Forging Ploughshares
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Ep 161The Mirror of the Word
Jonathan Totty preaches on The Mirror of the Word. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 162Gaining Confidence and Overcoming Anxiety – I John 3:16
Paul continues his sermon series on I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 163I John 3:10 – Characteristics of love
Paul continues his sermon series on I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 164Hebrews 4:12-16 – A Priest Beyond the Heavens
Christ is high priest after the death and resurrection which impacts how we understand his significance and the nature of our faith. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 165Discussion with Jonathan Totty About “That Hideous Strength”
Paul and Jonathan Totty discuss C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 166I John 2:28 – Resisting a Disincarnate Christianity Through Abiding
Paul continues his sermons series of I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 167Hebrews 4:1-10 – Rest in Faith
Paul continues his study of Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 168Interview with Tom Evans and Matt Welch on Peace and its Practical Implications – Part 2
Paul continues a conversation with Tom Evans and Matt Welch about their personal journey into nonviolence. Part 2 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 169Interview with Tom Evans and Matt Welch on Peace and its Practical Implications – Part 1
Paul begins a conversation with Tom Evans and Matt Welch about their personal journey into nonviolence. Part 1 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 170Hebrews 3:7-19 – Entering Sabbath Rest
Paul continues his Bible study of Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 171I John 2 – Three Proofs of Christianity
Obedience, love, and belief, are not simply tests of faith but proofs of the truth of Christianity. Postmodern definitions of incommensurateness set the stage for the argument that these are proofs inasmuch as they constitute the coherence of Christianity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 172Hebrews 3 – Jesus Bodily Ascension Defeats Dualism
Paul continues his Bible study of Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 173Discussion with Jonathan Totty about C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra
Paul and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra. The nature of evil, the atonement, God’s creative purposes, are all part of this discussion about the second book in Lewis’ Space Trilogy. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 174I John – Introduction
Paul begins a series of sermons on I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 175Conclusion to Galatians – Israel of God
Paul concludes his sermon series on Galatians. The cross demonstrates not the wrath of God to be undone, but the virtue of Christ to be imitated. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 176Hebrews 2:6ff – Delivered from Slavery to Fear of Death
Paul shows that Christ delivers from slavery to fear of death as the work of the atonement. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 177Galatians 5:17ff – Escaping the Perversion of the Law of Sin and Death
Paul pictures the law as having a perverse underside which can become oppressive. It is the antagonism between the spirit and the flesh and not this categories per se that is definitive of sin. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 178Galatians 4-5 – Narrative Freedom
Paul preaches on the role of narrative in conveying the truth of Scripture and explains the verse recommending the Judaizers castrate themselves. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 179Hebrews 2 – Passage into Enchantment
Paul continues his Bible study of Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 180Galatians 4 – It Is Not What You Know But Who You Know
Paul preaches on Galatians 4. The basic principles of the law are not our problem. It is imagining that these basic principles deliver life and God to us. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 181Hebrews 1:5ff – Superiority of Jesus to Angels Through Embodiment
The series of quotes brings together the significance of the meaning of the Son of God – Christ as the Davidic Messiah and YHWH returned. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 182Two Systems of Knowing (Eric Pryzwara)
Paul has a conversation with Jonathan Totty concerning Augustine’s theory of knowledge as worked out by Eric Przywara. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 183Theology of Hebrews
Paul continues his exploration of the theology of Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 184Conversation on Wendell Berry
Paul and Jason have a conversation about Wendell Berry. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 185Galatians 4 – The Slavery of Jewish Idolatry
Paul equates returning to the law with idolatry. An equation that expands upon the problem of idolatry so as to make it inclusive of sin. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 186Hebrews – How the Truth of Christ Works
The revelation of Christ is constituted as revelation in its conjunction with creation. Or to state it differently, Christian truth demonstrates itself in the particular context into which it enters. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 187Conversation with Jonathan Totty about Sarah Coakley’s “God, Sexuality and the Self”
Paul and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality and the Self. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 188Galatians 3 – The Faith of Christ Through Which We Are Saved
Paul continues his sermon on Galatians, expounding the “faith of” Christ as inclusive of ethics. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 189I John 5:18-21 – How Idolatry Is Still the Marker of Falsehood
Paul concludes his study in I John. The final phrase in John concerning idolatry is a summation of the problem he has dealt with and a contrast to the solution he has offered. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 190Introduction to Hebrews
Paul introduces the book of Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 191Interview with the Author of “On the Edges of Elfland”, David Mosley – Part 2
David Mosley has written and published on the intersection between art and theology. In this conversation he compares and contrasts Tolkien and Lewis and describes their particular strengths. He also locates their work in a particular theological understanding. Part 2 of 2 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 192Interview with the Author of “On the Edges of Elfland”, David Mosley
David Mosley has written and published on the intersection between art and theology. In this conversation he compares and contrasts Tolkien and Lewis and describes their particular strengths. He also locates their work in a particular theological understanding. Part 1 of 2 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 193I John 5:13 ff – Overcoming Through the Resurrection
Paul continues his study in I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 194I Corinthians 15 – What is the Role of Resurrection in Christian Understanding?
