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Become Good Soil186: Becoming the Questions “Questions are the tools of transformation. They disturb our certainty and awaken our longing.”— James K. A. SmithThe power of questions is central to the path of an apprentice—especially the questions we don’t realize we are asking and the unconscious answers that shape our every moment. What questions have you recovered along the way of your initiation? And how are you allowing these questions to shape your apprenticeship as kings and queens in God’s Kingdom?In this episode, we seek to recover c...2025-05-0644 min
Become Good Soil184: What Is Most Essential? Friends,Jean Giono, author of The Man Who Planted Trees, penned these breathtaking and invitational lines - words that draw us back to the path of Christ’s Kingdom Simplicity and Generous Love:“Creation seemed to come about in a sort of chain reaction. But the man who planted trees did not worry about it; he was determinedly pursuing his task in all its simplicity... For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of a...2025-04-0941 min
Become Good Soil183: The Year of Jubilee "You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you shall return to your property, and each of you shall return to your family." — Leviticus 25:10Consider these provocative words by Walter Brueggeman from Sabbath as Resistance. “Sabbath is not only resistance; it is an alternative. Sabbath offers both the awareness and practice of the claim that we are on the receiving end of the gifts of God.... To be so situated is a staggering option because we ar...2025-03-2557 min
Speak Out LoudSOL#61: Encore - When You Come to the End of Your Rope; An Interview with Morgan Snyder of Become Good SoilWhat do you do when you come to the end of your rope - when you come to end of your own capacity to make life work apart from God?
In this encore presentation, a shared experience and connection bring Doug and special guest, Morgan Snyder of Become Good Soil and author of Becoming a King, together for a conversation about carrying hope for a spouse in a mental health crisis.
Doug and Morgan's conversation focuses on how the most difficult experiences can reveal our broken places and open a doorway for God to begin...2025-02-071h 02
Become Good Soil177: Examen God’s preferred method of communication is through a still, small voice. – Dallas WillardDear Friends, Who have I become, and who am I becoming? For over two decades, I’ve relentlessly asked these questions and found myself lovingly interrogated by Jesus and His Kingdom at every turn of my journey. Now, as I transition from one season to the next, I sense another pair of sou...2024-12-3147 minBecome Good Soil176: First Breath
"You should not be surprised when I say, 'You must be born again.'"
– Jesus of Nazareth
Dear Friends,
Advent is upon us—a season not merely of waiting but of planting, where the seed of hope is buried deep in the soil of time. It is the prologue to Christmas when the Author Himself stepped onto the stage of His own story. But like all great stories, this one is layered. Beneath the glitter and sentiment of the season lies a truth so profound it shakes the foundations of o...2024-12-1733 min
CaptivatedFamily of God with Cherie SnyderStasi invites friend, speaker, and teacher Cherie Snyder into the studio to explore the precious truth that we are all welcomed into God’s family—a family that transcends time and space. The Bible is an endless treasure of wisdom and invitation, constantly revealing fresh truths based on our current journey. Through its rich stories, the Bible invites us to be part of the personal connection its authors had with Jesus and each other. We are part of His Story, rescued from isolation into secure connection to God's heart and an eternal global family.…..S...2024-10-1636 minBecome Good Soil171: A New Birth
Discipleship is the process of restoring secure attachment to God.
– Morgan and Cherie Snyder
Friends,
In his thoroughly beautiful novel Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry writes,
Now I have had most of the life I am going to have, and I can see what it has been. I can remember those early years when it seemed to me I was completely adrift, and times when…it seemed I had been wandering in the dark woods of error.
But now it looks to me as though I was f...2024-10-081h 01Become Good Soil166: Unpacking the Daybreak Prayer, with Cherie Snyder (Part 4)
Above all else, trust in the slow work of God.
Friends,
Jesus modeled and taught a scandalous and inviting life of prayer.
In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely place to pray… (Mark 1:35)
“Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense hi...2024-07-3052 minBecome Good Soil165: Unpacking the Daybreak Prayer, with Cherie Snyder (Part 3)
Pray without ceasing.
– St. Paul
Friends,
It's been said, “Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.”
What if cultivating a practice of prayer that teems with life and connection with God is much less about what we do and much more about who we become?
