entrusted much of his Kingdom.
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Maternal Deprivation from 2021-04-27T21:28:05
Trusting Jesus’ leadership, let’s explore how we can regularly receive feminine love and maternal care from the heart of God.
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081: Maternal Deprivation from 2021-04-27T19:28:05
Trusting Jesus’ leadership, let’s explore how we can regularly receive feminine love and maternal care from the heart of God.
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Slow Is Pro from 2021-04-13T04:04:09
Here is the good news: our medicators and their grip are not the truest thing about us.
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080: Slow Is Pro from 2021-04-13T02:04:09
Here is the good news: our medicators and their grip are not the truest thing about us.
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A New Dawn Is Rising from 2021-03-29T16:25:36
Often at first pass we see things not as they truly are, but only as we are. However, if we are willing, our distorted vision need not be the final verdict.
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079: A New Dawn Is Rising from 2021-03-29T14:25:36
Often at first pass we see things not as they truly are, but only as we are. However, if we are willing, our distorted vision need not be the final verdict.
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078: Wild at Heart from 2021-03-16T01:44:08
Over two decades ago through his book Wild at Heart, John Eldredge offered men the central thing they were missing: permission.
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077: Initiation, with Nick Carlile from 2021-03-01T12:20:58
Masculine initiation has as much to do with unlearning as it does with learning. As much to do with powerlessness as it does with power.
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076: Lent&Liturgy from 2021-02-15T16:50:13
Liturgy was intended to be a grace and essential stream to draw near to God and access the full breadth and depth of his Kingdom.
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075: Vision, Intention, and Means from 2021-02-02T04:30:18
What is the path of inner transformation and becoming like Christ? Is such transformation even possible? Dallas Willard assures us it is readily available.
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074: Experiential Therapy with Bill Lokey from 2021-01-19T04:30:20
Experiential therapy has been a profound conduit of the River of Life for me and for many; it is one of the great modalities of therapy and healing to consider in our toolbox for the restoration...
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073: Gary Unruh – Counselor and Restorer of Families (Part 2 of 2) from 2021-01-05T03:37:10
We turn to part two of a conversation Cherie and I hosted with our mentor, counselor, and dear friend, Gary Unruh.
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072: Zechariah from 2020-12-21T20:11:56
May the action of our Coming King in you and through you refresh your heart and enliven your hope as you prepare and anticipate his Coming Again.
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071: Gary Unruh – Counselor and Restorer of Families (Part 1 of 2) from 2020-12-07T22:27:44
After being Gary's counseling clients for years, Cherie and I had a chance to host him on the Become Good Soil podcast.
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070: The Body Keeps the Score, with Cherie Snyder [podcast] from 2020-11-24T05:17:36
It’s my joy to lean into the years of trauma-informed story work that my wife, Cherie, has explored for two decades. May this conversation be one more step for all of us toward the wholeness tha...
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069: The Inquisitive Christ – Part 2 of 2 [podcast] from 2020-11-11T17:18:15
It’s my joy to invite you into part two of the Become Good Soil podcast series on The Inquisitive Christ with our winsome, American-born, Irish-bred lady of the questions, Cara Murphy.
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068: The Inquisitive Christ – Part 1 of 2 [podcast] from 2020-11-03T15:49:40
Cara Murphy is a woman of questions. It’s my joy to explore her book, The Inquisitive Christ, together and recover some of the central questions that are needed in this hour on the earth.
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067: Pathfinder – A Conversation with Zach Thomas [podcast] from 2020-10-23T14:28:33
It’s my joy and privilege to invite you into this soul-strengthening conversation with a fellow Kingdom apprentice.
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066: Arranging Our Days – An Intimate Conversation from the 2019 Become Good Soil Intensive [podcast] from 2020-10-16T03:09:06
"We must empty ourselves of that with which we are full so that we might fill ourselves with that of which we are empty."–St. Augustine
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065: Heroic Stories Series – Wives of the Become Good Soil Intensive Fellowship [podcast] from 2020-09-14T15:21:37
I asked three courageous women,"What is the fruit of the Become Good Soil message in your husband's life?"My desire is that this conversation will strengthen your hope for the transformation tha...
