Gospel Conversations

Here is the third and final of our reboots from Iain Provan’s epic 2011 series on the Old Testament Reloaded – “What is Creation?”. In this talk Iain concludes his magnificent trilogy of talks positioning the vast Mosaic vision of God and reality in ...

This episode is a repost of a talk by Iain Provan from his epic series on the ‘Old Testament Reloaded’ in 2011.  Originally titled ‘Who is God?’ we have renamed it ‘Was Dawkins right about the angry God?’ because that is fundamentally what Iain conce...

Tadionally we treat salvation as an individual event, but Ezekiel has a far wider scope. He sees the object of salvation is the whole cosmos not just individuals, and he sees the cosmos as the temple of God.

 Welcome to Gospel Conversations   We have an amazing backlog of great talks from great speakers and thinkers going back over a decade.  So we've decided to republish some of them to supplement our ongoing offerings.  We're going to begin with some s...

This is a postscript to my recent talk on Ezekiel and what I call the glory bookends of Ezekiel. This reframed Israel's problem of exile from a heavenly perspective, reframing it as glory, not human habitation. Withdrawing from the temple and then th...

Welcome to the next installment in the Breakfast with Jesus series. There's been a long pause since I did Ezekiel chapter one. Ezekiel is such an important book and, the more I think about Ezekiel, the more it frames a lot of the gospel. 

In our last talk Andrew took us deeper into various metaphors for atonement – and asked which best fits scripture and gospel.  In this talk, Tony supplements that deep dive by zooming back out and asking, ‘what is the real question, for which the cro...

In this episode of our Cross and Creation series, Andrew continues his summarising of the metaphors for the atonement.  He argues that every metaphor has its limits and cannot be pushed universally. But he argues that the adoption/sonship model of th...

In this talk Tony amplifies the intriguing phrase ‘Circle of Glory’ which David Bentley Hart mentioned in his final talk in our recent GC series. The phrase was coined by Gregory of Nyssa and Tony explores the extraordinary vision of the Trinity boun...

Session 5 - What is humanity’s destiny and purpose? Is heaven more like a marriage or a motel visit? In this final talk, David advocates the age-old vision of the Patristics that ‘God became human in order that humanity may become God’. This breathta...