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“The Great Commission” (Matthew 28:16-20) is the central driving mission for God’s people. But here is a question to consider: How does this commission that churches have for people relate to the mission that God has for every aspect of life? Before we know what our mission is, we must first know what God’s mission is. 

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Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is the Global Ambassador of the Langham Partnership, strengthening leaders in churches around the world. He was chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group and the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress of 2010. He has written many books including commentaries on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel. Two incredibly influential books have been The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative (IVP Academic) and The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission (Zondervan Academic). 

His latest book is The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission (Baker Academic, 2023). This book was the winner of the Christianity Today 2024 Book Award for “Missions/Global Church” and the Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year for “Mission and Cross-Cultural.”

In this book, Dr. Wright shows us that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. He says,

“People read and preach the Bible in tiny bits and pieces, for its promises or rules or doctrines, and fail to take it as the true story of the universe – past, present, and future – a story in which we are called to participate as coworkers with God.”

You can purchase Christopher JH Wright’s books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

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Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to contact Bob and David. 

We love to talk movies on the Re-integrate Podcast. Why? Because we want to reintegrate our enjoyment of pop culture with our Christian faith.

Our guest on this episode is film critic Josh Larsen. He is co-host of the WBEZ (Chicago’s NPR station) radio show Filmspotting, which is also one of the top movie podcasts. Josh is also the editor and producer for Think Christian, a website and podcast exploring faith and pop culture. He has been writing and speaking about movies professionally since 1994.

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We discuss with Josh Larsen his two books:

Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings (InterVarsity Press, 2017), and

Fear Not!: A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies (Cascade Books, 2023, a part of Fuller Seminary’s Reel Spirituality Monograph series).

Movies we discuss (with time stamps):

From Movies are Prayers:

* The Tree of Life (7:41)

* Avatar (10:31)

* 12 Years a Slave (12:39)

* Toy Story (16:57)

* My Neighbor Totoro (20:31)

From Fear Not:

* Night of the Living Dead (29:20)

* The Wolf Man (33:26)

* Frankenstein (36:49)

* The Creature from the Black Lagoon (37:46)

* Halloween, Friday the 13th, & Nightmare on Elm Street (39:03)

* The Conjuring (41:00)

* The Sixth Sense (46:19)

* The Shining (49:09)

Connect with Josh Larsen:

* Larsen on Film

* Letterboxd

* X (formerly Twitter)

* Facebook

* YouTube Film Reviews

* Filmspotting

* Think Christian

You can purchase Josh Larsen's books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

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Thanks for listening!

Please share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to contact Bob and David. 

We love to talk movies on the Re-integrate Podcast. We want to reintegrate our Christian faith with our engagement with pop culture.

Our guest on this episode is film critic Josh Larsen. He is co-host of WBEZ (Chicago’s NPR station) radio show Filmspotting, which is also one of the top movie podcasts. Josh is also the editor and producer for Think Christian, a website and podcast exploring faith and pop culture. He’s been writing and speaking about movies professionally since 1994.

Josh is the author of two books about which we talk with him:

Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings (InterVarsity Press, 2017), and

Fear Not!: A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies (Cascade Books, 2023, a part of Fuller Seminary’s Reel Spirituality Monograph series).

Movies we discuss (with time stamps):

From Movies are Prayers:

• The Tree of Life (7:41)
• Avatar (10:31)
• 12 Years a Slave (12:39)
• Toy Story (16:57)
• My Neighbor Totoro (20:31)

From Fear Not:

• Night of the Living Dead (29:20)
• The Wolf Man (33:26)
• Frankenstein (36:49)
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon (37:46)
• Haloween, Friday the 13th, & Nightmare on Elm Street (39:03)
• The Conjuring (41:00)
• The Sixth Sense (46:19)
• The Shining (49:09)

Connect with Josh Larsen:

• Larsen on Film
• Letterboxd
• X (formerly Twitter)
• Facebook
• YouTube Film Reviews
• Filmspotting
• Think Christian

You can purchase Josh Larsen's books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

________________

Thanks for listening!

Please share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to contact Bob and David. 

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Episode Description:

Many Christians must deal with some sort of mental or emotional suffering. While life is a good creation from a loving God, in a fallen and broken world, normal human life can be really difficult.

While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down to the mundane choices that we each must make each moment, starting with the daily choice to get out of bed.

Our guest on this episode is Dr. O. Alan Noble, the author of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living (InterVarsity Press, 2023). This is a book in which Alan sits with us and puts words to our experiences of mental or emotional suffering.

Alan is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University.

We are thrilled to welcome Alan Noble back to the podcast. You might want to check out the episode from February 2022, in which Alan discussed his excellent book, You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World.

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You can purchase this book from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

________________

Thanks for listening!

Please share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.

Many Christians must deal with some sort of mental or emotional suffering. While life is a good creation from a loving God, in a fallen and broken world, normal human life can be really difficult.

While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down to the mundane choices that we each must make each moment, starting with the daily choice to get out of bed.

Our guest on this episode is Dr. O. Alan Noble, the author of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living (InterVarsity Press, 2023). This is a book in which Alan sits with us and puts words to our experiences of mental or emotional suffering.

Alan is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University.

