The Signpost Inn Podcast

In our polarized world, we're facing an epidemic of relational silence. Maybe it's your child who's pulled away. Your spouse who's emotionally checked out. A friend who's gone cold after a disagreement. A sister who won't return your calls. The silence is deafening, and it hits us at the deepest level because we're wired for connection. When those we love most won't engage, we long for restoration, and it makes us feel worthless, unlovable, and much much more.
Join Brandon, Liv, and Matt for an emotional and powerful exploration of loneliness and finding connection in Christ.
Join us for a workshop on trusting God, or for one of our 4 week intensives here: https://www.signpostinn.org/events
 
Links/References
Explore.org
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Not Home Yet Audio Book
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WHY IS IT SO DANG HARD TO TRUST GOD? I know I should trust him, but more often than not I don’t and hang on to my fear, my anger, my sin. What’s going on here?
This week we getting a real and talking about our own struggles with trusting God and how getting to know Jesus for who he really is has helped!
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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

This week the Signpost Inn Podcast goes off the trail and into the uncharted wilderness with an unscripted and unfiltered episode! We're missing Matt, saying “goodby” to Peter, and wrangling technology… but then the conversation took “a leap” into the deep end and we talked about how our souls’ have a longing for adventure — real risk — and how God doesn’t only provide security and comfort but also calls us to take real risks and real responsibility. 
Join us as we toss out the script, and the BS, and get real about our fears and faith.
 
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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

Do you wake up in the morning with the vague sense that you’re already falling behind? 
 
In today’s episode, the group talks about how each of us have deep questions of the soul that we need God to answer or else we’ll spend our lives demanding answers from everyone and everything else. Questions like, “Am I capable?” “Am I enough?” and especially, “Am I lovable?” We are often completely unaware of these soul questions, but they subconsciously drive most everything we do. To top it all off, we’re often terrified of bringing these questions to God, the only one who can truly answer them! So tune in for our conversation as we compassionately unpack this dilemma and explore answers from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Return of the Prodigal Son. 
 
We pray this episode changes the way you understand how God relates to you :)
 
Links/References
Matt’s sermon on Psalm 16
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Have you ever felt childish for believing in beauty — in meaning — in Jesus? Like, the really “grown up” way to think is that faith is a cutesy, meaningless fairytale?
 
If so, we want you to know you’re not alone! Also, you’re not naive, you’re just remembering home. In this conversation we talk about The Chronicles of Narnia and how they teach us childlike faith in goodness, truth, and beauty. We share our experiences with Narnia and some of our favorite passages too. Come along for the ride and learn to let God be God and watch his story unfold around you. 
 
Links/References
Not Home Yet, by Brandon and Liv Booth: https://www.signpostinn.org/product/not-home-yet
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Has a book ever jumped off the shelf, interrupted your life and left you forever changed? 
 
On today’s show the gang shares the books that have ambushed them and left them with a new view of life, themselves and God. These books have opened our eyes to beauty, truth, and goodness and we’re eternally grateful! Be warned, Listener, after this episode you will walk away with a “dangerous” reading list of books that are waiting to disrupt your life for good!
 
We hope you enjoy today’s show. Jesus thinks you’re the bee’s knees (aka, he likes you)
 
Links/References
Interior Freedom, by Jacques Philippe: https://amzn.to/3IMEihX
The Lightbringer Series, by Brent Weeks: https://amzn.to/45gjBUt
Hind’s Feed on High Places, by Hannah Hurnard: https://amzn.to/41dBnFp
The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/4kZn5iF
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/452D2yF
The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen: https://amzn.to/3IJ4xpE
Abel’s Island, by Williams Steig: https://amzn.to/3UuxjNi
Practice in Christianity, by Søren Kierkegaard: https://amzn.to/4kUctBC
The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/40B3AWv
On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther: https://amzn.to/454fJV8
Into your hands Father, by Wilfrid Stinissen: https://amzn.to/3IJ5bU6 
 
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Do you know a lot about God, but still sometimes feel disconnected from him? What does it mean to love the Lord with your heart, soul, mind, and strength? 
 
Today’s guest, Dr. Reverend Alan Johnson shares about spiritual formation and his journey from knowing information about God to experiencing him relationally. As a pastor, Dr. Alan sheds some light on the unique challenges that ministry leaders face in cultivating their relationship with God. Anyone facing questions or trials can find it easier and safer to retreat into the realm of knowledge about God rather than wrestle relationally with these questions. Throughout the show Dr. Alan talks about his experience of spiritual formation and the practices that helped him relate to God and see himself more and more as a beloved child of God. 
 
So, come join us for a great conversation as we learn to let Jesus pull his weight and form us into who he made us to be, children of God. 
 
Links/References
Try out Spiritual Direction with Pastor Alan
Check out Pastor Alan’s sermons
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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

Does your everyday life feel boring and disconnected from a sense of meaning and purpose? What if your boring life is way more holy than you think?
 
On today’s show the gang tackles the topic of vocation and our desire for meaning and purpose. The question of vocation often feels like trying to find a needle in a haystack, if we miss God’s calling on our lives everything else is pointless! What if that’s not how vocation works? Looking to Martin Luther, the group discusses his idea of “The masks of God” and how it relates to vocation. God delights to work through ordinary means. Police officers, government officials, and grocers are used by God to meet our needs for safety, peace, and daily sustenance. This perspective is larger than the category of occupation, helping us understand how the embrace of a friend and our honest conversation with a loved one is God at work to meet our hearts’ need for acceptance and belonging. The group closes the conversation with a rubric for making decisions about life and vocation. 
 
We pray this conversation blesses you and opens your eyes to God at work for you, in the world around you. 
 
Links/References
“God at Work” by Gene Veith
Explore your relationship with God through spiritual direction
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Is more information about God making you feel further from him? How do we know God more deeply when the only tool we have is mining for more data?
 
Join us for today’s episode as we navigate the dark woods of information overload. Together, Brandon, Liv, and Peter unpack the crisis of meaning and how the answer that is often presented is to amass greater knowledge about God. The difficulty with this answer is that it takes propositional knowledge about God and makes it the sum total of what it means to have a relationship with him. Many of us experience a disconnect between the information we know about God and our life experience. Is there a way to experience the truths we believe about God? The group discusses various types of knowing and how faith in God is most connected to a participatory knowing. Instead of always seeking more information, we are invited to consent to the fact that we currently are in relationship with God.
 
We pray you are blessed by this podcast! Jesus loves you! 
 
Links/References
Explore your relationship with God through spiritual direction
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Does real rest feel like an elusive dream? Has your rest been turned into just another productivity hack? 
 
Today’s episode examines the nature of rest and why we all feel exhausted. Join Brandon, Liv, Matt and Peter as they unpack our human desire for rest and the obstacles we face to receiving it. A core insight that the group focuses on is that rest is really a trust issue. We can’t receive rest so long as we don’t trust God to give it to us. The group also challenges the assumption that we rest in order to work, citing the creation account for viewing rest as the culmination of work. The group closes out the conversation with some practical advice about how they’ve experienced rest in their own lives. 
 
Thanks for joining us today! Jesus loves you. Rest in his love. 
 
Links/References
Get the Ebook: How to Actually Rest in Christ
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His Heart Beats, (song) by Andrew Peterson
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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