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Stop the White Noise with Jonathan and Meridith — 422 episodes

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SF2029: Ep 242 This Changes Things

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STWN 145 First Draft TOU KOSMOU

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Wisdom Looks Like Suffering

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STWN 144 1st Draft Take 2

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STWN 143 1st Draft on X 01

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STWN 142 After I Die

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STWN 141 Searching for Meaning

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STWN 140 Turning Corners, Sticking with It

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STWN 139 Simul Justus et Pec Things

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STWN 138 It's My Birthday

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STWN 137 Push Back

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Small Stories

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STWN 136 Are You Ready to Die?

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Psalm 55: Old Problems, Eternal Solutions

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STWN 135 Is God There?

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STWN 134 w/ Special Guest Chloe

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STWN 133 Mystery Not Math

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STWN 132 Good Friday

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STWN 131 Manhood and Motherhood

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STWN 130 Medicine of Immortality

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STWN 129 The Listening Room, and Even Cooler Anecdotals

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128 In Like a Lion

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Worship Is A Lifestyle

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127 The Name on Your Lips

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Telling Stories

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Lutherans Are Evangelicals

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126 L.O.L Love's Own Language

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125 Choose Your Idols Wisely

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124 Demonology, Pastors Who Abuse, Churches that Refuse to Close

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Speaking Man, Speaking Woman

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123 And What of Civil War?

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Love the sinner, hate the sin?

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122 Abandoned to the True Shepherd

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121 Ask for Joy

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120 Feel Forgiven

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119 22nd Anniversary Edition

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118 Merry Christmas 23!!!

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117 Gedaliah and the Matriarchy

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Six Things That Have Changed in the LCMS since the 60s

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116 Publish the Name

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115 "Ifs" are Stupid

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114 It's ALWAYS Legalism

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Ruling Indirectly

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Going the Way of the Righteous

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113 On Higher Things

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112 Tall Tropes and True

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111 All My Problems are Greek Problems

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The Devil's Catechism

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Buyer Beware!

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110 A Lot of Good Fortune

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109 Friday Night Special 10/20

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Talking in a circle

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108 Meaning with Distinction

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107 "Songs Not About God"

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A Tool To Inspire Your Spirit

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Thank You, Pass The Fish

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106 A Little Inspiration

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No Power Suit Necessary

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105 No Bad Weather, Just the Wrong Clothes

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Shout Good Words Into The Chaos

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For Ladies-in-Waiting

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104 Work is How We Live

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Spirit of sobriety

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103 It's All a Gnostic Lie (fixed)

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102 Fear of Death Kills the Spirit

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A Battle you can do Something About

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101 I Have a Dream

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100 Fight the Battles (Plural)

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Poetic quantum physics

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Out of Plato, back to Solomon

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The clarity of perspicuity

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Zeal, wisdom, leading and being led

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Talking heads, default heads

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Taking charge on the Emotional Express

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The measurement guy

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099 What's the Appeal? Reboot

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A kaleidoscope memorial

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My Father's identity

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098 Monster Trucks, Killing Bears and Pumping Iron

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The family hedge

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Stop living other people's lives

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097 The Dark Shore...Everything

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Man mind, woman mind

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Jesus is not worried

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096 Dark Shore - Tell a Better Story

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Salty Lutherans

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The beast isn't worth your time

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Babies need Jesus too

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095 June is Gift of Life Month

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Letting in souls

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Masculine dozen roses

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094 No More Questions! Ever?

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093 Intense Sobriety

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Immoveable love wins

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092 That's *Our* Rainbow, & Other Subtle Thieveries

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Fathers out, clowns in

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Nice enough is not enough

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091 Busy Worship and a Handful of Holy Spirit

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The Practice of OMT

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The blessing of difficult people

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090 You'll Want Them Back

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The Chosening of evangeltainment

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Notes for men and boys

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089 Dinah's Ancient Wisdom

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We've got enough entertainment

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Idols of commercialization

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088 Don't 2nd Guess

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Outsourced hospitality

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087 Gain of Assurance FTW

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Alone together

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The limited American family

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086 Don't argue with demons

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The Cross is our tautology

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085 - Announcement

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Crucifix-shaped notification

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Commands vs Promises

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Being the antidote

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Psalms to rule your spirit

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084 The Political Whisperer

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Glory or the Cross?

