The Central Seminary Podcast

Ep. 84 - Cultivating Friendship, Part 1: The Fruit of Biblical Friendship with Jon Pratt & Greg Deckert

August 13, 2026·27 min
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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Jon Pratt and Greg Deckert, friends for over 50 years, as they take us back to Owatonna, Minnesota, where two faculty families arrived at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, and their sons met at Vacation Bible School.Jon and Greg share the fruit of a friendship that ran through the same schools from grade school through Pillsbury, and into an apartment they shared during Jon's first year of seminary and Greg's first year of law school. We talk about accountability that was never scheduled and how the friendship held together through a move to Dallas in the years before email.Books mentioned in this episode:A Light on the Hill by Caleb Morell (Crossway, 2025)The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks (Penguin, 2026)The Desecration of Man by Carl R. Trueman (Sentinel, 2026)Not Old, Not Young, Not Done by Christopher Ash (The Good Book Company, 2025)

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