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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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Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Daniel Reinhardt – Rethinking the Police
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
‘A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture’.
Daniel Reinhardt spent 24 years as a police officer near Cleveland, Ohio in the States. He was long unaware of the ways the culture of the police department was shaping him, but gradually, through his own experiences as a police officer and through the mentorship of Black Christians in his life, his eyes were opened to a difficult truth: police brutality against racial minorities was endemic to the culture of the system itself.
Daniel’s new book from IVP America is ‘Rethinking the Police: An Officer’s Confession and the Pathway to Reform’.
Daniel served as a police officer for 24 years. After retiring from the police force, he was assistant professor at the Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry at the Memorial Unit, a prison in Rosharon, Texas. Currently, he’s associate director of student life and applied ministry at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
- (1:20) What made Daniel want to become a policeman?
- (1:55) Police brutality and police culture;
- (2:30) Police culture in the States;
- (5:10) Daniel’s experience of policing;
- (8:50) The experience that changed Daniel’s view;
- (12:00) History of policing in England and the States;
- (14:10) Policing in the 60’s;
- (15:30) Rodney King;
- (20:00) Michael Brown and George Floyd;
- (21:50) Servant leadership and reform;
- (25:45) Community policing;
- (29:00) Investing in local communities.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Police-Officers-Confession-Pathway/dp/151400612X
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Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Jody Michele and Andrea Mae – Disabling Leadership
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
‘People with disabilities are often excluded from full participation in church communities’. Churches must both consider the theological implications of disability and also become places where people with disabilities lead.
Brent talks with Jody Michele and Andrea Mae, two of the authors (with Andrew Draper) of a new IVP book called ‘Disabling Leadership: A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ’.
Jody is a locally licensed minister at Urban Light Community Church in Muncie, Indiana and an independent consultant on issues relating to disability.
Andrea is a leader at Urban Light Community Church where she serves on the church board and chairs the pastor/parish committee. She works in special education and advocacy for the disability community, presenting at multiple organisations and universities.
- (1:35) Are our churches safe places for people with disabilities?
- (3:20) Experience of disability;
- (5:30) The church and disability;
- (11:30) Why is it important for people with disabilities to lead in the church?
- (14:40) The image of God;
- (16:45) Resurrection and disability;
- (21:55) People with disabilities in ministry.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.christianbook.com/disabling-leadership-practical-theology-broken-christ/9781514003350/pd/003358
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Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Katy Bowser Hutson – Now I Lay Me Down to Fight
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
‘Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:/Tangling and strangling legitimate life. Chemo is a killing, a burning out: Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately But cancer, did you know that I am a poet’?
Brent talks with poet Katy Bowser Hutson about her new IVP America book called ‘Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer’ (second edition).
Katy is a forming member of the children’s band ‘Rain for Roots’. She is the co-author with Tish Harrison Warren and Fio Paris Oakes of ‘Little Prayers for Ordinary Days’ and a contributing author to ‘It Was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God’.
- (1:20) Why do we need poets?
- (2:30) Cancer;
- (3:45) Katy’s cancer diagnosis;
- (5:15) Poetry as a tool;
- (12:00) ‘Meeting my Oncologist’;
- (13:30) Cancer as a battle;
- (14:30) Bach’s Goldberg Variations;
- (15:15) ‘Sleep As War’;
- (17:15) Jesus in these poems;
- (19:50) ‘Frustration’;
- (21:20) God’s comfort.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Now-Lay-Me-Down-Fight/dp/1514007991
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Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Emily Smith – The Science of the Good Samaritan
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
‘Loving our neighbor isn’t just a nice idea – its one of Jesus’ most important commands’. But who is our neighbor?
Brent is joined by Dr. Emily Smith to talk about her Zondervan book ‘The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors’.
Emily is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine/surgery at Duke University and at the Duke Global Health Institute. During the Covid pandemic she also became known as the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist through her social media outlets which reached 10 million people.
- (1:00) What is an epidemiologist?
- (2:10) Emily and science;
- (4:50) The story of the Good Samaritan;
- (6:10) Jesus and our neighbor;
- (7:30) Racism and health disparities;
- (12:10) Discrimination and pregnancy;
- (15:00) Children’s surgery and the UN;
- (16:30) Access to healthcare;
- (18:00) A ‘trickle up’ economy;
- (20:00) Climate change;
- (21:30) Our food insecurity;
- (27:00) Coping with Covid;
- (30:00) Emily’s influences.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Science-Good-Samaritan-Thinking-Neighbors/dp/0310366690
Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist | Dr. Emily Smith | Substack
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Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Michael Bird – A Bird’s-Eye View of Luke and Acts
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
What do the books of Luke and Acts teach us about God, Jesus, and the early church? How do these two books relate to each other? And what do they mean for us today?
Brent talks with Michael Bird about his new IVP book ‘A Bird’s-Eye View of Luke and Acts’.
Michael is academic dean and lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. Michael is an ordained Anglican priest and author of over thirty books on the Bible, theology, and history.
- (1:30) Who was Luke?
- (2:10) Luke and Acts as history?
- (3:20) Luke as historian and theologian;
- (4:00) How Luke presents Jesus;
- (5:35) Salvation in Luke-Acts;
- (7:50) The kingdom of God in Luke-Acts;
- (9:30) How does Luke use the Old Testament?
- (12:30) Midrash;
- (14:00) Luke’s view of discipleship;
- (15:40) Luke’s view of possessions and property;
- (17:40) Luke’s view of the Roman Empire;
- (23:10) Why does Acts ends the way it does?
