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The UnLovables: the Addict
22 Apr 2025
00:21:54
This is the fourth in a series of episodes entitled The Unlovables.
This episode is part of our ongoing series The Unlovables—a candid look at the people who are hard to love and why, and how the Bible teaches us not just to tolerate them… but to truly love better.
This is the third in a series of episodes entitled The Unlovables.
Today, we are going to study an uncomfortable group of people that Jesus was REALLY good at loving, but most of us aren’t. The unseen and the unclean. From beggars to lepers to prostitutes and thieves – Jesus loved those on the edges. The people that for various reasons were culturally, financially, or morally outcasts.
How did He do that? And how does He expect us to do that?
A colossal collapse, a reminder to speak up, and a study in aeroelastic flutter.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve looked at the parts of our lives that are typically associated with love – our heart, soul, and mind, but now we need to finish the journey by investigating how to love with all our strength. Weak love isn’t much love at all. Real love is made of sterner stuff, and if we are going to love better, we need to learn how to love with ALL our strength. Today, is the fourth in a ten-part series on how to have strong love, and today, we need to talk about how love isn’t always tolerant. Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is offer a dissenting voice.
Video of Galloping Gertie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggxeuFDaDU
From Boston to Calcutta with a detour through debtor's prison. How do you keep your dreams from melting away?
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve looked at the parts of our lives that are typically associated with love – our heart, soul, and mind, but now we need to finish the journey by investigating how to love with all our strength. Weak love isn’t much love at all. Real love is made of sterner stuff, and if we are going to love better, we need to learn how to love with ALL our strength. Today, is the third in a ten-part series on how to have strong love, and today, we are going to talk about the strength to work through setbacks.
A man named Gay Balfour, a decommissioned septic truck, and a dream that couldn't be displaced.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve looked at the parts of our lives that are typically associated with love – our heart, soul, and mind, but now we need to finish the journey by investigating how to love with all our strength. Weak love isn’t much love at all. Real love is made of sterner stuff, and if we are going to love better, we need to learn how to love with ALL our strength. Today, is the second in a ten-part series on how to have strong love, and today, we are going to consider that real strength goes with you wherever you are.
The strongest material in the universe, the power of pasta engineering, and how to fold steel.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve looked at the parts of our lives that are typically associated with love – our heart, soul, and mind, but now we need to finish the journey by investigating how to love with all our strength. Weak love isn’t much love at all. Real love is made of sterner stuff, and if we are going to love better, we need to learn how to love with ALL our strength. Today, is the first in a ten-part series on how to have strong love, and today, we are going to look at where strength comes from – and it looks a lot like lasagna.
Group think, mental delegation, and the art of choosing your brain buddies.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve searched our hearts and plumbed the depths of our soul for how to love the Lord better, and it is time to investigate our minds. How do we love God with all our mind? This week is the last in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and it is time to recognize that our minds don’t function in a vacuum.
The hospital George Clooney's kids were born in, a startling return from a holiday vacation, and the best mold juice ever made.
This week is the ninth in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and today, we need to mentally prepare for the unexpected. From doubts and fears to unanswered questions – it is time to not mind being surprised.
Telegraph technology, solar flares, and an amateur astronomer.
Today, we look at how close we are to the precipice. Ready or not, you are living on the edge.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve searched our hearts and plumbed the depths of our soul for how to love the Lord better, and halfway through the year it is time to investigate our minds. How do we love God with all our mind? What does that even mean? This week is the seventh in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and today, we need to prepare our minds to lose it all.
A trip to Utah, a strange similar forest of aspens, and a reminder that love can be learned, repeated, and lived. No excuses - follow the formula.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve searched our hearts and plumbed the depths of our soul for how to love the Lord better, and halfway through the year it is time to investigate our minds. How do we love God with all our mind? What does that even mean? This week is the sixth in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and today, I want you to meet Pando, the Trembling Giant of Utah, and the world’s largest living organism.
Work Worth Doing: a conversation with Larry Coffey
25 Mar 2025
00:55:44
One of my goals with this podcast is to introduce an audience I love to people I love. I’d love for you to meet Larry Coffey. Larry is 85 years old, but you’d never know it by talking to him. He’s articulate and thoughtful with a kind smile and an engaging way about him.
