All Jesus articles – Page 18
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Michael Brown: From heroin-shooting Jewish rock kid to messianic Jesus follower
Dr. Michael Brown grew up in a Jewish family but was shooting heroin by the time he was 15 as part of a rock-and-roll lifestyle. He tells Justin Brierley how An encounter with Jesus changed his life and led him to study the Hebrew scriptures to become an evangelist to Jews.
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Do you believe in penal substitution?
What does it mean to say that ‘Jesus died in our place’ on the cross? Tom Wright responds on how we should and shouldn’t view penal substitution.
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Ask NT Wright Anything #3 Qs on Christmas, the historical Jesus, Bart Ehrman & The Ascension
Tom Wright talks to Justin about Christmas and the birth narratives, and answers listener questions on the reliability of the gospels, Bart Ehrman on textual transmission, the dating of the gospels, and whether The Ascension happened as described.
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Ask NT Wright Anything #2 Qs on sacrifice, crucifixion and atonement
Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend at human camp’.
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10 questions to ask Christians who believe in evolution
The international director of Creation Research John Mackay, is convinced that the Genesis accounts of creation are literally true. He shares ten questions he’d like to ask Christians who accept evolution
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Unbelievable? A tale of two doubters: Austin Fischer & Ed Atkinson
Austin Fischer is a church pastor who tells the story of his own struggle with doubt in the book ‘Faith In The Shadows: Finding Christ in the midst of doubt’ and how he has kept his faith. Ed Atkinson is a former Christian and co-host of ...
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Unbelievable? Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah? Michael Brown vs Jonathan Romain
Michael Brown is a Messianic Jew and hosts The Line Of Fire radio show in the USA. He engages with liberal UK Reform rabbi Jonathan Romain on whether Jesus fulfilled the role of Messiah. Michael and Jonathan end up disagreeing on much more than ...
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I’m an atheist. But thank God I’m not a New Atheist
Following his debate with John Lennox on The Big Conversation, Prof Michael Ruse explains why he’s not a New Atheist, but not a Christian either.
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14 things you (probably) didn’t know about Christianity, but really should
Nobody gets to heaven by being good, faith is not a blind leap and there’s much more evidence than you think. Andrew Haslam clears up these and other common misconceptions about Christianity
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Unbelievable? Derren Brown & Rev Richard Coles: Can we have meaning without God?
In the third Big Conversation episode, Justin is joined by illusionist Derren Brown and popstar-turned-media-priest Rev Richard Coles. In a wide-ranging conversation they tell their respective stories of moving away from and towards Christian faith. Drawing on his book Happy: Why more or less everything is ...
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Is Jordan Peterson the saviour of Christianity?
The phenomenally popular psychologist is on a mission to bring order to a chaotic world. And he’s using the Bible to do it
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Unbelievable? Highlights from #JustAsk: Rob Parsons, Glen Scrivener, Sharon Dirckx, Ken Samples & more
Justin presents selected highlights from last weekend’s Unbelievable? The Conference 2018 #JustAsk. Includes Glen Scrivener’s spoken word ‘Given’, Rob Parsons on keeping the faith when life is tough, Sharon Dirckx on why the world is broken, Andy Bannister on Bible reliability, Ken Samples on the divine ...
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Unbelievable? Do we need to rethink petitionary prayer? Mark Karris & Steve Jeffery
Mark Karris is author of ‘Divine Echoes: Reconciling prayer with the uncontrolling love of God’. He believes Christians often have the wrong idea both about asking for things in prayer and the God they are asking. Steve Jeffery is the pastor of Emmanuel Church, North ...
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Unbelievable? Mythicism debate: Did St. Paul believe in a real or ‘celestial’ Jesus? Richard Carrier vs Jonathan McLatchie
One of the leading voices in ‘Jesus mythicism’, Richard Carrier, joins Justin on the show. He debates his theory that the apostle Paul only believed in a ‘celestial’ spiritual version of Jesus, not a flesh-and-blood man. Christian apologist Jonathan McLatchie defends the mainstream view, arguing that ...
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David Robertson: Steve Chalke and I agree on a lot. But his errors about the Bible will have harmful consequences
David Robertson is keen to continue the dialogue between himself and Steve Chalke, pointing out the things they agree on before clarifying his position with regards to Steve’s latest blog post asserting that the Bible isn’t infallible
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Unbelievable? Boyd & Copan pt 2 - debating Amalekite destruction & Ananias and Sapphira
In the second part of their debate Greg Boyd and Paul Copan continue their conversation about Boyd’s new book The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God in which Boyd sets out a new way of reconciling Old Testament violence with the love of God shown on the ...
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Unimaginable: How different would the world look without Christianity?
Jeremiah J Johnson answers questions about his latest book, which considers how different the world would be without Christianity
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Steve Chalke's rethink of the Bible isn't just wrong, it's anti-Christ
Church leader Steve Chalke has begun a series of videos re-framing the Bible. Revd David Robertson responds with this opinion piece.
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Unbelievable? Debating The Atheist Christmas Carol Album. TyLean Polley & Glen Scrivener
Is it ok to take the Christ out of Christmas carols? That’s what TyLean Polley has done with The Atheist Christmas Album. She explains why she’s produced an album of classic carols to secular lyrics. Evangelist Glen Scrivener engages with TyLean on why he doesn’t think ...
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Unbelievable? Hinge: an atheist & Christian seek the truth about Jesus. Plus Jarrod McKenna interview
Hinge is a brand new documentary style podcast co-hosted by atheist Cory Markum and Christian pastor Drew Sokol. Justin plays out the first episode of Hinge and talks to Cory and Drew about their project to look into the evidence for the historical Jesus. In the ...