Gospel Conversations takes a creative approach to attaining a deeper understanding of the gospel and what it means to us today. Our speakers are not ministers, but range from a diverse community of Christian thinkers who lead their various fields of knowledge in history, design thinking, theology, philosophy, and organisational leadership—among others. Each month we host a live event in Sydney, then publish it as a podcast.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 37 minutes
episode 12: Iain Provan: What is Creation?
Having given us the OT view of God, Iain moves onto the Genesis view of creation. He builds a lot of his argument around Genesis 1 which sees creation as 'temple'. It means that matter is not a problem as it was for the ancient world, and escaping ma...
episode 11: Iain Provan: Who is God?
Iain now launches into the distinctive message of the OT beginning with Genesis—Who is God? Having covered the ANE context, he can give the OT answer to this question in a much richer light. We start to see just how new and fresh, the Genesis picture...
episode 10: Iain Provan: The Ancient Near Eastern Context
Iain argues that we cannot do justice to the OT without understanding the context in which it was written—in this case, that means the 'ancient near eastern world', primarily of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Most of us probably view that kind of historical ...
episode 9: Iain Provan: 7 Misconceptions in reading the OT
Iain began his Old Testament series by teaching how not to read the OT. He describes seven ways that people often misread the OT and how this gets us into trouble. Not only do they lead us into error but they dilute the power of the text to really ta...
episode 8: Tony Golsby-Smith: Moses and Leadership (Part 2)
Moses led Israel by giving them a new story. This talk explains the architecture of transformational stories - using 2nd Road's ACDB model. Tony uses the ACDB model to diagnose the architecture of Moses' new story. Once we learn this architecture we ...
episode 7: Tony Golsby-Smith: Moses and Leadership (Part 1)
Moses led Israel by giving them a new story. This talk explains the architecture of transformational stories - using 2nd Road's ACDB model. Tony uses the ACDB model to diagnose the architecture of Moses' new story. Once we learn this architecture we ...
episode 17: Tony Golsby-Smith: Blessing not rule. Lessons from the Patriarchs
Lessons from the lives of three patriarchs: Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. The rule of creation has become 'blessing'. We cannot always rule, but we can bless the world.
episode 5: Tony Golsby-Smith: Creation Story
Most people live in a split world that divides their lives into a sacred part and a secular part. This worldview affects all religions and all people - even atheists have that same paradigm (they just reject it). This worldview puts God in a religiou...