{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fifteen&: A Podcast Experience","title":"S13 E8 [Heaven Now] Part 8: Gentleness","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2723,"description":"In this episode of the Heaven Now series, Chris walks through one of the most uncomfortable leadership case studies in Scripture — King David’s silence after Tamar’s violation, and the hidden-agenda coup that silence produced in Absalom. Drawing on 2 Samuel 13–15 and Jesus’s encounter with the woman at the well (John 4), Chris unpacks the identity fear of vulnerability — how it shows up as proving or hiding — and how the fruit of the Spirit of gentleness (and its Beatitude counterpart, “Blessed are the meek” from Matthew 5:5) is not weakness but power under direction. A practical teaching for any leader who knows they’ve been avoiding a conversation they can no longer afford to skip.\n\nWEEKLY REFLECTION:\nWho in your life has never actually met the real you because the version they know is the one you let them see?\nIs your energy in relationships really a way to avoid being known?\nWho is the person in your life right now who needs the direct conversation you have been avoiding?\nThank you for listening. You can support 15& by visiting fifteenand.org. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aqLtIUP6ODExVH2v2Hwq7K9fkAqbi8ikpuhtlsX1OKs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YTBl/NDkxODIwYmM1NzZm/ZjY1NTM4NWFiNWVl/ZTMzMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}