Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 7 - Brandon Booth, From Theology to Trust

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Brandon Booth is the president of Signpost Inn Ministries and hosts the Signpost Inn podcast. Like Cecil, his focus is on living a practical, daily faith, with a focus on attending to Jesus’s loving presence. Booth sees people struggle because they know facts about God but aren’t able to experience him as real. This mirrors his own journey, so Booth shares ideas on how to move from knowing about God to truly knowing God.

Highlights of the podcast: 

3:40 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Brandon

6:12 We’re all hungry for more than what we see in life

9:30 The difference between knowing God and knowing about God

11:58 Prayer is a fancy word for conversation

15:29 How we can transform guilt and anxiety over not engaging with God into faith

20:42 How do we surrender to God’s love?

21:53 A rollercoaster analogy for fully engaging with God

25:41 How Brandon came to understand that God is real

29:11 How Satan overplays his hand with us

31:57 How to find his Signpost Inn ministry

As the president of Signpost Inn Ministries and host of the Signpost Inn podcast, Brandon Booth’s goal is to invite people into deeper relationship with Jesus as they reach a crossroads in life – and we’re always at a crossroads. One of Booth’s offerings is spiritual direction, which is one-on-one counseling that focuses your attention on Jesus’s presence. You can find everything he does by searching for Signpost Inn or visiting SignpostInn.org.

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