With this episode I’m joined again by Dr. Trey Martin as we conclude the conversation we began previously on the subject of idolatry and our lives lived before the only true and living God. There are things that can threaten the devotion we have to God, things that can become larger to us than they should

In the first portion of this conversation, Dr. Martin helped us understand some definitions and biblical background surrounding idolatry, and in this second part we will begin to address some questions about how this is worked our in real life and ministry. 

If you’ve not listened to the first portion of this conversation, I encourage you to do so. One of the things that Dr. Martin did in that episode was to help us distinguish between real and metaphorical idols, and to see how metaphorical idols can be as damaging, if not more so, than physical ones. 

But here, now, we begin to turn the conversation away from the theoretical and more to the practical. We’ll pick up the conversation with a question that moves us in that direction.

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Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

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Dr. Trey Martin 

The article that stimulated this conversation: A COUNTERFEIT IDOL: RESIGNATION AND FAITH IN TIMOTHY KELLER’S COUNTERFEIT GODS, by Dr. Trey Martin.

Used by the kind permission from Covenant Theological Seminary. For information about the academic-pastoral journal Presbyterion, go to https://www.covenantseminary.edu/publications.

Timothy Keller, The Reason for God

Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

Sinclair Ferguson, The Whole Christ

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