Prof Dion Forster is the Head of Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, and the director of the Beyers Naudé Center for Public Theology. Every week Prof Dion helps us to express our faith practically with a dose of his infectious passion for life and the Word.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 hours 3 minutes
Prof Dion Forster - Habits That Build Our Faith
Prof Dion shares some BIG news and also how his faith has been tested with this big decision. What are some of the habits we need to build into our lives as we look to the Giver and not just the gifts.
Prof Dion Forster - Keeping our focus on Christ and his will
Keeping the thing the thing! Prof Dion talks about the discipline of keeping our focus on Christ and his will, and not allowing the evil one to ‘get into’ our heads and hearts with fear, greed, and bitterness.
Prof Dion Forster - Fear Anxiety and the Faithfulness of God
Fear Anxiety and the Faithfulness of God
Prof Dion Forster - Power Partner with Jesus
Prof Dion talks about being a Power Partner with Jesus and he also shares from Mark 6: 1-13
Prof Dion Forster - Faith Like a Mustard Seed
Prof Dion shares on: 'Faith like a mustard seed' out of Matt 13:31-33, 44-52. Dion also looks at how faith starts, how it grows, and what faith uncovers in our lives and the lives of others.
Prof Dion Forster - Perfection vs Imperfection
Prof Dion shares about the tension between perfection and imperfection in our Christian lives (Eph 2:8-10) “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Prof Dion Forster - Faith and Uncertainty
“Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.” - Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei. Dion also takes a look at 2 Cor 5:7, that we walk by faith (keeping our eyes fixed on the Lord), and not by fixing our eyes on ourselves, our own abilities, or our own assessments.
Prof Dion Forster - Being God's Mission Partners
Prof Dion reflects on being God's mission partner in light of Isa 49:1-4
Prof Dion Forster - Generational Responsibilities
With Youth Day approaching, as well as Father's Day, Prof Dion chat around generational responsibilities for love, care, and witness with a focus on Eph 6:1-4.
Prof Dion Forster - Co Labouring with Christ
Prof Dion talka about becoming an answer to our prayers. He touches on becoming co-laborers, alongside God, in the world, recognizing that we are placed in certain places, and amongst certain people, to pray and love and act for the sake of God’s loving will to be done.