Authentic Masculinity and Intimacy with Jesus (John Eldredge) | Ep. 514
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 206 minutes
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Summary
John Eldredge is an author, counselor, and speaker best known for his book Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul, which explores biblical masculinity and the deep desires of a man’s heart. Born in 1960, Eldredge has dedicated much of his work to spiritual formation, healing, and calling men and women to a more intimate relationship with God. He is the founder of Wild at Heart Ministries (formerly Ransomed Heart), which offers resources, retreats, and teachings on the restoration of the soul. His writing blends storytelling, theology, and personal experience, often drawing from literature, adventure, and nature to illustrate spiritual truths.
👉 Get John's new book here: https://www.amazon.com/Experience-Jesus-Really-Strength-Encounters/dp/1400208653?ref_=ast_sto_dp
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| 0:00.0 | Extremism on any side, right or left, will not heal nations. |
| 0:05.0 | If you just care about the moral issues of human sexuality and the sanctity of life, |
| 0:13.0 | we have had our back against the wall for quite a while. |
| 0:16.0 | And so now to, quote, be in power, there's now this stick it to them. |
| 0:20.0 | Scripture says, when your enemy |
| 0:21.6 | stumbles, do not rejoice, let's the Lord see and remove his hand. The other thing that's going |
| 0:27.2 | on in the world that concerns me is Christianity isn't the only religion that's breaking forth. |
| 0:32.8 | That fastest growing religion in America is witchcraft. We need to be concerned about that, |
| 0:38.6 | that people are not just fascinated with, you know, woo-woo and hot yoga and ayahuasca, you know, but what they're |
| 0:45.8 | looking for is an actual, it's spirituality of actual experience. |
| 0:57.2 | It's really amazing to have you on as the first interview in the new studio. |
| 1:02.0 | How fun. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | Thanks so much for agreeing to come. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | So for those who are watching may not be familiar with you, you have an excellent podcast called Wild at Heart. And at the beginning of each episode, you have a pause where you kind of invite people to just surrender everything to Christ. And I admitted to you yesterday in a conversation |
| 1:28.2 | that I sometimes find that irritating, not intellectually. I don't rationally think this is wrong. |
| 1:34.3 | I just, I realize when I listen to your podcast that, oh, I'm just looking to distract myself |
| 1:39.9 | right now. I'm not actually so, but I always am so grateful for the pause. So I thought we could |
| 1:46.5 | both ourselves surrender everything to Christ and invite our viewers to do the same. Yeah, yeah, |
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