Justin - Talk about a pile of useless, wishful thinking! Oh, well. Carry on rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Always do it very nicely, though, beaming with that innocuous Christian smile.
@brudit3 күн бұрын
My guess why young men have been christianily activated in Finland is increased immigration. Finland have had this culture of religious super-privacy where you are not to speak about your (christian) beliefs and it has been quite a taboo. Even though most people used to be members of (lutheran) church through infant baptism, actual faith was not so common (even among the clergy) and was viewed as embarrassing among most laypeople. Then people started also leaving the church if they didn't find value there. Also teaching of christian beliefs became thinner and thinner at schools etc so there are now young people who don't have such an inherited (superficial) understanding of christianity that can almost act as a vaccination against it in some cases. Social media is also providing a broader perspective of what christianity actually can be. Then there is an influx of different cultures to the country and especially young people who learn the language and meet at schools and don't see religion as a taboo. They have greatly infuenced the discussion culture. I think girls lean more to the left and are more interested in other topics and that's why by now this phonomenon is seen more strongly among boys/men. Among them there has been made room for open discussion about religion for the first time in a really long time.
@ronlanter69067 күн бұрын
I just ordered his book *The Message of the Sermon on the Mount* which is part of the *The Bible Speaks Today* series. Can't wait till it arrives!
@DJTheTrainmanWalker7 күн бұрын
Answering the title cold: No... We are witnesing a propaganda campaign intended to empower folks to claim to be christian without belief in a 'god'...
@KingBooks2618 күн бұрын
Mind you, Justin in an another podcast, can't recall with which team, the interviewer spoke with saying that the "contact" with Christ, is selective, you can't get the Christian "touch" just simply by books, intellectually, or by going to a church praying. As we always say : God calls you, even not religious persons. We respond (or we not notice and don't answer), in a different ways. Maybe for Tom was a calling. There's no problem that we will wrestle with doubts, beliefs up and down, but we gona end up there, with a relationship with God, our life will be different. You people can read a guy : Tomás Halik
@KingBooks2618 күн бұрын
A very very entertaining and educational podcast from LICC. I totally enjoyed. Congrats
@user-ge4yq5th2pАй бұрын
‘Secular humanism with God sprinkle on top’
@RevdKathyАй бұрын
Making this my prayer for the 2024 election
@bmwelbyАй бұрын
Thank you to John for sharing this. I always find it wonderful to hear the testimony of Christians whose perspective on governing brings them to different conclusions to mine. The wonderful challenge of our faith is just how rich and wonderful the variety is in our family of faith and we'll spend eternity worshipping alongside people we didn't expect to have common ground with. That said I really find it quite difficult to reconcile several things that John is saying about his faith and his politics. I appreciate that being interviewed publicly about that dynamic at the height of an election is an impossible situation when it comes to defending the performance of his party over these 14 years. He's obviously got to stick to the party messaging and not add to the lament over the health of the nation. But as I listened I was furrowing my brow about many things and three things in particular. The prompt to comment in the first place was when we got onto Rwanda. It's really difficult to have John make an appeal to discussing the nuance with honesty while completely ignoring the fact that his government has removed just about every legal route for claiming asylum outside the UK. He says we need to be honest about the alternatives but it's unfortunate, disappointing even, that he isn't doing that here and falls into support of a policy discourse that emphasises the criminality of gangs ahead of the humanity of those looking to this country as a place to build a safer life. Connected to that it's hard to hear him position all the blame for current challenge on the period of 2020-2023 and at the door of the pandemic and Ukraine. Those two things are huge shocks for any government to contend with but I don't think it's an honest reflection of the weakness which earlier discussions have created. The underlying reality is that much of the decline, and failure, in the UK state owes its condition to decisions made prior 2016 (austerity) and then the implications of the chaotic internal in-fighting within the Conservative party that resulted from the 2016 referendum and the impossible task of finding any workable solution to the fantasy of the Brexit promises. Since 2015 almost every ministerial brief has been held multiple times and only for a matter of months as the party has lurched from leadership crisis to leadership crisis. 14 years of continuous governing should have offered an opportunity to really commit to and deliver on a set of really ideologically consistent and interconnected policy ambitions but the slate of policy put on the table today bears little resemblance to that advocated for in manifesto after manifesto and right now of course we're 3 leaders deep compared to the last time we were given the opportunity to express our democratic mandate. He expresses disappointment about our Amazon culture but he's been part of a party that has placed soundbite over substance for over a decade in office - chopping and changing of policy or stubborn adherence to impossible and divisive rhetoric is not a conducive environment to good governance. Finally I understand his loyalty to his friend and colleague but it is unfortunate to have him refer to Sunak as a man of complete integrity given the demonstrable distorting of the truth that's been taking place in pursuit of campaigning this week. The deficit we have in trust towards government and politicians is not going to be healed until people and parties conduct themselves in a way that truly reflects complete integrity. John is in an impossible position to answer that question during an election but as followers of Jesus our first responsibility is to Him and not to our party or our position. I'll have to see if the other interviews provoke quite as much personal angst as this one did!
