Episode 82 - Time to Build

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Our Guest

Rob Zimmerman is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who makes his home in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Reid had the privilege of baptizing Rob and his wife Christine when they were members of Jacobs Well, the church we planted, in New Jersey.

Rob received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State and a Masters of Business Administration from Arizona State. He is a husband, a father of three, and one dog named Max. Rob has been a friend for about a decade and is known to message with me from time to time about the UFC and cryptocurrency.

Links Referenced

Scriptures Referenced

  • Creation and the Cultural Mandate - Genesis 1:26-28

  • The Duty of Governments - Romans 13:1-7

  • Love God with our Minds, Love our Neighbors - Matthew 22:34-40

Episode 80 - Men, Marriage, and Fatherhood

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Show Notes

Our Guests

Andre Davis

  • Came to Va Tech from the bulging metropolis of Niskayuna NY

  • Soccer player, track runner, turned football player

  • Caught Mike Vick and Grant Noel TDs for the Hokies

  • Returned punts and kicks for more touchdowns

  • Drafted in the 2nd round of the NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. Browns, Patriots, Texans

  • Works in Non-Profit leadership, Various Business Ventures and is an Ambassador for the VT Hokies athletic dept.

Dr. Abraham (aka Billy) Hardee

  • Father was a VT legend

  • Was a soccer player growing up in Florida

  • Transferred in and Walked on to the VT football team eventually earned a scholarship where he was a starter in the VT secondary.

  • Medical School, currently my doctor, wife is a doctor, both he and his wife Sophia are med school professor doctas

Willie Pile 

  • Marching band, basketball and football in Alexandria VA

  • VT All Big East, All American Free Safety

  • Drafted by Kansas City Chiefs, Four your career for KC and Dallas Cowboys, 5 years with Toronto Argonauts of the CFL

  • Founder and President of Train FAAST

  • And RECENT guest on Episode 76 of the Gospel Underground

Links Referenced

Scriptures Referenced

  • Psalm 145:1-7

  • Ephesians 6:1-4

Episode 79 - Wrestling with Mental Toughness

Reid interviews Virginia Tech wrestling coaches Tony Robie and Jared Haught on developing mental toughness in life.

Reid interviews Virginia Tech wrestling coaches Tony Robie and Jared Haught on developing mental toughness in life.

Show Notes

Our Guests

Head Coach Tony Robie

https://hokiesports.com/staff-directory/tony-robie/207

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Coach Tony Robie is the Head Coach of the division one wrestling powerhouse, Virginia Tech Hokies. Robie has been the Head Coach for three years after spending 11 years prior as assistant coach, associate head coach. He has coached multiple NCAA All-Americans as well as the first Division 1 national champion for the Hokies. As a competitor he was a two time All-American and NCAA finalist at Edinboro University (PA) with a career record 126-23.

Coach Jared Haught

https://hokiesports.com/sports/wrestling/roster/coaches/jared-haught/1373

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Haught was a two-time ACC champion, four-time NCAA qualifier and a three-time All-American for the Hokies from 2014-18. As a senior, Haught became only the second Tech wrestler and the first West Virginia native to make it to a national final when he reached the championship match at 197 pounds at the 2018 NCAA Championships in Cleveland. He placed sixth at NCAAs in 2016, fourth in 2017 and second in 2018.

Books Referenced

Links Referenced

"Mental toughness is the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns and circumstances that prevent you from succeeding, or excelling at a task or towards an objective or a performance outcome that you set out to achieve."

https://www.mentaltoughnessinc.com/what-is-mental-toughness/

Scripture References

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. - Hebrews 12:1-3

21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. - 1 Peter 2:21-25

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9

Episode 78 - Whither God and Viruses

What is the place of viruses in God’s good, yet fallen, creation.

What is the place of viruses in God’s good, yet fallen, creation.

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Show Notes

Links Referenced

Scriptures Referenced

  • Genesis 3

  • Romans 8:18-25

  • Miracles of Jesus in Mark chapters 1-5

  • Revelation 21:1-4

Book Referenced

Episode 77 - What Does Reid Do?

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Show Notes


Over the last several years I have been asked, “Reid, what is it you are doing these days?” There is a short and a long answer to this question. The short answer is that I help strengthen and encourage churches, I share the gospel with students, and I help thoughtfully engage others with the good news in our current cultural moment. The longer answer? Well, my friends Ryan Baitzel and Steve Hawthorne from Emergence Church in NJ recently interviewed me related to that question. My wife thought the audio/video from this could be helpful in answering this question a little bit more, so here is a little of my story and what I am up to today.

