Brian From kicks off the weekend reflecting on what fall’s changing seasons reveal about a God who never changes. He vents about increasingly reckless, distracted drivers, and walks through Russell Moore’s Christianity Today column explaining why recent events, including Christa Pike’s failed execution in Tennessee and plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, have moved him away from supporting capital punishment. Brian revisits the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal as a warning about money, helicopter parenting, and the message we send kids when we don’t believe in them. He shares Tim Challies’s case that every part of a worship service matters, not just the sermon, and urges listeners to get to church on time. In the second hour, Brian encourages patience in planting spiritual seeds, discusses a survey showing financial anxiety affects people at every income level, and shares a Gospel Coalition piece on living in the moment with eternity in mind. He closes with OpenAI data showing ChatGPT receives more than 70 million religion-related questions a week, a sign that people are hungry for answers.

<p>Brian From kicks off the weekend reflecting on what fall&rsquo;s changing seasons reveal about a God who never changes. He vents about increasingly reckless, distracted drivers, and walks through Russell Moore&rsquo;s Christianity Today column explaining why recent events, including Christa Pike&rsquo;s failed execution in Tennessee and plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, have moved him away from supporting capital punishment. Brian revisits the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal as a warning about money, helicopter parenting, and the message we send kids when we don&rsquo;t believe in them. He shares Tim Challies&rsquo;s case that every part of a worship service matters, not just the sermon, and urges listeners to get to church on time. In the second hour, Brian encourages patience in planting spiritual seeds, discusses a survey showing financial anxiety affects people at every income level, and shares a Gospel Coalition piece on living in the moment with eternity in mind. He closes with OpenAI data showing ChatGPT receives more than 70 million religion-related questions a week, a sign that people are hungry for answers.</p>

The idea of “the common good” has a rich history within the Christian church. It’s the notion that, as we pursue Jesus in our lives and in the lives of others, we are fulfilling God’s purposes for His creation. This pursuit can be messy. It means rolling up our sleeves and creating space for hard conversations about real issues that impact our lives. Things like parenting, marriage, finances, politics, art, and culture. On The Common Good, Brian From creates space to have these conversations, to sit with the big questions that we all have, to sometimes disagree, but to always look for the chance to create common good, by following after Jesus. Brian welcome listeners to join them in these conversations, to bring their own questions, hopes, and struggles, and to ultimately share in a journey to see God’s design for all of us fulfilled.

<p>The idea of &ldquo;the common good&rdquo; has a rich history within the Christian church. It&rsquo;s the notion that, as we pursue Jesus in our lives and in the lives of others, we are fulfilling God&rsquo;s purposes for His creation. This pursuit can be messy. It means rolling up our sleeves and creating space for hard conversations about real issues that impact our lives. Things like parenting, marriage, finances, politics, art, and culture. On The Common Good, Brian From creates space to have these conversations, to sit with the big questions that we all have, to sometimes disagree, but to always look for the chance to create common good, by following after Jesus. Brian welcome listeners to join them in these conversations, to bring their own questions, hopes, and struggles, and to ultimately share in a journey to see God&rsquo;s design for all of us fulfilled.</p>