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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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Saturday Aug 17, 2024
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
What does God’s Word say about money?
Brent talks with Callie and Rosario Picardo about their new book from Invite Press called ‘Healthy Money: A 30-Day Journey Toward Spiritual, Emotional, and Financial Freedom’.
Callie has spent her career working in finance and charitable giving. She currently serves as Vice President for Development at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. In 2011 she built Deep Roots Financial Coaching, a business that helps individuals, families and churches align their finances with God’s Word.
Rosario is one of the founding pastors at Mosaic, a multicultural church in Dayton, Ohio. Rosario is a national speaker and leads a consulting grup for church planters/pastors, called Picardo Coaching LLC and he’s the author of 8 books.
- (1:15) Why a 30 day journey?
- (1:40) How can we tell our money mindset?
- (3:05) Early money memories;
- (6:25) What is a security mindset?
- (7:10) A collector’s mindset;
- (8:30) The Bible’s view of money;
- (10:30) Idolatry of money;
- (11:25) How to ‘count your blessings’;
- (12:45) Can we know what God wants us to do with our money?
- (14:20) Setting goals for our money;
- (15:45) Prosperity gospel;
- (18:00) Why its important to know what we value most;
- (21:10) Financial rest?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.inviteresources.com/invite-press-books
www.amazon.com/Healthy-Money-Spiritual-Emotional-Financial-ebook/dp/B0CW1HR5NF
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Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Where did the universe come from and is it conscious? Does the universe have a purpose?
Brent is joined by philosophers Philip Goff and Joshua Farris to discuss Philip‘s latest book from Oxford University Press called ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’.
Philip is a philosophy professor at Durham University in the UK. He spends most of his time ‘trying to work out the ultimate nature of reality’. His special interest is panpsychism and whether it can offer a middle way between traditional belief in God and secular atheism.
Joshua is a philosopher and theologian. He’s Vice President of Ethical Engagement at Density6 and Visiting Research Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum.
- (1:20) Does the universe have a purpose?
- (3:20) Why and how does science point to a purpose for the universe?
- (6:00) Why does consciousness point to purpose?
- (10:10) What is panpsychism and is the universe conscious?
- (12:20) How did the universe come to be conscious if it is?
- (14:00) How do we know the universe is conscious?
- (21:10) God and the existence of evil and suffering;
- (23:10) Why does God allow suffering?
- (26:45) Philip’s view of a more limited God;
- (28:30) The myth made fact?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com.au/dp/0198883765?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz
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Saturday Aug 10, 2024
Saturday Aug 10, 2024
‘Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals – and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield kept slaves themselves, and Wesley failed to speak out against slavery until near the end of his life’.
Brent talks with Sean McGever the author of a new IVP book called ‘Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley and Whitefield’. Sean tells the true story of these men’s relationships to slavery: a story that has often been passed over or buried in scholarly literature.
Sean is an area director of Young Life in Phoenix, Arizona, and adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. He’s the author of several books.
- (1:20) Sean’s involvement with the book project;
- (4:25) The foundation of American evangelicalism;
- (9:25) Wesley and slavery;
- (12:15) Whitefield;
- (15:15) Edwards and slavery;
- (21:10) How does the Bible deal with slavery?
- (27:00) English Christians and slavery in the 18th century;
- (29:45) The Homilies;
- (32:45) Wesley’s first encounter with slavery;
- (35:15) Whitefield enslaving people;
- (37:30) Edwards’ writings on slavery;
- (40:45) Wesley’s abolitionism;
- (43:30) How do we own white evangelical Christian history?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Ownership-Evangelical-Slavery-Edwards-Whitefield-ebook/dp/B0CQV8G9V6
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Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
What’s the symbolism of the lampstand in Zechariah 4 and how does it compare with the lampstand in the Tabernacle and the lampstands in the Temple?
Brent talks with Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States about the weird 4th chapter of Zechariah!
- (0:33) The 5th night vision;
- (3:15) The lampstand;
- (6:50) Jubilee;
- (9:20) Zerubbabel;
- (10:15) The two olive trees;
- (12:20) The mountain in v 7;
- (14:00) The topstone in v 7:
- (15:35) The lampstand in v 11 and onward;
- (16:20) The 7 eyes;
- (18:15) The oil;
- (19:50) The branches.
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Monday Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
Brent is joined by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss the very problematic opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris.
Who was the Greek god Dionysius and how is Dionysian symbolism used throughout Western culture?
- (0:45) What is all the fuss about?
- (1:55) The title and the ‘Feast of the gods’;
- (3:45) Recent media depictions of the ‘Last Supper’;
- (7:10) Who was Dionysius?
- (8:15) Dionysian religion;
- (9:00) The Dionysian and Nietszche;
- (10:55) Turning everything upside down;
- (14:00) The Dionysian and violence;
- (15:45) Thomas Mann;
- (17:00) Politics and the Dionysian;
- (18:50) Apollo and Dionysius;
- (19:30) Jesus as the true Dionysius;
- (22:45) A Christian response to blasphemy;
- (31:00) The song and Nature. Rousseau;
- (35:20) The French Revolution.
