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Live From The Path
No. 299 Season 2016 · Episode 37 · Recorded October 24, 2016

2016 Episode 38

12 conversations 1:15:50 With Laura, Nate, Zach
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In this episode

  1. 0:00 3 min

    Show open and agenda rundown

    • How can a teen watching his parents' marriage collapse from the front row seat get help?

    The produced intro plays, then a host lays out the night's agenda: the band Silversyde is in the studio, a promised round of 'pope-style advice' is coming, and several Dear LFTP letters are queued, including one about a teen watching his parents' marriage collapse (never covered on-air) and one about a family criticizing a listener's career choice.

  2. Bit 3:03 2 min

    Banana suit photos and the cloak-versus-cape debate

    The hosts joke about photos of a co-host dressed in a banana suit playing with children's toys, then riff at length on the difference between a cloak and a cape, invoking Phantom of the Opera and Dracula.

  3. Interview 5:19 2 min

    Silversyde's Seventh Day Slumber tour

    The hosts interview the in-studio band about the Small Town America tour with Seventh Day Slumber: roughly 10,000 miles in a month across Texas, California, Arizona, Washington, Colorado, and Idaho, including a Walmart parking lot show in Wyoming.

  4. Testimony 7:45 4 min

    The Wyoming engine fix praise report

    A band member tells the tour's best story: facing a roughly $1,000 engine repair in Wyoming with only trailer savings on hand, a local mechanic fixed the vehicle for free while they played the show, the crowd took up a love offering, and they also received two new rims and tires plus a trailer spare.

  5. Interview 11:32 10 min

    Pulled over twice in Texas

    The band recounts two traffic stops in Texas over gold-chain license plate borders: a Sunday-morning warning, then a 7:30 a.m. stop where the driver was pulled aside for a vehicle search on drug suspicion that found nothing, ending with the band offering the officer hand sanitizer.

  6. Interview 21:09 8 min

    NAMM showcase and next album plans

    The band explains their first NAMM appearance in Anaheim (a paid showcase, networking, and new-gear demos) and their plans for the new year: crowdfunding and recording a third studio album, a full-length follow-up to their six-song EP, then touring off it starting in June.

  7. Interview 29:16 8 min

    The new trailer and #NameThatTrailer

    The band shows off a new trailer bought the prior Monday to replace the old single-axle 'War Horse'; gear gets military-style names (the bus is 'Megatron', a drum case 'the Colonel'), and the hosts launch a #NameThatTrailer social campaign while the band vetoes 'Thunder Cuddles'.

  8. 37:06 22 min

    Pope-style advice: open your gates

    • Do I need to do something drastic for the kingdom, or can my ordinary life count as faithful work?

    A host delivers the promised 'pope-style advice': rather than waiting to do something drastic for the kingdom, live your ordinary life following Jesus with open eyes ('open your gates') and take people along. He traces the idea through Tim Tebow inserting himself into strangers' crises, a coworker he walked past in his office cafeteria, and a morning when a missed breakfast led him to a coffee shop where he helped a homeless couple and connected them with the Joppa homeless ministry.

  9. 58:39 4 min

    Co-host response: the joy that baffles checkbox Christians

    A co-host responds to the open-gates advice: living that way produces real joy in serving, it baffles nominal 'checkbox Christians,' and the good news doesn't require a trip to Zimbabwe — it can reach a buddy over coffee.

  10. Dear LFTP 1:02:32 8 min

    Dear LFTP: family criticizes her teaching career

    • My family keeps making hurtful comments about my career choice (education vs. engineering) - how can I get them to stop?

    The hosts read a letter from the third of four children whose engineer family keeps jabbing at her education career ('we know you can't afford it'); they debate whether she's overreacting, land on 'just talk to them' direct communication, with one co-host insisting her husband should firmly shut down comments that hurt his wife, then read the Secular answer.

  11. Dear LFTP 1:10:50 4 min

    Dear LFTP: college daughter's friend never includes her

    • My college daughter's friend never includes her in outings - should I privately say something to the friend about my daughter's hurt feelings?

    The hosts read a letter from a mother whose college daughter's friend/roommate never returns social invitations, and advise her not to intervene directly but to coach her daughter to have the conversation herself, then read the Secular answer.

  12. 1:15:06 1 min

    Sign-off: be faithful in the means

    The hosts close out the trailer-naming bit and sign off with the benediction 'be faithful in the means, let God handle the ends.'

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