The Barely Saved Podcast

This description is made via AI summary. The conversation covers a range of topics, including fasting, falling on ice, music, photography, and historical events. It also delves into the use of technology and editing tools for podcasts. The conversation delves into the themes of empires, biblical narratives, and the impact of power dynamics on different cultures. It explores the historical context of Egypt, Babylon, and the Israelite Empire, as well as the influence of empires on religious and social structures. The discussion also touches on the intersection of power, sex, and wealth within the context of empire and the impact of geographical and historical factors on the development of empires. The conversation delves into the concept of empires and their impact on history, exploring the interaction between God's people and empires. It also addresses the tension of how to interact with empire as a Christian and the potential pitfalls of placing human action above God's will.TakeawaysFasting and spiritual practicesHumor and storytellingPhotography and naturePodcast editing and technology Empires play a significant role in shaping historical and religious narratives.The impact of power, sex, and wealth on the dynamics of empire is a recurring theme throughout history. Empires in the Bible serve as a backdrop for the interaction between God's people and the world, highlighting the tension between faith and worldly power.The conversation emphasizes the danger of placing human action above God's will and the potential pitfalls of trying to force empire to rescue God or Christians.Chapters00:00 Fasting and Spiritual Practices11:04 Music and Podcasting22:35 Photography and Nature35:41 Historical Events and Podcast Editing44:35 Egypt as an Empire in the Bible52:35 Geographical and Historical Factors in Empire Development01:01:15 Understanding Empires and Their Impact01:06:56 The Pitfalls of Placing Human Action Above God's Will

The podcast was edited with and this summary was generated by AI.In this episode, the hosts engage in a light-hearted conversation that transitions from personal life updates to a serious discussion about the rise of bear attacks in Japan. They explore the implications of AI in understanding theological concepts, particularly justification, and reflect on the humorous aspects of their discussions. The episode highlights the importance of personal connections, storytelling, and the intersection of humor and serious topics.https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/japan-bear-attacks-troops-deployed-akita-record-sightings-rcna242058https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_Warhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/japan/society/bear-attacks-japan-wildlife/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_Americahttps://speechgenerator.co/free-sermon-generator/https://www.threads.com/@mattvw9287/post/DQ4PzBTDs0q?xmt=AQF0RGzm6slgHzfocobKVVQFWPU3ePPYMLOOBSwxPCI9Bghttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DQhDR8NkW3x/?igsh=bDhxa290cGVhOHhz

Mike, Sam, and Matt talk about Hermit Crabs, Fundamentalism, and Jets from Qatar. Also chili should never have beans. Hermit Crabs Amami Islands Jet Planes Kash Patel

This week Matt, Mike, and Caleb talked about beached whales, the importance of rites, ceremonies, and milestones, and the messages Donald Trump is sending through AI.Pastor Becky's Animal Cornerhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/beached-whale-is-euthanized-on-south-carolina-resort-island/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34News of the Weekhttps://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1918715564656136387https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1919053040734072844

This week Rebecca, Matt, Mike, and Caleb talked about a brown bear who escaped fire by staying home, Trump's actions the first 2 weeks of presidency, and the emergency landing of a plane in Minneapolis.Pastor Becky's Animal Storyhttps://abc7.com/post/family-finds-525-pound-bear-crawl-space-altadena-home-survived-eaton-fire/15852570/News Storieshttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/what-has-trump-done-so-far-executive-orders-1235249597/https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/delta-flight-makes-emergency-landing-msp/89-473d5ad2-1eb5-4ffe-970a-df9bbb644715

This week, Caleb, Matt, Rebecca, and Emily talk about Matt's travels, Bibles required by Oklahoma Schools, What makes a church a church according to Italy, and the eye color of Jesus. https://www.google.com/search?q=meteora https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=251e5a0e8da88d6a&q=los+angeles+airport+aerial+view&udm Pastor Becky's Animal Corner https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/fat-bear-week-2024.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/10/01/fat-bear-week-2024-bears-contenders/ https://news.sky.com/story/fat-bear-week-delayed-after-contestant-killed-by-rival-13227088 The Malcolm Section https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/oklahoma-schools-bible-curriculum/index.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/only-one-bible-edition-appears-to-match-specs-set-by-oklahoma-public-schools-chief/ar-AA1rPLJU?ocid=BingNewsSerp The News https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/09/christian-media-company-apologizes-for-stolen-election-lie/ https://evangelicalfocus.com/european-perspectives/27093/not-a-place-of-worship-after-two-victories-italys-supreme-court-rules-against-evangelical-church-in-rome https://www.readers.com/blogs/news/most-attractive-eye-colors

Pastor Becky's Animal Corner: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/27/bald-eagle-too-fat-missouri/74973329007/

