Podcasts about simply christian

Resources mentioned in this episode:Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age by Sarah Irving-StonebrakerThe Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon ZahlKing: A Life by Jonathan EigSimply Christian by N. T. WrightThe Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman

Welcome to our second episode of the King's Way Podcast Book Club! If you haven't already read the book we're reviewing, don't worry–this could be the talk you need to get you interested in reading it. And if you have read it, welcome to the club!Trevor and Ryan struggled with–but deeply enjoyed–February's selection, Simply Christian, by N.T. Wright. This dense book starts from the hunger every human has to make sense of the suffering in the world and how different world religions and philosophies try to answer that, covers the entire story of Israel as well as God's people in the New Covenant, and walks through prayer, the Bible, the church, and many other important faith topics, all pointing to the end when God will "set everything to rights." Join the conversation by commenting what stuck out to you from the book or the guy's conversation here!March's KWP Book Club selection is:The Gospel Precisely by Matthew W. Bateshttps://a.co/d/b7BFJVo

Welcome to our first episode of the King's Way Podcast Book Club! If you haven't already read the book we're reviewing, don't worry–this could be the talk you need to get you interested in reading it. And if you have read it, welcome to the club! Starting strong out of the gate, Trevor and Ryan were blown away by this month's book, The Gift of Being Yourself, by David G. Benner. The author's wisdom for understanding your true self in order to have an authentic relationship with the one true God is unmatched, and it was well worth the short read. Go check it out for yourself, and if you have, let us know in the comments what you thought about the book! February's KWP Book Club selection is: Simply Christian by N.T. Wright https://a.co/d/0UIlEEZ

Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Oliver Wright, editor of On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians which takes excerpts from his father N.T. Wright's books including Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, Simply Jesus, and After You Believe. Oliver shares about making the transition from working as an attorney into the world of theology, some of the insights found in On Earth as in Heaven, and ministry in the U.K. THE POST-CHRISTIAN PODCAST AND GIVEAWAYS: Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing the barriers of churchianity. Be sure to sign up for Eric's email newsletter at www.ericbryant.org for a chance to win future book giveaways and assessments! Subscribe, Rate, and Review The Post-Christian Podcast at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.com/@ericbryant777. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eric-bryant1/support

August 20, 2023. Fr. Matt concludes the summer preaching series, reflecting on the what we have learned through Simply Christian. The post Reflecting the Image: Series Conclusion appeared first on Christ Church of Austin.

August 20, 2023. Fr. Matt concludes the summer preaching series, reflecting on the what we have learned through Simply Christian. The post Reflecting the Image: Series Conclusion appeared first on Christ Church of Austin.

June 4, 2023. Fr. Matt Dampier. Why is the world always crazy and why do we search for clarity on God? Fr. Matt Dampier overviews our upcoming summer preaching series, Simply Christian. We begin the series by discussing the importance of relationships in the kingdom of God. The post Echoes of God: Introduction and Relationships (Trinity Sunday) appeared first on Christ Church of Austin.

June 4, 2023. Fr. Matt Dampier. Why is the world always crazy and why do we search for clarity on God? Fr. Matt Dampier overviews our upcoming summer preaching series, Simply Christian. We begin the series by discussing the importance of relationships in the kingdom of God. The post Echoes of God: Introduction and Relationships (Trinity Sunday) appeared first on Christ Church of Austin.

