Category: The Church
Episodes
October 11, 2019
We are the Living Temple of God
Cultivate a greater understanding of the relationship God desires to reestablish with us and discover more truth about our identity as God's beloved people.
October 4, 2019
We are the House of God
The fundamentals of a well-built house help us to better understand our identity as the Church.
September 27, 2019
We are the Family of God
Remembering that we, as believers, are members of the family of God encourages us toward reconciliation and reminds us that together we are restored to oneness with God through Jesus Christ.
September 20, 2019
We are the Bride of Christ
Gain a deeper understanding of the intimate nature of our relationship with God and discover what it means to be united with Christ.
September 13, 2019
We are the Body of Christ
Believers in the Church learn profound lessons about their identity and how they should function by studying the human body.
November 7, 2014
Challenges Facing the Gospel Today
Christians today are being confronted with a great deal of opposition. How should we think about these challenges? Perhaps more important, how should we respond to them?
October 31, 2014
The Gospel in Africa
This week on Groundwork we're going to think about missions and the growth and impact of Christianity throughout the world. Bishop Henry Luke Orombi joins us again to discuss Acts 8:26-40 and his experience with the gospel in Africa.
October 24, 2014
The Gospel Around the World
How should we think about the need for Gospel witness and mission in the 21st century? There's a great need for the gospel here at home and around the world. Special guest Bishop Henry Luke Orombi joins our conversation today to discuss this need and our response to it.
November 19, 2010
Christ & Culture
We often think that our religion is separate from our culture, but is it really? How easy is it to distinguish between a cultural practice and a religious practice? Take this a step further and we wonder, how does the relationship between religion and culture affect the relationship between Christians and Muslims both in the Middle East and here in North America? Special guest Monsieur (name changed to protect identity), an expert on the Middle East, joins us to discuss these questions.
November 12, 2010
Missions in a Facebook Age
Acts 1:8 stretches the Church from Jerusalem to Judea to the ends of the earth, this is this has long been the support for mission work. But the world today is closer at hand, we are easily connected with people all over the world by the click of a button. So what does a missionary look like today and has missions changed in this age of online social networking? Special guests Doug Van Bronkhorst and Eric, a young missionary to Central Asia.
November 5, 2010
Picking a Church in a Buyer's Market
Sometimes looking for a new church can seem a bit like looking at a bowl of alphabet soup. Most communities have more than one church, there are the local Baptists, Assemblies of God, Lutherans, Methodists, and Reformed congregations, or you can find the nearest Non-Denominational church. What does it all mean and how do you go about picking a church?
October 29, 2010
The Holy, Sinful Church
Humans are sinful, so are Christians, yet the church is holy. Some people can’t stand the church because they say it’s full of hypocrites. So does it make sense to say a community of sinners is the holy church? What difference does this identity make for a local community of faith?