Episode 70 - Meaningless! Meaningless?

Reid and Jesse discuss meaning and purpose and the effects of loss on a coming generation

Reid and Jesse discuss meaning and purpose and the effects of loss on a coming generation

Episode 69 - Seeing Cross-eyed

Reid and Jesse talk about shifts in western ideas, worldview and identities and how it has resulted with the cultural moment in which we find ourselves.

Reid and Jesse talk about shifts in western ideas, worldview and identities and how it has resulted with the cultural moment in which we find ourselves.

Show Notes

Links Referenced 

Episode 68 - Through the Eye

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Show Notes

Related Scriptures 

Genesis 1, Genesis 3, John 1, Revelation 21, Romans 12:1,2

Quotations

This life’s dim windows of the soul, Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie, When you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake, http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/8661

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world. - GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. - GK Chesterton

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - CS Lewis

Books Referenced 

Episode 67 - On Reading

Jesse shares about his efforts to read 50 books during 2019 and the virtues and joys of reading.

Jesse shares about his efforts to read 50 books during 2019 and the virtues and joys of reading.

Show Notes 

Reid's Top 10ish reads of 2019

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2020/1/8/best-reads-from-2019

Jesse's Favorites for 2019 (link coming soon)

Non-Fiction

  • On Reading Well

  • Disruptive Witness

  • Deep Work

  • All That’s Good

  • Tools of Titans

  • Edwards the Mentor

  • Atomic Habits

  • Given

Fiction

  • The Road

  • Norse Mythology

  • Book of Sorrows

  • Brothers Karamazov

  • The Death of Ivan Ilych

Scripture Reading

11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 12 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. - Ecclesiastes 12:11-12

The Daily Liturgy http://cdomaha.com/the-daily-liturgy-podcast

Links Referenced

Episode 66 - The Ole College Try

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Links Referenced 

Episode 29 - You Just Got Schooled https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/10/4/episode-29-you-just-got-schooled

College Admissions Scandal in 2019 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html

Fit for College Most Important https://qz.com/1571524/the-us-college-admissions-scandal-shows-that-parents-overlook-their-kids-best-interests/

The Home Team - A Family Worship Guide - A tool that helps look at the culture of worship and learning in the home. http://www.powerofchange.org/s/Home-Team-A-Power-of-Change-Family-Worship-Resource-572j.pdf

Focus Over Time 

0-5 years

  • Love for discovery

  • Love for questions

  • Love for learning

  • Books, Books, Books

  • Catechesis

  • Presence, Presence, Presence

  • Parents - Save Money

5-12 years

  • All of 0-5 year - discovery, questions, learning, books, presence

  • Responsibility

  • Discipline

  • Modeling

  • Tools - Books, Audiobooks, App - History, Math, Reading, Bible/New City Catechism

  • Parents - Save Money

12-18 years 

  • All of 0-5

  • All of 5-12

  • Argument, Presentation, Goals and Focus

  • Guiding loves and interests

  • Parents - Save Money 

The College Search 

  • Fit - Decide what you are looking for?

  • Find - Finalizing list of Schools

  • Focus - Kill it, ahead of time

  • Faith - Trust God and the process

Episode 65 - Boys to Men

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Show Notes

Other Episodes Referenced

Episode 10 - A Christmas Tradition

A description of a Christmas letter tradition with kids

Episode 23 - Man Up!

A look at the state of young men in our culture

Relevant Scriptures

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good hprecepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get ginsight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will qhonor you rif you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” Proverbs 4:1-9

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11

When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, qthat you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn… - 1 Kings 2:1-3

Episode 64 - Quitting Social Media!?

Reid and Jesse discuss digital minimalism and a month long experiment of limiting, or attempting to limit, the use of social media and the smartphone.

Reid and Jesse discuss digital minimalism and a month long experiment of limiting, or attempting to limit, the use of social media and the smartphone.

Show Notes

In or Out

Main Topic - Quitting Social Media

Episode 63 - Christianity as Rebellion and Revolution

Reid and Jesse discuss Christianity as a revolution and rebellion against a world dominated by the powers of darkness but being infiltrated by the Kingdom of God.

Reid and Jesse discuss Christianity as a revolution and rebellion against a world dominated by the powers of darkness but being infiltrated by the Kingdom of God.

Show Notes

Main Topic - Christianity as Rebellion and Revolution

Relevant Scripture for the Resistance

  • 1 Peter 2:12; Matthew 28:18-20, John 20:21; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 4:25-32; Ephesians 5; 1 Corinthians 16:1,2; Matthew 5:44

  • Romans 12:14-21 - 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." 20 To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Quotations Referenced

“How eagerly do wee seek the approval of this or that man of worldly reputation. How shamefully do we exploit the converted celebrity. Anyone will do to take away the reproach of obscurity from out publicity-hungry leaders: famous athletes, congressman, world travelers, rich industrialists; before such we bow with obsequious smiles and honor them in our public meetings and in the religious press. Thus we glorify men to enhance the standing of the Church of God, and the glory of the Prince of Life is made to hang upon the transient fame of a man who shall die.”

AW Tozer, The Pursuit of Man (Camp Hill: PA, Christian Publications Inc., 1950) 44.