Mark Nine: Biblical Discipleship by William Klock I grew up where white oaks grew everywhere, but here they're relatively uncommon.  The Comox Valley is right on the northern edge of their native growth zone.  Apparently, in the latter half of the 19th Century the climate here was more ideal for them.  Acorns that fell to good soil had a pretty good chance of becoming trees.  Now the climate's changed and getting those acorns to turn into trees is much more complicated.  Every year—except this year!—the oaks around the church here drop their acorns and time and again I've tried to grow trees from them.  I've never had any success.  But trying to grow acorns into trees has a lot in common with the subject of discipleship and that's the last mark of a healthy church to be covered.  Brothers and Sisters, a healthy church will have a concern for discipleship, for its members to grow in the faith.  But back to my attempts to grow oak trees.  The first year I  was here I gathered several handfuls of acorns on a Sunday morning.  I left them on my desk, figuring I'd do something with them later.  I was gone for a few days and came back to discover little worms crawling all over the place, building little cocoon-like webs around my lamp and between my books.  I tossed them all in the garbage.  The next year I did a little research—emphasis, I suppose, on little—and put the acorns I'd collected in damp potting soil in the refrigerator.  I took them out in the spring only to find the potting soil full of little dead worms and rotten acorns.  A few years later I researched how to collect acorns and how to sort out the good ones that the worms hadn't got to yet.  I put them in the refrigerator over the winter and in the spring I planted them in little plastic cups to sprout.  And sprout they did.  But they were outside, there was a late freeze, and they all died.  I had better luck the next year.  They sprouted in the little cups, then I transferred them into gallon pots.  They grew for a while, then stopped.  I did more research and found it was because the little cups and then the gallon pots had caused the roots to curl up into a ball.  Oak trees need to start with a long, straight tap root.  Instead of using small cups and then gallon pots, I should have planted them in 2' lengths of PVC pipe and then transplanted them into the ground when the roots emerged from the bottom.  I did transplant several, but none survived the winter.  At that point I decided it was too complicated.  But that was, I think, the most success I'd ever had with growing anything from seeds.  Usually, I plant seeds at the wrong time of year, or I forget to water them, or I water them too much, or the rabbits come and nibble away the stalks when they emerge.  It takes the right conditions for plants to grow.  They need sunlight and water and oxygen.  They need to be given the proper space to grow.  They need the right temperature.  And they need to be protected from the critters that eat them.  But given those things, they grow, because that's what God made them to do. God's people aren't all that different.  Listen to the first three verses of Psalm 1: Blessed is the man          who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners,          nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord,          and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree          planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season,          and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.   This was written in the context of the old covenant so we might change it a little bit here and there, but it's basically true for the Christian.  Plant yourself in God's word—which is itself an act of faith and obedience—and steer clear of wickedness, sin, and the ungodly, and the Spirit will cause you to grow.  God gives us means of grace: his word, his Spirit, his sacraments, his Church, and they are to us what sunlight and water are plants. We're like plants in other ways, too.  Things that are alive grow.  We were once dead, but God has grafted us into his Son, he's filled us with his Spirit, and we grow.  Jesus says, “I am the vine; you are the branches.”  Live vines grow, don't they?  So should Jesus' people—and not just individually.  Together we're this vine called the Church.  We grow together, rooted in Jesus, and supporting each other.  St. Paul, in Romans 8, describes the growth that God gives his people as being “conformed to the image of his Son”.  Or, as he writes in 1 Corinthians 3:18: We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.   God has made us alive and living things grow.  And growth is essential.  Think of our study of Revelation and Jesus' repeated exhortations to his people there to persevere in faith and holiness in the face of persecution and even martyrdom.  Brothers and Sisters, that kind of perseverance not only requires life, but it also requires growth.  Think of a salmon.  It spends its life in the ocean, growing and building strength so that it can return to the river where it was born, wage a vigorous battle upstream, fighting the current all the way, so that it can spawn and reproduce itself, creating the next generation.  God's people aren't all that different.  The salmon remind me of the well-known quote from Nikolaus von Zinzendorf: “Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.”  We grow strong over time on God's grace by word, by sacrament, by prayer, by fellowship and we persevere, fighting against the currents of the world.  We raise our own children to do the same and we proclaim the good news about Jesus, we witness his kingdom, and by that the Spirit raises up the next generation to continue the battle.  If we have produced a new generation of disciples, Brothers and Sisters, we have done well.  But take away the means of grace, and we die before the mission is ever accomplished.  Some years ago I went to an ecumenical clergy breakfast at the hospital.  They had a morning prayer service led by some liberal Presbyterians.  Another pastor said to me afterward, “What was that?”  They prayed and they sang, but it all felt utterly dead and completely disconnected from God.  The feeling was palpable to many of us there and it made sense.  It was sad, but it made sense.  These were folks who had given up on the authority of God's word and, like dead salmon, were floating downstream—floating with the world's currents, wherever they might lead. And that highlights the importance of discipleship.  Our growth as disciples, our growth into Christ's likeness, our growth in the fruit of the Spirit and in holiness is essential—and a healthy church will have a healthy concern for it.  Living things grow.  Living things fight the current.  Dead things don't.  And so Paul writes to the Ephesians: Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. (Ephesians 4:15-16) If we will lean on God and immerse ourselves in the means of grace he has given, he will grow us.  