Thanks for another helpful podcast. I really enjoyed hearing each of your experiences, approaches, and telos of preaching. As you were discussing the movement of society from a rationally-based modernity to an experientially based post-modernity I thought of a book I read in a Missional Discipleship intensive taught by Mark Maddix (Dean of Theology at NNU) this past semester. The book is Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith. Smith has a lot of insightful things to say about the liturgies of our culture and the church. He points out that humans are actually not as influenced by rational thought as we are by passionate desires. He talks about the shift from assent to affect and the effectiveness of our secular societies in using our desires to shape us as compared to the church’s ineffectiveness to shape people because it continues to focus on the rational. I am wondering if any of you have read this book and what your thoughts are? If you have not, I would recommend it. He particular focuses on using liturgy/sacraments to engage the passions of people and transform those passions into passionate desires for the Kingdom of God.