@gillianartsen89982 ай бұрын
Such a beautiful and uplifting song, I just love it!!!!❤❤❤❤
@user-yc5bc8zb1h2 ай бұрын
I am praying for my country at this moment. 🏴🇬🇧✝️
@hero49632 ай бұрын
Douglass Murray is a thinker now lmaooo the moment he said that I closed the video loool
@habidahfazilahmed75562 ай бұрын
Well Said and so true ❤
@pwillis15892 ай бұрын
I’m all for picking out the best bits. How do we do that?
@CaptainGrimes12 ай бұрын
The Church of England has lost its way and is alienating more people. I believe the best model is to go back to the house churches of early Christianity.
@robertday59622 ай бұрын
why is a woman doing the teaching it is against scripture
@gersonceleti19802 ай бұрын
Praise the Lord!!! We should have this sang in every major languages of our planet!!!
@B0SS3302 ай бұрын
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 1:17 “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
@yoyomendez97992 ай бұрын
OK THIS IS VERY SERIOUS WHAT THIS MAN IS TALKING ABOUT, HE IS SELLING IDOLATRY AND THAT IS WHY JESUS DIED TO FREE US FROM IDOLATRY. CHRISTIANS EVIL WILL DO ANYTHING AND USE ANYONE TO MOVE YOUR HEART FROM JESUS TO OTHER “GODS” JUST HAVE WISDOM DON'T FALL IN THIS TRAP. NO MATTER WHO SAYS THE MESSAGE, ALWAYS CONFIRMS WITH THE BIBLE AND IF THE BIBLE SAYS NO, NO, NO, IT IS “NO” 1 Corinthians 10:14 Idol Feasts and the Lord’s Supper 14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. Jonah 2:8 8 “Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.
@thewrightoknow2 ай бұрын
If I hadn’t had an experience and encounter with Christ, I would have never become a Christian after over trying 10 different religions/ cults and philosophies. I don’t want reason with Jesus, I want to live FROM His Love, not for Jesus!
@14nmac2 ай бұрын
Great subject. I have to admit I found the 'walking towards me' format off-putting. Not a particularly good idea IMHO. Sorry
@HearGodsWord2 ай бұрын
The Vital Signs videos do not have a walking towards me format.
@joannasmith59062 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this.. a great reminder that God shapes our ministry and spoke into the healing for my community and me today, right in my here and now! 27:20
@simtime75912 ай бұрын
people make the mistake of taking church attendance data as indication that christianity is still in decline. when in fact all it shows, is that people have lost faith in the main churches for various reasons, and what is happening, is we have gone right back to the beginning of Christianity and praying at home. I am one of them.I believe in God, i Believe in Jesus, but i believe the church in England at least, have lost their way.
@hughoxford87352 ай бұрын
The horror show that is post-Christian Britain is on show for anyone with half a brain to see. And what's filling the void: Islam, is a horror show in different ways. We need to turn back to God or it's over for us, as indeed it should be.
@michaelnightingale57932 ай бұрын
Very encouraging. Thank you. Jesus is alive and God is at work today in difficult situations.