To quote Paul again, this time as he wrote to the Colossians: Jesus is “the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God” (Colossians 2:19). Notice: Jesus is the head.   We don't cause the growth.  The best preacher or the best Bible study leader in the world cannot grow Christians.  Only God's word and Spirit can do that.  Paul again to the Corinthians, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth” (1 Corinthian 3:6-7).  Even when Paul congratulates the Thessalonian Christians on their growth, he gives the thanks to God for it.  Look at 2 Thessalonians 1:3: We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.   And knowing that it is God who grows his people, Paul prayed for them to grow.  For the Thessalonians he prayed: May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else….May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. (1 Thessalonians 3:11-13) He prays similarly for the Colossian Christians: And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God. (Colossians 1:10) Or let's flip over to 2 Peter and hear what he has to say.  Here's 2 Peter 1:5-8: For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.   And if we flip back to Peter's first epistle, in 2:2-5, he writes this: Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.  As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.   Brothers and Sisters, our growth in the Lord, our growth in faith, our growth in holiness ought to be a priority—for each of us individually, but also collectively as the Church.  As the writer of Hebrews tells us, “Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works” (Hebrews 10:24).  Christian growth, discipleship, whatever we want to call it, will always be a priority for a healthy church. Now, in case I haven't been clear, Christian growth—and, again, by that I mean discipleship or Christian maturity—that is not the same thing as Church growth, by which I mean the numerical growth of the Church in general or of the local church.  Our age has developed an obsession with the latter, and while we don't usually outright ignore discipleship, we often inadvertently sacrifice it for the sake of church growth.  We put the cart before the horse.  And, sometimes as I've said before, we confuse the things that are our responsibility with the things that are God's.  Discipleship—the growth and maturing of God's people—needs to come first.  That doesn't mean we sideline missions and evangelism until we're all mature.  It just means that we trust God to do his part while we do ours.  When we prioritise evangelism and mission, we usually end up compromising the very things that are needed to grow God's people—like tree-planters who want a huge forest and plant a ton of trees, but don't properly prepare the soil, or neglect to water them.  When we put evangelism or missions first, we often downplay things like expositional preaching, a biblical understanding of the gospel and of conversion, we downplay the need for commitment and discipline—because we want to see bigger numbers and these other things have a tendency to scare people away.  If you plant oak trees, they will make more oak trees if you plant them and care for them properly in the first place.  If you just poke a ton of acorns into the ground—at least around here—you'll end up with very few full-grown trees capable of reproducing themselves.  But that's often how Christians do things these days.  Friends, real Christians who truly know the love, the grace, the mercy of God revealed in Jesus will enthusiastically proclaim that good news and, with the help of the Spirit, make new Christians—but we'll do it God's way and trusting him to bring the fruit.  It's relatively easy to fill a church with people; it's a lot more work to fill it with actual disciples, but that's what we've got to do, because only true disciples will go out and make more disciples.  This is why understanding these marks of a healthy church is important. And all these other marks we've looked at over the last two months will grow disciples.  To briefly recap: A healthy church will have a commitment to expositional preaching, whether that's preaching the lectionary or preaching through whole books or parts of books.  The point is that such a church's preaching will be rooted in God's word.  The preacher's agenda will be God's agenda.  The words and ideas preached will not be the preacher's, but God's.  There will always be parts of the Bible that Christians would rather avoid, but expositional preaching challenges the preacher and the church to hear those hard things, to wrestle with them, and to be obedient to them.  Brothers and Sisters, my thoughts will not give you life.  Only God's word can do that.  And that's what we must preach. An expositional ministry in the pulpit also establishes where our values lie.  A people who value Bible-centred preaching is more likely to be a people who are themselves Bible-centred—who invest time in reading and study and praying the scriptures themselves and who gather together to read, and study, and pray them.  And we do this knowing that God's word give life.  It's the raw material the Spirit works with to grow us in faith, in obedience, and in holiness. Preaching grounded in the Bible will give a church biblical theology.  It will bring us closer to the God who has saved us, because it ever more reveals who he is.  Biblical theology also reveals who we are and what God wants for us.  Biblical theology tells us the story into which God has called us.  Biblical theology causes us to grow in our love for God, our love for each other, it causes us to grow in holiness, and it gives us our mission—to proclaim the good news about Jesus and to make disciples. Biblical preaching and biblical theology will lead us to a right and biblical understanding of the gospel—of the good news about Jesus, crucified, risen, and ascended.  A biblical understanding of the gospel reminds us that human being stand before God as rebellious sinners condemned to death, but it also reveals God's loving faithfulness at the cross, and as we look on the risen Messiah we are reminded that by faith, that God has redeemed us and made us his own sons and daughters.  A biblical understanding of the gospel reveals the sinfulness of sin and the amazing graciousness of grace, it teaches our hearts and minds to love the one who sacrificed himself for our sake, and it drives us out those doors in to the world to proclaim what he has done. A biblical understanding of the gospel, like these other things, lies at the root of discipleship.  Getting the gospel wrong undermines everything else.  If, for example, we confuse the gospel with messages of prosperity, we will never understand the meaning of sacrifice.  We will never understand God's discipline.  When life is difficult or persecution comes to the Church, the prosperity gospel will turn out to be rocky soil and those planted in it will wither and die, while those who have put roots deep into the soil of the biblical gospel will thrive in the midst of trials.  There are many false gospels.  Many confuse good works for the gospel, many today are preaching self-love or self-esteem or self-actualisation as the gospel.  None of those messages will save and none will make disciples of Jesus who will persevere hardship and make new disciples of Jesus who will carry on the mission Jesus has given us. A biblical understanding of the gospel will ensure that we have a biblical understanding of conversion and as we understand conversion, we'll understand that to be a Christian is to be transformed by God's word and Spirit.  It's to understand that the change that takes place in our lives is the fruit of God's grace at work in us.  A biblical understand of conversion will make us a humble people, not proud of our works, but a people ever more reliant on the grace of God.  And the more we rest in his grace, the more he will continue to grow us. A biblical understanding of evangelism ensures we know what a Christian actually is.  Mark Dever makes this observation, “The lack of spiritual growth in people who call themselves Christians is often an evidence that they have been wrongly evangelized.  We have taught people who are not Christians to think of themselves as though they are…The church is not finally a booster organization.  We're telling people a serious message about their condition before God, and about the tremendous news of the new life God is offering them in Christ.  And we're inviting them to enter into that life by dire and desperate means—repentance and faith.”[1]  Too often we throw acorns on the ground and call them trees.  We not only ignore the hard work needed to make them grow, but we're too ready to call them trees when there's no evidence of transformation and growth.  Filling pews isn't the same as making disciples, but it's a lot easier to do the former than the latter.  In a culture obsessed with numbers-based success, it's easy to just count noses and pat ourselves on the back.  But a biblical understanding of the gospel, of conversion, and of evangelism will ensure we're actually making disciples.  It also ought to prompt us to be growing as disciples ourselves, because you can't make disciples if you aren't one yourself. A biblical understanding of church membership, which is rooted in God's sacraments is also essential to discipleship.  The sacraments remind us that we are God's people.  We have taken hold of his promise by faith in our baptism and we come each Sunday to the Lord's Table, where we participate again in the death and resurrection of Jesus.  God renews his covenant with us.  That not only strengthens our faith and renews our hope, but in reminding us that we are his covenant people, it reminds us of God's faithfulness to us and of the obligations covenant membership has for us.  Biblical church membership reminds us of our commitment to God—just as it reminds us of his commitment to us.  And it commits us to one another, to walk with each other, to exhort and rebuke each other, to experience joy and sorrow with each other, to love and to forgive each other. Biblical church membership leads to biblical church discipline, without which we have little accountability to grow as disciples of Jesus.  God has made us his people that we might give him glory and cause the nations to give him glory as they see our witness.  Church discipline holds us accountable to that mission and keeps us faithful witnesses. And, finally, biblical worship that is centred in word and sacrament brings all these things together as it gathers the people of God together to hear him speak, to be reminded of his covenant grace, and ultimately to give him glory in response.  All of these marks send us out into the world to be the people God has called us to be, to do the work he's given us, to be salt and light and to proclaim the good news about Jesus, but all these marks also draw us back together in corporate worship so that we can be refreshed and refilled, so that we can be reminded once again of what God has done for us in Jesus, and—most of all—so that together we can give him glory and have our faith and hope renewed.  And then we go back into the world again to do and to be the people Jesus has made us. And that's the note I want to end on.  A healthy church tells the story of God and his people, draws us in, and makes each of us integral parts of it.  A healthy church binds us closely to Jesus and to each other so that we can accomplish the mission he has given us.  Let me close with a quote from Tom Wright's little book, Simply Christian. “According to the early Christians, the church doesn't exist in order to provide a place where people can pursue their private spiritual agendas and develop their own spiritual potential. Nor does it exist in order to provide a safe haven in which people can hide from the wicked world and ensure that they themselves arrive safely at an otherworldly destination. Private spiritual growth and ultimate salvation come rather as the byproducts of the main, central, overarching purpose for which God has called and is calling us. This purpose is clearly stated in various places in the New Testament: that through the church God will announce to the wider world that he is indeed its wise, loving, and just creator; that through Jesus he has defeated the powers that corrupt and enslave it; and that by his Spirit he is at work to heal and renew it. The church exists, in other words, for what we sometimes call ‘mission': to announce to the world that Jesus is its Lord. This is the ‘good news,' and when it's announced it transforms people and societies. Mission, in its widest as well as its more focused senses, is what the church is there for. God intends to put the world to rights; he has dramatically launched this project through Jesus. Those who belong to Jesus are called, here and now, in the power of the Spirit, to be agents of that putting-to-rights purpose. The word ‘mission' comes from the Latin for ‘send': ‘As the father sent me,' said Jesus after his resurrection, ‘so I am sending you' ( John 20:21).”[2] Let's pray: Almighty Father, when we rebelled against you and corrupted your creation, you could have destroyed us and wiped us from its face, but instead you set forth to make yourself known to a people who had forgotten you and to restore us to your presence.  You established a people to be your light in the midst of the darkness, and you gave your own Son to humble himself as he became one of us and lived and died and lived again to give life to this people—to us, to your Church.  Keep us faithful to you, to what you have made us, and to the mission you have given us, we pray.  Grow us by your word and fill us with your Spirit.  Give us the grace to persevere and courage to proclaim your good news.  Make us good stewards of your grace and cause our labours to bear fruit and your kingdom to grow so that you are glorified.  Through Jesus we pray.  Amen. [1] Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2004), 209. [2] Simply Christian (New York: Harper Collins, 2006), epub edition.

