Design of Desire: Creational Desires

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

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🗓️ 12 September 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Allender Center Podcast, Dan continues the Design of Desire series that opened last week with the idea that much of desire is opposed and that pursuing meaningful desire requires stepping into the war against desire. Here, Dan looks at Genesis 1 and 3 to discuss two categories—the so-called “cultural mandate”—that are at the heart of God’s intention for desire: fill and multiply, and subdue and rule. These categories refer to raising children and tending the earth, but also to so much more than that.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.1	This week, Dan continues the Design of Desire series by talking about how godly desire leads to creativity
0:14.8	and the ability to mark the world in unique and meaningful ways.
0:19.2	Dan looks at God's mandates to humanity in Genesis to explore what it means for us to live more
0:24.5	fully into who we were created to be.
0:29.9	The first podcast on desire really attempted to invite you to the morass, to the reality that most of us really work extremely
0:41.1	hard to stay above the turmoil, the tumult of desire, that we live at least in some
0:51.7	configuration of disparate desire with our spouse, with our friends, with our
0:58.0	coworkers. We simply don't share the same level of desire that grows together to an end that
1:07.2	just feels honoring and good for all. And I said, second, a lot of desire is actually
1:15.2	opposed, ultimately opposed by the kingdom of darkness. You have an enemy, an enemy of desire,
1:24.1	that will work to thwart, to steal, to sabotage. And without question, there are
1:30.6	human beings aware or not of that kingdom that actually find a level of joy in standing
1:38.7	against you. People who, as I've heard, I've heard this story enough that it has become a kind of way of thinking
1:48.9	about how people give gifts. One friend told me some time ago that she has never gotten a gift
1:57.1	from her family that she asked for, and that one year she had asked for a particular
2:03.6	very inexpensive electronic device. And what she got was a kind of shaggy pink sweater.
2:16.9	And everyone in the family knew that if there was one color this woman didn't
2:22.3	like, it was pink. And so you just have to say, either, when you look over a lifetime and say a
2:31.4	sentence like, I've never, ever gotten a gift that I asked for. And, as she would
2:38.3	say, look at the gifts that I have gotten, and they are uniquely well designed to oppose to thwart
2:46.9	her. Now, I'm sure that if this woman's family were to hear this, they wouldn't recognize
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