@robertday59622 ай бұрын
Not worth listening to
@debibrand3 ай бұрын
Tom, in one of your clips, I believe it was this one, you said (my rendition of your statement) of your faith, sometimes you feel it alive and real, other times, you feel we are all “just animals …” (in other words, not made with the value one would have if made in the image of God) … The latter of your said emotions sounds like the fruit of an attack of the enemy of your soul - the devil. Jesus spoke to it in John 10:10 in saying, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” What he comes “to steal and kill and destroy” is our faith. Our fundamental belief Jesus is. Moreover, is who and what he said he was. And did, what Paul states he did for us. As you so passionately speak of in speaking of Jesus’ death on the cross. That attack of the one that comes “to steal and kill and destroy” is what caused, while Jesus was before the high priest, being condemned, spit upon, and buffeted; when “one of the maids of the high priest” identified Peter as being one of Jesus’ followers, Peter declared, “I know not this man” (Mark 14: 71). As said, it is our basic faith in Jesus the devil comes to “steal and kill and destroy.” And be assured, come he does. You and yours are in my prayers.
@amoyjoyce11173 ай бұрын
Thank you Christina great podcast , more please ….
@hugereductions3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@phillipcarr90923 ай бұрын
One book….45,000 denominations globally.Each claiming they are the true church. Yet Jesus said that the whole essence of scripture is summed up in how we treat each other, Matt 7:12. Perhaps the total theological structure is to be swept away so that the one principle is dominant.
@siian3 ай бұрын
Yes Tom, you're right, it does seem conceited. Curious that Justin Brierly mentions Ukraine, considering the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church. Moreover, the small segment of contemporary Christianity that is growing in the West has evolved into a consumerist, transactional faith, individualistic, superficial with a fair number of hucksters and conmen.
@kec71163 ай бұрын
I have come to my Catholic faith. So long we have learned that Christianity oppresses women. This is so off. I married someone from a non-Western culture. I was always puzzled about how I was treated until older men from that background explained women of the youngest sons are not well treated. Jesus being born of a woman, women as followers, and appearing before women after rising from the dead gave status to women absent elsewhere in the world. Nuclear families where a man, even if wealthy, is to have only one wife elevated women's status. To hear the likes of women, such as the NPR head, denigrate the West will do damage to us in the end if our culture fails. And it will be through her secular narcissism.
@edh.95843 ай бұрын
The New Atheists are constantly dropping verses from the Bible, but they usually don't know the context and interpret it incorrectly.
@HGWaze3 ай бұрын
What concerns me is that many guys are attracted to religion because they want women and children to have fewer rights. They like the idea of being family head with a submissive wife and obedient children - even if in practice this means their families are scared of them.
@user-oh5er6pe8u3 ай бұрын
I totally agree with Tom in his sharing about Mary’s intervention and how he finds it in humorous way. God works in many different even in crooked ways. When God touches people he does it with an invitation to “ come and follow me”. Tom, your book” Dominion” is God’s work through you. You are inspiring and touching hundreds of people in the internet.
@sharonmann88853 ай бұрын
This might upset some, but I can assure you that at times, God roars with laughter, and then again, he can kick butt too. Believe his word, he means it!
@Lou-mr7kf3 ай бұрын
Every prophet of the Old Testament had character flaws. The Book is perfectly open about it.
@Pastaface3 ай бұрын
Why so many men in Church now? Perhaps it's because in the progressive world, being a man is now the original sin. There is no redemption for that in the secular world, only in church are we "equally sinful"
@citytrees17523 ай бұрын
The people that I see coming to or coming back to Christianity are not the ones who 'take the supernatural seriously' as in angels and miracles, as Tom Holland said. Instead its the ones who want a rational intellectual approach to God and the Bible. Educated people are interested in the concept of intelligent design. We don't want the floof and woo-woo. We don't want the saints and the drama. We want to learn about the Christian worldview, Christian apologetics, the history of the Bible, and we want academic, scholarly, well-educated people teaching these things.
