The Image Restoration Podcast

The Image Restoration Podcast

By Emily BroomeReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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  • Is God Good? Featuring the Welchers: Doubt, Part 5 | Episode 13

    NOTES/CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:

    • Next week will be a reflection as well as some final thoughts.

      • Quotes:

      • “The church is a hospital for sinners. We need to proclaim grace for those who are broken in their sin, and holiness for those who are in rebellion.” - Evan
      • “Our life is one of catechesis.” - Evan
      • “We should be more compassionate - that’s never the enemy of good theology. Understanding that Jesus is sacrificial shouldn’t make us colder… We are suspicious of warmth. We are suspicious of compassion. We think that’s the antithesis of being theologically accurate.” - Evan
      • “The reason we [study the word] is because you see very quickly that God’s saints were people who suffered.” - Evan
      • “We need to learn the practice of lament, and we can do this by lamenting with those who are suffering.” - Rachel
      • “The hope of Psalm 88 lies in the fact that the psalmist is crying to God, not just crying to the void.” - Rachel
      • “God suffers with us.” - Rachel
      • “We ourselves don’t have to be in a place of grieving in order to practice grief with others.” - Rachel

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        RESOURCES:

        • Evan’s Instagram: @pastorevan
        • Evan’s Twitter: @evanwelcher
        • Rachel’s Instagram: @racheljwelcher
        • Rache’s Instagram: @racheljwelcher
        • “His Heart Beats” and “Is He Worthy?” by Andrew Peterson
        • “The Path of Suffering” by Elisabeth Elliot
        • “Lament for a Son” by Nicholas Wolterstorff
        • “God In the Dark” by Os Guinness

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          VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:

          • Job
          • Jesus in the garden
          • Psalm 88

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            TERMS USED

            • Catechesis

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              CREDITS & CONTACT:

              Intro/Outro Music: “Lens Flare” by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound

              Middle Music: “I Deserve Better” by Spring Gang and “Choose” by Mindme via Epidemic Sound

              Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban

              Twitter: @helloemilyurban
              Instagram: @helloemilyurban
              Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
              Website: emilyurban.com

              Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!

              (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)

              45 min
            • When Truth and Experience Clash featuring Dr. Paul Maxwell, PhD: Doubt, Part 4 | Episode 12

              NOTES:

              • Facts or feelings? -> Constancy or change?
              • 2500 years ago: Pre-Socratic Movement
                • Before science and philosophy was distinguished - philosophy encompassed scientific things. Reality was addressed in a unitary (cohesive) sense.
                • Parmenides’ claim: “All is water.” Everything is in flux.
                • Pythagoras and Zeno: Unchanging qualities of the universe
                  • Zeno: arrow illustration to disprove motion
                  • The question they haven’t answered, we haven’t answered either: how do you give a single account of all things?
                  • Plato and Aristotle
                    • Plato: emphasized forms
                    • Aristotle: emphasized substance
                    • “All of history is a footnote to Plato.” - Whitehead
                    • Stoicism - a manifestation of Pythagoras. Hedonists - competing school of thought. Facts vs. feelings.
                    • Hegel: the dialectic - the first idea - synthesis - isn’t right or wrong, the second - antithesis - isn’t either, but the third idea is usually the best. A fourth idea then enters and becomes the new antithesis.
                      • No matter how many facts or how many feelings we have, we will never solve the tension.
                      • Giving and account of your faith doesn’t mean you have to disprove atheism.
                      • How can we tell with certainty that God is doing something?
                      • Not all “circular reasoning” is fallacious. The only answer to “How do we know the Bible is the word of God?” is “Because it says so.” Is that self-defeating? No.
                      • When you study good theology, you find that the answers are already there.
                      • You become a good apologist not by studying debate tactics, but by just talking about theology with other people.
                      • The four things you need to establish to find answers and understand doubt: God, the problem of God (mystery, paradox), the act itself of humans interfacing with divine mystery, and the human himself
                        • God: He is simple, not composed of parts, and incomprehensible. Meaning, we can only know Him through analogy because there’s always more beyond our description of Him. Through revelation, we come to find the things we say of Him to be true, but we must understand that at the end of the day, what’s on the other side of the Being we’re describing, is far more vast and mysterious. While mystery is never a threat, it never provides consolation.
                        • The problem of God/nature of mystery: can you distinguish between perceived paradox and true paradox? What are the rules of mystery?
                        • Faith according to Calvin: knowledge, assent, and trust
                        • Kierkegaard would refer to doubt as despair.

