Podcast Episodes

The two loves

The French call it l’esprit d’escalier—which means something like ‘the wit of the staircase’. It’s that clever thing you wished you’d said but only t…

4 years, 6 months ago

I believe in alien life

As flagged last week, the Bible often sees the Christian life as a matter of “faith, love and hope”. “These three”, as Paul describes them 1 Corinthi…

4 years, 6 months ago

These three

Amidst the disorienting sadness of the last week following my mother’s death, gratitude keeps breaking through—not only for her life and faith, but f…

4 years, 7 months ago

The lordless power of Sport

While keeping an eye on the women’s K1 slalom (“Jess is making a real statement here!”) and occasionally flicking across to see if the tall, lumpy de…

4 years, 8 months ago

Take heed

This is one of the free public Payneful Truth posts that I put out once a month. If you’d like to get every edition, every week, see the info at the …

4 years, 8 months ago

Seven types of 'apologetics': Part 2

In last week’s edition we began looking at seven types of ‘apologetics’ that are scattered across the spectrum of our interactions with the non-Chris…

4 years, 8 months ago

Seven types of 'apologetics'

I did some training with the CBS staff recently on ‘apologetics’, and how it relates to ‘evangelism’. And as I did so, I realised that one of our pro…

4 years, 8 months ago

How to grow left-lookers

A special welcome to the new partners who have signed up in the last week or two. Great to have you as part of the conversation.

I suggested in last w…

4 years, 9 months ago

Move right, look left

Welcome to another free, public edition of The Payneful Truth. (I’m now sending these freebies out in the third week of each month.) Here’s what you …

4 years, 9 months ago

You knitted me together

We have another grandson on the way. We’re still a few months away from meeting him, but his parents have already decided what he’ll be called, and h…

4 years, 9 months ago