Larry and his lovely wife Joan are beautiful people. They have seen a lot in their lives and yet after 53 years of marriage they still speak fondly of one another and you can tell genuinely love one another. Larry is retired now, but he was a very savvy businessman who was blessed with much success. Success that he consistently and firmly attributes to the Lord. Larry kindly gave me of his time (even retired he is busier than most folks) to sit down and talk about life. We discussed American culture, money, the power of philanthropy, family, marriage, and what makes a successful life.
The Neurology of Compassion: a conversation with Dr. Jason Crowell
20 Aug 2024
00:43:04
One of my goals with this podcast is to introduce an audience I love to people I love. I’d love for you to meet Dr. Jason Crowell.
Dr. Crowell is an actively practicing neurologist and a dear friend. We talk about neuroplasticity, habit formation, evidence for God in the human brain, and the need for compassion in a fallen world.
Jason is an expert well-worth listening to, and I have learned to love better because of his insights into the Scripture.
Seven Tesla MRI scan of the human brain mentioned during the show can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlL7CEMX5bxzl1TqkJRK3pMV4Ax6By4bN&si=0OLfC5SHrXI6JydI
NORAD, WIMEX, OKO, and other sundry acronyms of power and the precipice of human destruction.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve searched our hearts and plumbed the depths of our soul for how to love the Lord better, and halfway through the year it is time to investigate our minds. How do we love God with all our mind? What does that even mean? This week is the fourth in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and today, we must talk about two men. One that almost destroyed the world, and another that saved it. An American that almost killed us all, and a Russian that saved the planet. 1979 and 1983 the years that almost burned the world down.
They call it 'The Knowledge' and it started changing brains in 1851.
This week is the third in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and today, we take to the streets and the hardest test in the world.
A plan to connect Ohio to Charleston, a study in the strength of granite, and a reminder to count the cost.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve searched our hearts and plumbed the depths of our soul for how to love the Lord better, and halfway through the year it is time to investigate our minds. How do we love God with all our mind? What does that even mean? This week is the second in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and here is where the hard conversations happen – our mind is often the place where good plans go to die.
A crystal clear lake, eminent domain, and the question of who's in charge of your mind.
This year, we are learning to love better by exploring the greatest commandment – Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We’ve searched our hearts and plumbed the depths of our soul for how to love the Lord better, and halfway through the year it is time to investigate our minds. How do we love God with all our mind? What does that even mean? This week is the first in a ten-part series on learning to love better with our minds… and Lake Jocassee is the perfect foil for the mental journey we have to take.
Today we explore the eastern seaboard, the power of the LAT, and the soul work below the water line.
This is the last in a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul. The soul is that part of you that is eternal. After death, after this life, all you will be left with is your soul to carry on into eternity. If you don’t learn to love with all your soul, you won’t have any love left when life is over.
A Tale of Two Statues: a conversation with Jordan Shouse about sickness
25 Jun 2024
00:33:10
One of my goals with this podcast is to introduce an audience I love to people I love. I’d love for you to meet Jordan Shouse. Jordan is a father of four, a preacher in the Dallas Fort-Worth area, and one of the kindest men you will ever meet. He has a heart for people, and an empathetic nature that has only been honed by the journey God has taken him on.
Jordan very kindly offered to talk with me on the record about his harrowing health journey and the impact it had on his faith, his family, his preaching, and his connection with others going through their own health trials. I wasn’t sure whether he would want to talk about it publicly like this, but unsurprisingly, Jordan is an open book.
I entitled this conversation, ‘A Tale of Two Statues’ and as you listen, I think you will understand why.
Reconnected: A conversation with Steve Wilkes about addiction
18 Jun 2024
00:56:32
One of my goals with this podcast is to introduce an audience I love to people I love. I’d like you to meet Steve Wilkes. Steve Wilkes is a husband, father, Christian, and drug and alcohol counselor. Steve and I talked about addiction in its many forms through a biblical lens.
For those listening with children’s ears nearby, we never talk about anything in a graphic way, but the words ‘pornography’ and ‘suicide’ do show up a couple of times.
We talk about chemical dependency, behavioral addictions, and Steve’s own road to restoration with the Lord. It turns out that recovery from addiction is more than just a body issue – it’s a soul issue, too. I believe this issue is worthy of our time and attention because, as always, the Bible has answers. Whether you are battling addiction yourself, struggling with the impact of a loved one’s addiction, or simply want to learn how to be better prepared to love your neighbor as yourself –Steve provides practical tools to combat the idol of addiction.
