Levvy Podcast

Levvy Podcast

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Curious Conversations About Christ-Centered Integration

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Is Desire Doxology?

After weeks of exploring what desire is, the Levvy hosts bring it home with four questions. When does desire go wrong? How do I deal with disappointment with God? Have I given myself permission to want? And what does it look like to give my desire to the Lord? The answers are as different as the four people in the room. The season that began with a wicked problem ends with a doxology — desire, rightly held, speaks glory. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 00:42 What is doxology — and why desire is doxology 02:20 Round robin format — four questions, ten minutes each 03:40 Question 1: When does desire go wrong? 05:23 How do we know if our desires are in alignment? 07:09 Gluttony, lust, greed — motivation is the key distinction 09:01 Does it harm myself, others, or the environment? 10:23 Desire goes wrong when coming from lack rather than abundance 12:06 Paul — content in abasement and abundance 12:41 Question 2: How do I deal with disappointment with God? 13:32 Deal with it with him — God is not afraid of your ugly 15:17 What if it's a dark night moment? 16:26 The dark night of the soul and what lives on the other side 19:33 Bitterness as the poison of disappointment 21:00 Be the rabbit — hold space and let God do the heavy lifting 22:49 Question 3: Have I given myself permission to want? 24:24 God would rather steer a moving ship than wait for perfect alignment 28:14 Leroy names his acting desire — and the open door 31:00 Even in the trenches knowing what you want still matters 33:13 Question 4: What does it look like to give my desire to the Lord? 37:24 Check desire against values as a plumb line 39:09 For me giving desire to the Lord is about embracing it not letting go 41:22 The closed fist and the open hand — two postures toward desire 43:23 Takeaway and close Mentions: The Seven Deadly SinsThe Dark Night of the SoulThe Rabbit Listened Next Step: Think about questions you still have about desire. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jul 22

Is There Desire After Death?

What if heaven isn't the end of desire — but the beginning of it? In this episode the Levvy hosts take the most speculative and most personal question in the desire arc — is there desire after death — and refuse to answer it safely. Lindsay argues that a heaven without desire is theologically incoherent. Ralph names what passes away and what doesn't — the flesh, not the wanting. Adam wonders whether eternity might actually feature an exponential increase in desire. And Leroy connects it all to a simple and radical claim: desire is eternal. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 02:36 A biblical framework — not proof texts but handles to pull on 04:17 Will we want, dream, and aspire in eternity? 07:53 There is forever to see all our seedling desires realized 08:54 This is an exploratory conversation — we get to dream 11:54 The flesh and the spirit — what passes away and what continues 14:51 The sin nature passes away — but the physical body doesn't 16:07 Eternity as the full realization of all of God's promises 18:04 If desire is good from the beginning it must be eternal 19:12 All that lives forever is love 19:21 What brings God the most glory in the eternal state? 20:17 Getting to the finish line — the glorious day 22:36 You can't remove desire from the equation of bringing him glory 25:48 When we see him we will be like him — and still us 28:51 Why is it important to think about these things? 29:18 A near-death experience and a child seen in eternity 30:48 The desires we have now are part of our eternal desire 33:48 Legacy comes with you — what people will say when you're gone 35:10 Faith and reward — there is something to look forward to 38:10 Abraham owned only a grave — but his legacy shaped generations 41:57 The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want 44:11 Eden as the prototype — work and desire existed in perfection 45:15 Beholding his beauty may actually increase desire exponentially 46:45 Takeaway: desire is eternal and what we do with it now matters Mentions: Steffany Gretzinger - All That Lives Forever Is LoveJosh Garrels - Heaven’s Knife Next Step: Direct your desires toward the Lord now as the eternal now-but-not-yet takes shape. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jul 15

Can Beauty Save The World?

What is beauty, really? In this episode the Levvy hosts take one of the most provocative questions in Western thought and refuse to answer it quickly. The conversation moves through athletic beauty, artistic beauty, the beauty of kindness, the cost of pursuing physical beauty across cultures, Ralph's raw account of growing up Black in an Italian neighborhood and the moment someone finally saw him differently, and Lindsay's naming of the most personal dimension of the whole conversation — the power of being desired. The episode closes where the show began — the wicked problem, the many parts, the one body — and lands on an answer that's both ancient and completely unexpected. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 01:54 Opening definition — beauty as wholeness and entanglement 03:42 Beauty can only truly be seen in comparison and juxtaposition 06:11 Beauty as recognition of something set apart — a reflection of holiness 09:44 The recognition of beauty might be what saves the world 12:34 Where do you most easily recognize beauty? 15:30 Jesus is the beautiful thing — the cross as ultimate beauty 18:14 Crying at a perfect Olympic vault — beauty as involuntary response 19:34 Physical beauty globally and the pursuit at what cost 22:14 We live in a fallen world — instilling values vs. worldly beauty standards 29:26 Isaiah 53 — Jesus came without physical appeal and yet is ultimate beauty 32:05 Growing up Black in an Italian neighborhood — being beheld differently 37:08 All attempts at physical beauty are really about being seen and wanted 41:09 The ethics of beauty — you don't have to demean one thing to raise another 47:06 Full circle to the wicked problem — beauty, wholeness, entanglement and close Mentions: Beauty is Oxygen by Wesley Vander Lugt: https://a.co/d/0bzSjAF4Oddkin Unite: https://www.kinshipplot.org/arts-and-communityMichael Jackson & Appearance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_appearance_of_Michael_Jackson Next Step: Recognize the beauty in someone this week who may not have been told they are beautiful. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jul 8