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083 April 1st

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Reclaiming surrender

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082 Feed the Trolls Meat Only - No Snacks!

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Field trips with Jesus

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081 How to get in a stupid debate

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Zombietainment

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Task vs time-oriented

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080 The Love of Money

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Reading to your angel

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Slow drip is good

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079 What are you now?

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Outsmart your doubts

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Why do you ask?

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078 "Explaining" God

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Jesus is not a hobby

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077 Don't settle for guilt

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Being ready to die

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076 Friday Night Special

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Mutual submission is not a thing

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075 Perspicuity Vs. The Nihilism

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074 Fight the Machines, Fight the Madness

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Apples and oranges

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In memorial of me

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073 End the bloodshed

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"Be nice" is not the Gospel

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Fear God not man

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072 Disciple Means Disciplined

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The place for modesty

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Mixing darkness with light

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071 Deo Volente

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You are their mission

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070 Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

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069 Wisdom Takes Time

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Trauma salvation fantasy

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068 The Good Shrinking

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Life, the movie:starring you

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The damage lingers

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067 Friday Evening Special

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Not on the label

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You could just meet together

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Beset by pornography

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066 Wake up!

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Slowly taking down the high places

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Just be the best

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065 Mutual Trust

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Remember your Creator and rest

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God did it, you can trust it

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Woe to me if I don't go to every meeting

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064 Standing firm, set apart

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Build towards Paradise

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Love is not calculus

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063 Can We Do Hard Things?

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Disembodied work

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Delete them one by one

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Busy pastors and their wives

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062 Who's in charge here?

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We live as if God's not here

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How women can actually help men

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Expectation world

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061 Incise Your Gates!

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The Rule Of Faith is clear

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Why are they in darkness?

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Quia, quatenus, lemon juice and Luther

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060 All Hallow's What?

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On writing the Fisk way

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Defense, not offense

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An ongoing new reality

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059 Christmas in October

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Build a bad chair

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Walk, don't run

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Organic Greek

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A paper bubble

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058 On offense, or something

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Allergic to Methodism

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Solution-seeking questions

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It's not a test

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057 Be a Karen

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Marking and avoiding the fool

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The devil's one lie

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Expose the wound and heal

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Scripture has an order

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Hatred of authority

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056 Prayer and Trust

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Pray for the power to resist

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Teach fathers to teach

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TV is about suspending belief

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It's worth the pain

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The quiet spirit

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055 Apologia Boom!

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Tell yourself true stories

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Girl, you're forgiven

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Gospel boiled down

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Time to contemplate

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The weight of being seen

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Called to be at peace

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054 Good Mishpat

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Taking the safety off

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Conditional and unconditional

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053 Labor Day Weekend - Friday night special

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The purpose of my election

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Communion belongs to the church

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Feeling bad makes sense

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052 Degrees of Bliss

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Permission to grow up

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Preserving life for the sake of life

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The heart of the catechism

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Losing but not despairing

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051 FOMO kills

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Repentance is a good rule of thumb

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Men will stop doing their job

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When reason gets in the way

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50th Episode! Inside baseball

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Preaching to the unconverted

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Be worth following

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When you fall down a rabbit hole

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Culture of life – for moms and babies

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049 Turn it Off

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It's not about happy

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Can we face the truth?

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Seeing, hearing, believing

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048 Jesus + Something Something

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047 Transcendence Rules

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Acting first and justifying later

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Think about it now

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Justice, not magic water

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046 Bad Categories

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Expecting wrath, finding grace

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The impact of a Pastor's wife

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No need to apologize

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Jesus doesn't have a Plan B

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045 Yay! Algorithms! (Friday Night Special)

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What's your reason for staying?

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044 Life Wins

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Who are the least of these?

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Teach them diligently

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Being absent, being present

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Generosity

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Red flags and a godly wife

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043 Alleluia Day of History!

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042 Get ready it

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Building to last

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The land cries out

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Could Luther join the LCMS?

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041 The Admonition of Jesus

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Upon this rock 'n' roll I will build my church

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Feelings and facts

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Go to the King

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040 The Misinformation Age

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Just plain selfish

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You're not sure but Jesus is

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Don't look back

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039 Prepping for Judgement

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It's okay to say goodbye

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038 Don't say that

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Dwelling richly in your heart

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Enjoy not being a prepper

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Sacrament vs the lie machine

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037 Opinions may vary

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Why not have both?