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Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Who is the ‘angel of the Lord’ in Zechariah 3?
Brent talks with Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States about Zechariah 3.
- (0:35) The ‘night visions’ of Zechariah;
- (2:35) The High Priest;
- (3:35) The defiled garments;
- (6:30) What does Zechariah see?
- (7:50) The golden plate;
- (9:30) The garments of the High Priest and the Tabernacle and Temple;
- (10:35) A new Day of Atonement?
- (14:15) Who is the angel of the Lord?
- (16:40) The branch;
- (17:05) The stone with 7 eyes;
- (18:00) The stone and the Law;
- (20:30) The Sabbath like rest of v 10;
- (23:00) How the chapter points to Jesus.
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Brent is joined once again by Jennifer Holberg to talk about the 20th century poet Jane Kenyon.
Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing. She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’.
- (1:00) Jane Kenyon;
- (2:30) The Luminous Particular;
- (3:50) ‘The Thimble’ and ‘Finding a Long Grey Hair’;
- (8:10) ‘What Came to Me’;
- (10:15) ‘Coats’;
- (11:55) How did Kenyon struggle with and celebrate the hard things of life?
- (12:25) ‘Dutch Interiors’;
- (14:30) ‘Otherwise’;
- (17:15) ‘Having it Out with Melancholy’;
- (30:20) ‘The Shirt’;
- (31:05) ‘Let Evening Come’.
Links mentioned in this episode:
/www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-kenyon
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Saturday Jul 27, 2024
Saturday Jul 27, 2024
‘On February 8, 2023, the Holy Spirit sparked a flame at the end of an Asbury University Chapel Service. Over the next 16 days, what began as a local experience within the confines of Asbury’s campus soon flared into the blaze of a global movement that captivated millions through the viral power of social media’.
Brent talks with Dr. Sarah Thomas Baldwin about her new book from Invite Press called ‘Generation Awakened: An Eyewitness Account of the Powerful Outpouring of God at Asbury’.
Sarah is Vice President of Student Life at Asbury University in central Kentucky. Sarah has served in Christian higher education for almost 30 years as a student affairs, professional, university pastor and vice president. Sarah serves as co-pastor of a ‘small church’ in Wilmore, Kentucky. She’s a frequent speaker, preacher and retreat leader.
- (1:30) What actually happened at Asbury;
- (3:40) The university and town background;
- (8:25) The experience of God;
- (10:50) How the revival affected Sarah’s working life;
- (12:30) How Sarah and her team ‘stewarded’ the revival;
- (15:15) The student response;
- (17:10) Social media and the revival;
- (19:30) Dealing with the media;
- (24:40) Other revivals;
- (25:55) How the revival has changed things.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.inviteresources.com/invite-press-books
www.amazon.com.au/dp/1963265041?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz
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Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Who was Teresa of Avila? What wisdom or insight can a Spanish mystic from the 1500’s possibly offer today’s Christian?
Brent talks with Laurel Mathewson about her new Whitaker House book called ‘An Intimate Good: A Skeptical Christian Mystic in Conversation with Teresa of Avila’.
Laurel is an Anglican priest. She’s worked in academia, in media and in ministry. Laurel is the editor of ‘The Interior Castle: Exploring a Spiritual Classic as a Modern Reader’ and she’s written award winning work for ‘Sojourners’ Magazine, Geez Magazine and ‘The Christian Century’.
- (1:05) Laurel’s background;
- (3:30) Teresa;
- (5:50) Opposition;
- (6:30) Knowing God better and ‘The Interior Castle’;
- (8:30) Teresa’s experiences of God;
- (10:00) Gifts from God;
- (11:00) The dwellings;
- (15:30) Laurel’s own experiences of God;
- (19:40) God is our lover;
- (22:10) The fire or love of God;
- (24:00) Visions;
- (25:30) The dark night of the soul.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Intimate-Good-Skeptical-Christian-Conversation/dp/B0C8C9DR57
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Saturday Jul 20, 2024
Saturday Jul 20, 2024
Digital technology has become a ubiquitous feature of modern life. But how do we think about computer technology and how do we live as faithful Christians in a digitially saturated society? What is a ‘hallucinating’ chatbot?
Brent talks with Derek Schuurman about his IVP book ‘Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology.
Derek is professor of computer science at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the States. He previously taught at Dordt University and Redeemer University and has worked as an engineer in designing embedded systems. Derek has also done research in areas of robotics and computer vision as well as faith and technology.
- (1:30) Christianity in our fast paced world;
- (2:25) Is technology neutral?
- (4:00) Values in computers?
- (5:10) Virtual reality and AI;
- (7:35) ‘Hallucinating’ chatbots?
- (10:00) The Fall and technology;
- (11:20) Does computer technology need redemption?
- (12:30) A Christian approach to computer technology;
- (14:50) Moral issues;
- (18:10) Optimism?
- (19:35) Technology in the new creation;
- (21:00) Robots with emotions?
Links mentioned in this episode:
/calvin.edu/directory/people/derek-schuurman
www.amazon.com/Shaping-Digital-World-Computer-Technology/dp/0830827137
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