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064: Cultivating a Habitat for the Soul [podcast] from 2020-08-18T20:27:50
There are practices in our power to do that accomplish in us what we never could on our own—small, consistent, but heroic acts that integrate our fractured souls and reconnect us supernaturally ...
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063: Isle of Misfits [podcast] from 2020-07-27T20:42:57
The privilege of engaging with Nancy and the Isle of Misfits was catalytic in my own relationship with God. In the hope of passing on what I recieved, I wanted to bring this episode to Become Go...
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062: Anxiety to Peace [podcast] from 2020-06-30T23:59:06
If acute anxiety has been a part of your story or the story of someone you love, there is reliable hope for encounter, comfort, and transformation.
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061: In Search of a Father [podcast] from 2020-06-02T19:15:55
How do I find a mentor? What do I do with my disappointment in older men? How do I offer guidance, counsel, or simply more to younger men in my world?
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060: What if Margin Could Save the World? [podcast] from 2020-05-20T02:15:12
No one stops to think. These five words, spoken over two thousand years ago, have the potential to change your life more than any others.
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059: Becoming a King [podcast] from 2020-05-07T20:31:21
Over two decades ago I set out on a relentless quest to find the answer. What I found was not what I expected, and where I found it was in the most unanticipated places. With it came a restored ...
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058: Locking Shields [podcast] from 2020-04-29T19:55:23
Seventy-two years ago, a novel threat emerged on the earth, inciting a proportionate pandemic of fear around the globe. In that hour, it was the advent of the atomic bomb, a weapon whose potenti...
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057: Surviving Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why? [podcast] from 2020-04-18T19:17:22
The owner of the company maintained his poker face; it was not simply for the card game. This was the face he now donned for every public moment in these dark days. He was in trouble, and under ...
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056: Strength in the Midst of the Storm – Prayer Response to Coronavirus [podcast] from 2020-03-14T18:49:11
Friends, it was Oswald Chambers who said,"We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us ...
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055: The Secret To Work You Love [podcast] from 2019-12-17T21:08
Standing up and owning our reverberating pulses of passion rarely comes down to a singular event or momentary intersection with destiny. There is a daily-ness to our noble and sensible resignati...
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054: Question Response, Volume 2 [podcast] from 2019-10-16T18:42:55
We celebrated the 50th Become Good Soil podcast by asking you like-hearted listeners around the globe to send in the questions coming up as you travel the narrow road. The response was far more ...
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053: Heart Strong – A Conversation with Chuck Bolton (Part 3) [podcast] from 2019-07-25T16:33:39
It has been an incredible privilege to invite you into an intimate mentoring encounter with Chuck Bolton in this three-part Become Good Soil series. Among the many treasures in this final conver...
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052: Heart Strong – A Conversation with Chuck Bolton (Part 2) [podcast] from 2019-07-03T03:42:32
Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download Prison was so holy, because there was such a dependence on God. I had the gift of desperation. I couldn’t fix anything. I couldn’t do...
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051: Heart Strong – A Conversation with Chuck Bolton (Part 1) [podcast] from 2019-05-30T04:06:55
Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download I’ve spent 15 months in federal prison, but I can say the loneliest, darkest prison I’ve ever been in was my addiction. It was becaus...
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050: Question Response, Volume 1 [podcast] from 2019-03-15T01:03:50
The questions came pouring in. From near and far. They have been rich and meaningful. What I thought would be one podcast celebrating the 50th episode of Become Good Soil is sure to turn into an...
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049: Parenting and Styles of Relating from 2019-02-19T22:23:02
It was 21 years ago, but I remember the interaction like it was yesterday. I was in the home of a mentor, and he and I were talking in the kitchen while two of his boys played in the adjoining r...
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048: Initiating Five Sons, with Paul Ryan [podcast] from 2019-01-22T14:15:50
Though it is rare, there are people who have built a strong inner character, who have achieved a certain depth. In these people, at the end of this struggle, the climb to success has surrendered...
