Covenantal Discipleship - Part Five
Something Sacred
In this final episode of our covenant series we are wrapping up in Revelation, and taking a look at the encouragment found there to hold fast to our witness while also talking about what could change if the church took her role of living in covenant seriously. As new covenant people, we are still very much at risk to fall into idolatry and waywardness. This is where John’s encouragement in Revelation offers the covenant community hope. In our own strength we will always fall short, but in Christ we are made whole. Being unified with Christ requires covenantal obedience that is marked...
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Covenantal Discipleship - Part Four
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Today we're looking at new covenant, first through the lens of the major prophets, and then into the New Testament. What sets the new covenant apart from the old is Christ as the sacrifice, becoming the perfect mediator between us and God, and as such, ushering in the Spirit of God to help empower a covenant people to live a transformed life, which begins in the heart. The overarching theme througout this episode, is our own responsbility to be an active participant in covenant, which requires examining our own hearts and getting serious about rooting out anything that is in direct...
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Covenantal Discipleship - Part Three
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In this episode we are looking at what scholars call the pinnacle of the Old Testament. The Sinai Covenant (Mosaic Covenant). This event is the moment when everything in regards to Old Testament Covenant is clarified and consecrated. The whole purpose of this specific covenant is “the establishment of a special nation through whom Yahweh can make himself known to all the families of the earth.” Set apart equals consecrated, and we're going to chat about what it means for us to live consecrated. Because when we grasp the importance of consecration for us as new covenant believers, it helps...
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Covenantal Discipleship - Part Two
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Today we are jumping right back into our series on covenant. Although covenant is often understood to be a list of laws and rules, which are often seen as legalistic and binding, the covenant between God and humanity differs. Through close analysis of biblical covenants, we will see that the heart of divine covenant has always been about walking in relationship with God, knowing His character, and choosing to step into our role as His ambassadors to properly reflect His character to the ends of the earth. Sources used for this series: *Alexander,...
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Covenantal Discipleship - Part One
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In this series we are setting out to understand Divine covenant - from Genesis to Revelation. We will encounter an unchanging God, who from the very beginning desired relationship with His created family, and proved time and time again that He would pursue them, fight for them and remain faithful to covenant - even the consequences of broken covenant - for the sake of redeeming all who were lost. My hope is - that by the end of this series, we will walk away with a fresh understanding of what it means to walk as new covenant people, we would have a new love for getting into scripture and our...
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Re-anchoring Biblical Authority
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Today we are camping out on the topic of Authority with guest Dr. Susan Wendel! Specifically we are chatting about what biblical authority actually is, what the authority of scripture means and why there seems to be a lack of regard for authority today. Dr Wendel is the Associate Professor of New Testament at Horizon College and Seminary in Saskatoon Saskatchewan and is bursting with biblical soundness and wisdom. I know you will find so much richness in this episode! Interested in learning more about Horizon?! check them out here: https://www.horizon.edu
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Obedience over Comfort
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Today we're chatting with writer and speaker Tanika Hutchinson on the importance of living out our calling to bear witness to the testimony of Jesus. We're talking all things evangilism and what that looks like. Its a conversation that is so timely and will leave you feeling spured on to step into this commision and amazing privilage we have as followers of Jesus to go and tell others about His goodness. Show links: Register at the link above to sign up for their free evangilist training!
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Protection and Provision
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We’re going deep today and taking a look at a major theme that's found in the book of Revelation. This is one of the overarching messages that Revelation holds for us and it's important to understand because it speaks to what our role is as faithful followers of Jesus. And it holds very real encouragement for us in the midst of earthly struggle, because it it highlights Gods continual protection and provision over us as we remain faithful to hold fast to our witness. There is so much HOPE and promise tucked in the pages of this book. Join me as we dive in.
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Holding Fast to Faith
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Today we are talking about grief and suffering and holding fast to faith in the heartache of living in a fallen world. Join me and guest Rayel Bausenhaus as we talk about her new book, God Give Me Faith; and other prayers you don't want to pray. “God give me faith,” is a prayer that usually means you’ll endure uncomfortable and terrifying situations that push every boundary you have. It’s a prayer she prayed as, over six months, one of her parents lost their ability to remember and the other, their ability to breathe. God Give Me Faith is about that prayer and what...
