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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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Nov 23, 2022
Nov 23, 2022
25 min
Are you feeling lonely and disconnected? We live in an increasingly isolated world. How can we reconnect?
Todd Hall is Professor of Psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University in the States where he teaches courses on the integration of psychology and theology. He is a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and a founding partner at Flourishing Metrics.
Todd’s new IVP America book is ‘The Connected Life – The Art and Science of Relational Spirituality’.
- (1:04) The importance of connection for all of us;
- (2:10) A disconnection with others leads to a disconnection with God;
- (3:36) The 1970’s and social disconnection;
- (5:30) A rise in despair and disconnectedness;
- (6:50) The decline of community involvement in the States;
- (8:00) Our culture struggles with pain;
- (10:00) How Todd discovered the power of relationships;
- (11:05) The ways connection and relationships heal;
- (12:20) Isolation due to the pandemic. How do we become reconnected?
- (14:05) How do we grow spiritually in community?
- (16:10) The importance of story. How we tell our story;
- (19:30) Why we need to suffer well;
- (21:00) How we can build better Christian communities.
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Todd W. Hall 'The Connected Life'
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Nov 19, 2022
Nov 19, 2022
18 min
Brent and Ian take a look at the ‘turning point’ in Mark’s gospel.
- (2:00) The ‘turning point’ in Mark’s gospel;
- (5:00) The blind man. Spit and walking trees;
- (8:20) The man’s blindness and the spiritual blindness of the disciples;
- (10:00) Peter’s confession in Gentile territory;
- (11:41) Meaning of ‘the Christ’;
- (14:40) Peter’s understanding of the Messiah at this point;
- (15:30) What sort of king is Jesus?
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Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
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Nov 16, 2022
Nov 16, 2022
27 min
What am I meant to be and what am I called to do?
Brent and Ian talk about calling and vocation with Gordon Smith, the President of Ambrose University and Seminary in Calgary, Alberta where he also serves as Professor of Systematic and Spiritual Theology.
Gordon Smith’s new book from IVP America is ‘Your Calling Here and Now – Making Sense of Vocation’.
- (1:20) Why vocation is always specific and particular;
- (2:30) How we can discern what we’re called to be or do;
- (5:55) How God uses setbacks;
- (6:30) Why vocation is never discerned in a vacuum;
- (8:30) Have we lost a sense of vocation?
- (10:40) How Calvin and Luther thought about calling;
- (11:11) Why community is important when considering vocation;
- (12:50) People’s giftedness;
- (14:30) Is life full of multiple callings at different times?
- (16:33) Advice to people who have to work a ‘day job’;
- (18:24) You can’t do everything!
- (20:38) Institutional intelligence. Know your organization;
- (27:00) What do we do when all the doors are closed. Being patient.
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Gordon T. Smith 'Your Calling Here and Now: Making Sense of Vocation'
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Nov 12, 2022
Nov 12, 2022
30 min
Brent and Ian talk with Kirk Farney, Vice President for advancement, vocation and alumni engagement and a member of the History Faculty at Wheaton College, Illinois in the States.
In Kirk’s new book from IVP America ‘Ministers of a New Medium’ he explores the work of Fulton J. Sheen of Catholic Hour and Walter A. Maier of ‘The Lutheran Hour’, two groundbreaking leaders in Christian broadcasting.
- (2:00) How Kirk got involved in the project;
- ((3:30) The impact radio made in the States during the Depression;
- (5:20) How the networks viewed ‘religious’ broadcasting;
- (7:30) Who were Fulton Sheen and Walter Maier?
- (10:36) How their radio careers started;
- (12:36) Two different preaching and broadcasting styles;
- (15:00) Christians in the Media. How can we engage in the media today?
- (17:35) The doctrine of the Atonement at the center of Sheen and Maier’s preaching;
- (21:00) Both men academics who could relate theology to the people;
- (24:10) How Catholics and Lutherans responded to Sheen and Maier;
- (26:30) New technology and Christian broadcasting. Stay open to technology!
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Nov 9, 2022
Nov 9, 2022
34 min
Brent is joined once again by Louis Markos, Professor of English at Houston Christian University in the States.
What is Greek tragedy? What is ‘The Oresteia’ and how does it point to Christ?
‘From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics’ is published by IVP America.
- (1:31) What is Greek tragedy?
- (3:30) The goat and Greek festivals. Song of the scapegoat. ‘The Oresteia’ by Aeschylus. Greek tragedy about a scapegoat figure. Sacrifice and redemption;
- (6:30) What happens in Greek tragedy;
- (9:10) The Oresteia;
- (19:05) Blood guilt and atonement central to the cycle;
- (22:30) Christ fulfills the highest yearnings of people;
- (22:45) Agamemnon and Orestes scapegoat figures who point to Christ;
- (23:56) Orestes a ‘Messianic’ hero;
- (25:00) How the plays point to Jesus.
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Louis Markos 'From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics'
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Nov 5, 2022
Nov 5, 2022
22 min
Brent and Ian continue their exploration of Mark’s gospel.
The feeding of the 4000 and some more Pharisees. What’s the significance of the numbers 4 and 7 in the passage?
- (1:35) Why it's important not to get Jesus wrong;
- (1:53) Three scenes;
- (3:00) The Jewish and Gentile feedings contrasted;
- (5:10) 7 days;
- (5:45) The 7 loaves and the numbers 4 and 7;
- (6:38) What the feeding tells us about Jesus;
- (7:05) The Lord’s Supper;
- (10:34) How we all get Jesus wrong;
- (11:10) The third scene;
- (13:40) The leaven of the Pharisees and Herod;
- (17:30) We can become too ‘familiar’ with Jesus;
- (19:06) Mark as a detective novel.
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Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
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Nov 2, 2022
Nov 2, 2022
20 min
What’s the connection between a Gentile woman and the prophet Elijah?
Ian and Brent continue their exploration of Mark’s gospel.
- (1:20) How is legalism a problem in the church today?
- (3:30) The Gentile woman and ‘dogs’;
- (4:30) The Gentile woman and the authorities;
- (5:45) The Gentile woman’s faith;
- (6:40) The significance of Tyre and Sidon;
- (7:40) Jesus and Elijah;
- (8:30) Jezebel;
- (9:50) Jesus’ response. The meaning of ‘dogs’;
- (12:40) The deaf man;
- (15:20) Why Jesus spits;
- (17:40) The first confession of faith in the gospel?
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Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
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Oct 29, 2022
Oct 29, 2022
20 min
Brent and Ian continue their deep dive into the gospel of Mark.
- (1:40) A confrontation. Claim and counterclaim;
- (2:30) The claim;
- (6:00) Ceremonial cleansing;
- (6:37) The motivation for the accusations;
- (9:17) Jesus’ counterclaim;
- (10:50) The Pharisees’ problem;
- (11:50) What Jesus reveals about all of us. The problem of legalism;
- (16:00) The problem of the human heart.
- (18:00) The human condition;
- (18:50) How we can be justified. We need Jesus.
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Oct 26, 2022
Oct 26, 2022
29 min
Who was the great 16th century reformer John Calvin and what did he believe and teach?
Brent talks with Yudha Thianto, professor of the history of Christianity and Reformed Theology At Calvin Theological Seminary in the States.
Yudha’s book ‘An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin’ is published by IVP America.
- (1:00) The idea behind the book;
- (3:50) Who was Calvin?
- (9:10) How Calvin went into exile;
- (13:55) Why are Calvin’s ‘Institutes’ so important?
- (17:50) Calvin and the Lord’s Supper. How did Calvin’s view differ from Luther, Zwingli or Cranmer?
- (23:20) Election and predestination.
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Oct 22, 2022
Oct 22, 2022
29 min
Why is the Victorian period so like our own? How does Tennyson’s poetry embody all of the struggle and grief of the Victorian period?
Brent Is joined by Louis Markos, professor in English at Houston Christian University in the States. ‘Pressing Forward – Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age’ is published by Sapientia Press.
- (1:05) The Victorian period so like our own;
- (2:20) What the Victorians can teach us. Evolution and creation. The nature of reality;
- (5:10) The crisis of faith in the Victorian period;
- (8:55) Tennyson’s ‘In Memorium’ and Victorian grief and struggle. Arthur Hallam;
- (15:20) Tennyson’s fashioning of a new relationship between religion and science;
- (22:15) Carlyle and Ruskin. The Industrial Revolution.
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Louis A. Markos 'Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age'
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