Foundations with Mandy and Robbo

God often declared certain things to be unclean, and yet, a simple sprinkling of blood or the ashes of a sacrifice could transform the unclean thing into something clean and acceptable. How can that be? That's the focus on Foundations.

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The Apostle Paul taught us to pray without ceasing, a difficult and high calling to be sure. While we might look negatively upon Jewish traditions, they have developed the habit of praying to God in all situations throughout their day, no matter how mundane. It's a curious thought, but something we can learn from.

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Not all customs and traditions are bad, and some of the customs and traditions within Jewish prayer are lovely, rich and full of meaning. That's what we'll begin learning about today on Foundations.

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Our program today looks at some of the characters God used to achieve His purposes, wondering how on earth He could not only use, but actually choose some of these people who did some really dreadful things. How could God choose such people to be His representatives to the world?

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We're learning about judging on a personal basis, 'measure for measure', and today we'll be looking at the situation of Job and his friends and how they misapplied this kind of judging when they observed all the loss and hardships that Job had experienced.

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There are different kinds of judging mentioned in the Bible, in Foundations we're going to look at the issue of judging others, but on a more personal level, at least what this kind of judging should look like.

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Women's Lib has done some good for women, but it's also done a lot of damage. We've been looking at how the Bible views women, specifically Ruth and Rahab, and in this program we'll be spending more time in the New Covenant to see how the early church and Paul's letters considered women.

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In many cultures throughout history, women have fought for their place and not always successfully. In Foundations we're going to look at how the Bible viewed women, in particular we're going to look at the lives of two women, Ruth and Rahab.

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The Western mind often struggles to rightly understand what the Bible is communicating because we don't understand the cultural nuances of the ancient people it was writing about and to. This often means we impose modern Western culture into an ancient Middle Eastern context and it can really mess up our conclusions. This is the conversation we're continuing on Foundations today.

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One of the biggest challenges for the church in the West, is grasping so much of the Middle Eastern ethnic understanding of the Bible and the cultures in which it was written. That's what we'll begin looking at in Foundations today.

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