Alex explores Rachelle and Macon’s recent (and separate) work experiences. It leads to a conversation about what it means to succeed, toil, gain, and release in our work-life.Show Notes:Eagle Scout 12 StepsThe ChosenThe McClintock AgencyEnneagram 3nonsellersremorse.com is available!Enneagram 8AckshuallyWe shall be as gods.Technical DebtBusiness Jargon: HeadwindsInside Baseball Explainer on USPS proposed 2024 changesIt was 2006 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Macon tries out a theory of knowledge (and reality) on Alex to answer, among other things, why should we care about Theology?Show Notes:(Baby You Can) Drive My Car - Bobby McFerrin coverThe Arsenio Hall Show (woo woo woo woo)Bobby McFerrin and audience member (not TAH show, tho)Big Audio Dynamite - RushU2 - WarVigilantes of LoveVertical HorizonMichael Jackson - BadMy Messy Beautiful Family (aka Your Screwed Up Family)The Techno-Optimist ManifestoJames K. A. SmithJohn ChrysostomVisualizing Muscle Growth (PubMed)Theology and Science at the Frontiers Of Knowledge Book 1 - Reality and Scientific TheologyWhere we talked about Reality and Scientific TheologyTransformation and Convergence in the Frame of KnowledgeKarl PopperGodel’s Incompleteness TheoremsThe Gospel in a Pluralist SocietyLesslie Newbigin This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

David Bailey, Founder and CEO of Arrabon, join Alex, Marshall, and Macon to talk about growing up in Richmond, VA, reading the Bible at the age of eight, and how Jesus formed and is forming him into a man with the heart, vision, and know-how to develop reconciling communities.AarabonDr. John PerkinsThe alternate universe where David stays with the keytar. (He looks surprisingly like Herbie Hancock.).The 700 ClubKirk WhalumEast End FellowshipGod of the CityUrban Doxology Project* worship resources* youtubeRenovation of the HeartRomans 12:2The Transforming CenterPastor Don, The Urban MysticAndy CrouchJames HunterA People, A Place, A Just SocietyWeAreArrabon This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Lee Simmons joins Alex, Marshall, and Macon to talk about important things like the Fast and Furious movie series, as well as what it’s like following the Lord while living with sickness and fatigue. There’s no NOS for rushing through that, but she talks about a way of being in the small hurts that helps with the big hurts.Lee SimmonsGrace Community ChurchThis kind of gravy, thoughFast and Furious watching order suggestionFast and Furious Funko PopHow Did This Get Made on Fast and FuriousFlanelboardA disease of high achieving.Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, by Tim KellerFamily Groups This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Marsh, Alex, and Macon learn about Living at the Pace of Prayer with Will Dungee of Cantag Coaching, and experiencing the militant, garrisoning, Peace of God. Listener note: the production of this episode leaves in all the pauses on purpose. If your podcast practice is to listen at a faster pace than 1x, or have an app that shortens the pauses, you’ll miss out on some of the wisdom.Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC.Grace Community Church, Greensboro, NC.Bapticostal - a neologism established enough to have a Wikipedia entry. Though, like most religious, political, and sociological wikipedia entries, it’s certain to be inaccurate.Inbox Zero - a way of lifeChances are high that you’ll run into Will &/or Marshall here.Be anxious for nothingOn Brother LawrenceWill before he had one lessonYou can get in touch with Will here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Marsh, Alex, and Macon come back to the subject of money, families, budgeting, and whether we have one or not. Budgets, not Families. We definitely have the latter.Show Notes:Jim NantzVern LundquistI wouldn’t say I’ve been missing itWicked Little LettersWe totally forgot to raise the issue of SwearingJames 3:10Naked vs NekkidimprecationCivil War - the movie, but not a movie about The Civil WarDe La Soul - Say No GoSturgill Simpson - Breakers RoarMe myself and IIn the event that you are looking for chips to play in 2024.Big gulps huh?making bids to connectimprov yes andthe Athletic Stancemo money, mo problemsLarry Burkett, founder of Crown Financial Ministries…slightly ahead of snl’s approachThe Envelope SystemBurlington, NC Outlet VillageTurks and CaicosDomo ArigatoGreensboro High School, now Grimsley High School, opened in 1899Financial Peace UniversityDebt SnowballYNABno sheetzIf you don’t Budget, can I interest you in Budgies?Grits are also groceries, despite what they say.Phototropism and GeotropismWhy keep your score in CrossFitAll I do is win This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

