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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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3 days ago
3 days ago
Brent and Ian are back in the gospel of Mark. How do we see growing opposition to Jesus and unbelief in these verses?
- (0:45) The disciples’ understanding;
- (1:23) Growing opposition and unbelief;
- (3:30) What happens at the bottom of the mountain?
- (4:00) The Teachers of the Law;
- (8:05) Unbelief in these verses;
- (11:00) What evil does to people;
- (18:00) Power comes through service;
- (18:30) Children;
- (19:15) Jesus’ kingdom is about the lowest and the weakest;
- (20:00) How we can welcome the wea.
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Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
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6 days ago
6 days ago
Throughout China’s growing cities, a new wave of house churches is growing. How have they endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization?
Brent talks with Hannah Nation, the managing director of the Center for House Church Theology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the States. Hannah is a writer and student of missions history and World Christianity and she’s the editor with J. D. Tseng of a new IVP America book called ‘Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement’.
- (1:00) Christianity in China;
- (4:15) Urbanization in China and the house church movement;
- (6:00) What is the Chinese house church movement?
- (8:00) Unregistered churches;
- (9:55) The church’s relationship with the State in China;
- (12:30) The house church’s opposition to the ‘official’ church;
- (14:05) Pastor Wang Yi and his influence;
- (16:30) Wang Yi’s objection to the state church;
- (20:30) Wang Yi’s arrest. Persecution;
- (25:30) Wang Yi and faithful disobedience.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.housechurchtheology.com
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Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
On December 1, 1955 an African-American woman by the name of Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The rest is history…
Brent and Ian talk with Rosa Parks' friend and founder of O Museum in the Mansion in Washington, D.C., H. H. Leonards about her new book published by R.H. Boyd in the States called ‘Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership’.
- (1:30) What is the O Museum and the Mansion in Washington?
- (3:00) What happened to Mrs. Parks on the bus on December 1, 1955?
- (4:30) James Blake;
- (6:50) Background to the incident;
- (8:15) What happened to Mrs. Parks. Martin Luther King;
- (10:45) The horror of segregation in the South in the 1950s. Love unites;
- (13:30) Similarities with today;
- (15:45) How H came to meet Mrs. Parks;
- (17:55) H’s background;
- (19:20) No accidents or coincidences in life;
- (21:00) H’s memories of Rosa Parks;
- (22:45) Mrs. Parks faith;
- (26:00) The Presidential Medal of Honor and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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H. H Leonards 'Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership'
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
How does intercessory prayer transform us and the world?
Brent talks with Carolyn Carney, the national director of spiritual formation for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Carolyn has led prayer groups and intercessory prayer training for more than 30 years.
Carolyn’s book from IVP America is ‘The Power of Group Prayer – How Intercession Transforms Us and the World’.
- (0:50) What intercessory prayer can achieve;
- (1;30) What we can learn from other people’s prayers;
- (2:30) The Bible and intercessory prayer;
- (4:30) How the church can pray for real change in the world;
- (6:30) Why does God choose us to help transform the world?
- (7:10) How does intercessory prayer change us?
- (10:15) How do we know that we’re hearing from God?
- (16:00) Powerful answers to prayer;
- (17:00) Breakthrough in prayer;
- (21:00) Intercessory prayer and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Carolyn Carney 'The Power of Group Prayer : How Intercession Transforms Us and the World'
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Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
‘Why are you single? Just because’. However we answer that question, what’s more important than WHY we are single is how we LIVE as singles’.
Brent talks with Bridget Gee, the spiritual formation coordinator for InterVarsity’s Study Abroad programmes, where she directs European pilgrimages for students, staff and partners to experience contemplative followings of Jesus. Bridget is also the host of ‘Soladarity: The Singleness Podcast’.
Bridget’s new book from IVP America is ‘Single, Just Because: A Pilgrimage Into Holy Aloneness’.
- (1:30) Bridget’s pilgrimages;
- (2:15) How pilgrimage has become a tool for spiritual formation;
- (3:50) What Bridget had to ‘unlearn’. The church and singleness;
- (5:30) Why churches have problems with singleness;
- (8:30) Paul’s view of singleness;
- (11:30) The hard parts of being single;
- (15:10) Christian dating;
- (20:30) God is the most intimate love of our lives;
- (25:00) Landscapes and nature. How God meets us through landscape.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Bridget Gee 'Single, Just Because: A Pilgrimage into Holy Aloneness'
Sola-darity 'The Singleness podcast'
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Is Christian teaching narrow and outdated? What is Christian teaching and orthodoxy and how have we strayed from it?
Brent talks to Trevin Wax, the author of a new IVP book called ‘The Thrill of Orthodoxy – Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith’
Trevin is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor of theology at Cedarville University in Ohio in the States.
