2024 In Review Sci-Fi, IndiePub, & Theology Etc. – Ep.307 – 2024 Book Reviews – Part 2
2024 In Review Sci-Fi, IndiePub, & Theology Etc The final 21 books of 2024 in review. It’s not about how many you read but that you’re reading good books…but also I read to my goal and past it *neener neener neener*! Also, my apologies to anyone whose name I mispronounced. I’m a reader, not a […]
2024 Sci-Fi, IndiePub, & Theology Etc. In Review – Ep.306 – 2024 Book Reviews – Part 1
2024 Sci-Fi, IndiePub, & Theology Etc. In Review We need just a couple more weeks to conclude our Christian ethics book so here are Patrick’s book reviews from 2024. Biography and Indiepub heavy, it was overall a good reading year with just a few bad choices. Have you read any of these or pick any […]
Helping Everyone To Know God & Make Him Known – Ep.283 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Reasons For Hope – Integrating Diverse Arguments In Apologetics – Part 1
Helping Everyone Now the Integrative approach will show how it is helping everyone to know God & make Him known. While not it’s own apologetic approach, our authors show how it can help the four other major approaches answer in different ways when it comes to showing Scripture as truth, combating polytheism, and know that […]
Fideist Issues With Theology & Philosophy – Ep.273 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Reasons Of The Heart – Part 1
Fideist Issues With Theology & Philosophy Discussing now the meta-apologetics of Fidesim we focus on three areas of truth, theology, and philosophy. We see that Fideists do engage in apologetics but have big issues with theology and philosophy in the way they are used in the other methods of apologetics. While you might not agree […]
Biblical Standards For Theology & Philosophy – Ep.265 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Christianity In Conflict – Part 1
Biblical Standards For Theology & Philosophy We start out looking at presuppositional Reformed apologetics meta-apologetics by covering probably two of the biggest areas of disagreement with the previously covered methods. For Reformed apologetics, there is the call for biblical standards for theology and philosophy and for them to enact themselves out in the exercise of […]
Sci-Fi, Theology, & Indies 2023 – Ep.256 – Book Reviews 2023 – Part 2
Sci-Fi, Theology, & Indies 2023 Returning for the final set of book reviews 2023 continues the sci-fi, theology, & indies books that I liked, didn’t like, and the really bad ones to stay away from. And I wanted to tell you about them. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 00:15 – 8 Great Smarts & How Am […]
Theology, Sci-Fi, & Indies 2023 – Ep.255 – Book Reviews 2023 – Part 1
Theology, Sci-Fi, & Indies 2023 Here are the book reviews 2023 that I (Patrick) read and reviewed. Running the whole genre gauntlet for theology, sci-fi, & indies; 2023 was a good reading year. Here are my thoughts. Completely understandable if you skip this episode and the next one. Why 19 books in this episode? Because […]
The State Of The Church Address 2023 – Ep.237 – Interview With A Pastor – Pastor Josh – Part 1
The State Of The Church Address 2023 Pastor Josh aka Iowancap from The Anarchist Bible Study joins the program to give his State Of The Church Address 2023. In it, we build on the back of Ligonier’s 2022 State of Theology. Josh talks about why definitions in the church matter and what it means when […]
The Church’s Purpose In Relationship To God – Ep.218 – Scripture Teaching
The Church’s Purpose In Relationship To God Taking a pause from our John Frame book, the next two weeks will be parts one and two of a message I (Patrick) gave to my church’s high school group. This week I cover the Church’s relationship to God. Covering what is church then what is The Church […]
Patrick’s 2022 Book Reviews – Ep.205 – Read More Books – Part 2
2022 Book Reviews – Part 2 The final reviews of 2022 include some IndiePub, poetry, sci-fi, and theology. Our hope for our ministry is that you pull off those books from your shelf, blow off the dust, and make use of them for God’s glory. You can start at any time and start at any […]
Written Bible – Ep. 129 – Why Should I Believe Christianity? – God Is Not Silent – Part 1
Written Bible A written Bible is expected and should be wanted. Following the logic that just as we are created beings who communicate in a personal way with language to convey information; we would expect the Creator God to also communicate in a personal way. So not only should we understand that something like the […]
Andreas Köstenberger Interview – Ep. 124 – Andreas Köstenberger Interview
He’s Written On Everything! We are beyond delighted and honored to sit down and interview Andreas Köstenberger. Dr. Köstenberger was a co-author in one of our recent chosen books, “Truth In A Culture Of Doubt” which was a response to many of Bart Ehrman’s writings and showing that Christianity provides answers to the critical historians’ […]
Salvation – Ep. 123 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – Christianity As A Worldview – Part 3
Salvation – The Relationship Of God & Man Salvation is the third and final aspect of the Christian worldview to cover to set the stage for why one should believe Christianity. We see that God is able to speak and does speak to His creation. And what He says echoes in eternity. Even while being […]
Original Sin – Ep. 122 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – Christianity As A Worldview – Part 2
The Origin Of Original Sin We go from perfect sinlessness to the original sin. But hey, at least we enter the picture finally! One of the things that all worldviews attempt to answer is, “Why are we here?” and “How are things the way they are?” The Christian worldview speaks to both of those things […]
Who Is God? – Ep. 121 – Why Should I Believe Christianity? – Christianity As A Worldview – Part 1
Who Is God? Who is God? Since Christianity is a worldview, we have to understand what that worldview says and where it comes from. Both questions’ answers are found in the revealed nature of who is God. God has the ability and right to be the source of the revelation of Himself. It is found […]
Ep. 114 – Are Many New Testament Documents Forged? – Part 2
Who Wrote The Bible? Who wrote The Bible? The next two claims of forgery against the New Testament are the allegations of illiterate authors & false attribution to authors. Were the NT writers too illiterate to write their documents & couldn’t find another way to get their ideas down to be disseminated to others? Is […]
Ep. 00 – Introduction
Two Christians who enjoy reading and discussing philosophy do the heavy lifting. Each episode is a discussion on a book or article on philosophy, theology, or similar subject. They discuss and break down the subject material and present it in each episode. You may have wanted to read or had some interest but were intimated by the material. Join Patrick and Tony in their book discussion breaking it down sometimes chapter by chapter.