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Theology for the Curious
Debating theology that makes sense of life and faith. A team of regular people discuss issues of theology, faith and life. Uncovering bible thinking from cutting edge, to conservative, to all things in-between. A lively debate show that gets you thinking, challenging the relevance of God, scripture and faith to today's contemporary outlook.
Episodes
129 episodes
Ep.127 - The Road to Reformation: John Calvin and the Geneva Effect w/ Matt White
There has perhaps been no other figure more celebrated yet more vilified, more appreciated yet more misunderstood, more eulogised over and yet more criticised and condemned, than the controversial French born theologian John Calvin. To some Cal...
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Ep.126 - The Road to Reformation: Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation
Who was Ulrich Zwingli? How does a priest, turned soldier, turned protester, turned reformer, end up dead on a field in a five kilometre square piece of land in the Swiss town of Kappel? What were the forces, the difficulties and conflicts, and...
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Ep.125 - The Road to Reformation: The First Shout of Protest
Few in church history could ever fully comprehend the enormity of impact the event of October 31st, 1517 in Wittenberg could produce on the global church. Martin Luther’s inquisitive protest against the machinery of indulgences, was launched in...
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Ep.124 - The Road to Reformation: The Church Before Luther
Some imagine that justification by faith, the great rallying cry of the reformation, was a specifically Protestant invention, and more particularly, a Luther invention! Yet as early as 1511 (6yrs before Luther), Cardinal Gasparo Contarini came ...
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Ep.123 - The Road to Reformation: Why the Reformation? w/Nick Page
In his book A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation, writer Nick Page claims that the effects of the sixteenth century European reformation, created and defined denominational identities, changed our perspectives of God, living an...
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Ep.122 - Seven Churches Speak: Deceiving Ourselves to Death - Laodicea
Life consists of a number of markers that indicate whether we are doing life well. Those who are seen in good health, in reasonable wealth, and comfort, in plenty; or often a judged to being in a good place and doing something right. And yet in...
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Ep.121 - Seven Churches Speak: Power to the Powerless - Philadelphia
Sometimes one of the most difficult aspects of faith is when we appear to be doing everything right but things don’t appear to be getting any better. All too often we mistakenly assume that good behaviour invariably equates to an easier life! T...
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Ep.120 - Seven Churches Speak: The Walking Dead - Sardis
The Dutch philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard wrote; “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true”. The Sardinian church were guilty of both. First they believed th...
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Ep.119 - Seven Churches Speak: Compromise that Kills - Thyatira
The one time professional cricketer turned missionary to China and Africa, Charles T Studd once declared, “If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him“. Total surrender is a richly understoo...
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Ep.118 - Seven Churches Speak: Does it Matter What You Believe? - Pergamum
One of the recurring problems that Israel faced in the subsequent immediate years following their Exodus from Egypt, was the infiltration of thoughts and ideas from non-Israelites travelling within their company. Sometimes they would encourage ...
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Ep.117 - Seven Churches Speak: Why Suffering - Smyrna
It can be very easy to speak in terms of God‘s sovereignty and control over all things. Even when we see very difficult times inflicted on the world and others, it is not a huge stretch of faith to maintain the conviction of God‘s control of wo...
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Ep.116 - Seven Churches Speak: When Love Grows Cold - Ephesus
Is it possible to be doctrinally astute, theologically correct, scripturally protective, and yet be displeasing to God? Is it possible that we can become so focused on making sure we are saying and believing the right thing that we become dislo...
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Ep.115 - Seven Churches Speak: Why The Seven Churches? w/ Jeff Weima
What could seven churches, situated across Asia Minor, some 2,000 years ago, possibly have to say to individuals and the church in today’s twenty-first century? Why were they there, what did Jesus have to say to them, what can we learn former t...
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Ep.114 - Take Another Look: What is Divine Providence?
When many people look at all the evil, difficulty and suffering in the world, they almost instinctively ask; “where is God?” Another way of asking that question is to insist, how involved is God in this world? Is he an absent landlord, who only...
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Ep.113 - Take Another Look: Can Christians Commit The Unforgivable Sin?
When it comes to the sin against the Holy Spirit, there has remained a great deal of confusion within some elements of the church. Some believe it is a sin impossible for a Christian to commit. Some confine it to the era in which it was written...
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Ep.112 - Take Another Look: Is Keeping the Sabbath Still Relevant?
What was God’s intention in Genesis 2:3 when He instituted the Sabbath and ‘sanctified it’ and ‘set it apart’? In our present culture sabbath has been understood as addressing the work/life balance. The need to rediscover a restful rhythm to li...
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Ep.111 - Take Another Look: Is The Sinners Prayer Biblical?
From over forty years of Billy Graham crusades, to Bill Bright and the Campus Crusade For Christ and the ‘Four Spiritual Laws’, the sinner's prayer has remained a long established practice in calling the unrepentant to faith. Yet it has not bee...
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Ep.110 - Take Another Look: Who Chose Who?
All of us as Christians can point to a moment in time when we found ourselves coming to Christ, praying for forgiveness, repenting, believing and becoming a Christian. But if we think that’s where God’s interest in us began, we are sadly mistak...
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Ep.109 - Take Another Look: What Is The Intermediate State?
For centuries debates have raged regarding the state of the soul after death. Some have argued for what has been termed psychopannychia, or put simply, soul sleep! That the soul remains unconscious and non-cognitive until the resurrect...
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Ep.108 - Take Another Look: Does God Send People to Hell?
How do we define hell? What is its purpose? Is there a possibility that there’s no such place? What does a twelfth century Irish knight, and Dante’s inferno got to tell us about hell? What exactly could Jesus have meant in speaking about a plac...
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Ep.107 - Take Another Look: Did Jesus Really Die for Everyone?
The puritan John Owen offered three understandings of the extent of Christ’s atonement. Firstly that he died for all of the sin for all of the people. Second that he died for some of the sin of all of the people; or thirdly that Christ died for...
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Ep.106 - God's Special Agent: The Holy Spirit - Our Greatest Future Hope
What do we mean by the Spirit’s preservation? How sure can any believer really be that they will realise the great hope of salvation? How much is it down to us and how much does he intervene? Does our lack of perseverance cancel out his act of ...
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Ep.105 - God's Special Agent: The Holy Spirit - More To Life Than What I Have
Can you be a believer if you’re not baptised in the Holy Spirit? Does the lack of the baptism experience impair your overall journey of faith? Does it impact on your relationship with God? How do we understand the Spirit’s baptism? Have the cha...
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Ep.104 - God's Special Agent: The Holy Spirit - Doing More Than I Can
How are we to understand the gifts of the Holy Spirit; from the spectacular and unusual (words of wisdom and knowledge, healings, working of miracles, etc), to the more comparatively normal and ordinary (administrations, helps, mercy ministries...
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Ep.103 - God's Special Agent: The Holy Spirit - Building a Better Character
What do we mean by ‘fruit’ of the Spirit? How is the Spirit’s fruit any different to the better characteristics of people without faith? Is fruit the essential character God leaves us to get on with and develop, or does he engage in the overall...
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