This week, Trent and Josh wade into deep waters with an exploration of what’s wrong with the world. They start with themselves and some lighthearted youthful rebellion, and then explore what the Magnify Church statements of faith say about sin and its starting point. 

Finally, they cover a lot of frequently asked questions about sin, like what it means to be born sinful, what total depravity does and doesn’t mean, and what counts as a good work. While sin is a heavy subject, getting the right diagnosis can make all the difference.

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In this episode, Trent and Josh continue in week 2 of We Believe! This week’s focus is on the doctrine of “Creation”. The men discuss key points such as God as the life source, Ex Nihilo, and the purpose of Creation. They then address a listener's submitted question about the origins of the universe. 

Have questions for the guys? Submit them HERE! They’ll do their best to answer as many questions as they can. 

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The guys kick off the first  in our series on Magnify Church’s statements of faith titled: We Believe! This week, the guys talk about the “inside jokes” we have with family and friends. They talk about how that points to a shared understanding about the world and how that mimics our other beliefs. 

The key question this week is: Why does doctrine matter? 

The guys talk about how central doctrine is to our lives, even when we can’t see. They then talk about different ways beliefs are experienced in daily life, how we get from Scripture to doctrinal statements, and they land the plane with a discussion on the cost of bad ideas. 

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The Men at Magnify exist to help men live their mission well. We believe that God has a mission for our lives. Part of discovering our mission is understanding who God is, the world He has made, and our place in it.

This Spring, the M@M will be covering a series in our statements of faith titled: “We Believe!” through this series, we hope that the men of our church will grow in both understanding and confidence of what we believe, so that we can know and love Christ more. 

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In this final episode of the Making Sense of God series, Josh and Trent talk about sound, rational reasons for belief in God. Drawing from Keller’s book, the guys riff on why the Christian worldview makes sense and holds up under the pressures that life brings.

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In week 6 of the Making Sense of God series, Josh and Trent reflect on their childhood sources of justice and how they played them out. The focus of the conversation hangs on morality - our sense of good and evil - and justice - our way of making wrong things right. They talk about the holes with the secular worldview and how Christianity offers a better vision of justice than anything the world has to offer.

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This time on the podcast, Trent and Josh discuss the source of true identity. They talk about how there are many ways to think about ourselves, about which ways fall short and which are most satisfying. Through it all, they point to how relationship with God satisfies our deepest needs to belong and to stand out.

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In this week’s episode, Trent and Josh chat about their first jobs and the highs and lows that came with it. They then dig into the topic of FREEDOM. They discuss various ways of thinking about freedom, the purpose and limits of freedom, and the ways in which we can think of freedom in light of Christ. 

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In this week’s episode, Trent and Josh think out loud about meaning, happiness, and hope. They discuss Ch. 3, 4, and 8 of Keller’s book “Making Sense of God” as they address secular ideas of achieving these three important things that humans need. In it, they point to cultural stories that people live in that end up in places of futility and despair, and how the life Christ offers is ultimately the only one that satisfies.

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In this week’s episode, Josh and Trent talk about how we come to know things as true. They talk on subjects from epistemology to moral reasoning. Some of the questions addressed are: “Isn’t Christianity and belief in God just myth and based on faith and science and secular thought based on evidence?”, “How do we know things?”, and “How do we come to moral beliefs?” In it, the guys challenge the assumption that we either have faith or we have logical, objective reasoning. 

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Our podcast is here to encourage men to follow Christ with one another and to go the extra mile.

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