Also, towards the end of the episode, Reid answers a very important question: Soccer or Wrestling?

Episode 75 - Audiobooks Extravaganza

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Recommended Audiobooks from Reid

Favorites

  1. Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

  2. Unbroken and Sea Biscuit by Lauren Hillanbrand

  3. The Devil in White City by Erik Larson

Recommended

  • Creative Non Fiction - Works of Erik Larson, Ben McIntrye, and Candice Maillard

  • History and Biography - Works of Roger Crowley, David McCullough, and The Roosevelt Trilogy by Edmund Morris

  • History of Technology - Becoming Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, iWoz, The Perfect Thing by Daniel Levy, The Pixar Touch by David Price, Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton, The Everything Store by Brad Stone

Business and Leadership Books - Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Leadership by Sir Alex Ferguson

Recommended Audiobooks from Kayla

Favorites

  • The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, John and Elizabeth Sherrill

  • The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

  • C.S. Lewis by Alister E McGrath

  • The Pixar Touch by David A. Price

  • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

  • Mud, Sweat, and Tears by Bear Grylls

  • Kenobi: A Stat Wars Tale by John Jackson Miller

For Kids

  • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

  • Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky

  • From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankenwiler by E.L. Koingsburg

  • Story of the World by Susan Weiss Bauer available from www.welltrainedmind.com

  • Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas

  • Redwall by Brian Jacques

Episode 74 - Coronavirus Abroad

Reid talks to friends in London, Paris, and Southern Asia during the COVID-19 quarantine .

Reid talks to friends in London, Paris, and Southern Asia during the COVID-19 quarantine .

SHOW NOTES

Scripture Referenced

[6] Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, [7] casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. [8] Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. [9] Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. [10] And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. [11] To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 5:6–11 ESV

Episode 73 - A COVID Culture Survival Guide

Reid and Jesse discuss keeping hope anchored and life connected during a time of quarantine and crisis.

Reid and Jesse discuss keeping hope anchored and life connected during a time of quarantine and crisis.

Show Notes

Links Referenced 

Book Referenced 

Scriptures Referenced 

  • Hebrews 6:19

  • Romans 15:12

  • Romans 15:4

  • Psalm 39:7

Episode 72 - Kids and Coronavirus

Reid and the Monaghan Kids discuss the effects of the CoVID-19 Pandemic on kids.

Reid and the Monaghan Kids discuss the effects of the CoVID-19 Pandemic on kids.

Episode 71 - Coronavirus with a Lemon or a Lime?

Reid and Jesse discuss responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020

Reid and Jesse discuss responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020

Show Notes

Books Referenced 

Links Referenced 

Scriptures Referenced

  • Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14

  • Proverbs 1

  • 1 Peter 5:7

  • Ephesians 2:8,9

  • Psalm 56:3,4

Episode 70 - Meaningless! Meaningless?

Reid and Jesse discuss meaning and purpose and the effects of loss on a coming generation

Reid and Jesse discuss meaning and purpose and the effects of loss on a coming generation

Episode 69 - Seeing Cross-eyed

Reid and Jesse talk about shifts in western ideas, worldview and identities and how it has resulted with the cultural moment in which we find ourselves.

Reid and Jesse talk about shifts in western ideas, worldview and identities and how it has resulted with the cultural moment in which we find ourselves.

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Links Referenced 

Episode 68 - Through the Eye

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Related Scriptures 

Genesis 1, Genesis 3, John 1, Revelation 21, Romans 12:1,2

Quotations

This life’s dim windows of the soul, Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie, When you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake, http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/8661

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world. - GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. - GK Chesterton

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - CS Lewis

Books Referenced 

Episode 67 - On Reading

Jesse shares about his efforts to read 50 books during 2019 and the virtues and joys of reading.

Jesse shares about his efforts to read 50 books during 2019 and the virtues and joys of reading.

