What To Do When You Can't Do Anything

Intro: Kid’s favorite salmon recipe, homemade mayonnaise, seed oils.
9:38: Explaining the stock market to a kid.
12:16: The Roarin’ 20’s, prohibition and the creation of finger food.
14:54: The origin of the Caesar Salad.
17:48: Telegram discussions, global warming and just being a good steward
21:19: AI, music and human connection
28:39: Molly muses on live music and AI with worship music, and replacing worship leaders
32:24: An assignment for the savvy: a ChatGPT worship song.
37:30: Human achievement and you shall be like God
43:31: Cats bringing [live] kills into the house.
49:58: Molly tries out a cat metaphor for a hookup culture talk this weekend.
1:01:26: Show Close

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Intro: JR’s shoulder update. ACL surgery recap, the brilliance of the human body.
7:56: Surgery during COVID, and the month of madness with sick kids.
11:47: First ever family destination ski vacation! 75mph + winds
15:22: Molly’s current homeschool studies. Children’s dustbowl era literature anyone?
16:52: Mahatma Ghandi: and meaning of “Mahatma” and the work still happens even if the worker morally failed.
19:36: “Christian Nationalism.”
23:28: Gandhi and India’s independence
25:57: A deep hypocrisy and we can honestly say the Declaration of Independence is true AND the authors were not acting in accord with their beliefs.
28:00: Complex outcomes of moral failings and assurance of salvation.
31:50: Falling into the trap of believing Christians won’t fail.
34:35: A cultural sifting of church leaders and a gossipy pastor’s wives Facebook group.
37:58: Sharing the things that are weighty when you’re strong enough to carry them.
41:07: If we obfuscate justice because we’re trying to protect ourselves, it’s a violation of scripture.
43:12: AI, deepfakes and you can’t trust anything you see anymore.
49:38: Nothing new under the sun and reorientation.
52:39: Go to the ant you sluggard! Termite architecture.
56:43: Chocolate milk recipe:  1/2c cocoa powder, 1/2c sugar, 1/2c hot water, 1/4t salt, splash of vanilla. Mix well and add to 1 gallon milk or store in the fridge as syrup. Recipe from Ruthann Zimmerman.
1:00:30: Tortilla maker!
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Intro: Ginger beer, kid stress, another chicken death and a nightmare week.
14:35: Recap on my short trip Ft. Benton.
19:07: Molly and I had a date and saw The Lucky Valentines live and a discussion about complicated relationships with Christianity. Josephine OEO
24:03: The world is a dark and scary place, Carlson/Weinstein Interview, orienting our hearts and our kids amidst the fear and uncertainty.
32:00: We are the new singles ministry.
33:25: Potions for joint health and MRI results.
37:24: Amazing home Chicken Drumsticks (just like wings).
40:29: Homemade Nilla wafers.
42:40: JR switched back to green tea in the morning.
43:23: Coffee is not good first thing in the morning…here’s why.
46:50: Molly is almost incensed by an old friend in Instagram. Transgender deaths and false equations.
56:33: Trying not to be the person that can’t handle history.
1:02:49: We didn’t take their books and teenage mushbrain.
1:05:16: Scrips for Testosterone made a woman a goes crazy.
1:09:10: Transgender suicides and “The Dutch Studies.”
1:15:50: Things Unseen podcast, Sinclair Ferguson and “Goodness” (Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus) and sticking your neck out for what’s right and true when it will cost you something.
1:20:08: You can’t divorce your soul from your body, Abigail Fivale.
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Intro: More dogs, sick kids, and another chicken down.
10:08: Growing your own loofahs.
14:47: Other new garden plans, update on bees.
23:05: Having an ecosystem on our property and thoughts on regenerative farming.
27:30: Molly’s brain is mush, a WW1 study with the kids and book reviews on the topics, They Shall Not Grow Old.
30:08: Why we have poppies on Veteran’s Day, In Flander’s Fields
32:37: Molly found some new, great bread baking forms Ebay forms.
37:56: Who’s still reading the Mandie books?
45:05: Every metric for a man’s quality of life goes up if he’s married…including his weight.
51:07: Theology of human depravity and God’s sovereignty.
54:24: Anything is possible with evil humanity but ultimately will not survive.
55:01 Gaining a degree of clarity on the end times with Wayne Grudem’s Christian Beliefs.
57:03: Amillennialists were very shaken by WW1.
1:01:30: Molly’s new podcast chair
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Intro: Righteousness vs. sanctification.
