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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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Dec 14, 2024
Dec 14, 2024
22 min
Has moral knowledge disappeared from our society?
Brent talks with Steven Porter, Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture at Westmont College and an Affiliate Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation at the Institute for Spiritual Formation and Rosemead School of Psychology.
Steven talks about an important book by his teacher Dallas Willard which was in fact completed by Steven along with Aaron Preston and Gregg Ten Elshof. The book is Dallas’s ‘The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge’ which started life as an incredible series of lectures.
- (1:20) Why the book is so important;
- (3:55) What is moral knowledge?
- (7:15) Freedom from morality?
- (9:00) Why moral knowledge is important;
- (10:45) Moral knowledge and the university;
- (12:25) Did Dallas think that moral knowledge could be regained?
- (16:00) Steven’s involvement;
- (20:00) The contribution of philosophy to Western civilization.
Links mentioned in this episode:
dwillard.org/resources/books/disappearance-of-moral-knowledge
libarts.westmont.edu/about/institutes-and-centers/martin-institute-christianity-culture
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Dec 11, 2024
Dec 11, 2024
16 min
What do you want to hear on your deathbed?
Brent talks with Joshua Farris about a recent article published on the ‘Spiritual Media Blog’.
Joshua is an ordained priest with the Diocese of Kagera and ACMI and a Canon Theologian in Missio Mosaic. He’s the director and founder of Soul Science Ministries and Spiritually Driven Leadership.
- (0:50) What do we want to hear on our deathbeds?
- (1:40) Secularism;
- (3:00) How religious belief is declining in the States;
- (6:20) Are we being told that we don’t need God?
- (8:30) Can secularism offer hope?
- (9:20) Transhumanist immortality?
- (11:15) NDE’s and secularism;
- (12:20) The soul and the afterlife in Christianity;
- (13:30) Science and scientific development.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.spiritualmediablog.com/2023/09/14/what-do-you-want-to-hear-on-your-deathbed/
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Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024
25 min
What’s the importance of theology?
Brent is joined by Joshua Farris to discuss his recent ‘Christianity Today’ article ‘It’s a Theological World After All’.
Joshua is an ordained priest with the Diocese of Kagera and ACMI and a Canon Theologian in Missio Mosaic. He’s the director and founder of Soul Science Ministries and Spiritually Driven Leadership.
- (1:00) The crisis in theological education;
- (2:50) Why do people think that theology is irrelevant?
- (5:15) Pastors and theology;
- (6:45) How biblical illiteracy is affecting churches;
- (9:20) Theology’s decline;
- (12:25) Do philosophical questions need theological answers?
- (18:00) Science engaged theology;
- (21:30) Joshua’s theological journey;
- (23:30) Theology done right!
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/08/seminary-christian-college-pastors-need-academic-theology/
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Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
30 min
What did John Wesley and George Whitefield believe about conversion?
Brent talks to Sean McGever, the author of a Lexham Press book called ‘Born Again: The Evangelical Theology of Conversion in John Wesley and George Whitefield’.
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 including ‘Ownership’.
- (0:55) Wesley and Whitefield’s theologies of conversion;
- (1:30) How did Wesley understand conversion?
- (3:30) Wesley and ‘instantaneous’ conversion;
- (8:40) Wesley and Christian perfection;
- (12:30) ‘Backsliding’;
- (15:00) Whitefield’s understanding of conversion;
- (16:00) Whitefield’s experience of conversion;
- (19:00) Whitefield and infant baptism;
- (24:45) Wesley’s and Whitefield’s disagreements;
- (27:00) ‘Modern’ evangelicalism.
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Nov 30, 2024
Nov 30, 2024
28 min
Brent is joined by Samuel Parkison the author of a new IVP book ‘To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition and Practice’.
Today the doctrine of the beatific vision has been woefuly forgotten within the church and its theology.
Samuel is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Gulf Theological Seminary in the United Arab Emirates. He’s the author of several books.
- (0:45) What is the beatific vision?
- (2:00) The biblical foundation for the beatific vision;
- (5:50) The beatific vision and theosis;
- (10:30) At what point do we receive the beatific vision?
- (13:30) Dante;
- (16:40) Jonathan Edwards;
- (21:30) How does the Lord Jesus experience the beatific vision?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CWTCDRKC?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz
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Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024
24 min
How do you rebuild your life after it falls apart?
Brent talks to Dawn Mann Sanders about her new IVP book ‘When Your World Ends: God’s Creative Process for Rebuilding a Life’.
Dawn is an associate minister at First Baptist Church of Glenarden where she serves as the director of the sermon based life groups ministry. Dawn has written and taught extensively on overcoming adversity and creating a new life both at FBCG and on her personal blog.
