Recent Episodes:
Jesus: The Word of God
June 14th, 2013
When the fullness of no less than Almighty God comes down to earth in human form, you would expect that God would bring so much to this world that you could never exhaust the possible ways of talking about it. The New Testament writers knew that was true of the Son of God who was born Jesus of Nazareth. So they reached for lots of images to describe various aspects of ...John 1:1-5, 14 & Isaiah 55:1-3, 10-11
Love
June 7th, 2013
Turn on almost any music radio station and there’s a good chance you’ll hear a song about love within a matter of minutes – but open the newspaper or read your favorite online news site and it’s likely to take you a few pages of stories before you read about love. So how much is love really reflected in our culture? Is it the same love the Bible describes?<...1 Corinthians 13
Hope
May 31st, 2013
Hope is in short supply today. The world is unstable, with terrorism and war looming large. If that isn’t enough to chill your hope, consider the current state of the economy. Or look at the smaller world of your own life: family problems, health problems, money problems; suffering in mind, body and spirit. And if things are going pretty well for you at the moment, just remember: none o...Romans 5:1-5 & Romans 15:4
Faith
May 24th, 2013
“Have Faith.” “Don’t lose faith.” We use phrases like these to comfort and encourage each other all the time. As Christians, faith is a huge part of our religion. But what exactly IS faith and how do we get it?
Hebrews 11The Christian Virtues
May 17th, 2013
What makes a good person? Not quite the same as asking what makes a person good. A person becomes good by doing good things, but a good person is someone who has mastered the art of living well and has learned what it means to be a proper human being. What qualifications do we use to decide whether a person is“good”? Let’s talk about virtues.
Ephesians 4:1-3, 17-24Joseph’s Triumph
May 10th, 2013
One of the ideas that people really seem to cling to is that if you're good and obedient and virtuous, God will reward you with blessing-- happiness, a peaceful life, comfortable circumstances. This, despite all experience to the contrary, not to mention all the contrary evidence of scripture; to take just one obvious example, today on Groundwork we look at the life of Joseph. Seized by h...Genesis 41-50
Joseph: The Dream Master
May 3rd, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr. once told the world, “I have a dream,” and his dream inspired millions. But sometimes dreams can make life hard for the person who has them. Just ask Joseph. He had a dream of a future in which he’d be an important person, the most important person in his family, in fact. And although in the Book of Gene...Genesis 37-41
