While road-tripping across Minnesota, Steve and Jeremiah record a conversation about road etiquette, driving with your knees, and how Christians can be redeeming the time (Eph 5:16) as they spend hours behind a steering wheel. This episode (Part 1) ends with Steve concocting a work of fiction about how he and Jeremiah first met. In the next episode (Part 2), Jeremiah shares the historically accurate version of their dramatic meeting.

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Currently, over 3.3 million U.S. citizens are actively serving across all branches of the United States miliary. We recently had the privilege of sitting down with Marine Private First Class Aukeem Knoop to talk about his experience in boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruitment Depot in San Diego, California.

• How does a Christian man seek to be a light in the military?
• Should Christians be enlisting in the armed forces?
• What is the history of women serving in the Marine Corps?
• Are there opportunities for evangelism & spiritual growth at boot camp?

This and more on Episode #30 of Plundering Leviathan.

How does a follower of Jesus plunder the serrated edge of suffering for the glory of God? This valley of shadow is covered with the footprints of the saints. What did they have to say about their suffering that can give us hope and courage in the midst of ours?

This is the question on Episode #29 of Plundering Leviathan.

QUOTES

• “God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” ~ Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
• “They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?” ~ Martin Luther (1483–1546)
• “When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.” ~ Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661)
• “Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.” ~ Richard Baxter (1615–1691)
• “Such fatigues and hardships as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and I trust will make heaven the sweeter.” ~ David Brainerd (1718–1747)
• “I love to live on the brink of eternity.” ~ David Brainerd
• “It is good for me to be afflicted, that I might die wholly to this world and be led more fully to God.” ~ David Brainerd
• “I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” ~ Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)
• “Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945)
• “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom (1892–1983)
• “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
• “Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.’” ~ Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015)
• “The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually.” ~ Joni Eareckson Tada (1949–Present)

HYMNS

• "Sovereign Over Us" ~ Shane & Shane
• “It Is Well with My Soul” ~ Horatio Spafford
• “Is He Worthy?” ~ Andrew Peterson
• “He Will Hold Me Fast” ~ Keith & Kristyn Getty
• “Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me” ~ CityAlight
• "You Are God" ~ WeakSide
• “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” ~ Civilla Martin
• “Blessed Be Your Name” ~ Matt Redman