{"podcast":{"title":"Guardians of Grace","slug":"guardians-of-grace-3382483","podcast_index_feed_id":3382483,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/guardiansofgrace/feed.xml","website_url":"https://guardiansofgrace.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/9840172/Guardians_of_Gra_8__aw72n6.png","author":"guardiansofgrace","episode_count":200,"summary":"Answering the age old question Christians have been grappling with since Jesus died on the cross. Do we do our best to live by the Commandments in order to please God? Or rely on Grace or the power of God to live a righteous Christian life. If you like Joseph Prince you will love our podcast.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-25T12:26:17.856498+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/guardians-of-grace-3382483"},"episode":{"title":"Born of Wind: Why 'Saved' Isn't the Same as 'Born Again'","slug":"born-of-wind-why-saved-isn-t-the-same-as-born-again","published_at":"2026-06-18T19:11:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/guardians-of-grace-3382483/born-of-wind-why-saved-isn-t-the-same-as-born-again","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/guardians-of-grace-3382483","url":"https://guardiansofgrace.podbean.com/e/born-of-wind-why-saved-isnt-the-same-as-born-again/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fbtwn4eg55u3u7yx/BORNAGAINPART2-5v86dn-Optimized.mp3","summary":"Welcome into a night conversation that changes everything. In this episode Steve Lennart throws down a bold challenge: the words \"saved\" and \"born again\" are not interchangeable. As he unpacks John 3 and walks us beside Nicodemus under the hush of midnight, the familiar Gospel flips into a living mystery — one that begins with water, but is completed by an invisible wind. Picture the Pharisee approaching the Teacher under starlight, baffled by language of birth and spirit. Jesus answers not with doctrine but with images — water breaking, an unseen wind, and a new birth that cannot be photographed but whose effects can be seen. What begins as a theological puzzle becomes an intimate portrait of how God brings a new, spiritual person into being. Then the story accelerates to Pentecost — a tornado of sound and tongues of fire — when heaven’s wind finally touches earth and the Gospel becomes fertile seed. Steve shows how that first rushing wind set in motion a chain of spiritual births: every proclamation of the good news that is believed becomes an act of spiritual conception. The Gospel doesn’t merely inform. It impregnates. Using Paul as our witness — the missionary who could honestly say, \"I fathered you through the Gospel\" — the episode reveals the hard, loving labor of spiritual formation: the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in us. Steve draws out the startling image of spiritual sperm, imperishable seed, and a child of God who is inwardly transformed, alive with Christ’s mind and power. That inner transformation matters because we house two realities: a visible human person and an invisible spiritual person. Only the spiritual man bears the true treasures Jesus taught us to store in heaven. The episode unpacks how our good works, discernment, and the powe…","meta_description":"Welcome into a night conversation that changes everything. In this episode Steve Lennart throws down a bold challenge: the words \"saved\" and \"born again\"…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2959,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/guardians-of-grace-3382483/episodes/born-of-wind-why-saved-isn-t-the-same-as-born-again/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/guardians-of-grace-3382483/born-of-wind-why-saved-isn-t-the-same-as-born-again.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}