A sermon by Eddie Paden.

My fellow Birds this is a unique episode. I wrote one of my final papers about this book and I felt led to share it with you. We unpack the book and the truths N.T Wright lays out for us and I add some commentary on what it means. We discuss: Justice, righteousness, beauty, truth, creator, spirituality, families, comedy, tragedy, human failure, the echo of a voice and so much more. An episode you will be unsure about clicking on but once you do you will be glad you did. It's been said, that the goal of all human endeavors is ‘to be happy at home.' His teaching on this is impeccable and worth hearing about. Tune in now and don't forget to check out our sponsor below and share the show with someone new today! Thank you for your hearts and ears. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

I sit in a parking lot after The Destiny Leaders Conference and reflect on the last few days I just had. All the pastors who spoke gave great words about soul care and how to operate in the life of ministry. I learned so much and rubbed shoulders with such great men and woman in the body of Christ. I break down the last two years that I experienced to get to this moment and let's just say GOD has been with me every step of the way. I'm proud of myself, yet I praise Him! I don't do this for you to hear about “me” but so you can hear about “He”. Tune in and enjoy the impromptu episode

Are you in a high control group? How would you even know? Lori Jane shares her story of waking up after attending Kingdom Halls for thirty years as a Jehovah's Witness (JW). Although the Watch Tower organization claimed they were the one true church, Lori discovered in Pioneer School the many "corrections" that had been handed down, which indicated they didn't have a monopoly on truth. In today's conversation, we talk about how to recognize if you are in a high control group. Still, even if you aren't in a high control group, you might have their exclusive mentality that looks at all outsiders as beyond salvation. Lori explains why humility is important as an antidote to the arrogance that can accompany doctrinal pride, leading to sweeping statements about who is saved or not in other Christian groups. Listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swvBx8_A6S8 —— Links —— Follow Lori Jane on Youtube at her channel: Finding Lori Jane and check out her popular video "Waking up in Pioneer School" Email her at lorijaneusa@gmail.com Visit her website SimplyChristian.faith Support Restitutio by donating here or designate Restitutio as your charity of choice for Amazon purchases Join our Restitutio Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter @RestitutioSF Leave a voice message via SpeakPipe with questions or comments and we may play them out on the air Intro music: Good Vibes by MBB Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Free Download / Stream: Music promoted by Audio Library. Who is Sean Finnegan?  Read his bio here.

Can we find joy in our world? It's hard enough to find genuine, death-defying joy in the wake of the failure of the modern utopian project, the expectation that human reason and technology and political revolution might save us all. Overlay the malaise of modernity with this dumb pandemic, and the prospects for joy seem bleak. But for N.T. Wright, joy doesn't depend on the whims of circumstance or the proper function of the world. He speaks of the hardy resilience of joy, even in the midst of tragic, terrible, and untimely death. He speaks of the groanings of the Spirit, laboring and working in us even and especially when we can't find the words to explain the circumstances away. Today we're sharing Miroslav Volf's 2014 interview with the New Testament scholar, theologian, and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright. He's the former Bishop of Durham, he's Emeritus Professor University of St Andrews, and is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.NOTE: For the Life of the World is running highlights, readings, lectures, and other best-of features until May 1, 2022, when we'll be back with new conversations.AboutN.T. Wright is a New Testament scholar, theologian, and Anglican bishop. He's the former Bishop of Durham, he's Emeritus Professor University of St Andrews, and is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He's the author of many books, including Surprised by Hope, Paul: A Biography, God and the Pandemic, Simply Christian, The World the New Testament, and many more.Show NotesThe connection between joy and God's deliverance and rescueJoy at what God has doneResurrection joyNavigating "the now and the not yet"What happens to joy in "the now and the not yet"Waiting, suffering, and joyActs 12: James is killed by Herod's men, and Peter gets out of jail freeDifferentiating types of sufferingRomans 8: The whole creation groaning as a woman in childbirth2 Corinthians 2:1-7 (NRSV) / So I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. 2For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? 3And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice; for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you. 4For I wrote to you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. 5 But if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but to some extent—not to exaggerate it—to all of you. 6This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person; 7so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow."Yet behold: Here I am"I have no idea what's going on, but I believe.N.T. Wright on the presiding over his father's funeralThe death of a child: there is noEarly church love is "agape"—holistic loveThe emotive dimensions of joyWhat kind of seeing is involved in rejoicing?"All authority on heaven and earth has been given to me.""It's a matter of thinking into the world in which divine authority is constituted by self-giving love."Jesus on a donkey vs. Pontius Pilate on a war horse—the redefinition of power and authority"Religion is what you do to keep the fabric of society together."Treating Christianity as a private matterIs there any joy in the world today?The confused world that comes from believing the utopian lie of modernityProduction NotesThis podcast featured New Testament Scholar N.T. Wright and theologian Miroslav VolfEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaProduction Assistance by Martin ChanA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

