WORDS01: Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis—Audio Essay—a Reformation Day Gift for This and All Future Elections
Release Date: 11/01/2020
S2E08: The Holiness of Happy Lovers—Don & Lisa Talk
No Mere Mortals
This episode is here to announce that nourishment for deep and satisfying marriage does not need to be complicated. Are there simple decisions you can make about life and the way you are going to do it that make sure that not just good but extraordinary life will be shared with the one you love. We believe the answer to that is, yes, and we hope that this conversation stirs you to see the remarkable drama of what it is to be married, fulfilled in the real days of ordinary lives deeply-connected. And please linger and listen, even if you are not (or are not yet) married. The grace-saturated and...
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S2E07: Intoxicating Romance—Don & Lisa Talk
No Mere Mortals
Don and Lisa eagerly share their hearts and hopes for life-long, intoxicating romance—doing their very best to offer encouragement, ideas, and vision to nurture satisfying and joyful marriage, whether you are enlarging the good of a happy relationship, hungry for help to restore what is broken, or eagerly entering or anticipating the rich gift of all of this in a marriage that is just getting started or coming soon. We hope you linger and listen even if you are not (or are not yet) married. The grace-saturated and common-sensical principles and practices here are potentially transforming in...
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S2E06: On Places: Maker's Hollow Conversations—Episode 2
No Mere Mortals
In this episode, Kristen and I explore the extraordinary implications of the miracle-world that our Maker made for us and the life-changing impact of realizing that place and body and senses and the small spaces of all of life are deeply holy and eternally real. They are the setting of our entire journey and they, with us, will be glorified into our endless future home. If you enjoy this conversation, please subscribe here at No Mere Mortals and over at Good Things Run Wild and share it and other favorite episodes with those you love! Kristen: Please subscribe to Good Things Run Wild at your...
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S2E05: Delight-based Parenting—Don & Lisa Talk
No Mere Mortals
In this episode of No Mere Mortals, Don and Lisa happily explore delight-based family life and relationships. We hope you linger and listen even if you are not (or are not yet) a parent. The grace-saturated vision here is potentially transforming in every relationship of life. We trust you will be refreshed and encouraged, by what we are calling: The Connection, Correction, Conversation Sequence of happy and hopeful parenting. https://www.enjoyinggracestoryco.com/blog-2/2021/3/27/twenty-easy-ways-to-raise-a-pharisee-number-3 http://www.enjoyinggracestoryco.com...
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S2E04: The Pursuit of Happiness—Don & Lisa Talk
No Mere Mortals
In this episode, Don and Lisa discuss the fundamental and inescapable connection of desire and treasure to all that every single person loves, pays attention to, and actively pursues in life. This is universally true and it changes everything. It is a visional “How our deepest desires shape us” episode, that lets you in on one of our central, foundational principles here at No Mere Mortals, Enjoying Grace Story Co., and our Maker’s Hollow community. We offer it directly to fortify your hope for growth in life *and* as a heart basis for soon-coming episodes on grace-base and...
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S2E03: Q&A—Life, Love & Other Mysteries—Don & Lisa Talk
No Mere Mortals
This is our first Question and Answer episode! Thank you for sending along such fun and thoughtful questions! This episode just scratches the surface of the variety of inquiries sent, as Lisa and I share thoughts and stories about 3 of the biggest pieces of our life and journey: “The Sudden Joyous Turn” (How did you meet?) “The Portable Home” (Where have you lived along the journey of your lives?) “The Strong Protection of Deep Affection & Connection” (You have mentioned deep trials in your lives, how did you care for the hearts of your children through those seasons?). ...
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S2E02: On Rest: Maker's Hollow Conversations—Episode 1
No Mere Mortals
Don and Kristen discuss the extraordinary gift, reality, necessity, and benefits of Rest. Rest is a creational command, a Biblical pattern, a Gospel gift, and a centerpiece of understanding all of grace for this life and the life to come. And it's just lovely, refreshing, releasing, and magnifying of all the best things in life.
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S2E01: So Much Goodness—Don & Lisa Talk
No Mere Mortals
Don and Lisa talk about the heart and life implications of fully understanding that God wants to be good to us more than he wants us to do good for Him. This episode is a companion with this week's post at the No Mere Mortals blog: Thirty Easy Ways to Raise a Pharisee — Number 1 — Tell them that God wants them to be good instead of that God wants to be good to them.
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WORDS01: Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis—Audio Essay—a Reformation Day Gift for This and All Future Elections
No Mere Mortals
Many of you have heard me say that the C.S. Lewis essay “Weight of Glory” is the best thing ever to be composed in the English language. Ha! Well, that, of course, is open to vigorous debate by others; and I myself would—I am sure—argue profusely with myself, when fresh off of an encounter with any number of other treasured writings (especially profound, imaginative stories). It is, however, indisputable in my mind that “Weight of Glory” is on a very short list of the richest of gathered words, of the sort which have the happy capability to re-mold a worldview and, therefore. to...
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E20: On Grace: Maker's Hollow Conversations—Episode 6
No Mere Mortals
We are talking about grace, because the Most High God, the Goodly-wise, the Maker of Heaven and Earth loved us before the earth was made. For all eternity He lived as a Father in extravagant joy with His Son, bound together in the love of His Spirit. He needed nothing - not even us. But He wanted us. He wanted to be known for His grace more than anything else, so there was an Incarnation and a Substitution and a Sacrifice and a Resurrection and an Ascension and there will be a breathtaking Celebration; and now all who are known by Him (and therefore love His Son) are His own sons and...
info_outlineMany of you have heard me say that the C.S. Lewis essay “Weight of Glory” is the best thing ever to be composed in the English language. Ha! Well, that, of course, is open to vigorous debate by others; and I myself would—I am sure—argue profusely with myself, when fresh off of an encounter with any number of other treasured writings (especially profound, imaginative stories). It is, however, indisputable in my mind that “Weight of Glory” is on a very short list of the richest of gathered words, of the sort which have the happy capability to re-mold a worldview and, therefore. to re-envision a life.
Weight of Glory—General Listening Outline
1. The superiority of love to unselfishness and
the virtue of wanting all the good that God gives
2. The staggeringly bold promises of reward in
the Gospel and why it is wonderful and
not mercenary to desire it
3. Heaven as the natural outcome of
who we were made to be and
the fulfillment of all we crave
4. Heaven as “glory” through our union with Christ
5. Glory as the experience of God’s full
approval and undisguised pleasure
6. Glory as the experience of being
united with Beauty, receiving it into ourselves,
and becoming part of it
7. Immortality as a cause to regard our fellow-man
with great weight and significance
8. Immortality and faithful relationship with others —
We have never met an “ordinary person”
or a “mere mortal”