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February 15, 2020 Is Sin Plausible in the Modern World? (Andrew Fellows)
Christians don’t have the monopoly on seeing what’s wrong with the world. This talk examines three secular sin labels as a diagnosis of the problem. Each adds something significant to our understanding of why everything is so bent out of shape. While each of these labels are useful they are inadequate to the Bible's better diagnosis.
-Andrew Fellows, Director of Christian Heritage Cambridge

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1 hr 26 min
February 08, 2020 Resilience—Keeping the Spring In Your Step (Edith Reitsema)
What is resilience? Why is everybody on about it today? In our search for hope and meaning, we will also look at the art of G.F.Watts.

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43 min
February 01, 2020 Intelligent Design for Idiots (Barry Seagren)
An introduction to the background and the claims of the Intelligent Design movement.

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1 hr 32 min
January 18, 2020 Exploring ‘Subject-Object Relational Reality’ (Jim Paul)
This lecture will explore the relationship of subjective experience to the objective world around us. Jim will be using C.S. Lewis’ argument in the first chapter of “The Abolition of Man” to develop the idea that reality is found in the relationship between subject and object.
Jim Paul, L’Abri Worker

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1 hr 19 min
November 24, 2019 Responsing in Faith to a Hostile World (Stuart Parker)
Whereas Christianity once shaped the values of our culture, the historical Christian view on matters of personal choice (such as sexual morality and the value of human life) is now increasingly seen as fundamentalist and immoral. Do we look to this future with fear or excitement? Should Christians react with compromise, withdrawal, silence or assertiveness? We will review these options and look at how biblical characters responded to opposition and how we can respond to the challenge.

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1 hr 27 min
November 23, 2019 The Companionship of Shostakovich: Why The Music Of An Atheist Member Of The Soviet Union’s Communist Party Should Matter To A Christian Believer (Mark Meynell)
Dmitri Shostakovich is arguably the greatest composer of the 20th century. There is not a musical form he couldn’t write for. But his brilliance made him an easy target in Stalin’s Soviet Union, especially when ruled by a dictator who fancied himself an aesthete. His lifelong battle was to preserve his artistic integrity at the same time as avoiding the gulag and execution. Amid intolerable suffering, he somehow composed some of the most powerful and sublime comforts for others who suffer.

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1 hr 41 min
November 15, 2019 The Darkness Is As Light To You: An Evening With Stephen King (Andy Patton)
Stephen King has written 61 novels, has won numerous literary awards, has had more film adaptations made of his work than any living author, and has been called the “Master of Horror”.
If a task of the Christian is to seek and treasure God’s goodness, truth, and beauty wherever they are found, how should Christians interact with King’s work and with the horror genre in general? This lecture will explore King’s oeuvre, his life, and why our culture is so fascinated with the products of his strange and delightful imagination.

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1 hr 34 min
November 15, 2019 Stalking Joy: Three Priests In Search Of God (Andrew Jones)
This lecture will explore the nature of faith in Christ as expressed by three clergy in three recent TV shows, Rev, Broken and Fleabag. We’ll reflect on doubt, brokenness and the erotic as experiences in which we might know God.

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1 hr 27 min
October 26, 2019 Is God A Populist? Identity, Politics And The Christian (Henk Reitsema)
Populism has brought a special kind of confusion for Christians, especially as Christian values can be part of the rhetoric of populism. Which loyalties, if any, should Christians feel in all of this? How should Christians respond to their cultural moment while remaining rooted in the reality of their identities in God?
Henk Reitsema, L’Abri Worker – The Netherlands

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1 hr 32 min
October 19, 2019 Power and the Kingdom of God: A Study of Matthew 1-4 (Marsh Moyle)
What is power and why is it important? Is there such a thing as good power? We will look at the accounts in the first section of Matthew's Gospel for examples of power and subversion to see what Jesus makes of it all.
See the slides here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UFAXQq3tfddosYGkBmOHil7jZshpXo5Q

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1 hr 23 min

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