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210: A Story Big Enough to Live In – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 5)
mardi 7 avril 2026 • Duration 49:39
“It is a world of magic and mystery of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, and where a great struggle often makes it hard to be sure who belongs to which side, because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good who live happily ever after and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike, become known by their true name. That is the fairytale of the gospel.” —Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Comedy, Tragedy, and Fairy Tale
Friends,
What happens in you when you hear the word desire?
Is there a kind of quickening—something like curiosity?
Or a hesitation… a guardedness?
Maybe a quiet opening that feels like hope.
Or a heaviness in your chest that carries sadness.
Or even a flash of cynicism.
What have you come to believe about desire…
in your life with the Triune God,
in His Kingdom,
in your apprenticeship to Jesus?
And what if the recovery—the honoring and stewarding of desire in its purest form—is actually central to your restoration as an image-bearer of God?
In this next episode of the Become Good Soil Foundations Series, we explore the recovery of longing and desire. Because at the heart of the Christian story is an arresting claim: that desire, in its essence, is not something to fear—but something given by God, meant to lead us to Him and into His Kingdom.
It was the awakening of desire—those fleeting, radiant moments—that first beckoned C. S. Lewis. He described this awakening as joy. And that joy stirred something in him, calling him to search for more.
And the same is true for us.
Our longing is not a liability. It is part of the way back to joy. Everything we love—every glimpse of beauty, goodness, and delight—is from God, is for God, and ultimately finds its home in Him.
The story of the kingdom is a story of desire being gathered up and restored—a great homecoming.
Let’s press forward together.
It's all been prologue. The best is yet to come.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan & Cherie
209: The Gospel of the Available Kingdom – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 4)
mardi 24 mars 2026 • Duration 57:17
“To be sure, the kingdom has been here as long as we humans have been here, and longer. But it has been made available to us through simple confidence in Jesus, the Anointed, only from the time he became a public figure. It is a kingdom that, in the person of Jesus, welcomes us just as we are, just where we are, and makes it possible for us to translate our “ordinary” life into an eternal one.” —Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
How would you answer this question: What is the gospel that Jesus preached?
When I (Cherie) first encountered this question, I was both arrested and bewildered. I had some sense of what I thought the “gospel” might be, but I could not, for the life of me, articulate what it was that Jesus himself preached. I was new in my adult faith in Jesus and spent most of my devotional time reading the Psalms, the Gospel of John, and Paul’s letters.
This question launched me on a treasure hunt that changed my life—and continues to propel me today. It led me first deep into Matthew’s account of the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus, then into Mark’s and Luke’s, and back again to John. Over the past twenty years, I have returned again and again to these profound and sweeping accounts of the earthly ministry of the Anointed One.
What was the gospel that Jesus preached? And what does an apprenticeship look like when it seeks not only to have faith in Jesus, but to practice living the faith of Jesus?
Let’s remember it together. Join us for this episode of the Become Good Soil podcast. Indeed, the Kingdom of God is at hand.
It’s all been prologue. The best is yet to come.
For the Kingdom,
Cherie and Morgan
200: Styles of Relating – A Deeper Cut Series (Part 2)
mardi 18 novembre 2025 • Duration 53:03
“When we intentionally bring awareness to our internal world—our emotions, our sensations, our impulses; we begin to see the patterns that have been driving us. And once we see them, we are no longer bound by them. Awareness creates choice. Choice creates change.” — Dan Siegel
Friends,
In this second episode of a deeper dive into Styles of Relating, we reflect on how fear, hedging, and self-protection show up in our relationships, in contrast to the moments when, by God’s grace, we find ourselves relating from trust, dignity, and self-giving love instead.
Nothing has exposed and transformed our own patterns more than this work. Slowly, we are learning to pause, to notice what’s actually motivating our reactions, to identify when fear and shame have snuck in sideways. But here’s the gift: awareness really does open space for change. And that change has brought us more joy, safety, and connection in our marriage than we ever imagined.
We are grateful to be on this journey with you—toward wholeness, deeper love, and a growing trust in God and His Kingdom.
