A Time to Think

Downtown Mission Church
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Careful engagement and thoughtful responses to important issues in culture and the church.

  1. MAR 11

    Failed Project: Pluralism

    Pluralism is a cultural value in the modern West. Chris and Josh define pluralism and describe its influence upon popular thinking. Then they move to discuss why Christians need to be able to disagree well with pluralistic claims.

    46 min

  2. MAR 1

    A Time to Ponder: Conferences and Devotion

    Chris and Josh take a moment between podcast series to reflect on a recently attended pastors' conference. Listen in to ponder the role of abnormal times of devotion and reflection in the Christian life.

    50 min

  3. FEB 5

    What We Affirm: The Restoration of All Things

    Our focus is often diverted from the right things when we think of the last things. "End timess" discussions tend to focus on disagreements over the timing of the return of Christ. But, in this podcast Chris and Josh focus on what Christians should agree on, namely the sure judgment of Christ and the eternal happiness of Christ's people with him.

    43 min

  4. JAN 30

    What We Affirm: Baptism and the Lord's Supper

    Josh and Chris continue the What We Affirm series by talking about the two means of grace. In baptism and the Lord's Supper, God promises blessing to his people.

    1h 3m

  5. JAN 4

    What We Love: Friendship in the Church

    During a tangentially related episode to our What We Affirm series, Chris and Josh discuss the nature and necessity of friendship within the church.

    1h 15m

  6. 12/30/2025

    What We Affirm: God's New People

    We believe that God’s new covenant people have already come to the heavenly Jerusalem; they are already seated with Christ in the heavens. This universal church is manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head; thus each “local church” is, in fact, the church, the household of God, the assembly of the living God, and the pillar and foundation of the truth. The church is the body of Christ, the apple of his eye, graven on his hands, and he has pledged himself to her forever. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her members’ love for one another and for the world. Crucially, this gospel we cherish has both personal and corporate dimensions, neither of which may properly be overlooked. Christ Jesus is our peace: he has not only brought about peace with God, but also peace between alienated peoples. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both Jew and Gentile to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. The church serves as a sign of God’s future new world when its members live for the service of one another and their neighbors, rather than for self-focus. The church is the corporate dwelling place of God’s Spirit, and the continuing witness to God in the world.

    50 min

  7. 12/02/2025

    What We Affirm: Kingdom of God

    We believe that those who have been saved by the grace of God through union with Christ by faith and through regeneration by the Holy Spirit enter the kingdom of God and delight in the blessings of the new covenant: the forgiveness of sins, the inward transformation that awakens a desire to glorify, trust, and obey God, and the prospect of the glory yet to be revealed. Good works constitute indispensable evidence of saving grace. Living as salt in a world that is decaying and light in a world that is dark, believers should neither withdraw into seclusion from the world, nor become indistinguishable from it: rather, we are to do good to the city, for all the glory and honor of the nations is to be offered up to the living God. Recognizing whose created order this is, and because we are citizens of God’s kingdom, we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, doing good to all, especially to those who belong to the household of God. The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of God’s sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation. The kingdom of God is an invasive power that plunders Satan’s dark kingdom and regenerates and renovates through repentance and faith the lives of individuals rescued from that kingdom. It therefore inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God.

    47 min

  8. 11/26/2025

    What We Affirm: The Holy Spirit

    We believe that this salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and is present with and in believers. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by his powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, and in him they are baptized into union with the Lord Jesus, such that they are justified before God by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. By the Spirit’s agency, believers are renewed, sanctified, and adopted into God’s family; they participate in the divine nature and receive his sovereignly distributed gifts. The Holy Spirit is himself the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

    53 min
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Careful engagement and thoughtful responses to important issues in culture and the church.

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  • Creator
    Downtown Mission Church
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    117
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Downtown Mission Church
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    A Time to Think