“To the orthodox there must always be a case for revolution; for in the hearts of men God has been put under the feet of Satan. In the upper world hell once rebelled against heaven. But in this world heaven is rebelling against hell. For the orthodox there can always be a revolution; for a revolution is a restoration. At any instant you may strike a blow for the perfection which no man has seen since Adam.”

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Eternal Revolution

“I know this feeling fills our epoch, and I think it freezes our epoch. For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening. No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it? In this combination, I maintain, it is the rational optimist who fails, the irrational optimist optimist who succeeds. He is ready to smash the whole universe for the sake of itself.”

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Flag of the World

Episode 61 - Working Deep Work

Reid and Jesse discuss personal and practical application of some of the ideas and concepts in Cal Newport’s book Deep Work

Reid and Jesse discuss personal and practical application of some of the ideas and concepts in Cal Newport’s book Deep Work

Show Notes

In or Out

Working Deep Work

Scripture Cited

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

- Galatians 5:22-24 ESV

Episode 60 - Government Compulsion of Religion?

Reid looks at some remarks made by presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke suggesting that religious groups who do not support same-sex “marriage” should lose tax exempt status.

Reid looks at some remarks made by presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke suggesting that religious groups who do not support same-sex “marriage” should lose tax exempt status.

Show Notes

Links Referenced

Beto O’Rourke on Removing Tax Exemptions from Religious Groups - CNN Tweet

Walz vs City of New York (1970) Case Summary

Ben Sasse Statement on Beto O’Rourke’s comments

The First Amendment of the US Constitution (Link to a transcript of The Bill of Rights)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Episode 59 - Deep Work

Reid and Jesse look at how our digital age fragments, distracts and disjoints our ability to do deep work. Guided by the book, Deep Work, by Cal Newport, they discuss how being able to go deep is both a helpful and virtuous path.

Reid and Jesse look at how our digital age fragments, distracts and disjoints our ability to do deep work. Guided by the book, Deep Work, by Cal Newport, they discuss how being able to go deep is both a helpful and virtuous path.

Show Notes

RUTs and BUTs

Main Topic - Deep Work

Scriptures Referenced

Philippians 4:8, 9; Psalm 19:14

Episode 58 - The First Modern Mentor

Church historian and Anglican minister Rhys Bezzant joins Reid and Jesse in the Shedquarters to discuss Jonathan Edwards as mentor in the modern era.

Church historian and Anglican minister Rhys Bezzant joins Reid and Jesse in the Shedquarters to discuss Jonathan Edwards as mentor in the modern era.

Show Notes

In or Out

Main Topic - The First Modern Mentor

Other Books by Rhys Bezzant

Scriptures Reference

Episode 57 - Intellectual Vices

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Show Notes

Reviewish 

Main Topic - Intellectual Vice

Scriptures Read

Quotations on Open Minds by GK Chesterton

“An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shut; they were made to open only in order to shut.” (Illustrated London News. October 10, 1908)

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” (Autobiography)

https://www.chesterton.org/open-mind/

Episode 55 - This is Your Brain on Gratitude

Reid and Jesse look at recent research on the effect of gratitude on the body and the mind and discuss how this makes the most sense in a theistic universe.

Reid and Jesse look at recent research on the effect of gratitude on the body and the mind and discuss how this makes the most sense in a theistic universe.

Show Notes

RUTs and BUTs

Main Topic - This is Your Brain on Gratitude

Some Brains on Drugs Videos

Main Article

Scripture Referenced

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; Job 1:21; James 1:16-18

Episode 54 - Underground Virtue

Jesse leads us in a discussion about Virtue in life and as a follower of Jesus.

Jesse leads us in a discussion about Virtue in life and as a follower of Jesus.

Show Notes

In or Out 

Underground Virtue

Referenced Scripture

2 Peter 1:5; James 3:13; Proverbs 27:1, 2; Proverbs 30:32, 33

Episode 53 - Tech Party 2019!

A look at the trends and concerns with current technological developments in our world

A look at the trends and concerns with current technological developments in our world

Episode 52 - Girl Power!

Reid interviews his teenage daughters about raising young women

Reid interviews his teenage daughters about raising young women

Show Notes

Helpful Links

Book Recommendation

Episode 51 - Gender Talk

Reid discusses how we might engage gender discussions today so that we expand the plausibility structures of our friends.

Reid discusses how we might engage gender discussions today so that we expand the plausibility structures of our friends.

Show Notes

Reviewish 

https://www.thermoworks.com/BlueDOT

Gender Talk 

Twitter Link - https://twitter.com/reidsmonaghan/status/1140325816234061825?s=21

Relevant Scripture

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, - 2 Timothy 2:23-25

Recommended Resources

Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey 

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Thy-Body-Answering-Questions/dp/0801075971/

God and the Transgender Debate By Andrew T. Walker

https://www.amazon.com/God-Transgender-Debate-Andrew-Walker/dp/1784981788/

Talking Points: Transgender by Vaughn Roberts

https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Points-Transgender-Vaughan-Roberts/dp/1784981958/

Is God Anti-Gay? By Sam Allberry

https://www.amazon.com/God-anti-gay-Questions-Christians-Ask/dp/1908762314/