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Christian Fortitude and Being Sober-minded with Joe Rigney #84

September 17, 2025 • Season 3 • Episode 3

What does it look like to have Christian fortitude in the age of agitation and anxiety? How can we be sober-minded when emotional mobs are demanding our empathy? Joe Rigney talks through these Biblical character traits - what it looks like when it goes wrong (both in the Church and culturally) and how Christians can stand for what is good and right.

Dr. Rigney served as a professor and president of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul, and a teacher at Desiring God. Minnesota lost a good one! Joe is now in Moscow serving as a Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College.

Joe's books: https://canonpress.com/collections/the-joe-rigney-collection?srsltid=AfmBOorK8djAy5zbmJGrboULQd4CoQZ_l1I66qEy9dpgbMjF1leLLI2l

Joe's recent article at World magazine - An American Stephen - "Christians should remember the early church as they respond to the murder of Charlie Kirk" https://wng.org/opinions/an-american-stephen-1757813619

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Joe Rigney blogs at Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/authors/joe-rigney

A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix, Edwin H. Friedman

https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Nerve-Leadership-Age-Quick/dp/159627042X