If you would like further information about recovery from drug addiction or substance abuse recovery, feel free to contact me at scott@biblegrad.com, and I will happily connect you with Steve.
The Yalu river, risk versus reward, and the life of a defector.
Today, we look at the most important journey you'll ever make. The journey of the soul to God.
This is the seventh in a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul. The soul is that part of you that is eternal. After death, after life, all you will be left with is your soul to carry on into eternity. If you don’t learn to love with all your soul, you won’t have any love left when life is over.
Episode Summary: In this episode of Love Better, , The Unlovables, exploring the people who challenge our capacity to love. This week’s focus? The chronic complainer — the grumbler, the murmurer, the person who can find a cloud in every silver lining. From outrageous lawsuits to the complaints of the Israelites in the wilderness, we dive deep into why chronic complaining is a problem — both spiritually and relationally — and how to love those who grumble without getting pulled into the negativity.
What You'll Learn: ✅ The difference between venting and chronic complaining ✅ Biblical examples of complainers (and God's response) ✅ Two practical strategies to love chronic complainers without enabling them:
Don’t let the contagion spread – Know when to disengage
Help them reframe toward God – Redirect conversations to gratitude and faith ✅ How reframing our own mindset helps us become part of the solution, not the problem
Key Scriptures: 📖 Romans 2:1 – We often judge complainers while doing the same 📖 Philippians 2:14-15 – "Do all things without grumbling or disputing" 📖 Proverbs 26:20 – “Without wood, a fire goes out” 📖 Colossians 3:1-3 – Set your mind on things above 📖 Romans 8:28 – God works all things for good
Quotes to Remember: 👉 “Complaints are verbal lawsuits against God and others.” 👉 “Loving chronic complainers takes wisdom… and sometimes setting boundaries.”
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A Prussian-Russian Alliance, a stone that's not actually made of stone, and a reminder that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
Today, we look at God's soul structure - the kingdom of God.
This is the sixth in a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul. The soul is that part of you that is eternal. After death, after life, all you will be left with is your soul to carry on into eternity. If you don’t learn to love with all your soul, you won’t have any love left when life is over.
A late 16th century play, the un-tameable heart of a woman named Kate, and the tiniest mammal on the planet earth.
Today, we look at the needs of the soul and God's answer to how to love Him with all our souls.
This is the fifth in a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul. The soul is that part of you that is eternal. After death, after life, all you will be left with is your soul to carry on into eternity. If you don’t learn to love with all your soul, you won’t have any love left when life is over.
Did you hear the news? April 18, 1930 was an important news day!
Today, we will take a look at news, silence, and how to calm your soul.
If you are a regular listener, thank you for your patience during my radio silence these last two weeks. Between traveling to Harrisburg, PA to be with the Capital City Christians to a couple of difficult funerals for our family here at Eastland, the podcast needed to take a backseat for a minute.
The good news is that both the funerals were for Christians and I hope to see them again someday. It is true what Paul said, “we grieve, but not as those who have no hope.”
Thank you for listening, and if you have a chance to subscribe or review the podcast, I’m always grateful. If I can help you with anything you can email me your questions and requests to scott@biblegrad.com and if you are in the Louisville, KY area, I would love to see you this Sunday at the Eastland church. If you want more information about the work I'm doing at Eastland, visit us at eastlandchristians.org or my personal Bible site, Biblegrad.com, where you can sign up for daily Bible devotionals called Biblebites and receive them in your email each morning, take online Bible classes, or find videos that will help you study through the Bible throughout the year.
A trip to the path of totality, a yellow line that changed the world, and the impact of seeing the darkness in ourselves.
This week we talk about trials.
This is the third in a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul. The soul is that part of you that is eternal. After death, after life, all you will be left with is your soul to carry on into eternity. If you don’t learn to love with all your soul, you won’t have any love left when life is over.
A poem from the 16th century, a sphere with two heads, four arms, and four legs, and the romance of Disney.
This week we talk about soulmates.
This is the second in a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul. The soul is that part of you that is eternal. After death, after life, all you will be left with is your soul to carry on into eternity. If you don’t learn to love with all your soul, you won’t have any love left when life is over.
Today, we begin a ten-part series on learning to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our soul.
What's a soul? Let's look at science, R&B, and take a trip to the Sinai Peninsula to find some answers.
