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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
2 days ago
Have you lost your footing in church? Or has the church lost its footing?
Brent and Ian talk with Anglican bishop Todd Hunter who is no stranger to betrayal and pain in the church. His new book from IVP America is ‘What Jesus Intended: Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion’.
Bishop Todd Hunter leads churches for the Sake of Others, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America and was the founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Costa Mesa, California. He was formerly president of Alpha USA and the National Director for the Association of Vineyard Churches.
- (1:30) Why we’ve lost confidence in the church;
- (3:00) Personal hurt;
- (4:15) Bad religion;
- (9:15) When should we leave a church?
- (13:45) How story brings us back to Jesus;
- (18:15) How individualism works against us;
- (23:30) How Jesus is the cure for bad religion.
Links mentioned in this episode:
/www.amazon.com/What-Jesus-Intended-Finding-Religion/dp/151400495X
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5 days ago
5 days ago
What does it mean to be human? Every human being is created in God’s image.
Brent and Ian talk with Carmen Imes the author of a new IVP book ‘Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters’.
Carmen is associate professor of Old Testament at Biola University in the States. She’s the author of a number of books and is a regular contributor to ‘The Well’, a fellow of ‘Every Voice’ and serves on the advisory council for the Bible Literacy Conference.
- (1:30) Entering the wardrobe;
- (3:15) The Image Dei. What is it?
- (5:40) Our embodiment;
- (7:30) The creation account. What were humans created to do?
- (8:50) Did we lose the image of God?
- (10:00) What it means to be God’s image;
- (12:30) Wisdom literature. Why we need wisdom;
- (13:10) The Song of Solomon;
- (18:30) Ecclesiastes and the image of God;
- (22:00) How Jesus fulfills the image of God;
- (23:55) Our bodies and resurrection;
- (25:00) Disability.
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www.amazon.com/Being-Gods-Image-Creation-Matters/dp/1514000202
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Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Brent is joined once again by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss the second part of the trumpets section of Revelation – chapters 10-11.
How do chapters 10 and 11 relate back to Ezekiel and Daniel?
- (0:31) The first six trumpets;
- (1:41) The mighty angel and the 7 days of creation;
- (5:25) The 7 thunders;
- (7:00) Time;
- (9:45) John and Ezekiel;
- (12:30) The 42 months;
- (14:30) The 2 witnesses;
- (17:50) The great city;
- (20:40) The 7th trumpet;
- (22:50) The Day of Atonement.
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Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Brent is joined once again by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss the first part of the trumpets section of Revelation – chapters 8:6 to 9:21.
- (0:30) How the trumpets relate to the seals;
- (1:00) The trumpets as intensifications of the seals;
- (2:40) Chapters 8-11 and the structure of Revelation;
- (5:10) Seven trumpets and the days of creation;
- (7:15) The Red Horse;
- (7:50) The first trumpet;
- (9:30) Exodus connections;
- (10:50) The blood;
- (11:30) John and Ezekiel. The fractions;
- (12:40) Famine and Acts;
- (13:25) The second trumpet and the realm of the Gentiles;
- (14:00) The burning mountain and the ships. Sea imagery;
- (16:15) The third trumpet and the falling star;
- (17:20) The fourth trumpet and the heavenly rulers;
- (19:10) The fifth trumpet and the eagle. The trumpets and the cherubim!
- (22:00) Locusts, scorpions and hippolions. Parody cherubim;
- (26:30) The sixth trumpet;
- (27:30) Revelation 9 and astronomical themes.
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Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Why does Judas betray Jesus?
Brent and Ian continue their discussion of Mark’s gospel with chapter 14 verses 1-31.
- (1:30) Two days, two meals and two plots;
- (2:40) Time in the story at this point;
- (3:00) The plot to kill Jesus;
- (4:30) The first meal;
- (6:30) Judas’ betrayal. What is his motive?
- (8:30) Our attitude to money;
- (10:00) The second plot;
- (12:20) The second meal;
- (13:15) The Passover meal;
- (15:10) The New Covenant.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.gracepresbyterianchurch.org.nz
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Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Want to unleash the remarkable in your team?
