Category: <span>Define the Relationship Podcast</span>

We continue our deeper dive into who Jesus is and how his reality impacts us and our faith.

Its been a while since we last recorded a podcast. We have finished up our conversation with Pete Enns’ book How the Bible Actually Works and we are patiently waiting for the opportunity to interview Pete Enns. (Yes, its going to happen but not until late November.) Moving forward, we are going to switch our...

“Christians today, living when and where we are, have no choice but to be intentional in following the Bible and the entire history of Christianity in accepting the sacred responsibility to ask how we can talk about God in a way that is both connected to the tradition and meaningful for today. It is most...

“As one of my seminary professors said, “Reading the New Testament is like reading someone else’s mail.” That might be the most valuable thing I ever learned in seminary. And now I pass it on to you, at a far lower cost.” Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (p. 254) On today’s episode we...

We are back continuing our deep dive into the book How The Bible Actually Works by Pete Enns.  Dive in.

“The early followers of Jesus, though they too engaged the tradition creatively, did so for a very different reason—not because of God’s apparent abandonment, but because of God’s unexpected, counterintuitive presence, namely, in Jesus of Nazareth, a crucified Messiah.” Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works This week we are back to Chapters 10 and...

[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] This week we break from the normal conversation with Pete Enns’s book, How the Bible Actually Works to sit down and chat with Brad Jersak. Brad is Dean of the Theology and Culture program at St. Stephens University in New Brunswick and is well known for his books on listening prayer, and theological...

“And so we are back to our paradox: to maintain any tradition, you need to hold on to some aspects of the past while at the same time thinking creatively about how the past and the present can meet—reimagining the faith, as I’ve been putting it. The perennial wisdom question is, “What remains and what...

We respect these sacred texts best not by taking them as the final word on what God is like, but by accepting them as recording for us genuine experiences of God for the Israelites and trying to understand why they would describe God as they do. God met the ancient Israelites on their terms, in...

And so, as a person of faith who studies the Bible for a living and who also lives (as I mentioned) in the here and now, I have come to terms somewhat with this dilemma of matching the God of the Bible with my faith: The God I read about in the Bible is not...