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047: Intensive Series (Episode 8 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-10-10T01:14:37
In the mid-20th century, The Times in London ran an essay contest, inviting highly respected thinkers and leaders to respond to the question, “What’s wrong with the world?” Chesterton offered th...
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046: Intensive Series (Episode 7 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-10-02T19:56:25
Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance ove...
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045: Intensive Series (Episode 6 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-09-25T19:23:29
Join me for this sixth episode of an eight-part series where we are going behind the scenes into the most recent Become Good Soil Intensive. If you're joining us for the first time in this serie...
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044: Intensive Series (Episode 5 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-09-18T14:45:44
How are you arranging your days? Dallas suggest that there is a possibility and a promise that, in time and over time, we can indeed arrange our days so that we are"experiencing deep contentment...
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043: Intensive Series (Episode 4 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-09-11T14:09:02
In Renovation of the Heart, Dallas says,"Our soul is like a stream of water, which gives strength, direction and harmony to every other area of our life. When the stream is as it should be, we a...
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042: Intensive Series (Episode 3 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-09-04T19:46:51
It's perhaps the second most dangerous and daring prayer we could ever pray. And it is one that can lead us into treasures beyond telling. Listen to this session from the most recent Become Good...
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041: Intensive Series (Episode 2 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-08-28T19:04:59
What was it about Jesus that allowed him to become quite possibly the most relaxed and lovingly unpredictable person who ever lived? Join me as we explore part two of an eight-part series in whi...
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040: Intensive Series (Episode 1 of 8) [podcast] from 2018-08-23T02:20:52
Many are saying that in the automobile industry, there has not been a revolution of this magnitude since Henry Ford inaugurated the assembly line for the Model T Ford on December 1, 1913. Yet as...
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039: Contemplative Prayer–Episode 3 of 3 [podcast] from 2018-04-30T16:57:18
In time it sometimes comes to pass that familiarity can give way to presumed familiarity. That presumed familiarity can then give way to unfamiliarity. And unfamiliarity can give way to boredom,...
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038: Contemplative Prayer – Episode 2 of 3 [podcast] from 2018-04-19T13:20:27
What is it like to really know God? Not just know about God but to know him, thoroughly and comprehensively in the most essential places of our souls? What if there were a way to practice experi...
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037: Contemplative Prayer–Episode 1 of 3 [podcast] from 2018-04-04T14:36:54
I find it fascinating that when Jesus speaks of eternal life, it's less often about a specific time or place where we transition into some other state of being and more often about a quality of ...
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036: Jonathan David Helser–Episode 3 of 3 [podcast] from 2018-02-16T04:42:16
"Did you bring me out here in the storm to kill me?"This pained and brutally honest prayer poured from Jonathan David Helser's heart in the midst of a moment of exposure and hand-to-hand battle ...
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035: Jonathan David Helser–Episode 2 of 3 [podcast] from 2018-01-27T22:55:41
Check out the news on any given day and you’ll find stories that illuminate a crisis of masculinity. It's a crisis rooted in the loss of effective masculine initiation, for a boy does not become...
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034: Jonathan David Helser–Episode 1 of 3 [podcast] from 2018-01-17T01:37:06
"Messy could describe the first moment that God has with man. He gathers dirt in His hands to form Adam. There is dirt under God's fingernails and then on God’s lips as He draws Adam close to br...
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033: The Slow and Steady with Dallas Willard and Michael Cusick [podcast] from 2017-11-15T16:41:11
Amidst the clamor of contemporary life, there is the narrow path of slowing down and setting our souls before the insight of the elders. We can take heart: there are wise ones who have gone befo...
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032: One Giant Leap for Mankind–A Conversation with Brad Beck [podcast] from 2017-09-26T15:42:20
Brad Beck has spent a lifetime offering strength in a myriad of roles in countless missions. As a flight surgeon in a supersonic jet for NASA, a crew member in international theater performance ...
