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February 20, 2017 Episode 058: Devotion in Life with Zach Bolen
What Does Devotion Look Like in Life?
Does a daily devotion look like a 30 minute “quiet time” in the morning or evening? Or does devotion seep out into all the aspects of the day? To talk about devotion in life this week we have the great privilege of chatting with Zach Bolen, lead singer of Citizens & Saints. Not only does he get into how his devotional life works in and through a busy schedule, but also what safeguards he and the band put in place to protect themselves from the negative affects popularity could bring.
Episode Links
Zach Bolen is the frontman for Citizens & Saints.
Their new album is A Mirror Dimly.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio.

Well I’m super pumped to be talking with Zach Bolen today from Citizens & Saints – it’s a band from Seattle who write and record songs for God’s glory, at least that’s what comes across. But anyways, thanks for coming on the show today Zach!

Yeah thanks Isaac, I appreciate it man.

Your latest album, A Mirror Dimly, that came out – that was last year correct?

Yeah, it came out in September of last year.

That’s right. And I got to say, it has been a gift. I was actually just talking with my brother-in-law a little while ago who is a worship pastor from Vancouver and we were saying that A Mirror Dimly is the kind of album where, at least for us, we just want to be able to, you know, if we’re driving somewhere, we just want to listen to good music but at the same time, solid theologically. And at the same time, not just straight congregational, Keith and Kristin Getty kind of sounds. Your album did that, so I’m really pumped about that. Thank you!

That’s great to hear. I mean, that’s definitely one of the values we had. We wanted the record to really just feel like something that people could personally listen to and not necessarily need to be, sort of, this gathered thing. But also, there could be that trade off too, so listening to it in a group and finding comradery and solace – knowing that we’re human and experience lots of things in life like doubt – even just really great moments of faith too. That’s cool to hear that it’s been like that for you.

For sure, yeah exactly. And as you say that, the whole, you know, doubt and things like that, reading through Psalms in my daily reading plan, it’s like, that is what God calls us to be – we have to be open like that, to lament, you know? In Psalm 44 the Sons of Korah even say, “Wake up God!” And I’m like, “Well, God never sleeps!” He just wants us to be real, right? I think that’s really cool.
To our listeners, Zach has graciously allowed me to talk with him for a bit today, just for a short time on what’s it’s like to grow in devotion to the Lord while in the midst of busyness and life, especially in our culture, and especially for Zach as, you know, is a full-time musician.
So, anyways, first of all Zach, a lot of people have maybe heard of Citizens & Saints but they don’t know who you are. Why don’t you just tell us a little bit about yourself, as well as when you realized or sensed Jesus calling you to Himself.

Yeah. I live in Seattle, WA right now with my wife and four kids with two boys and two girls, but my life obviously started a little bit before all that too. I grew up on the East Coast of the States, in the State of Maryland. I grew up in a small church there and I was always around musicians. Different people in my family would sing. It seemed like every holiday there’d be a time where everyone, at least,
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February 13, 2017 Episode 057: Why We Do Communion
What is Communion? Depending on the church you attend, you probably participate in something called “communion” or “The Lord’s Supper” at least once a month (sometimes more). You know, the time when you eat some bread and drink some grape juice. This is one of two of the most recognized sacraments – in other words,…
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February 13, 2017 Episode 057: Why We Do Communion
What is Communion?
Depending on the church you attend, you probably participate in something called “communion” or “The Lord’s Supper” at least once a month (sometimes more). You know, the time when you eat some bread and drink some grape juice. This is one of two of the most recognized sacraments – in other words, ritualistic activities that the church has historically done to affirm internal realities. But, what is communion all about? Why do we eat some bread and drink some juice? We know it has something to do with Jesus on the cross, but what does it mean? This standalone episode features a recent message Dr. John Neufeld prepared for his series called Celebrating Our Freedom in Christ. Listen as He explains the purpose and aim of communion.
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Dr. John Neufeld is the Bible Teacher at Back to the Bible Canada.

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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio.

