A Time to Think

One simple question can be asked to cause doubt in many modern claims about the origin of the Bible's New Testament: "Is it true?" One example of this is the claim that many cultural sites prove that there was no "right" form of Christianity in the second century. Is that true? Chris and Josh discuss that and the nature of heretical teaching on A Time to Think.

How do we engage in conversation based on historical data during a time where subjectivity rules in people's minds? How do we balance being persuasive both with objective facts and also appealing to people's experiential beliefs? Pastor Josh and Pastor Chris discuss.

How do we know we have the right books in the Bible? Put another way, how do we know the books we have are the only right books or if they are God's words at all? Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh begin a series discussing "The Heresy of Orthodoxy".

Pastor Josh and Pastor Chris talk about watching and waiting in prayer along with giving thanks to God.

Pastor Josh and Pastor Chris discuss the difference between holy and unholy discontentment. They also discuss how modern mobility and options lead us to greater discontentment.

What stands in the way of Revival? Or in Martin Lloyd Jones language, what has clogged the well? Chris and Josh discuss what blockades must be removed before personal and community revival can happen.

Chris and Josh do a cursory overview of high points in the history of revivals and what we learn from them.

Prior to preaching on one of the New Testaments most controversial teachings in the modern day, Chris and Josh devote their longest podcast ever to clearing away common objections to a simple reading of 1 Timothy 2:8-15. Chris and Josh welcome follow-up questions or curiosities which weren't addressed. You can email us here - downtownmissionchurch@gmail.com

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh discuss the first false ideas which come to mind when we hear the word revival. How do we open ourselves to a new work of God while also avoiding fanaticism? Find out on A Time to Think.

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh change the topic to something that's been placed on both of their hearts.

After a long summer hiatus, Chris and Josh return to answer for their prolonged absence. Where have they been? What have they been doing, reading, and thinking all this time?

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh wrap up their discussion of Samuel James book Digital Liturgies.

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh seek to explain what happened to the Methodist church.

The great irony of the digital age is that we are told there is no such thing as guilt or shame, yet shame and guilt are weapons used to motivate people to not believe certain things. Chris and Josh discuss shame as a digital motivator.

What is a liturgy? And what on earth is epistemology? On A Time to Think, Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh discuss these foundations to the book Digital Liturgies as well as how the liturgies of the internet change us to think differently.

Chris and Josh talk about the culture's elevation of personal truth and narrative above objective reality and how the Christian should live in response.

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh discuss how our brains are changed through repetitive actions and how the Christian should think of digital engagement in light of this.

Has Samuel James gone too far with his critique of digital media? How should we process alarm bells and warning signals going off around us relating to digital engagement? Pastor Josh and Pastor Chris Discuss.

Wisdom is not just having the right answers or making the right decisions. Biblical wisdom is living in light of the reality God has created. Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh talk about how the technological age often draws us to try to live outside our created realities and how we can guard against it.

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh continue the discipleship series.

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh continue their conversation on discipleship.

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Being discipled by God is to be conformed to the image of his Son.

Are you being discipled unawares?

Pastor Chris and Pastor Josh kick off a series on discipleship.