The Signpost Inn Podcast

• Your boring life is way holier than you think! (theology of vocation)

  Does your everyday life feel boring and disconnected from a sense of meaning and purpose? What if your boring life is way more holy than you think?   On today’s show the gang tackles the topic of vocation and our desire for meaning and purpose. The question of vocation often feels like trying to find a needle in a haystack, if we miss God’s calling on our lives everything else is pointless! What if that’s not how vocation works? Looking to Martin Luther, the group discusses his idea of “The masks of God” and how it relates to vocation. God delights to work through ordinary means. Police officers, government officials, and grocers are used by God to meet our needs for safety, peace, and daily sustenance. This perspective is larger than the category of occupation, helping us understand how the embrace of a friend and our honest conversation with a loved one is God at work to meet our hearts’ need for acceptance and belonging. The group closes the conversation with a rubric for making decisions about life and vocation.    We pray this conversation blesses you and opens your eyes to God at work for you, in the world around you.    Links/References “God at Work” by Gene Veith Explore your relationship with God through spiritual direction Get email summaries for the show on PodSnacks! Review the podcast!   Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Check out our website for more resources! Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com

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• The Meaning Crisis (Why more information doesn't help)

  Is more information about God making you feel further from him? How do we know God more deeply when the only tool we have is mining for more data?   Join us for today’s episode as we navigate the dark woods of information overload. Together, Brandon, Liv, and Peter unpack the crisis of meaning and how the answer that is often presented is to amass greater knowledge about God. The difficulty with this answer is that it takes propositional knowledge about God and makes it the sum total of what it means to have a relationship with him. Many of us experience a disconnect between the information we know about God and our life experience. Is there a way to experience the truths we believe about God? The group discusses various types of knowing and how faith in God is most connected to a participatory knowing. Instead of always seeking more information, we are invited to consent to the fact that we currently are in relationship with God.   We pray you are blessed by this podcast! Jesus loves you!    Links/References Explore your relationship with God through spiritual direction Get email summaries for the show on PodSnacks! Review the podcast!   Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Check out our website for more resources! Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com

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• Afraid to Rest? (It's a trust issue)

  Does real rest feel like an elusive dream? Has your rest been turned into just another productivity hack?    Today’s episode examines the nature of rest and why we all feel exhausted. Join Brandon, Liv, Matt and Peter as they unpack our human desire for rest and the obstacles we face to receiving it. A core insight that the group focuses on is that rest is really a trust issue. We can’t receive rest so long as we don’t trust God to give it to us. The group also challenges the assumption that we rest in order to work, citing the creation account for viewing rest as the culmination of work. The group closes out the conversation with some practical advice about how they’ve experienced rest in their own lives.    Thanks for joining us today! Jesus loves you. Rest in his love.    Links/References Get the Ebook: How to Actually Rest in Christ Get email summaries for the show on PodSnacks! Review the podcast!     His Heart Beats, (song) by Andrew Peterson We’re here to help you rest. Talk with us! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Check out our website for more resources! Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com

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• Is Life Suffering? (Hope: the only way out, is through)

  Does the Christian faith provide real hope for our day-to-day life? Or are we simply suffering here until we die?   In today’s episode, the group tackles the issue of whether or not faith in Jesus provides any real hope for our earthly life. Sure, we understand that one day we’ll be resurrected and live eternally, but what about dealing with all the sin and suffering we face right now? The conversation focuses on our expectations for the Christian life and our sense that we are doing something wrong if we are suffering. The group talks about how it can be freeing to simply accept the difficulty of life and lay aside attempts to deny or distract us from this reality. The episode reaches its conclusion as the hosts expound on hope as the expanding of our vision to include more than our sufferings and sin.    Thanks for joining the discussion! Leave us a review and let us know what you think     Links/References Get email summaries for the show on PodSnacks!  Liv’s “How to Host an Easter Feast” ebook  Ebook: How to Actually Rest in Christ Want to talk with us?   Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Check out our website for more resources! Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com

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• Wine in the Word with Gisela Kreglinger

  Is faith in Jesus more than intellectual assent? What if God meant for food and drink to invite us into the richness of embodied experiences of his love and goodness?   In this episode, Brandon interviews Gisela Kreglinger, co-author of “Wine in the Word,” a Bible study about wine and its place in Christian feasting and fellowship. A through-line in the conversation is the idea that modern Christianity emphasizes intellectual knowledge about God, but glosses over the idea of experiencing God with our bodies and our emotions. Gisela unpacks how wine in particular, rich in symbolism as well as flavor, is an invitation to enjoy God and his good gifts.    Thanks for joining the discussion! Let us know what you think    Links/References “Wine in the Word” by Gisela H. Kreglinger and Randy Frazee “Cup Overflowing” by Gisela H. Kreglinger How to Actually Rest in Christ (ebook) Sign up for our weekly email of grace-filled goodness Schedule a call with us!   Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Check out our website for more resources! Thanks to Rex Daugherty for creating the original theme music for this podcast. He's an award-winning artist and you can check out more of his work at rex-daugherty.com

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