                          • Find quotes and more at my website - I hit my character limit. :) emilyurban.com

                          RESOURCES:

                          • “Philosophy & The Mirror of Nature” by Richard Rorty
                          • “God In the Dark” by Os Guinness
                          • “The Trauma of Doctrine: New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God” by Paul Maxwell: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1978704232/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_eUxXFb52ZCTBV
                          • Paul’s membership: https://paulmaxwell.co/register/
                          • Paul’s Instagram: @paulmaxwellco
                          • Paul’s Twitter: @paulcmaxwell


                            • 1 hr 50 min
                          • "A Cloud of Witnesses" featuring Jacob: Doubt, Part 3 | Episode 11
                            NOTES/CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            •Quotes:
                            •"Doubt is a key aspect in faith." - Jacob
                            •"One of the side effects that we will see from the deconstructions of late is that it will force the church to have these conversations, and it will force us to realize that we were never meant to answer these questions in a silo. We were always meant to answer these questions in a community." - Jacob
                            •"We should be celebrating diversity on secondary issues." - Jacob
                            •"Theological conviction plus religious liberty equals denomination." - Sidney Mead
                            •"When I say we need to have Christian unity, Christian humility, and Christian love, I am not saying we need to water down the gospel." -Jacob
                            •"One of the ways that Christians look like the world, more than anything else, in any other secondary or tertiary doctrine, is division. We do a remarkable job of joining the world in making our own tribes." - Emily
                            •"When you have a strong theological conviction on the orthodox issues, then the secondary issues don't drive you to a crisis, they drive you to this freedom and awe at the wonder of who God is." - Jacob
                            •"Be renewed in your mind, but not at the expense of the renewal of your heart." - Jacob
                            •"When I talk to someone who believes something different than me, it's not a threat against my truth." - Jacob
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                            RESOURCES:
                            •Jacob's Instagram: @awriterandtheword
                            •"God in the Dark" by Os Guinness
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                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •Mark 2:1-12
                            •Psalm 86:11
                            •I Corinthians 15:14
                            •Romans 12:2, 9-21
                            •I Corinthians 8
                            •Hebrews 12:1
                            •I Corinthians 15:55-58
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                            TERMS USED:
                            •Calvinism
                            •Arminianism
                            •Doctrines of Grace
                            •Classical Theism
                            •Orthodox truths/Christianity
                            •Nicene Creed
                            •Church catholic
                            •Liturgy
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang and "Choose" by Mindme via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            1 hr 18 min
                          • "Knowing Too Much" Featuring Nick Campbell: Doubt, Part 2 | Episode 10
                            NOTES/CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            •More on art and the reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_the_Protestant_Reformation_and_Counter-Reformation
                            •Quotes:
                            •"I always think of it in terms of the 'what' and the 'how'. The gospel is 'what", and we want to figure out the 'how', and then we try and turn the 'how' into the 'what' and it becomes convoluted."
                            •"Even if members of the early church were uneducated, what they had was enough."
                            •"If you have a conviction that you can back up from scripture thoroughly, without straw men, without simplistic arguments for the other side, then hold to it, and know that scripture's going to guide you right. So you can have disagreements, you can have diversity, but it's not a hill worth dying on."
                            •"I want to be closer to scripture."
                            •"If you're trying to do theology for the sake of, 'I want to know everything,' you're going to fail."
                            •"We study scripture to love God and love our neighbors. We study church history to know where the church came before because we are not an island."
                            •"We can utilize our doubts to move closer to God."
                            •The emphasis of the doctrinally-rich NT isn't as much on doctrine as it is on character.
                            •Encountering a differing view should drive us to be more immersed in scripture.
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                            RESOURCES:
                            •Christ Is The Cure: christisthecure.org
                            •Nick's socials:
                            •Instagram: @christ.is.the.cure
                            •Twitter: @christ_the_cure
                            •Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christthecure
