This week, Brandon and AJ want to talk through the balance between individual, contemplative faith experiences and the communal, shared faith experiences.
Episode 228 – Contemplation
Prayer Is Like Date Night
I am a routine oriented person. I have found that routines help free space in my mind to think and not get bogged down with mundane questions like, "where are my keys...wallet...kids..." etc. One of the issues with routine is that they can become dry and boring.
Episode 156 – The Work of Prayer
Continuing their conversations about Brandon's vacation, AJ and Brandon discuss the difficulty of maintaining discipline in prayer while traveling. Like all things, it tends to be a question of balance between scheduled and spontaneous time in the presence of God.
Why Pray To A Dead Saint?
I would agree if someone is dead, then asking them to pray for us counts for little. The assumption should be deduced then that they are not dead, which is why we ask them to pray for us. As most of these conversations happen with Protestants, the best way to keep from engaging with the strawman is to go to Scripture.
Episode 133 – A Christmas/New Year’s Greeting
A brief thank you and greeting as the year comes to a close. Normal episodes resume next week. God bless!
Episode 102 – Lenten Check-In
Hard to believe though it is, Easter is two Sundays from today! To try and keep it from sneaking up on us, we talked our way through how this Lent has been treating us. How have our attempts at prayer, fasting, and almsgiving been going? A little hit and miss, honestly. How about yours?
Episode 99 – Why Do We Fast?
AJ and Brandon keep walking that Lenten journey! After looking at prayer last week, this week it's time to take a look at fasting. Fasting is more than just giving up candy, it's about getting the obstacles out of the way from us and God.