4:37: Jackie Hill Perry comes out against the enneagram.
7:24: Preston Perry invites some LDS in and records the convo, and it applies to Muslim evangelism.
9:09: Conversations with kids about guilt and Tales of Persia.
11:43: Pervasiveness of Islam everywhere except Billings.
13:15: How do you get on Allah’s good side? The distinction of Christianity.
15:56: Distinctions from every other religion in the world.
17:51: Explaining Proverbs to kids.
19:23: being a part of the body of Christ, partaking in the Lord’s Supper in a worthy manner.
21:47: The weekly Laura Ingalls Wilder reference to being individual but communal.
24:22: JR adds color from world travels.
26:43: Honor shame vs. Western Individualism, following Christ and “My Soul My Choice.”
27:57: Generational loneliness.
30:32: Your soul will shrivel without others. Faithfully Finite t-shirt plug.
32:34: Discussing the end of the world with a 5 year old.
36:06: Has Been Hotel on Amazon
40:44: A picture of Noah’s ark as safety and protection (not s cute boat full of animals). There was still sin in their hearts.
43:35: Faith’s (our daughter) response.
45:57 Dressing up for church. “You Do You Before The Lord.”
48:08: Being financially wise before the Lord very much depends on life circumstance.
50:20: Meat stick followup. Hint: It’s a big win.
56:21: Granola Bar recipe like the ones you loved from your youth (or maybe still do)
59:30: Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola bars
1:00:33: The bread boat
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Intro
1:48: Homemade beef sticks, 13yo boys and protein needs.
4:40: Bitter cold and ground pork.
7:48: Beef squeezed out of frosting tip instead of a jerky gun and the recipe.
10:27: A mouse in the van.
16:02: A chicken in the house.
21:00: Hollow tubed hair and God’s neat designs for animals.
23:58: Women’s ice cold feet.
26:58: A chicken of the day.
37:00: The cheese is perfect.
32:57: Cracking down on schooling.
35:57: Circling back on the dad convo; no such thing as quality without quantity.
39:07: COVID showed parents the benefit of being home with their kids.
40:39: Some are called the workplace and staying home may not be an option.
41:50: The Factual Feminist and the gender wage gap myth.
43:41: Many women can’t take three years off to raise a kid.
46:47: God’s grace is bigger than you doing the best you can.
48:54: A fascinating video on the biology and neuroscience of men becoming fathers.
53:50: Loneliness is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
46:33: Wedlock vs. Wedlease.
1:01:22: Wine-drinking, Mommy culture weirdness.
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Intro: New studio, JR’s a bit distracted by some new gear.
6:03: Things got spicy on Telegram this week, Anthony Bradley Threads on fatherhood.
10:40: God is relational warm to us as well as a law-giver and a teacher.
12:48: Relational warmth has to do with quantity of time.
13:13: Quality does not equate to quantity time as a parents.
15:13: Podcast with Erica Komisar and Lila Rose.
16:13: A cascade of kids with a huge amount of mental health problems and moms not being present.
17:50: Maternity leave is shockingly short.
20:27: Every time you’re away from the kids damage is done, being happier outside the home.
21:02: Quantity time is quality time
21:30: Mother’s need to be primary care givers for their babies. Oxytocin is a bonding agent between parent and child (and spouses).
23:43: If dad is primary care-giver or have two dads, this risk for over-stimulation is incredibly high and against his nature.
24:35: Considerations on men who work crazy amounts of hours or are deployed and repairing the wound.
26:08: Bradley’s second Threads and masculinity and the church.
29:44: Scriptural and creational considerations on conveying masculine messages to boys.
31:06: Who is Andrew Tate?
33:38: Jordan Peterson might more dangerous.
35:58: The 3 P’s of Manliness.
38:12: Slaying dragons and JR had to delete Call of Duty Mobile.
40:25: What you choose to wear is deliberately communicates somethings.
44:40: We’re communicating that we’re really cold.
46:45: Molly took a couple kids to a Lewis & Clark expo, and Plains Indians hand talk.
49:10: There is something very distinct between men and women at the creational level.
52:19: Encourage father to do a church activity or spend time at home with the kids?
54:24: A very difficult discussion to have as a friend, wife, pastor.
56:04: Molly vents to a friend about JR….in a healthy way.
1:01:28: God’s Mercy in My Marriage, Dave Harvey.