Through a slow and steady practice of prayer, we are reformed into the kind of people who truly do pray without ceasing. Even more, over the decades of our apprenticeship, we become people whose ve...2024-07-1649 minBecome Good Soil164: Unpacking the Daybreak Prayer, with Cherie Snyder (Part 2)
Prayer is never the first word; it is always the second word. God has the first word.
– Eugene Peterson
Friends,
As we continue to explore the Daybreak Prayer, let us immerse ourselves in these God-initiated and God-sustained realities:
Father, thank you that our story begins with you, and we will return to the restoration of all things.
We choose to trust that you love us with the same love you have for Jesus.
Therefore we will not give way to fear.
...2024-07-021h 00Become Good Soil163: Unpacking the Daybreak Prayer, with Cherie Snyder (Part 1)
God is perfectly capable of saving the world he created.
– Dallas Willard
Friends,
In the section of his Gospel known as the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew tells the story of Jesus drawing his apprentices away from the crowds and up a mountainside to teach them about the heart of our Father and the way of his gracious Kingdom.
On the subject of prayer, Jesus says this:
And when you come before God, don’t turn that into a theatrical production either….Here’s what I want yo...2024-06-1847 min
CaptivatedThe Captivating RetreatIn April 2024, the Wild at Heart women’s team will be hosting what is likely the last Captivating Retreat in the U.S. But God has more on the horizon, including the invitation for you to experience the four-day retreat through Captivating CORE. On today’s podcast, Stasi shares with her dear friends, anointed teachers and longtime followers of Christ, Lisa Beck and Cherie Snyder, some of their favorite parts of the retreat. Captivating is a timeless message and a sacred treasure hunt to come to know both Jesus more deeply and who we truly are in his love. God’...2024-04-0333 minBecome Good Soil156: The Metanarrative of Feminine Love, with Cherie Snyder (Part 3)
He trusts her without reserve and never has reason to regret it.
– Proverbs 31:11 MSG
Friends,
To say the proverb another way, masculinity trusts femininity without reserve and never has reason to regret it.
Femininity trusts masculinity without reserve and never has reason to regret it.
What if this is intended to both include and transcend marriage, plunging us into the possibility and finally the scandalous destiny of Galatians 3?
“...you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (3:28 NIV)
In The Sacred Romance, Brent Curtis goe...2024-03-1229 minBecome Good Soil155: The Metanarrative of Feminine Love, with Cherie Snyder (Part 2)
As a man matures and increases in power, he is absolutely dependent on
the integration of feminine love
for him to flourish, mature, and thrive in God’s Kingdom.
– Morgan Snyder
Friends,
What if integrated masculinity dynamically engaging with integrated femininity was essentially designed by the Living God to communicate abundance, peace, dignity, and the endless safety of God’s extravagant and irrevocable love?
Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, friends of both genders slowly and steadily maturing in ever-increasing union—all were intended to radic...2024-02-2736 minBecome Good Soil154: The Metanarrative of Feminine Love, with Cherie Snyder (Part 1)
God loves you more tenderly and more irrevocably than the best of mothers.
– Stasi Eldredge
Friends,
What does the integration of wholehearted masculine love with wholehearted feminine love feel like?
For most men, considering the impact and role of feminine love—or its absence—elicits a wide range of emotions.
Simply put, we can easily lose heart in our ambivalence, unmet longing, or pain around it.
What if underneath the pain, confusion, and even mistrust is one of the great secrets to “Heaven on...2024-02-1341 minBecome Good Soil144: Jesus, Our Older Brother (Part 2)
Pointing to his disciples, Jesus said, “These are my brothers and sisters, my true family. Whoever does the will of my Father is my family.”
– Matthew 12:49-50 (paraphrase)
Friends,
As Dallas Willard reminds us, Jesus is the most brilliant person to ever live. His brilliance shines not only in the what of his rescue but also in the how.
By becoming human, the Triune Creator not only redeemed our bodies, minds, hearts, emotions, and wills, he redeemed all our relationships, taking the brokenness of our intimate and co...2023-10-1040 minBecome Good Soil143: Jesus, Our Older Brother (Part 1)
Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.
– Hebrews 2:11 NIV
Friends,
It was George MacDonald who wrote that the central misery of the masculine soul is the refusal and incapacity to look up to God as Father.
I want to suggest a parallel source of impoverishment and pain: our refusal to look up to Jesus as our Older Brother.
