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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.
Episodes
Saturday Jul 09, 2022
Saturday Jul 09, 2022
How well do we know the Holy Spirit? How can we come to know God better?
Brent talks with Becky Thompson, the author of ‘God So Close: Experience a Life Awakened to His Spirit’ published by Thomas Nelson.
Becky is a bestselling author and the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional Community gathering more than a million moms in nightly prayer.
- (0:51) How we can come to know God better;
- (1:30) What prevents us from having a deeper experience of God;
- (3:12) Becky’s first experience of the Holy Spirit;
- (7:10) How the Holy Spirit helps us to love and obey Jesus more;
- (8:55) Who is the Holy Spirit?
- (12:03) How we get to know the Holy Spirit;
- (13:48) Is the filling of the Holy Spirit a continual process?
- (16:50) How God speaks to us through His Spirit;
- (17:40) The leading of the Holy Spirit;
- (20:35) The Spirit working through our gut feelings;
- (22:35) How God speaks to us through things that happen to us.
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Becky Thompson 'God So Close: Experience a Life Awakened to His Spirit'
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Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Are Christianity and modern science opposed to each other? Can you be a Christian and also a scientist?
Brent and Ian are joined by John Norsworthy, an Adjunct Lecturer at Faith Bible College, NZ and the author of ‘Why Science Matters – What DOES the Bible say about things scientific?’
- (1:15) Why some Christians are jittery about science;
- (2:00) Is science neutral?
- (3:05) The biblical worldview the basis for modern science;
- (5:00) What the Bible says about nature and knowledge;
- (6:20) What’s the Bible’s relationship to science?
- (7:30) Student issues with science;
- (9:20) The Creation account in Genesis. How the Genesis account differs from other creation accounts in ancient culture;
- (17:10) Psalm 19;
- (20:30) Some famous Christian scientists;
- (24:30) Has science lost the plot?
Links mentioned in this episode:
Castle Publishing, quality Christian and family friendly books
Why Science Matters (manna.co.nz)
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Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Are we troubled by lions in our life or work?
Brent is joined again by Dr Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss Daniel chapter 6.
- (0:40) Who was Darius the Mede?
- (4:10) The Empire Statue;
- (5:54) What happens in chapter 6. An internal coup.
- (8:00) Darius and the set-up;
- (11:46) The importance of writing good laws. Do we really control our laws?
- (14:00) The symbolism of lions;
- (14:52) More numbers – 70, 7 and 62;
- (15:43) Darius’s men as lion like;
- (16:00) Daniel’s chamber and the lion’s den;
- (17:20) Darius and Daniel as new Adam’s;
- (19:30) Another Passover event;
- (20:41) Who is the angel?
- (20:57) Daniel as a type of Christ;
- (24:18) Daniel carries Darius through a kind of death and resurrection experience;
- (25:30) Darius’s response to God;
- (26:20) Preacher’s application?
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Brent speaks to Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States about Daniel chapter 5.
What is Belshazzar’s Feast? What is the writing on the wall and who does the writing?
We meet a lampstand ‘watcher tree’ and find out about the numbers 62, 3 and 4!
- (0:33) The conflict of Empires and Babel;
- (1:49) Who was Belshazzar?
- (3:00) The events of chapter 5;
- ((5:50) Belshazzar’s attempt to rebuild the Babel project;
- (7:20) A Babelic religious feast?
- (11:00) God brings judgement on Belshazzar through the Temple vessels;
- (11:35) The lampstand a ‘watcher tree’ that watches over Israel. The almond tree in Scripture and connection with the High Priest;
- (14:17) Belshazzar’s feast as a counterfeit table of the Lord;
- (16:00) Is the Lord Jesus at Belshazzar’s feast?
- (17:00) The riddle on the wall.
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Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Do you feel you have a calling from God? What role does each of our backgrounds play in shaping our vocational calling? How does God lead us across the whole of our lifetime?
Susan Maros joins Brent to talk about her new IVP America book called ‘Calling in Context: Social Location and Vocational Formation’.
Susan is an affiliate assistant professor of Christian leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary in the States and an adjunct professor at the King’s University, Southlake, Texas.
- (0:47) What is vocational calling?
- ((1:00) How God forms us over a lifetime of experience;
- (1:35) How our callings are influenced by our backgrounds;
- (2:57) What motivated Susan to write the book;
- (4:03) Susan’s ‘Holy Spirit’ moment;
- (6:52) How our church traditions shape the way we think about calling.
- (9:00) What Scripture teaches us about biblical calling. God calls in a variety of ways;
- (11:30) Biblical calling and modern individualism;
- (13:00) Is calling still tied up with the idea of one vocation for life?
- (15:00) Re-evaluating our calling in mid-life;
- (16:35) Convergence;
- (19:30) Many Biblical characters were in the process of convergence;
- (21:20) How race and gender shape our experience of vocational formation;
- (22:30) How vocation can be worked out in community;
- (25:00) Advice to those considering a calling.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Susan L. Maros 'Calling in Context: Social Location and Vocational Formation'
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Sick and tired of struggling in a toxic workplace? How can we best create flourishing workplaces where people thrive and love what they do?
Brent and Ian talk with Al Lopus, the author of ‘Road to Flourishing – Eight Keys To Boost Employee Engagement and Well-Being’ published by IVP America.
Al is the CEO and co-founder of the Best Christian Workplaces Institute which provides research-based measurement tools and strategic advisory services with a vision to create the most effective workplaces in the world.
