28 results for tag: breakfast with Brad
Breakfast with Brad – Moving on (11/12) – Froot Loops, Hellfire & Vidi Aquam
In which Brad features a hat that belonged to his grandfather, William Ditchfield, prepares to eat pure sugar & explores the question (not the doctrine) of hell. Below the video, we're also featuring a beautiful song based in an ancient chant, Vidi Aquam ("I saw water").
Is there a river that can extinguish the fires of hell?
Revelation 22: 1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And ...
“Breakfast with Brad” – “Silly but harmful”
In which Brad eats Campbell's chicken noodle soup, spouts a silly (but harmless) childhood poem, then cites an example of a silly (but very harmful) theology. For the toxic citation, see below:
PTM.org’s Breakfast with Brad – Riboflavin, Faith & Step 3 Surrender
In which Brad ponders what Riboflavin and Faith are, checking in with 12-Step Recovery's all-important 3rd step: "Surrender."
Step 3 - "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God."
Step 3 prayer: "God, I offer myself to you, to build with me and to do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do your will. Take away my difficulties [obsessions], that victory over them may bear witness of your power, your love, and your way of life to those I would help. May I always do your will!"
"We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves ...
PTM.org’s Breakfast with Brad – “Moving On” (4/12) – Macaroni Salad and the Flood
Is belief in a literal global flood essential to Christian faithfulness? How did God recreate a ruined world? How has Christ opened the ark to all? And how did Eden create that macaroni salad?
Breakfast with Brad – Q & A: Is preaching God’s all-inclusive love capitulation to ‘the world’?
In which Brad prepares a 'normal' breakfast and answers an important question: Is preaching God's all-inclusive love capitulation to 'the world'?
See text beneath the video for the extended Q & A.
Question: I love your book (A More Christlike God) because it rings true that the "through line" of our theology must be love and radical self-giving. But how do you guard against the idea that God and/or Jesus may be more wrathful and judging than we like to believe?
Response: Great question! First, I notice you're assuming that the problem is that God be more wrathful than we'd want him to be. It may be a surprise to know that quite the ...
“Breakfast with Brad” – Savory Crepes, Pirogies, the Land of the Law & the Land of Mercy
"Breakfast with Brad" - farmer sausage, hash browns & onions wrapped in savory crepes ... OR pirogies for break! ... and a few words on "The Land of Mercy & the Land of the Law"
“Breakfast with Brad” – Prophetic anger vs Pastoral namby-pamby? No.
In which Brad enjoys Canada's commuters' breakfast (Tim Horton's coffee, toasted cinnamon-raisin bagel with cream cheese) while waiting in his car. He questions why prophecy is associated with anger rather than "the testimony of Jesus," etc. "Prophetic" and "pastoral" are no more opposites than truth and love or justice and mercy.
Breakfast with Brad – Sunriver Yumminess & Inclusion
In which Brad prepares for a day of teaching in Sunriver, Oregon over a gourmet breakfast. Oh, and teases something about our inclusion in Christ's redemptive work.
Breakfast with Brad – Anniversary Casino Breaky & Stuff I’m Workin’ On
In which Brad and Eden enjoy a 32nd anniversary breakfast a Tulalip Casino and Brad shares his latest work. More photos below.
My gambling is not with $$ at slot machines, but with the capacity of other to engage the big questions of theology.
Correction: Brad mentions working on a chapter of "A More Christlike God," but he was actually referring to his sequel, "A More Christlike Way," due out spring of 2019. (more…)
Breakfast with Brad: What 12-steppers can teach us about (Self-)Will & Grace
Bilingual cereal boxes, Christianese words and what 12-step recovery teaches us about self-will and grace (in step 1 and 2).
Notice how the first 2 steps of 12-step recovery focus on sin as a disease and its symptoms, incurable by self-effort (religion's game) ... and belief in a God who's grace can heal us.
Step 1 "We admitted we were powerless over our addiction -- that our lives had become unmanageable."
Overcomers look to God's grace alone, growing in our belief in and surrender to "the care of a loving God":
Step 2 "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
12-steppers use ...
Breakfast with Brad – Moving On (3/12) – Reading Scripture
Summary: Beyond crass literalism
Reading literally = compiling the best text possible (what Jesus read) and paying attention to the authors' intentions in the context of the genres they chose.
Reading morally = not just the moral of the story or extracting laws to obey, but how the text nurtures us as growing Christ-followers.
Reading spiritually = not merely 'spiritualizing' the text, but being attentive to how it points to Christ and the gospel.
Breakfast with Brad – “Moving On” (2/12) – Coffee & Contemplation: Science, Faith(fulness) – with Brad Jersak
In which Brad Jersak does his impression of Hopper (Stranger Things) before discussing questions of Science, Faith, Faithfulness & Genre. Is there a conflict?
This series is based in the CWR August 2017 article, "Moving On." BwB fans can view Brad's 12 topics by clicking on the link below.
https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/magazine/august-2017
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