@alistaircotton78403 ай бұрын
Right I’m an hour in these are my thoughts. When these two have finished deliberating (blabbering) it’s a if we look around and find ourselves living in a Muslim country. This seems like meek and mild pluralism. Tom likes his presents but hasn’t written a thank you note to Santa. Jesus Christ isn’t exclusive for him so needn’t be for others. Indeed I’m not sure if he feels he has any need of saving.. Christian faith is just an option but there are plenty of others on the table..indeed Mary can step in when we can’t pray to God. The largeness that God can choose any way to act hasn’t occurred to him? I’ve heard him speak before very compellingly but he looks fizzled out here. For Justin faith is about having doubts and using your imagination? He likes to imply that’s it’s his subjective faith that makes him think like this but hopefully it’s in The objective God? And the fact someone is dabbling with unChristian spiritual practice isn’t a good sign that people are looking for spirituality in their lives in itself. That can’t be a responsible attitude to others finding Christ. For myself the reality of God (and my need of God) seems more real than my own existence. We really need to toughen up and end this variety of weak Christian intellectual discourse if we want to win the battle of souls the west and others nations
@conniewahl47433 ай бұрын
Thank you for all that you shared. Healing is part and parcel of God’s plan for man. A way out of our distresses. That was part of Jesus’s purpose.
@mileswebster76513 ай бұрын
Really fascinating conversation. Justin was especially profound. Thank you 🙏
@thysvanzyl27823 ай бұрын
What Tom told about his experiences - in Sinjahr Iraq, in that destroyed Armenian church which was just round the corner from where people were literally crucified some while before this visit - and then later, Tom's ailment, and his prayer in that other special church (St Bartholomew) - our Lord's Mother's possible intervention, the blessings that followed - how deeply moving !! (I was raised, and have always been a Protestant - but I do have some RomanCatholic heroes, like for example Pope Francis and the Franciscan teacher and priest, Richard Röhr.❤😊)
@erics48023 ай бұрын
@1:18:00 This missed the deeper truth. Reality *is* a miracle we're just so spoiled and bored with (often) we fail to recognize it in our western opulence. Imagination has a role, if only to take us beyond the idolatry of our own understanding... It's not an imaginative core, it's shedding our false imagination of us in relation to God & His Creation. It is Truth, reason & reality & the possibilities with Him.
@erics48023 ай бұрын
"Christianity" has the significant advantage of being true... which is a pretty great reason it will win the day when the day is done...
@marwar8193 ай бұрын
I don't necessarily think we need a rebirth of god but, we certainly need a rebirth of a spirituality that seeks the best in ourselves. On so many levels we are living in such vulgar times, it is destroying us.
@staceywebster77653 ай бұрын
Just ask me about God
@wolfa51513 ай бұрын
How can any right minded right thinking adult in 2024 believe in these unsubstantiated fairy tales? No wonder the planet is in the s***t, that it’s in. Shocking❗️stop peddling infantile nonsense.
@merrick27523 ай бұрын
Nope.
@Mark_Dyer3 ай бұрын
Jesus of Nazareth "was effectively a virgin for his whole life"? [01:09] Really? This is where Evangelical scriptural literalists go awry: and place their feelings/prejudices concerning sex, before the evidence. In a society where 'marriage' was the norm, if Jesus had been 'celibate', do you not imagine that Paul, or one of the Gospel-writers would have drawn our attention to this? Notice how Mary of Magdala, a rich influential woman associate of Jesus, was deliberately conflated - by the male Church - with the 'city woman' who used her 'sex ointment' to cleanse Jesus' feet. Both use ointment: one for embalming, the other from sheer penitential love.
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Justin - Talk about a pile of useless, wishful thinking! Oh, well. Carry on rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Always do it very nicely, though, beaming with that innocuous Christian smile.
My guess why young men have been christianily activated in Finland is increased immigration. Finland have had this culture of religious super-privacy where you are not to speak about your (christian) beliefs and it has been quite a taboo. Even though most people used to be members of (lutheran) church through infant baptism, actual faith was not so common (even among the clergy) and was viewed as embarrassing among most laypeople. Then people started also leaving the church if they didn't find value there. Also teaching of christian beliefs became thinner and thinner at schools etc so there are now young people who don't have such an inherited (superficial) understanding of christianity that can almost act as a vaccination against it in some cases. Social media is also providing a broader perspective of what christianity actually can be. Then there is an influx of different cultures to the country and especially young people who learn the language and meet at schools and don't see religion as a taboo. They have greatly infuenced the discussion culture. I think girls lean more to the left and are more interested in other topics and that's why by now this phonomenon is seen more strongly among boys/men. Among them there has been made room for open discussion about religion for the first time in a really long time.
