A Critique of Practicing the Way, Part 36 - Jesus is Unique, presented by Bob DeWaay and Barb Gretch. Comer presents Jesus as a mystical moral role model. The Gospels show us that Jesus is unique. He is the sinless Savior, not a role model for mystics. We reject Comer's claim that solitude is vital to the Christian life. What we need is the means of grace. (duration 00:24:38)

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A Critique of Practicing the Way, Part 35 - Defending the Meaning of the Lord's Prayer, presented by Bob DeWaay and Barb Gretch. In this episode we continue to discuss John Mark Comer's misuse of Matthew 5:5-6. Comer claims that we need to learn to hide - to find a secret place - to pray. We show that Jesus was warning about hypocrisy, not prescribing a special location to pray. (duration 00:24:54)

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The Danger of Deserting the Gospel: Galatians 1:6-10, Part 3, presented by Bob DeWaay. Bob explains the concepts of the outer call of the gospel compared to the inner call, God's means of sanctification, and the fact that there is only one gospel. We begin the Christian life by grace through, and that is how God sanctifies us as well. (duration 00:21:26)

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The Danger of Deserting the Gospel: Galatians 1:6-10, Part 2, presented by Bob DeWaay. Bob exposes the dangers of deserting the gospel. He rejects the common phrase "the missionary is the message." Only the true gospel can save. The apostle Paul pronounces condemnation on anyone who proclaims a different gospel, no matter how kind they seem. (duration 00:25:13)

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The Danger of Deserting the Gospel: Galatians 1:6-10, Part 1, presented by Bob DeWaay. Paul considers the Galatians brothers through the gospel but sees the imminent danger of apostasy characterized by the wilderness generation who deserted God for the golden calf. Bob shows the grammatical links to that episode and the irony involved. (duration 00:21:47)

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The Gospel of Grace: Galatians 1:1-5, Part 3, presented by Bob DeWaay. Believers are joined together in a gospel family as brothers and sisters in Christ. We must love fellow believers who have been purchased by the blood of Christ. We are rescued from sin, and the evil of the wicked age we live in through the gospel. (duration 00:26:02)

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The Gospel of Grace: Galatians 1:1-5, Part 2, presented by Bob DeWaay. Bob DeWaay shows that Paul's greeting, grace and peace, describes the cause of salvation (grace) and the result (peace). These concepts are found in the Old Testament as well. He then shows the importance of Christ's voluntary substitutionary atonement. (duration 00:19:13)

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The Gospel of Grace: Galatians 1:1-5, Part 1, presented by Bob DeWaay. Bob DeWaay introduces Galatians. In Galatians 1:1-5 Paul defends his apostolic authority against false teachers who questioned his gospel. Paul, however, was directly commissioned by the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ who appeared to him. (duration 00:18:15)

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The Building of God, Part 2: Ephesians 2:21b-22, presented by Bob DeWaay and Eric Douma. In this program we discuss the implications of the church as the dwelling place of God. In verse 21 Paul uses a Greek word that signifies the holy place and holy of holies from the OT temple. During the church age this is not about a physical structure... (duration 00:34:39)

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The Building of God, Part 1: Ephesians 2:21-22, presented by Bob DeWaay and Eric Douma. This show is based on a sermon Bob DeWaay preached from Ephesians 2:21, 22. The key issue is to biblically define the church. Many common assumptions about the church are taken from church history and not grounded in the biblical definition of the church. (duration 00:33:35)

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