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Matthew Vines tackles the following:• Do biblical teachings on the marriage covenant preclude same-sex marriage or not?• How should we apply the teachings of Jesus to the gay debate?• What does the story of Sodom and Gomorrah really say about human relationships?• Can celibacy be a calling when it is mandated, not chosen?• What did Paul have in mind when he warned against same-sex relations?www.insummarypodcast.comIG: @insummarypodcastSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummarypodcast)

No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless Godby Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski (Contributor), Chris Tomlin (Foreword)Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless Godby Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski (Contributor), Chris Tomlin (Foreword)Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless Godby Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski (Contributor), Chris Tomlin (Foreword)Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love Find and Reach Your Biggest Dreams Bob Goff, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does and Everybody, Always, is on a mission to help people recapture the version of their lives they dreamed about before fear started calling the shots. He wants them to dream big. In his revelatory yet utterly practical new book, Bob takes you on a life-proven journey to rediscover your dreams and turn them into reality. Based on his enormously popular Dream Big workshop, Bob draws on a lifetime of living and dreaming large to help you reach your larger-than-life dreams. In Dream Big he shows how to learn to define clearly your dreams for yourself, identify the obstacles holding you back, come up with a specific plan for reaching goals, and develop the tools that will help you act on the plan. Dream Big is the only book you need to uncover the wild and exciting dream for your life you’ve hidden from yourself--and help you take the steps necessary to achieve it. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff. Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love The follow-up to Love Does (technically the third book, since the second was stolen out of his car), this book tackles how to love difficult people. Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times bestselling Love Does and Everybody, Always as well as the bestselling Love Does for Kids. He is the Honorary Consul to the Republic of Uganda, an attorney, and the founder of Love Does—a nonprofit human rights organization operating in Uganda, India, Nepal, Iraq, and Somalia. He's a lover of balloons, cake pops, and helping people pursue their big dreams. Bob's greatest ambitions in life are to love others, do stuff, and, most importantly, to hold hands with his wife, Sweet Maria Goff, and spend time with their amazing kids. For more, check out BobGoff.com and LoveDoes.org. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff. Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love The follow-up to Love Does (technically the third book, since the second was stolen out of his car), this book tackles how to love difficult people. Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times bestselling Love Does and Everybody, Always as well as the bestselling Love Does for Kids. He is the Honorary Consul to the Republic of Uganda, an attorney, and the founder of Love Does—a nonprofit human rights organization operating in Uganda, India, Nepal, Iraq, and Somalia. He's a lover of balloons, cake pops, and helping people pursue their big dreams. Bob's greatest ambitions in life are to love others, do stuff, and, most importantly, to hold hands with his wife, Sweet Maria Goff, and spend time with their amazing kids. For more, check out BobGoff.com and LoveDoes.org. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love Find and Reach Your Biggest Dreams Bob Goff, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does and Everybody, Always, is on a mission to help people recapture the version of their lives they dreamed about before fear started calling the shots. He wants them to dream big. In his revelatory yet utterly practical new book, Bob takes you on a life-proven journey to rediscover your dreams and turn them into reality. Based on his enormously popular Dream Big workshop, Bob draws on a lifetime of living and dreaming large to help you reach your larger-than-life dreams. In Dream Big he shows how to learn to define clearly your dreams for yourself, identify the obstacles holding you back, come up with a specific plan for reaching goals, and develop the tools that will help you act on the plan. Dream Big is the only book you need to uncover the wild and exciting dream for your life you’ve hidden from yourself--and help you take the steps necessary to achieve it. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love Find and Reach Your Biggest Dreams Bob Goff, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does and Everybody, Always, is on a mission to help people recapture the version of their lives they dreamed about before fear started calling the shots. He wants them to dream big. In his revelatory yet utterly practical new book, Bob takes you on a life-proven journey to rediscover your dreams and turn them into reality. Based on his enormously popular Dream Big workshop, Bob draws on a lifetime of living and dreaming large to help you reach your larger-than-life dreams. In Dream Big he shows how to learn to define clearly your dreams for yourself, identify the obstacles holding you back, come up with a specific plan for reaching goals, and develop the tools that will help you act on the plan. Dream Big is the only book you need to uncover the wild and exciting dream for your life you’ve hidden from yourself--and help you take the steps necessary to achieve it. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love Find and Reach Your Biggest Dreams Bob Goff, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does and Everybody, Always, is on a mission to help people recapture the version of their lives they dreamed about before fear started calling the shots. He wants them to dream big. In his revelatory yet utterly practical new book, Bob takes you on a life-proven journey to rediscover your dreams and turn them into reality. Based on his enormously popular Dream Big workshop, Bob draws on a lifetime of living and dreaming large to help you reach your larger-than-life dreams. In Dream Big he shows how to learn to define clearly your dreams for yourself, identify the obstacles holding you back, come up with a specific plan for reaching goals, and develop the tools that will help you act on the plan. Dream Big is the only book you need to uncover the wild and exciting dream for your life you’ve hidden from yourself--and help you take the steps necessary to achieve it. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication Check Amazon for:IrresistibleCommunicating for a Change by Andy Stanley, Lane Jones When You Talk, Are People Changed? Whether you speak from the pulpit, podium, or the front of a classroom, you don’t need much more than blank stares and faraway looks to tell you you’re not connecting. Take heart before your audience takes leave! You can convey your message in the powerful, life-changing way it deserves to be told. An insightful, entertaining parable that’s an excellent guide for any speaker, Communicating for a Change takes a simple approach to delivering effectively. Join Pastor Ray as he discovers that the secrets to successful speaking are parallel to the lessons a trucker learns on the road. By knowing your destination before you leave (identifying the one basic premise of your message), using your blinkers (making transitions obvious), and implementing five other practical points, you’ll drive your message home every time! “Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” “Once upon a time…” “In the beginning…” Great stories capture and hold an audience’s attention from start to finish. Why should it be any different when you stand up to speak? In Communicating for a Change, Andy Stanley and Lane Jones offer a unique strategy for communicators seeking to deliver captivating and practical messages. In this highly creative presentation, the authors unpack seven concepts that will empower you to engage and impact your audience in a way that leaves them wanting more. Story Behind the Book Andy Stanley and Lane Jones are on staff at one of America ’s largest churches, North Point Community. Leaders of thousands of people, they regularly speak in front of large groups. They also listen to numerous speakers and know the disastrous effects of a poorly delivered message. This book is the result of their efforts to make public speaking—one of the most common fear-inducing activities known to mankind—simple, easy, and even enjoyable, so that God’s messages will readily produce the life-changing results they should. Website: www.thebeardedsam.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication Check Amazon for:IrresistibleCommunicating for a ChangeWhen You Talk, Are People Changed? Whether you speak from the pulpit, podium, or the front of a classroom, you don’t need much more than blank stares and faraway looks to tell you you’re not connecting. Take heart before your audience takes leave! You can convey your message in the powerful, life-changing way it deserves to be told. An insightful, entertaining parable that’s an excellent guide for any speaker, Communicating for a Change takes a simple approach to delivering effectively. Join Pastor Ray as he discovers that the secrets to successful speaking are parallel to the lessons a trucker learns on the road. By knowing your destination before you leave (identifying the one basic premise of your message), using your blinkers (making transitions obvious), and implementing five other practical points, you’ll drive your message home every time! “Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” “Once upon a time…” “In the beginning…” Great stories capture and hold an audience’s attention from start to finish. Why should it be any different when you stand up to speak? In Communicating for a Change, Andy Stanley and Lane Jones offer a unique strategy for communicators seeking to deliver captivating and practical messages. In this highly creative presentation, the authors unpack seven concepts that will empower you to engage and impact your audience in a way that leaves them wanting more. Story Behind the Book Andy Stanley and Lane Jones are on staff at one of America ’s largest churches, North Point Community. Leaders of thousands of people, they regularly speak in front of large groups. They also listen to numerous speakers and know the disastrous effects of a poorly delivered message. This book is the result of their efforts to make public speaking—one of the most common fear-inducing activities known to mankind—simple, easy, and even enjoyable, so that God’s messages will readily produce the life-changing results they should. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IGSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World by Andy Stanley. Check Amazon for:IrresistibleCommunicating for a ChangeOnce upon a time there existed a version of our faith worth living and dying for, something the world found irresistible. Men and women pursued it at the risk of persecution, job loss, and eviction from their homes, temples, and society. What if we actually followed their lead? Perhaps it would change how we read the Bible. Maybes it would help us understand our own faith and what we believe. Perhaps we would change the world again. In Irresistible, pastor and author Andy Stanley shows how distortions of the gospel have left us with an anemic version of Christianity that undermines our credibility and our evangelistic effectiveness. He takes readers on a fascinating journey back in time to recover a faith so rich, so dynamic, so disruptive, that it could not be ignored, marginalized, or eradicated. Rather than working harder to make Christianity more interesting, we need to recover what once made faith in Jesus irresistible to the world. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World by Andy Stanley. Check Amazon for:IrresistibleCommunicating for a ChangeOnce upon a time there existed a version of our faith worth living and dying for, something the world found irresistible. Men and women pursued it at the risk of persecution, job loss, and eviction from their homes, temples, and society. What if we actually followed their lead? Perhaps it would change how we read the Bible. Maybes it would help us understand our own faith and what we believe. Perhaps we would change the world again. In Irresistible, pastor and author Andy Stanley shows how distortions of the gospel have left us with an anemic version of Christianity that undermines our credibility and our evangelistic effectiveness. He takes readers on a fascinating journey back in time to recover a faith so rich, so dynamic, so disruptive, that it could not be ignored, marginalized, or eradicated. Rather than working harder to make Christianity more interesting, we need to recover what once made faith in Jesus irresistible to the world. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World by Andy Stanley. Check Amazon for:IrresistibleCommunicating for a ChangeOnce upon a time there existed a version of our faith worth living and dying for, something the world found irresistible. Men and women pursued it at the risk of persecution, job loss, and eviction from their homes, temples, and society. What if we actually followed their lead? Perhaps it would change how we read the Bible. Maybes it would help us understand our own faith and what we believe. Perhaps we would change the world again. In Irresistible, pastor and author Andy Stanley shows how distortions of the gospel have left us with an anemic version of Christianity that undermines our credibility and our evangelistic effectiveness. He takes readers on a fascinating journey back in time to recover a faith so rich, so dynamic, so disruptive, that it could not be ignored, marginalized, or eradicated. Rather than working harder to make Christianity more interesting, we need to recover what once made faith in Jesus irresistible to the world. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World by Andy Stanley. Check Amazon for:IrresistibleCommunicating for a ChangeOnce upon a time there existed a version of our faith worth living and dying for, something the world found irresistible. Men and women pursued it at the risk of persecution, job loss, and eviction from their homes, temples, and society. What if we actually followed their lead? Perhaps it would change how we read the Bible. Maybes it would help us understand our own faith and what we believe. Perhaps we would change the world again. In Irresistible, pastor and author Andy Stanley shows how distortions of the gospel have left us with an anemic version of Christianity that undermines our credibility and our evangelistic effectiveness. He takes readers on a fascinating journey back in time to recover a faith so rich, so dynamic, so disruptive, that it could not be ignored, marginalized, or eradicated. Rather than working harder to make Christianity more interesting, we need to recover what once made faith in Jesus irresistible to the world. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff. Check Amazon for: Love Does Everybody, Always Dream Big Live in Grace, Walk in Love The follow-up to Love Does (technically the third book, since the second was stolen out of his car), this book tackles how to love difficult people. Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times bestselling Love Does and Everybody, Always as well as the bestselling Love Does for Kids. He is the Honorary Consul to the Republic of Uganda, an attorney, and the founder of Love Does—a nonprofit human rights organization operating in Uganda, India, Nepal, Iraq, and Somalia. He's a lover of balloons, cake pops, and helping people pursue their big dreams. Bob's greatest ambitions in life are to love others, do stuff, and, most importantly, to hold hands with his wife, Sweet Maria Goff, and spend time with their amazing kids. For more, check out BobGoff.com and LoveDoes.org. Support: www.patreon.com/insummary Website: www.thebeardedsam.com IG: @thebeardedsam Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/insummary)