The Further Up, Further In Podcast

Episode 31 - A People Belonging to God

As we move into the discussion of our 4th main theme - root yourself in the body of Christ, community life is non-negotiable - we begin by exploring how the Bible presents a unified vision in the Old and New Testaments of embracing God and his salvation as embracing a place among the people of God.

Episode 30 - Learning to Pray

Our 4th and final "Lesson from Exile" discusses two lessons on prayer, one taken from Nehemiah and the other from Jeremiah, as we wrap up this arc of episodes designed to illustrate the importance of applying the mind to study scripture that we might stand under its authority as we seek to live lives of fidelity. 

Episode 29 - Learning to Grieve

Our third "Lesson from Exile" takes a close look at Ezekiel 9 and lessons we can learn from it about the importance of grieving over sin, as we continue to model applying the life of the mind to the study of scripture in our ongoing pursuit of faithfulness. 

Episode 28 - Learning to Stand

Our second "Lesson from Exile" looks primarily at the story of Esther as we continue to model applying the life of the mind to understand the scriptures and learn lessons of fidelity in what we believe concerning God and the duty God requires of man.

Episode 27 - Learning to Kneel

This episode examines the story of Nebuchadnezzar as told in Daniel 2-4 as the first of a episodes that seek to combine the three big themes we've discussed so far. As the four biblical texts we'll be examining in these episodes all come from the exilic and post-exilic period of the Old Testament, I call these reflections "Lessons from Exile."

Episode 26 - Engaging Culture (Part 2)

In the previous episode we talked about worldviews generally, but in this episode we talk about Christianity as a worldview, and how it functions as a starting point, a system and a story, and then we conclude our discussion by talking again about the importance of our call to engage culture.

Episode 25 - Engaging Culture (Part 1)

Having talked about faithfulness of belief, theology, and faithfulness of behavior, morality, we turn our attention to the realm of worldviews, faithfulness to engage culture. We'll talk about why engaging culture matters, and then talk a bit about what worldviews are, where they come from and how they function. 

Episode 24 - Seek to Walk Worthy

This week we continue our discussion of faithfulness by talking about morality, which we can think of as faithfulness of behavior. We'll talk about the importance of motive to our behavior, examine two different types of biblical commandment and more.

Episode 23 - Everyone is a Theologian

As we resume our reflection on the third big theme of the podcast - pursue fidelity in all things, faithfulness is essential - we turn to the study of theology, which we could think of as faithfulness of belief. We look at what theology is, some of the reasons why the American church at times seems wary of it, and at two theological issues as examples to illustrate why it matters.

Episode 22 - Light and Life (Part 4)

In this fourth and final episode in our advent arc, examining Matthew 1-2 and some of the nativity account from Luke, we look at the response of various people to the birth of Jesus, focusing here on Simeon, Anna and Herod, for how we respond to the child born to be King is all important.