Bible & Stuff

This week, we're joined by Andrew Peterson to discuss The God of the Garden and how we can experience the glory of God through his creation.

The garden metaphor runs deep in the Bible. God's first command for Adam and Eve was to "work and keep" the garden, and God himself has always been present, working and keeping what he loves. Sometimes pruning and sometimes planting, but always in a way that produces good fruit.

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After 40 years in the wilderness, the people of Israel finally enter the Promised Land. But, they have to cross the Jordan River to do so, all the while preparing to face the looming resistance of the Canaanite inhabitants.

In these first five chapters of Joshua, the people of God must look back to remember what God has done in order to faithfully face what is yet come.

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As we begin our series through the book of Joshua, we look to the people of Israel as they prepare to enter the Promised Land and how this story parallels with our own of trying to get back to the Garden of Eden. We also examine how God's specific charge to Joshua to "be strong and very courageous" gives us a model for how to live in our already/not yet reality of being justified in Christ but still awaiting his return. 

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Too often when it comes to building spiritual disciplines our go-to methods include relying on sheer willpower and trying to shame ourselves into submission. And, again and again, the whole experiment ends in failure, leaving us feeling even worse about our spiritual life than when we started.

There's still hope. What if it's not us but our misguided methods that are actually the problem? What would it look like to build spiritual disciplines that are rooted in the grace and love of Christ? This week, we explore exactly that.

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Author and pastor Gavin Ortlund joins the show to discuss his new book, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism. Together we talk about his approach to apologetics, deconstruction, and why he aims to leave people with the probability of God's existence instead of certainty.

You can see more from Gavin on his YouTube channel, Truth Unites. 

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Fellowship is a word and practice worth reclaiming. Our modern understanding of what fellowship looks like does little to measure up to the more robust meaning found in the Bible. This week, we talk about what fellowship really is, and why it is such a powerful means of grace to believers.

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This week we discuss how the person and work of Jesus opens up the possibility of friendship with God, and how that friendship fuels prayer. By pairing this with the spiritual discipline of Bible reading, we have access to real two-way communication with the God of the universe and the restorer of all things.

The Tim Keller message referenced is Prayer in the Psalms: Discovering How to Pray.

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Author and Bible teacher Amy Gannett joins the show to discuss her new book, Fix Your Eyes: How Our Study of God Shapes Our Worship of Him. Together we talk about how worship and theology go hand in hand and how each one is incomplete without the other.

You can follow Amy on Twitter, Instagram, or check out her work at tinytheologians.shop.

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To love someone, you have to know them. And if we desire to love God, we must look where he has mostly clearly revealed himself—his Word.

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If the means of grace are one of the primary channels through which God's love and power flow (and they are), then it is crucial that we not misunderstand or neglect them. In this episode, we'll tackle a number of questions help us think rightly about these means before putting them in to practice, such as:

• What are the "means of grace"?
• How do they work?
• To what end do we practice these means?

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