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Most Christians recognize prayer as a vital part of the spiritual life and desire to know not only how to pray effectively but also what our prayers actually accomplish. As for how, the Bible, somewhat unhelpfully, answers, “Constantly!” To really understand that, we’ll need to rethink what the mystery of prayer really means.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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This episode rounds out the basic questions of salvation by asking who gets saved, when that happens, and why salvation occurs and is necessary. Most Christians probably have ready answers to these questions, but Prof. Wright unpacks the deep resonances behind each of these, unfurling a robust vision of salvation for this present life.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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The Bible highlights imagery of reproductive vegetation throughout its narrative. Not only this, but it builds on this imagery to speak of God’s promises of abundance. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright unpacks the uses of seed language in the Bible, which is often downplayed in English translations, in order to draw a throughline of God’s purposes from creation to new creation. God has put the principle of ongoing life into the world, in order to work in the world, through the world.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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“Church” can refer to the universal body of believers, individual communities, and the buildings they gather in for worship. So how should we think about the point of church, and whether or not it’s necessary, especially in a post-pandemic world? According to Prof. N.T. Wright, the being there is the point. Church is less about what we receive from going than it is about how the church benefits from our participation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright explores the what, where, and how of salvation. Salvation is first and foremost God’s rescue plan for creation, accomplished through Jesus’s activity of embodying the Messiah vocation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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You are going to die. All of us will. Facing mortality is rarely fun, so it’s understandable that humans throughout time have tried to soften the reality of death. But the Bible is clear in its assertion that death is the enemy, constantly reminding us that the reality of death is a consequence of creation’s broken nature. Jesus’s incarnation and resurrection, however, reveal that death does not possess the last word.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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How might we balance our work with a healthy rhythm of rest? In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright examines the biblical evidence for rest as a crucial part of the Christian life, from God’s seventh-day rest, through the Jewish Sabbath, and on to the Christian practice of setting Sunday aside for worship.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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Bread is one of the most basic sources of sustenance for cultures around the world. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright shows how God used the image of bread in the Bible to teach God’s people, and how we still use the image of bread today to remember God’s promises. God takes up the image of one of our most basic foodstuffs as the vehicle of something extraordinary, the very presence of God coming to be with and sustain God’s people.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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As we think about the larger implications of salvation, one of the most important questions we can ask is about the nature of creation. We are accustomed to the idea that creation is hopelessly fallen, leading to desires to escape this world, or even materiality. But the Bible showcases a story of salvation for physical creation, not from it.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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The concept of work goes all the way back to the beginning. God has purposes and assigns humans tasks to carry forward these purposes. That hasn’t changed. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright considers how God incorporates our creative and faithful labor toward God’s purposes.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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The apostle John, (as with other biblical authors) makes light a central image of his Gospel, setting up an implicit battle between light and dark, good and evil. The good news is that light, ultimately, wins, as Jesus’s life and reinterpretation of Old Testament scriptures showcases. But this victory of light over dark is not merely for our own sake. Jesus calls us to do as he did and shine God’s light into the dark places around us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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The human experience of the Holy Spirit varies widely among individuals, and beliefs about the Holy Spirit’s activity vary just as widely among denominations. But the point of God’s spirit in the Bible is more about presence than experience – a presence we are called to be aware of as God remakes the world with our participation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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For Christians, going to be with Jesus the Messiah after you die isn’t the end of the story. If salvation is about more than simply going to heaven after death, what is our hope about? God is, of course, sovereign over death, but might the end goal in fact be something more glorious than we’ve commonly imagined? In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright explores the New Testament writers’ surprising silence on what happens between bodily death and bodily resurrection in the New Creation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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Blood plays a paradoxical role in human societies, reminding us of both life and death. When it comes to the biblical narrative, blood is no different. It’s all too easy to see the blood around which the sacrificial systems operate as a substitute for due punishment. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright argues that, rather, this blood, and the blood of Jesus, work within its life-giving connotations.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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The collection of ancient texts that Christians have come to know as their sacred text, the Bible, is vast, varied, and mysterious. In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright suggests that the Bible, like much great literature, offers an alternative world to the one we’ve got now. Further, the Bible uniquely offers directions and avenues into that alternative world, if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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Most translations of 2 Corinthians 5:21 reference "the righteousness of God." What is this mysterious quality? In this passage, Paul references Isaiah and the covenant promises of God to explain what it means to be an Apostle. The vocation of Apostleship, says Paul, is about embodying God’s faithfulness to the covenant, just as Jesus did in his willingness to go to the cross on our behalf.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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Thinking Through Salvation puts the admittedly giant concept of salvation within its larger biblical framework. While salvation includes questions about what happens after death, “going to heaven” is not the primary focus of the story told throughout the Bible.In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright examines three common definitions of salvation to see how well they fit the biblical picture and how the portrait of Jesus in the Gospels fits into each of these, ultimately refocusing our attention on the Kingdom of God.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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Does the here and now matter? Why bother serving God? The Apostle Paul asked this same question. He provides his answer in 1 Corinthians 15:58. Paul assures us that what we do in the present is not worthless or wasted because it is part of a much greater design for God’s future.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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For all that the Bible is full of examples of baptism (in various forms), the topic has been controversial and confusing for Christians throughout the years. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright explains baptism as a shorthand way of talking about the key themes of Christian life. A world of meaning sits behind the act of baptism, all of which we must think through wisely.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright explores an encounter between Joshua and a mysterious figure. When asked if he is "for or against us," the mysterious figure answers in a way that slices right across Joshua's question, upending all his assumptions. This passage offers a stark warning to remain humble in polarized times, recognizing all throughout that God's purposes are greater than our imaginations.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29
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