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Reflections on where faith and life meet from Malcolm Duncan

Malcolm Duncan


    • Feb 17, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
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    Episode 7 - CONSUMERISM: Confronting the idols of our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 27:51


    This talk is based on a passage from Philippians 3 v 17-20By Vicky and Barry Thompson.

    Episode 6 - CAREER: Confronting the idols of our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 54:23


    Episode 5 - RELIGION: Confronting the idols of our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 37:48


    This talk is based on a passage from Matthew 23.By Vicky and Barry Thompson.

    Episode 4 - SELF: Confronting the idols of our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 51:36


    Episode 3 - POWER, SUCCESS, PRIDE: Confronting the idols of our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 46:48


    This talk is based on a passage from Matthew 19 v 16-30

    Episode 2 - SEX: Confronting the idol our our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 60:11


    This talk is based on a passage from 1 Thessalonians 4 v 3-4

    Episode 1 - MONEY: Confronting the idols of our age.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 57:37


    This talk is based on a passage from 1 Timothy 6 v 10

    Episode Six: Believe a Bigger Gospel

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 40:44


    The Good News changes everything, yet so often we have locked it into a narrow cell of domesticated doctrine.

    Episode Five: Step into the Unstoppable Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 29:26


    The purposes and plans of God are bigger than we could ever understand and more secure than we could ever hope.

    Episode Four: Choosing our Legacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 26:40


    What we want to leave behind after we have gone is one of the most important important things we have to decide.

    Episode Three: Risking our Reputation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2020 23:35


    We have a choice: we can build our lives on what others think of us, or what God thinks of us

    Episode Two: Risking our Name

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2020 28:07


    The most exhilarating and perhaps the hardest thing to do is live the life that God intended for us.

    Episode One: Of Russian Bears and Freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 20:30


    We aren't free when someone tells us we are. We are free when we live free

    Episode 15: God is Enough: The painful lesson of grief and its power to re-order our lives.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 15:04


    In this, the last episode in the Good Grief podcast series, we face the ultimate question that lurks in the shadows of sorrow and loss and our sense of pain and devastation. The hardest question to ask is also the hardest question to answer - and only you can answer it.

    Episode 14: God Wins: The Christian story does not remove our grief and loss immediately, but it does transfigure them eternally.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2020 25:10


    The resurrection of Lazarus offers us hope about life after death, but the Resurrection of Jesus changes everything. What does the promise of 'Resurrection' mean and how can it temper and transfigure our sorrow and pain?

    Episode 13: Death's defeat and shared sorrow: giving God our grief and loss

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 22:40


    If all that we have explored thus far in the Good Grief Podcast is true, why do we still go through death, sorrow and loss? Can we find a way of seeing our sorrow and loss redeemed?

    Episode 12: Hope's Heartbeat: The resurrection of Lazarus and why death does not have the last word

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 29:53


    Death lies to us, trying to convince us that it gets the last word. What if this isn;t true? The story of Lazarus;s resurrection exposes some of our confusion around death, and some of Jesus's answers. This episode explores those answers.

    Episode 11: Redeeming our sorrow: The gift of grief and why it helps.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2020 35:22


    Why do we have to weep? Is there anything good that come of the grieving process? In this episode, I pick up the story of Lazarus and explore why Jesus let Martha and Mary weep, and why He lets us weep too.

    Episode 10: The God Who doesn't come to us yet is always there.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2020 27:40


    How do we navigate the deep sense of aloneness, abandonment and absence that accompanies loss? In this episode, I explore how the experience of Mary, Martha and Lazarus help us look at absence differently, perhaps hopefully.

    Episode 9: Good Grief: Learning to walk through sorrow and loss with Jesus.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2020 27:40


    We can often feel like our grief journey is a solo affair, or one that we walk through and ask God to help us. In this episode, and the ones that follow, I explore the single Biblical story of death, sorrow, loss and hope that has shaped my grief journey more than any other. I invite you to make the journey with me.

    Episode 8: The Cadence of Loss: Learning to celebrate the symphony of life in both the major and the minor keys.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 33:35


    So often our cultures, out communities, and perhaps our churches, expect us to live our lives in the major keys of celebration, hope and joy. But what if life is written in both a major and a minor key, and to live well is to learn to recognise and express the major and the minor keys?

    Episode 7: Holding Hands - Learning to have a different grip through grief and loss.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 26:11


    We spend our lives holding the hands of those we love. When we lose someone, we do not want to let them go and we do not know how to do it. What if we don;t have to? What if we simply need to learn to change our grip?

    The Church of Jesus Christ stands against racism in all its forms.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 26:29


    Always remember that a child might hear what you say ‘amen' to. Rev Malcolm Duncan explores a response to racism and its challenges.

