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God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
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2 days ago
Charles Martin – It is Finished
2 days ago
2 days ago
What exactly did the dying Jesus mean when he said ‘It is Finished’ at the Cross? How is the shed blood of a man two thousand years ago relevant here and now?
Brent talks with Charles Martin, New York Times and USA Today best selling author. Charles’s new book from Thomas Nelson is ‘It is Finished: A 40 Day Pilgrimage Back to the Cross’.
- (0:55) Why a 40 day journey?
- (3:40) ‘It is Finished’;
- (8:10) Why did Jesus have to die?
- (13:00) Crucifixion in the Roman world;
- (16:00) Jerusalem.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Finished-40-Day-Pilgrimage-Back-Cross/dp/1400338832
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5 days ago
Felicia Murrell - And
5 days ago
5 days ago
How can we offer a response to the cares and concerns of our day with love?
Brent talks with author Felicia Murrell who’s just published a new book with Whitaker House called ‘And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World’.
Felicia is a certified master life coach and former ordained pastor with over twenty years of church leadership experience. Sne also serves the publishing industry as a freelance copy editor.
- (1:00) Why do we all exist to love?
- (2:20) Felicia’s childhood in the South;
- (7:10) Why do we live in an ‘either/or’ world?
- (10:10) All of us are human;
- (10:30) How can God’s love transform us?
- (13:00) Church;
- (17:50) Healthy deconstruction?
- (20:00) How our stories weave together.
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Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Frankie Mazzapica – Ignite Your Life
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
‘In a time when the world seems to be fighting more and more battles, communing with God is more vital than ever. Now is the time for believers to transform their prayer time with God and renew their lives’.
Brent talks with pastor and author Frankie Mazzapica about his new Whitaker House book ‘Ignite Your Life: 14 Powerful Things That Happen When You Pray’.
Frankie is the founding and lead pastor of Celebration Church of the Woodlands, Texas. Three people from the community were in attendance on the day that Frankie and his wife launched the church in 2005. Today the church is a vibrant, multiplying community and pastor Frankie broadcasts his messages every Sunday to 70,000 households on TBN.
- (3:15) Partnering with God in prayer;
- (8:15) What happens when we pray?
- (13:00) Ways Frankie has seen prayer answered;
- (17:00) How prayer helps us in times of trouble;
- (21:00) Prayer teaches us to hear the voice of God.
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/www.amazon.com/Ignite-Your-Life-Powerful-Things/dp/B0C8C9F7M4
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski – Faithful Work
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
How is our work a way to love God, serve our neighbours, and demonstrate the gospel? How do we engage our daily work as part of how God made all things new?
Brent talks with Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski about their new IVP book ‘Faithful Work: In the Daily Grind with God and for Others’.
Ross is the CEO of Denver Institute for Faith and Work. He previously founded and served as president and executive director of For Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. He holds a doctor of ministry in faith, work, economics, and vocation from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Ryan is assistant professor at Denver Seminary and lead pastor of Foothills Fellowship Church in Denver. He holds a PhD in systematic theology from the University of Edinburgh and has served as theologian-in-residence for Denver Institute for Faith and Work.
- (1:10) Why is daily work our greatest opportunity?
- (1:50) Why do we have such ‘low’ views of work?
- (3:00) The Bible’s view of work;
- (6:30) Does our work ‘add’ to God’s work?
- (7:40) Work in the Enlightenment period;
- (9:45) How do we demonstrate a love of neighbour with our work?
- (12:00) Broken structures;
- (13:30) God’s work for us;
- (16:30) Why work and rest are interrelated.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Faithful-Work-Daily-Grind-Others/dp/1514007916
www.denverinstitute.org/difw-names-ross-chapman-as-incoming-ceo/
denverseminary.edu/directory/tafilowski-ryan/
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Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Joshua Farris – What is consciousness?
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
What is consciousness? Can we explain human consciousness without God?
Brent talks with Joshua Farris, a teacher, pastor, editor, author, blogger and podcaster. His speciality is the soul as well as divine justice, the atonement and a lot of other things. He’s currently the Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow at the University of Bocum. He was a previous fellow at the Creation Project, Carl F.H Henry Center and the University of London among others places.
Joshua talks with Brent about human consciousness and why we need God to explain consciousness. Joshua is the author with Alin C. Cucu of ‘Science of Consciousness: The Elephant in the Room’ in ‘Mind Matters’ and ‘We Still Need God for Consciousness Despite Reports to the Contrary’ in ‘Worldview Bulletin’.
- (1:30) What is consciousness?
- (6:30) The ‘final theory’ of consciousness;
- (10:30) Panpsychism;
- (17:15) Personal qualities;
- (21:00) Why do we still need God?