I just ordered his book *The Message of the Sermon on the Mount* which is part of the *The Bible Speaks Today* series. Can't wait till it arrives!
Answering the title cold: No... We are witnesing a propaganda campaign intended to empower folks to claim to be christian without belief in a 'god'...
Mind you, Justin in an another podcast, can't recall with which team, the interviewer spoke with saying that the "contact" with Christ, is selective, you can't get the Christian "touch" just simply by books, intellectually, or by going to a church praying. As we always say : God calls you, even not religious persons. We respond (or we not notice and don't answer), in a different ways. Maybe for Tom was a calling. There's no problem that we will wrestle with doubts, beliefs up and down, but we gona end up there, with a relationship with God, our life will be different. You people can read a guy : Tomás Halik
A very very entertaining and educational podcast from LICC. I totally enjoyed. Congrats
‘Secular humanism with God sprinkle on top’
Making this my prayer for the 2024 election
Thank you to John for sharing this. I always find it wonderful to hear the testimony of Christians whose perspective on governing brings them to different conclusions to mine. The wonderful challenge of our faith is just how rich and wonderful the variety is in our family of faith and we'll spend eternity worshipping alongside people we didn't expect to have common ground with. That said I really find it quite difficult to reconcile several things that John is saying about his faith and his politics. I appreciate that being interviewed publicly about that dynamic at the height of an election is an impossible situation when it comes to defending the performance of his party over these 14 years. He's obviously got to stick to the party messaging and not add to the lament over the health of the nation. But as I listened I was furrowing my brow about many things and three things in particular. The prompt to comment in the first place was when we got onto Rwanda. It's really difficult to have John make an appeal to discussing the nuance with honesty while completely ignoring the fact that his government has removed just about every legal route for claiming asylum outside the UK. He says we need to be honest about the alternatives but it's unfortunate, disappointing even, that he isn't doing that here and falls into support of a policy discourse that emphasises the criminality of gangs ahead of the humanity of those looking to this country as a place to build a safer life. Connected to that it's hard to hear him position all the blame for current challenge on the period of 2020-2023 and at the door of the pandemic and Ukraine. Those two things are huge shocks for any government to contend with but I don't think it's an honest reflection of the weakness which earlier discussions have created. The underlying reality is that much of the decline, and failure, in the UK state owes its condition to decisions made prior 2016 (austerity) and then the implications of the chaotic internal in-fighting within the Conservative party that resulted from the 2016 referendum and the impossible task of finding any workable solution to the fantasy of the Brexit promises. Since 2015 almost every ministerial brief has been held multiple times and only for a matter of months as the party has lurched from leadership crisis to leadership crisis. 14 years of continuous governing should have offered an opportunity to really commit to and deliver on a set of really ideologically consistent and interconnected policy ambitions but the slate of policy put on the table today bears little resemblance to that advocated for in manifesto after manifesto and right now of course we're 3 leaders deep compared to the last time we were given the opportunity to express our democratic mandate. He expresses disappointment about our Amazon culture but he's been part of a party that has placed soundbite over substance for over a decade in office - chopping and changing of policy or stubborn adherence to impossible and divisive rhetoric is not a conducive environment to good governance. Finally I understand his loyalty to his friend and colleague but it is unfortunate to have him refer to Sunak as a man of complete integrity given the demonstrable distorting of the truth that's been taking place in pursuit of campaigning this week. The deficit we have in trust towards government and politicians is not going to be healed until people and parties conduct themselves in a way that truly reflects complete integrity. John is in an impossible position to answer that question during an election but as followers of Jesus our first responsibility is to Him and not to our party or our position. I'll have to see if the other interviews provoke quite as much personal angst as this one did!
Such a beautiful and uplifting song, I just love it!!!!❤❤❤❤
I am praying for my country at this moment. 🏴🇬🇧✝️
Douglass Murray is a thinker now lmaooo the moment he said that I closed the video loool
Well Said and so true ❤
I’m all for picking out the best bits. How do we do that?
The Church of England has lost its way and is alienating more people. I believe the best model is to go back to the house churches of early Christianity.
why is a woman doing the teaching it is against scripture
Praise the Lord!!! We should have this sang in every major languages of our planet!!!
