The Cross before the Crown

Clark Moreland
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  • Christianity
  • Updated Weekly

A podcast supplementing a weekly study of the practical theology of C.S. Lewis at First Baptist Church, Midland, Texas, in Spring 2022. By Clark Moreland.

Episodes

  1. 03/12/2022

    The Cross before the Crown, Episode 5: Jesus, God's Son

    In this episode, Clark meditates on C.S. Lewis's "The Efficacy of Prayer" and how his son's prayer habits shed light on the importance of praying with the Personhood of God in mind.

  2. 02/12/2022

    The Cross before the Crown, Episode 4: Mathematical Certainty

    In this episode, Clark surveys C.S. Lewis's views of whether Christians ought to fight in wars, and offers two takeaways from Lewis's humble approach to complex ethical topics that "do not admit of mathematical certainty."

  3. 02/01/2022

    The Cross before the Crown, Episode 3: Place in this World

    In this episode of the Cross before the Crown podcast, Clark tells a story about presenting at an academic conference at the beginning of his career in 2008, and how he wishes he had heeded the wisdom about vocation and calling found in C.S. Lewis's "Learning in War-Time."

  4. 01/22/2022

    The Cross before the Crown, Episode 2: The Burn Scar

    In this episode of the Cross before the Crown podcast, Clark tells a story about hiking through a burn scar in the Gila Wilderness and how he came to discover one of the greatest lessons of his life after reading C.S. Lewis's "The Weight of Glory."

  5. 01/17/2022

    The Cross before the Crown, Episode 1: The Darkest Hour

    In this first Cross before the Crown podcast, Clark talks about how the Second World War helped inform C.S. Lewis's sermon "The Weight of Glory," and encourages us to see that following our "Great Captain" means more than merely being unselfish.

    The Cross before the Crown, Episode 1: The Darkest Hour
  • 5 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

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A podcast supplementing a weekly study of the practical theology of C.S. Lewis at First Baptist Church, Midland, Texas, in Spring 2022. By Clark Moreland.

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