One writer has said that the passage we are about to read is like a precious diamond dropped on a muddy road. Let me explain. Up till now, we have seen that the Corinthian church is aptly described as a muddy road. There were divisions in the church in Corinth, both divisions around leadership and divisions between the rich and the poor. Some of the people in that church were more fascinated with Greek philosophical speculation than with the truth of Christ. Some were sexually immoral. Some believers, because of their greed, were suing other believers, and had disgraced the message of Christ before their watching city. Some through cavalier attitudes about Christian freedom, were hindering weaker believers in their progress in faith. The love feasts in the church had degenerated into drunkenness. The corporate life of the church in Corinth was indeed a muddy road, and in the middle of this Paul drops a diamond. There is an invitation. Christ has invited this muddy, dirty, bruised ragged, fractious, misguided people to come to his table of peace and love and reconciliation.
Isn’t that how it is with us? Whether you attend a church which celebrates communion only occasionally or whether you attend a church that never enters into worship without the Lord’s Table, in any case, this passage of scripture is for all of us.
How often have you felt muddy, dirty and sin soaked – unacceptable to be either at church or invited to the Lord’s Table. But then, isn’t that what the Lord’s Table actually intended? It is God’s diamond, his rich grace dropped right into our lives. It is an ancient tradition that began 2000 years ago that finally brings peace and love where it is needed most. Into messy lives. You with God’s people over 2000 years are invited to the same table the table of our Lord.
I am reading one of the truly beautiful passages from the Bible. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26. “For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
Today, I want us to see that how The Lord’s Table, when rightly understood brings unity, set’s our hearts on fire, and opens our eyes to see what Christian faith truly means. I want to explain that. From this passage I want us to see how the Lord’s Table first invites us to look back and then to look forward. Let’s start with looking back.
We need to remember,
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February 06, 2017 Episode 056: Human Sexuality (Q and A pt. 2)
Christian Answers on LGBTQ Questions (pt. 2) “My homosexual friend invited me to their wedding. What do I do?” “How do I befriend homosexuals without getting into arguments?” “Should I watch entertainment with homosexual behaviour?” Dozens of questions fill our minds when it comes to how the church behaves around the LGBTQ community. Without a…
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February 06, 2017 Episode 056: Human Sexuality (Q and A pt. 2)
Christian Answers on LGBTQ Questions (pt. 2)
“My homosexual friend invited me to their wedding. What do I do?” “How do I befriend homosexuals without getting into arguments?” “Should I watch entertainment with homosexual behaviour?” Dozens of questions fill our minds when it comes to how the church behaves around the LGBTQ community. Without a doubt, showing genuine love is the most important, but there are definitely some practical questions that stump us. This is our second week in airing a 2-part Q&A series called “Human Sexuality.” At a recent event we held (Sexual Identity) we had a live panel that gave Christian answers on LGBTQ questions from the audience. The panel consisted of a popular Bible teacher, a Christian apologist, and a pastor. The answers are biblical and genuine and will be sure to help you in your mind.
Episode Links
Want to watch the entire event? Check it out here!
Dr. John Neufeld is the Bible Teacher at Back to the Bible Canada.
Also, Steve Kim (the Christian Apologist) works at Apologetics Canada.
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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.
Introduction
A Friend or Family Member With Sex-Change

Next question: I have a daughter who has gone through a sex change. How do I relate to her when she says, “I will know that you love me if you call me by ‘he,’ ‘him’ or ‘son’? Should I? It feels wrong. What would that mean if I do? That I accept it?
That’s a tough one. Sometimes these scenarios go through my mind because I have two children. I have a three-year-old daughter and an eleven-month-old, this beast of a son who at seven months was 25 pounds. I was like, “I can’t carry you around for much longer! You need to start walking soon!”
But what if my daughter goes through that and she says, “Call me ‘he’ and call me some other name like ‘Michael.’” What do I do? Call it a compromise, but I would use the pronoun or the name that she wants to be called by. If I don’t do it, you know, if this relationship is going to break, then I will use that pronoun in the interest of maintaining this relationship. Because, if there is no relationship, how am I going to share Jesus with her, right?
There is this phrase in Asia when it comes to martial arts and sword fighting and things like that. This phrase goes: you give the flesh and take the bone. So if somebody is trying to stab you, you give the flesh (let that person stab you in a non-critical way), but you take the bone of that person (you strike them in a critical manner). That’s sort of where I fall on this. Yes, I will use that name. I will use the pronouns and the names in the interest of maintaining the relationship.