How Soon Is Now?

Every desire carries a timestamp. You know what you want. What you don't know is when. In this episode the Levvy hosts sit inside one of the most universally human experiences — the gap between longing and receiving. Lindsay shares for the first time the story of praying for her mother's healing through childhood, watching her die anyway, and the long prodigal journey back to a God she felt had failed her. Leroy shares a twenty-year wait for a person he believed God had promised him — and the stunning, unexpected way it resolved. Ralph names the temptation to get creative when God says wait. And Adam names the question underneath it all: why does waiting matter? The answer the episode arrives at is both simple and costly. What makes waiting bearable isn't answers. It's surrender. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 01:36 Veruca Salt and the desire for it now 03:27 Wanting and waiting — the universal tension 04:50 The practical side of waiting is the hardest side 07:18 What kinds of things do we desire categorically 08:37 God allows the wait to build faith and appreciation 13:05 Why is waiting difficult — and what we learn from Abraham and Sarah 17:42 Praying for a mother's healing that never came 22:45 The long road back to God after walking away 32:25 Does waiting produce maturity? 37:26 Desire is the gravity that gives our souls density 38:19 When God gives a desire we didn't ask for — David's story 41:23 What makes waiting bearable is surrender 45:10 Tamar — taking matters into your own hands when wronged 48:41 Takeaway: trust grows in the waiting Mentions: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: https://amzn.to/4oZjjJYMaslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.htmlThe Declaration of Independence: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcriptAnti-Gravity Physiological Impact: https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/living-zero-gravity-causes-many-changes-body Next Step: Entrust your desires to God. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jul 1

What Now?

What do you actually want? It sounds simple, but for many followers of Christ it's one of the hardest questions to answer honestly. In this transitional episode the Levvy hosts open a brand new season arc around desire — exploring where it comes from, what it costs, and why knowing your desires isn't selfish, it's foundational. Ralph shares how unchecked desire cost him his marriage, his job, and his health. Lindsay tells the story of a desire so deep it fractured her body before it was finally fulfilled. Adam names the opposite problem — a Christianity so focused on denial that desire itself got buried. And Leroy offers a framework: know thyself, control thyself, deny thyself — in that order. Desire, it turns out, is where integration begins. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 02:32 Desire as the first topic the team ever discussed 03:45 Desire as the foundation underneath all three pillars 04:47 Motivation, belief, and desire — where do they overlap? 08:17 Desire, hope, and the dream that drives you 09:18 Desire as both disintegrator and integrator 11:08 Two sides of the spectrum — overindulgence vs. total denial 12:19 Know thyself, control thyself, deny thyself 15:07 The outside pressures that inform our desires 17:23 It is about you — it's just not all about you 18:02 The heart is deceitful — and the 18-inch journey 19:29 Psalm 37:4 — delight and the desires of your heart 21:17 Delight as the doorway to true desire surfacing 23:36 Corporate and kingdom desire — thy kingdom come 25:15 Alignment — what happens when desire and Christ separate 26:45 Lindsay's story — the desire for children and the long wait 31:33 Three things desire taught us — transformative, costly, discerning 32:30 What do you want now vs. when you first came to Christ? 37:00 Even God's desire cost him his son 37:35 Takeaway and close Mentions: The 18 Inch Journey by Cageless Birds Next Step: Continue the conversation about what desire looks like for you personally, relationally, and culturally. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jun 24

Did Rome Really Fall In A Day?

Why do empires fall? And what does the collapse of Rome have to do with what's right now? In this episode the Levvy hosts open the third pillar — cultural disintegration — and the conversation moves from power to pride to the cross, with a sharp pivot into AI that nobody saw coming. With 2.4 billion Christians in the world still at each other's throats, the question is whether we're willing to pick up our cross instead of reaching for power. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 02:33 Rome didn't fall in a day — cultural disintegration unpacked 05:14 Is it complex or is simplicity the root? 06:24 Power named as disintegrator 07:42 The Ring of Power as a lens 09:20 Power is a tool 10:08 Lack of unity vs. uniformity — a critical distinction 14:51 Humility as the key and Jesus as the unifier 16:29 The objection — Christianity itself has been used to wield power 18:18 Satan, Hitler, Napoleon — the idea of being above God 22:07 The cross as the countercultural expression of power 23:58 2.4 billion Christians — so why are we still at war? 28:36 Is transformation happening behind the scenes? 30:26 God's movement among the Roma people and the Middle East 33:16 Why isn't it happening here — barriers in the Western church 34:28 AI introduced as a potential integrator or disintegrator 37:27 Why do we need AI? We have Christ 38:02 Either we humble ourselves or something will humble us 41:43 The Tower of Babel — God's issue wasn't the technology 44:43 Takeaway and action step Mentions: The Roman EmpireThe Rings of Power (LOTR)Pope Leo’s Magnifica HumanitasThe Roma PeopleGames: Risk & Catan Next Step: Continue having these conversations with yourself, with others, and with God. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jun 17

What's Your Poison?

The relationship didn't fall apart because of them — it's time to ask what you brought to the table! Every broken relationship has a story, and most of us tell it starting with what the other person did. But what if the real question is: what's your poison? In this episode the Levvy hosts turn the mirror on themselves — exploring the relational disintegrators that live inside us and follow us from relationship to relationship. Ralph traces his divorce back to unhealed wounds from a prior relationship. Leroy names codependency as his own recurring pattern. Lindsay maps the progression from unhealed individual to relational destruction with unflinching clarity. And Adam draws the through line: real relational integration only happens in places where it's safe to be unsafe. The takeaway is personal, vulnerable, and necessary — because what we bring to the table is almost always part of the story. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 01:47 Flipping the script — looking at yourself as the poison 03:16 Making it about self — the core relational disintegrator 04:55 Trust and the self-focus connection 05:52 Divorce, failure, and what God makes beautiful from it 08:39 Inconsiderate — what the root word reveals 09:11 Narcissism — buzzword or finally being named? 12:57 Can you really trust anyone? 14:03 Abiding as the foundation for trust 16:05 Sacrificial love and stepping into unsafe places 20:14 Unhealed wounds from the past poisoning present relationships 26:53 Self-righteousness as a relational disintegrator 29:24 Codependency and looking to others to fill what only God can 32:26 Motivations as the hidden driver of relational disintegration 39:23 Relationships as the crucible 40:53 The fruit of the unhealed individual 45:25 Takeaway and action step Mentions: Miranda Lambert - Heart Like Mine Next Step: In the safety of God's love, invite the Holy Spirit to show you what poison you brought to a specific broken relationship. If led, go further: reach out, make amends, or ask someone to show you what you couldn't see yourself. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music
Jun 10

Who Told You, You Were Naked?

"Who told you you were naked?" is still the most penetrating question any of us will ever face. In this episode the Levvy hosts go deep into the personal disintegrators that fracture the self — shame, fear, sin, blame, and self-abandonment — tracing each one back to its root and asking what it actually costs us to believe the lies we've been told about ourselves. With rare vulnerability Leroy shares a childhood moment that introduced shame into his story, Lindsay names the enemy's primary track in her own life, and Ralph maps the progression from shame to fear to blame with disarming honesty. The takeaway: in the safety of the Father's love, it's finally possible to look at the broken places without being destroyed by them. 00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question 02:06 Shame as the primary individual disintegrator 03:25 The Emperor's New Clothes and the experience of nakedness 05:25 The formation of self comes from multiple sources 08:02 The difference between guilt and shame 09:24 Shame, blame, and the progression after the fall 11:34 The blame game — not me, it wasn't me 13:22 Fear as a fracturing agent — which came first, fear or shame? 16:49 Leroy's childhood story — the moment shame entered in 20:02 Children are especially vulnerable to shame-based fracturing 22:36 Ralph's father, comparisons, and the teacher who changed everything 26:12 Words that create narratives — and sin introduced as a disintegrator 27:41 The opposite of love is fear, not hate 29:13 Sin post-cross and the woman caught in adultery 35:32 God hates sin because of how it hurts us 39:15 Getting to the motivations beneath sin 43:08 Self-abandonment as a disintegrator 45:09 Lindsay names the enemy's primary track in her own life 50:02 Takeaway and action step Mentions: The Emperor's New Clothes — Hans Christian Andersen story referenced by Leroy as an analogy for self-delusion around nakedness and shame Next Step: In the safety and security of God's love, ask yourself: where has shame entered in? What is the lie at the root? Pray and ask God to show you what's there — and believe that you are clothed. Connect: Patreon: https://patreon.com/LevvyPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levvypodcast/ Website: https://www.levvypodcast.com/ Email: levvypodcast@gmail.com Listen on: SPOTIFY | APPLE | AMAZON About: Join Leroy Case, and co-hosts Ralph, Lindsay, and Adam for curious conversations about Christ-centered integration individually, relationally, and culturally. Credits: Andrew Springman - Music

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