Foth and Friends: Stories from the Road

“Where words fail, music speaks.” ---Hans Christian Anderson “Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” ---Emory Austin “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ---Leo Tolstoy “Country music is three chords and the truth.” ---Harlan Howard “Speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts…”          ...

Music Curtesy of: Brother Claude Ely - "There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il2xXRSJLmc Ain't No Grave (LIVE) - Bethel Music & Molly Skaggs | VICTORY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGncW_ueyHA Listen to "Known" Podcast on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/known/id1257473825 Topics: Loma Prieta Earthquake 1989 World Series: Gian...

"The Wondrous Cross 2022" https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/wondrous-cross-easter-lent-devotional/ Music Curtesy of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQeIGbKqiw8 The classic Charles Wesley hymn "And Can it be That I should Gain" from Songs of Praise broadcast Sun 21 Oct 2007.

Chapter 21: A Dream over Dinner 1. John 15:12-17, ESV. 2. Frederick Buchner, Secrets in the Dark (Zondervan, 2007), 137. Chapter 22: When All Is Said and Done 1. Psalm 139-1

Chapter 20: Trust Big and Dream Long 1. See John 6:28. 2. Hebrews 11:8, ESV. 3. Hebrews 11:1, ESV. 4. Richard and Ruth Foth, When the Giant Lies Down (Victor Books, 1995). 5. Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (New York: Penguin Books, 2013), 48, 6. Brown, The Boys in the Boat, 48. - https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Am...

Chapter 19: The Chase 1. 2 Samuel 1:25-26, NIT. 2. Malcolm Jones, "The History and Lost Art of Letter Writing," Newsweek.com, January 17, 2009, www.newsweek.com/history-and -lost-art-letter-writing-78365. 3. Jones, "The History and Lost Art of Letter Writing."

In this episode of Known; Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World, Dick Foth tells two stories. One from Jesus of Nazareth and the second one of St. Patrick of Irelend. In this podcast Dick starts his 81st trip around the sun. - LINKS: "Known" - pickup your copy today: https://www.known.fm/books Listen to "Known" Podcast on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/known/id125747382...

Chapter 18: The Long Haul 1. Lewis B. Smedes, Caring and Commitment (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989), 51. 2. Ben Johnson, "Greyfriars Bobby," Historic UK, www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Greyfriars-Bobby/. 3. Chap Clark, Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011), 66. 4. Matthew 28:20, ESV.

In this episode of Known; Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World, Dick Foth talks with his good friend Mark Batterson around Washington D.C. on the topic of mentoring. - LINKS: "Known" - pickup your copy today: https://www.known.fm/books Listen to "Known" Podcast on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/known/id1257473825 Subscribe to the YouTube Channel:

Chapter 17: Truth Telling 1. Mark 14:32-36 2.David G Benner, Sacred Companions (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books 2002), 67-68, 104

In this episode of Known; Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World, we explore the history of Valentine and a special interview with Ruth. - LINKS: "Known" - pickup your copy today: https://www.known.fm/books Listen to "Known" Podcast on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/known/id1257473825 Subscribe to the YouTube Channel:

Chapter 16: On the Clock 1. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008), 35-68. 2. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1989), 100-101. 3. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus, 92-93. 4. Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation, 71. 5. See 1 John 1:3.

Chapter 15: The Pledge 1. "Oaths of Enlistment and Oaths of Office," www.history.army.mil/heml/faq/oaths.html. 2. Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Toward Old Testament Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing Company, 1983), 76-78. 3. Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (New York: The Noonday Press-_-Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1955), 214. 4. Luke 22:20 5. Eerdman's Bib...

References: - John 21:1-3 - John 21:4-8 - 1 John 1:3-4 - John 13:35

In this episode of Known; Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World, Dick Foth continues on Chapter 13 of "Known". - LINKS: "Known" - pickup your copy today: https://www.known.fm/books Listen to "Known" Podcast on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/known/id1257473825 Subscribe to the YouTube Channel:

In this episode of Known; Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World, Dick Foth explores the power of Words. We know each other two ways: What we say and what we do. Words and deeds - LINKS: "Known" - pickup your copy today: https://www.known.fm/books National Community Church Recording: https://national.cc/media/the-heart-of-the-matter/words Yuma City, Challenge Day Video https://www.youtube.com...

New Years Epsiode Chapter 12

Final Podcast of 2021. Fear is natural - it's a default place. If we don’t choose something else, it chooses us. Where do you turn when fear knocks on the door? Talk taken from National Community Church on July 10, 2016

Taken from a previous podcast from 2017. Interview with friend, Barb Melby and preschool class.

Light coming into darkness. Mackenzie Matthews interviews Dick Foth.

December 7, 1941: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy - Franklin D. Roosevelt. References: - Vera Lynn - Mitsuo Fuchida - Jacob DeShazer - Peggy Covell Purchase Song by Vera Lynn "We'll Meet Again": iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/well-meet-again/1440754257?i=1440754721 Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Well-Meet-Again-Very-Best/dp/B002SZ3RBE/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=vera+lynn&qid=1638843902&sr...

References - Proverbs 25:11-12, MSG - Carl Sandburg “Primer Lessons” - John 10:27, ESV - Philippians 1:7-8, ESV - Batterson and Foth, Trip Around the Sun

1968: In the face of national upheaval, one man asked a question. Message originally presented at Timberline Church in Fort Collins, CO

Chapter 10 of Known - Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World "What comes into your mind, when you think about God, is the most important thing about you." -A.W. Tozer

References: 1. Allender, “To Be Told” 2. Luke 2:1-7 3. Pat Conroy, Beach Music 4. Bruce Larson, “No Longer Strangers” 5. Brown, “Rising Strong” 6. Frederick Buechner, quoted in Elaine Lawless, “Women Preaching Revolution”