                            •Renaissance and Humanists by Christ Is The Cure: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-143-beyond-luther-pt-1-renaissance-humanism/id1298322980?i=1000494037607
                            •The Holy Spirit by Christ Is the Cure: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-081-theology-series-14-doctrine-of-the-holy-spirit-pt-1/id1298322980?i=1000430324138
                            •Peals of Thunder: @pealsofthunder
                            •"God in the Dark" by Os Guinness
                            •"Predestination Calmly Considered" John Wesley
                            •How Is God Faithful?: http://emilyurban.com/how-is-god-faithful/
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                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •I Corinthians 15:3-5
                            •II Timothy 3
                            •Philippians 2:3-5
                            •I Thessalonians 1:5
                            •Ephesians 2:8-10
                            •I Timothy 4:12
                            •I John 2:22-23
                            •Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15
                            •II Timothy 2:15
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                            TERMS USED:
                            •Decalogue
                            •Penal substitution
                            •Christus Victor
                            •Calvinism
                            •Arminianism
                            •Ecumenical councils
                            •Modalism
                            •Trinitarianism
                            •Tri-theism
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang and "Choose" by Mindme via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            1 hr 11 min
                          • Doubt, Part 1 | Episode 9
                            Join just little ol' me introducing the series! Today, we're going a bit into what I call "the psychology of doubt" - giving shape to a shadowy experience. Please check out all the notes and resources below:
                            NOTES/CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            Defining my terms:
                            •Doubt is the hovering between two thoughts that appear to oppose each other.
                            •Unbelief is the opposite of belief, not doubt. Unbelief is the decided landing on a thought that opposes belief.
                            •Certainty is confidence and assurance without doubt. This certainty can come and go.
                            •Mystery is the realm of things that cannot be known with certainty. This realm includes possibilities people often claim are certain.Doubt can produce:
                            •Anxiety
                            •Irritability
                            •Sense of paranoia
                            •Despair
                            •ShameClaims of doubt:
                            •First, doubt will often present an idea as one that negates a corresponding idea presented by faith.
                            •Second, doubt regarding a certain aspect of our faith, however significant it can seem, does not mean the rest of our faith is brought into question.
                            •Third, just because a belief or a doubt presents a reasonable order of claims doesn't mean that it's true.
                            •Fourth, we often believe new information more readily than the information we've been familiarized to. This is called novelty bias.
                            Please reach out with concerns or thoughts on Instagram or Twitter. :)
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                            RESOURCES:
                            •"God in the Dark" by Os Guinness
                            •Is it a sin to doubt? http://www.evidenceunseen.com/bible-difficulties-2/nt-difficulties/1-2-timothy-titus-philemon-hebrews-james-1-2-peter/jas-16-is-it-a-sin-to-doubt/
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                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •Matthew 7:7
                            •Romans 1:20
                            •Hebrews 11:1
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                            TERMS USED:
                            •Novelty bias
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang and "Choose" by Mindme via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            53 min
                          • Series On Doubt | TEASER
                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Will Remember Everything Forever" by Ave Air via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            10 min
                          • Repentance of Depression? | Episode 8
                            CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            •I am not a licensed counselor or psychologist. If you are experiencing depression, seek help, from God, community, and professionals. My ultimate hope here is that we have as much faith in the spiritual realities of sin, our fallenness, and repentance as we do in a good night's sleep, medication, and therapy. I highly recommend taking advantage of all of them.
                            •More clarification on "repenting for fallenness" - the reality is, even though we don't "commit" depression, it is a symptom of the fall and that fallenness is something that clouds our experience of the full presence of God in this life and will be resolved in glory. Whether God chooses to remove that thorn in the flesh or not, healing brings Him glory, and suffering is a means and opportunity to look more like Him in the world.
                            •Please reach out with concerns or thoughts on Instagram or Twitter. :)