- (1:30) How doctrine makes a real difference in life;
- (3:26) The danger of pragmatism in the church;
- (5:45) Has the Western church lost its passion for orthodoxy?
- (7:30) What excites Trevin about Christian truth?
- (10:00) How is Christianity an adventure?
- (12:35) How we can drift from the truth without even realizing it;
- (15:00) How did the New Testament writers think that doctrine mattered?
- (17:15) How important are the early creeds and should we say them more often?
- (22:00) Why the orthodox are out front because they’re also behind;
- (25:00) How to regain the thrill of orthodoxy.
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Trevin Wax 'The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith'
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Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
How do we do mission in the 21st century? Could it be that we can get alongside people and serve as humble alongsiders?
Brent talks to Craig Greenfield, the author of a new IVP book called ‘Subversive Mission. Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need’.
Craig is the founder and director of Alongsiders International, a grassroots movement of young Christians reaching the world’s poorest children. Craig has lived and worked for more than two decades in marginalized communities in Asia and North America.
- (2:00) Colonialism and mission. The problem of money and power;
- (3:10) The perception of Western missionaries in the mission context;
- (4:00) Craig’s involvement in Cambodia. Some of the challenges;
- (6:50) Five missional ‘types’. The idea of an ‘alongsider’;
- (8:15) ‘Outsiders’ in mission;
- (11:50) How can we be seen as catalysts. Local people should ‘own’ the mission;
- (13:50) Allies;
- (16:00) ‘Alongsider’ evangelism;
- (18:30) Bible teachers as guides in a mission context;
- (19:50) Funding mission.
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Craig Greenfield 'Subversive Mission: Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need'
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Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
How does the technology we use use us? How do the digital age and its values affect the life of Christians and the church?
Brent talks with Jay Kim, the author of a new IVP America book called ‘Analog Christian. Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age’.
Jay is the lead pastor at WestGate Church in the Silicon Valley in the States and is on the leadership team of the ReGeneration Project. His writing has been featured in ‘Christianity Today’, the Gospel Coalition and Relevant Magazine.
- (1:00) Digital technology and us;
- (2:30) How Jay was affected by the pandemic;
- (4:30) How the pandemic affected our consumption of digital technology;
- (6:00) How technology uses us. Social media;
- (9:30) How the fruits of the Spirit help us deal with the negative aspects of social media;
- (12:40) The internet and isolationism;
- (15:45) God’s love and self centric despair;
- (19:10) What sort of ‘joy’ social media tries to sell us;
- (22:00) Social media and rage/anger;
- (25:00) Pastors and social media hostility;
- (27:00) How to deal with internet addiction.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Jay Y. Kim 'Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age'
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Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
‘America has lost its way. And America will fall unless…’
Brent and Ian are joined by Os Guinness who talks about his latest IVP book ‘Zero Hour America. History’s Ultimatum Over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give’.
Os is the author or editor of more than 30 books, the founder of the Trinity Forum, a prominent social critic, and a frequent speaker who has addressed audiences worldwide.
- (1:05) Has America lost its way?
- (4:10) The suppression of freedom;
- (5:00) Has America been captured by an oligarchy?
- (7:50) The original American idea of freedom;
- (9:30) Cultural climate change;
- (11:05) American freedom and moral relativism;
- (12:15) What happens when faith dies?
- (14:00) The ability to make human choices at the heart of freedom;
- (15:45) Freedom is not the permission to do what we like;
- (20:00) Being free requires respect for the equal freedom of others;
- (21:50) Freedom and God;
- (23:30) What do we need to recover?
- (26:00) Globalism and freedom.
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Os Guinness 'Zero Hour America: History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give'
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Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
How do we ‘do’ church in the 21st century? How do we do church in a new pandemic era?
Brent talks to Benjamin Windle, a Millennial/Gen Z specialist pastor from Australia about his new Barna Ideas paper/ebook ‘Digital Church in a Lonely World’.
Benjamin is the pastor of Lifeplace Church in Brisbane, Australia. He has over 20 years of pastoral work experience in the States and Australia and is an author, speaker and businessman. His content has been featured on RightNow Media, the Barna Group, the Aspen Group and the Glorify App. His ‘Life Minute’ brings 60 seconds of hope to an estimated audience of one million listeners.
- (2:00) Online church during Covid;
- (3:41) The advantages and disadvantages of digital church. What is church?
- (5:00) How do we do technology and ‘in person’ community?
- (7:00) What the Bible says about community;
- (11:45) Millennials and Gen Z walking away from the church;
- (14:40) What sort of church are millennials and Gen Z looking for?
- (19:00) Community AND innovate digital strategies;
- (22:00) The Metaverse.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Digital Church in a Lonely World
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