If it is true that...2023-09-2646 min
Trinity Forum ConversationsBeyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene RiversWhat is ideology? What are the consequences of an era when seemingly every human issue is viewed through an ideological lens?In October of 2021, the Trinity Forum and Comment magazine partnered for an evening conversation to explore precisely these questions. Cherie Harder and Anne Snyder moderated a conversation with philosopher Peter Kreeft and Rev. Eugene Rivers to unpack the nature and implications of ideology’s reign in our present culture — both what it’s doing to our intellectual vitality as a society, but perhaps more urgently, what it’s doing to our civic and organiza...2023-09-1947 minBecome Good Soil138: The Cost of Non-Discipleship, with Cherie Snyder
Discipleship to Jesus is the greatest opportunity individual human beings have in life and the only hope corporate mankind has at solving its insurmountable problems.
– Dallas Willard
What is discipleship?
What is salvation?
And what relevance do these sometimes abstract concepts have for sharpening our ordinary, everyday lives?
What if salvation is both an individual and communal process that is daringly lived out across the days and decades of our relational lives?
Friends, it is my joy to welcome my very favorite guest onto...2023-07-1856 minBecome Good Soil134: Parts Work, Part 6
Christ is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
– Colossians 1:17
Friends,
What vision of the human person and the way of restoration do our Scriptures offer? Consider these verses:
So many times I have longed to gather your wayward children together around me… (Luke 13:34 TPT)
Like a city that is broken down and without walls [leaving it unprotected] is a man who has no self-control over his spirit [and sets himself up for trouble]. (Proverbs 25:28 AMP)
They...2023-05-091h 15Speak Out LoudSOL#43: When You Come to the End of your Rope: An Interview with Morgan Snyder of Become Good SoilWhat do you do when you come to the end of your rope - when you come to end of your own capacity to make life work apart from God?
A shared experience and connection bring Doug and special guest, Morgan Snyder of Become Good Soil and Wild at Heart, together for a conversation about carrying hope for a spouse in a mental health crisis. Even more, though, this conversation focuses on us and how the most difficult experiences can reveal our broken places but also open a doorway for God to begin to heal and grow...2023-03-211h 02
Business of Sports Tourism PodcastEpisode 3 - Meet the NJCAACherie Gwinn, Ben Snyder and Joel Lamp are joined by Liz Homrig from the National Junior College Athletic Association to discuss the NJCAA's championships, bid process, and other issues in the sports tourism industry2023-02-2128 min
CaptivatedThe Power of Testimony Part Three | Cherie SnyderIn this final part of our series on the Power of Testimony, Cherie Snyder sits down with Stasi to share the journey of her faith. For many years, Cherie wrestled with a deep feeling that something was inherently wrong with her, that it was up to her to earn her worth, and that God's love was one of obligation. Yet just as our God pursues each one of us uniquely and personally, Cherie tells how He wooed her in order to reveal His true heart and capture hers for Himself.…..SHOW NOTES:…..VERSES: John 4:5-30...2023-02-0836 minBusiness of Sports Tourism PodcastEpisode 2 - Managing your destinationCherie Gwinn (Spokane), Ben Snyder (Grand Junction), and Joel Lamp (Huntsville) discuss how they manage their destination sports schedule, venues, business to go after and how they support it.2023-02-0736 min
DadAwesomeBringing Play into Manhood, Fatherhood, and Marriage (Morgan Snyder: Part 2)Key Takeaways Wilderness is a necessity for every human being. Masculine heart was meant to risk. When the Son is ready, the Father appears. The hardest and gladdest thing in the world is to cry out, Father from a whole heart. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Morgan Snyder Morgan Snyder is a strategist, e...2022-11-1034 min
DadAwesomeRaising Kids Humbly, Loving Your Wife Fully, and Soaring Joyfully (Morgan Snyder: Part 1)Key Takeaways Our greatest hero should be us, ten years from now. Process is the point. Freedom begets freedom. Life begets life. Repentance begets repentance. I have enough, I am enough, God, You are more than enough. If you want to find God, His address is at the end of your rope. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Morgan Sn...2022-11-0341 min
Restoring the Soul with Michael John CusickEpisode 230 - Morgan Snyder, "Becoming a King”“Masculine power is intended to be good when it’s wholehearted and in the service of love.” - Morgan SnyderOn this edition of Restoring the Soul, Michael welcomes Morgan Snyder to the podcast.Morgan is a grateful husband of over 20 years and a proud father of a wildly creative and witty daughter and a joyful and passionate son. He serves as a strategist, entrepreneur, teacher, writer, and speaker. In 2010, he established BecomeGoodSoil and serves on the executive leadership team at Wild at Heart alongside John and Stasi Eldredge. Morgan goes off the grid every chance...2022-08-1940 min
DadAwesomeBecoming Wholehearted (Morgan Snyder REPLAY)"God is very interested and motivated in the initiation of our children. It’s what makes Him come alive. He has their best interests in mind. And when I put down my agenda, I got curious. I got responsive. The path that my children have chosen and the God has chosen for them is not what I would have chosen in so many ways, but being a student and being attentive and participating has changed everything." dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping...2022-06-0944 minBecome Good Soil106: Coming Home, Part 3
I will not abandon you as orphans….I am coming back for you.