Her Jehovah's Witness plans took an abrupt turn after thirty years, soon becoming a welcoming ministry for others like her. OPENING REMARKS Considering the motivation of the fear, two types of faith groups, the "Third Day Hypo-Adventist Full-Gospel Disciples of the Real Messiah Remnant Brethren," discernment, cyber-crime, dark corners, abuse, the term "cult," and "high-control religious groups." RESOURCES Episode 35. The Spirit of Error Anthony Buzzard Kingdom of God Ministry & Missions Restoration Fellowship YouTube: My Story of Waking Up in Pioneer School | #exjw Lori Jane Jehovah's Witness “Beliefs Clarified” PIMO - Physically In, Mentally Out Laureen's ministry website: Simply Christian (https://simplychristian.faith/) Daniel 5:25 - The writing on the wall: "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" Upcoming Events, UCA website CLOSING REMARKS The UCA Upcoming Events page is live! EPISODE INDEX (02:22) Two faith group types (11:11) Interview (39:28) Closing remarks (40:11) Upcoming Events FEEDBACK Words you must speak. Name and where you are from do include. "Hi! Joda I am. Laughed at subordinate joke I did." Email podcast@unitarianchristianalliance.org Click here to RECORD A MESSAGE Or call: 615-581-1158 Alternatively, just record yourself and email me the audio file LISTENING TIPS Pauses and pacing are hand crafted, artisan efforts. If your podcast app lets you remove silences, please don't. You will enjoy this better with the silences left in, and probably at the original speed. FOLLOW THE PODCAST The UCA Podcast email list! Large and enjoyable episode art, additional thoughts from the host, and notifications when there are delays. Enhance your inbox. Twitter @UCApodcast - Episode announcements Unitarian Christian Alliance YouTube channel Podcast Webpage: https://podcast.unitarianchristianalliance.org

Devotional Time - Proverbs 1:8-10; Walkin' & Talkin' - Simply Christian; Sound Words - Through Baptism; Be Ready Always - What should Christian parents want their children to know about Jesus? Repairing our Understanding - Does Romans 13:8 teach that financing a car is a sin?

In today's episode, we get to sit in on a conversation with N.T. Wright. He is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. As being both one of the world's leading Bible scholars and a popular author, he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. His award-winning books include The Case for the Psalms, How God Became King, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, Scripture and the Authority of God, The Meaning of Jesus (co-authored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament. He also wrote the impressive Christian Origins and the Question of God series, including The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, The Resurrection of the Son of God and most recently, Paul and the Faithfulness of God. You can find out more about N.T. Wright here: http://ntwrightonline.org/

In today's episode, we get to sit down with N.T. Wright. He is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. As being both one of the world's leading Bible scholars and a popular author, he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. His award-winning books include The Case for the Psalms, How God Became King, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, Scripture and the Authority of God, The Meaning of Jesus (co-authored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament. He also wrote the impressive Christian Origins and the Question of God series, including The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, The Resurrection of the Son of God and most recently, Paul and the Faithfulness of God. **Exclusive for our listeners: Free Course with N.T. Wright! Philemon may be Paul's shortest letter, but it is still crucial! In this free course led by Prof. N.T. Wright, you'll discover how Paul dealt with this issue of slavery and what that means for Jesus' followers today. Sign up here: http://ntwrightonline.org/philemon

Vi går bag om digtet Flyvefisk på træk. Og kigger nærmere på fænomenerne skønhed, retfærdighed, fællesskab og spiritualitet - og hvorfor de peger ud ad denne verden og ind i en anden... Læs mere her: - Simply Christian, N. T. Wright, 2010 - The Pilgrim's Regress, C.S. Lewis, 1933 (særlig forordet)

Dave Spencer concludes his three-part series with the third part of his message entitled: ‘Simply Christian’.

Dave Spencer presents the second part of his message entitled: ‘Simply Christian’.

This is the first of a 2-part message by Dave Spencer.

In this episode, Josh talks about his faith in God, Christmas, and how he is taking what the enemy made for evil and turning it into good.WARNING: This podcast does contain religious material and concludes with the host saying a prayer. Parents are advised.The Christmas story is about Jesus and a story that points us all to something greater than ourselves. It can cause us to live a better life, one of value, we can live a life of significance. Josh believes that thanks to 2020 his vision is clearer and his life is refocussed. We hope you enjoy! Merry Christmas listeners! May God truly bless and guide you. May your 2021 be the most incredible, blessed, and joyful years of your life. Links:See A Victory (YouTube video)Simply Christian by NT Wright (book, amazon link)Christmas story (Luke 2:1-20)Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/directingband)

Commonway Church | Simply Christian, pt.1 | Pastor Matt Carder

In this episode, John and Isaac talk about how they came to faith, as well as their mission and vision for Simply Christian.

In this special extra-quick episode, we talk about a concept that is as central to Christianity as it is contested: holiness. What does it mean to be holy? How do we become holy? And, a big one...can we drink whiskey and still be holy?? We hope the answer is yes, because we also review two great whiskies, one from Islay (Scotland) and the other from Kentucky. Both are strong in proof and flavor. From this episode: Drew's Knob Creek 100 here. Evan's Laphroiag here. Excerpt from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity here. Wesley's sermon "The Scripture Way of Salvation" here. Wesley on "The Character of a Methodist" here. Wesley's "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection" here. The Gospel of Grace by Kenneth Kinghorn here. Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer here. The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges here. Simply Christian by N.T. Wright here. Philokalia, Volume I, here. Sayings of the Desert Fathers here.  

