Episodes

Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Daniel 2: Fake News, Political Anxiety, and the Kingdom of God (Clarke)
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
By looking at Daniel 2, we see that the Bible gives us a reflection on the relationship between God's people, their nation, and the kingdom of God. When we see nations without an anchor, power becomes arbitrary. How might the Christian respond in those times?
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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Can Christians Love Themselves? (Liz Snell)
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Many people accuse Christianity of fostering shame in its adherents. The self-esteem movement has attempted to address feelings of worthlessness. But does self-esteem work? How should Christians think about themselves?
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Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Understanding Jordan Peterson, Part III: Beyond Order
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
In this third talk on Jordan Peterson, we look at his most recent book Beyond Order, the sequel to his best-selling 12 Rules for Life. Through his personal suffering and through his interactions with many people on tour, his thinking is refined and clarified. We also look at his emphasis on maps and stories as sources of knowledge and meaning, and how might a Christian think about his newest contribution.
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Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Peter, Judas: Is it me? Practical Concerns over Predestination (Clarke Scheibe)
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Both Peter and Judas asked of Jesus, "Is it me?" after Jesus had told his disciples that one of them would betray him. This can be a question that can cause hand-wringing even today. Am I saved or am I not? Am I chosen? This talk deals particularly with 'theological fatalism' (or 'hyper-Calvinism') and the concerns that the doctrine of predestination bring up. While the doctrine of predestination often brings dread, the opposite is intended in Scripture. It is a doctrine, when properly understood, gives assurance and hope.
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Floodwaters: The Biblical Journey from Anxiety to Peace (Jez Carr)
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
There is a deep resonance between our feelings of anxiety and our fear of out-of-control water. We feel ‘overwhelmed’, ‘flooded’. This resonance was shared by the authors of Scripture, who depict floods, storms and towering waves within the emotional landscape of God’s people. In fact, the bible story is saturated with water imagery. We will explore how that offers us company within our struggles, hope within the story of God’s victory over them, and wisdom for how to handle them.
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
The Forgotten Thomas Paine: The Father of Unbelief (Dr. Irving Hexham)
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Today Thomas Paine is remembered for his books Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) which made him the leading propagandist of the American Revolution and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. What is largely forgotten is his devastating attack on Christianity in The Age of Reason (1737-1809) and other writings and his key role in creating what many scholars call "the Victorian crisis of faith." This talk will examine Paine's criticism of Christianity and its influence on writers as diverse as Karl Marx (1818-1883), George Eliot (1819-1880), and Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) as well as Nazism in Germany.
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Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Being Religious but not Spiritual: Lessons from the life of King Saul (Clarke)
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
While it has been popular in the past to call one's self "spiritual but not religious," we also see people who are "religious but not spiritual." This is not just the legalistic person or "a fundamentalist." We can all fall into this category at times in our lives, perhaps looking to this spiritual practice or this tradition to bring us close to God. It is a hope that an external form will guarantee an internal transformation. This talk will look at this topic through the lens of King Saul's life as recorded in the biblical book, 1 Samuel, and draw lessons from his "religious but not spiritual" life.
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Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
The Place of Wisdom: A Look at Job 28 (Clarke Scheibe)
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
This is a look at Job 28, an unusual chapter. It is a calm reflection on the nature of humanity and wisdom in the midst of the torrent of argument and lament throughout the book of Job. What does this have to say to us about being human? How can humans be so powerful, intelligent, and adventurous, yet they cannot discover the meaning and wisdom of all these things? Is it all sound and fury signifying nothing? The Bible offers us a different answer, a valuable one during these chaotic days.
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Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Discoveries in the Book of Ruth (Brett Cane)
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
In this talk, guest speaker Brett Cane examines the two key themes from the book, of God's sovereignty and of human character. God's sovereignty is revealed not through the miraculous but through the ordinary, and human character is revealed by faithfulness, dedication, resourcefulness and ingenuity, and what's more, by women, showing a unique perspective on the importance of women in God's plan.
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Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
This is the third talk in this series on Loftus's Christian Delusion. Here we deal with what Loftus refers to as the "Darwinian problem of evil," particularly in regard to animal suffering. Many evolutionists point to the evidence of animals suffering prior to human existence. How can this be? Can God be good if animals were created to suffer before the fall of humanity? Christians have offered several possible solutions to this question but are any of them sufficient? (This was recorded on Zoom in Feb 2021.)
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