– Jesus of Nazareth
Friends, there is much to hope for in the face of our apparent waywardness with God and our nagging discontent.
God is coming for us.
In his book Renovated, Jim Wilder explains the very simple and profound path to re-attaching ourselves to God and finally becoming the kind of people who can heed the supreme command of Jesus to love God with all our heart, mind, and strength. “...having received love, yo...2022-04-1249 minBecome Good Soil105: Coming Home, Part 2
Christianity has tended to focus on right beliefs and right choices as the keys for personal growth. But biblical evidence and modern brain science show that our character is shaped more by whom we love than what we believe.
– Jim Wilder, Renovated
What if coming home to a new and secure attachment to God is the primary definition of salvation?
What would it be like to come home to God as our primary and single source of life, joy, strength, and stature?
The writers of the Old...2022-03-2937 min
CaptivatedWhat is Right with UsCherie Snyder joins Stasi in this week's podcast for an honest conversation, filled with mercy and kindness, on anxiety. Anxiety is rooted in the debilitating fear that we are unworthy, unloved, and imperfect. Our human condition has made this feel unsafe, and so we often turn to false lovers to be soothed. But take heart: these feelings are not what is wrong with us, but what is right. Jesus has not abandoned us here. Through his mercy we can know we are seen by God and secure in his love.Show Notes:Verses: Psalm 31:9-12...2022-03-2340 minBecome Good Soil104: Coming Home, Part 1 All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, bee keepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, trying to find a way to go home. It's hard to describe how I felt then. Picture yourself walking for days in a driving snow. You don't even know you're walking in circles...the heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel. How far away home can be.Home.2022-03-1542 min
A Bookish AffairEpisode 43: Indigenous Voices in RomanceGreetings, all you efficient community organizers and laid-back band managers! In this episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of Heartbeat Braves and share our recent and upcoming reads by Indigenous romance authors. This is the first episode we've ever recorded from the same room, and it was a blast -- we hope you enjoy it, too. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about attending a virtual book club meeting, or just to chat, find us here or email us directly at ssedell@lakeoswego.city (Shannon) or sdickinson@lakeoswego.city (Shandy). Our next me...2021-12-0959 min
Men at the Movies PodcastCrash with Paul McDonald and Morgan SnyderPaul McDonald and Morgan Snyder talk about the 2004 film Crash. This redemptively disturbing movie is a mirror that reflects our faulty vision. Each character is at times a victim, and at other times a perpetrator—our choices determine which way we will go and which identity we will embrace. Thankfully, the person I am today is not the end of the story. Join us as we discover God’s truth in this movie.
Morgan mentioned a worksheet to do a deep dive into the biases revealed in the movie. You can access it here.
Questions
Wh...2021-11-0556 minBecome Good Soil094: Through the Bible, Part 3 Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other purpose.
– C. S. Lewis
In the twilight of his life, Parker J. Palmer, one of the last great elders of our day, penned...2021-10-2648 minBecome Good Soil092: Through the Bible, Part 1 Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
There are two ways of seeing. One is to look at a forest, and take in a landscape, and the colors, depth, dimensions, and nuances of all of it. But there is also the act of getting on your hands and knees and looking at one flower, and one petal.
– Walt Harrington, The Everlasting Stream
What do we do with this collection of ancient texts called the Bible?
