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Ep 101: Simon Says Self-Care?
Thanks to an Email from Simon, Chris and Pete are forced to rethink an earlier chat about the commercial selfishness of self-care. Did missionaries, by giving away everything, do the opposite of self-care? Can self-care be about looking after others by looking after ourselves? Simon’s question makes them rethink their thinking… just like an Oddfather…
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Ep 100: Bits From The First Series
For more than two years now Chris and Pete have been getting together every week to find the right questions. And there have been some rippers! As they seek to understand the baffling and amazing God, they have welcomed guests, listened to songs and read lots of weird stuff to try and sort out what…
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Ep 99: Bits From The Beginning
For more than two years now Chris and Pete have been getting together every week to find the right questions. And there have been some rippers! As they seek to understand the baffling and amazing God, they have welcomed guests, listened to songs and read lots of weird stuff to try and sort out what…
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Ep 98: Is It an Act Of God?
Chris and Pete watch the lightning and ask is God at work in natural disasters? Are they acts of God? Are bad things God’s good work? Even when it blows up a church? Are natural disasters actually God and do we clutch too easily at miracles and fail to correctly understand what God is doing…
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Ep 97: Is The Internet In Eden?
Is the knowledge of good and evil a problem? Isn’t this what got humanity thrown out of Eden? Chris and Pete ponder; does God not want us to know about good and evil or is God holding out on us? Is there a tree of doom scrolling? Has knowledge become more valuable than wisdom and…
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Ep 96: Where Are The Kids?
‘Jesus loves the little children’, as the song says, but Chris and Pete question whether our churches kind of hide them away. How are children better at the kingdom life than adults? Do we put as much value on what our children think and know as Jesus does? What are we missing by leaving our…
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Ep 95: Who’s Working?
Why are you working? We were made to work, so are we just some kind of labouring machine? Chris and Pete look at labour and ask what was work meant to be? Why is work a grind when it was meant to be a God given joy? Can work make life happy and where do…
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Ep 94: Who’s Bashing The Bible?
Chris and Pete ask what is this ‘bible’ thing? Not an operator’s manual? Is it a user’s manual? Why can’t we get order by following the bible? And what is its ‘authority’? Why is it so often used for ‘bashing’ people and how did science make the bible central? Will the bible actually put itself…
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Ep 93: Do I Self Care?
As holiday season descends, Chris and Pete slip into the bubble bath to wind down. But, is that the wrong thing to do? What is self care and how has it become an industry rather than a life style? Did Jesus get his nails done? How did HE take down time? Have we got self…
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Ep 92: Who Blunted the Switchblade?
Back in the day there were so many ‘heroes of the faith’. Big names, big people doing amazing things, the Jesus movement, Mother Theresa, David Wilkerson, Billy Graham etc etc… So where are these heroes of today? Why aren’t there big faith things happening today? Where has the movement gone? Have big faith, culture breaking…
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