This week Emily, Caleb, and Matt talk to Todd Korpi about a cat hunt that didn't happen in New Zealand, his new book Your Daughters Shall Prophecy: Amplifying the Voice and Place of Christian Women, and Tucker Carlson being fired from Fox News. Pastor Becky's Animal Corner https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/world/australia/new-zealand-cat-hunt.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65320162 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcp1BfPUeOc The Malcolm Section https://www.amazon.com/Your-Daughters-Shall-Prophesy-Amplifying/dp/1666747645/ News of the Week https://www.nbcnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news-rcna81146

This week Caleb, Emily, Matt and Rebecca talk about what books they have been reading, prairie dogs missing from the El Paso Zoo, what Chat GPT thinks a Vengeful Conservative wants to know from liberal pastors, some Junior Bible Quiz questions, and charges against Alec Baldwin being dropped. Pastor Becky’s Animal Corner https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/truly-a-mystery-14-prairie-dogs-disappear-from-el-paso-zoo-underground-hawk-exhibit-enclosure-animals-wildlife-texas-april-4-2023-usda-report News of the Week https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65343821 https://emilydbaker.com/the-emily-show/ What we’ve been reading: https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Union-Unlocks-Explains-Everything/dp/0593445031/ https://www.amazon.com/Great-Story-Commission-Participating-Biblical/dp/154096616X https://www.amazon.com/Scripture-Communication-Introducing-Biblical-Hermeneutics/dp/1540962474/ https://www.amazon.com/Revelation-Rest-Us-Prophetic-Dissident/dp/0310135788/ https://www.amazon.com/Remarkably-Bright-Creatures-A-Novel/dp/B09DTGQHKJ/ https://www.amazon.com/All-My-Knotted-Up-Life-Memoir/dp/B0BP9PFGF2 https://www.amazon.com/Bread-Alone-Reflections-Longing-Goodness/dp/1496461347/ https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Without-Jesus-Christians-Differently/dp/0062560158/ https://www.amazon.com/Rangers-Apprentice-Books-Collection-Set/dp/0440872189/ https://www.amazon.com/Bible-vs-Biblical-Womanhood-Consistently/dp/0310140307/ https://www.amazon.com/Recovering-Biblical-Manhood-Womanhood-Evangelical/dp/1433573458/ https://www.amazon.com/Return-Gods-Jonathan-Cahn/dp/1636411428/ https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Her-Story-Taught-Ministered/dp/1514000741/ https://www.amazon.com/She-Deserves-Better-Teachings-Speaking/dp/1540900835/ https://www.amazon.com/Who-Was-Jesus-N-Wright/dp/080287181X/ https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Quest-Third-Search-Nazareth-ebook/dp/B0033WTLL6/ https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Historical-Jesus-Albert-Schweitzer/dp/0486440273/ https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Free-Indeed-Story-Disentangling/dp/1400335817/ https://www.amazon.com/1984-Essential-Orwell-Classics/dp/6257120896/ https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0062696122/

Rebecca, Emily and Rebecca have a conversation with Sheila Gregoire about her new book: She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up. https://www.amazon.com/She-Deserves-Better-Teachings-Speaking/dp/1540900835/ref=sr_1_1 https://sheilawraygregoire.com/ https://baremarriage.com/

Emily, Mike, and Caleb talk about the closing of the last zoo in Puerto Rico, anointing the sick with oil and prayer for healing, the Congressional hearings about TikTok and Haiti not being invaded by Canada (yet). Pastor Becky’s Animal Corner https://www.kunc.org/news/2023-03-14/a-colorado-sanctuary-steps-in-to-help-animals-after-zoo-closure-in-puerto-rico https://www.history.com/news/human-ancestors-tamed-fire-earlier-than-thought https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0104898# News of the Week https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-hearing-ceo-shou-zi-chew-house-committee-testimony/ https://www.bbc.com/news/65047087 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/21/canada-united-states-haiti-sanctions/

Caleb, Mike, and Rebecca talk about Fluffy Rabbits endangered by over feeding, the sacrament of Penance, and an Atheist acting like a Christian. Pastor Becky’s Animal Corner https://www.insider.com/bunnies-on-japans-rabbit-island-threatened-by-crows-2023-2 News of the Week https://religionnews.com/2023/02/10/his-made-a-fortune-debunking-christian-myths-then-he-did-the-christian-thing-and-donated-it-to-charity/

Emily, Matt, and Caleb talk about animals escaping from zoos, confirmation, and the spy balloon. Pastor Becky's Animal Corner https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-64568405 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/us/dallas-zoo-monkeys-arrest.html? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fossils-of-a-340-pound-giant-penguin-found-in-new-zealand-180981611/ News of the Week https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/spy-balloon-technology/index.html. https://goop.com/heretic-this-smells-like-my-vagina-candle/p/

