Soil and Roots

Some of us know how to serve, achieve, and produce—but not how to simply be still before God.

The world measures usefulness. God looks deeper than that.

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Brian Fisher explores one of the deepest and most uncomfortable questions in spiritual formation: What if, somewhere beneath our theology, we’re not actually convinced God is good?

Drawing from Scripture, personal experience, psychology, and the Soil & Roots framework of deep discipleship, this episode examines the hidden “ideas” that quietly govern our inner lives. While many Christians intellectually affirm God’s love and goodness, our anxiety, control, resentment, and guardedness often reveal a very different lived reality beneath the surface.

Brian contrasts beliefs with deeper heart-level ideas formed through relationships, suffering, wounds, and experience. He explores why modern Christianity often produces informed people without necessarily producing transformed people, and why true discipleship must involve the healing of the unconscious self—not just the transfer of information.

Along the way, he reflects on suffering, authenticity, vulnerability, the limits of scholastic Christianity, and the relational safety Jesus invites us into. From the story of a former missionary who lost faith after witnessing profound suffering, to reflections on anxiety, control, and our difficulty receiving love, this episode offers a compassionate and deeply honest look at the hidden places of the human heart.

Ultimately, “Too Good to Be True” is an invitation into radical honesty before God. Not performance. Not pretending. But the kind of authenticity where healing and deep transformation can finally begin.

If you’ve ever struggled to trust God in the middle of pain, disappointment, fear, or unanswered questions, this episode is for you.

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The turning point isn’t covering our flaws—but discovering we’re loved despite them.

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Dr. Tim comes loaded with rich and probing questions about our ideas of God in this Greenhouse episode of the Soil & Roots podcast.

If what the world needs most is deep people, and those people are generally formed through suffering, how do we reconcile that with our desire to experience safety?

Since the Soil & Roots journey tends to approach discipleship anthropologically, does that align with the Bible and sound theology? Can we understand spiritual formation through sources apart from the Bible?

How does our worldview (our beliefs) connect to our heartview (our unconscious ideas)? And how does that impact our day-to-day interactions with God, ourselves, and others?

It’s become popular today to claim that “Jesus is enough.” Is He really?

Tim flexes his PhD, while Brian just tries to keep up. Enjoy!

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