Striving for the Masteries Podcast
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Episode List
Episode 1 - The Genesis of Striving For the Masteries - published 03/24/25
In this first episode, your host shares the journey which led to the development of the Striving for the Masteries book and program.
Episode 2 - Why Spiritual Development is Essential to Personal Transformation - Published 03-31-25
While we easily recognize the value of developing and improving ourselves in various areas of our lives - physically, mentally, socially, even financially - developing ourselves spiritually is an area most of us struggle to understand, and may assume we can disregard entirely. The truth is, our spiritual development is the most important area of life to focus upon if we want to experience true personal transformation. This episode is given to provide food for thought for the skeptical, in hopes they may be encouraged to seek God for themselves.
Episode 3 - The Value of Physical Fitness in Personal Transformation - Published 04-07-25
While our spiritual development is essential to our personal transformation, there is value to physical fitness in helping us to achieve our purpose and potential that we must not overlook. In this episode, the host shares 3 reasons why it is worth not only maintaining and but also improving our physical health.
Episode 4 - Recommended Reading: “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl - Published 04-14-25
If we are seeking to better ourselves, a great way we can do that is by reading good books that will challenge our thinking and prompt us to become better. This episode highlights one such book - "Man's Search For Meaning" by Victor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor camp who shares his observations as a psychologist from his experiences therein.
Episode 5 - The Importance of Vision - Published 04-21-25
Businesses recognize the value a vision statement provides them, and many companies are willing to invest a significant amount of both time and human resources to develop one that will guide them into a more successful future. In the same way, taking time to develop a personal vision statement have be a great help to us as we seek to better ourselves. This episode provides some helpful thoughts on this subject, identifying Christ and Christlikeness to be the ultimate vision we should seek to personally realize.
Episode 6 - "Be Thou My Vision" - Jesus Christ, Man's Ultimate Ideal to Pursue - Published 04-28-25
Last episode, we identified that in seeking vision for our lives, we are identifying not only what we want to achieve but also who we hope to become. Recognizing this naturally leads us to seek to identify what ideal we are to pursue. We find the ultimate image of the human ideal in one man, Jesus Christ, and the more deeply we study his ways and his words we recognize His is the life we should pattern our lives after.
Episode 7 - "Embracing Challenge - Interview with Jason Weening of Helping Men Thrive - 05-05-25
While we are often reluctant to get out of our comfort zone, as we accept and embrace challenge we experience God's enabling to do far more that we thought we could. In this episode, we converse with Jason Weening, who co-hosts the "Helping Men Thrive" Podcast, and together we share about our experiences as authors and as fathers of 10.
Episode 8 -Overcoming Our Past - Interview with Pastor Dave Webster - Published 05-12-25
..For those that have made terrible mistakes that have led them into addiction or incarceration, there often seems little hope that they can overcome the mistakes of their past and truly rebuild their lives. Having spent many years ministering to the imprisoned and the addicted, Pastor Webster of Prince Albert Baptist Church can attest that though it not easy, it is possible with God's help.
Episode 9 - Christ, Our Foundation - Interview with Dan Luigs, The Journey of a Christian Dad
The Bible speaks of Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone, giving us the sense that He is the one upon whom we should build our lives. However, what does that look like in a practical sense? To answer this question, Scott is joined by Dan Luigs, who hosts the podcast, "The Journey of a Christian Dad".
Episode 10 - The Necessity of Pruning - Published 05-26-25
Just as regular pruning is needed to ensure a fruit tree is as productive as possible, so must we learn to eliminate non-essentials in our lives so that they we can experience greater fruitfulness. In this episode, your host shares various insights on this topic from a Biblical perspective.
Episode 11 - "Meet for the Master's Use" - Gaining Vision of The Impact God Wants Your Life to Have
As we embrace the necessity of God's purging process, and embrace Christ as the vision of who we want to become, we also want to gain a vision of what God could do with our lives as we yield them to him. In this episode, your host discusses how one can gain such a vision.
Episode 12 - Recommended Reading - “The Book That Made Your World” by Vishal Mangalwadi
The Bible and its principles are as relevant and life-changing today as they have always been, yet by many in Western society the Bible is dismissed and disregarded. In "The Book that Made your World: How the Bible Created the soul of Western Civilization", author Vishal Mangalwadi of India provides to us a comprehensive treatise on the Bible’s value to us today, a discussion of which our society presently and desperately needs.
Episode 13 - "Who are You? Understanding Identity from a Biblical Perspective - published 06-16-25
Who are you? How would you define yourself? How do others define you? If those definitions conflict, how do you know which definition denotes your true identity? These are not simple questions to answer, but finding the answers is essential, otherwise we struggle to find our place in this world. In our present Western society, there is much confusion as to identity, but as it states in 1 Corinthians 14:33, God is not the author of confusion; He wants us to have full clarity as to who we truly are. Both as individuals and as a society, as we reacquaint ourselves with the principles of identity as delineated in God's word, the Bible, we discover not only how God defines us but also how He can redefine us.
Episode 14 - "Child of God: Identity in Christ, Part 1" - Published 06-23-25
Through the power of redemption, God is able to redefine us, and coming to understand our new identity in Christ is key to overcoming our past and fulfilling our purpose and potential. In this episode, your host discusses one aspect of that new identity - that we are now beloved, adopted children of God - and lays out the implications of being a part of God's family.
Episode 15 - "Accepted In The Beloved: Identity in Christ, Part 2" - Published 06-30-25
As we come to experience rejection from others, we can mistakenly think that we must try our hardest to be as good as we possibly can so that God will accept us. The reality is that in Christ we are already accepted by God, and that acceptance enables us to have access to God so that we can be enabled to live the life we should.
Next Episode - "Transforming Together: Using Striving for the Masteries as a Family" - Coming 07-07-
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