This Week on Seminary Dropout… N. T. Wright is the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the award-winning author of many books, including After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, The Challenge of Jesus, and The Meaning of Jesus (coauthored with Marcus Borg), […]

N.T. Wright, one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars, discusses his book SIMPLY CHRISTIAN: WHY CHRISTIANITY MAKES SENSE in New York City in 2006.

In this episode Michael Hunn reflects on chapter 2 of James K. A. Smith’s book you are what you love. Chapter 2 contains reflections about the secular liturgies of our lives – including ways of rethinking  the shopping experience in America and wondering what all that shopping is doing to our hearts.

Welcome to the Simply Christian LIFE podcast!   Michae Buerkel Hunn is Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande and your host.   This episode is an invitation to join Bishop Hunn this lent by reading You Are What You Love by James K.A. Smith.    As you read the Preface to the book- consider the following questions and, if you like, share your answers either in the comments or on Facebook:   1. Why are you doing this? What are your hopes for deepening your relationship with God this Lent?     2.  Dr. Smith says “we worship what we love”.  What comes to mind as you contemplate this?  What does it mean to “worship?”  What does it mean to “love”?   3.  Specifically about the podcast, what are you hoping this podcast will be like?  How do you intend to use this podcast?  

Simply Christian - Jeff Strong - Sun Dec 9, 2018 by Nelson Covenant Church

Pope Francis has said there is “no point” in people going to church if you do not follow the teachings of the Bible in your daily lives. “Christian parrots”, who talk a lot about their religion, but don't do good deeds.

Part three of Understanding The Bible is here! In this episode, we discuss our 'patron saint of the podcast', NT Wright and his thoughts on viewing the bible "from 20,000 feet". We discuss how NT breaks down scripture into 5 acts and how they ultimately serve as a love story of restoration between Creator and his beloved Creation, now embodied and personified in the church.   N.T. WRIGHT is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. His award-winning books include The Case for the Psalms, How God Became King, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, Scripture and the Authority of God, The Meaning of Jesus (co-authored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament. He also wrote the impressive Christian Origins and the Question of God series, including The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, The Resurrection of the Son of God and most recently, Paul and the Faithfulness of God.   ‘Each word must be understood within its own verse, each verse within its on chapter, each chapter within its own book, and each book within its own historical, cultural, and indeed canonical setting.' -NT Wright   Cognitive Dissonance: the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.   Complementarianism: a theological view held by some in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, that men and women have different but complementary roles and responsibilities in marriage, family life, religious leadership, and elsewhere. The word "complementary" and its cognates are currently used to denote this view.   Ephesians 5   Story of Philemon   NT Wright - Audio (For long commutes)   The Bible In Five Acts Creation Fall Israel Jesus Church   Revelation 22   Genesis 3   Genesis 6   Genesis 12   Centering prayer: is a modernized prayer method based on the intuitive prayer rooted in Lectio Divina. It is a method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience the Divine's immanent presence with us. Centering prayer is grounded in relationship with God, through Christ, and is a practice to nurture that relationship.   The Lord's Prayer New King James: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.   The Lord's Prayer by Dallas Willard Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us- may your will be done here on earth in just the way it is done in heaven. Give us today the things we need today, and forgive us our sins and impositions on you as we are forgiving all who in any way offend us. Please don't put us through trials, but deliver us from everything bad. Because you are the one in charge, and you have all the power, and the glory too is all yours-forever- which is just the way we want it!   Polemic: a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something. Rikk Watts: served as Regent College's Professor of New Testament from 1996-2016. Along with his position as a Research Professor with Regent, he is currently the Dean of Theology at Alphacrucis College in Australia. The Tyger By William Blake Towards the end of the episode, Brandon mentions that Susette will do an exercise, but we forgot!  Check out Lectio Divina at the end of Ep 33 for a method for reading the bible with a posture of "Listening for God's Voice." 

Our next guest on the Walk is Dr. M. Jane Goleman. Dr. Goleman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a member of the Section of Ambulatory Pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She received her medical degree from OSU in 1982, and a second doctoral degree from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in 2010. Dr. Goleman's clinical interest is in primary care, ADHD, and doctor-patient communication and its impact on health outcomes. Dr. Goleman has decades of experience in academic medicine, but also has decades of experience as a spiritual mentor to medical students at OSU. Physicians now practicing across the country would attribute much of their personal growth to Dr. Goleman's guidance in their lives; she has long been known for both her wisdom and her care. Without further ado, our interview with Dr. M. Jane Goleman.In Part 1 of our interview with Dr. Goleman, we ask her what misconceptions about Christianity she sees in Medicine and what is most important to understand about the Christian message.-----Episode Notes:You can learn more about Dr. M. Jane Goleman here.Dr. Goleman speaks about some of the most important elements of the Christian story. For further reading about what Christianity is all about and why it makes sense of our world, check out Simply Christian by biblical scholar N.T. Wright.-----The Walk is a production of The Thompson Institute, a program of Cru at Ohio StateProduced by Aaron Badenhop & Jordan BrowningEdited by Seth Costello & Lukas MorelandMusic by Jordan BrowningSpecial thanks to Dr. M Jane Goleman

Recorded live at the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California on March 25 , 2018. For more info on the church, visit our website at www.piedmontchurch.org.