We are thrilled to welcome Alan Noble back to the podcast. You might want to check out the episode from February 2022, in which Alan discussed his excellent book, You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World. 

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You can purchase this book from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

________________

Thanks for listening!

Please share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.

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What does it mean to be human? We live in an age of many voices trying to shape our understanding of who we are and what we are supposed to do. 

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Carmen Joy Imes (PhD, Wheaton). She is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Biola University and the author of Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters (InterVarsity Press, 2023).

Our identity is rooted in Genesis 1, where humanity is created in God’s image. Imago Dei is our human identity, made to represent God in his very good creation. And what we do in our vocations flows directly from who we are as the Imago Dei.

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You can purchase this book from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

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Thanks for listening!

Please leave a review and share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.

What does it mean to be human? We live in an age of many voices trying to shape our understanding of who we are and what we are supposed to do. 

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Carmen Joy Imes (PhD, Wheaton). She is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Biola University and the author of Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters (InterVarsity Press, 2023).

Our identity is rooted in Genesis 1, where humanity is created in God’s image. Imago Dei is our human identity, made to represent God in his very good creation. And what we do in our vocations flows directly from who we are as the Imago Dei.

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You can purchase this book from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

________________

Thanks for listening!

Please leave a review and share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.

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For many American Christians, the presumptive next big event in redemptive history will be the Rapture. Many believers have been influenced by the fictional stories of the Left Behind novels and movies which depict military conflict in Israel, the Rapture in which all true believers are taken to Heaven, and the great tribulation in which those who are left behind must endure seven years of war and suffering.

In this episode of the podcast, we explore the key theological ideas of a theological system called Dispensationalism, which was the predominant default theology of American Christianity for most of the 20th Century.

We discuss key figures, like John Nelson Darby, James H. Brookes, D.L. Moody, C.I. Scofield, Lewis Sperry Chafer, John Walvoord, Charles Ryrie, Hal Lindsey, and Tim LaHaye, and how a whole pop-dispensational media complex developed that undermined the scholastic movement of the Bible institutes and seminaries.

Daniel G. Hummel, Ph.D., (American History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the author of the new book, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Eerdmans Press, 2023). 

Dan is the Director of The Lumen Center, located at University Square on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Lumin Center is a community of Christian scholars working at the intersection of Christianity and culture. He has held appointments at UW-Madison and Harvard University.

You can purchase this book from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

________________

Thanks for listening!

Please leave a review and share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.

There have been Christians throughout history who God has called to societal activism on behalf of the poor and oppressed. And the power in which they did so was found in their inner faith practices that connected them intimately with God through Christ and His Spirit.

Mae Elise Cannon is the author of Just Spirituality: How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action (IVPress, 2013). As both a historian and a Christian advocate for peace and justice in the Middle East, she explores the direct connection between Christians' personal relationship with God and their outward actions of kindness, mercy, compassion and advocacy. She looks at how several notable Christian historical figures were able to engage in their societal challenges because of their spiritual practices. 

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Here is our interview with Mae Cannon.

Cannon formerly served as the senior director of Advocacy and Outreach for World Vision, as a consultant to the Middle East for child advocacy issues for Compassion International in Jerusalem, as the executive pastor of Hillside Covenant Church in Walnut Creek, California, and as director of development and transformation for extension ministries at Willow Creek Community Church.

She holds an MDiv from North Park Theological Seminary, an MBA from North Park University’s School of Business and Nonprofit Management, and an MA in bioethics from Trinity International University. She received her doctorate in American History with a minor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of California (Davis) focusing on the history of the American Protestant church in Israel and Palestine. 

Mae Cannon is also the author of Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World (with a forward by John Perkins) (IVPress, 2009) and the editor of A Land Full of God: Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land (Cascade Books, 2017).

You can purchase these books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. You can order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

Thanks for listening!

Please leave offer a review and share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson (@Bob_Robinson_re) and David Loughney (@David_Loughney).

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.

What would you say if you were completely honest with yourself and with God?

Jennifer Dukes Lee leads David and Bob (and you!) on a journey of telling truths, some fun and some painful, through her new book, Stuff I’d Only Tell God: A Guided Journal of Courageous Honesty, Obsessive Truth-Telling, and Beautifully Ruthless Self-Discovery (Bethany House, 2023).

With daring questions, provocative lists, and quirky charts and illustrations, this journal is a place to record all the stuff you’d only tell God: ideas, beliefs, secrets, memories, wonderings, and wishes–things that might seem outlandish or outrageous to anyone else but are what make you, you. You’ll find the space and the help you need to unearth the real you, the you that is sometimes buried deep beneath a layer of self-protection.

Jennifer Dukes Lee lives on the fifth-generation Lee family farm in Iowa, where she and her husband are raising crops, pigs, and who she says are “two beautiful humans.” Jennifer is also author of Growing Slow and It's All Under Control. 

Read "A Letter to My Younger Self" by Bob Robinson at Theology of Work Project / The High Calling.

You can purchase Jennifer's books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. You can order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.

Thanks for listening!

Please leave offer a review and share this podcast with your friends. 

Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson (@Bob_Robinson_re) and David Loughney (@David_Loughney).

Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God’s mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.

On Reintegrate’s podcast page, you’ll find more episodes and ways to email us to comment on this podcast.

Music provided by Brian Donahue.