HeyJaredThe Signpost Inn Podcast
Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and join us on the back porch as we discuss 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.
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Giving Up on Spiritual Growth With Rev. John Newton (opens the original)
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Here's a sentence that'll get you kicked out of most small groups: you need to give up on spiritual growth. On today’s show we have a special guest with us who says that from the pulpit. Join us! By the end of this episode you’re going to have a whole new way of thinking about spiritual growth. Rev. John Newton has served as an Episcopal priest since 2009 and is the rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. He is the author of three books exploring grace, faith, and the Christia
What if you could feel safe with God? (opens the original)
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You may believe God loves you and still feel like he is one failure, one unanswered prayer, or one hard season away from pulling back. You brace for disappointment. You work to stay acceptable. Or you keep him at a careful distance because needing him feels too exposed. Brandon, Matt, and Liv talk about attachment theory in plain language, and why the ways we learned to handle closeness can shape how we relate to God. They turn to Psalm 131 and the work of Jesus: his incarnation, cross, resurrec
Your Phone Habit Is a Misdirected Prayer (opens the original)
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You picked up your phone 186 times yesterday. That's not a discipline problem, it's a hunger problem. This week we trace the ache behind the scroll back to Augustine and forward to the empty tomb, and land on the strange freedom of a faith that doesn't need you to fix yourself first. When you scroll, you're looking for something real. The compulsion isn't random, and it's not just weak willpower. It's a hunger for heaven, misdirected. Samuel James calls the internet an "epistemological habitat"
How Jesus Makes The Universe Feel Like A Safe Place To Live. (opens the original)
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The world is genuinely dangerous and your nervous system knows it! The usual answers (trust God more, don't be anxious, just believe) don't seem to help, they only make you feel more ashamed that you must not be “doing it right!” So what does Jesus actually do with our generalized anxiety and fear? Brandon, Matt, and Liv work through what it feels like when Jesus changes the context you're living inside. Why willpower-based answers to anxiety tend to make things worse. How Jesus recontextualizes
Jesus felt this emotion the most!? Compassion and the Character of God. (opens the original)
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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
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