Used Car Insights with Ian Bishop

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel continue their series about spiritual leadership at home and how to interface with the local elder/fathers, thick community (12:20), iron sharpening iron (18:00), receiving at a church where you don’t feel to be in submission (43:30), and mutual submission with other believers (53:45). They also talk about naked old men in saunas (it’s not weird).

3 Maalis 202157min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel discuss eldership in the home (8:30): what do the elder descriptions from 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 have to do with home leadership (Hint: a lot. Your home IS a tiny church nugget). They also discuss celebrity conversions (52:00) because they can’t help it.

24 Helmi 20211h 1min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel talk haircuts, crypto (while Steven eats… forgive us listener), and then review and celebrate LoDoFebruary, their annual season of cost-cutting and self-denial. Then, they go off on a tangent about headphones (24:30) for some strange reason.

17 Helmi 202128min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel host this special edition of the podcast to talk about a job opening they have at Outpost Advisors. They attempt to do so with a light touch, as usual. See the job description right here, or visit OutpostAdvisors.net and scroll down to ‘careers’ if you’re on a platform that doesn’t like our links.

15 Helmi 202120min

Michael Beausejour joins Steven Manuel to talk about what can reasonably be done with young children to develop spiritual capital in them. They discuss goals for infants in arms (6:30), the young father who feels he has to choose between disciplemaking and changing diapers (12:15), how to make Bible reading meaningful for kiddos (26:00), which weekly chores are good for a 6-year-old (31:00), what a normal week looks like in the Beausejour home (31:45), where to start if you’ve never tried to have spiritual rhythms in your home (36:45), and how having godly, just-a-bit-older heroes for our kids is a major win (45:00). Michael has more kids than you do (7 under the age of 8!) so give him a listen.

10 Helmi 202149min

Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel review the latest goings on with definitions of key terms, colorful/questionable illustrations, and sound effects. All in under 20 minutes!

3 Helmi 202120min

Mark Parrett joins Steven Manuel to talk about the coming financial changes under the Biden administration, and how Bibilically-thinking family leaders can prepare their finances for those changes. Mark shares his research regarding Biden’s financial policies (11:30), including tax changes, charitable giving (17:00), Roth IRAs (24:00), real estate investing (27:45), estate tax changes (33:30), and free money for first-time home buyers (50:20)… Steven also rants about inflation (51:15). The fellas finish with an assurance that you don’t have to agree with us about any of this (1:04:00).

3 Helmi 20211h 7min

Steven Manuel and Jeff Davenport get together to discuss a new president, new policies, and how Biblical family leaders should get upstream of today’s most pressing cultural issues. They discuss how to pray for President Biden (9:15), failed election prophecies (13:30), and what the Biden administration promises to look like culturally (and how we might respond) (20:30). Jeff also describes his love of Larry King, and shares his timeless impersonations of Tom Brokaw and Keith Jackson.

27 Tammi 20211h 26min