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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 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
How should we treat children and vulnerable people?
Brent and Ian continue their exploration of Mark’s gospel with chapter 9 verses 38-50.
- (5:30) Don’t try and stop people doing things in Jesus’ name;
- (7:30) Stumbling. How we should treat children and vulnerable believers;
- (10:45) How we should be careful not to cause a vulnerable believer to stumble;
- (14:00) How Jesus suggests we deal with sin.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
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Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
‘In a world full of suffering and death, humans long for abundant life’.
Brent talks with Jeff Brannon, professor of biblical studies and chair of the biblical studies and Christian ministries department at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi in the States.
Jeff’s new book from IVP is ‘The Hope of Life After Death: A Biblical Theology of Resurrection’.
- (1:20) The importance of Jesus’ resurrection;
- (3:25) What is resurrection?
- (4:40) Life in a new creation;
- (6:30) The Creation account and how it lays the foundation for the hope of resurrection;
- ((7:35) Genesis 3:15 and the promise of resurrection;
- (9:15) Abraham and resurrection;
- (11:20) Joseph and death and resurrection;
- (12:30) Elijah and Elisha and death and resurrection;
- (14:00) Job;
- (14:30) How the Psalms speak of death and resurrection;
- (16:00) How Jesus fulfills all the pictures of resurrection in the Bible;
- (20:05) Jesus’ resurrection His vindication;
- (20:20) How we experience Jesus’ resurrection life now;
- (22:40) The Second Coming and New Creation;
- (25:00) How the hope of resurrection sustains us.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Hope-Life-After-Death-Resurrection/dp/0830855319
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Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
What might the fictional worlds of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia and Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ teach us about the stewardship of creation?
Brent talks to Kristen Page, the Ruth Strohschein Distinguished Chair and professor of biology at Wheaton College, Illinois in the USA about her new IVP book ‘The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth’.
Kristen’s work is in numerous scholarly journals, including the ‘Journal of Wildlife Management’, ‘Journal of Parasitology’ and ‘Emerging Infectious Diseases’.
- (1:06) What’s the role of stewardship in the works of Lewis and Tolkien?
- (1:55) What fictional landscapes can teach us about real landscapes;
- (3:10) Fictional landscapes and real places;
- (6:00) How trees are important in Lewis and Tolkien;
- (8:55) Trees and intelligence;
- (10:00) Plants and sounds. Trees and music;
- (12:50) Kristen and landscape;
- (14:10) What Tolkien and Lewis teach us about the stewardship of creation;
- (17:00) The hobbits and sustainability;
- (18:50) Deforestation in Lewis and Tolkien;
- (23:00) How we can enjoy God in creation.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Wonders-Creation-Stewardship-Middle-Earth-Lectureship/dp/1514004356
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Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
How does the Bible speak of God’s emotions?
Brent and Ian talk with David Lamb, the Allan A. MacRae Professor of Old Testament and dean of faculty at Missio Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He previously worked in campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and has taught extensively in various cross cultural contexts.
David’s new IVP book is ‘The Emotions of God – Making Sense of a God Who Hates, Weeps, and Loves’.
- (1:25) Why we don’t like associating emotions with God;
- (2:30) Are Christians afraid of emotion?
- (4:46) Divine impassibility;
- (9:45) How the poetic books of the Bible speak about God’s emotions;
- (13:00) The emotions attributed to God in the Psalms;
- (14:45) How the Bible describes God’s anger;
- (20:35) God hates evil;
- (24:00) God’s joy.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Emotions-God-Making-Sense-Hates/dp/1514000105
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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
‘Our most loved Bible verses are loved for a reason – John 3:16, Matthew 23:12 and so on. But do we really understand the passages as God intended us to?’ Speaker, radio producer and author Jay Payleitner sought to resolve that question and found the answer in his new book published by Whitaker House called ‘The Next Verse: What You Never Knew About 60 of Your Favorite Bible Passages’.
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.
- (2:30) How social media has changed radio;
- (3:50) What we find when we read the next verse;
- (7:30) Reading the Bible in context;
- (9:00) Jay’s background in advertising;
- (10:45) How can we get deeper into Scripture?
- (13:00) John 3:16 and the next verse;
- (15:15) Matthew 11:28 and the next verse;
- (17:40) Joshua 24:15 and the next verse;
- (21:30) Jay’s radio career;
- (24:45) Writing and deadlines.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Jay Payleitner | Best Selling Author & National Speaker
www.amazon.com/Next-Verse-Never-Favorite-Passages/dp/1641238925
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Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
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 weak.
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Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
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Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
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.
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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.
Links mentioned in this episode:
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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