A special reading.

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A special reading for the Advent Season.

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A special reading for the Advent Season.

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In this episode, David Fry and Johnathan Arnold discuss resources for understanding the Christian calendar and preparing for Christmas during the Advent season. For links to resources, see "Q&A on Advent and the Christian Year." See also "Understanding Advent and the Liturgical Calendar" (previous podcast episode).

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In this episode of the Holy Joys Podcast, David Fry and Johnathan Arnold discuss the Advent season and how it fits into the church calendar.

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In this episode, David Fry and Johnathan Arnold discuss practical ways that Christian parents can nurture their children in the faith.

Topics addressed include:

• Praying the Lord's Prayer as a family
• Reciting the Creed at the dinner table
• Singing and memorizing hymns
• Scripture memorization
• Children's Bibles and translations
• Using the Proverbs
• Catechesis
• Deuteronomy 6

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In this episode, David Fry and Johnathan Arnold discuss the salvation of children and the early Methodist practice of infant baptism, nurture, and confirmation.

Topics addressed include:

• Sunday School and Christian nurture movement
• Child salvation
• Infant baptism and communion
• Confirmation
• Christian parenting
• The church's role in forming children

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Johnathan Arnold and David Fry discuss the long tradition of infant baptism in early Methodism, the Reformers, and the church fathers, its scriptural basis, and what it means for Christian parenting.

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In this episode, David Fry and Johnathan Arnold discuss several questions about concerns about a recent article on "The Church’s Authority and Responsibility to Forgive Sins." Topics addressed include:

• The church's authority to forgive sins (John 20:23)
• The office of the keys (Matthew 16; 18)
• Corporate salvation
• The sacraments and excommunication
• Protestant vs. Catholic understandings of the church and its leaders
• Sacerdotalism
• The abuse of church authority
• Abusus non tollit usum ("abuse does not take away use")
• Spirit-filled exercise of authority
• Using authority for building up, not tearing down (2 Cor. 13:10)
• Eldership requirements

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David Fry and Johnathan Arnold discuss the church's role in a believer's salvation and assurance, the church in God's plan of redemption,  various images of the church in Scripture and the Great Tradition (ark, bride, guardian, mother), and the ecclesiology of the church fathers and Reformers.

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