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031: 100 Miles with Dave Eitemiller [Podcast] from 2017-07-21T20:48:25
Piecing together a string of single-track trails that meander through a dry, rocky, cactus-strewn landscape, it’s possible to make a 48-mile continuous trek across Zion National Park. For most p...
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030: Coming to the Center (The Marriage Podcast Series – Part Four) [podcast] from 2017-06-16T18:06:17
Kelly and Phil are getting a divorce. The email from a mutual friend sharing the news hit me like a punch in the stomach. Brandon and his dad are in deep contention. It’s the kind of painful, tw...
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029: Plank and Speck Wrap Up (The Marriage Series – Part Three) [Podcast] from 2017-04-17T13:38:24
The offer is Life. Yet that abundant life is often found in the least likely of places. What is the most effective path toward the much looked-for restoration in the heart of your spouse? Join C...
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028: Plank and Speck (The Marriage Series–Part Two) [Podcast] from 2017-04-04T13:29:29
Jesus and His words… are essentially subversive of the established arrangements and ways of thinking. That is clear from the way they first entered the world, their initial effects, and how they...
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027: Venturing Toward the More (The Marriage Series–Part One) [Podcast] from 2017-03-22T14:18:22
If we are relational to our core, fashioned in the image of the One who is Three, then it is in dynamic relationship that we participate in the unending Life of God. And among human relationship...
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026: I Love Beer More than Jesus [Podcast] from 2017-01-13T20:10:06
These words have become a mantra for my masculine soul. A sort of North Star as I attempt to orient and re-align my life with the Reality of God and His Kingdom. Allen Arnold and I had an opportuni...
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025: Back To Life – Live with Esther Sparks [Podcast] from 2016-12-03T14:03:13
This most recent episode was a treasure to record, featuring Esther Sparks, a Scottish poet and musician whose music has been uniquely sustaining to Cherie and me throughout this decade of excav...
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024: Going Deep – An Invitation to Become Good Soil [Podcast] from 2016-11-01T22:02:48
It has been said,"The lives of many rest in the courage of a few."How are you becoming the kind of person to whom God can entrust the lives of others? How are you becoming the kind of person to ...
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023: Counsel from Kingdom Giants of Australia [Podcast] from 2016-10-05T22:24:30
In part two of the three part series, we venture behind the scenes into a sacred space where sages of the great nation of Australia offer their counsel at a Become Good Soil Intensive in New Sou...
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022: What Astonishes the Heart of God? [Podcast] from 2016-09-26T23:03:22
What astonishes the heart of God? In part one of this three-part series, I want to invite you behind the scenes into a session at the heart of the most recent Become Good Soil Intensive in Color...
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021: You Are His Favorite [Podcast] from 2016-07-04T16:19:44
It was a shimmering rehearsal dinner, the headwaters of which were most certainly in Eternity. The choicest wine flowed, but even more, the choicest stories: stories of daring, risk, and deep re...
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020: Did Jesus Wear Flip Flops? [Podcast] from 2016-05-31T19:56:48
Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download It all started with a lawnmower, a skateboard, a women’s clothing magazine, and a set of flip flops. What if play is God’s idea and...
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019: A Beautiful God [Podcast] from 2016-04-14T22:53:17
God’s kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The finder is ecstatic—what a find!—and proceeds to sell everything he owns to raise mon...
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018: Wild Unfettered and Free [Podcast] from 2016-03-23T17:34
This episode of the Become Good Soil Podcast is a reflection I wrote after ongoing ventures in recent years through The Message paraphrase of Matthew 21:12-18, the passage commonly referred to a...
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017: Dismantling the Fig Leaf (Part Two of Two) [Podcast] from 2016-03-14T17:23:08
Eugene Petersen, author of The Message, makes this observation: The two most difficult things to get straight in life are love and God. More often than not the mess that we make of our lives can...
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016: Dismantling the Fig Leaf (Part One of Two) [Podcast] from 2016-02-09T18:03:34
I've lost the ability to bullshit. It's the me I've always wanted to be. It's one of my all-time favorite film quotes, spoken by Jerry Maguire as he sheds the Poser and becomes more and more the...