For many of us, even the word “Bible” elicits mixed feelings. As I talk to...2021-09-281h 02Become Good Soil089: The Wild at Heart Experience Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
When I look at him there is a collection of awful memories. Memories I have spent most of my adult life trying to forget.
– The Kid
Some of our most determined energy is poured into forgetting the sights, sounds, and locations that harmed our souls. At best we acknowledge them but minimize their significance; at worst we bury them, laboring to convince ourselves that our painful experiences play little role in the kind of men we have become.
Yet a wound ungriev...2021-08-1650 min
Isle of Misfits podcastMorgan And Cheri Snyder: Coming Out of HidingMorgan and Cherie Snyder from Become Good Soil and Wild at Heart Ministries join us for a really helpful discussion on the prospect of facing our own fears as we contemplate coming out into the "new normal" (whatever that is)... and of course, play a Stupid Game... cause it can't be all deep all the time.2021-06-0253 min
Wild at HeartContemplative Prayer - Part 1Morgan and Cherie Snyder invite you to experience the teaching and practice of contemplative prayer in the first of this three-part series that originally aired as Become Good Soil podcasts.
Show Note: Discover more about Become Good Soil—the comprehensive apprenticeship track for the mission of Wild at Heart—at www.becomegoodsoil.com.2021-04-2638 min
The Soul Rose ShowHow to Harmonize Your HormonesNo matter what stage of life you’re in, if you’re female, your hormones are driving HOW YOU FEEL in your body–even in your spirituality. How do you stop the cascade of hormonal shifts? My fellow podcaster & oils enthusiast, Dr. Mariza Snyder, is a Functional Practitioner & Author of 2 comprehensive books on natural hormone solutions. Link between silencing our voices & thyroid issues How essential oils create neural “safety signals” What hot flashes are teaching me! Find Mariza: www.drmariza.com2021-04-1458 min
Wholistic Hearts- A Journey from the Head to the Heart, Encounters with Jesus58. Pursuing Connection with Our BodiesHey Friend! Welcome to Wholistic Hearts podcast! Today we officially begin our new series "Pursuing Connection," and I wanted to begin with talking about the importance of connecting to our bodies. My dear friend from Deeply Rooted Collective- Cherie Snyder, joins me again on the show to dive in deeper into the well of connection to our bodies. She leads me through a beautiful exercise at the beginning of the show- which I invite you into a very vulnerable and interactive space for yourself, too. We discuss together a book which has helped us recognize how our bodi...2021-04-0144 minBecome Good Soil079: A New Dawn Is Rising Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
– N. T. Wright
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks observes the inescapable fact that we all grow up in one moral ecology or another. Our moral ecology is the system of beliefs and behaviors that are often based in collective responses to big problems in a specif...2021-03-2939 min
Men at the Movies PodcastThe Company Men with Paul McDonald and Morgan SnyderPaul McDonald and Morgan Snyder discuss the unique and universal aspects of masculine initiation as revealed in the 2011 film, The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, and Chris Cooper.
About Morgan:
Morgan Snyder has served alongside John Eldredge since before the inception of Wild at Heart almost two decades ago. Originally developing and directing the retreats and conferences, Morgan now serves as a speaker, teacher, and Director of Strategy.
He is married to an extraordinary woman, Cherie, and finds great joy in adventuring with his 15-year-old son, Joshua, and...2021-03-1247 minWholistic Hearts- A Journey from the Head to the Heart, Encounters with Jesus47. Mind, Body, Spirit Connection with Cherie SnyderOn this week's episode of Wholistic Hearts, I interview the lovely Cherie Snyder- a trauma informed educator who enters into the broken spaces as a disciple, empathizer, and integrator. As we continue to pursue wholistic wholehearted living, the importance of covering the topic of trauma and checking in with our bodies is vital. We discuss: - fragmentation to becoming aware of the protected self and bringing it back into human wholeness -how we can honor our bodies when we have experienced trauma - how yoga allows space to reconnect wi...2021-02-0433 minBecome Good Soil075: Vision, Intention, and Means Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
“I have not failed. I've just found 1000 ways that won't work.”
–Thomas Edison, inventor of electric light
What is the path of inner transformation and becoming like Christ? Is such transformation even possible?
Dallas Willard assures us it is readily available.
