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Beyond the Council of Jerusalem, The Unresolved Crisis of the Gentile Jewish Church, Paul in Athens
“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” This famous question, posed by the early Church Father Tertullian, captures the ultimate identity crisis of the early Church. In this episode, we travel to Athens, the intellectual capital of the ancient world, where the Apostle Paul stepped directly into a philosophical crossfire. While Paul masterfully used Greek ideas to speak to the Gentiles on the Areopagus, he was soon fighting a desperate battle to keep this burgeoning global movement tethered to its spiritual home of Jerusalem.
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The Lord of the Rings & the Bible, Frodo’s Journey, JRR Tolkien & CS Lewis Podcast
Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien was a devout Christian who carefully embedded profound Christian themes into The Lord of the Rings? Throughout his epic tale of Middle-earth, Tolkien wove in ideas of moral choice, temptation and resilience, mercy, redemption, providence, and the quiet triumph of good over evil, without overt allegory. These themes shine especially clearly in the journey of Frodo Baggins, the ordinary hobbit who shoulders an extraordinary burden.
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Is Ramesses II the Exodus Pharaoh?
For centuries, popular imagination has cast one man as the hard-hearted ruler who defied Moses: Ramesses II, the longest-reigning and most self-promoting pharaoh in Egyptian history. Hollywood loves him. Documentaries love him. Yet the evidence—biblical, chronological and archaeological—quietly but firmly shows he is the wrong man; let’s discover why.
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The Kings of England and the Mystery of their Graves: Why are they Buried in so many Places?
On my tours of ancient English churches, cathedrals and monasteries, I stumbled on something momentous. You turn a corner in a religious building and suddenly there is it, an effigy of a King of England with the statement: Here lies…King of England. I’ve visited the sites of the burials of forty-two kings of England (or Wessex) and each location tells a story about England or Britain, in that period of time.
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Pentecostal Outpourings, Stephen Jeffreys, Rees Howells & the Charismatic Renewal
The charismatic experience widely referred to as the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, accompanied by speaking in unknown tongues with interpretation, was manifested in the twentieth century at the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, in 1906. Similar manifestations later attended meetings in the British Isles at Sunderland in 1907, from which the first Pentecostal movement in Britain grew under the leadership of an Anglican vicar, Alexander Boddy.
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Visiting Ancient Ephesus: St Paul and the Jew Gentile Controversy
A visit to the ruins of ancient Ephesus is a journey through one of the most remarkable cities of the Roman world. As we walked the marble-paved Curetes Street under the boiling sun, the past felt vividly alive—especially when reflecting on the Apostle Paul’s transformative time here in the mid-first century AD.
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Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia, Jabal al-Lawz, Fake or True?
For centuries, pilgrims and scholars have sought the sacred peak where Moses received the Ten Commandments. But the very location of Mount Sinai remains shrouded in mystery, sparking a fierce debate: does the holy mountain rise from the familiar sands of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, or does it stand hidden amongst the rugged terrain of Saudi Arabia, a claim that challenges long-held traditions and archaeological interpretations?
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Retracing David Livingstone’s Kalahari Desert Expedition – Makgadikgadi Salt Pan Documentary
In the heart of Botswana lies one of Earth’s most unforgiving landscapes: the vast, blinding Makgadikgadi Salt Plains of the Kalahari Desert. In 1849, David Livingstone became the first European to cross the entire Kalahari Desert and we follow in his amazing footsteps.
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Does Jesus Love the State of Israel? Is Replacement Theology Deception?
Some Christians confidently teach that God has permanently replaced Israel with the Church. But what if this doctrine directly contradicts what Jesus Himself taught?
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Hope against Hope: Comfort and Optimism for Christians – Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth century anchoret, was contemplating the reason for suffering and pondered a time in her life when she desired death to life. In her turmoil of prayer and faith, God spoke these words of comfort to her...
