RICHARD VANCE GOODWIN – Experiencing God at the Movies

May 26, 2023 By Bob Robinson

Seeing Is Believing: The Revelation of God Through Film. Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: Episode Description Have you ever had a profound experience while watching a movie? When you were so overwhelmed by emotion that you could call it spiritual? In his book Seeing Is Believing: The Revelation of God Through Film (IVP, 2022), theologian Richard Vance Goodwin argues that such experiences may sometimes be encounters with God. He explores how certain... Read more

Are “Intellectual Properties” Ruining Movies?

May 13, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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In an excellent article at Paste, Jacob Oller explains how the management of “intellectual properties” has completely changed the film industry. Pretty consistently, folks go to the movies when they recognize something and stay home when they don’t. Looking at the past 10 years of box office Top 10s, it’s far faster to note which movies aren’t based on a pre-existing property: Frozen, Gravity, Inside Out, Zootopia, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Onward and Tenet. That’s it. Eight movies... Read more

JORDAN RAYNOR – Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful and Productive

May 1, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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Redeeming Your Time Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: Episode Description How are you at managing your time? Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to “manage” your time when you are called to “redeem” your time. In this episode, we discuss with Jordan Raynor some principles to reintegrate our faith with our work (and all of life) so that we become more like Jesus Christ in his time on earth: purposeful,... Read more

Documentary Released on the Asbury University Revival

April 21, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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As reported by Religion News Service, Redeem TV has released a documentary on the Asbury University Revival, which can be viewed for free (Revive TV is funded by donations). Chris Rogers, the film’s producer said, “Being in Wilmer KY at Asbury in the middle of the outpouring was one of the highlights of my life and film making career. I prayed to be involved with revival for years and suddenly I found myself in the middle of a great work... Read more

Do You Believe in Being Platonic?

April 21, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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The Greek philosopher Plato can be blamed for a lot of our misperceptions about the Christian life. From very early on, Christians couldn’t take the teachings of Jesus, Paul, the other apostles, or even the Hebrew Torah, poets, and prophets at face value. They had to add the pagan teachings of Plato on top of it all. Brian Walsh and J. Richard Middleton write, “Foundational to all Platonic thought is its dualism, the distinction between unchanging ideals (‘forms’) and the... Read more

You Are Already a Missionary – In and Through Your Work

April 19, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard people tell me that if they were to be truly obedient to God’s mission, they’d have to pack up and move to some far-away place and serve to spread the gospel there. But even the great missiologist Lesslie Newbigin would differ with that notion. This is what he said: “God’s saving power known and experienced in the life of a redeemed community has to issue in all kinds of witness and service to... Read more

J. RICHARD MIDDLETON Prepares Us for the End Times!

April 17, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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Getting Our Eschatology Right with the New Heaven and New Earth. Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: Episode Description We all are fascinated with the End Times. What is our final destiny? This is eschatology. If we were to take a random survey of Christians in North America, we would hear something like this: Our destiny is heaven. When we die, we go off to our home with Jesus, worshiping God for all... Read more

PAUL COPAN answers “Is the God of the Old Testament a Vindictive Bully?”

March 27, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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The Old Testament God is the same God revealed in the New Testament, showing both God’s divine kindness and God’s divine severity. Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: Episode Description The world’s most outspoken atheist, Richard Dawkins, wrote in his book, The God Delusion, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic... Read more

Is Our Gospel Too Small?

March 22, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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The truncated gospel versus the holistic gospel, Part 1. Many pastors, including myself, were trained in seminary that we had to “preach the gospel.” What was it we were to preach? That Jesus Christ died on the cross to save you from sin and give you the hope of heaven. We were taught that this is the simple gospel, the “good news” for each individual. No matter whatever else we preached, we had to boil it all back down to... Read more

MATTHEW SOERENS on How Listening to Marginalized Christian Voices can Save America

March 5, 2023 By Bob Robinson

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Matthew Soerens and his co-authors say that by learning from the global church and marginalized voices, we can return to our roots of being kingdom-focused – loving our neighbor and giving of ourselves in missional service to the world. Scroll down to read the episode description. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: Episode Description Does the American evangelical church need a wake-up call? Have we become unaware of our blind spots? Our guest on this episode is Matthew Soerens.... Read more