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To die is more Christ

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Sharing the hurt

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The idol of Jesus+

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I've got you - now keep going

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036 Luxury Opining

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035 Not Banned

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Walking out of trauma

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Get on your knees

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Why run?

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The reality is Christ

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034 Friday Night Special

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Covering ourselves in glory

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When you stop trying so hard

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The division is a construct

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033 The Theology of How

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Proving their unbelief

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Treasure in earthern vessels

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Why we can have nice things

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032 Daring Greatly in Ungrateful Times

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The great Apostate

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Pastoral Interoperability

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You don't need a vice

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031 Stand by for Tyranny

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Bitter then sweet

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030 Truth Seeking

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Going in circles

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One per family

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The magical thinking behind profanity

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Wisdom and strength

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Eternal cyborg life

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Looking for grace in all the wrong places

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029 Breaking Cages

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Who's in first?

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The hand that used to feed you

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028 It's on purpose

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Order of Creation and Christian freedom

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The called out ones

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People are more than lists

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027 Friday Night Special

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026 From Canada to Ukraine

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Teaching emotional control

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Grace, not karma

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From fools for fools

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Giving your Bible that "lived in" look

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025 Live from Louisiana

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Simple but true

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Representative Order

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Talking past each other

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Scalable silence

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Fractal commandments

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024 The Science changing

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Engineers on the battlefield

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The Psalter is good for your soul

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Darkness always casts a shadow

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The False Doctrine Police

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023 Freedom Conveyed

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Enemies within your walls

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Not a chance

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What makes a marriage

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022 Interim Stating

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Getting tangled in your own piety

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It's a no from me

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In sickness and in health

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The best time is right now

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021 Life and the kitchen sink

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Don't feed a fantasy

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The Crucifix Preaches The Cross

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020 Walk for Life Special

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He calls you by his name

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There are no emergencies

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019 Subordination and Freedom

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You can't fix the mess with anarchy

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Not a stop but a turn

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Tomorrow never comes

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Embracing your cross

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018 2022

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The sojourn is a passing dream

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Holiday dinners and ending friendships

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Healing the divorce horcrux

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Stolen bread and a mouth full of gravel

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Hope for world-weary sinners

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Weighty, glorious wisdom

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Check list not included

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017 Christmas Special 2021

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Saved from your own good works

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Checking the indulgence

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A slow formation

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Livin' la Lord's Day Loca

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016 When Depression Gets Real

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Flesh gonna flesh

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Selah's delight, selah's warning

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Some dreams must die

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Opiate of the masses

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The juicy stuff

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015 No Substitute for Obvious

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Not a prophet nor the son of a prophet

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It doesn't have to be from your heart

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Running without being sent

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Valid for eternity

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014 Electing to Pray

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Hollywood, the drug of a nation

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013 Obsess on the good

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Eating and drinking can do such great things

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Casting bread and paying it forward

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Suffer long and prosper

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A Thanksgiving table in this wilderness

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Idolatry is tricksy but forgiveness is precious

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Thumb on the scales

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012 Pain and Crosses

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Our Father knows best

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Your life is in the hands of God

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Luther, St James and the straw man

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011 Illusion of Control

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010 Arrogance and Judgment

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Getting past bread

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The organization of King Solomon

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Rock bottom is a great place to start

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Dreams, revelation and terrors in the night

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009 Crawl in a hole and die

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But we see Jesus

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008 The AntiReality Juggernaut Society

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007 Inoculatory Realities

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Things can go downhill fast

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You had your turn

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The Von Trapps didn't have a TV

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The TV ate my brain

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Not so hasty

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006 No Local Support

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Use at your own risk

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005 Pray for a Man of God

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Speak about God like he hears you

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Are you biblical or not?

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May cause some emotional discomfort

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004 Slow Avalanching

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Domestic bliss and how less is more

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Check your Idolatry

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Seeds, soulmates and the world to come

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003 The World is Upside Down

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We can't all be Batman

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Daily bread and living in Babylon

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What worldliness looks like

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002 Small Steps and the Slow Avalanche

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STWN 001 Like a Tree