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Stone Choir

Sweat the Small Stuff

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

      Too many despair of finding solutions to the problems we face because they focus on the wrong things. We face grand problems, certainly, but those are largely not our concern, at least not our daily concern. The right focus for most men is the everyday — putting in an honest day’s work, being a good husband, and raising godly children.

      There is no immediate solution to every problem we face and no leader can resolve everything overnight. The Christian life is lived out in the small matters, even more than it is in the grand ones. We prove our faith with our works. The works, of course, do not save us, but they do naturally flow from a living faith. With regard to the kingdom of the left hand, we have a great deal of control and we should strive to make things better as we are able — plant trees, help your neighbor, think of the future. With regard to the Kingdom of the right hand, that outcome is in God’s hands, and we have no need to worry.

      “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
      — Martin Luther

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      Some (not explicit) discussion of sexual matters.

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.4

      And I'm Woe.

      0:43.4

      In today's episode of Stone Quire, we're going to be talking a little bit more about framing and talking about some issues and some things that we can do in our own lives or questions that we need to solve individually,

      0:56.0

      personally in our own lives. Before we get into some of the specifics of what we want to talk

      1:01.0

      about, we want to just speak in kind of generalities, specifically about speaking in generalities.

      1:07.8

      So I mean by that is this. A lot of the topics that we've discussed in the past

      1:12.1

      have been big ticket items, you know, things like Christian nationalism. That's a concept. That's a big,

      1:18.1

      I mean, talking about an entire nation and you're talking about a religion. Those are for better or worse,

      1:23.4

      ultimately sweeping generalities. You can talk about the principles involved, but it doesn't necessarily

      1:28.8

      tell you the individual, okay, what do I do next? So today we're going to take it to the other end of the

      1:35.0

      scale. What do I do next? Not in a prescriptive fashion. Like we're not, this isn't going to be an

      1:40.3

      advice show. We just wanted to talk in general about, like I said, some questions

      1:45.0

      that do need to be answered in some of our lives and many of our lives. To frame that,

      1:50.6

      I think it's important to note the crucial distinction between strategy and tactics, or another way

      1:58.7

      of thinking about it that is the ends versus the means.

      2:02.8

      So strategy and tactics, it's a distinction that is principally derived from warfare,

      2:09.1

      where the strategy is the macro scale goal.

      2:14.1

      What is the big-ticket achievement that you want? And then the tactics are the individual

      2:20.1

      things that you perform to achieve that strategic goal. You know, so for example, during the

      2:28.0

      Revolutionary War in the colonies, the strategic goal of the colonies was to become independent.

      2:34.0

      And the strategic goal of the colonies was to become independent and the strategic goal of the king was to maintain control over his colonies the tactics were what happened after those two strategic worldviews were fundamentally misaligned they could have just said we're going to part our separate ways, no harm, no foul. Instead,

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