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Two of the things we talk about most on the podcast pop up in this episode: the importance of deriving what you believe from the text of Scripture itself and the importance of reading the text in its original context. Regarding the first, we’ll explore some of the grammar Paul uses in Col 2:6-7 to talk about God’s role and our role in sanctification. In verse 8 we’ll discuss the stoicheia (“elemental spirits”) and how they might fit into the false teaching Paul was confronting at ...

This week on Canary Cry NewsTalk, the creepiest robot, and an old but important story about your DNA. Plus, even more updates about the Flippy Family Tree, and they listened to Gonz’ request! If you want MORE, Become a Patron, join the exclusive community, and receive Extended Reports of CCNT every week!   AGG for the WEEK OF Aug 8- Aug 14 TECHNOLOGY/AI Screens are killing your eyeballs, and now we know how | Popular Science The Meg's giant shark is an AI-powered marvel DeepMind’s AI can detect over 50 eye diseases as accurately as a doctor - The Verge Cancer Has a New Enemy: A.I. Organisers Of 'NIPS' AI Conference Ask Whether They Should Change Name Cross-Pollinating Technologies Is the Way of the Future Artificial intelligence researchers confront the potential negative impacts of their research - Axios AI is proving fibromyalgia is a real disease — Quartz Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice Cubes - The New York Times   FLIPPY’S FAM! (The gang’s all here!) Robolab Launches ICO to Fund Project Yanu, an AI-powered Robot to Replace Bartenders Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think | TechCrunch This robot will make you a burger for just $6 Bay Area companies lead robots' push into restaurant, service industries - San Francisco Business Times Pizza Hut's New Slice-Serving Robot Waiter Can't Be Topped | Digital Trends Robot-staffed frozen yogurt machines coming to Cincinnati Bizarre dishes-scrubbing robot looks like an Alien facehugger - CNET   CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN 22-year-old crypto millionaire scammed out of 5,500 bitcoins   ROBOTS THAT DO THINGS! A Where's Waldo-Finding Robot Is Here to Steal Your Toddler's Only Job Learning to Work With Robots – Foreign Policy Robot that ties shoes / Boing Boing The new Anki Vector robot is smart enough to just hang out - The Verge The Robot Invasion Of Las Vegas Might Be Horrifying -- Or No Big Deal Electronic robot skin out-senses the real thing Everything You Need To Know About Sophia's Robot Love Ibuki is the 10-year-old robot child that will haunt your dreams | TechCrunch BIG CLAPPER Japanese Clapping Robot » Gadget Flow This robot maintains tender, unnerving eye contact | TechCrunch I'm pretty sure this DIY karaoke robot wants to devour my soul This $600 Shoe-Tying Robot is Proof That the Future is Already Here | Digital Trends Video: UkuRobot, the ukulele-playing robot, can play all of your favourite tunes   BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM We Are Merging With Robots. That’s a Good Thing. - The New York Times Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells Unexpected outcomes sound warning for treatment of genetic diseases using gene editing in embryos Illumina: Lower Sequencing Costs Are Unleashing A Genetics Mega-Trend Team that claimed to have fixed gene mutation in human embryo offers new evidence; others still not convinced Carl Zimmer: ‘We shouldn’t look to our genes for a quick way to make life better’ | Science | The Guardian Effort to Diversify Medical Research Raises Thorny Questions of Race - Scientific American The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life - The New York Times Gene-editing startups ignite the next 'Frankenfood' fight | Reuters Godfather of GMOs Wants Consumers to Be Less Afraid of His Food - Bloomberg   COMMERCIAL DNA TESTING Online genealogy has created an unregulated forensic database for police - Science News - ABC News DNA ancestry tests may look cheap. But your data is the price | Adam Rutherford | Opinion | The Guardian   CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Facebook Has Removed Alex Jones And Infowars Pages From Its Platform Twitter suspends conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for one week Voodoo Doughnut: New Pizzagate-like Conspiracy Theory Spreads Online The Strange Conspiracy Theory Behind Jaden Smith's New Album - Noisey How Donald Trump drained the fun out of conspiracy theories Twitter admits InfoWars violated its rules, but says it will remain on the pla

This episode continues our discussion of the epistle to the Colossians. Colossians 1:21-2:5 touch on some theological themes familiar from previous episodes of the podcast: the relationship of Israel and the Church, the need to keep believing the gospel for salvation, reconciliation, and Paul’s “mystery” teaching. There are also some surprises. ...

"I promise to tell you my story. The whole story."—Greg Coles We are joined by Gregory Coles, author of the elegant, yet challenging and thought-provoking, book Single, Gay, Christian, published by InterVarsity Press. To give an idea of the book, and thus the conversation, I can do no better than quote DA Carson (one biblical scholarship heroes) who wrote this for the blurb: "To say this book is important is a painful understatement. It is the candid, moving, intensely personal story of a gay young man who wants to live his life under the authority of King Jesus and who refuses to accept the comforting answers proffered by different parts of the culture. Superbly written, this book stands athwart the shibboleths of our day and reminds us what submission to King Jesus looks like, what it feels like. This book needs to be thoughtfully read by straight people and by gay people, by unbelievers and by Christians. It is not to be read with a condescending smirk, but with humility."—Don Carson Gregory Coles is co-author of Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" Author Quest, a collection of short stories. He is a PhD student, part-time English instructor at Penn State University, and a worship leader in his church. (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)

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Colossians 1:13-20 contains some of the most important Christological content in the New Testament. It is also home to some of the most misunderstood. For example, does referring to Jesus as “firstborn” suggest that he was created? Does it point to chronology—that Jesus was the first created thing? How is that reconcilable with the “fullness of God” being in Jesus? When verse 20 speaks of “all things, whether on earth or in heaven” being reconciled to God through Jesus does that mean that Satan and fallen angels can be—and ultimately will be- forgiven for their sins and redeemed? This ...

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WHAT IF the apocalyptic prophecies in the Bible were fulfilled in the 1st century? Brian Godawa joins us to discuss his new novel Resistant: Revolt of the Jews, the spiritual forces behind the Jewish rebellion in the 1st century, and why we should be willing to consider other points of view when it comes to eschatology. [...]

We begin our study in the first chapter of Colossians with an eye toward some of Paul’s more important vocabulary. Why does he refer to the Colossian believers as “holy ones” (1:2)? What sort of “knowledge” (1:9) is he talking about?  What do the phrases “inheritance of the holy ones” and “domain of darkness” (1:12-13) mean in the context of Old Testament cosmic geography? Is the kingdom of God to which believers belong only future ...