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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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Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
How does Christian romance and detective fiction portray God's Story? In Episode 25 Brent talks to international romance and crime novelist Natalie Walters about her new thriller, ‘Lights Out’ published by Revell, a division of Baker Books in the USA.
- (1:24) The background of the novel. Intelligence agencies and missing spies;
- (2:24) Background as a military wife. Time in Egypt;
- (3:38) Why the novel is set in a private agency;
- (4:37) Brynn and Jack and their past;
- (5:21) Why trust is so important in relationships;
- (7:47) God’s sovereign control of events. We can trust that God in in control;
- (8:32) The promises of God;
- (10:54) The SNAP agency team;
- (11:31) God, romance and crime and why they appeal to Natalie;
- (13:11) Deeply flawed romance;
- (14:22) Thinking Christianly about relationships;
- (17:30) Stories that inspired Natalie and not being defined by your past.
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Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Paul Horrocks - Tough Guys of the Bible
We meet some tough men of the Bible and find out how we can encourage Christian men to be more courageous. Paul and David Horrocks are the authors of ‘Tough Guys of the Bible – Learn the traits of courageous men who truly follow God’ published by Innovo Publishing in the USA.
- (1:16) Why we need courage
- (2:00) Why the West is moving further away from Christian morality and thinking. Why courage is interesting and compelling
- (3:15) Media portrayals of men
- (4:55) Mental or spiritual toughness not always physical strength
- (5.44) Was Jesus a tough guy?
- (9:12) How we can learn to speak the truth directly
- (11:00) Fearing God more than men
- (14:25) Cultivating courage.
- (16:16) Contemporary tough guys
- (18:53) Ways we can speak to power today
- (21:00) Parts of the church have caved in to modern culture
- (23:13) Challenging false teaching in the church
- (25:28) The biblical courage podcast
- (26:56) Justice NYC
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https://www.innovopublishing.com
https://us.amazon.com/Tough-Guys-Bible-Traits-Courageous/dp/1613146302
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Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Cameron J. Anderson is an artist, associate director of Upper House and former executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts. He’s one of the editors (together with G. Walter Hansen) of a new book from IVP America called ‘God in the Modern Wing – Viewing Art with eyes of faith’.
- (1:27) Importance of visual arts to Christians. Visual art was the ‘bible for the poor’
- (3:42) Has the modern church lost the sense of the visual?
- (5:40) What’s alarming about the modern wing of an art gallery?
- (7:00) Can we find Christian art in a modern wing
- (9:13) Why modernism began and why
- (11:24) Nietzsche’s connection to modernism
- (12:50) Modern art as a new concept of the self
- (14:37) Modern art and the Romantic movement
- (16:49) How can Christian artists carry transcendence back into worship in church?
- (18:17) How the church can draw artists into worshipping communities
- (23:15) How the church can reconnect with art
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https://www.bookdepository.com/God-Modern-Wing-Cameron-J-Anderson/9780830850693
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Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
HEBREWS 10:1-10
Brent and Reido discuss Hebrews chapter 10. How did Jesus fulfill the Law and how we are made holy? The difference between justification and sanctification.
- (0:45) The cost of writing and producing a New Testament book
- (4:53) The Law a shadow pointing to Christ
- (5:32) What the Law actually did
- (7:35) Dealing with guilt and shame in the Old Testament sacrificial system
- (8:17) Can we deal adequately today with guilt and shame?
- (12:33) How Jesus fulfills the Law and establishes a New Covenant
- (15:58) How we’ve been made holy or sanctified
- (18:14) How Jesus empowers us to be obedient
- (18:47) What sanctification is and how it works
- (21:00) Progressive versus definitive sanctification
- (21:59) Difference between justification and sanctification.
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Hebrews 9:15-28
Brent and Ian explain how Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant and why Jesus’ blood has the power to save us.
- (1:18) Jesus as our great High Priest and a better High Priest
- (3:15) Jesus’ death brings in a new covenant
- (4:22) Jesus’ death and substitutionary atonement. What happens on the cross when Jesus dies?
- (8:56) The Covenants of the Bible
- (9:59) The importance of blood in God’s covenants
- (16:19) Jesus makes the once for all payment for sin
- (17:00) How Jesus fulfills the Old Testament sacrificial system
- (19:35) We need a mediator
- (10:35) What sin is – not saying we’re bad people but rebellion
- (25:00) I’m not good enough for God but Jesus is good enough
- (28:00) We can keep coming back to Jesus.
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Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Brent and Reido answer listeners’ questions about Bible translations, how we can be certain of our salvation, the prosperity gospel and how to trust God and connect with others in a time of Covid.
- (1:13) Which Bible translations to use. The 3 types of Bible translations
- (3:11) The translations which are closest to the original Greek and Hebrew
- (6:59) KJV and the Textus Receptus
- (9:42) How can we be sure of our salvation
- (11:43) How justification helps us
- (14:15) Prosperity gospel and its dangers
- (18:30) How we can trust God in a time of Covid.
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Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Gordon Smith explains how the Holy Spirit works in creation and in the life of the believer. How do we know that we have the Holy Spirit?
Gordon Smith is President and Professor of Systematic and Spiritual Theology at Ambrose University and Seminary in Vancouver, Canada.
- (1:50) Why the Spirit has been open to manipulation and abuse. The Holy Spirit and Christ, Scripture, Creation and the Church – the need to keep all four in balance
- (3:30) The work of the Holy Spirit in creation ignored and underplayed. The influence of neo-Platonism
- (4:10) The Scriptures are all about stuff – we are embodied souls
- (5:00) The way our church experience shapes the way we think about the Spirit
- (10:10) Let’s not forget about Jesus. We have the Spirit so that we might know, love and serve Jesus. Emotional excess as an end in itself
- (13:15) A Trinitarian view of the Spirit
- (14:45) Ambrose of Milan, the Arian and Sabellian heresies
- (17:40) Are parts of the modern church Sabellian? The Holy Spirit emphasized at the expense of the Father and the Son
- (19:30) Jesus satisfies the deepest longings of the heart
- (20:55) How do we know whether we have the Spirit?
- (22:50) The Spirit often present in quiet and subtle ways
- (24:58) Charismatic gifts in the church today – the third way
- (29:30) How the Spirit inspires artists and musicians
- (31:05) How do we incorporate a Trinitarian view in our worship services?
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https://www.bookdepository.com/Welcome-Holy-Spirit-Gordon-T-Smith/9780830853885
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Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
How was America founded and on what basis? How has America developed politically and what’s the future of American democracy?
Robert Tracy McKenzie is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois in the States. His new book ‘We the Fallen People – the Founders and the Future of American democracy’ is published by IVP America and available on Amazon and all other good book sellers.
- (1:32) Why America is so deeply divided
- (4:31) Millenials and democracy. Do they value it?
- (6:08) How does history help us move forward? C.S Lewis and democracy
- (8:19) The fallen nature of humanity and our political thinking – ‘we’ll never meet an ordinary human being’.
- (9:26) Humility and charity in our political thinking,
- (9:55) The founding Fathers and the Republic. They realized the fallen nature of humanity and so the need for checks and balances
- (12:08) The founding Fathers and democracy. Did they trust it at all?
(13:39) The importance of virtue to the founding Fathers - (15:08) The Constitution was framed to take into account our fallen and sinful nature
- (17:44) Andrew Jackson and the rise of democracy. A populist with authoritarian tendencies
- (20:46) Tocqueville – why democracy can turn into tyranny
- (21:56) Thinking Christianly about democracy
- (22:58) How should the US move forward?
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Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Noel Snyder shows us how music and preaching are related and how to get our sermons to sing. Preacher’s alert!
Noel Snyder is Program Manager at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan in the States. His book ‘Sermons that Sing – music and the practice of preaching’ is published by IVP Books America, and available on Amazon and other book sellers.
(0:56) The importance of story and narrative in preaching, (1:57) The connection between music and preaching and the importance of sound and time, (3:46) How to bring music into our sermons. Using our musical instincts in preaching. Speech patterns and music.
(5:31) Sermons that sing, (6:10) The role of imagination and creativity in preaching, (7:52) The music of the African-American preaching tradition, (10:16) Incorporating spirituals into sermons, (13:20) The slave preachers as creators of the spirituals, (14:40) Preachers should be aware of their audience. ‘Present in the moment’ like performing musicians. Timing and repetition.
(16:23) Preaching and jazz improvisation, (18:14) Preachers using their voices in a musical way; theatre coaches and voice coaches; preaching with good voice and musicality, (21:05) Teaching preaching courses, (23:23) Peer learning groups for preachers, (25:13) We should know where the sermon is going, (26:34) Sermons in terms of musical structure and tension.
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Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
How Jesus fulfills the Old Testament sacrificial system and why Jesus’ blood saves us.
(1:40) How gospel and law relate to one another, (4:21) How Jesus has fulfilled the Old Testament sacrificial system, (7:08) What happened on the Day of Atonement, (12:00) Why the four cherubim have four faces, (13:21) What Jesus did on the Cross, (17:51) Jesus’ death gives us security of salvation, (18:56) Pastoral advice to people struggling with guilt and shame or a negative self-image.
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