Tag: god
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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 91: Love Or Hate?
Thanks to Esther for emailing podcast@oddfather.net, and pointing out that God is love, and God can also hate right? How can God be love and also hate? Are we just trying to find a balance that isn’t there, so we have love and hate wrong? Can we lay down our own hate? Can we actually…
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Ep 85: Doesn’t God Do the work?
One for the creative folk. Surely all we do is create what god tells us to? Does Chris write his own sermons? Did Pete write his novels? Or do we only do what God tells us? Is it God doing the art works? Is God in control of your creativity or is it YOU, the…
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Ep 84: Miracles Versus signs
Chris and Pete have another wrestle with translating the words we know so well. Like a bible full of miracles… are they really? Should we ever pray for a miracle? Why are they so special? Why does God even roll out miracles? Have we misunderstood what they are? Is it a magic show? A party…