- (1:00) How Dawn has had to rebuild her life;
- (3:30) The creation account in Genesis;
- (5:15) God’s process for rebuilding a life;
- (6:30) How does God bring order out of chaos?
- (9:20) God's creative toolkit;
- (11:25) Exercising our God given authority in the world;
- (13:20) How are we lights?
- (14:55) How can we be fruitful?
- (17:20) Peer relationships;
- (18:40) God’s image bearers;
- (19:40) Rest.
Links mentioned in this episode:
dawnmannsanders.com/when-your-world-ends-gods-creative-process-for-rebuilding-a-life/
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Nov 24, 2024
Nov 24, 2024
1 hr 1 min
Did Tolkien’s philosophy of war arise from his appreciation of beauty?
Brent talks with Graham McAleer about his new book from the Catholic University Press of America called ‘Tolkien, Philosopher of War’.
Graham has a doctorate from Louvain, Belgium, where he wrote on medieval philosophy and theology. Graham is the author of books on ethics and moral theology. He’s a member of the Judicial Ethics Committee of the State of Maryland and a regular contributor to the national online magazine Law and Liberty, where he writes on culture and politics. He’s a professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Baltimore. He’s taught there for over 30 years and was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2014.
- (1:10) Tolkien’s philosophy of history;
- (3:50) Tolkien’s view of war and civilization – a matter of aesthetics?
- (5:40) Tolkien and vanity;
- (10:00) The Enlightenment and Tolkien;
- (15:10) Tolkien and liberalism;
- (19:50) Apocalyptic politics;
- (23:30) The West and Gnosticism;
- (30:00) War and vanity;
- (35:55) Tolkien, war and the Enlightenment;
- (37:20) War and theology in Tolkien;
- (45:20) Just war theory in ‘The Lord of the Rings’;
- (47:30) The Shire borders;
- (55:00) Forgiveness in Tolkien;
- (57:20) Why beauty is insufficient in maintaining peace.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Philosopher-War-Graham-McAleer/dp/0813238668
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Nov 23, 2024
Nov 23, 2024
22 min
Brent talks with Joshua Farris about his ‘Mind Matters’ article ‘Finding Common Ground: Exploring Near-Death Experiences and Beyond’.
Joshua is an ordained priest with the Diocese of Kagera and ACMI and a Canon Theologian in Missio Mosaic. He’s the director and founder of Soul Science Ministries and Spiritually Driven Leadership.
- (1:00) Bernardo Kastrup and near death experiences;
- (4:55) What do people experience?
- (9:40) NDE’s – science and philosophy;
- (13:50) NDE’s and materialism;
- (16:20) Christian view of the afterlife;
- (20:00) Joshua’s ministries.
Links mentioned in this episode:
mindmatters.ai/2024/05/finding-common-ground-exploring-near-death-experiences-and-beyond/
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Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024
24 min
Do you want to cut through the noise and feel safe in who you are before God?
Brent talks with the Rev. Chris Lee, Britain’s viral vicar about his new Tyndale House book ‘Know You Are Beloved: Press Pause, Breathe Deeply, and Be Known By God’.
Chris is the vicar of a growing church in London. He’s passionate about prayer and helping people discover their identity in God. He’s been called ‘the internet’s favorite vicar’ and is best known as an influencer who started delivering inspirational 60 second sermons on social media several years ago. His sermons went viral and today he reaches an international audience of 171,000 Instagram followers. Christ speaks at various conferences and on his podcast ‘Come Read with Me’.
- (1:20) A viral vicar;
- (2:20) A great unsettling in the world;
- (4:20) Who does God say we are?
- (5:15) The importance of prayer;
- (7:05) The Desert Fathers;
- (10:30) Silence;
- (12:40) How do we find internal silence?
- (15:15) Learning to hear God’s voice;
- (17:45) St. Francis;
- (20:30) Deep rest in Christ.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com.au/dp/1496474643?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz
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Nov 16, 2024
Nov 16, 2024
25 min
Brent is joined by Joshua Farris to dicuss a recent ‘Mind Matters’ article called ‘New Podcast Asks, Is the World Really Enchanted – or Disenchanted?’
Joshua is an ordained Anglican priest in the Diocese of Kagera and ACMI and a Canon Theologian on Missio Mosaic. He's the Director and Founder of Soul Science Ministries and Spiritually Driven Leadership.
- (0:50) Megan O’Gieblyn;
- (2:30) What does it mean to be human?
- (7:40) Transhumanism;
- (10:40) Is the world enchanted or disenchanted?
- (13:30) Fresh opportunities;
- (15:00) Why is consciousness so important?
- (18:25) Near death experiences;
- (20:20) Joshua’s podcasts.
Links mentioned in this episode:
mindmatters.ai/2024/06/new-podcast-asks-is-the-world-really-enchanted-or-disenchanted/
soulscienceministries.com/about-us
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