Brent talks with Leonce Crump, former NFL athlete, international speaker and senior pastor of Renovation Church in Atlanta, Georgia in the States about his new IVP America book (with Ryan Hartwig and Warren Bird) ‘The Resilience Factor: A Step-By-Step Guide to Catalyze an Unbreakable Team’.
- (1:00) What is the resilience factor?
- (2:30) Church teams and the pandemic;
- (4:30) Church teams and working from home;
- (7:15) What Leonce learnt as an NFL athlete;
- (9:20) How Leonce built a top team;
- (12:45) Naming the pain;
- (16:15) The positive aspects of team conflict;
- (19:00) Listen to each other’s stories;
- (21:30) How to design ‘killer’ meetings!
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www.amazon.com/Resilience-Factor-Step-Step-Unbreakable/dp/1514005689
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Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
What could the ‘abomination of desolation’ in Mark 13 refer to?
Ian and Brent continue their exploration of Mark’s gospel.
- (1:40) Religious corruption;
- (4:10) Apocalyptic;
- (5:30) Different interpretations;
- (8:40) The Temple;
- (13:00) How Jesus helps us persevere;
- (13:30) The abomination of desolation;
- (16:10) Standing firm in times of destruction and upheaval;
- (18:00) Be prepared!
- (19:30) Jesus’ ascension and Daniel 7;
- (20:30) The gospel going forth.
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www.gracepresbyterianchurch.org.nz/churches/palmerston-north/
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Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
What is vitalism? Did the Lord Jesus fulfill the highest yearnings of the classical Greek and Roman world?
Brent talks Jesus, Homer, Nietzsche and Dionysius with Susannah Black Roberts, a senior editor of ‘Plough’ who has written for many publications including ‘First Things’, ‘Fare Forward’, ‘Front Porch Republic’ and ‘Mere Orthodoxy’.
- (1:00) What is vitalism?
- (4:15) American conservatism and vitalism;
- (5:15) Nietzsche’s ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ and Dionysian enthusiasm;
- (12:45) Death and the soul in Homer;
- (16:15) Then came Plato – his idea of the ‘good’;
- (17:30) Hope and Hades. Death is not the end!
- (20:30) The Lord Jesus as part of the Greek and Hellenized world;
- (23:00) Jesus and aristeia;
- (25:00) Is Jesus the greater Dionysius?
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www.plough.com/en/authors/qr/susannah-black-roberts
mereorthodoxy.com/the-birth-of-comedy
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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
How can we deal with grief?
‘Grief is an intimate, personal pain that is often hard to discuss, even years after the loss. For some, grief begins before a loved one passes as we watch their health deteriorate before our eyes’.
Brent talks with internationally acclaimed recording artist Tori Parris about her new book from Whitaker House in the USA called ‘Love Is Never Lost: Standing Strong in Faith While Grieving’.
Tori has toured extensively for the past decade performing her music and teaching at workshops, conferences, and universities. Tori has opened for bands such as Plumb, For King and Country, Tenth Ave North, Brit Nicole, Skillet, Sidewalk Prophets and more. Tori holds numerous national and international awards and is a voting member of the Gospel Music Association.
- (1:30) Do we make grieving difficult today?
- (7:05) How grief affected Tori;
- (9:00) Can we learn to accept the reality of grief?
- (10:45) Grief and music;
- (12:10) Keeping a journal;
- (17:10) The anger state of grief;
- (19:45) Tori’s birthday.
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www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-is-never-lost-tori-parris/1142712490
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Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Brent and Ian take a look at ‘Lucky Hank’, a show developed by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zeiman which aired on AMC and in New Zealand on TVNZ.
- (1:05) Who is Lucky Hank?
- (5:50) Bob Odenkirk;
- (6:30) The cast;
- (7:00) ‘Black’ comedy;
- (8:00) Hank a bit of a dinosaur;
- (9:00) Hank a good head of department?
- (10:00) Hank and writing;
- (12:15) Hank and his Dad;
- (15:00) Hank’s family;
- (17:00) The academic world;
- (19:00) The redundancies;
- (21:00) The theme of mediocrity.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.gracepresbyterianchurch.org.nz
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Hank
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