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Coffee With Phil

Great conversations change people.

Not the polished, soundbite-ready kind — the real ones. The ones where someone says something and you find yourself pulling over the car to sit with it.

That’s Coffee With Phil.

Every week, host Phil Strong — author, bookseller, and lifelong student of intentional living — sits down and shares ideas worth your time. It’s all about faith made real. Intentional self-leadership. Books. Purpose. Mental models. The examined life. The unhurried life.

If you’ve ever wanted a podcast that treats you like an intelligent adult with a hunger for more, you just found it. Start with any episode. You’ll know within five minutes if this is your kind of conversation.

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CWP.174. The Burden of Becoming (HoH-5) Coffee With Phil

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)Hope is a paradox.We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.Here is a link to the four powerful personal questions Phil shares in this episode:https://www.philstrong.com/the-burden-of-becoming/https://www.philstrong.com/the-burden-of-becoming/
  1. CWP.174. The Burden of Becoming (HoH-5)
  2. CWP.173. The Dark Side of Hope (HoH-4)
  3. CWP.172. Why Does Hope Hurt? (HoH-3)
  4. CWP.171. The Burden Nobody Talks About (HoH-2)
  5. CWP.170. When Hope Gets Heavy (HoH-1)

Near two hundred episodes. One obsession.

What does it mean to live well — to live a life of purpose on purpose,

Coffee With Phil is New Zealand’s home for slow, rich, intelligent conversation.

Faith.

Books.

Leadership.

Ideas.

The unhurried life.

Host Phil Strong shares stories from his life of faith. The good, the bad, and the ugly. No fluff. Just ideas worth living by.

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