Show Notes 

Reid's Top 10ish reads of 2019

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2020/1/8/best-reads-from-2019

Jesse's Favorites for 2019 (link coming soon)

Non-Fiction

  • On Reading Well

  • Disruptive Witness

  • Deep Work

  • All That’s Good

  • Tools of Titans

  • Edwards the Mentor

  • Atomic Habits

  • Given

Fiction

  • The Road

  • Norse Mythology

  • Book of Sorrows

  • Brothers Karamazov

  • The Death of Ivan Ilych

Scripture Reading

11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 12 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. - Ecclesiastes 12:11-12

The Daily Liturgy http://cdomaha.com/the-daily-liturgy-podcast

Links Referenced

Episode 66 - The Ole College Try

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Links Referenced 

Episode 29 - You Just Got Schooled https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/10/4/episode-29-you-just-got-schooled

College Admissions Scandal in 2019 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html

Fit for College Most Important https://qz.com/1571524/the-us-college-admissions-scandal-shows-that-parents-overlook-their-kids-best-interests/

The Home Team - A Family Worship Guide - A tool that helps look at the culture of worship and learning in the home. http://www.powerofchange.org/s/Home-Team-A-Power-of-Change-Family-Worship-Resource-572j.pdf

Focus Over Time 

0-5 years

  • Love for discovery

  • Love for questions

  • Love for learning

  • Books, Books, Books

  • Catechesis

  • Presence, Presence, Presence

  • Parents - Save Money

5-12 years

  • All of 0-5 year - discovery, questions, learning, books, presence

  • Responsibility

  • Discipline

  • Modeling

  • Tools - Books, Audiobooks, App - History, Math, Reading, Bible/New City Catechism

  • Parents - Save Money

12-18 years 

  • All of 0-5

  • All of 5-12

  • Argument, Presentation, Goals and Focus

  • Guiding loves and interests

  • Parents - Save Money 

The College Search 

  • Fit - Decide what you are looking for?

  • Find - Finalizing list of Schools

  • Focus - Kill it, ahead of time

  • Faith - Trust God and the process

Episode 65 - Boys to Men

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Show Notes

Other Episodes Referenced

Episode 10 - A Christmas Tradition

A description of a Christmas letter tradition with kids

Episode 23 - Man Up!

A look at the state of young men in our culture

Relevant Scriptures

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good hprecepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get ginsight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will qhonor you rif you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” Proverbs 4:1-9

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11

When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, qthat you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn… - 1 Kings 2:1-3

Episode 64 - Quitting Social Media!?

Reid and Jesse discuss digital minimalism and a month long experiment of limiting, or attempting to limit, the use of social media and the smartphone.

Reid and Jesse discuss digital minimalism and a month long experiment of limiting, or attempting to limit, the use of social media and the smartphone.

Show Notes

In or Out

Main Topic - Quitting Social Media

Episode 63 - Christianity as Rebellion and Revolution

Reid and Jesse discuss Christianity as a revolution and rebellion against a world dominated by the powers of darkness but being infiltrated by the Kingdom of God.

Reid and Jesse discuss Christianity as a revolution and rebellion against a world dominated by the powers of darkness but being infiltrated by the Kingdom of God.

Show Notes

Main Topic - Christianity as Rebellion and Revolution

Relevant Scripture for the Resistance

  • 1 Peter 2:12; Matthew 28:18-20, John 20:21; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 4:25-32; Ephesians 5; 1 Corinthians 16:1,2; Matthew 5:44

  • Romans 12:14-21 - 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." 20 To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Quotations Referenced

“How eagerly do wee seek the approval of this or that man of worldly reputation. How shamefully do we exploit the converted celebrity. Anyone will do to take away the reproach of obscurity from out publicity-hungry leaders: famous athletes, congressman, world travelers, rich industrialists; before such we bow with obsequious smiles and honor them in our public meetings and in the religious press. Thus we glorify men to enhance the standing of the Church of God, and the glory of the Prince of Life is made to hang upon the transient fame of a man who shall die.”

AW Tozer, The Pursuit of Man (Camp Hill: PA, Christian Publications Inc., 1950) 44.

“To the orthodox there must always be a case for revolution; for in the hearts of men God has been put under the feet of Satan. In the upper world hell once rebelled against heaven. But in this world heaven is rebelling against hell. For the orthodox there can always be a revolution; for a revolution is a restoration. At any instant you may strike a blow for the perfection which no man has seen since Adam.”

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Eternal Revolution

“I know this feeling fills our epoch, and I think it freezes our epoch. For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening. No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it? In this combination, I maintain, it is the rational optimist who fails, the irrational optimist optimist who succeeds. He is ready to smash the whole universe for the sake of itself.”

GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Flag of the World