- (24:10) Luke’s view of the last things.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Evangelical-Theology-Biblical-Systematic-Introduction/dp/03104944
www.ridley.edu.au/about-us/ridley-people/faculty/mike-bird/
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Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Mark Noll – C.S. Lewis in America
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
‘Perhaps no other literary figure has transformed the American religious landscape in recent history as much as C.S. Lewis. Even before the international publication and success of his ‘Narnia Chronicles’ or ‘Mere Christianity’ Lewis was already being read ‘across the pond’ in America. But who exactly was reading his work? And how was he received?’
Brent talks with Mark Noll about his new IVP book in the Hanson Lectureship Series (with contributions by Karen J. Johnson, Kirk Farney and Amy Black) ‘C.S. Lewis in America: Reading and Reception, 1935-1947’.
Mark is emeritus professor of history at Wheaton College and the University of Notre Dame. He’s the author of a number of books including ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’.
- (1:30) What’s significant about Lewis’s impact in the States between 1937 and 1947?
- (2:30) Who read Lewis in the States during those years?
- (4:50) The impact of ‘The ‘Screwtape Letters’;
- (7:15) The Roman Catholic response to Lewis in the States;
- (13:00) The mainstream media and Lewis;
- (15:40) American popular culture in the late 30’s and 40’s;
- (17:15) Lewis and ‘Time’ magazine;
- (19:30) The Protestant and evangelical response to Lewis;
- (23:30) Why the evangelical response to Lewis was so cautious;
- (28:15) What can we learn from Lewis about communicating the truths of Christianity today?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Lewis-America-Reception-1935-1947-Lectureship/dp/1514007002
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Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Bruce Strom - Perseverance
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Life is filled with challenges. Does God care? How can we carry on?
Brent talks with Bruce Strom about his new IVP book ‘Persevering Power: Encouragement for When You’re Oppressed by Life’.
Bruce is the founder and CEO of Administer Justice, a national legal aid ministry, where he invites attorneys, pastors, and God’s people to do practical justice in their community through church based gospel justice centers. He’s a pastor, speaker and the author of ‘Gospel Justice’. Prior to Administer Justice, he was the senior partner of a successful multi-office law practice in the Chicago suburbs.
- (1:00) Administer Justice;
- (1:40) Lawyers and the local church;
- (4:15) The church at a crossroads;
- (5:20) The purpose of justice;
- (7:00) Bruce’s personal situation;
- (10:00) Bruce’s experiences of God;
- (11:55) Letting go of control;
- (13:45) How do we know what our purpose is?
- (15:00) Looking back;
- (16:45) Learning from our past;
- (18:15) Looking in;
- (23:35) Not going it alone;
- (26:20) How to persevere.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Persevering-Power-Encouragement-Youre-Oppressed-ebook/dp/B0C31W6FK2
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Saturday Jan 27, 2024
Jay Payleitner – Hooray for Grandparents
Saturday Jan 27, 2024
Saturday Jan 27, 2024
Brent talks with Jay Payleitner about grandparents and grandparenting and his book from Chronicle Books in the States called ‘Hooray for Grandparents: 40 Joys, Surprises, and Cautionary Tales’.
Jay is one of the top freelance producers for Christian radio in the States, having worked on Josh McDowell Radio, Today’s Father and Project Angel Tree with Chuck Colson. Jay is a longtime affiliate of the National Center for Fathering and Iron Sharpens Iron. He speaks at men’s retreats, marriage weekends, writer’s conferences and weekend services.
- (1:30) Jay’s background in sales and radio;
- (3:30) Writing;
- (4:30) Grandparents and life story;
- (9:15) Where do you do your best grandparenting?
- (10:30) Names of grandparents;
- (15:15) ’Gravitas’ in a grandparent;
- (16:30) Living close to your grandchildren – or not?
- (20:30) Worthwhile warnings;
- (22:45) Piano lessons and how to do them!
- (24:35) The Number 1 fear among Christian grandparents.
Links mentioned in this episode:
jaypayleitner.com/books/the-next-verse/
www.amazon.com/Hooray-Grandparents-Jay-Payleitner/dp/1797212974
www.chroniclebooks.com/products/hooray-for-grandparents
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Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Alastair Roberts on Revelation 19
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Brent is joined once again by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss chapter 19 of Revelation.
How does Revelation 19 concern itself with the destruction of the rest of God’s enemies?
The significance of the number 5, more thoughts about music and the Lord Jesus as a greater Dionysius.
- (1:50) Chapter 19 and the structure of Revelation;
- (3:20) Another throne room worship scene;
- (5:50) The multitudes in heaven;
- (6:20) The number 5 in Revelation;
- (7:45) The 4 cherubim and the 24 elders;
- (9:45) Theophanies;
- (10:30) Should Christian praise be loud?
- (11:00) The wedding themes and Jesus;
- (18:45) The rider and the army;
- (19:30) The sword;
- (20:00) The winepress. Jesus our greater Dionysius?
- (22:15) Call to the birds;
- (24:00) The lake of fire;
- (25:30) Jesus our greater Cyrus.
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Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Alastair Roberts on Revelation 18
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Brent is joined once again by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss chapter 18 of Revelation.
Who or what is Babylon? More numbers and animals…
What do birds represent in the Bible?
- (1:30) Who or what is Babylon?
- (3:40) The 3 speakers;
- (5:40) The fall of Babel;
- (8:50) More animals;
- (11:30) The wine and the cup;
- (12:40) The list of 28 items and the Temple;
- (19:30) The woes;
- (20:30) The great millstone;
- (23:30) The end of music;
- (26:!5) The sorcery;
- (17:15) The blood.
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