Wayne Jacobsen joins the podcast today. Wayne continues our theme of "God the Father" by teaching that Jesus shows us what it looks like to live in the “Abba” father relationship that He has with His Father.
Wayne also sheds light on some of our hang ups that keep us from understanding the true nature and love of God - hangs up like wrath, for example. We share a few stories including one beautiful story of an unwanted baby who was adopted by a nurse and her husband.
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Join us as James and Kester talk about God the Father and how the experiences we have with our fathers often project an image onto the face of God, for better or for worse.
We also talk about the parable of the prodigal son and focus on the father in that story to see what Jesus was teaching us about his Father.
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Pastor Bill Winn of Richmond Grace Fellowship shares about his early days of pastoral vocation and what life looked like as he transitioned from a separation-based theology to an inclusion-based theology.
The impact of his prior beliefs were challenged so greatly he was moved to repent in front of his congregation.
Bill shares stories about seeing the beautiful relationship of the Triune God displayed through his family. Bill has pastored Richmond Grace Fellowship for eleven years.
Here is a list of the books Bill shared in this episode:
The Mediation of Christ (TF Torrance)
God is For Us (Dr. C. Baxter Kruger)
The Mystery of Christ (Robert Capon)
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James and Kester focus this episode on the subject of Hope, centered around two quotes from medieval Christian mystic Blessed Julian of Norwich:
"And God showed that sin will be no shame, but somehow honor for humanity… God's goodness makes the contrariness which is in us very profitable for us."
“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
Join us as we discuss the challenges and rewards of hope and share stories about loss and death, suffering, and change in life circumstances.
We also talk about cynicism and pessimism, hope in God's goodness, hope as laid out in the Psalms, and as always: the character of God as revealed in the nature and works of Jesus.
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What is the Trinity? How could it possibly matter? And what's wrong with all the analogies I use for talking about God?!
This episode James and Kester answer all these questions and more about the Trinity!
Join us as we talk about what mystery is and how that applies to the trinity, why we care so much about the triune relationship of God, and what that means for all people.
We of course poke holes in the analogies people use to try and explain the trinity, and use some bad ones ourselves. And, as always, we talk about the character and nature of the God who loves us, likes us, and has shared the intimacy of His triune relationship with us.
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Is God anti-fun? Are the scriptures anti-pleasure? What about all those rules?
Author, speaker, and Christian Mystic John Crowder joins Kester and James to talk about his new book "MONEY. SEX. BEER. GOD. - DITCHING RELIGION FOR THE JOY OF INCARNATION."
Join us to talk about: Money. Sex. Beer. God.
We discuss greek dualism, rationalism, and ideas from Plato and others that have crept in to Christian thought and practice over the years.
We explore the commonly held belief in separation: separation of man from God, and separation of the physical and spiritual. We see how these ideas have influenced they way many people discuss the pleasures and joys of the physical world, including money, sex, and beer.
We also take a dive in to gnosticism, an early christian heresy partly about the evil of the physical world, and how it still thrives in the church today. Our discussion then turns to the new identity given to humanity by Christ, waking up to the inclusion of the Gospel, and how St Paul the "grace apostle" talks about morality for us.
Stick around for our "lighting round" and some ridiculous impressions at the end of the show!
Check out John Crowder's new book at moneysexbeergod.com
More of John's teachings, books and audio can be found at johncrowder.net and be sure to stop by thenewmystics.com
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