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Want more out of your investing returns so that you can reach your financial goals faster? Tune in as Jonathan Ang and Kelvin Seetoh share more about the elusive and fast-growing Super Stocks that will help you to accelerate your investing journey. Feel free to check them out on Instagram at @jangtheinvestor and @kelvestor!
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For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Drew Collins, Evan Rosa
Seeking and living a life worthy of our humanity. Theological insight, cultural analysis, and practical guidance for personal and communal flourishing. Brought to you by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.
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We exist to help all people be with Jesus, become like Jesus and do the works of Jesus in our city.
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Partnering your music journey since 1968. Getting down and intimate with #TheCityBois in our regular podcast as our team explores multiple conversational/trending topics in Lion City Singapore (atop the music-makin’ funkiness)! Maximising full usage of the Zoom LiveTrak L-8 interface (an essential for podcasters everywhere), the team interviews local bands such as shoegaze-indie outfit Coming Up Roses, and gives audio talk-throughs on simplifying your portable recording setup using Garageban ...
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Can music teach us how to live? In this interview Evan Rosa invites Daniel Chua—a musicologist, composer at heart, and Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong—to discuss his latest book, Music & Joy: Lessons on the Good Life. Together they discuss the vastly different ancient and modern approaches to music; the problem with seeing music f…
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“God’s redemptive plan is never about us - it is all about His glory revealed in and through us.” - @jasonchua.sgJason continues our sermon series, Immeasurably More, and study of Ephesians with a sharing on God’s eternal purpose and redemptive plan.God has always desired to dwell with humanity and to make Himself known to creation. When sin separa…
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“We were hopelessly sinful, but God made us a new creation in Christ to walk with Him in good works” - @timothyshaunIn week four of our sermon series, Immeasurably More, Tim taught from Ephesians 2:1-10, how God intervened when we were in hopeless condition — dead to sin, influenced by power, slave to the flesh and saved us immeasurably by making u…
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“The whole of human existence is like some sweet parable told in the most improbable place and circumstances. … God values our humanity. … One of the things that's fascinating about the Hebrew Bible is that it declared and was loyal to the fact that God is good and creation is good.” Novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson joins Miroslav Volf to d…
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“We are immeasurably empowered to be the means and embodiment of the fullness of Christ.” - @janicechinchernIn week 3 of our series Immeasurably More, Janice brought us a word based on Ephesians 1:15-23, where Paul prays for the Ephesian church to grow in wisdom and revelation of God, and for the following three points to be realities for them:1. T…
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Rev. William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove discuss the political, moral, and spiritual dimensions of poverty. Together, they co-authored White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, and they’re collaborators at the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. About Rev. W…
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“In a world where culture tries to define us, or we struggle to carve out our own identity amid chaos and confusion, we have a gift—a God-given identity.” - @andrejosiahPs. Andre continues our sermon series, Immeasurably More, with a sharing on how we are Immeasurably Rich in Christ.Our identity is deeply connected to what we believe gives our life…
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Julian of Norwich is known and loved for the lines revealed to her by God, “All shall be well and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” But beyond the comfort of this understandably uplifting phrase, what are theological and philosophical insights we might learn from this anonymous medieval Christian mystic and anchoress? Ryan …
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“Ephesians, more than any other epistle, demonstrates how important and central the church is to God’s plan and His purpose for mankind.” - @pehhan82We are starting a new sermon series titled “Immeasurably More”, which aims to uncover a biblical vision for the Church through the book of Ephesians. Over the next 10 weeks, we will dive into what God …
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Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was an influential philosopher and beloved author and speaker on Christian spiritual formation. He had the unique gift of being able to speak eloquently to academic and popular audiences, and it’s fascinating to observe the ways his philosophical thought pervades and influences his spiritual writings—and vice versa. In th…
