Faith (479)
  1. In this episode, we learn about the Holy Spirit and the Divine Service from Dr. John Kleinig. In particular, we discuss how Christ gives the Spirit to the church through his word, how Christ institutes the divine service and empowers it with God’s Spirit, and how the church receives the Holy Spirit by faith in God’s word as it is proclaimed and enacted in the divine service. The conversation revolves around the central question: How then can we be sure that the Spirit is at work in our worship?
  2. The ethos of the church’s worship is found in poor, needy, and desperate sinners finding solace and relief in the God of their salvation.
  3. Christmas is not for remembering, thinking, pondering, trying to make sure you are really celebrating it properly, or for wondering whether you truly have faith.
  4. To know the cure is not to become immune to sorrow.
  5. If Psalms 1 and 2 reveal the Christ who reigns, Psalms 3 and 4 reveal the Christ who remains.
  6. The acrostic psalms do not hold because of their perfect structure. Nor do our lives.
  7. When faith seeks understanding—when belief is grounded in revelation and open to the light of reason—truth can travel.
  8. Faith takes God at his word and holds his promise to be true for me because I know God would not lie to me.
  9. Fideistic Christianity may look bold, but it is fragile.
  10. David and Adam discuss religious apathy and the excuses people give for avoiding church.
  11. David and Adam begin a conversation on what to think and do about the religiously unaffiliated--those who claim to be spiritual but not religious and/or check the "none" box on religious surveys.
  12. David and Adam address the claim that Richard Dawkins and other skeptics have made, asserting that Jesus may not have existed and, even if he did, the historical evidence is unreliable.
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