Thrive: Perspectives

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Thrive: Perspectives episodes

January 28, 2021Thrive Perspectives: DJ Paine's 2020
This episode {and the last one} is a little different. We turn our attention to your hosts {and friends} Matthew Jacoby and DJ Paine. We ask a simple question: "What has been the big lessons for YOUR 2020?" For this episode DJ really opens up his heart and shares three big lessons of his personal 2020.
We hope that this ep is helpful in a few ways:
You just get to know your host DJ Paine a bit more.
You are encouraged and even challenged by what God has taught him in 2020.
You are prompted to take stock of your 2020, what has God been doing in YOUR life?
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1 hr 1 min
December 31, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Gender & Sexuality Laws
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On this episode we have a special guest - self proclaimed "legal nerd" & passionate christian Kier Scott join Matthew Jacoby and DJ Paine to discuss a topic that is being heatedly discussed around Australia.
New laws have been introduced into the state of Victorian Parliament to ban practices that seek to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Change or suppression practices (also known as conversion practices) are any practices directed at an individual that attempt to change or suppress a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Further reading about the "Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020" -
https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/change-or-suppression-conversion-practices-prohibition-bill-2020
https://www.eternitynews.com.au/australia/catholics-and-presbyterians-say-no-other-church-voices-muted-on-vic-conversion-practices-bill/
https://lawandreligionaustralia.blog/2020/12/03/further-information-about-victorian-conversion-practices-bill/#more-8111
https://www.acl.org.au/tags/conversion
1 hr 17 min
December 17, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Judgmental & Bigoted?
In an age of "tolerance" and "acceptance"... if we are expected to believe the mantra that "love is love"... how does a christian who believes that there are absolute truths talk about their beliefs with out offending? is that possible?
In this week leading up to Christmas, when we will be catching up spending time with family and relatives with varrying opions and beliefs... Matthew and DJ discuss this sticky situation.
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1 hr 8 min
December 04, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: What About Other Religions?
This fortnight Matthew and DJ tackle the subject of other religions.
Do all roads lead to the same God?
Is God the same and we are all just calling Him different names?
Aren't we all just after the same thing?
They look at the views of "Inclusivism" - "Exclusivism" - "Plurilism"
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1 hr 13 min
November 19, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Christian History
As we emerge from the previous discussions about immortality and then politics - we felt it was good to have a very simple overview of the christian movement over the last 2000 years. We hope this discussion gives you a tatse to go and do your own reading and study about our shared history... it is amazing!
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1 hr 14 min
November 05, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Politics Part 2
Politics!
This is the second part of Matt Jacoby and DJ Paine's conversation about a biblical worldview of politics.
If you haven't heard the first part, you can listen here.
On this epsisode our men get into examples, definitions and attempt to wrap up this very complicated discussion.
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1 hr 12 min
October 22, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Politics Part 1
Politics!
In this first part of Matt Jacoby and DJ Paine's conversation about a biblical worldview of politics we get into the foundations of how to even approach this issue.
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1 hr 10 min
October 08, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Death & Immortality Part 2
This is the SECOND PART of our two part series with our very first guest: Dr Clay Jones! - check out part one here.
Doctor Clay Jones holds a doctor of ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is a Visiting Scholar for the Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology. Clay has written two books we highly recommend:
Why Does God Allow Evil?: Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions (2017) and
Immortal: How the Fear of Death Drives Us and What We Can Do About It (2020).
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46 min
September 24, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: Death & Immortality Part 1
A very special two part series with our very first guest: Dr Clay Jones!
Doctor Clay Jones holds a doctor of ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is a Visiting Scholar for the Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology. Clay has written two books we highly recommend:
Why Does God Allow Evil?: Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions (2017) and
Immortal: How the Fear of Death Drives Us and What We Can Do About It (2020).
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56 min
September 10, 2020 Thrive Perspectives: God, Suffering & Evil
If God exists then why is there so much suffering and evil in the world? If God is good, all-powerful and all-knowing, why would he allow so many terrible things to happen? In this episode DJ and Matt discuss this question and, in the process, land on some key elements of the biblical worldview.
Matt's further reading list:
"Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil" - by Stackhouse, J. G., Jr.
(2nd ed.; Downers Grove: IVP, 2008).
"God, Freedom, and Evil" by Plantinga, Alvin. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977).
"Evil and the Justice of God" by Wright, N. T. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2006).
DJ's further reading list:
"The Weight of Glory" + "The Problem of Pain" + "Till We Have Faces" - all by C.S. Lewis
"Why Does God Allow Evil? Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions" by Dr Clay Jones
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59 min