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Intro: Savings, investing and gold
7:23: Not being obsessed with the future or placing trust in prepping
9:03: Living in a state of by faith
12:36: Living in a fallen world
15:13: Mueller and people
19:04: Childbearing, faith, and health consequences
22:49: A young kid just screaming at Hobby Lobby
24:10: Faith builds a fort for the night and a cocoon of pillows
26:45: Back to the lady at Hobby Lobby and being
29:52: Big events for a 3rd born birthday…right after Christmas; mercies in planning
38:22: Atomic Habits; goals vs. resolutions
42:40: Molly reflects on goal settings and resolutions for the New Year, lunar calendars and the official April’s Fools
46:14: The health significance of freshly ground wheat
47:47: Growing (and spelling) Loofahs
51:32: Transplanting trees
53:24: Molly’s word for the year (she thought it was hokey until now)
59:36: Abigail Favale and Kevin DeYoung on laptop culture, narcissism and transgender propagation.
1:07:08: Parenting and grounding kids in truth.
1:10:00: Show Close

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Intro: Telegram, pre-Christmas madness, crazy warm weather, parents of a teenager.
6:45 A symphony trip for the kids.. are
9:06: Hope…or lack thereof from Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
12:31: The contrast of cheer and family and depressing Christmases.
14:40: Meaningful secular Christmas lyrics, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written by a victim of bullying.
16:34: Inspiration for Christmas songs from non-Christians.
18:12: Christian Christmas songs address the human condition.
19:43: Difficulty in sharing Christian Christmas songs’ source of hope.
25:16: We “muddle through” with our ever present help in trouble.
22:06: Even we have to wait until we’re dead, in light of eternity, suffering has an end date.
24:50: Gender-bending on Broadway.
28:48: Transgender singing issue.
32:20: Transgender needs for pharmaceuticals, and medical intervention ramifications.
36:00: A podcast Molly listened to about an a Catholic convert from feminisim out of the “Eldridge Era” and wha it means to be a woman.
39:21: What makes a woman? Or a man?
43:07: Gender as a complimentary component in the world.
47:03: Genitalia is a physical manifestation of an entire being’s orientation.
49:25: Contingent Monism and you are not you without…
54:21: How this all relates to children and parenting.
56:30: Show Close

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Show Open: Christmas Tree update, seasonal hecticness and family random notes.
9:18: One more thought on self-care: living faithfully within our finitude.
15:28 We’re such dependent creatures (food).
16:43 Incorporating the Lord’s prayer.
21:07: Doug Wilson on celebrating the materiality of Christmas.
25:54 Robert Farrar Capon and cottage cheese.
27:41: Christians living in a material world.
29:01: The feasts and the festivals.
30:42: Christian gnosticism confused with holiness.
33:10 “Kind” is a Biblical category, “nice” is not.
35:35: Dr. Jon Money and the precursor to modern transgenderism.
39:04: Cultural expectations and being kind to those in sin.
43:06: Contrast between grace and kindness.
45:17: Molly’s dad’s been making some killer summer sausage.
47:58: Show close banter, invite to our Christmas party!

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