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                            RESOURCES:
                            •@womenofthetable
                            •Blog post on prayer: http://emilyurban.com/the-right-kind-of-prayer/
                            •Don't Underestimate A Cold Beer: http://emilyurban.com/dont-underestimate-a-cold-beer/
                            •"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His invention, not ours." - C.S. Lewis as Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters
                            •Suicide & Salvation Blog Post: http://emilyurban.com/a-hope-that-does-not-perish-suicide-salvation/
                            •BONUS: Personal reflection on life worth living: http://emilyurban.com/moments-like-these/
                            •Guest post from Calvin Nichols on pornography: http://emilyurban.com/streams-of-murderous-water/
                            •Facts on porn's real life effects: https://fightthenewdrug.org/get-the-facts/
                            •Relating to repenting of fallen state/our inherent need of dependence on and redemption by Christ, apart from offensive action: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2017/02/main-point-christian-doctrine-sin-damaged-goods/
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                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •John 17 (High Priestly Prayer)
                            •Psalm 32:3
                            •Romans 3:23
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                            TERMS USED:
                            •Means of grace
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            41 min
                          • The Final Word: Social Media Wrap-Up | Episode 7
                            CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            •Next week will be the passage on youth. :)---------
                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •Matthew 7:21-23
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            26 min
                          • The Bad & The Ugly: Social Media Pt. 2 | Episode 6
                            CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            •Sorry for the terrible audio quality on this one... oops.
                            •Next week, I'll actually be doing a review of this series with some closing thoughts on social media.
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                            RESOURCES:
                            @awriterandtheword
                            @crossway
                            @ligonier
                            @christ.is.the.cure
                            @ccef
                            @desiringgod
                            @mattdavella
                            @thomasfrank
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                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •Proverbs 10:19
                            •Proverbs 17:28
                            •Proverbs 18:2
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang via Epidemic Sound and "Choose" by Mindme
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            57 min
                          • What Is It Good For? Social Media Pt. 1 | Episode 5
                            What is the meaning of life? And why does that matter in how we approach social media?
                            CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
                            •It could be argued that our earthly identities mean nothing if we use Galatians 3:28 as a proof text. However, I would argue that that verse is primarily speaking to the proclivity to divisiveness in the body, saying it is the same gospel and same Lord that unites all of us, and not arguing that we are without individual identity and purpose within that unity, as with the hand and the eye being part of the same body with different functions.
                            •Also worth noting in how we are defined by relationships is the long-standing question of nature vs nurture. Nurture is undoubtedly a massive influence on us, and many argue our parents define us as individuals as we "inherit" their traits or things they teach us.
                            VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
                            •Genesis 2:18
                            •1 Corinthians 13:13
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                            TERMS USED:
                            •Trinity
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                            CREDITS & CONTACT:
                            Intro/Outro Music: "Lens Flare" by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Sound
                            Middle Music: "I Deserve Better" by Spring Gang and "Choose" by MindMe via Epidemic Sound
                            Facebook: facebook.com/helloemilyurban
                            Twitter: @helloemilyurban
                            Instagram: @helloemilyurban
                            Patreon: patreon.com/helloemilyurban
                            Website: emilyurban.com
                            Please send any questions or concerns you may have regarding this episode to me via the contact form on my website, or send me a voice memo via Facebook or Instagram!
                            (Try to keep the voice memo to 20 seconds or less.)
                            50 min

                          About The Image Restoration Podcast

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                          The fallen world and our fallen natures have deteriorated the masterpieces we were created to be. Our colors are diminished. But, we are images of God being restored. If we are images of God, what does it look like to be that from day-to-day?