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Faith Beyond Belief
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A podcast focused on preparing Christians to share the Christian worldview in everyday conversations. Shafer and Jon address the difficulties and challenges that Canadian Christians face in everyday conversations, and aim to demonstrate a winsome and well-informed response.

  1. 2023-10-19

    An Interview with Paul Dirks

    The 2020 COVID pandemic proved to be a watershed for the entire world. Suddenly, it has become much harder to dismiss fears that a worldwide anti-Christian totalitarianism lurks just over the horizon, and western Christians have new questions. How, for instance, are we to respond to government shutdowns of churches, or  live as Christians in a digitized world where governments can follow your every move? And how do Christian parents raise godly children in a world that promotes the grossest forms of immorality to kindergartners? To answer these questions, and more, Vancouver pastor-writer Paul Dirks has just written Deep Discipleship for Dark Days: Holding Fast to What Is Good. You need this book to understand how to survive the coming cataclysm "with your soul secured and your integrity intact." This is the book that will show you how to fight the good fight, keep the faith, and win the prize that God offers at the end (2 Tm 4:7–8). But until Discipleship for Dark Days ships in late October, you can watch an FBB podcast where author Paul Dirks discusses his book's contents. It's time for God's people to become spiritual preppers, and for that nobody can help you more than Paul Dirks.

    1h 2m

  2. 2023-09-22

    Audio Blog 060: Necessary Medicine: but No One Wants to Take It

    Doug Wilson has never written an inconsequential book, and Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World, is no exception. As FBB writer Shafer Parker blogs through Wilson's book, he comes this week to Chapter 6, in which Wilson argues that any hope of saving the world depends on Christian parents giving their children a truly Christian education. The challenge for today is heightened as Wilson proves from history that many of our present cultural problems stem from the principles built into public education at its beginning! There can be no saving the world, he warns, until Christian parents wake up to the designed-in perils of the public schools.

    9 min

  3. 2023-09-08

    Audio Blog 059: The Critical Need for Christian Community

    Christians often look back with longing to a time when their faith was truly influential, shaping the laws of nations and guiding societal decisions. But those days are long gone and Idaho pastor/author Doug Wilson (Gashmu Saith It) warns they are not coming back---unless Christians relearn the value of forming Christian communities for hospitality and service within the larger community of man. As FBB writer Shafer Parker continues blogging through Wilson's book, he points out that it is only in those moments of direct contact with the Christian community that people see the value of the gospel with unmistakable clarity.

    8 min

  4. 2023-08-17

    Audio Blog 058: Does Shame Get a Bad Rap?

    It should surprise no one that unbelievers proudly boast of perversions and habitual sins that in the past would have embarrassed the most decadent. And some of our readers may be old enough to remember when "shameless" was one of the worst criticisms you could aim at someone. This decline in public life is bad enough, but in her most recent blog FBB Executive Director Julie Lane points out that shamelessness is too often lauded among Christians. It is time, she says, for God's people to realize that He designed us to feel shame for sin, and that we do nothing less than our Christian duty when we call brothers and sisters to repentance, even if it means shaming them.

    9 min

  5. 2023-08-10

    Audio Blog 057: Blogging Gashmu: From Whence Cometh Love and Justice?

    This is our fifth installment of "Blogging Gashmu," a chapter-by-chapter look at Pastor Doug Wilson's book Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World. In it Pastor Wilson argues that before we can "save the world" we must first be certain the church is truly a Christian Community. And there's the rub. As Wilson explains in chapter 4, the problem is that Christians want the blessings of Christ without rendering Him the total obedience He requires. In other words, we have to live the Lordship of Christ before we can successfully preach the hard truths of Christ to a rebellious world.

    7 min

  6. 2023-08-03

    Audio Blog 056: Thoughts Toward the Next Pandemic

    To the great relief of most, it's been a year since COVID was tacitly, if not officially, acknowledged to be over. But amidst signs that government authorities are anticipating another crisis, FBB board member Murray Lytle offers a very personal blog mourning the divisions that afflicted the people of God last time and pleading for serious thought on how to avoid even worse divisions in the future.

    7 min

  7. 2023-07-27

    Audio Blog 055: Blogging Gashmu: Three Necessities for Christian Community

    Most followers of Jesus give lip service, at least, to the need to "preach the gospel to every creature." But in the last decade many have awakened to the reality that if Christians don't do something, much could be lost--maybe forever. But what to do, was never quite clear, until, that is, when Idaho pastor Doug Wilson wrote his book Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World. To find out what Christians must do before saving the world, read FBB writer Shafer Parker's fourth installment as he blogs his way through Wilson's book.

    7 min

  8. 2023-07-20

    Everything is Surprisingly Better: The Dobbs Decision One Year On

    Approximately a year ago, on June 21, 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ("Dobbs" for short) that restored to the 50 states their constitutional right to determine their own abortion laws. In this podcast Faith Beyond Belief host Shafer Parker interviews Gabrielle Johnson, executive director of the Alberta Life Issues Education Society (Alies) to examine the changes wrought south of the Canadian border by this momentous decision. Parker and Johnson also discuss Alies' unique ministry and touch on the need for focused, concentrated, intense prayer as the primary means to reverse the march of pro-death advocates in Canada.   Learn more about ALIES https://www.alies.ca/   https://www.faithbeyondbelief.ca/podcast/everything-is-surprisingly-better-the-dobbs-decision-one-year-on

    48 min
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A podcast focused on preparing Christians to share the Christian worldview in everyday conversations. Shafer and Jon address the difficulties and challenges that Canadian Christians face in everyday conversations, and aim to demonstrate a winsome and well-informed response.

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