The Signpost Inn Podcast

Jesus felt this emotion the most!? Compassion and the Character of God.

What does Jesus actually feel when he looks at you — worn out, knocked flat, barely holding on? The Gospels have a word for it. And it's nothing like the soft, managed thing we usually call "compassion." Today Brandon and Matt dig into Matthew 9:36, the Greek behind two of the most overlooked words in the Gospels, and a gut-level emotion that drove everything Jesus did. Then we close with an imaginative exercise to help you actually receive it — not just understand it.
Links:
Käthe Kollwitz, The Downtrodden https://i0.wp.com/nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1986.187-GAP.jpg?fit=1200%2C999999&quality=80&format=webp
N.C. Wyeth, The Lost Sheep: https://www.manresa-sj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/11-N-C-Wyeth-The-Lost-Sheep.jpg.webp
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Grace Potatoes? Does the Gospel make us lazy!?

A listener asked a question we couldn't stop thinking about: if nothing we do saves us, are we just supposed to sit back and let Jesus do everything? Are we "grace potatoes"? This episode untangles what it actually means to work on your relationship with God — and why the real question might be bigger and better than you realized.
Links:
Liv’s Substack https://livbooth.substack.com/
Not Home Yet https://amzn.to/4gDZC8e
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Art Lectio with Tom Gibbs

Join Matt and Brandon for an incredibly moving discussion with Tom Gibbs, the creator of Art Lectio. After a brief introduction and explanation of Tom’s unique method for meditating on and praying with art, Tom guides the gents through three meditations on three completely different paintings. Each one opens up thoughts, and prompts prayers, that are profound and beautiful. 
If you are listening to this one on your podcast player you’ll definitely want to open the images linked below, or pop over to our YoutTube channel and watch along. https://www.youtube.com/@signpostinn 
Links to view the Art we looked at
Thomas https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Der_ungl%C3%A4ubige_Thomas_-_Michelangelo_Merisi%2C_named_Caravaggio.jpg/3840px-Der_ungl%C3%A4ubige_Thomas_-_Michelangelo_Merisi%2C_named_Caravaggio.jpg 
The Temptation of Christ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Christ_in_the_Wilderness_-_Ivan_Kramskoy_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg/3840px-Christ_in_the_Wilderness_-_Ivan_Kramskoy_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg 
Woman Holding a Balance https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Johannes_Vermeer_-_Woman_Holding_a_Balance_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1920px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Woman_Holding_a_Balance_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 
Other Links:
https://artlectio.com/
https://instagram.com/artlectio
https://www.youtube.com/@ArtLectio 
https://substack.com/@artlectio 
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What's Left When the System Fails? – With Anselm Society’s Terri Fisher

When the structures we lean on for spiritual safety collapse, what remains? Terri Fisher joins Liv Booth and tells her story of leaving a “mechanized faith” and spiritually abusive past and discovering a quieter and more durable faith.
After years in rigid ideological communities that promised predictable outcomes, Terri found herself without words, stripped of spiritual identity, and wondering whether to stay in the faith at all. Ancient prayers, creeds she didn't write, and a liturgy that turned out to be bigger on the inside, rescued her. 
Terri and Liv also discuss how Tolkien's daily mass shaped The Lord of the Rings, why humility matters more than confidence, and how attentiveness, to your kids, to the birds, to the onion you're cutting, might be the most practical spiritual discipline there is.
Links:
Terri Prays with Saints https://terriprayswithsaints.substack.com/
Prayer for Beginners by Peter Kreeft - https://amzn.to/4usVcoX
Prayer: the Great Conversation by Peter Kreeft - https://a.co/d/0diRCjCZ
The High Hallow: Tolkien's Liturgical Imagination - https://amzn.to/42VxvJN
Anselm Society — anselmsociety.org
That Thing Liv Wrote livbooth.substack.com
Stand Up - U2 https://open.spotify.com/track/3541c9HnGOaCrPbUnO2e0K?si=c881114a8c2146ed
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Do you want to become whole?

In this episode, we read John 5:1-18 together and enter the story of a man who's been disabled for 38 years. We ask the question Jesus asks him: do you actually want to become whole? Not just relieved. Not just a little better. Whole. 
Links:
Death Comes to the Soul: The Vulnerable Christian in Distress — Fr. Gabriel O’Donnell The Thomistic Institute Podcast https://podcast.thomisticinstitute.org/death-comes-to-the-soul-the-vulnerable-christian-in-distress-fr-gabriel-odonnell/
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What Is Your Soul Thirsty For? The Woman at the Well.

In this episode, we read John 4 together and invite you to enter the story of the woman at the well with us. As we go, we reflect on soul thirst, the deeper questions that drive our lives, and the way Jesus makes himself available to people who feel ashamed, skeptical, or far from God. This is a slow, prayerful episode for anyone who needs to be reminded what Jesus is really like.       
Links:
Books and other things referenced in the show
John 1:1-7:1 - Concordia Commentary by William C Weinrich https://amzn.to/41B0JwZ
Friends of big bear valley eagle cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE
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Reading the Gospels with Your Imagination

In this episode, we dive into the topic of our very popular webinar on “reading the Gospels with your imagination” What is it, what do we teach, and we answer some of the big questions and concerns people have been asking. Whether you're wondering how reading the Gospels with your imagination works, concerned about staying grounded in Scripture, or curious about how this practice can be a powerful prayer practice, this is the episode for you!
Links:
Books referenced in this episode:
How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being by Tony Stoltzfus https://amzn.to/4szumKX
Theology Is for Proclamation by Gerhard Forde https://amzn.to/3No2ES7
The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon Zahl https://amzn.to/4bKoh7b
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Grief Exhaustion: When You Are Tired of Being Tired

This episode releases on Good Friday, and we're leaning into the gravity of the day. We explore the universal experience of grief exhaustion—that bone-deep weariness that comes from living in a world marked by loss, disappointment, and unrelenting demands.
We give you permission to name it: life IS hard. Then we ask the harder question: what do exhausted people actually need? And we discover that God offers more than mere presence. Through Jesus—the One who has been through the worst grief and emerged victorious—God provides divine solidity, not just solidarity. He holds, carries, and transforms our grief, making it participate in his death-and-resurrection pattern. We grieve, but not as those without hope.
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The Dream That Died and the God Who Didn't Stop It

"By any human measure, Jesus' life was an abject failure." If he ever dreamed of a successful career in ministry, or of being hailed as king. That dream died. 
What about you? Which of your dreams have died?
Brandon, Liv, and Matt explore a hard but hopeful truth: God is in the habit of making good things come out of death. This episode digs into Brandon's article of the same name, wrestling with what it means when God doesn't stop the death of our dreams.
We talk about the importance of grieving, how to sit with people in their pain without trying to fix it, and why the pattern of Jesus' life, from failure to cross to resurrection, is the pattern for ours too.
If your life feels like a failure, if you're stuck in a season that doesn't make sense, this one's for you. God's not done yet.
Links:
Read the article: "The Dream That Died and the God Who Didn't Stop It" https://www.signpostinn.org/blog/the-dream-that-died-and-the-god-who-didnt-stop-it 
Free Webinar — Reading the Gospels with Your Imagination (March 21st): https://www.signpostinn.org/events 
Brandon's Book — Changing the Conversation: Learning to Dance Instead of Fight: https://amzn.to/3PfFLkd 
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Is the God of the Old Testament a Monster? (With OT scholar Adam Hensley)

"The God of the Old Testament is a monster." If your teen or adult child has said something like this, you know how it feels. And if you're honest, part of you might wonder the same thing.
Today Brandon sits down with Old Testament scholar Adam Hensley to tackle the hardest questions head-on. How can the God who commands "utterly destroy" be the same God who says "love your enemies"? What do we do with passages like the Canaanite conquest or Jephthah's daughter? Is the OT really about law and judgment while Jesus is about love and grace?
This isn't about winning an argument with your kid. It's about understanding what they're wrestling with, and finding real answers you can hold onto yourself.
Honest. Compassionate. Hopeful. Your child's hard questions might be an invitation for both of you.
Links:
Called to be God’s People by Andrew Steinmann
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