Unemployedidealist

Jesus gave his life a Ransom for many. But to whom did he pay the ransom? A different historical perspective on ransom changes the answer I thought I knew.

It seems difficult to me to interpret what the Bible says about tongues unless you treat speaking in tongues and praying in tongues as different experiences governed by different commands of Christ.

Improve your random knowledge with the Bagley Knowledge Bowlers!

My son is seeing if this helps him prepare for Knowledge bowl. They are simple questions intended to randomly broaden a person's knowledge.

My son is seeing if this helps him prepare for Knowledge bowl. They are simple questions intended to randomly broaden a person's knowledge.

The pathway to having everybody be a winner lies in the ability to invent new games that people want to make lay. Unfortunately we have stopped teaching that skill. Maybe it's time to bring it back.

Let's look at what happens when you politely accept an answer that doesn't quite fit.

How could the servants be the greatest as Jesus declared? Listen as I suggest how in an upside down kingdom it is technically the case.

In the past year I have had so many kind thoughts expressed to me. Thank You. This is not meant as a criticism of anything people have shared but is my personal attempt to make sure my words of comfort are improving all the time.

Has a mindless embracing of the term “unconditional love” paved the way to define God's love like ours?

Listen to the latest plot floating around in my head. It's about AI and the implication of thought.

Is a play great because a great playwright wrote it? Or is it great because it connects to the audience? Can a sermon be great if it needs another series of sermons to explain it?

Mary and I invented a way for us to address hard issues. Because of it when she passed there was nothing unsaid between us. There were issues still to be untangled but there was nothing hidden. I am offering you a tool to get there in your marriage.

Moving on from Episode 305, I offer more of an experiment than an explanation about keeping thoughts of a broken marriage for playing an endless loop in your head. Let me know if it helps.

I posed a similar question on Google. All the top answers sounded just like me in High School, back when I knew everything. But I think they left some key issues unaddressed. Maybe you can explain it to me so it makes sense.

Let me share with you the promise you should have made when you got married and how Mary and I discovered it.

Several years ago my functional conception of the promise I made to my wife changed. Join me as I try to conceptualize and articulate that change.

I have lent my support to several people struggling with a relationship and a brain injury. In this episode of my podcast I offer a hypothesis about approaching the challenges on a different axis.

I've wondered for a long time why the church seems to discourage laying up treasure in heaven as a motive for being good. Could it be that a motivation like that would illustrate too starkly how problematic it is to serve Christ as King in a defined organization.

Peter tells us that we should always be ready to give a reason to anyone who asks for our hope that God's truth is good news. I was asked recently and for anyone interested, here is my answer.

Without the consequence of retribution there is little hope for immature narcissism. Is it possible that Christ laid the foundation for loving retribution rather than espousing cowardly self immolation in the face of childish self centered behavior.

Thanks so much for listening through to the end. I hope this becomes a useful tool for you and for others you share it with.

One of the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

One of the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

One of the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

One the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

One the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

One the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

While thinking about a husband's need to build his wife's worth, I realized that possibly one of the most meaningful aspects of matriarchal worth has been tragically eliminated.

One of the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

One of the things which makes navigating a budding relationship difficult is the lack of a language to discuss it. This series offers a single person a specific structure with defined terms based on a simple hypothesis to help them build a relationship and avoid many common pitfalls.

Sacrifice lets go of something of value to prepare you to receive a greater gift. The greatest thing cannot be sacrificed because there is nothing greater to receive. The greatest divide will be between those who hold on to the second greatest thing and those who sacrifice it in hope. Self sacrifice is the dumbest thing you can do or the greatest. There's no middle ground.

Wow two superlatives in one title! I must be full of myself. But this feels like it was where the last three almost manic episodes were leading. An ideal that incorporates the optimal instead of warring against it.

I accept that the most meaningful thing a human can embark upon is a life of voluntary sacrifice. Has the enemy successfully convinced us that the act of self-immolation is a good in and of itself regardless of our vision?

Every attempt at a utopia seems to run into the problem of fundamental inequality. Christ suggests a self-interested way to serve others that solves the problem for the individual.

Join with me as I unmask possibly the deepest Luciferian attack on call of Christ.

Have we embraced a cult of death because we made an alliance with our fears to oppose death. We must fight death with everything except fear.

I need the help of those of you who believe in an organized Church. Please help me see what it is that I am missing. Multiple times most days I drive by a building that makes me wonder am I crazy or are they. Or maybe neither of us is sane. But if I'm missing something obvious to everyone but me I'd like someone to help me understand.

I consider the distinction between petty and grandiose tyrants, and analyze their intersection with things that become irritating when repeated.

When you make a distinction between petty and grandiose tyrants you start to find them in the nicest places.

I'm trying not to be easily irritated. So join me trying to figure out if there is a good reason for a trendy phrase that I find significantly irritating.

I look at what happens when we infer that wondering about a question we found a satisfying answer for is an act of rebellion.

Driving through the night I continue the analysis of whether consciousness is always good or whether there is a Holy consciousness and a malevolent consciousness, and whether you should trust your best guess.

Driving through the night I begin the analysis of whether consciousness is always good or whether there is a Holy consciousness and a malevolent consciousness, and whether you should trust your best guess.

Join me on a night drive as I consider whether brokenness or achievement makes the best frame for a divine painting.

How much responsibility a society has to prevent virtue signaling depends on how toxic such a gaming of that system is.

My musings on habit forming, non objective science, and tyranny.

This is sure to be popular! But I did it anyway. The sound quality goes down at the end but if you aren't intrigued by my idea at that point you can just shut it off.

Some thoughts on how Mary and I found a balance between accepting death and opposing it. We passed through the valley of the shadow of death without fearing evil. I love the path God provided, I hate the timing. Join me as a grapple with the question, “Can you get God's way on your schedule?”

This is a rambling and discursive late night podcast I made while driving through the night. My voice was just about gone and an unusual noise developed towards the end. Maybe caused by a low battery. I just about deleted it then decided I would let the listener decide.

I'm on a walk and my mind is wandering I don't know how else to summarize this episode.