Season 1, Episode 9. You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Podcast is About You
You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Podcast is About You
Rach, Britt, Maddy, and Bec chat about our vain interests (see: fashion, deep-diving true crime podcasts, mindless celebrity knowledge, trashy novels, and music you scream-sing in the car with no kids around). The kind of stuff you wonder… “As a Christian, should I even be into this?”
Thanks for listening to Season 1, Episode 9 of The After Dinner Mint, a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. Thanks for sharing your day with us!
You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Podcast is About You is a conversation with Rach, Britt, Maddy, and Bec about our vain interests (see: fashion, deep-diving true crime podcasts, mindless celebrity knowledge, trashy novels, and music you scream-sing in the car with no kids around). The kind of stuff you wonder… “As a Christian, should I even be into this?”
In today’s episode, we:
🎧 Discuss what we are learning about pleasure, freedom, gratitude, and boundaries.
🎧 Deep dive about personality, identity, stewardship, and the authenticity trap.
🎧 Share how we work out (even on air), whether a book or a show is a good thing for us
🎧 Explore role of community in working out what we watch and don’t watch, read and don’t read, listen or don’t listen to.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Bible verses
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?” (Matthew 6:26-30)
“He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” (Luke 19:40 ESV)
“Let all creation rejoice before the Lord,” (Psalm 96:13)
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. (Philippians 4:8)
Romans chapter 14
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2)
Ecclesiastes, “vain” is translated like “fleeting breath,” or “mist.”
“Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1)
“But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall. (1 Corinthians 8:7:-13)
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17)