Paul explains the role of resurrection in Christian understanding on Easter Sunday. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 195Alec Bussen on Communion Practices
Paul and Alec Bussen have a conversation about communion practices. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 196I John 5:6ff – Water and Blood
Paul runs down the meaning of blood and blood sacrifice as it relates back to Abraham and Isaac and is taken up into the Goat of the Lord. From its inception, sacrifice pointed to kenotic love. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 197Brad Jersak’s Identification Theology – Part II
Paul and Jason discuss the issue of suffering and evil from the perspective of Jesus’ “Identification” with our suffering and his experience of evil on the cross, as described by theologian Brad Jersak’s Identification theology. Part 2 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 198Brad Jersak’s Identification Theology – Part I
Paul and Jason discuss the issue of suffering and evil from the perspective of Jesus’ “Identification” with our suffering and his experience of evil on the cross, as described by theologian Brad Jersak’s Identification theology. Part 1 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 199The Psychotheology of Violence – Part II
Paul explains the psychotheology of violence. Part 2 of 2 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 200The Psychotheology of Violence – Part I
Paul explains the psychotheology of violence. Part 1 of 2 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 201Conversation with John – Is Peaceful non-violence at the Heart of the Unity of the Restoration Movement?
Jonathan Totty makes the case that nonviolence is at the heart of the central ideal of unity in the Restoration Idea. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 202Galatians 2 – Justification and Authority
Paul traces how authority works in relation to the Gospel and what this has to do with Justification. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 203Preserving the Fellowship – The Purpose of Galatians and the New Testament
Galatians and the New Testament are written that, “We might know how to conduct ourselves in the household of God.” The Bible is to be read in the Church so as to preserve an already existing unity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 204The Difference Christ Makes
Can we state the concrete personal and psychological difference which Christianity makes? Through a comparison of contemporary psychoanalysis and Ro. 7-8 this difference is layed out. (Talk given at Lane Christian Church for the area men’s meeting.) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 205God Is Making Things Right in the Face of Sin and Death – A Summary of the Book of Romans
In this sermon, Paul summarizes the book of Romans. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 206I John 5:1-5 – Tests or Proofs of Christianity
Paul continues his study of I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 207Narrative Ethics
Using Scientology and Albert Speer as examples, Paul demonstrates how narrative misdirection or a truncated narrative can result in evil. This points to the need of the alternative narrative community of the church in which to ground our ethics. The picture, then, of a Christianity that does not take into account [being enculturated] is the failure of Christianity in Nazi Germany—I think it’s the failure of a Christianity in the United States—because what Christians often imagine is that being a Christian in no way means that they have to sacrifice participation in the culture at any level. But that it means you can add those symbols of faith without any sacrifice or suffering while remaining comfortable. Here the failure of humanity is the way that we would join ourselves together. If we would join ourselves for purposes that are inadequate—well that corporate community is subject to becoming evil. If we join ourselves to a Wall Street firm whose only goal is to make profit, do you think that could become evil? What happens with corporate cultures or cultures per se, is that their story is truncated—it’s too small. If we find our stories in these places, being rich on wall street, a movie star, an athlete, if that becomes a kind of end goal, then we’ve joined into precisely the problem. What Wink has realized is that even church—churches set upon numerical growth… you think they can become evil? Yes, because they’ve truncated the story. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 208I John 4:17ff – Passing from Fear of Judgment to Agape
Paul continues his study in I John, emphasizing that a Christianity which is focused on punishment is inadequate and falls short of love. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 209Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Paul and Jonathan Totty discus Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard’s key work, and bring to a conclusion his goals in authorship. The significance is the attempt to bring the psychological realm back into theology. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound
Ep 210I John 4:7ff – Seeing God Precludes Agape Love
Paul continues his study in I John. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound