Episode 140 - Mission IFpossible

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Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.  CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Athanasias Contra Mundum, Athanasius against the world. See https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/one-mans-joy-stood-against-the-whole-world

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  • Romans 12:14-21

  • Matthew 7:1-6

  • Timothy 2:24-26

  • Proverbs 26:4, 5

Episode 139 - Listen Up

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  • Proverbs 15:1-4 1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. 4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

  • James 1:19-21 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

  • Proverbs 18:13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

  • Proverbs 10: 19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent or in the New Living Paraphrase - Too much talk leads to sin. Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.

  • Proverbs 16:7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Episode 135 - War Games

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  • Carl Avon Clausewitz, Vom Krieg (On War)

  • THOMAS HOBBES, THE LEVIATHAN (1651)     

  • Hunter and Nedelesky, Science and the Good

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Matthew 5, Matthew 26:52, James 3:18, Romans 1:25, Romans 12, 13

Episode 134 - Pleasure Games

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  • Ezekiel 14:1-8

  • Ephesians 4:17-24

Episode 133 - Consumer Games

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  • Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof  is stupid.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:24 So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 [18] Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. [19] Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. [20] For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

  • 1 John 3:16-18 [16] By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. [17] But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? [18] Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

  • Ephesians 4:28 [28] Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need..

Episode 132 - The Fine-Tuning of Joy and Discontent

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  • Philippians 4:10-13 [10] I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. [11] Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. [12] I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. [13] I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

  • Philippians 3:12-14 [12] Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. [13] Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, [14] I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

  • Matthew 5:6 [6] “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied/filled

Episode 129 - The Power Game

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  • Philippians 2

  • 1 Peter 3

  • 2 Corinthians 4:1-5

  • Mark 10:42-45

Episode 128 - What Sacred Games?

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  • The Human Condition Hannah Arendt

  • Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton

  • The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • What it Means to Human by O Carter Snead

  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Strange Rights: New Religions for a Godless Age Tara Isabella Burton

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  • Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

  • 1 Timothy 6:9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Episode 127 - Men Revisited

Episode 125 - Game Planning for the Podcast

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"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us -- for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."

The Parable of the Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche, found in Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para.125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.

Episode 124 - Who's Your Hero?

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Proverbs 30:32-33

[32] If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. [33] For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Romans 1:5-7

[5] through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, [6] including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, [7] To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 John 1:5-8

[5] Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, [6] who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. [7] For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. [8] Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

Psalm 115:1–3

[1] Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! [2] Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” [3] Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Matthew 6:30–34

[30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? [31] Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ [32] For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. [34] “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

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Episode 123 - Embodied Carnage, Embodied Hope

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  • 1 Corinthians 15

  • Matthew 22:37, 38

  • Revelation 21