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S9E8: Character
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Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
We deeply long to be persons of character; we would much rather not, however, have to persevere through suffering to get there. But it turns out that that is exactly how character is formed. Moreover, the formation of character is the necessary prerequisite for hope that lasts, not the flimsy kind that so much or our lives are used to. And therein lies the good news. The resilience of character, something that others see in us but that we often do not see in ourselves, brings us ever closer to the hope we long to form and maintain.
Listen in to these two characters (Pepper and Curt, that is. Well, maybe just Pepper) as we learn what we can do to develop the character that we so long to have.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
- Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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Wednesday May 08, 2024
S9E7: Perseverance
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Who hasn’t felt like giving up when the going got, not only tough, but tough for a really long time. We love the idea of what perseverance can ultimately lead to; we would often rather arrive at what we want without having to persevere. Because to be sure: perseverance is not easy. But as we have said on this podcast before, the brain can do a lot of really hard things for a long time, as long as it doesn’t have to do it by itself.
Tune in to hear Pepper persevere in having to be in conversation with Curt yet one more time, and discover again what it means to SNAG the brain while we form durable hope in the process.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
- Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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Stay connected:
- Instagram, Facebook
- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Wednesday May 01, 2024
S9E6: Suffering: The Story of the Present Age
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Finally, we’re here. We’ve reached the topic that this series is about. It’s just that, now that we’ve arrived, we don’t want to be here. Nobody wants to suffer. We want less of it, or none of it at all, not just some tired old story of how to grin and bear it.
The good news is that, there are some things we can learn about suffering from what we know of the brain and relationships, things that, once we are aware of them, begin to shed even brighter light on the hope that we are durably forming on our journey through this part of Paul’s letter.
This week we talk about why we suffer, and how we can begin to reframe it in our first steps toward suffering differently.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- S2E6: What's Your Story - episode on the narrative domain
- S2E9: It's Only a Matter of Time - episode on the temporal domain
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
- Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
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Stay connected:
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- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
S9E5: Glory
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Who would ever imagine that glory and suffering would have anything to do with each other? As it turns out, a great deal. So much so, in fact, that when we consider a particular aspect of God’s glory (one that we rarely do), we see how, when we take it seriously, it utterly transforms and prepares us for the suffering we will inevitably encounter. But we can’t encounter it alone. It requires community.
This week you are invited to draw close to God’s glory, even as we draw close to our suffering.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
- Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!
- Bonus conversation on GLORY with the Being Known Podcast team.
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
S9E4: A Wide Place to Stand
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
For Jesus followers, as we approach the topic of suffering, we can’t bypass the body. Fortunately, neither does Paul in Romans 5, or what we know from neuroscience. For indeed, the more we pay attention to how the body works, the more the texts of scripture make sense in our world, a world which has somehow over many centuries found a way to separate the body from the spirit in ways that they simply are not.
Come along this week as we learn how “grace in which we now stand” is no mere metaphor—and shapes our response to suffering in ways we might never imagine.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-26, 2024 (save the date for more information coming soon)
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Stay connected:
- Instagram, Facebook
- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
S9E3: Declaration of War - and Peace
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
Although the bible doesn’t begin with violence, it gets there pretty quickly, beginning with a snake, then a brother killing his brother, and on and on it goes. And as it turns out, as much as we are at war in so many ways with so many others, we are more at war with God than anyone, and more at war with him than we know. Not that he’s at war with us. We just think he is.
It’s no surprise, then, to discover that our suffering is grounded more than we are aware of in the parts of us that still believe, like Adam before us, that God is out to kill us. This week we address the necessary task of identifying the parts of us that still believe we are at war with God—so that in making peace, we can begin to change the story we tell about our suffering.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies by Kimberly June Miller and Alison Cook
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-26, 2024 (save the date for more information coming soon)
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Stay connected:
- Instagram, Facebook
- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
S9E2: Just Faith
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
If you pick up a book on suffering, you might hope it will tell you how you can learn to suffer less, or even not at all. That’s not what we’re doing here. Instead, we will discover that before we even get to suffering, we must, as Christians, begin long before that, just as Paul does in Romans 5. Who knew that to talk about suffering, it is first really important for us to get a handle on how our attachment to Jesus—through our attachment to the members of his Body and the Spirit?
In this episode you are invited to imagine how Paul’s words of faith and justification reflect our real-life attachment processes, and how that lays the foundation for our forming hope in the presence of suffering.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-26, 2024 (save the date for more information coming soon)
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Stay connected:
- Instagram, Facebook
- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
S9E1: Into the Deepest Place
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
To be human is to suffer. To be transformed does not deliver us from it. In fact, a great deal of what we do in life is dedicated to avoiding so much of the suffering that inhabits our stories. I only want to read a book that tells me how I can suffer less, or even not at all. But that’s not how life works.
This week we begin to explore The Deepest Place, using Romans 5:1-5 and what we are learning from interpersonal neurobiology, and discover how the gospel helps us form durable hope, not by being fully delivered from suffering, but in and because of its very presence.
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Episode Links and References
- The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
- Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-26, 2024 (save the date for more information coming soon)
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Stay connected:
- Instagram, Facebook
- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
S8E11: It’s Time for Beauty
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
There’s nothing quite like an encounter with beauty to remind us that we are temporal—and, temporary—creatures. Who hasn’t wanted the gorgeous sunset to just go on and on and on? Who has listened to Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and not desired it to go on indefinitely?
Beauty is like that. It transports us into states of timelessness that remind us that we were made, not for this world—but for the world that is coming.
Join us for the last episode of this season that will remind us of what it means that God has placed eternity in our hearts, and that putting ourselves in the path of oncoming beauty is the beginning of the time for which there will be no end.
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Episode Links and References
- Artistic Offering discussed today: Nature in your own community... Get outside.
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
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Stay connected:
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- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
S8E10: The Interpersonal Nature of Beauty
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Beauty is not just something that sits there and waits for our reaction. It is something that, should we allow ourselves to be open to it, actively draws our attention not only to it, but draws us to draw others’ attention to it as well. In this way, beauty’s purpose serves to engage us with each other—so that we can create and curate even more beauty.
Join us as we discover how beauty reveals the inescapable reality that we were made for connection, and that beauty is one of God’s most powerful means of showing us that this is true.
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Episode Links and References
- Artistic Offering discussed today: Van Gogh Irises
- Artistic Offering for next week: Nature in your community... get outside!
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
. . . . .
Stay connected:
- Instagram, Facebook
- YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
- Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
- Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.