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015: Getting Naked–Styles of Relating (Part 2 of 2) [Podcast] from 2015-11-02T16:38:32
It was Dallas Willard, in The Divine Conspiracy, who suggested, Jesus’ enduring relevance is based on his historically proven ability to speak, to heal, and empower the individual human conditio...
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014: Getting Naked–Styles of Relating (Part 1 of 2) [Podcast] from 2015-10-09T14:17:29
How we relate with other people is one of the greatest indicators of our spiritual maturity. This was the counsel offered by an older, wiser man years ago as he helped untie the knots in my rope...
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013: Quick [podcast] from 2015-08-05T14:52:56
"Deep calls unto deep..."the Scriptures suggest (Psalm 42:7). There is in every moment of every day an accessible onramp to the narrow road that leads to Life. Often the onramp is hidden in the ...
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012: Your New Name [podcast] from 2015-07-01T21:19:37
C.S. Lewis, in The Problem of Pain, once said this, What can be more a man’s own than this new name which even in eternity remains a secret between God and him? And what shall we take this secre...
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011: Live in the Day and Measure in the Decade [podcast] from 2015-05-06T21:30:49
It is rare that we pause and pull back far enough from our daily life to observe and wonder about the who we have and have not yet become. At Wild at Heart we produce a weekly podcast, and Crai...
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010: Receiving the Heart of the Father–Cherie Snyder [podcast] from 2015-04-15T19:05:46
The soul searches for a Father. It was John Ortberg who put those words to me in a way so succinct it cut to the core. I see it in nearly every action of every day. Every reaching. Every ache. D...
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009: Nearing the End of My Beginning [podcast] from 2015-01-26T21:17:44
For centuries, Celtic Christians have identified a"thin place"as a location where the veil between heaven and earth becomes especially sheer; a place where the unseen reality of God’s Kingdom is...
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008: A Conversation with my Aussie Hero, Dave Tolman [podcast] from 2014-12-02T17:50:52
There are few men I respect more than Dave Tolman. He is one of the giants who served as a sage and guide at the most recent Become Good Soil Intensive. I had a rare chance to turn on the micro...
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007: Responding to Divine Affection—A Conversation with Adam Paulson [Podcast] from 2014-10-13T17:18:18
A few thoughts on discipleship from Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard to begin: Who teaches you? Whose disciple are you? Honestly. One thing is sure: you are somebody’s disciple. You are lear...
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006: Diving Deep–An Interview with Craig McConnell [Podcast] from 2014-09-16T17:10:06
Nearly a decade ago, I had the privilege of seeking wisdom from Craig McConnell, a man who's seen many miles, fought many wars, and conquered death more times than I can recount. It was an even ...
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005: (Video/Audio) Risking Love–An Interview with Bart Hansen [Podcast] from 2014-08-19T16:19:52
An old, wise man, Jeremiah, suggested this: Go stand at the crossroads and look around. Ask for directions to the old road, The tried-and-true road. Then take it. Discover the right route for yo...
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004: Hello, Trouble [Podcast] from 2014-06-12T02:46:08
C.S. Lewis was right when he summed up the dilemma of modern masculinity:"We castrate the gelding and bid him be fruitful."It's painful. And it's true. Become Good Soil is committed to helping ...
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003: Your Question or Your Strength? [Podcast] from 2014-05-19T19:05:49
To every relationship, to every circumstance, at every given moment, we are either bringing our question or our strength. Our search for validation and identity as men is the root of all that we d...
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002: Work.Life.Play [Podcast] from 2014-04-18T17:07:19
Dan Allender makes this bold suggestion regarding peer friendship in this decade: Find like-hearted kings living in the same direction. Sign treaties. When one kingdom is at war, both are at war.<...
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001: An Invitation [Podcast] from 2014-03-05T18:46:33
Welcome to another Kingdom experiment. This is the first episode of the Become Good Soil Podcast. The BGS Podcast is a combination of interviews with sages, conversations among peers, teaching an...
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