This week Caleb, Emily, Matt, and Rebecca talked about Ground Hog Day, not marriage, books appropriate for New Testament Survey, a tweet about skirts, and Tyre Nichols. Tweet of the Week https://twitter.com/befaithful10/status/1614342410112319493 News of the Week https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/february-web-only/russell-moore-tyre-nichols-bible-condemns-police-brutality.html

Caleb, Dan, Matt, Mike, and Rebecca talk about a dog shooting a man, a man shooting his own leg, communion, and blessing homosexual couples in the church of England. Pastor Becky’s Animal Corner https://people.com/human-interest/dog-shoots-kills-owner-freak-hunting-accident-kansas/ https://people.com/human-interest/hunter-recovering-shooting-himself-fighting-grizzly-bear-wyoming/ https://www.facebook.com/SubletteSheriff/posts/pfbid05XMsuTY9zh3N4D3Zet48xJLDjGwZgis1deCVkNUaEPhB6y7oHCBFSdWTR1CJbz6al News of the Week https://www.churchofengland.org/media-and-news/press-releases/draft-prayers-thanksgiving-dedication-and-gods-blessing-same-sex

This week Emily, Caleb, and Matt talked about a Himalayan Brown Bear getting drunk and raiding a store, when and why Christians should be baptized, and the news cycle seeming less significant. Pastor Becky's Animal Corner https://www.newsweek.com/drunk-black-bear-rum-stealing-food-17736134 https://kuenselonline.com/bear-who-consumed-alcohol-on-the-run/ https://www.newsweek.com/bear-breaks-cemetery-digs-grave-eats-corpse-1772208 News of the Week https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/us/biden-classified-documents-delaware.html

This week Caleb, Emily, Matt, Mike, and Rebecca talk about the internet famous animals that died in 2022, what happened with Twitter and why, why we don't have a tweet of the week, and the election of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the house. Pastor Becky's Animal Corner https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/look-back-beloved-internet-famous-animals-died-2022-rcna60189 The Malcolm Section https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-contacted-the-babylon-bee-before-buying-9-of-twitter https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/elon-musk-twitter-parody.html News of the Week https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-late-night-mulligan-elected-house-speaker-vote

Caleb, Rebecca, Matt, and Justin talk about exploding trees, Biblical Prayer, Eric Metaxas' twitter and police in America. Didjaknow Watch this first -> https://fox11online.com/weather/weather-stories/lightning-strike-shatters-tree-at-wautoma-school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_tree Theological Topic https://religionnews.com/2021/04/09/a-white-christian-response-to-the-prayer-of-a-weary-black-woman/ https://notthebee.com/article/this-devotional-has-a-prayer-that-literally-says-dear-god-please-help-me-to-hate-white-people Eric Metaxas Tweet https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/1381941669751308291?s=20 News Story https://twitter.com/KyleJamesHoward/status/1382753089472565248?s=20 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daunte-wright-record/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/us/virginia-police-officer-gutierrez-pepper-spray.html?

Didjaknow (4:04) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/cannibal-sandwich-wisconsin.html Discussion on the Church Calendar (10:42) https://www.amazon.com/Liturgical-Year-Spiraling-Adventure-Spiritual/dp/0849946077/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1608317484&sr=8-1 https://anglicancompass.com/what-time-is-it-an-overview-of-the-church-calendar-and-liturgical-year/ Discussion about McConnell and Dominion (41:38) https://www.sevenhillsherald.com/news/mcconnell-values-the-voices-of-all-americans https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/us/dominion-demands-that-sidney-powell-retract-baseless-and-false-allegations-about-voting-machines.html? https://www.insider.com/dominion-voting-qanon-harassment-campaign-noose-georgia-fraud-2020-12 For Come Thou Long Expected Jesus by Jeremy Hoekstra (54:13) https://jeremyhoekstra.bandcamp.com/track/come-thou-long-expected-jesus https://www.jeremyhoekstra.com/home

This week Caleb, Matt, and Rebecca talked about people licking poisonous psychedelic desert frogs, what counts as a spiritual gift, a Truth from Donald Trump, and some election results. Pastor Becky's Animal Corner https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/national-park-service-urges-visitors-not-lick-toxic-psychedelic-toads-rcna56026 Tweet of the Week https://nypost.com/cover/november-10-2022/ https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109322017568994719 News of the Week https://twitter.com/AndySpecht/status/1590464821090455553 https://www.themountaineer.com/news/haywood-voters-elect-unexperienced-college-student-as-new-tax-collector/article_fd0c9fba-5fed-11ed-a317-a71b715aac28.html