Some people would say that’s condoning it. So if you say you are going to do that to maintain that relationship, where does it end? Where does the barrier end in regards to that?
I guess it depends. It’s a case-by-case sort of thing. But at some point I will probably draw the line. But in terms of using the name and the pronouns, I would still stick with that.
It depends, at some point if I am actually asked to really, seriously participate in what she’s doing, then I probably will have to say no. And if she thinks because of that that I don’t love her, it is- the ownness isn’t on me, right? It is how she feels about it and I can’t change that.
Just really quick. I think I will do anything and everything to help a person come to Christ short of sin. The moment that it leads to sin. So if I’m encouraging that person in their sin, then of course not! And that may seem a bit radical, but just about anything short of sin. Like,
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January 30, 2017 Episode 055: Human Sexuality (Q and A pt. 1)
Christian Answers on LGBTQ Questions “Does David and Jonathan’s relationship condone homosexuality?” “Can a homosexual serve in my church?” “Should I allow my son/daughter/friend to stay overnight in my house with their partner?” Dozens of questions fill our minds when it comes to how the church behaves around the LGBTQ community. Without a doubt, showing…
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January 30, 2017 Episode 055: Human Sexuality (Q and A pt. 1)
Christian Answers on LGBTQ Questions
“Does David and Jonathan’s relationship condone homosexuality?” “Can a homosexual serve in my church?” “Should I allow my son/daughter/friend to stay overnight in my house with their partner?” Dozens of questions fill our minds when it comes to how the church behaves around the LGBTQ community. Without a doubt, showing genuine love is the most important, but there are definitely some practical questions that stump us. For two weeks we’ll be airing a 2-part Q&A series called “Human Sexuality.” At a recent event we held (Sexual Identity) we had a live panel that gave Christian answers on LGBTQ questions from the audience. The panel consisted of a popular Bible teacher, a Christian apologist, and a pastor. The answers are biblical and genuine and will be sure to help you in your mind.
Episode Links
Want to watch the entire event? Check it out here!
Dr. John Neufeld is the Bible Teacher at Back to the Bible Canada.
Also, Steve Kim (the Christian Apologist) works at Apologetics Canada.
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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.
Introduction
What About David and Jonathan in the Bible?
Okay so here’s the first one: Usually homosexuals justify themselves in the Bible by quoting the David and Jonathan relationship. They had affection for each other as lovers, apparently. What can you say about that?
You know, David says to Jonathan, “Your love was better to me than the love of women,” and that’s usually the passage that is quoted.
Let me tell you a little story around this that might help – and it might help all of us. Years ago my wife and I had a wonderful Christian brother stay at our home who had survived the killing fields of Rwanda. We had this delightful time together and I must say that this dear brother and I who had, I mean, he had escaped death on numerous occasions, I mean, we really had a bromance as they say these days. And so when we were done and he was going to fly back home, my wife said, “You know, I just got to take a picture of you two men standing together,” so she took a picture outside the house. And he reached over and took my hand – holding hands. Because, where he comes from that’s a very acceptable thing for men to do. You’d be shocked to think that it might be a sexual sign. When he took my hand I froze and became a statue. And, you know, he was wise enough cross-culturally and thought, “Oops, I crossed the line there.” So, you know, we kind of let that one go and said, “How ‘bout those BC lions?” that kind of thing.
Here’s what I want to say by that, however. In a sexualized culture where everything is sexualized, where ads on television are constantly sexualized, where people are taught from childhood to think in sexual terms, where they see sexual images by the thousands and the hundreds of thousands before they even reach puberty, it’s almost impossible for us to believe that genuine male love between one man and another man can be expressed in terms of exactly that – that men could actually express love that’s not sexualized. But indeed there are cultures that don’t do what we do. That’s my response.
And I would just quickly add to that. My experience has been the reversal of that, because I came here when I was fourteen with my family, and my culture shock was the other way. We had this PE class one time and we ran or whatever, and as I started slowing down there was this friend of mine, so I put my hand on his shoulder and he immediately turned around and said “Please don’t do that.” So I was like, “Oh, okay, we can’t do that,” Then my parents,
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January 23, 2017 Episode 054: The Medieval Period (Church History Pt.2)
Church History in the Medieval Period We’re joined again this week by Dr. Michael Haykin from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to finish our mini 2-week series on the early church in the Patristic Era and the Medieval Period. This week we’ll be digging into church history in the Medieval period. This, as Dr. Haykin…
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January 23, 2017 Episode 054: The Medieval Period (Church History Pt.2)
Church History in the Medieval Period
We’re joined again this week by Dr. Michael Haykin from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to finish our mini 2-week series on the early church in the Patristic Era and the Medieval Period. This week we’ll be digging into church history in the Medieval period. This, as Dr. Haykin will explain, isn’t necessarily a “glorious” period, as things like Bible illiteracy, the rise of Islam, and political power in the church abound. Dr. Michael Haykin will join us again in a few months to finish our church history lesson with one more mini 2-week series focusing on the Reformation and the Modern Era.
Episode Links
Check out The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (where Dr. Michael Haykin teaches).

