Sheep Among Wolves Jeff Werkheiser and Danny De León

In this episode, Jeff flies solo to tackle a Christmas classic on the 75th anniversary of its release. He does drone on a bit about some of the movie's background (feel free to skip to around the 24:30 mark if that doesn't interest you) before getting around to the worldview discussion. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Sheep Among Wolves!

Danny and Jeff lay out why they're discussing a movie...and how they plan to go about it...before attempting their first worldview-centric movie review, Pixar's 1994 classic, The Incredibles.

Jeff and Danny bring Lewis' book in for a landing, focusing on the last two chapters. Topics include: how living by faith should affect behavior; how sometimes those who are not Christians have unreasonable expectations of how well-behaved Christians should actually be; how God is actually interested in something greater than just altering our behavior (he wants to produce new kinds of people!); how becoming "new people" is the process of becoming like Christ.

Thanks to anyone who made it this far in our podcast. We had a great time with this discussion, and hope it will encourage you to read Lewis' book. Even more, that it will encourage you to seek Jesus in the Word of God.

Yep, it's only episode 9 (Jeff and Danny are still confused). Among the topics of conversation in this episode: the importance of "counting the cost" of following Jesus; what it takes to answer Jesus' call to "perfection"; how the command to “be perfect” is neither idealistic nor impossible.

In this episode, Jeff and Danny begin Book 4, the last in Mere Christianity (and they get the episode number wrong yet again). They discuss: what it means to "put on Christ" (including the idea that a certain amount of "positive pretending" might be involved); how Christ working in us begins to turn our "pretending" into reality; how attempting to become like Christ helps us to realize quickly just how rotten we really are at our core; how "putting on Christ"--what we today typically call "discipleship"--really is the core of what it means to be a Christian; and how this process is both challenging and gradual.

In this episode, Jeff and Danny cover two chapters in which Lewis focuses on different aspects of faith: how faith is defined; the role of "reason" in faith formation; some things that battle against faith and reason; the need for faith to "trained"; achieving faith in a "higher" sense in which we fully recognize our own limitations; the need for faith and works to function together in order for God to do his best work within us.