This series is a part of a broader goal this year to learn to love with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Jesus says that learning to love God and our neighbor with these four parts of us are the two greatest commandments. There is no better way to love better than to try and figure out how to best fulfill the first and second commandments.
A ball of yarn, a warning against minotaurs, and a fashionable reminder. Today, we look at the failings of the heart.
Today is the last installment of our series on learning to love God (and our neighbor) with all our heart. Every time that Jesus mentions the greatest commandment, He begins by telling us to love with our whole heart. The heart is the seat of our emotions, it is where they reside, it is the part of us that we feel with – from fear to courage to anger to joy to sorrow to discouragement to resentment to gratitude. If you can feel it, it is your heart that makes that possible.
Starting next week, I’m going to step away from podcasting for a couple of weeks to focus on some other pressing projects, but I’ll be back in April with a brand new series with a focus on learning to love God with all your soul.
Part of the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin, a natural phenomenon with a touch of mystery, and the question of what to do when it seems like love isn't working.
This episode is the ninth installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. In every account of the gospels, the command to love always begins with the heart… and today, we are going to look at why it is so important to love with all your heart, not just the parts you feel like offering.
Diptheria, Jeroboam's downfall, and an indomitable will. This week we learn to be brave.
This episode is the eighth installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. In every account of the gospels, the command to love always begins with the heart… and if you are going to make a difference in this world, it is going to take some heart to make that happen.
A trip to the water's edge, the Spartan's greatest rivals, and two walls that changed the course of history.
This episode is the seventh installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. In every account of the gospels, the command to love always begins with the heart… and today, we are going to look at what happens when our hearts need walls to go up and come down.
This is a first in a multi-part series that I am entitling 'The UnLovables'.
There are certain people in our lives and communities that are quite difficult to love. From those that betray and violate our trust to that arrogant know-it-all brother-in-law some people require the very best of our character to love because loving them is complicated by their poor choices and character. How do you love someone who is self-absorbed? Or ungrateful? How do you learn to love better when the other person isn’t choosing to be better? What about loving someone who is aggressive – even abusive? These are all fair questions that deserve Bible answers.
Today, we are going to take a look at a type of person that I myself find very difficult to love – the perpetual victim.
The London Underground, the problem with digitization, and a love worth listening to. This week, we learn to love through grief.
This episode is the sixth installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. In every account of the gospels, the command to love always begins with the heart… and today, we are going to look at one of the most difficult challenges the heart will ever face – the challenge of grief and loss.
A geographical condominium, a lesson in light, and a lot of bad actors.
This episode is the fifth installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. In every account of the gospels, the command to love always begins with the heart… and today we are going to look at what happens when our heart isn’t in it.
Words From the Heart: a conversation with Dr. Kenny Embry
23 Jan 2024
00:48:03
This episode is the fourth installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. In every account of the gospels, the command to love always begins with the heart… and today I’d like to introduce an audience I love to a friend I love… a friend that is an expert on heart-to-heart communication.
I’d like you to meet Kenny Embry. He runs the Balancing the Christian Life podcast, which is absolutely excellent (https://www.balancingthechristianlife.com/),but more importantly for our purposes today, Kenny is a communications professor for St. Leo's University. Dr. Embry is a bona fide expert on how to effectively communicate ideas and why that doesn’t always happen.
As we talk about loving from the heart, I think communication is, by and large, a heart issue. Or, maybe another way to put that is, when we miscommunicate, we tend to miss each other's heart. I thought I'd talk to Kenny and see if I had gotten anywhere near the right mark with that hypothesis. Kenny’s insights were useful for me, and I suspect they will be the same for you.
A biblical look at a politicized human trauma. A need for love in the darkest corners of society, and the power of love to redeem the least of these.
This episode is the third installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
A gruesome war, the power of a stamp, and Winnie the Pooh
This episode is the second installment in a ten-part series on learning to love with all our heart, part of a broader goal this year to study the greatest commandments – to love the Lord (and our neighbor) with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
This week we learn about how to set a seal upon our hearts and how important it is to find a worthy mission.
Herman Gottlieb, the Cats of Gotham, and the wrong roads to love.
This week we learn about what love isn't.
*note* I will be in Florida next week holding a workshop at the Southwest church of Christ in Lakeland, FL (swcofc.com). If you are in the area, I'd love to see you and say, "Hi!" Times and dates below: