Morality and Relativism

What to Expect: 1) Game: Junior Bible Quiz 2) Stats about bible reading in America 3) What do the numbers mean? Resources: State of the Bible: USA 2021 (Survey) Bible Project (site) Got Questions? (site) Music: Hiraeth by Scott Buckley

What to Expect: 1) What is Relativism? 2) Morality: Relative or Absolute? 3) How Relativism influences biblical interpretation Related Bible Verses: Isaiah 40:8, John 14:6, 2 Timothy 3:16,  Resources: Truth: Absolute or Relative? (article) Is moral relativism livable? (video) Tom Holland & AC Grayling • History: Did Christianity give us our human values? (Video) Music: The Reckoning by AERØHEAD Snowfall by Scott Buckley

What to Expect: 1) A really brief history of cancel culture 2) What is cancel culture? 3) The implications of cancel culture Explore the gospel in the Bible: Isaiah 43:25, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:23, Romans 8:1, Colossians 2:13-14, Hebrews 8:12 Music: Intro - The Reckoning by AERØHEAD Other - Fragments by AERØHEAD Resources: Tim Keller on Today’s Culture (podcast) Amish Forgive School Shooter, Struggle with Grief (article)

What to Expect: 1) A really brief history of Charles Finney and the anxious bench 2) Funny church things: head bowed and eyes closed, altar calls 3) What the Sinner's Prayer gets right 4) What counts as conversion? Explore more in the Bible: Matthew 6:5-13, Matthew 15:8-9, James 2:14-26, 1 John 2:3-5 Music:  Intro - The Reckoning by AERØHEAD Other - Signal to Noise by Scott Buckley Resources: What is the Sinner's Prayer? (article) Evangelism, False Conversion, and the Sinner's Prayer (video) Charles Finney: Father of American revivalism (article)

What to Expect: 1) Salvation is... 2) Scaring the hell out of you 3) A personal story of anxiety 4) What is salvation all about? Music: Rain and Tears by Neutrin05 The Reckoning by AERØHEAD Related Bible Verses: John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Ephesians 2:1-9, Philippians 4:4-9, Revelation 21 Resources: Heaven and Earth (video) The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (book) The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler (book)

What to expect: 1) Why did God allow sin? How does Satan fit into the story? 2) Reconstruction: perfectionism and self-righteousness 3) What does the "I'm a good person" theology say? Music:  Lights Of Elysium by AERØHEAD Related Bible Verses: Isaiah 64:6, Mark 10:17-27, Romans 3:10-18, 1 John 3:4-10 Resources:  "Why Did God Allow the Fall?" by James N. Anderson (blog) The Westminster Larger Catechism (1648)  "Two Scariest Lies in Our World Right Now" by Francis Chan (video)

What to Expect: 1) Sin is... 2) Confessions 3) The fallout from sin Explore Sin in the Bible: Genesis 3, Psalm 51:5, Matthew 15:18-19, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:12-15, Romans 7:7-25, Ephesians 2:1-3, Titus 3:3 Resources: Sin - The Bible Project (video) What is Wrong with the World? by N.T. Wright (video) The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler - Chapter 6: Fall (book) Did Death Occur Before the Fall? (blog) Music: Signal to Noise by Scott Buckley Hiraeth by Scott Buckley

What to expect: 1) Arguments against it 2) Arguments for it 3) Can we have certainty? Music: The Reckoning by AERØHEAD Resources: The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel (book) John Lennox - Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection? (Youtube) Voddie Baucham - Why I believe in the Resurrection (Youtube) A Quick Case of Jesus' Resurrection (blog) Leave us a comment or question on our podcast site! 

What to expect:  1) Memories of Easter: Easter egg hunts, Easter outfits, special church services, etc.  2) Our struggles with the Resurrection story 3) Why it matters to Christianity Resources:  Voddie Baucham Sermon - The Rescuer (Youtube Start at 35:20) Unbelievable Podcast - Andy Stanley vs Jeff Durbin - Unhitching Christianity from the Old Testament? (Youtube and podcast) Gospel Coalition blog - Don’t Just ‘Prove’ The Resurrection. Talk About Why It Matters. (blog) The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller (book) Music: The Reckoning by AERØHEAD

So much to cover, so little time: defining deconstruction, personal stories, some stats, and the good / bad conversation. Music: Fragments by AERØHEAD