S3E10: Practicing For Heaven: A People of Beauty

Being Known Podcast

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What happens when we faithfully practice dwelling, gazing and inquiring within the confessional community—within the house of the Lord? As it turns out, nothing short of the emergence of beauty and goodness within the community itself, the very place where the hard work of hope is done. Goodness and beauty that then spills out into every other domain of life that the members of the community occupy. Furthermore, the very hard work that happens in the community—unlike Las Vegas—does not stay in the community, but extends through the lives of the participants to become the artistry of new creation wherever their footfalls land, be be that in their family, their place and form of occupation, their friendships and their churches. Join Pepper and Curt to find out what glimpsing into heaven might be like—God’s heaven that is already here and is surely coming.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr. Kurt Thompson and my friend Pepper Sweeney.
0:18.8	We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.
0:23.8	Hello, Kurt.
0:25.7	Pep, man, it's almost Christmas.
0:30.0	That feels like Christmas just getting to be with you. Well, I said to people, I said to you earlier, like, I love that sweater you're wearing and that if you didn't have it,
0:40.0	somebody should get it for you for Christmas.
0:42.0	And if not, they should get it for you for Christmas. I appreciate it.
0:43.0	They should get it for me.
0:44.0	It's a nice sweater.
0:45.0	It is tonight.
0:46.0	Yeah, I can tell.
0:48.0	It's great. So we are here in episode 10 of season 3 of the Being Known podcast and if you're just joining us today
0:56.7	for the first time then I would inform you that we are going through Dr. Kirk
1:01.5	Thompson's newest book, The Soul of Desire,
1:04.8	Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community.
1:08.4	We have done a chapter a week for this season,
1:11.3	and today is our final chapter of the book. We will be back next week with a wrap of the whole season,
1:18.0	but today we are finishing up on chapter 10 and chapter 10 is practicing for heaven and it's a really good
1:27.0	chapter it gives us some practical things and another great story about how you know these confessional communities are impacting
1:35.2	people and creating beauty in the world and Kurt it's just I've loved this book and I've
1:40.3	I've loved this chapter so let's jump in. Yeah right on. Well you know this this
1:48.3	notion of practicing for heaven you know it the title of the chapter struck me
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