Links mentioned in this episode:
mindmatters.ai/2023/10/science-of-consciousness-the-elephant-in-the-room/
worldviewbulletin.substack.com/p/we-still-need-god-for-consciousness
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Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Jeff Haanen – Working from the Inside Out
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
How can our work become a way to love God, serve our neighbours and demonstrate the gospel to the world?
Brent talks with Jeff Haanen about his new IVP America book called ‘Working from the Inside Out: A Brief Guide to Inner Work That Transforms Our Outer World’.
Jeff is a writer and entrepreneur. He founded Denver Institute for Faith and Work, a community of conveners, teachers, and learners offering experiences and educational resources on the gospel, work, business and culture. Jeff writes for ‘Christianity Today’ and ‘Comment’ magazine.
- (1:30) Why is work such a struggle?
- (2:40) Why are we so disengaged at work?
- (7:20) The Denver Institute;
- (10:20) Building relationships at work;
- (11:45) Serving others in our workplace;
- (13:45) Thinking theologically about our work;
- (18:20) What’s a successful business?
- (20:10) Relationships at work;
- (22:45) ‘Human’ workplaces;
- (24:45) Faith in the workplace?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Working-Inside-Out-Brief-Transforms-ebook/dp/B0C5BBM5DV
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Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Susan Lim – Light of the Word
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Where did our Bible come from? The more we understand how Scripture came to be, the more we discover its power and truth.
Brent talks with Susan Lim about her new IVP America book ‘Light of the Word: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith’.
Susan has been professor of history at Biola University in La Mirada, California and is a speaker at conferences, churches and retreats.
- (1;10) Susan’s faith journey;
- (6:15) The ‘messy’ Bible history;
- (7:50) How our Old Testament was put together;
- (12:20) The New Testament;
- (14:00) The evidence for Jesus outside the New Testament;
- (15:00) Revelation;
- (18:00) The ‘fake’ books;
- (20:45) The church fathers;
- (25:10) Objections to the authority of the New Testament.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Light-Word-Knowing-History-Illuminates/dp/1514006944
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Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Ingrid Faro – Demystifying Evil
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
How should we respond to evil and its power to assault us?
Brent talks with Ingrid Faro about her new IVP book ‘Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration’.
Ingrid is coordinator of the MA in Old Testament program and visiting professor at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She previously served as dean of academic affairs at Northern Seminary, dean of theology at the Scandinavian School of Theology and director of masters programs at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She speaks and preaches internationally.
- (1:10) Ingrid’s own search to understand evil;
- (2:15) An early encounter with God;
- (4:15) Personal experiences of evil;
- (11:15) Personal power encounters with evil;
- (13:10) How did evil enter the world;
- (15:10) Our role in allowing evil to enter the world;
- (16:45) Why does God allow evil?
- (18:50) Natural disasters;
- (21:20) Forgiveness overcomes evil;
- (27:30) The blood of Jesus.
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Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Bonus Episode – Susannah Black Roberts – St. Monica of Thagaste
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Brent is joined by Susannah Black Roberts, senior editor of ‘Plough’ to talk about St. Monica of Thagaste, the mother of St. Augustine.
We learn about Monica’s unusual marriage, her vision about her son and Augustine’s student years – ‘a sort of late Classical Carthaginian Brideshead Revisited Scene’. We also learn about Roman toilets!
Susannah has written for publications including ‘First Things’, ‘Fare Forward’, ‘Front Porch Republic’ and ‘Mere Orthodoxy’.
- (1:10) The Dead Ladies Show;
- (3:25) Who was St. Monica?
- (4:30) An unusual marriage;
- (8:00) Roman society and ‘flush’ toilets;
- (10:30) Monica in Augustine’s writings;
- (11:00) Augustine’s student years;
- (13:00) Monica’s vision;
- (13:50) Debates with theologians;
- (14:45) Ambrose;
- (17:00) Augustine’s baptism;
- (17:30) Monica and Augustine’s last conversation;
- (19:30) Monica’s funerary marker.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/monica-of-thagaste#!
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Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Alastair Roberts on Revelation 22
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
How does John end the Apocalypse?
Brent talks with Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute about the final chapter of the book of Revelation.
- (0:30) Revelation 22;
- (2:10) The imagery;
- (5:00) The river and the sea in God’s throne room;
- (6:30) The Tree of Life;
- (13:30) God’s mark on the forehead and the High Priest;
- (15:00) The Lord Jesus – the Alpha and Omega;
- (17:30) The wicked excluded;
- (19:15) Jesus as the bright morning star;
- (21:15) The Spirit and the Bride;
- (24:35) The End.
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