Also, check out The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies (where Dr. Haykin serves as director).
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*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.
Introduction

Well it’s a privilege once again to be talking with Dr. Michael Haykin – professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – on the history of the church – that’s what we’re digging into. Michael has committed to bringing us through year 100 AD to the present day. Obviously we know that he’s merely going to be scratching the surface because there’s so much there. But thanks for being here with us Michael.
My pleasure. Great to be with you.

If you want to hear more about who Michael is personally and hear how church history became a subject of importance to him, I’d encourage you to go back one week and listen in to that specific part.
But anyways, let’s get in here. Dr. Haykin is going to be sharing with us about the Medieval world and its challenges.
Church History in the Medieval Period
Yes, as I was talking last week when we were together – we were looking at Augustine as, you know, a great gift of the early church, his thoughts, and the doctrine of the trinity. Augustine died in the year 430 AD and when he was dying a group known as the Vandals were at the city gates, beseeching the city. He died in North Africa, modern Tunisia – it’s where he would’ve lived and died. And the Vandals came from Denmark, what is now modern Denmark – and you think, like, “wait a minute – these guys are miles away, how did they end up in North Africa?” Well in the early 400s (406-407 AD) there had been a very severe winter in which the Roman frontier in Europe, which was the Rhine river, froze. Romans used the Rhine as a frontier because it had never frozen. What they didn’t know was that Europe was entering into a mini ice age. The winter of 647 AD was sufficiently cold enough for the Rhine to freeze, and around 200,000 Germanic warriors from various tribes (Burgundians, Angles, Franks, Vandals, Goths, etc.) crossed. And they were never driven out, and eventually brought their families.
And this is the beginning of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West.
In the East it continues for another 1000 years, but in the West it collapsed within the 5th Century, and by the end of the 5th Century you’re living in a very different world, in Western Europe. It’s now a world dominated by various barbarian kingdoms – like Visigoths in Spain, the Franks and Burgundians in what is now France, the Ostogoths and the Lombard’s in Italy, and the Vandals in North Africa. And with the collapse of Roman military power there was a collapse of a variety of other thing...
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January 16, 2017 Episode 053: The Patristic Era (Church History Pt.1)
Early Church History When it comes to engaging the present culture with the gospel, one of the most important things we can do is engage the past culture of the church – early church history. In short, there is an immense benefit in studying church history. Church history is our family tree, so to speak, and…
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