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Good Plans
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We are taking a look at one of the most misused verses in scripture and bringing it to light in a much deeper way than how it is used and applied today. The well known Jeremiah 29:11, read through the eyes of individualistic western readers, has become one that is understood to imply that God's good plans for us include a prosperous life with no hardship as long as we are seeking Him with all our heart; that our breakthrough is just around the corner, and any hardship that we are experiencing is not from God By taking into consideration both the literary and historical context of...
info_outlineToday we are jumping right back into our series on covenant.
Although covenant is often understood to be a list of laws and rules, which are often seen as legalistic and binding, the covenant between God and humanity differs. Through close analysis of biblical covenants, we will see that the heart of divine covenant has always been about walking in relationship with God, knowing His character, and choosing to step into our role as His ambassadors to properly reflect His character to the ends of the earth.
Sources used for this series:
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InterVarsity Press, 2003.
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Christian University (2023). Accessed April 9, 2024 https://www.arizonachristian.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CRC-Release-2nd-2023-Final.pdf
*Beale, G. K. We Become What We Worship : A Biblical Theology of Idolatry. IVP Academic,
2008.
*Block, Daniel I. Covenant: The Framework of God’s Grand Plan of Redemption. Baker
Academic, 2021.
*Boda, Mark J, and J. G McConville. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets. IVP Academic, 2012
*Brueggemann, Walter, and Patrick D Miller. The Covenanted Self : Explorations in Law and
Covenant. Fortress Press, Minneapolis,1999.
*Chisholm, Robert B., Jr. Handbook on the Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel,
Daniel, Minor Prophets. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.
*Crossway ESV Journaling Bible, Crossway. Wheaton, Illinois, 2016.
*Crowe, Brandon D.. The Path of Faith : A Biblical Theology of Covenant and Law,
InterVarsity Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.dtl.idm.oclc.org/lib/dtl/detail.action?docID=6466969
*Dearman, J. Andrew. Jeremiah and Lamentations : The NIV Application Commentary, from
Biblical Text... To Contemporary Life. Zondervan, 2002.
*Duguid, Iain M. Ezekiel: The NIV Application Commentary, from Biblical Text... To
Contemporary Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1999.
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and enlarged edition., Paternoster, 2013.
*Durham, John I. Exodus. Word Books, 1987.
*Enns, Peter. Exodus : NIV Application Commentary : From Biblical Text ... To Contemporary
Life. Zondervan Publishing House, 2000.
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*Gentry, Peter John, and Stephen J Wellum. Kingdom through Covenant : A Biblical-Theological
Understanding of the Covenants. Crossway, 2012.
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Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.
*Hays, Christopher B.. Hidden Riches : A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2014.
*Jeon, Jeong Koo, and Steve Baugh. Biblical Theology : Covenants and the Kingdom of God in
Redemptive History. Wipf and Stock, 2017.
*Klawans, Jonathan. "Moral and ritual purity." The historical Jesus in context (2006): 266-284.
*Koester, Craig R. Revelation and the End of All Things.Second Edition. Grand
Rapids:Eerdmans, 2018.
*Lane, Daniel C. “The Meaning and Use of the Old Testament Term for ‘Covenant’ (berit): with
Some Implications for Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology.” PhD diss, Trinity International University, 2000.
*Lintz Richard, Identity and Idolatry. Downers Grove Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2015.
*Lopez, René. "Israelite Covenants in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Covenants." CTS Journal
9 (2004): 97-102.
*Lunde, Jonathan. Following Jesus, the Servant King : A Biblical Theology of Covenantal
Discipleship. Zondervan, 2010.
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Contemporary Life. Zondervan, 1996.
*Metaxas, Eric. Bonhoeffer : Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy : A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third
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*Moshe Weinfeld, “The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East,” JAOS 90 (1970): 185.
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*Walton, John H. Genesis : The NIV Application Commentary : From Biblical Text ... To
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