We decided to wrap up Season One of Red River Reformed by discussing some fantastic listener questions.

Season Two of Red River Reformed will focus on the Ten Commandments. Make sure to subscribe so that you get notified when we begin posting new episodes.

Here are the questions we discuss in this episode:

1. What does it mean when we say God “condescends”?
2. How does The Fall impact the dominion we are to hold over the whole earth?
3. Does dominion over the earth mean all of creation or just this planet?
4. In S1.E2 we discussed “subduing”. Subduing implies a struggle against an undesired state of being for that which we subdue. What state of being is being subdued? And why is this state being resisted?
5. In S1.E3 we discussed how God didn’t “need” Creation. Human motivation is often defined by needs fulfilled and unfulfilled. How do we possibly understand the motivations of God who needs nothing?
6. Do you think general revelation makes worship obligatory? what of the “un-elect”? Are they obliged to worship? Would not their praise be meaningless?
7. Aside from His unbound sovereignty, is it God’s unblemished righteousness that makes Him the only being fit to judge all things? Would pre-Fall Adam have been fit to judge things?
8. In Anglican liturgy, why are we encouraged to “boldly” say the Lord’s Prayer?
9. In our discussions about art, beauty, and subcreation we talked a lot about beauty in our lives as Christians. What is the role of beauty in the life of the Church? Should our churches and our worship be beautiful? Why?
10. What do we think about penal substitution?

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Doctrine of Creation: Episode Eight

On this episode we discuss the Sabbath as the culmination of the biblical creation narrative, the purpose of the Sabbath within the creation order, and the ongoing significance of the Sabbath for our life and witness as Christians and as the Church.

Here are some questions we discuss:

• What is the Sabbath?

• How does the Sabbath help us understand and live in time as the people of God?

• What kinds of work can and should be done on the Sabbath? What should be avoided on the Sabbath?

• Why is Sabbath keeping both a joy and a duty for us as the people of God?

• What is the Sabbath meant to teach us about God's providence and our place in the world?

• How can Sabbath reform us as Christians and strengthen our prophetic witness to the world?

This wraps up Season One of Red River Reformed. Thanks for listening! Next week we will do a mailbag question, responding to listener questions, before getting to work on Season Two where we will discuss the Ten Commandments.

If you have found these discussions interesting or helpful, please subscribe, leave a 5-star rating, and share the podcast with others who are interested in having honest conversations about God, his Word, his Church, and his world, as we work together to build up the Church in Winnipeg and beyond.

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On this after hours episode, we have a little fun.

Nic curated a list of 20 theologians from various Christian traditions for Will and Jerome to sort into a trendy-tier list from "S" to "F" and everything in between.

This is one of the first episodes we recorded together. We hope you have some laughs while learning something about the history of Christian theology and its theologians.

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Doctrine of Creation: Episode Seven

On this episode we discuss God's providence, his work of sustaining and governing all things in creation.

Here are some questions we discuss:

• How does God relate to creation?

• Does God continue to actively work in the world that he has made? Why is this question important?

• Why does God care about the details of our lives?

• What is the doctrine of God's providence?

• Is there a limit to God's governing and sustaining work?

• What kinds of attitudes, dispositions, and actions should a knowledge of God's providence create?

Our series on the doctrine of creation is almost finished! We have one more episode of the Sabbath and may do a special mailbag episode to wrap things up.

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Doctrine of Creation: Episode Six

On this episode we discuss a Christian understand of art that is grounded in a biblical understanding of creation.

Here are some questions we discuss:

• Why should Christians care about art?

• How does God use beauty to teach and form us?

• What makes a work of art objectively beautiful?

• How can the Church reclaim the pursuit of excellence in art that glorifies God?

• How does art shape our desires?

• How does art in a particular time and place reflect the cultural and philosophical movements of its time?

• How should we seek to find a create beautiful art as followers of Jesus?

Our series on the doctrine of creation will continue in future episodes. We will cover topics like the creation and providence, and the Sabbath.

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After hours is the time that we take a break from our series to chat about something we find interesting.

In this After Hours episode, we talk about the doctrine of creation in the literature of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, particularly Tolkien's Legendarium, including the Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings, and the Chronicles of Narnia.

If you have not read these books before, what are you waiting for? They could change your life and kindle your imagination to see God's world and read his Word in a much richer way.

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Doctrine of Creation: Episode Five

We continue our series on the doctrine of creation by discussing the theme of sub-creation. This is how we, as human beings, participate in God's creative work by shaping and forming what God has made in a way that ennobles creation by drawing out greater truth, goodness, and beauty to the glory of God.

Here are some questions we discuss:

• What is sub-creation?

• What do we learn about sub-creation in Genesis 2?

• What makes a human creation good?

• Will there be continuity between this world and God's new creation? What does this mean for our creative work?

• How does our creative work relate to our identity and vocation as God's image bearers?

• How can we help our families and churches appreciate and create true, good, and beautiful things?

• What makes a creative work last for generations?

Our series on the doctrine of creation will continue in future episodes. We will cover topics like the sabbath, creation and art, and eschatology in relation to creation.

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Doctrine of Creation: Episode Four

We continue our series on the doctrine of creation by discussing the essence of the image of God, the history of how the image of God has been interpreted in the Church, the vocation of humanity as God's image bearers in creation, and the ethical implications of the universal image of God in humanity.

Here are some questions we discuss:

• What is the essence of the image of God in humanity?

• How has the image of God been understood? And, what are the implications of these approaches?

• Can a human being lose the image of God? What does it mean to be conformed to the image of Christ?

• What is Christian humanism?

• How does the image of God relate to our human vocation?

• What are the ethical and relational implications of the image of God in humanity?

• Why is biblical anthropology good news for us and for contemporary western culture?

Our series on the doctrine of creation will continue in future episodes. We will cover topics like the sub-creation, sabbath, and eschatology in relation to creation.

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