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Don, the first time I have been stopped: “Windows Media Player cannot access the file.” No idea if it is my end or not??
(UK part of the world)
Paul, I’m really sorry to hear that!
I just played it on two computers and a kindle without any problem… maybe it will work for you later…?
WAHOO!! All working and so glad it is!! What a gorgeous topic – and what an insight. And why do you go back to stuff like this? I am curious – why do two such characters lead a discussion, and why do two such characters poo-poo the word “relationship”.
Seems to me imagining the setting, that any debate “off topic” would be fairly pointless. Sounds as though debate happens within the set-boundaries. And anything outside is ruled inadmissible my lord. Conused.com.
🙂
Some times I think people confuse the word “immature” with the word “intellectual” 🙂
I find, for me, overthinking is a trap that presumes: 1. I am capable of understanding the ways of God, which, according to Scriptures, are past finding out. And 2. It makes me vulnerable to suspect God’s motives and begin to doubt God’s true love and good will for me. This is the snare Satan set that captured Adam and Eve. When I think God is not for me, does not have my back, uses a carrot and a stick t o manipulate me then I become resentful, distrustful, I withhold my heart and pull back in my relationship to God. That’s just how the wolf seperates the sheep from the shepherd and the flock and before too long the sheep is toast. But if I know that God delights in me, wants to lavish upon me good and perfect gifts, give me the desires of my heart, grows me up to be a warrior that knows the strategies of the enemy and equips me to engage in rescue missions and be ready for anything, then I don’t have to get bogged down in the swamps of despair (NEVER ENDING STORY). God would have us be wise and the first requirement is to trust in the Lord with all our hearts and not lean on our own understanding.
I couldn’t agree more; thank you!
I like to think of myself as intelligent, but intellectual? Probably not so much. Although summer christians have soothed me at times when I feel im thinking too deeply and not just plain old hearing God.
This was great Don. As ever. Keep them coming!
Thanks!
Sounds to me like being a “winter” Christian would be a very lonely and unhappy condition to be in! I get confused enough without going there! lol I often do not understand what I am reading in the Bible, but I know that when God wants to, He gives me the ability to understand what I am reading, even if it is something I have read many, many times previously without understanding. God made me as a simple, unintellectual person and I like that quite fine. I just put my trust and faith in Him and He supplies me with what I need and with strength to get through trials, etc. Thanks for this great podcast this morning Don!
Thanks Elaine, I’m with you
Interesting. It has been a clarifying moment for me that intellectual pursuits do not always mean the search for wisdom or realization of the truths God provides for us.
Amen!
Don, this post sort of puzzles me… I know some intellectual Christians who love God with all their heart, they just don’t lean on their own understanding. You should hang out more with that type of intellectual believers, Don (or greatly expand your patience level, liberally sprinkled with a good sense of humor!) Here’s a link to one website chock full of scientific intellectuals who I’d rather spend time with any day: http://www.reasons.org/about/our-mission
Blessings, Bette
Thanks for the link! Bette, I quite agree with you!
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Hidden from the wise… Revealed unto babes.
Nicely said!