Good Words Podcast

Tim and Becca, parents of toddlers, are making some strange decisions. Sometimes they talk about marriage and life. Somtimes about movies and books. Follow along on their world travels.

38: He Spit on Me!

Front row at a play!
Tienenmen square tank guy
The Table Topic question game
What are you afraid of at 3 AM?
What is the funniest thing your inner child wants?
Barreling forward with the Daniel Dilemma
Everytime you see the culture take a step further from God do you look at it as a new ministry
VidAngel comedians
Fighting with a clever person vs. an intelligent person
The Tim and Becca fighting style. Give me feeling and logic for crying outloud :)
Would using just facts in a fight work with some people?
Do you change your arguing style base on the personality you’re fighting with?
Oh we do have an argument notebook!
Trivia game…This in a shake….yikes!

37: He Took My Tunic

  • Freelance woes
  • When justice is good and when to let your tunic get stolen
  • Trivia question- Tim is up
  • Hope!
  • Exodus, Zachariah, hope and perfume
  • The Israelites and their invisible force field
  • Visions and dreams
  • “The Daniel Dilemma”
  • How do you gracefully confront cultural norms
  • How was Jesus unoffensive and how was he offensive
  • Should you volunteer in the area of your vocation, or what you want to volunteer in?
  • Therapy Game questions:
  • What are you in denial about?
  • What’s the happiest movie ever made?
  • To be Baghera or not to be with parenting

36: Touch That Fire, Baby

Childhood and parenting with special guest Kelly!

  • Best advice ever…blink your eyes and your kids will be at college
  • Did you know before you were a parent that it would be a “life calling”
  • How many times can you safely microwave a plate of food?
  • Oh cherry flavored medicine!
  • How many kids are just so pleasant after giving them de-worming medicine.
  • Is it ok to make rules for kids that don’t apply to yourself?
  • Are you afraid of breaking kids spirits when you give them rules?
  • Representing God to your kids
  • When were you forced to become independent growing up?
  • Birth order
  • How do you not patronize your kids when they are young?
  • Would you let your baby touch a fire to teach them? Or maybe tell them “stop”? Burn one hand off and he’ll have another
  • Not helping a stranger
  • Time schedule and parenting
  • Is it hard to not know what a baby is thinking?
  • Raising ourselves at the exact stage as our own kid

Next episode: reading the beginning of The Daniel Dilemma

35: What Is Chalcedony?

  • Who am I?
  • Trivia
  • The meandering path
  • Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  • So many times what we tell our kids is a disappointment, talking about heaven is a fun reversal of that
  • what is chalcedony
  • Is daydreaming about heaven a biblical thing or an escape?
  • Santa is the perfectionist dream
  • Is Santa a fun daydream or a dangerous lie?
  • Merry Christmas you didn’t get salmonella this year son!
  • Discipling your kids and rewarding them based on behavior
  • Eager expectation for heaven and our new bodies or is it bad to ponder what we do not know
  • The emergency alert in Hawaii
  • A hypothetical from our game…how long do you keep mementosos from past relationships
  • Is there anything of mine you’d eagerly get rid of?

34: At the End of Our Tether

  • Trivia… Let’s grill Tim
  • Santa has jazz hands
  • Rudulph the Red Nose Reindeer “row”
  • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego the card game!!
  • Traveling Light finale!
  • How often do you dream of heaven? A preoccupation. Does thinking about it give you strength for the here and now?
  • I have 1% generosity left to give
  • Our special gift from Tim’s aunt and grandma
  • Tim is more American
  • Tim HAS NOT read!
  • Tethering ourselves to God
  • Different ways of showing our children or others how we love them
  • Tim’s love language is rambunctious, silliness
  • Seeing the outcome of some of God’s promises and using those instances to gain acceptance for the promises not yet seen
  • If I stay sick I have to accept that it’s for God’s glory, or my growth
  • Sometimes life is all morning sickness… and then the end comes
  • Believing God that it’s all going to be worth it in the end.
  • Is it wrong for my motivation to be about the promise of the beauty of heaven and not completely about Jesus?
  • Keeping a steady burn rate
  • Don’t burst my peaceful bubble

33: Special Guest: Jon

  • Trivia questions
  • Bible trivia and Alzheimer’s revenge
  • Improv stuff
  • Spanish and our first mission trip together
  • Jerusalem’s “You Know Nothing” Guy
  • Life Calling
  • Short term missions trips
  • Concentration camps
  • New small group: “Let’s talk about your biggest sin and why you’re not changing”
  • Ashamed to admit I remember Mark Lowry
  • The Afternoon Bible Quiz
  • The Babylon Bee

32: We Do Have the Ability to Bake a Cake!

  • The day is Sunday
  • The verdict is I think it’s going to be ok
  • The infamous quiz show…Tim does not know his Disney princesses
    • Tim claims he’s “tired”
  • Link to Dobson’s interview with Nick Vujicic http://drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=2b05cb63-9d32-4827-b21b-74d1d694f1bc
    • I don’t have it as bad as them… but shame isn’t change
    • The pain of vulnerability
    • The pride of wanting to explain yourself
  • Max Lucado Traveling Light
    • Becca’s book wins. More progress was made.
    • Where am I in this jungle?
    • Peruvian jungle
    • The shepherd makes me lie down by still waters
  • A giant boat captain illustration- close down the compartments of your boats
  • We haven’t been able to function enough hours to do the normal stuff
  • Article link to Iowa https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/where-the-small-town-american-dream-lives-on
    • America’s small towns are dying
    • So why do these dutch people want to stay?
    • If you have the money to pave your roads I’m a little suspicious of you

31: There's Far to Much to Take in Here

We return again…sorry for the gap!
Trivia…this person had no accountants!?!
Sitting on a dirty coach…what load do you need to drop?
Leading a quiet life verses a fantastic life
You could have had yourself a prize pig
It feels like anything should be possible
As soon as you think you have modest goals there is always more
When your world shrinks to the size of your house
Do you feel stuck where you’re at?
Do you ever stop wrestling with God in life?
Is it wrong to fake it until you make it with trust?
I’d like for my name to be River and be totally at peace
Should we just talk in verses to others?
Stalking hope
Would you believe someone if they said it’s going to be ok?
When have you heard God say it’s ok?
Lying to your children about death

Continued Downtime Due to Illness

We still aren’t able to keep to our regular weekly schedule. Becca is very sick and we aren’t sure what the diagnosis is yet. So, new episodes are bound to be random occurrences until she’s feeling better. Thanks for your understanding and your prayers, friends.

30: True or False

  • It’s trivia time!!
    (To clarify we do believe dinosaurs existed, just disagree on the millions of years time frame)
  • I shall name my third child Othaniel
  • About depression, but we promise we get perkier
  • Talking, is it burning trash or chocolate cake?
  • Would you rather sweep or deal with urine? (Yes we are back to urine)
  • More on dinosaurs…
  • Do you think I’ll hate jello “stew” for the rest of my life?
  • Can you see how you’re changing while you’re environment is putting pressure on you?
  • The ripples of events in life’s events, do they get stronger as life goes on?
  • Holding on tightly with hands of wet clay
  • Do you believe you can tell if someone is lying?
  • Are you afraid of mind reading?
  • Do we pay attention enough to ourselves to know if we are going against our natural inclinations?
  • Let’s call me the protagonist of the show
  • Our character is drawn with very fine pens
  • Is real love the capacity to endure any hardship for someone?