BetterMan

04/12/2026

03/13/2026

This is an interesting and inspiring interview with Butch Wilmore; fighter pilot, astronaut, and Christ follower.

Check it out!

The Shawn Ryan Show · Episode

04/20/2025

04/20/2025

09/10/2024

Love Fulfills God's Requirements

8 Owe nothing to anyone except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God's law. 9 For the commandments say, "You must not commit adultery. You must not murder.
You must not steal. You must not covet." These— and other such commandments-are summed up in this one commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God's law.
11 This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first
believed. 12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living. 13 Because we belong to the day, we must live decent lives for all to see. Don't participate in the darkness of wild parties and drunkenness, or in s*xual promiscuity and immoral living, or in quarreling and jealousy. 14 Instead, clothe yourself with the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And don't let yourself think about ways to indulge your evil desires.

Romans 13: 8-14

06/04/2024

Just listen

06/01/2024

Fascinating and challenging conversation; “a call to adventure through responsibility.”

Listen to this episode from Shawn Ryan Show on Spotify. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a Psychologist, Best Selling Author, Professor and Thought Leader. He's taught some of the most highly regarded courses at Harvard and the University of Toronto and authored three books that have sold over seven millio...

05/01/2024

03/12/2024

In a world so wired and interconnected,
our anxious hearts are pummeled by
an endless barrage of troubling news.
We are daily aware of more grief, O Lord,
than we can rightly consider,
of more suffering and scandal
than we can respond to, of more hostility, hatred, horror, and injustice than we can engage with compassion.

But you, O Jesus, are not disquieted
by such news of cruelty and terror and war.
You are neither anxious nor overwhelmed.
You carried the full weight of the suffering of a broken world when you hung upon the cross,
and you carry it still.

When the cacophony of universal distress unsettles us, remind us that we are but small and finite creatures, never designed to carry the vast abstractions of great burdens,
for our arms are too short and our strength is too small. Justice and mercy, healing and redemption, are your great labors.

And yes, it is your good pleasure to accomplish such works through your people,
but you have never asked any one of us
to undertake more than your grace
will enable us to fulfill.

Guard us then from shutting down our empathy or walling off our hearts because of the glut of unactionable misery that floods our awareness. You have many children in many places
around this globe. Move each of our hearts
to compassionately respond to those needs that intersect our actual lives, that in all places your body might be actively addressing
the pain and brokenness of this world,
each of us liberated and empowered by your
Spirit to fulfill the small part
of your redemptive work assigned to us.

Give us discernment
in the face of troubling news reports.
Give us discernment
to know when to pray,
when to speak out,
when to act,
and when to simply shut off
our screens and our devices,
and to sit quietly
in your presence,

casting the burdens of this world
upon the strong shoulders
of the one who
alone
is able to bear them up.

Amen.

A LITURGY FOR THOSE FLOODED BY
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COPYRIGHT © 2017 DOUGLAS MCKELVEY

02/21/2024

Hey podcast listeners, here’s a fascinating one to listen to. Check it out and let me know ow your thoughts.

Listen to this episode from Theology in the Raw on Spotify. In this podcast conversation, we begin by wrestling with some innocent questions around AI but end up exploring some darker parts of this topic, including the reality of s*x robots and cloning dead loved ones to ease our pain--and how this...

02/13/2024

02/13/2024

”Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself [as a sacrifice to atone] for our sins [to save and sanctify us] so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father— to Him be [ascribed all] the glory through the ages of the ages. Amen.“

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬-‭5‬ ‭AMP‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/1588/gal.1.3-5.AMP