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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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4 days ago
4 days ago
Brent is joined by Jennifer Holberg to talk about another poet – this time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’.
Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing. She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’.
- (2:00) Who was Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
- (6:20) Why ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’?
- (8:50) Sonnets 2 and 8;
- (14:25) 20, 24 and 26
- (19:10) 42 and 43.
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calvin.edu/people/jennifer-l-holberg
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5 days ago
5 days ago
To what extent is film noir about redemption?
Brent talks with Hannah Long about the 1944 movie ‘Double Indemnity’ starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson.
Hannah is a passionate cinephile. She writes cultural commentary and film criticism for a number of publications including ‘The Despatch’,‘Angelus News’, ‘The Bulwark’ and ‘First Things’.
- (0:58) What is film noir?
- (4:15) ‘Double Indemnity’ – THE best film noir?
- (5:50) The book;
- (9:45) Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler;
- (12:05) The cast;
- (14:05) What is double indemnity?
- (17:40) The scene outside Neff’s apartment;
- (20:00) The use of flashback and narrative;
- (22:50) Walter Neff;
- (28:40) Walter and Phyllis’s motivation;
- (32:45) Phyllis and the femme fatale;
- (34:45) Keyes – the perfect antagonist?
- (37:20) Walter’s confession;
- (38:15) Conscience;
- (37:30) Free will?
- (41:40) A movie about redemption?
- (43:30) The Production Code;
- (48:35) The movie’s view of America and of capitalism.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
Brent is joined by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss Zechariah chapter 8.
Is there any significance to the number 10 in this chapter?
- (0:55) Chapters 7 and 8 as a bridge;
- (1:20) 10 oracles;
- (2:40) Significance of the number 10?
- (3:30) The mountain imagery;
- (6:00) Sabbath and Jubilee themes;
- (6:50) The jealousy of the Lord;
- (9:20) Jeremiah;
- (10:30) East and west;
- (11:50) The 6th oracle;
- (15:25) 4,5,7 and 10;
- (17:20) Jerusalem in v 20;
- (18:25) The Gentiles in v 23;
- (20:10) The 10 men from the Gentile nations.
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Saturday Dec 21, 2024
Saturday Dec 21, 2024
How is Zechariah 7 concerned with the perversion of justice?
Brent is joined by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to talk about ‘Revelation – The Prequel’ – the very exciting book of Zechariah!
- (0:30) Chapters 7 and 8 as a bridge in the book;
- (3:10) 2 years on;
- (4:25) Persia and a Persian king;
- (5:40) Bethel;
- (6:35) The Feasts;
- (10:50) The 70 years in v 5;
- (12:10) Verse 7;
- (13:20) Verse 8;
- (14:35) The perversion of justice.
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Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Brent talks with pastor Brian Schmelzenbach from the Luke Commission.
Dr. Harry and Echo VanderWal founded the Luke Commission in 2005 during the height of the HIV/AIDS pandemic after moving to Eswatini in Southern Africa. What started as the husband and wife team and 8 local staff has today grown into a team of over 700 serving the most isolated and underserved people of southern Africa.
Brian is Director of Staff Development. After 15 years of pastoral ministry in the States Brian and his wife Missi sensed God’s call to join TLC in 2013.
- (1:00) Eswatini;
- (2;15) Echo and Harry VanderWal;
- (3:15) HIV/AIDS;
- (4:55) The Luke Commission;
- (9:00) Brian’s role;
- (11:20) The campus. Oxygen production;
- (15:55) A drone network;
- (17:15) Telehealth hubs.
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Saturday Dec 14, 2024
Saturday Dec 14, 2024
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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Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
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.
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www.spiritualmediablog.com/2023/09/14/what-do-you-want-to-hear-on-your-deathbed/
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Saturday Dec 07, 2024
Saturday Dec 07, 2024
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!
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www.christianitytoday.com/2024/08/seminary-christian-college-pastors-need-academic-theology/
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Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
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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Saturday Nov 30, 2024
Saturday Nov 30, 2024
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?
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www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CWTCDRKC?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz
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