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A City is coming...
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We all live in a tent city. Temporary, half-baked, unfixable. But the vision of Abraham persists. "A City with foundations". Many long for it. Is it a vain hope? An impossible dream? The end of death; a global resurrection.
Even the findings of physics and astronomy -- that all the heavier atoms that make life possible, literally came from heaven to earth. Supernovas that happened billions of years ago sowed the seeds of human life and flourishing.
How strange, then, that the final vision of the Bible shows a completed city, made of one of the heaviest metals (metaphorically) descending to earth, with God and man to be reunited and reconciled?
We keep walking down this path, examining evidence as we go....
It is Near focuses on the alarming and the hopeful; the frightful and the forgotten; the blinding glare of giant problems, and the dark secrets that lurk even more menacingly in the shadows of global trends. "Amazing Grace" may have taught our hearts to fear, but for most Christians and non-Christians alike, divine grace as commonly conceptualized does not those fears relieve. It is Near will be informative, accessible, comforting, and challenging to every thinking person. It will call Christians to account and provide a breath of fresh air for secularists who, for once, would like to hear a conciliatory and intellectually honest message from a thoughtful Christian voice. Owen Kindig of Sitka, Alaska is your host, and is responsible for the content.
"Even the bad news is good news."
Chapters
1. Introduction (00:00:00)
2. What does the Ninth of Ab mean? (00:01:34)
3. Is Jewish "correction" a sign of God's love? (00:02:41)
4. Is Christianity in trouble for its historical mistreatment of the Jews? (00:03:16)
5. Who are "Jehovah's Witnesses", really? (00:05:22)
6. What does this return of Israel to its homeland mean for the world of mankind? (00:10:05)
7. What is meant by "Babylon" in the book of Revelation? (00:16:00)
8. What was Jesus' attitude toward unbelievers? (00:17:25)
9. Does the Bible teach that all will be saved? (00:18:53)
10. Has "winning the world for Christ" been the job of the church? (00:19:06)
11. What is the "eternal purpose" of God? (00:22:12)
12. What is the message of the end of Revelation? (00:24:50)
13. Are Christians today being asked to "Live and Let Live"? (00:30:15)
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