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“The greatest resources in the family is what’s in the hearts and spirits of its sons and daughters.”Ps. Peh Han continued our sermon series on “Family”, with a sermon on The Original Story, where we discovered God’s original intention for family.Designed to be the optimal environment for growth, Eden was a garden of delight and pleasure for the fi…
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What does it mean to be fully alive and at peace with ourselves and our neighbors in the anxiety and fear of contemporary life? Joining Evan Rosa in this episode is Elizabeth Oldfield—a journalist, communicator, and podcast host of The Sacred. She’s author of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. Together they discuss life in her mic…
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“When we are covenanted in marriage, we are to die to our old selves, taking on the new identity of “we”, where all that we have and all that we are now belong to each other. And as we begin to operate as one in prayer, there is power and synergy because we are one in the Spirit.” - Tim & PatsyContinuing on with our series on ‘Family’, Tim & Patsy …
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“God’s view over our lives is the most important and critical because unlike other people’s views that change based on different factors, His view is stable, accurate and life-giving. if we want to know the truth of our lives, we need to know His perspective of us.” - @jennihohuanPs. Jenni shares about the importance of knowing our core identity as…
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Elizabeth Neumann served as the Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the Bush Administration, and came back to the White House again in 2017 to serve in the Trump Administration. Her job was to counter emerging right-wing extremism, fueled by long-standing anger, resentmen…
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“The truth is that we desperately need others to lead us closer to Christ. The call to honour leaders isn’t about inflating their pride, but diminishing our own.” - @andrejosiahToday, Ps. Andre shared on Rediscovering Spiritual Leadership, and unpacked what the Bible intended for spiritual leadership, as well as how we should respond as a community…
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Genuine disagreement is vanishingly rare. But to disagree with careful listening, empathy, respect, and independent thinking—it’s an essential part of life in a pluralistic democratic society. In this episode, legal scholar and author John Inazu joins Evan Rosa to talk about his new book, Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Diff…
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“Our hearts should be the source of our expression of our love for God and not the source of what leads us. We can’t depend or be led by our feelings.” - @jonathantwlJonathan shared about having An Undivided Heart and how this is God’s ultimate desire for our lives.Oftentimes we find ourselves with a divided heart because we are led by our feelings…
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We live in a time of disillusionment. Trust is waning in the public sphere, religious affiliation is on decline, and some feel a deep tension or ambivalence about their community—whether that’s a region, family, political party, or spiritual tradition. How should we think about the experience of disillusionment, particularly the threat of becoming …
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“In the face of rampant immaturity, God calls us to conduct ourselves for unity and serve one another with our gifts — building up the Body in Love, unto the fullness of Christ” - @timothyshaunSpeaking from Ephesians 4:1-13, Tim brought us a word titled “Built Up In Love”, encouraging us to walk in the manner worthy of God’s calling on our lives to…
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“Black motherhood has consistently been a contested space. Black women have just fought for their rights to be. And so when we say Black motherhood, to me, the reality of Black motherhood itself is the resistance. And we still stand and we claim what it means to be Black mothers. We've got to consistently stand firm trying to raise healthy children…
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“Life was always meant to be walked with God, close to God and where we regard Him in everything. Life was meant to be in Christ.” - David TanDavid shared the word and asked us to consider how we view success as Christians. He reminded us that the goal of our lives is knowing God intimately, and for our lives to reflect our closeness to God, in our…
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“Speaking the truth in love to one another, while difficult to do, is essential for our growth as individuals and collectively as the body of Christ, as we grow to become the mature church under the headship of Christ.” - @xianyiXianyi shared on “Speaking (and Hearing) the Truth in Love”, focusing on the verses in Ephesians 4:1-6 and 11-16. It’s im…
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On June 3,2024, Jürgen Moltmann died. He was one of the greatest theologians of our time. He was 98 years old. In this episode, Miroslav Volf eulogizes and remembers his mentor and friend. We then share a previously released conversation between Miroslav Volf and Jürgen Moltmann. This episode first aired in April 2021—and it includes Moltmann’s con…
