Essay on Self-Control: Being in the Realm of Strength, The Gospel in Asia with Will Spencer & Redeemer School with the Arts with Jarrod Richey

Closing Essay on the Fruit of the Spirit and the Return of the Perspectivalist Podcast

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A delightful time with the Will Spencer Show!

The episode reveals surprising insights about global Christianity's future and the strategic church plant launching in Washington D.C.

⇨ TAKEAWAYS

1. CREC has grown to 153 churches worldwide with surprising international expansion

2. Reformed liturgical worship translates effectively across diverse cultural contexts

3. Japanese culture shows remarkable openness to Western Christian influence among youth

4. Becoming Protestant often means family rejection in non-Western cultures

5. Common grace in Japan may be preparing ground for redemptive grace 6. CREC launching strategic church plant in Washington D.C. in June 2024

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Interview with Jarrod Richey on the Perspectivalist

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Season 6 of the Perspectivalist! Today, I’m joined by Mr. Jarrod Richey, Director of Music at Church of the Redeemer in West Monroe, Louisiana, and Academic Dean of the Redeemer School of the Arts.

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Self-Control: Being the Realm of Strength

Walter Mischel was a fascinating professor. He was known as the Marshmallow Man because of his experiments in self-control. Back in the 1970s, he created this assessment to “see how various five-year-olds would respond to being left alone with a marshmallow for 15 minutes with instructions not to eat it — and with the promises that if they didn’t, they would be given two.”