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This week we look at the third section of Aaron Renn's book, on "Leading Institutionally." In "Negative World," Christians must (1) pursue institutional integrity, (2) pursue community strength, and (3) pursue ownership.

In this week's episode we continue to work through Aaron Renn's Life in the Negative World, discussing the ways in which we as individuals must deal with life in a world that has become negative toward Christianity.

We continue to work our way through Aaron Renn's 2024 book Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture, discussing chapters 2 and 3, which describe the strategies that have been used in the Positive and Neutral Worlds, as well as a proposal for a strategy for the Negative World.

In this episode we take a break from eschatology to return to examining the state of our culture, and how we can best understand and relate to the culture in which we live. This is the first in a series on Aaron Renn's new book, Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture.

In this episode we discuss the woman and the dragon of Revelation 12, and the sea beast, land beast, and mark of the beast of Revelation 13, along with that infamous number, 666!

In today's episode we return to the book of Revelation and discuss Rev. 10 and 11 - the great angel with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, the little scroll that he has in his hand, the seven thunders, and the two witnesses.

In this episode we return to the topic of "the last days," and look at what this term means, in contrast to "the last day."

In this episode we continue to look at important eschatological terms, focusing our attention on the "new creation," or the "new heavens and new earth." as well as "the last days."

In today's episode we return to the "Eschatology 101" series, and get back to basics with a couple of definitions - "the day of the LORD," and the word "eschatology" itself.

This week we conclude our study of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols For Destruction, looking at the last chapter, "The New Community."

This week we look at Chapter Seven of Herbert Schlossberg's classic Idols For Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, "Consequences and Expectations." What are the consequences of our society's idolatries, and what can we expect in the future?

This week we look at Chapter Six of Herbert Schlossberg's classic book, Idols For Destruction - The Idols of Religion.

This week we continue to work through Herbert Schlossberg's classic book Idols For Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, focusing on Chapter Five, "The Idols of Power."

This week, Part V of our discussion of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction, on Chapter 4, "The Idols of Nature." In this chapter, Schlossberg explains where the worship of the idols of nature will take a society. Just a hint as to his conclusion: it's nowhere good.

Continuing our study of Herbert Schlossberg's book Idols for Destruction, we arrive at Chapter 3, "The Idols of Mammon."

Today we continue our study of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction, focusing our attention on the second chapter, The Idols of Humanity.

This week we take a look at the first chapter of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction, Idols of History, and consider some present examples of these idols and their danger.

In this week's episode we begin a deep dive into Herbert Schlossberg's 1983 classic, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture.

It's been a while, but the podcast is back! In this episode I introduce my new book, What The Church Must Learn From COVID-19... And Why, which is now available in hardcover (at www.dan1132.com) and in Kindle format.

In this final episode of 2023, we'll consider the second and fifth trumpets of Revelation 8 and 9 in more detail, and the importance of a Biblically-informed interpretation of Revelation as compared to "newspaper exegesis."

There are a lot of "sevens" in the book of Revelation, and this is the seventh episode in this series on Biblical eschatology! In this episode we look at the 144,000 and the "great multitude" in Revelation 7, and give a quick overview of chapter 8.

The identity of the four horsemen of the apocalypse has led to a great deal of speculation. In this episode, we focus on the horsemen and what they represent, as we continue to work through the first chapters of the book of Revelation.

This week we continue where we left off last week, with a look at Revelation 4 and 5. John is welcomed into the heavenly throne room, where we are introduced to the scroll with seven seals, and the Lamb who is found worthy to open it.

In this episode, we'll look at the historical context of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John, and the situation of the seven churches in Asia Minor that first read this book in their congregations. We see how the message of Revelation was meant for these churches in their historical situations, and look at an example from the book of Acts about the challenges that the first generation of Christians had to face.

In Revelation 1:1, we're told that the revelation of Jesus Christ was given "to show to his servants the things that must soon take place." In this episode, we look at the time indicators in the book of Revelation, and ask the question: Does "soon" mean "soon"?