It’s all been prologue. The best is yet to come.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan & Cherie
111: Men Without Chests – 2019 BGS Intensive, Part 5
mardi 21 juin 2022 • Duration 01:05:27
You are a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, made to run on God. Which means that you are not made to be self-sufficient.
– Dallas Willard
Change in the rate of change is the quiet killer of our generation. Change is the constant.
Habits were meant to root our masculine soul in the life of God. They were meant to be an onramp of constancy in a changing world. Our masculine soul matters immensely to God, to those entrusted to our care, and to our particular role in the story God is writing.
In this postmodern age of hyper-individualism and endless noise, wholehearted living is no longer a choice—we must cultivate daily habits that root us in the life and presence of God. Slowly and steadily, by day and by decade, we get to arrange our days so that we experience deep joy, contentment, and union with God.
How are you arranging your days?
What are you practicing?
What are your habits?
What is the condition of your soul?
Friends, join me and the like-hearted tribe of men across the globe for Part 5 of the 2019 BGS Intensive series. In this episode, I invite my friend John Eldredge into a beautiful conversation on exercising the masculine soul in life-giving habits.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan
110: Twenty Seconds of Insane Courage – 2019 Intensive, Part 4
mardi 7 juin 2022 • Duration 54:32
All you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, and I promise you something great will come of it.
– Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo
It was Francis Schaeffer who boldly invited disciples to "do the Lord’s work in the Lord’s way,” instructing that “we must take the lowest seat at the table until God makes it impossible to do otherwise.”
As we live into more and more of the reality of sonship, one of the foundational ways a man can practice taking the lowest seat at the table is to wholeheartedly pursue the path of a generalist. Through willingly engaging the relationships, things, and details of his life that feel uncomfortable, a generalist acquires not only a severe humility, but all the more a radical trust in a good and active Father.
As we explore the path of becoming a generalist, we might begin with asking ourselves these questions:
Where do I feel uncomfortable, as a man?
When do I feel weak?
In what ways do I feel uninitiated?
Where is God asking me to risk?
Friends, join me and this like-hearted tribe of men across the globe choosing to take the lowest seat at the table, step into risk, and engage the uninitiated places of our souls by way of becoming a generalist.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan
109: Robust Well-Being – 2019 BGS Intensive, Part 3
mardi 24 mai 2022 • Duration 01:12:53
Attachment begins in the first few months of life, but it is the continuous presence of a mother in the first 18 months that is the first step in building a deep and lasting sense of emotional security in a child. This security forms the basis of a child’s sense of self for the rest of life. Bonding is putting the pieces together and attachment is gluing them into place.
– Erica Komisar, Being There
“Are you glad to be with me?”
It was Mom who first and foremost was to answer our unspoken question with a wholehearted "yes!" to the depths of our soul. And not just once, but ten thousand times over.
While our father forges us, our mother forms us.
Our earthly mother was intended to be our first encounter with reliable nourishment, cherishing protection, unconditional delight, renewing rest, and safe emotional connection.
Through her attentive, loving gaze, we were meant to experience our worthiness of love and belonging simply because we exist. We are not only deeply loved but also fully seen, known, and celebrated by one greater than ourselves who needs nothing in return.
No earning.
No transaction.
No conditions.
One whose wise, regulated, and affectionate relating communicates, “I am so happy you exist. I am so glad to be with you. There is more than enough for you.”
That’s what we were designed to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
We were designed to experience abundant, cherishing love freely offered from a wholehearted source.
Pay attention to your own story. What has been your experience of being loved without condition by someone who had robust well-being to share?
Where have you experienced abundance of provision?
And where do you currently experience a sense of fullness, a sense that nothing more is needed and there is no lack?
Friends, join me and this like-hearted tribe of men across the globe choosing to break the limits of who God can be for us; what God can do to meet our need to be seen, soothed, safe, and secure; and how God might choose to meet these sacred needs. Part 3 of the 2019 BGS Intensive series is a risky invitation to look to God as Mother and experience robust well-being as the powerful fruit.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan
108: Restoring the True Man – 2019 BGS Intensive, Part 2
mardi 10 mai 2022 • Duration 40:26
A 30-year old-man is like a densely populated city. Nothing new can be built, in its heart, without something else being torn down.
– Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage
The theme of "dying before we die" is Jesus’ steady and consistent invitation to his closest companions.
“Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.” Matthew 16:24-26 MSG
“...unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12:24 NIV
“If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.” Luke 17:33 NLT
Perhaps one of the crowning marks of masculine maturity is the increasing capacity to entrust ourselves to God with intimate abandon so that we no longer shrink from death.
This session takes us a step further in uncovering what in us needs to die in order that we might really, really, live. And in living, as more parts of us come home to more parts of God, we become men who have nothing to hide. Nothing to fear. Nothing to prove. Nothing to cling to beyond the love and goodness of the Triune God.
Come along into Part 2 of the 2019 BGS Intensive as we journey together on the path to restoring the True Man.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan
107: Entrusted with Power – 2019 BGS Intensive Series, Part 1
lundi 25 avril 2022 • Duration 01:04:40
There are many people who think they want to be a matador, only to find themselves in the ring with 2,000 pounds of bull bearing down on them, and then they discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar.
– Terry Pearce
Over 20 years ago, I found myself navigating a man’s world but largely feeling like a boy. Balancing a young marriage, young children, and a young career had punted me into the deep end. Though I was thirsty for God and his Kingdom and doing my best to pursue good and noble endeavors, I was running out of steam.
It was a baptism into adulthood by the fire of overwhelm.
“It felt like I hopped on a rollercoaster that I didn’t remember getting on—it was all I could do to simply hold on.”
That’s how an older friend described this nexus of pressure and responsibility and it felt spot on.
Life became something that happened to me, rather than something to which I was bringing strength and intentionality from a reservoir of confidence and peace.
Money felt scarce, and time scarcer still.
In response, the myriad of uninitiated little boys in my soul began to surface, leading me to one of the most important days of my life:
The day that I traded my exclamation points for question marks. The day that the Spirit invited me to a path of connected initiation instead of isolating performance.
And it's made all the difference.
We’re more than a decade into hosting intimate leadership events with apprentices both young and old from around the globe to chase after the treasures of the Kingdom. Now two decades from beginning this quest, it is my joy to invite the extended Become Good Soil Tribe of apprentices to this audio teaching from the 2019 Become Good Soil Intensive. Join me for Part 1 of an extended podcast series diving deep into the restoration of the masculine soul.
For the Kingdom,
106: Coming Home, Part 3
mardi 12 avril 2022 • Duration 49:32
I will not abandon you as orphans….I am coming back for you.
– Jesus of Nazareth
Friends, there is much to hope for in the face of our apparent waywardness with God and our nagging discontent.
God is coming for us.
In his book Renovated, Jim Wilder explains the very simple and profound path to re-attaching ourselves to God and finally becoming the kind of people who can heed the supreme command of Jesus to love God with all our heart, mind, and strength. “...having received love, you will be transformed into a person who loves.”
The secret is not found in a heroic, self-made mixture of beliefs, practices, and willful effort.
The secret is in receiving the love, care, and nourishment of God, over decades, into our souls.
The hope is not found in our effort or action, but rather in the desire, design, and deepest intentions of God’s heart.
There is more.
Join Cherie and me in Part 3 as we share stories of coming home to receive the overflowing love, attention, and care of God through multiple stages of development.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan
105: Coming Home, Part 2
mardi 29 mars 2022 • Duration 37:40
Christianity has tended to focus on right beliefs and right choices as the keys for personal growth. But biblical evidence and modern brain science show that our character is shaped more by whom we love than what we believe.
– Jim Wilder, Renovated
What if coming home to a new and secure attachment to God is the primary definition of salvation?
What would it be like to come home to God as our primary and single source of life, joy, strength, and stature?
The writers of the Old and New Testaments assure us that the very real dilemma of unhealthy attachment to other things and relationships need not have the final word, nor does the nagging sense of disconnection from God.
God has provided a path and process through the dignifying choice to re-parent our souls, shepherding them afresh into a loving, strengthening, and momentous attachment to God.
Come along into Part 2 as Cherie and I reveal ways to come home to God when we feel distant from him.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan
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