We can, in time, become the kind of people who naturally bless those who curse us and love our enemies as our normal reaction. However, he presses that it happens only with a compelling vision of the Kingd...2021-02-0254 minBecome Good Soil073: Gary Unruh – Counselor and Restorer of Families (Part 2 of 2) Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | DownloadTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbr...2021-01-051h 07Become Good Soil071: Gary Unruh – Counselor and Restorer of Families (Part 1 of 2) Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
“What grieves God most is not our sin but our refusing to believe that he is so kind, and that he desires to be with us so much more than we do with him.”
– Rankin Wilbourne, Union with Christ
How often do you have the opportunity to connect with a man who has invested five decades listening to the hearts and stories of over 5000 children and their families? If this generation has a few fathers among us, Gary Unruh is one of the...2020-12-071h 12Become Good Soil070: The Body Keeps the Score, with Cherie Snyder Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why he uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: he invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
– C. S. Lewis
What if our bodies are guides for the path to become the kind of human in whom the image...2020-11-241h 14
Impossible BeautyEpisode 30: Morgan and Cherie Snyder-Becoming Wholehearted in a Broken WorldMorgan Snyder is a strategist, entrepreneur, teacher, speaker and the author of Becoming a King: The Path to Restoring the Heart of a Man. Morgan’s passion is to shape the men and women who are shaping the kingdom of God. In 2010, he established BecomeGoodSoil.com, a fellowship of leaders whose global reach offers guidance for becoming the kind of person to whom God can entrust the care of his kingdom. Morgan serves on the executive leadership team at Wild at Heart and Ransomed Heart Ministries, where he and his wife Cherie have worked with John and Stasi Eldredge for mo...2020-10-0750 min
The Military Veteran Dad PodcastBecoming a King With Morgan SnyderIn this episode we tackle one of the biggest questions that men attempt to answer, who am I becoming. I found that question at the core of this episode and the work that it takes to come home as a husband and a father and lead our family. Morgan Snyder Morgan Snyder is a grateful husband of over 20 years and a proud father of a wildly creative and witty daughter and a joyful and passionate son. He serves as a strategist, entrepreneur, teacher, writer, and speaker. His passion is to both be shaped by and sh...2020-09-2859 minRestoring the Soul with Michael John CusickEpisode 144 - Morgan Snyder, "Becoming a King"“Masculine power is intended to be good when it’s wholehearted and in the service of love.” - Morgan SnyderOn this edition of Restoring the Soul, Michael welcomes Morgan Snyder to the podcast.Morgan is a grateful husband of over 20 years and a proud father of a wildly creative and witty daughter and a joyful and passionate son. He serves as a strategist, entrepreneur, teacher, writer, and speaker. In 2010, he established BecomeGoodSoil and serves on the executive leadership team at Wild at Heart alongside John and Stasi Eldredge. Morgan goes off the grid every chance...2020-09-0453 minBecome Good Soil064: Cultivating a Habitat for the Soul Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
–Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
You find yourself in a world gone mad.
and
You have a soul—or, more accurately, you are a soul—made by God, made for God, and made to need God.
You've noticed by now that these two things, the world system and your soul, are constantly at...2020-08-181h 01Become Good Soil062: Anxiety to Peace Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
It is profound how different our experiences can be inside our own skin. When it comes to sensations in the body, we are not on a level playing field. To love and be loved, to know and be known, it’s so important that we practice story-informed relating with ourselves and each other. Jesus is the most brilliant story-informed and trauma-sensitive teacher and friend who has ever lived.
– Cherie Snyder
Many of us—or those whom we love—have...2020-06-3052 min
DadAwesomeBecoming Wholehearted (Morgan Snyder)dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Join a team of 100 dads biking 100 miles and raising $100,000 for the fatherless locally and globally. OUR MISSION: End fatherlessness globally. Every child with a man they can call father. (Malachi 4:6a “He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents”) VISION: We ignite a father’s calling...2020-06-0447 minBecome Good Soil059: Becoming a King Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
The great problem of the earth and the great aim of the masculine journey boil down to this: when can you trust a man with power?
– John Eldredge
What’s the most important thing?
Over two decades ago I set out on a relentless quest to find the answer. What I found was not what I expected, and where I found it was in the most unanticipated places. With it came a restore...2020-05-0737 minWild at HeartConversations on Prayer - Part 2In the second episode in this new series, John talks with Morgan and Cherie Snyder about the role prayer plays in their marriage, family and individual lives. 2019-11-1833 minWild at HeartConversations on Prayer - Part 1In this new series, John has a lively discussion about the power, challenges, and journey of prayer with various team members - beginning with Morgan and Cherie Snyder.2019-11-1130 min
The Essential Oil Hormone SummitCherie Burton: Stay Motivated to Create Vibrant Physical and Emotional Wellbeing Change is hard. But as Cherie Burton shares in this interview, it doesn’t take big drastic measures as much as it requires calculated and consistent steps over time to make changes to your mental well-being. The power to transform doesn’t lie somewhere outside. It is in you.2018-10-1446 minBecome Good Soil038: Contemplative Prayer – Episode 2 of 3 Meditation and contemplative prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.
― Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer
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What is it like to really know God? Not just know about God but to know him, thoroughly and comprehensively in the most essential places of our souls?
What if there were a way to prac...2018-04-1935 minBecome Good Soil037: Contemplative Prayer – Episode 1 of 3 All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace. –Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristPodcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | DownloadI find it fascinating that when Jesus speaks of eternal life, it's less often about a specific time or place where we transition into some other state of being and more often about a quality of life—robust, deep vitality—that is being made available to us, right he...2018-04-0438 minBecome Good Soil030: Coming to the Center (The Marriage Podcast Series – Part Four) Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. –Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Kelly and Phil are getting a divorce.
The email from a mutual friend sharing the news hit me like a punch in the stomach.
Brandon and his dad are in deep contention. It’s the kind of painful, two-sided misunderstanding that could finally sever the strained relationsh...2017-06-1643 minBecome Good Soil029: Plank and Speck Wrap Up (The Marriage Series – Part Three) Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
The offer is Life.
Yet that abundant life is often found in the least likely of places.
What is the most effective path toward the much looked-for restoration in the heart of your spouse?
Join Cherie and me in this second half of a conversation in which we reflect on the particular elements of Reality as Jesus reveals what can bring more life to our marriages than we ever thought possible.
Jesus, we choose to pause.
Jesus, we open th...2017-04-1716 minBecome Good Soil028: Plank and Speck (The Marriage Series – Part Two) Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
Jesus and his words…are essentially subversive of the established arrangements and ways of thinking. That is clear from the way they first entered the world, their initial effects, and how they are preserved in the New Testament writings and live on in people. He himself described his words as “spirit and life” (John 6:63). They invade our “real” world with a reality even more real than it is.
– Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
Where are Jesus and his word...2017-04-0442 minBecome Good Soil027: Venturing Toward the More (The Marriage Series – Part One) If we are relational to our core, fashioned in the image of the One who is Three, then it is in dynamic relationship that we participate in the unending Life of God. And among human relationships, there is none more brimming with the loving potential to both expose our "not yet" and to beckon us forward than marriage.
In The Mystery of Marriage, Mike Mason writes,
The book of Proverbs as a whole takes a view of marriage that remains proverbial to this day: there is nothing in the world worse than a bad marriage, and at th...2017-03-2227 minWild at HeartEffects of TraumaStasi Eldredge and Cherie Snyder reveal the impact of trauma on our bodies, minds, and hearts – as well as ways we can experience healing.2017-01-2338 minBecome Good Soil025: Back To Life – Live with Esther Sparks Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | DownloadThis most recent episode was a treasure to record, featuring Esther Sparks, a Scottish poet and musician whose music has been uniquely sustaining to Cherie and me throughout this decade of excavation and becoming. Offering transparently from her own story, Esther’s music speaks to central themes of the human experience: love and loss; betrayal and forgiveness; abandonment and embrace; birth, death, and resurrection. Luminous in her insights and raw in...2016-12-031h 03
Wild at HeartHow is Your Soul? - Part 1In this first of a three-part series, John and Stasi Eldredge are joined by Morgan and Cherie Snyder to discuss ways to nurture and care for our souls.2016-10-1019 minBecome Good Soil010: Receiving the Heart of the Father – Cherie Snyder Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window | Download
The soul searches for a Father.
It was John Ortberg who put those words to me in a way so succinct it cut to the core.
I see it in nearly every action of every day.
Every reaching.
Every ache.
Desire reveals design. Design reveals destiny.
It is the intention of the heart of our True Father that we would become sons in ways beyond what we could ask for or even imagine.
That's why George...2015-04-151h 01