Jan 30, 2023

Ted asks about looking to our own fruit and seeing that it’s bad, and what does that mean. Rod talks about how sinners incline to moralism and synergism, how we are natural fruit-measurers who prefer to look to ourselves, and what good news there is for people who struggle with fears that their fruit is revealing that...

Jan 23, 2023

Ted asks about what it means if our pastor goes through struggles of faith. Rod talks about how he perceives a pastor who is always ‘winning’, versus a pastor who is ‘assaulted’, and speaks of his memories and experiences with his friend and peer, James Nestingen, who died recently, and some experiences with his...

Jan 16, 2023

Ted asks about the value of the idea of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Rod talks about how shifting toward ethics and moralism can poison the Gospel, references what we see Jesus do when He made wine for the wedding at Cana, and asks what if it was in that spirit that our culture perceived Christianity.

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Jan 9, 2023

Ted asks about struggling with feeling like a fraud in the Christian life and faith. Rod talks about what is common, what is ‘normal’, what it means to feel ‘in need’ or ‘self condemning’, and how he views living ‘victoriously’ and ‘winning’, referencing the Pharisee and the publican, or tax...

Jan 2, 2023

Ted asks about striving for the narrow door when “no one seeks after God” and how to get from here to there. Rod talks about the Reformers using the passive voice about ‘being repented’, describes the sinner’s condition, our temptation to synergism in our sin, and how the faith comes to us, with a focus on the...