E837 | The Familiar Stranger
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
How did the very Holy Spirit Jesus was so eager to give us become feared, divisive, and, for most Christians, simply a forgotten stranger? Pastor and author Tyler Staton joins John to explore the need for every believer to regularly experience the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Through personal stories and insights from his new book—The Familiar Stranger—Tyler reintroduces us to this often neglected Person of the Trinity.
Show Notes: The Familiar Stranger by Tyler Staton is available wherever you buy books.
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| 0:00.0 | Over the years, I've had friends and colleagues ask me, |
| 0:05.0 | we've gotten emails and letters and requests. |
| 0:10.0 | Can you give me something please to read on the Holy Spirit? |
| 0:16.0 | You guys seem to have a life in God that I long for, and you hear from him, |
| 0:23.5 | get guidance from him, |
| 0:24.9 | you seem to have these really cool stories |
| 0:28.3 | of kind of miraculous intervention. |
| 0:31.0 | Can you guide me to something? |
| 0:32.5 | And I've had a hard time knowing what to say until now. We've got a special guest this week in a really beautiful man, |
| 0:43.8 | Tyler Staten, who's written a killer book on the Holy Spirit called The Familiar Stranger, |
| 0:50.7 | which I love. He's like, we hear his name all the time in the name of the father's son and the |
| 0:55.5 | Holy Spirit. But to most people, he's kind of the lost member of the Trinity and how do we develop |
| 1:04.1 | a relationship and what does it like to move with him and be intimate with him? So I am very excited about this conversation. |
| 1:15.8 | And before we go there, let's do what we always do. Let's take our pause. |
| 1:21.9 | Because what I just said may actually have begun to stir some things in you that you're like, |
| 1:26.4 | whoa, whoa, pay attention. |
| 1:29.0 | Let's take our pause. |
| 1:30.7 | Let's center ourselves in Christ and invite the Holy Spirit here. |
| 1:40.0 | And so we do pray, Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit. |
| 1:48.1 | I give everything to you right now, including sudden feelings I'm having around this podcast. |
| 1:57.7 | I give it all to you. |
| 2:01.9 | What do I need to release right now |
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