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Episodes
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Life is full of twists, turns, and unexpected detours that can leave us feeling a little lost and disconnected. We all need patient traveling companions to walk alongside us and provide care, perspective, and hope.
In today's episode, we'll explore how a spiritual director listens with compassion and provides perspective and encouragement when we hit roadblocks on our spiritual journeys.
Join us as we unpack how spiritual direction provides sustenance for your soul when you feel stuck or abandoned, and how it helps you find new paths to walk in hope, and new ways to reorient your soul to Jesus’ love.
Are you ready to get un-lost, reconnect with God, and get “back on the road” with renewed passion? Great! Let's get started!
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Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Does the world feel like a scary place? Do you wonder what to do with your feeling that everybody's out to get you? Well, then this episode is for you!
In this episode, Brandon and Peter tackle a single word listener question, "cynicism?" We begin our conversation with a reading from Brandon's book, Changing the Conversation: How to dance instead of fight in everyday conversation. We then explore how finding our security in Jesus allows us to embrace curiosity instead of cynicism. Thanks for joining us for this back porch conversation :)
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Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Relationships are complicated and messy. How do we grown in self-understanding that breeds compassion for ourselves and others? Can God really redeem my broken history of relationships?
Today's episode is a conversation with our friend Shell Odum, founder of the ministry A Radical Relationship. A Radical Relationship provides community centered life coaching and groups for you to participate in! Shell speaks from her personal experience about divorce and how her relationship with God flourished in the midst of brokenness.
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Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
How am I, with all my duties and responsibilities, supposed to live a life of prayer and devotion to God? Can my family, my work, and my duties be a spiritual journey with God? In his book, Domestic Monastery, Father Ronald Rolheiser retrieves deep wisdom from the ancient monastics, making it easy to understand and very applicable to those of us who live “normal” lives.
Join us for a delightful conversation about family life, commitment, fidelity, and how God is very much in our daily lives.
Father Rolheiser is a Catholic priest in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, former president of the Oblate School School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, and specialist in the fields of spirituality and systematic theology. He has a regular column in the Catholic Herald which is featured in approximately 90 newspapers in five countries.
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Links to resources mentioned in the show:
Domestic Monastery by Ronald Rolheiser
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
What are we humans capable of? What is a realistic view of what we can accomplish?
Join us for today's delightful conversation with David Zahl about his newest book, Low Anthropology. You'll breathe a sigh of relief as you listen to David share about low anthropology and it's refreshing perspective on life. The team here at Signpost Inn absolutely loved reading this book and talking with David! So much of the vision and mission at Signpost Inn is expressed beautifully by David and his team at Mocking Bird Ministries. Be sure to check them out after listening to the episode!
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Why are we so afraid of acknowledging our limitations? What does needing help say about us?
In this episode, Brandon, Matt and Peter talk about needing help, recognizing our limitations, and why the doctrine of sin is so good. That's right, understanding Sin is wildly helpful to experiencing the freedom to ask for help. God knows your limitations! The pressure is off! Take a deep breath and enjoy today's show :)
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Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Can an experience of God change us? What if it doesn't?
With these questions and many others, Brandon interviews Professor Simeon Zahl about his book, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience. In this week's conversation, Professor Zahl breaks down the false dichotomy between trusting the Bible and having a personal experience of God. The Bible clearly uses experiential language to describe relationship with God, yet how to we navigate subjective experiences in a world where we acknowledge the realities of sin and self-deception? The conversation touches on many more areas of insight, including our experience of God (or lack thereof) in the process of sanctification. Join us for this delightful conversation! And as always, send feedback or questions to podcast@signpostinn.org
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Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Do you struggle with indecisiveness?
In this week's podcast Brandon and Rachel sit down with Emily P. Freeman, about her book The Next Right Thing! Emily is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Simply Tuesday and A Million Little Ways. She shares from her book about how indecision is an opportunity for spiritual formation. Whenever we find ourselves at a crossroads, it is an invitation to trust God and practice discernment. The conversation finds its way to the topic of agency vs. control and how those are important to understand regarding our decisions. Emily also shares some soulful practices for creating safe spaces for our souls. You're going to enjoy this one! Thanks for listening!
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Friday Jun 02, 2023
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Feeling disconnected? Confused? Distant from God?
This week's conversation is centered around spiritual dryness. What is it? Why does it happen? And what can we do about it? Brandon and Peter explore the topic with compassion and curiosity. One of the main themes that emerges is that we humans are not projects to be fixed or problems to be solved. However we are experiencing seasons of spiritual dryness, we know that God approaches us with understanding and compassion, not condemnation. May this conversation refresh and encourage you.
Signpost Inn Ministries exists to walk with you through times of spiritual dryness. Consider trying spiritual direction with Brandon to explore your own feelings of spiritual dryness.
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Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
We need a space where our souls can be listened into the light of God's love.
In this episode Brandon talks with Adam Ormord, Executive Director of Grafted Life Ministries, about what it means that we have shy souls. They talk about how our souls need a space with no agenda, a space where we can simply be. They talk about some of the common challenges with soul care like trying to measure our growth and progress. Adam and Brandon ask, "what does it mean to go at God's speed?"
The themes that come up in this episode are so on point with what Signpost Inn Ministries is all about! You're going to enjoy this one!
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