What does it really mean to love without conditions?

In this conversation, Scott sits down with Dr. Tom Hamilton—Bible professor, academic dean, husband, father of eleven, and adoptive parent—to explore love as more than a feeling. Together they discuss marriage, adoption, parenting, and family life as spiritual disciplines designed to shape character, reveal selfishness, and form Christlike patience.

Drawing from decades of lived experience, Tom reflects on unconditional love, the cost of commitment, the formation power of family relationships, and how God uses ordinary, often difficult relationships to make us more like Jesus. This episode challenges modern assumptions about marriage, children, comfort, and success.

Topics include:

• Why marriage is a spiritual discipline, not just a romantic choice
• Adoption and loving without guarantees or outcomes
• How family life exposes and shapes character
• Cultural myths about money, children, and “having enough”
• Why unconditional love must truly be unconditional

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"Remember, you are loved, so go, love better!"

A deadly outbreak empties cities, shuts down schools, and forces one frustrated student into isolation. What feels like loss and interruption quietly becomes the most creative season of his life. In this episode, Spaced Love explores why distance, silence, and unfilled moments may be essential to real growth—and asks whether our obsession with constant motion is costing us the very love we’re trying to build.

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History remembers Lewis and Clark—but not the parents who shaped them. This episode explores the unseen hands behind lasting impact, asking what kind of legacy love actually endures. Is it comfort, or courage? Achievement, or preparation? A story about influence, faith, and why the most important work we do may never carry our name.

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What does Southwest Airlines, a six-month podcast hiatus, and Jesus’ words to Martha have in common? This episode explores why adding more to your life may be quietly costing you what matters most—and how learning to subtract might be the most loving decision you make.

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"Remember, you are loved, so go, love better!"

This episode is the last of a series of episodes entitled The Unlovables—a candid look at the people who are hard to love and why, and how the Bible teaches us not just to tolerate them… but to truly love better.

And today, we look at the seemingly uncrossable waters of betrayal.

How can we love those who have betrayed us.

Link to video Brandt Jean's courtroom forgiveness: https://youtu.be/NkoE_GQsbNA?si=v_XhX1YXE2WU6cPH

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If you would like to learn more about how you can help with the children's home in India or the congregation of lepers you can reach Bryan Tacker at tackerb@yahoo.com or bryan@cedarparkfriends.org

One of my goals with this podcast is to introduce an audience I love to people I love. I’d love for you to meet Bryan and Tami Tacker. I first met Tami through an organization called Sacred Selections. Sacred Selections is a nonprofit that helps raise funds to alleviate the financial burden of adoption for Christian families. Sacred Selections helped bring home many of my children as well as hundreds of other children into their respective families.

But in talking with Tami, I found out that her and her husband, Bryan, are also deeply involved in some amazing work in India. Bryan and Tami are exceptional people with a heart for children, the disenfranchised, and the spreading of the gospel in India. We talk about how they first got involved in helping a children’s home there, as well as the amazing work being done by a congregation of lepers. We also talk about how it all started with a providential encounter with a Christian named Billy.

For the sake of safety, we don’t use Billy’s last name or talking about the specifics of where the children’s home is in India because persecution of Christians in India, both economically and politically, is a very real danger, but if you want to get involved or help, there are details in the show notes of how to get more information.

I entitled this conversation ‘More with Less’ and I think you will find that amongst the larger details of these good works happening in India, you will hear some amazing stories about people who have done more with less and really make me want to be a better person. I’m grateful for the Tackers and others like them doing this sort of work to help souls, and I’m better for the time talking to them. I think you will be, too.

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"Remember, you are loved, so go, love better!"

This episode is part of our ongoing series The Unlovables—a candid look at the people who are hard to love and why, and how the Bible teaches us not just to tolerate them… but to truly love better.

Today’s episode is unique amongst the UnLovables series because we are going to pursue understanding why you and I are often unlovable, or more accurately, why we have a very hard time being loved by God and others.

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"Remember, you are loved, so go, love better!"

This is the fourth in a series of episodes entitled The Unlovables.

This episode is part of our ongoing series The Unlovables—a candid look at the people who are hard to love and why, and how the Bible teaches us not just to tolerate them… but to truly love better.

And today, we tackle a hard one—the addict.

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"Remember, you are loved, so go, love better!"