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
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
What if spiritual discipline is not about achieving, but about receiving?
In today’s episode, Brandon, Liv, Matt, and Peter explore the role of spiritual disciplines in the Christian life. Although easily twisted into a legalistic means of achieving moral improvement, the spiritual disciplines are actually the practices which help us receive God’s love. They are indeed disciplines, because it takes effort to train our hearts to let go of our own agenda and simply receive from God. They are paradoxically very hard and very easy all at once! But when we are freed from connecting spiritual discipline with our acceptance and self-worth, we can begin to engage with them in a receptive, curious manner.
We pray that you hear the gracious invitation of Jesus to receive regular reminders of his love as you practice spiritual discipline!
Links/References
- How to Actually Rest in Christ
- Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted by Gretchen Ronnevik
- Signpost Inn Retreat: a grace-filled weekend of rest in Jesus
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Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
What if spiritual disciplines were intended as rest for the bedraggled believer, not routines for self-driven sanctification?
Join us today for a conversation with author Gretchen Ronnevik about realistic, grace-filled spiritual disciplines. Learn from Gretchen’s experience with spiritual disciplines in the exhausting vocation of full time motherhood. Brandon and Gretchen explore questions like, “What is the goal of spiritual disciplines?” “What part do my efforts play?” and “Will grace make me lazy?” With analogies and stories throughout, this conversation will change the way you understand spiritual practice and discipline!
We pray that the momentous grace of God would overwhelm you with joy and peace as you know that Jesus enjoys being with you!
Links/References
- Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted by Gretchen Ronnevik
- Gretchen’s website
- Signpost Inn Retreat: a grace-filled weekend of rest in Jesus
- Domestic Monastery by Fr. Ronald Rolheiser
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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 Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
At the heart of the gospel is the idea of freedom. So, what does it mean to be truly free?
In this episode, we had the great pleasure of talking with Fr. Jacques Philippe, the author of one of our absolute favorite books, Interior Freedom. Joining us all the way from France, Fr. Philippe unpacks how true freedom, consenting to reality, is quite counterintuitive to our human perception that freedom is the ability to choose whatever we want. Freedom is not the ability to shape reality as we choose, but rather the acceptance that our loving heavenly Father is using all things for our good. The obstacles to consenting to reality are many, because we often find ourselves, others, and the world to be unacceptable and burdensome. We talk with Father Philippe about how God’s “realistic” love helps us to accept ourselves, sinners though we be, and about how this love frees us up to accept others too.
It’s a wonderful conversation and we pray that you are blessed with true interior freedom as you come to know how much Jesus loves you!
Links/References
- Interior Freedom by Jacques Philippe
- Signpost Inn Retreat
- Send us feedback! --> podcast@signpostinn.org
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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
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
How can I learn to be curious instead of closed off? What if I didn’t need to have all the answers?
In today’s Bonus Episode, Brandon is interviewed by Adam Ormord, president and co-founder of LifePoint Resources and host of the Being Formed podcast. Brandon shares his faith journey and his core desire to be curious, explore the questions of life, and yet to remain rooted in what is true. The conversation centers around Brandon’s book, Changing the Conversation and the attitude of listening and curiosity.
We pray this conversation frees you up to be curious. Jesus loves you!
Links/References
- LifePoint Resources
- Changing The Conversation, by Brandon Booth
- Send us feedback! hello@signpostinn.org
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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 Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Wait, what?? The reality of our sin nature is good news!?
In today’s episode, Brandon, Liv, and Matt tackle the topic of original sin and how the Bible paints an accurate (and freeing) picture of our slavery to sin. Pulling from chapter 2 of Not Home Yet (Brandon and Liv’s book), the group unpacks the truth that we are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves. Interestingly enough, part of our slavery to sin is our desperate attempts to liberate ourselves. The world constantly sells us various products and systems that promise to help us surpass our limitations and faults. We end up on an endless chase, always trying to find “the thing” that will enable us to break the chains that bind us. The reality of how hopeless our condition is ends up being good news because we can finally give up the chase, acknowledging that there’s no point! Then, and only then, are we able to hear God when he offers us a different way forward.
We pray this conversation blesses you with a freeing picture of reality.
Links/References
- Not Home Yet, by Brandon and Liv
- Low Anthropology, by David Zahl
- The Unexpected Way, by Paul Williams (good luck!)
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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 Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
What even is spirituality and what is Christian spirituality?
Brandon and Matt sit down to explore the modern emphasis on spirituality as opposed to religion. They connect the question of spirituality to the meaning crisis and how modern spiritualities all claim to have the answer for a holistic, fulfilling life. Is this analysis true of Christian spirituality as well? How does Jesus answer the questions of meaning and meet our desire for more? Tune in for the answers to those questions, and more!
Jesus, the god-man, really likes you (and we do too)! May this episode remind you that you are not alone in your desire for more.
Links/References
- “Not Home Yet” by Brandon and Liv Booth
- “In the Meantime” - Signpost Inn’s weekly email
- “Spirituality” by Philip Sheldrake
- “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl
- "Theology the Lutheran Way" by Oswald Bayer
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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 Jan 10, 2025
Friday Jan 10, 2025
What is scripture’s primary purpose?
On today’s show, Brandon, Matt and Peter further the conversation from last episode about obstacles to reading scripture. We take a deep dive into how we each come to scripture with expectations that impact how we receive its message. The guys discuss how the main objective of God’s self-revelation in the Bible is to show us his character, who he really is. Brandon walks us through several scripture passages that show us the compassion of Jesus and unpacks how we can hear all of scripture through Jesus’ loving voice.
Friend, today may you know the heart of Jesus who loves you enough to die for you!
Links/References
- Passages of scripture
- Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount)
- Mark 1:4-0-42 (The man with leprosy)
- Luke 7:11-17 (The widow of Nain)
- Exodus 34:5-8 (God reveals himself to Moses)
- Deuteronomy 10:12-15 (Fear the Lord, keep his commandments)
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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 Dec 27, 2024
Friday Dec 27, 2024
Is God truly present in his word?
Today’s conversation is centered around our shared desire to read more scripture and some of the common obstacles that get in our way. Brandon, Matt, and Peter tackle questions like, “How do we experience God’s presence through the Bible?” and “Is academic study the best way to encounter God in the Bible? We wrap up with thoughts about what it means to “stand under scripture” and let its story shape us.
May this podcast be enjoyable and equip you to dive into God’s Word!
Links
- Matt’s sermon
- Sign up for In The Meantime, our weekly email :)
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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 Dec 13, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
Why is the present moment so important?
Inspired by a chapter from C.S. Lewis’s, The Screwtape Letters, Brandon, Matt and Peter discuss the importance of the present. Satan wants nothing more than to distract us with anxious thoughts about the future or trap us in unhealthy rumination upon past events. But God only ever invites us into the present, where we can encounter his presence and grace. The guys shift gears a bit and explore how our perception of who God is directly impacts our willingness to receive his invitation in the present moment.
We pray you enjoy the conversation and that it benefits you! Thanks for listening!
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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
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
What does it mean to practice gratitude?
In today’s episode, Brandon, Matt and Peter explore the topic of gratitude and how we become grateful people. The conversation centers around the idea that “you see more of what you attend to.” With some wisdom from Kurt Thompson to further guide the discussion, the gang then wraps up with how to practice gratitude and teach it too!
Thanks for listening! Jesus likes you :)
Links
- Kurt Thompson “Giving Thanks, Part 1”
- Kurt Thompson “Giving Thanks, Part 2”
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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