Monthly Archives: April 2014

Posted on Friday, April 25, 2014

#027 – Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright (Pt 2 – Puzzled About Paradise) [Podcast]

Not only is the world at large confused about death, but most in the Christian world as well.  There are many people “puzzled about Paradise.”  What is “heaven” and isn’t the “kingdom of heaven” just another way of saying the same thing?  What is this thing called “Paradise” and how has the Church so radically gotten away from the earliest Christian view of the afterlife?

Puzzled About Paradise

In this lesson, we talk about some of the things that has confused the church on this issue … from not understanding a Jewish mindset, down to the very music we listen to in church.

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Posted on Friday, April 18, 2014

#026 – Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright (Pt 1 – Intro) [Podcast]

What are we waiting for? And what are we going to do about it in the meantime? What is the “blessed hope” for a Christian?  What is “heaven” all about, and is our hope simply a matter of “going to heaven when we die”?  Or is there something more than some of us have been taught in most churches?

Surprised by Hope

We begin a new series where we dig deep into “Surprised by Hope” by N.T. Wright.  “Surprised by Hope” is a great resource, and I would highly encourage you to pick up the book as we study it.

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Posted on Friday, April 11, 2014

#025 – Friend of God (Blood Covenant Pt 18) [Podcast]

It is the covenant that fulfills the longing of God, granting men and women the gift of His life so that in this present time they live the life of the age to come. This gift makes them His children, giving them the unspeakable privilege of enjoying intimate friendship with Him.

Friend of God

If the heart of the covenant is to be united as one to Him by the Spirit, the goal of the covenant is to know Him.

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Posted on Friday, April 4, 2014

#024 – People of the Spirit (Blood Covenant Pt 17) [Podcast]

The New Testament knows nothing of an isolated believer living in a private relationship to God. Each individual believer is joined to Christ and therefore to His body, the people of God.

People of the Spirit

The covenant is not with us as individuals but with the “people” who are in Christ, with whom the covenant is made. We have an intensely personal relationship with God in Christ, but we do not have an individual relationship; it is a corporate one.

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