E123 | Beauty, Vulnerability, and the Heart of God

2026-06-10

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Stasi invites Blaine Eldredge, our Director of Spiritual Formation at Wild at Heart, for a conversation about recapturing beauty—not the exhausting beauty our culture demands, but the deeply personal beauty that originates in the heart of God. Together they explore how Jesus reveals a beauty that is vulnerable, relational, and inviting; a beauty that isn’t based on performance, but draws us into His love. Come and rediscover the beauty that moves our hearts toward Him. This is Part 1 of a 2-part conversation.…..SHOW NOTES...

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VERSES:

Genesis 2:18 (NIV) – The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Exodus 33:11 (NIV) – The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend.

Deuteronomy 34:10 (NIV) – Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

Song of Songs 2:14 (NIV) – My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Hebrews 12:18–24 (NIV) – You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them… But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem… to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) – And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

John 4:16–18 (NIV) – He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband.”

2 Kings 17:24–41 (NIV) – Clearly referenced in the discussion of the Samaritan people being brought from five nations associated with false gods and attempting to worship Yahweh alongside them.

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RESOURCES

The Green Ember by S.D. Smith ⁠https://amzn.to/4dyvZCh⁠

The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel ⁠https://amzn.to/4wUgygG⁠

The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel ⁠https://amzn.to/4nEW8np⁠

God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel ⁠https://amzn.to/49cEn99⁠

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle ⁠https://amzn.to/495TaCE⁠

Creation and Fall: A Theological Exposition of Genesis 1-3 by Dietrich Bonhoeffer ⁠https://amzn.to/4tPgr3h⁠

Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) ⁠https://amzn.to/3RvX3dV⁠

The Glory of the Lord by Hans Urs von Balthasar ⁠https://amzn.to/4wEjTA5⁠

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