Podcast Episodes

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Before we get started, some news to share: you can now read The Payneful Truth in the new Substack app for iPhone.

With the app, you’ll have a dedicat…

4 years, 5 months ago

It's a revelation

It’s funny how the big puzzle in a Bible passage can often distract you from seeing the smaller enigma.

For example, in 1 Cor 14, the question I immed…

4 years, 5 months ago

To love or to speak?

I was speaking at a church camp this last weekend on the familiar topic (for me at least) of why the one-another speech of the Christian community is…

4 years, 5 months ago

The 2wtl Book: Chapter 4 (pt 2)

As promised, here is the next instalment in the gospel book you’re helping me write. I felt a bit excited and daunted at the same time working on thi…

4 years, 6 months ago

Why be a small group member?

As small groups get started for another year (in my part of the world) I thought it might be useful to write something on ‘How to be a small group me…

4 years, 6 months ago

The 2wtl book: Chapter 4 (pt 1)

Here’s the next chapter of the evangelistic book you’re helping me write. It’s a bit longer than the earlier chapters—more like 3000 words than 2000—…

4 years, 7 months ago

Conducting an exposé

For our first Q&A interview for 2022, I figured it was time to sit down with Phillip Jensen and have a chin wag. As is usually the case when we get t…

4 years, 7 months ago

The justice of God

Well, we finished off last year with a merry little Christmas post about sin, and we start the New Year full of zip and optimism with 2000 words abou…

4 years, 7 months ago

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

I like Christmas, in a bittersweet kind of way. It’s beautiful and fun and full of hope, but also complex and difficult and sometimes sad. My mother …

4 years, 8 months ago

An intro to the intro

Well, as promised, I’ve written the first draft of an introduction to the Two Ways to Live evangelistic book I’m hoping we can write together. (There…

4 years, 9 months ago