In Pursuit Podcast

Pathfinder Church | June 16, 2020
Rain is necessary for life. But humans, throughout time, devoted themselves to spending an awful lot of time chasing after the rain instead of seeking the Rainmaker. Could most of our discontentment exist because we confuse the gifts we have with the One who gave them?

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Pathfinder Church | June 9, 2020
We spend our lives pursuing things that we believe will make us happy, life beautiful, and our existence meaningful—in other words, things that are good. But once we attain them, too often we find that they don’t satisfy like we thought, sometimes they even bring pain. Perhaps we have a problem with knowing what is truly good?

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Pathfinder Church | June 2, 2020
Today Dion and Doug are joined by Rachel as they bravely wade into that most contentious of subjects: politics!
Questions discussed include:
—Was America’s founding a sin?
—I've been struggling with the politics of this pandemic. I have family members who are severely at risk of COVID-19. What should we think of politicians that are trying to open churches and other areas of life too soon, almost to pander to the Christian base. Especially when these decisions will inevitably lead to a second wave.
—If we aren't allowed to come to church, but only in certain numbers and by having limitations placed upon the church in order to worship...are we not experiencing a type of persecution?
—If separation of church and state is so prevalent in our government, as a child of God should we still have separation of church and state?
—Why are so many Christians passionate about abortion, but less interested in the lives that are already being lived?
—How do I know the balance of standing up for what I believe in on social media, opposed to just staying out of the mess?
—Why does God let there be such division politically among faiths and churches and family members?

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Pathfinder Church | May 26, 2020
Jesus describes some people as sheep and others as goats. From a distance, they look the same, but on closer inspection they’re not! On a planet where 2 billion people claim to be Christians, can we assume they’re all legitimate? What about the deep differences in belief between Christians? Or what about the conduct of people who claim to be Christians but don’t seem to be very much like Christ?

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May 12, 2020
History has remembered many good people who did great things for the world, who also had no connection to Jesus. In our lives, we know people who are much the same. Is there no chance for even the best people we know—people who are kind, loving, giving, and would lay down their life for a friend—to find eternal life if they don’t know Jesus?

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May 5, 2020
There are few words as prevalent in the Christian vocabulary as “sin.” Sin, we’ve been told, is a very serious matter, grievous, offensive to God. We’ve also been told that people who don’t acknowledge their sin, can’t be forgiven. But what does “sin” really mean as God defines it? And what is a faithful response when I see sin in me or in the world around me?

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April 28, 2020
This world is a crazy, scary place as our present moment reinforces. Which may cause us to wonder if there’s a God in the first place? And if there is, where is he in this chaos? What’s he doing? Why did he allow this mess in the first place? If this is his world, can he be trusted?

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April 21, 2020
In today’s Pathfinder Unscripted, Dion, Doug, Ellie, and Kacie discuss all your Bible questions!
—What was your own first experience with the Bible?
—I'm currently reading Rob Bell's What Is the Bible and was wondering if you could give me your general take on his explanations? It's fascinating, but wondering about the reliability/validity.
—Is the Bible to be taken completely literally? What are the genres of the Bible?
—What about heaven and hell? Are they literal, such as in Revelation?
—What about people who never even had the chance to know God? It doesn’t seem fair for God to send people to hell just because they never heard about Jesus?
—Is the Bible “take it or leave it”?
—Is the Bible “anti-woman”?
—If the Bible is real, why isn’t everything in it? (e.g. dinosaurs, how mankind was populated from a single family, Adam and Eve)
—What does the Bible teach about cremation, in light of the resurrection?

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April 14, 2020
Thanks for joining us this week for Pathfinder Unscripted, as Doug, Dion, Amy, and Ethan talk about this weekend’s message “What About…Death?” We make fun of Doug’s vision of heaven, and speculate on why modern Christianity struggles with the topic of death, heaven, and hell!

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