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“Understanding that we are known deepens our grasp of our identity. Only God satisfies the innate desire we all have to be known.” - @janicechinchernJanice brought a sermon titled “Known by God” where she spoke life into the area of our identity as children of God. In a time of much uncertainty and instability concerning this matter, there is utmos…
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In the final week of our series “The Freedom We Long For”, Ps. Andre spoke on a heavy yet relevant topic of Lust & Love. In a culture where lust is prevalent, causing us to dehumanise and objectify others for our sexual pleasure, how can we cultivate a community that promotes healthy sexuality?In the New Testament, by the grace of God, we are enabl…
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“Anger is not the problem; it tells us something is wrong under the emotional, spiritual, or relational hood of our lives. We use anger to express our hurt or frustration, and to protect and preserve ourselves.” - @andrejosiahIn week seven of our sermon series, The Freedom You Long For, Pastor Andre shared about Anger and Patience. A common fallacy…
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417. The Freedom You Long For Series (Week 6): Approval Addiction & Secure Identity // Janice Chiern
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“God longs for us to bring our need for approval to Him, for Him to satisfy our desire and to free us from approval addiction to truly live pleasing to Him and others in secure identity.” - @janicechinchernJanice continues our current sermon series, The Freedom You Long For with a sharing on Approval Addiction & Secure Identity. Deep within all of …
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Mobilizing Hope in Women’s Prison: Discovering Agency, Community, and Creative Resilience / Sarah Farmer
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How do you find hope when you can only see yourself and your future in light of your past mistakes? When you’re certain that everyone on the outside looking in is doing the same, punishing you, immobilizing you, invisibilizing you…? Seems the only way out of that spiral is the “God Who Sees.” Practical theologian Sarah Farmer joins Evan Rosa to dis…
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416. The Freedom You Long For Series (Week 5): Bitterness & Forgiveness // Christine Indrali
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“When we release bitter judgement, it brings death. But when we release forgiveness, it brings life.” - @chrisvonneIn week 5 of “The Freedom You Long For”, Christine spoke on the topic of Bitterness & Forgiveness. In Hebrews 12:15, we learn of how we should not allow any bitter root to grow, as it will bring trouble to us and defile those around us…
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Peaceable Assembly: Protests, Collective Belonging, and Refuge in a Forgotten Right / John Inazu
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Protests dominate the news. And while we’re familiar with freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and freedom of the press—what about the freedom of assembly? The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution—also contains “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” But what exactly does that secure? How does this foundational, but often forg…
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“Envy exposes the idols of your heart, the sources of your identity, and where you derive your sense of worth; learn what you envy and you will know who you are.” - @andrejosiahWe are on week 4 of our sermon series “The Freedom You Long For”, Ps. Andre spoke on the topic of Envy & Contentment. We often hear the saying that “comparison is the thief …
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“If Eden represents a loving relationship with God and others, then hell is helpless isolation, and the church is where we find connection and acceptance.” - @timothyshaunTimothy continued our sermon series “The Freedom We Long For”, with a sharing on Shame and Vulnerability, where he discussed the destructive cycle of shame.Sharing from Genesis 3,…
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"Having lost a sense of the sacred, the only thing we want is acquisitiveness—more of everything. How can we break this vicious cycle of avarice? It seems to me that the only way we can possibly reign this in on ourselves is some retrieval of the sense of the sacred, something beyond ourselves. And I think that relearning humility—realizing that a …
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“Living the way of freedom that Jesus teaches is incompatible with the overconsumption prevalent in our society; the two are mutually exclusive. You must choose between God and Mammon.” - @andrejosiahIn week 2 of our sermon series “The Freedom You Long For”, Ps. Andre spoke on Greed & Generosity, and how there is a war over generosity in our lives.…
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Flannery O’Connor is known for her short stories in which “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” But it’s often those ugly, mean, disgusting, scandalizing, violent, weird, or downright hateful characters in Flannery O’Connor stories that become the vessels of grace delivered. So, how should we read Flannery O’Connor? Jessica Hooten Wilson (Pepperdine Univer…
