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The BEMA Podcast

481: Vice & Virtue — Sloth

The BEMA Podcast

BEMA Discipleship

Hermeneutics, Religion & Spirituality, Scripture, Jewish Context, Biblical, Judaism, Bible, Christianity

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

0:08.4

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

0:09.8

Today I am with Reed Dent and Josh Bosse to talk about the capital vice known as sloth.

0:16.3

Where are we talking about that?

0:19.0

What?

0:19.6

All right.

0:19.7

We're going to jump right in with our little prologue here.

0:22.8

I want to read a quote from Henry Ford, from his autobiography, My Life and Work.

0:30.1

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation.

0:37.1

Through work and work alone, health wealth and happiness be secured

0:42.7

and then as always our daily beckner sloth is not to be confused with laziness lazy people

0:51.2

people who sit around and watch the grass grow may be people at peace their sun-drenched bumblebee dreaming may be the prelude to action or itself an act well worth the acting slothful people on the other hand may be very busy people they are people who go through the motions who fly on automatic pilot like somebody somebody with a bad head cold, they have mostly lost their sense of taste and smell.

1:15.6

They know something's wrong with them, but not wrong enough to do anything about.

1:19.9

Other people come and go, but through glazed eyes, they hardly notice them.

1:24.3

They are letting things run their course.

1:26.4

They are getting through their lives.

1:28.5

Can I get through one of these episodes without feeling convicted, please? Is that possible?

1:34.0

I was talking to Derek about this last night. I was in the office doing some reading. And I said,

1:38.9

I really thought I was going to have a pet vice, but it turns out I just have a whole menagerie. They're all mine. All of them.

1:46.4

Were he with Josh? Hello. Josh. Hey, man, I'm so excited to just talk to you about these

1:53.2

ideas. Yeah. I sent out the message and you were like, I want sloth. It was a pretty quick response.

2:03.2

Yeah. It was a non-slothful response. Why did you want to join this conversation? Oh, man. Well, considering the seven

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