Tim Chester

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Hi, I'm Tim Chester.

This is season two of Unpacked Travel to Listen, and that is Sigur Rós.

I can't think of many countries where music and place is so closely intertwined as Iceland.

This has been Unpacked Travel to Listen, a podcast of Afar Media.

The show is part of the Airwave Media Podcast Network.

The podcast was produced by Aston Green, Niki Gautaland and me, Tim Chester.

In the next episode, I'm heading to Liverpool, a UNESCO City of Music, where we'll be learning about the history of the Beatles and the famous Cavern Club.

It invites us into stop trusting God.

Tim Chester has written a book.

It's called You Can Change.

And in chapter five, it's a phenomenal book.

Understanding these over-desires is vital because so often what gets the spotlight is the porn use itself, but the porn use is really just the fruit of something deeper going on in the heart.

In his book, Closing the Window, Dr. Tim Chester does a wonderful job drawing up to the surface many of the heart desires that drive a compulsion to look at porn.

For instance, it is normal to desire relationships with others, to want to be close to others.

But when it becomes an over-desire, when it becomes an idol in our lives, porn can be a very enticing experience.

Uh, practical help, there was a book that changed our parenting.

I'm gonna give, Daniel, I'm gonna give you two different books, one for the early years of raising kids, and it's by Tim Chester.

It's called Gospel-Centered Family.

This is a wonderful book, uh, especially, you know, toddlers to elementary school to middle school.

Super helpful.

He gives 14 gospel principles, um, that can really change your family.

So again, Tim Chester, Gospel-Centered Family for the early years.

Parenting by Paul David Tripp for, you know, middle school and beyond.

And the question will be, will the people of God listen now when God speaks? Because Adam and Eve didn't listen.

But would the people of God now, as they relate to the holy presence of God in their midst, would they listen when He speaks? Tim Chester says, in Eden, humanity rejected the authority of our Heavenly Father, and the result has been chaos, conflict, and condemnation.

But in God's new home, He will restore His life-giving rule of love.

Friends, God is going to govern His people through truth and through grace, through majesty and through mercy.

He found Philip and said to him, 'Follow me.' Now Philip was, was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, 'We have found him of whom Moses and the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.'" So it seems like Philip got pretty early exactly who Jesus was, and was this somehow a test? Was this Jesus saying, "Yeah, are you still with me? Do you still believe this? Do you still get this?" And pastor and author Tim Chester, I think, sums this whole thing up very well, uh, when he says, "So Jesus is a new Moses about to lead a new exodus to rescue God's people from sin and death, and when Jesus is transfigured eight days after the feeding of, of the 5,000 with Moses and Elijah, they talk about his departure, or literally his exodus." So it's clear that in John's recollection of this event that Jesus is fulfillment.

You can see the breadcrumb trail, part of the breadcrumb trail of Jesus through scripture and how he is continuity with the past.

But why is that important? Why is that relevant to us in the present? Now, I wanna begin the answer to that with just a personal reflection of myself as a 17-year-old boy, 17-year-old young man, uh, probably a scripture cynic, someone who didn't believe there was a God, someone who was convinced that scripture was full of inaccuracies and contradictions.