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What is Paradise?
The Bible uses different words for life after death, and the overlap between them can be confusing. What is paradise? What is heaven? What is the new creation? Chuck and Aaron talk about these different words and what it means for our life after death.
Episode 134 | 35 minutes
Does God Care About the World? (Ep26)
Everyone agrees that the world is a messed up place, full of brokenness, pain, and evil. Does God care about these problems? Chuck and Aaron discuss how the Bible insists God does care about these problems, but doesn’t engage them with the typical cultural solutions, but attacks them by becoming a human in order to heal them with his own death.
The End of the World (Ep25)
Everyone is afraid of the end of the world. We sense that our plans to protect ourselves from such an event are largely ineffective, and this leaves us hopeless. But God is determined to recreate creation, getting rid of all the bad things to make all things new and fresh again.
Faith and Hope (Ep24)
Christian faith and hope are at the heart of what it means to be a human relating to God. Christian faith is neither a blind leap in the dark, nor is it a weighing of evidences and proofs and then making a logical decision to trust God. Instead, the Christian life is faith seeking understanding – we place our trust in God and that trust then starts to make sense of the rest of our lives.
Hypocrisy (Ep23)
Many non-Christians see Christians as hypocritical – people who do not live up to their own stated standards. But this isn’t a particularly Christian problem, it’s a human problem: no one lives up to the goals and ideals of their own ideology. Christianity, though, is the only worldview that has a mechanism for dealing with human hypocrisy: forgiveness and renewal.
Baptism (Ep22)
Christian baptism is one of the most controversial topics within the Christian church, and one of the most understood aspects of Christianity outside the church. But the benefits of understanding what God is doing to and for his people in Holy Baptism are profound and rewarding.
The Psalms (Ep21)
Within God’s story is a profound book of prayer and meditation, the book of Psalms. For millennia God’s people have been praying and living in this great book of inspired worship.
Prayer (Ep20)
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Christian God is his desire to have a relationship with his human creatures. He wants to talk to us and wants us to talk to him, and we call this prayer.
What Does God Think About Me? (Ep19)
If the story of the Bible is the story of God’s mission to rescue humans and his creation, then God certainly thinks about us, and in Jesus his love for us is the center of his thoughts.
Heaven and the New Creation (Ep18)
The Bible does not describe the final destiny of Christian believers as a “going up” to a heaven in the sky, but the “coming down” of God and the new Jerusalem here to earth.