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 1:17 “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
OK THIS IS VERY SERIOUS WHAT THIS MAN IS TALKING ABOUT, HE IS SELLING IDOLATRY AND THAT IS WHY JESUS DIED TO FREE US FROM IDOLATRY. CHRISTIANS EVIL WILL DO ANYTHING AND USE ANYONE TO MOVE YOUR HEART FROM JESUS TO OTHER “GODS” JUST HAVE WISDOM DON'T FALL IN THIS TRAP. NO MATTER WHO SAYS THE MESSAGE, ALWAYS CONFIRMS WITH THE BIBLE AND IF THE BIBLE SAYS NO, NO, NO, IT IS “NO” 1 Corinthians 10:14 Idol Feasts and the Lord’s Supper 14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. Jonah 2:8 8 “Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.
If I hadn’t had an experience and encounter with Christ, I would have never become a Christian after over trying 10 different religions/ cults and philosophies. I don’t want reason with Jesus, I want to live FROM His Love, not for Jesus!
Great subject. I have to admit I found the 'walking towards me' format off-putting. Not a particularly good idea IMHO. Sorry
The Vital Signs videos do not have a walking towards me format.
Thank you so much for this.. a great reminder that God shapes our ministry and spoke into the healing for my community and me today, right in my here and now! 27:20
people make the mistake of taking church attendance data as indication that christianity is still in decline. when in fact all it shows, is that people have lost faith in the main churches for various reasons, and what is happening, is we have gone right back to the beginning of Christianity and praying at home. I am one of them.I believe in God, i Believe in Jesus, but i believe the church in England at least, have lost their way.
The horror show that is post-Christian Britain is on show for anyone with half a brain to see. And what's filling the void: Islam, is a horror show in different ways. We need to turn back to God or it's over for us, as indeed it should be.
Very encouraging. Thank you. Jesus is alive and God is at work today in difficult situations.
Not worth listening to
Tom, in one of your clips, I believe it was this one, you said (my rendition of your statement) of your faith, sometimes you feel it alive and real, other times, you feel we are all “just animals …” (in other words, not made with the value one would have if made in the image of God) … The latter of your said emotions sounds like the fruit of an attack of the enemy of your soul - the devil. Jesus spoke to it in John 10:10 in saying, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” What he comes “to steal and kill and destroy” is our faith. Our fundamental belief Jesus is. Moreover, is who and what he said he was. And did, what Paul states he did for us. As you so passionately speak of in speaking of Jesus’ death on the cross. That attack of the one that comes “to steal and kill and destroy” is what caused, while Jesus was before the high priest, being condemned, spit upon, and buffeted; when “one of the maids of the high priest” identified Peter as being one of Jesus’ followers, Peter declared, “I know not this man” (Mark 14: 71). As said, it is our basic faith in Jesus the devil comes to “steal and kill and destroy.” And be assured, come he does. You and yours are in my prayers.
Thank you Christina great podcast , more please ….
Thank you!
One book….45,000 denominations globally.Each claiming they are the true church. Yet Jesus said that the whole essence of scripture is summed up in how we treat each other, Matt 7:12. Perhaps the total theological structure is to be swept away so that the one principle is dominant.
Yes Tom, you're right, it does seem conceited. Curious that Justin Brierly mentions Ukraine, considering the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church. Moreover, the small segment of contemporary Christianity that is growing in the West has evolved into a consumerist, transactional faith, individualistic, superficial with a fair number of hucksters and conmen.
I have come to my Catholic faith. So long we have learned that Christianity oppresses women. This is so off. I married someone from a non-Western culture. I was always puzzled about how I was treated until older men from that background explained women of the youngest sons are not well treated. Jesus being born of a woman, women as followers, and appearing before women after rising from the dead gave status to women absent elsewhere in the world. Nuclear families where a man, even if wealthy, is to have only one wife elevated women's status. To hear the likes of women, such as the NPR head, denigrate the West will do damage to us in the end if our culture fails. And it will be through her secular narcissism.
The New Atheists are constantly dropping verses from the Bible, but they usually don't know the context and interpret it incorrectly.
What concerns me is that many guys are attracted to religion because they want women and children to have fewer rights. They like the idea of being family head with a submissive wife and obedient children - even if in practice this means their families are scared of them.