    Episode 6: The Sap Will Rise: Grief and Loss and part of being human and how we learn to live in the seasons of life.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2020 34:19


    Grief is not linear. Learning to walk through grief as a seasonal experience helps us to identify what is happening in our grief journey at a particular moment and enables us to respond in ways that can not only help us to survive, but see us begin to grow.

    Episode 5: A Jumbled Journey: The chaos of grief and loss and how we navigate the unpredictability

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 41:15


    Grief and Loss don't come in neat little boxes so we can emotionally wrap them up. They are chaotic and painful - but there are things that will help us navigate the journey. This episode explores three metaphors for grief and loss - the storm, the desert, and the hurricane.

    Episode 4: Stop all the clocks: We want the world to notice our sorrow and how we cope with the fact that it doesn't'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2020 32:58


    Loss brings us into a very strange experience of time. In this episode, we explore how we cope with feeling like we enter a parallel universe in our sorrow and yet the world seems to carry on around us. How do we cope with this and what can we do to manage it?

    Episode 3: Living with a squatter: the unwanted and unwelcome nature of grief and loss and why it feels so alien to us

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 33:14


    Death and sorrow are often described as unwanted guests or visitors. In this episode, I explore why that may be a deeply unhelpful way of looking at grief and loss. Instead we explore what it might mean to identify death and loss as squatters and how being honest about that changes our ability to deal with them.

    Episode 2: When Shadows Fall: Walking through grief and loss.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2020 32:31


    In this second episode of the series, we explore ways in which grief and loss can feel like entering the shadowlands, and how we can navigate the uncertainty and the sorrow without being consumed by it.

    Test what you hear: a response to conspiracy theories and end times teaching

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 42:08


    With so many theories and ideas being pushed around the internet, articles and pulpits, how do we make sure that we are not being led down a blind alley? When does theologizing about conspiracy theories become damaging and how do we avoid it.

    Episode 1: The Unavoidable Rock in The Road

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 31:25


    We will all by confronted by grief and sorrow, therefore we need to work out how we will face it. 

    Presence in the Pain: Leading Through Crisis

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 44:23


    ‘Leading through Crisis: Presence in the Pain'We are in unchartered waters socially, spiritually and politically. As we walk through the Covid-19 crisis, and into a new landscape, how will we help people to navigate their grief, questions and uncertainty.

    Episode 12: We are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 78:16


    Our series ends as we explore the kingdom that cannot be shaken.

    Episode 11: The sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than Abel.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 72:40


    We explore the power of Christ's sacrifice through Hebrews 12:24

    Episode 10: The Heavenly Jerusalem – Mount Zion, the City of the Living God and the Assembly of the Firstborn

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 71:50


    We explore the first three motifs of Hebrews 12:18-23

    Episode 9: How will it all end (1): The Return of Christ.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 61:00


    We continue to explore the return of Christ, exploring when he will return and why

    Episode 8: How will it all end (1): The Return of Christ

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 51:43


    Christians believe that Christ will return but what does this mean? How will it happen?

    Episode 7: A New Heaven and a New Earth (3): Victory and Hope

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 53:09


    In the new creation we explore victory and hope and their significance.

    Episode 6: A New Heaven and a New Earth (2): Examining the Throne Room - Heaven's Grandeur and God's Greatness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 59:41


    The Bible speaks of God's throne room. What does this mean about God's greatness and majesty?

    Episode 5: A New Heaven and a New Earth (1): Heaven's nearness and God' Immanence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 59:57


    How close are the new Heaven's and the new earth? Where is God in it all?

    Episode 4: The Judgement Seat of Christ

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 72:58


    Will Christians face judgment and is this different to the judgement of the world?(Daniel 12:1-4; John 5:28-29; 2 Corinthians 3:10-16; 5:1-10)

    Episode 3: Resurrection and the coming of the Lord

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 66:36


    When do we get our resurrection bodies? How does that tie in with Christs return? (1 Corinthians 15; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

    Episode 2: Resurrection and our future state

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 70:09


    Do we get new bodies? What is our life after death like?(1 Corinthians 15; Philippians 3:10-12)

    Episode 1: With Christ – Which is far better

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 63:38


    What happens to us immediately after we die? Do we rest in the grave or go to be with Christ?(Philippians 1:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10)

    Does Covid-19 get the last word?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2020 8:53


    Does Covid-19 get the last word? A podcast exploring the challenges that have a risen since Covid-19 has come about. Rev Malcolm Duncan explores how we as Christians respond to covid and how does this change how we should be? Who gets the last word? Covid or God...

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