001: An Invitation [Podcast]
Welcome to another Kingdom experiment. This is the first episode of the Become Good Soil Podcast. The BGS Podcast is a combination of interviews with sages, conversations among peers, teaching and...
View Article002: Work.Life.Play [Podcast]
Dan Allender makes this bold suggestion regarding peer friendship in this decade: Find like-hearted kings living in the same direction. Sign treaties. When one kingdom is at war, both are at war. Join...
View Article003: Your Question or Your Strength? [Podcast]
To every relationship, to every circumstance, at every given moment, we are either bringing our question or our strength. Our search for validation and identity as men is the root of all that we do...
View Article004: Hello, Trouble [Podcast]
C.S. Lewis was right when he summed up the dilemma of modern masculinity: "We castrate the gelding and bid him be fruitful." It's painful. And it's true. Become Good Soil is committed to helping men...
View Article005: (Video/Audio) Risking Love – An Interview with Bart Hansen [Podcast]
An old, wise man, Jeremiah, suggested this: Go stand at the crossroads and look around. Ask for directions to the old road, The tried-and-true road. Then take it. Discover the right route for your...
View Article006: Diving Deep – An Interview with Craig McConnell [Podcast]
Nearly a decade ago, I had the privilege of seeking wisdom from Craig McConnell, a man who's seen many miles, fought many wars, and conquered death more times than I can recount. It was an even greater...
View Article007: Responding to Divine Affection—A Conversation with Adam Paulson [Podcast]
A few thoughts on discipleship from Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard to begin: Who teaches you? Whose disciple are you? Honestly. One thing is sure: you are somebody’s disciple. You are learning...
View Article008: A Conversation with my Aussie Hero, Dave Tolman [podcast]
There are few men I respect more than Dave Tolman. He is one of the giants who served as a sage and guide at the most recent Become Good Soil Intensive. I had a rare chance to turn on the microphone...
View Article009: Nearing the End of My Beginning [podcast]
For centuries, Celtic Christians have identified a "thin place" as a location where the veil between heaven and earth becomes especially sheer; a place where the unseen reality of God’s Kingdom is made...
View Article010: Receiving the Heart of the Father – Cherie Snyder [podcast]
The soul searches for a Father. It was John Ortberg who put those words to me in a way so succinct it cut to the core. I see it in nearly every action of every day. Every reaching. Every ache. Desire...
View Article011: Live in the Day and Measure in the Decade [podcast]
It is rare that we pause and pull back far enough from our daily life to observe and wonder about the who we have and have not yet become. At Wild at Heart we produce a weekly podcast, and Craig and...
View Article012: Your New Name [podcast]
C.S. Lewis, in The Problem of Pain, once said this, What can be more a man’s own than this new name which even in eternity remains a secret between God and him? And what shall we take this secrecy to...
View Article013: Quick [podcast]
"Deep calls unto deep..." the Scriptures suggest (Psalm 42:7). There is in every moment of every day an accessible onramp to the narrow road that leads to Life. Often the onramp is hidden in the ache...
View Article014: Getting Naked – Styles of Relating (Part 1 of 2) [Podcast]
How we relate with other people is one of the greatest indicators of our spiritual maturity. This was the counsel offered by an older, wiser man years ago as he helped untie the knots in my rope and my...
View Article015: Getting Naked – Styles of Relating (Part 2 of 2) [Podcast]
We begin by taking a deeper look at how Jesus moves fluidly with both authority and love in all three styles of relating.The post 015: Getting Naked – Styles of Relating (Part 2 of 2) [Podcast]...
View Article016: Dismantling the Fig Leaf (Part One of Two) [Podcast]
I've lost the ability to bullshit. It's the me I've always wanted to be. It's one of my all-time favorite film quotes, spoken by Jerry Maguire as he sheds the Poser and becomes more and more the kind...
View Article017: Dismantling the Fig Leaf (Part Two of Two) [Podcast]
Eugene Petersen, author of The Message, makes this observation: The two most difficult things to get straight in life are love and God. More often than not the mess that we make of our lives can be...
View Article018: Wild Unfettered and Free [Podcast]
This episode of the Become Good Soil Podcast is a reflection I wrote after ongoing ventures in recent years through The Message paraphrase of Matthew 21:12-18, the passage commonly referred to as “The...
View Article019: A Beautiful God [Podcast]
God’s kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The finder is ecstatic—what a find!—and proceeds to sell everything he owns to raise money and...
View Article020: Did Jesus Wear Flip Flops? [Podcast]
Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download It all started with a lawnmower, a skateboard, a women’s clothing magazine, and a set of flip flops. What if play is God’s idea and is at...
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