I totally agree with Tom in his sharing about Mary’s intervention and how he finds it in humorous way. God works in many different even in crooked ways. When God touches people he does it with an invitation to “ come and follow me”. Tom, your book” Dominion” is God’s work through you. You are inspiring and touching hundreds of people in the internet.
This might upset some, but I can assure you that at times, God roars with laughter, and then again, he can kick butt too. Believe his word, he means it!
Every prophet of the Old Testament had character flaws. The Book is perfectly open about it.
Why so many men in Church now? Perhaps it's because in the progressive world, being a man is now the original sin. There is no redemption for that in the secular world, only in church are we "equally sinful"
The people that I see coming to or coming back to Christianity are not the ones who 'take the supernatural seriously' as in angels and miracles, as Tom Holland said. Instead its the ones who want a rational intellectual approach to God and the Bible. Educated people are interested in the concept of intelligent design. We don't want the floof and woo-woo. We don't want the saints and the drama. We want to learn about the Christian worldview, Christian apologetics, the history of the Bible, and we want academic, scholarly, well-educated people teaching these things.
Right I’m an hour in these are my thoughts. When these two have finished deliberating (blabbering) it’s a if we look around and find ourselves living in a Muslim country. This seems like meek and mild pluralism. Tom likes his presents but hasn’t written a thank you note to Santa. Jesus Christ isn’t exclusive for him so needn’t be for others. Indeed I’m not sure if he feels he has any need of saving.. Christian faith is just an option but there are plenty of others on the table..indeed Mary can step in when we can’t pray to God. The largeness that God can choose any way to act hasn’t occurred to him? I’ve heard him speak before very compellingly but he looks fizzled out here. For Justin faith is about having doubts and using your imagination? He likes to imply that’s it’s his subjective faith that makes him think like this but hopefully it’s in The objective God? And the fact someone is dabbling with unChristian spiritual practice isn’t a good sign that people are looking for spirituality in their lives in itself. That can’t be a responsible attitude to others finding Christ. For myself the reality of God (and my need of God) seems more real than my own existence. We really need to toughen up and end this variety of weak Christian intellectual discourse if we want to win the battle of souls the west and others nations
Thank you for all that you shared. Healing is part and parcel of God’s plan for man. A way out of our distresses. That was part of Jesus’s purpose.
Really fascinating conversation. Justin was especially profound. Thank you 🙏
What Tom told about his experiences - in Sinjahr Iraq, in that destroyed Armenian church which was just round the corner from where people were literally crucified some while before this visit - and then later, Tom's ailment, and his prayer in that other special church (St Bartholomew) - our Lord's Mother's possible intervention, the blessings that followed - how deeply moving !! (I was raised, and have always been a Protestant - but I do have some RomanCatholic heroes, like for example Pope Francis and the Franciscan teacher and priest, Richard Röhr.❤😊)
@1:18:00 This missed the deeper truth. Reality *is* a miracle we're just so spoiled and bored with (often) we fail to recognize it in our western opulence. Imagination has a role, if only to take us beyond the idolatry of our own understanding... It's not an imaginative core, it's shedding our false imagination of us in relation to God & His Creation. It is Truth, reason & reality & the possibilities with Him.
"Christianity" has the significant advantage of being true... which is a pretty great reason it will win the day when the day is done...
I don't necessarily think we need a rebirth of god but, we certainly need a rebirth of a spirituality that seeks the best in ourselves. On so many levels we are living in such vulgar times, it is destroying us.
Just ask me about God
How can any right minded right thinking adult in 2024 believe in these unsubstantiated fairy tales? No wonder the planet is in the s***t, that it’s in. Shocking❗️stop peddling infantile nonsense.
Nope.
Jesus of Nazareth "was effectively a virgin for his whole life"? [01:09] Really? This is where Evangelical scriptural literalists go awry: and place their feelings/prejudices concerning sex, before the evidence. In a society where 'marriage' was the norm, if Jesus had been 'celibate', do you not imagine that Paul, or one of the Gospel-writers would have drawn our attention to this? Notice how Mary of Magdala, a rich influential woman associate of Jesus, was deliberately conflated - by the male Church - with the 'city woman' who used her 'sex ointment' to cleanse Jesus' feet. Both use ointment: one for embalming, the other from sheer penitential love.