Recorded live at the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California on March 19 , 2018. For more info on the church, visit our website at www.piedmontchurch.org.

Recorded live at the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California on March 11 , 2018. For more info on the church, visit our website at www.piedmontchurch.org.

Recorded live at the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California on March 4, 2018. For more info on the church, visit our website at www.piedmontchurch.org.

Recorded live at the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California on February 25, 2018. For more info on the church, visit our website at www.piedmontchurch.org.

Guest Info/Bio: This week we welcome back one of our personal heroes Archbishop N.T. Wright! N.T. Wright is the former bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities. As being both one of the world’s leading Bible scholars and a popular author, he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. Guest (Selected) Published Works: His award-winning books include: Simply Jesus, After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, The Meaning of Jesus (co-authored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament. He also wrote the impressive Christian Origins and the Question of God series, including The New Testament and the People of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, and most recently The Day The Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’ Crucifixion. Guest Links: www.ntwrightpage.com www.ntwrightonline.org Facebook: @OfficialNTWright Special Music by: Darlingside www.darlingside.com Twitter: @darlingside Instagram: @darlingside Facebook: @darlingside Enjoy the songs? Songs featured on this episode were: “The Ancestor, Clay & Cast Iron, and Go Back” from the album Birds Say. “Whippoorwill” from the EP “Whippoorwill.” You can find Darlingside’s music on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, and anywhere good music is sold. The Deconstructionist’s Podcast is mixed and edited by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat, located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on Facebook and Twitter or visit their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsociety Twitter: @napsrecording Donation: If you’re digging what we’re doing here consider making a small donation. Maintaining a podcast isn’t cheap and every dollar donated helps us to keep this thing going. Money donated goes to helping to purchase research materials, maintenance of the website, storage of episodes, etc. Click the link below to donate: Htps://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Brand new unisex T-Shirts now available! Pint glasses available now in 3 cool packages! https://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Find us on social media! If you enjoy our show consider leaving us a nice 5 star review on iTunes. It helps new people find us! www.thedeconstructionists.com Twitter: @deconstructcast Facebook: deconstructionistsanonymous Instagram: deconstructionistspodcast Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our special guest is Dr. N.T. Wright, a prolific writer of both scholarly and popular books. N. T. Wright has written over thirty books, including Simply Christian, The Original Jesus, What Saint Paul Really Said, The Challenge of Jesus, The Meaning of Jesus, Jesus and the Victory of God, and the magisterial Paul and the Faithfulness of God. His N. T. Wright For Everyone Series includes commentaries covering the entire New Testament. Formerly bishop of Durham in England, Wright is research professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He was formerly canon theologian of Westminster Abbey and dean of Lichfield Cathedral. He also taught New Testament studies for twenty years at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford Universities. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Gregorian University in Rome, and many other institutions around the world. In addition to his many books, Wright reaches a broad audience through his frequent media appearances. A sought-after commentator, Wright writes frequently for newspapers in England, including the Times, the Independent, and the Guardian. He has been interviewed numerous times by radio and television broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic, including ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS, and NPR. To learn more about online courses offered by Prof. N.T. Wright of St. Andrews University, Scotland visit www.ntwrightonline.org. For info on N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides visit www.ivpress.com.

Nicholas Thomas Wright taught New Testament studies for 20 years at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford Universities and served as the Bishop of Durham from 2003 until his retirement in 2010. He now serves as chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. Considered one of the world's leading Bible scholars, he has been featured on ABC News, The Colbert Report, Dateline, and Fresh Air. Wright is the award-winning author of Simply Good News, Simply Jesus, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, How God Became King, Scripture and the Authority of God, Surprised by Scripture, and The Case for the Psalms, as well as the recent translation of the New Testament The Kingdom New Testament and the much heralded series Christian Origins and the Question of God. He has authored nearly 50 books including his most recent The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion.

Tom Wright is a leading New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T. Wright; his books aimed at a more popular readership, such as What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian, are published under the less formal name of Tom Wright. He is generally perceived as coming from a moderately evangelical perspective. He is associated with the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, and the New Perspective on Paul (a complex movement with many unique positions, originating from the probing works of James Dunn and E. P. Sanders). He argues that the current understanding of Jesus must be connected with what is known to be true about him from the historical perspective of first century Judaism and Christianity .

What do N.T. Wright, Marcus Borg and John Cobb have in common?  This podcast! In this hour, Tripp and Bo take 4 calls from hotline and respond to questions about eschatology and the resurrection. Two books that we reference today are Surprised by Hope and Simply Christian. We also alude to the John Cobb prayer podcast.  Thanks to Jason, Angela, Garret, and Keaton for calling in! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices