Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and join us on the back porch as we grow confidence in Jesus’ unfailing love and learn to think wisely about prayer, Christian spirituality, faithful theology, and much more. We are for all life’s weary travelers who need a refreshing pause on the Journey with Jesus. Together we’ll learn how to live this modern life from a restful, faithful place.
Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
What is the way of Jesus and how can we practice it?
In today’s episode, Brandon and Rachel sit down to talk about John Mark Comer’s book, Practicing the Way. The conversation is guided by the book’s subtitle, Be with Jesus, Become like him, Do as he did. After sharing some of the helpful insights from the book, Brandon and Rachel note a few key distinctions that need to be unpacked. What makes one a saint? What is the gospel message? What did Jesus do in the first place? Come join the conversation and learn more about the way of Jesus!
Thanks for listening! May you experience the presence of Jesus with you today :)
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Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Today Brandon sits down to chat with his long time friend, Luke Wall, Executive Direction of Only7Seconds, a non-profit addressing the loneliness epidemic. Together they discuss the status of our collective social health in this modern era and why we feel so lonely. A central truth soon emerges: no one person, or organization can fix the loneliness epidemic...but, no one needs to!
Check out Only7Seconds and the work Luke and his team are doing!
Read Abandonment to Divine Providence, by Jean Pierre de Caussade.
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Friday Oct 18, 2024
Friday Oct 18, 2024
What can we learn about Christian discipleship from The Chronicles of Narnia?
In today’s episode, Brandon and Matt interview Joe Rigney, author of the book, Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles. Joe shares his perspective on Christian discipleship as whole person formation and how he believes C.S. Lewis’s books directly further this formation. The conversation then turns towards specific characters and scenes from the books and how they shape our thinking and desire to align with the true, good, and beautiful. Stick around to hear about how books are like friends and why contrasting the books against the movies can be helpful!
Thanks for tuning in! May this show awaken you to the reality of beauty in our world! Jesus loves you.
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Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
How do we fix our attention? What’s wrong with it anyway?
Today Brandon and Peter talk about the human faculty of attention, how and why it’s often hijacked, and what needs fixing. At the core of the problem with our attention is our human need for security and significance. The world is like a chaotic carnival that distracts and overwhelms us with many loud voices all trying to bend our attention to their own interests. We’re not safe and we have no idea where to turn for trusted direction and guidance. The good news is that we have a powerful ally working on our behalf. Jesus, the lord, is near. We are not alone to be harassed and manipulated, God himself is for us with the entirety of his being! Secure in his loving presence, we can finally attend to something else beyond the chaos of the world: Jesus. “Fixing” our gaze of Jesus is paradoxically what fixes our attention.
May you find this episode valuable and encouraging! Jesus love you.
The book Brandon referenced
Brandon and Liv’s new book is now available! Check out the Signpost Inn Store to grab a copy!
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
What does forgiveness feel like?
It’s Christianity 101: Jesus died on the cross to forgive you all your sin. But how often do we brush past this foundational truth in our daily walk with Jesus? What would it look like to sit with the truth that “I am forgiven”?
Join us on the back porch today as the guys do their best to sit with the truth of forgiveness in Christ. Psalm 103 guides us through the conversation, defining forgiveness and helping us unpack some of the resistance we have towards accepting God’s forgiveness. It gets personal and a little emotional as we do our best to actually sit with this simple truth on today’s show. Thanks for joining us :)
Brandon and Liv’s new book is now available! Check out the Signpost Inn Store to grab a copy!
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
How do we change?
In today's episode Brandon and Peter discuss a theory for change and how skillful listening is a major factor. We all need change, a change in how we experience and view God. We need to deconstruct our bad/wrong images of God and rebuild a true picture of who Jesus is. The question is, "How?" We often get caught in the weeds of trying to change through behavior modification or amassing more knowledge about God, but these do not work. We change as we encounter the goodness and love of God, and listening helps us to experience God as loving and good.
Brandon and Liv’s new book is now available! Check out the Signpost Inn Store to grab a copy!
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
In this exciting episode Matt sits down with Brandon and Liv Booth to discuss their new book, Not Home Yet: How to be human in an inhuman world. Brandon and Liv unpack the central image of being a weary traveler who is not at home in this world. They also chat about how Brandon is a hawk and Liv is a frog and how that influenced the book. The conversation turns to Jesus, the God-man, who shows us what it is to be human and what God is truly like.
And don’t forget to check out the Signpost Inn Store to grab a copy of Brandon and Liv’s new book when it’s ready!
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
In this episode Matt and Brandon discuss a short but powerful article by Henri Nouwen. They define spiritual disciplines, talk about why it’s so hard to take time to be with God alone, discuss the struggles of Christian community and how we can engage it better, and also how the call to ministry is not what we often think. Along the way they dive deep into topics like forgiveness, faith, and prayer.
You can read the article for yourself here.
And don’t forget to check out the Signpost Inn Store to grab a copy of Brandon and Liv’s new book when it’s ready!
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
A deep dive into cults and church abuse
In this episode we interview our very own Matt Boland about his deep dive and presentation on cults, how they operate, and how our churches can sometimes use similar bad practices. Along the way we discuss how unconditional love always beats conditional love and how we can learn to be leaders like Jesus.
If you are fascinated by cults, and how church leadership can go wrong (and do better) this is the one for you!
Books we reference on the show:
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs by Steven Hassan
When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
In this episode, Brandon sits down with Adam Ormord, the executive director of Lifepoint Resources to discuss an article Adam wrote about attending to God—and the important insight that we see more of what we attend to. In other words, attention matters! Join Adam and Brandon for a wide ranging and fascinating discussion about how, why, and what goes wrong in our attempt to pay more attention to Jesus than to ourselves.
Adam is a spiritual director, pastor, and the executive director and co-founder of Lifepoint Resources. Lifepoint Resources envisions a highly relational community of transforming people whose souls are set on being with Jesus and becoming people of love. So they have made it their mission to provide Christ-centered soul care to everyone in need so that each and every person can enjoy the fullness of life with God in the Kingdom now and forever.
Adam is also the host of the Being Formed Podcast and recently hosted Brandon over on his show to discuss spiritual direction and Brandon’s book Changing the Conversation: How to dance instead of fight in everyday conversation.
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Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com