Conversations for Life

How does social media serve heart idols of security, identity, and significance toward destructive ends? Join us as we sit down with Kristen Hatton, author of Face Time - Your Identity in a Selfie World.

Family systems, differentiation, triangles, and faith. This week we are honored to talk with Dr. Jenny Brown, director of the Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia about family systems.

What does the New Testament teach about marriage? Join us today as we look at several specific New Testament passages related to marriage, and discuss how radical the Bible's picture of marriage is relative to surrounding cultural practices and beliefs.

What is the danger with framing marriage dynamics as a reaction to current cultural trends rather than how the Bible itself frames it, as the intimate union of two image bearers of God uniquely suited to one another to carry out God's plans and purposes for themselves and those around them?

How does  salvation transform fallen authority and power dynamics within marriage? Listen this week as Jonathan and Kathleen unpack three characteristics typical of sinful dynamics of authority and power, and how these are transformed through the redemptive power of God at work in the lives of believers.

We look at what happens to the marriage relationship after the man and woman eat the fruit in Genesis 3 and discuss some ramifications for us today.

Some claim that Genesis 3:16 lays out a battle of the sexes paradigm in marriage where women will experience a sinful tendency to usurp a husband's authority, and where men will experience a sinful tendency to rule harshly over their wives. Is this indeed what Genesis 3:16 suggests? How has this interpretation fueled certain kinds of mistreatment of women in evangelical churches? Is there a better interpretation that fits with the context and intent of the author of Genesis? Join in the conversation today to find out!

In today's conversation, we look at how Adam's failure to carry out his God-given responsibility leads to Adam and Eve's fall into rebellion against their Creator and Lord. Along the way, we also discuss why God allowed Adam and Eve to sin: knowing the awfulness of sin and evil, why would God give Adam and Eve the internal and external possibility to rebel? 

What kind of relationship did God create men and women to have? Join us today as we see how Genesis 2 offers a subversive, worldview-changing depiction of the marriage relationship between a man and woman.