This week Alex, Marshall, and Macon wander around the space of money, wealth, fund-raising, and how giving to the church might be different than giving to other ministries or things.Show Notes: Just Push PlayJe Ne Sais QuoiAlex and Marshall preached through EasterEggstravaganzas were likely going to be point 13 on this list. see last week’s show notesNot Kong v Godzilla, but Godzilla x KongMothraSonic Assault: the onomatopoeia of bandsTitansKingdom of the Planet of the Apes5 movies in the original Planet of the Apes seriesLangham Partnership USWho is John Stott?Financial Peace UniversityYou Need A Budget (YNAB)Tithe the mint, not to be confused with MintParachurchgracegso.orgStokes Fog Machine (“no need dry ice!”)So you’re telling me there’s a chance!Are we talking practice?Line Item vs Program Budgeting This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Alex, Marshall, and Macon discuss the end of Lent, and handling the folks coming for their second of two visits to church this year.Show Notes:The HoldoversO Captain! My Captain! ← movie sceneO Captain! My Captain! ← poemThe Breakfast ClubHigh School Musical - We’re all in this togetherWe were on the Final Countdown of not mentioning Pitch Perfect, but we fixed it.Narrative and Metaphysical Ambition: On Being In ChristIt wasn’t Kahn. It was David Kelsey. Management regrets the mis-remembering the last name, but honestly who would remember that name anyway?Hans Frei Not to be confused with the book, The Post-EvangelicalChristianLee (Simmons)Fran the workoutExplaining how Fran came to beLuke 4:1-13Roll Away Your StoneOn why the Father ran.Quit kissing up to the Host!They totally would have gotten away with it, too.Inception1 Corinthians 15The ChampionWhere in the world is Carmen Sandiego?A different kind of VerveWake UpWake Up, but covered by Brass and Horns. ←this is super goodBonus Link: It’s not Monkeys On Cats, but it’s pretty close: Baby Monkey This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Alex, Marsh, and Macon talk about being married for 24+ years, marriage counseling, and a particular set of skills.Show notes:We’d be better at this if we took this class.Gangnam Style but MetalWonka Chanting MonksChant, released 1994 (management regrets the error)this is a very different vibe from Sadness - Part i, but it did come out before Chant, in 1990Jars of Clay - first album Appetite for Destruction Kung Fu Panda 4SkadooshSchool of RockAwkwafinaOnomatopoeiaMr. Way Too Much Cologne WearerPrepare/EnrichGunwale - this is probably a metaphor for marriage counselingThe Five Love LanguagesNot all marriages have these kinds of fireworks, but #goals.You complete me.a particular set of skillsDay by Day by Decades:* Day by Day 1970s* Day by Day 1990s* Day by Day 2020sYou’re Welcome This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com

Alex, Marshall, and Macon talk about philosophies of phunerals, pet-peeves, and what we want in our own, maybe.Show Notes:The Tri-State AreaFast XLee SimmonsEcclesiastes 7:2-4Better than the Geneva Collar. (The Geneva Collar.)Psalm 95:7b-8The Ted Lasso Final SpeechCarmina BuranaHomegoing CelebrationWhen The Saints Go Marching In, or, if you want, a bit more reverent.Can’t Fight This Feeling. No self-respecting metal band has covered this and made it public. So here’s what you get instead.Time for Me to Fly. Again, punk and metal bands aren’t touching this. BUT THIS COVER REDEEMS IT ALL.I’ll Fly AwayKeep On Loving You. This one is a bit more tenacious.Roll With The Changes. Finally: A punk cover, or, at least, one that looks over at the punk section of the record store with some of it’s guitar and drum rhythms. Look, I know it’s more like straight-up rock and roll, but on the spectrum is closer to punk than REO ever was.In My Dreams. I’m not sure that any punks even know that REO Speedwagon as a song with this title.Heat death of the universe. Also would be a good name for a metal band. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit holdforpodcast.substack.com