Al served for over 20 years in leadership roles with Watson Wyatt where he built programs for clients like Boeing and Alaska Airlines. Al currently serves on the Christian Leadership Alliance's advisory council.
- (1:20) Why so many workplaces are toxic;
- (2:40) A work culture is an organization’s soil;
- (3:40) How you change a workplace culture;
- (6:50) People leaving toxic jobs;
- (8:34) How the Best Christian Workplaces Institute came into being;
- (11:20) What makes a fantastic work team;
- (13:55) Conflict in staff teams and how to deal with it;
- (14:35) Why work needs to be meaningful;
- (16:14) How workplace culture is changing. The millenials;
- (17:46) Talent and why some employers undervalue it;
- (19:20) Growing talent in the workplace;
- (20:10) What makes an inspirational manager?
- (23:30) Why organizations fail to communicate to employees.
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Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
What is the heavenly rose? How does Dante present heaven as a sort of cosmic symphony? We find out about the great medieval poet and his greatest work ‘The Divine Comedy’.
Jason Baxter is associate professor of fine arts and humanities at Wyoming Catholic College in the States.
His book, ‘A Beginner’s Guide To Dante’s Divine Comedy’ is published by Baker Academic, a division of Baker books in the States.
- (0:47) Who was Dante?
- (1:57) How politics affected Dante in his lifetime;
- (4:43) The Divine Comedy as the greatest work of the Western imagination?
- (8:31) What happens in the Divine Comedy? A man finds himself in the middle of a wood and can’t remember how he got there. But then… a journey into deep hell and into heaven. A vision of the Trinity and a ride in the driveshaft of the universe. A medieval space story.
- (13:35) Medieval views of the cosmos;
- (18:18) Dante’s Beatrice;
- (21:42) Dante’s vision of heaven. Do souls in heaven fall more deeply in love? Falling in love gets to go to heaven;
- (27:10) What is the heavenly rose?
- (29:15) Jason’s Dante translation.
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A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy : Jason M. Baxter : 9780801098734 (bookdepository.com)
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Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Does life have a meaning? If so, where do we find it?
Os Guinness is the author or editor of more than 30 books. He’s a frequent speaker and prominent social critic and has addressed audiences worldwide from the British House of Commons to the US Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. He is a senior fellow at the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics and was the founder of the Trinity Forum.
His book, ‘The Great Quest – Invitations to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning’ is published by IVP America.
- (1:40) Our extraordinary modern world;
- (2:25) The modern West has cut itself off from the past;
- (3:16) Cultural ‘suicide’ in the West;
- (4:40) Why the ‘left’ has become so predominant. Cultural Marxism;
- (5:45) We all want meaning or a storyline;
- (8:00) The Great Quest is humanity’s storyline;
- (8:50) What makes a good seeker after truth;
- (9:40) Pointers to the existence of God. Signals of transcendence;
- (13:50) Where people look for answers;
- (15:24) How the great religions have led to civilizations;
- (16:30) How the Christian faith differs from the other faiths;
- (18:08) The evidence for Christianity. G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis;
- (21:18) Is faith rational?
- (22:14) How do we come to know and love God?
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Os Guinness 'The Great Quest: Invitation to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning'
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Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
We’re often told that the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 was a sinner and an adulteress. But what are we missing in the story? And what difference does our interpretation of this passage make for women and men in the church?
Caryn Reeder is Professor of New Testament and coordinator of the Gender Studies Program at Westmont College in California.
‘The Samaritan Woman’s Story – Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo’ is published by IVP America.
- (0:58) The #ChurchToo movement. Abuse in the church;
- (2:28) Why is there such a climate of abuse in the church?
- (5:40) Why interpretations of John 4 have been so focused on the Samaritan woman’s alleged sexual sin;
- (6:36) The Samaritan Woman’s background and her mental history;
- (8:14) The length of marriage in the Roman Empire – about 15 years;
- (9:00) Divorce in the Roman Empire;
- (10:20) Marriage as a business arrangement. Women were married at an early age;
- (12:00) Jesus and the Samaritan woman;
- (14:30) The symbolism of wells in biblical history;
- (16:00) Jesus overturns racial and sexual barriers;
- (16:41) The Samaritan woman as a model of discipleship;
- (18:22) Early church interpretations of John 4
- (21:02) How our biblical interpretations impact on women in the church.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Caryn A. Reeder 'The Samaritan Woman's Story: Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo'
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Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Who was Abraham Kuyper and why are his Stone Lectures so important?
The gospel in the whole of life.
Robert is associate professor of politics and international studies and the founding director of the Center for Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University College in Canada.
Robert is the co-editor with Jessica Joustra of a new book from IVP America called ‘Calvinism for a Secular Age: A Twenty-First- Century Reading of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures’.
- (1:15) Who was Abraham Kuyper?
- (2:56) The importance of the Stone Lectures;
- (4:25) The significance of Princeton Seminary;
- (5:22) Why the lectures were so controversial;
- (7:20) The gospel for the whole of creation;
- (11:20) Our times are reminiscent of Kuyper;
- (16:20) How to live together in diversity;
- (18:40) Kuyper and the Christian state?
- (21:33) Kuyper’s pluralism;
- (26:25) Kuyper’s view of history. Christianity versus secularism;
- (29:00) Contributors to the book
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Jessica R. Joustra 'Calvinism for a Secular Age'
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