Forging Ploughshares

By Paul AxtonReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Forging Ploughshares episodes

March 22, 2021 Romans 3 - What is Wrong and How is it Made Right?
Paul Axton, in this lecture on Romans 3, applies the "faith of" Christ to being made right (righteousness) in regard to the incapacity for faithfulness created by the lie of sin.
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17 min
March 20, 2021 Sermon: Who Chooses the 12th Apostle – Who Structures the Church?
Paul Axton Preaches - To find where God is at work requires looking beyond the symbolic/law which determines significance in human values, to the value of the cross which suspends ("as if not") the principles and powers of this world.
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32 min
March 15, 2021 Issues in Romans 1-2
In this third lecture on Romans Paul Axton deals with the difference between the "faith in" and "faith of" Christ and the difference between an objective cognitive faith as found in contractual theology and a holistic faithfulness, truer to the Greek and fitting the faithfulness of Abraham. The issue of available light and the mysterious Gentiles who have been true to the law are also dealt with.
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23 min
March 13, 2021 Sermon: Beating the Cross into a Sword
Paul Axton Preaches - Can you love someone and kill them? Most all Protestants answer, yes, in regard to killing in a just war, but this is a reversal of the teaching of Jesus. The problem is a separation of the life of Christ from his teaching and the resolution is to restore Jesus as model.
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34 min
March 08, 2021 Made Right Rather Than Contractual Righteousness
In this opening discussion of the theme of Romans Matt, Tim, Allan, Austin, and Paul discuss the real world difference of being made right in regard to sin, death, and desire.
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42 min
March 06, 2021 Sermon: By This Cross Conquer in Power or By This Cross Serve in Weakness
Paul Axton Preaches - After Constantine the cross is completely changed in meaning. Instead of a reviled instrument of torture and representative of a nonviolent sacrifice, it is made into an emblem of war and the official sign of Empire. Constantinianism changes Christianity and we must be able to discern this change to understand the New Testament faith.
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29 min
March 01, 2021 A Noncontractual Reading of Romans 1-8
In this second lecture on Romans Paul Axton sets aside the pervasive notions of a contractual understanding which have obscured access to Paul's depiction of the human predicament and its resolution in Christ.
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35 min
February 27, 2021 Sermon: The Spiritual Reading of the Old Testament Through Christ
Paul Axton Preaches - As Christians who believe the peace of Christ is a central teaching of Christianity, how do we read the Old Testament depiction of God as if he is a warrior deity, promoting genocide and killing? The New Testament teaches us how to read these sections of scripture as applying spiritually.
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36 min
February 22, 2021 There is no Death in the Unconscious
In this continuing PBI course discussion on Romans Matt, Tim, Austin and Paul discuss how it is that death is obscured or denied in the salvation systems of this world which deal in death.
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28 min
February 20, 2021 The Psychological Orientation to Death as Sin
In this PBI course discussion Tim, Austin, Matt, and Paul discuss Romans 5 and I Corinthians 15:56 and the universal tendency to transpose sin and death. The universal mistake is definitive of sin and recognizing it is an opening to rightly understanding salvation.
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54 min