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“In contrast to our culture’s view of freedom as liberation from constraints, biblical freedom is obtaining God’s supernatural power to overcome our desires for self-gratification and fulfill our deepest desire for love.” - @andrejosiahPastor Andre kicked off a new sermon series, The Freedom You Long For, with a sharing on life by the Spirit.Throug…
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This conversation is based on a free downloadable resource available at faith.yale.edu. Click here to get your copy today. “We may heed the call of Jesus to follow me and find him leading us right into the home we already have.” (Ryan McAnnally-Linz) What are the possibilities of homemaking in a world out of joint? What does it mean for Christians …
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Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. We need the world to understand it. Human embodied experience and material life in the world has a profound effect on our thinking—not just poetry a…
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“One of the great strategies of the enemy is to take the promises of God designed to set us free, and through the worship of self, turn them into shackles that exhaust and bind us.” - @andrew_gardenerPastor Andrew ministered at our service today and shared a sobering word on Falling Into Forgetfulness, and how idolatry has made its way into our ind…
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Chinese Political Theology: Protests in Blood Letters, Freedom, and Religion in China Today / Peng Yin
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Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. "There were a lot of people with moral courage to resist, to protest the communist revolutions, but few of them had the spiritual resource to questi…
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"Sometimes Jesus just needs us to go, pray and trust. Jesus will do the rest." - @dpmaDerek Ma challenged us by sharing his testimony of what God has done in his life over the years through the story of Ananias in Acts 9He expounds from the view of Ananias, who might not have understood God’s assignment initially, but acted in faith and trusted in …
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Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. What are the goals of education? Are we shaping young minds or corrupting the youth? Theologian Mark Jordan joins Matt Croasmun for a conversation a…
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“Obedience is not just one aspect of a believer’s life. It is the central guiding principle that shapes our identity, purpose and relationship with God.” - @chrisvonneChristine shared on The Priority Of Obedience, gleaning from the lives of Saul and Abraham, one whose selective obedience ultimately led to his demise, and another who demonstrated wh…
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Can you spare 3 minutes to take our listener survey? After the survey closes, we'll randomly select 5 respondents to receive a free, signed, and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Click here to take the survey! Thank you for your honest feedback and support! “For theology to be worth anything, it must traffic in r…
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The brokenness we see in our world today has a common root system, and that is the wickedness of the human heart. Sin does not just have a personal effect; it has a corporate effect and ripples out through the land. Do we carry in our hearts a sense of responsibility for the brokenness in our world? - @andrejosiahPastor Andre continued our Vision S…
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There’s a 500-year history of social justice activism that emerged from Christianity in the Americas, and it comes to us through the Brown Church. Rev. Dr. Robert Chao Romero (Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at UCLA) joins Evan Rosa to discuss the history of Christian racial justice efforts in the Americas, as well as a constructive and fai…
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“In a world devoid of absolute moral truths, we, as Christians, assert that the gospel embodies the utmost truth—that life in its fullness can only be found in Jesus and His kingdom. Any other attempt to find life is destined to fail.” - @andrejosiahPst Andre continued our Vision Series, with a sharing on Recovering Gospel Urgency.While many Christ…
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What would it mean for us to take Christianity seriously as a way of life, a set of practices and ways of being in the world—and not merely a list of beliefs? Theologian Kevin Hector (University of Chicago Divinity School) joins Ryan McAnnally-Linz for a discussion of his latest book, Christianity as a Way of Life. Together they reflect on the prac…
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“The message of Jesus is not to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses; rather, it is in your weakness that God’s strength is made perfect within you.“ - @andrejosiahWe started on our Vision Series, with an overarching theme of A Holy Discontent, challenging us to confront the shallowness of our spiritual discontent in a culture that …
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