XtianNinja's "Of Interest"
165 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingXtianNinja's "Of Interest" podcast is full of personal reflections, interesting articles, helpful resources, and a leisurely study of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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Al Descheneau (XtianNinja) has Masters of Divinity and 20 years of experience as a teacher, pastor, writer, counsellor, blogger, podcaster, and digital media nerd.
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Episodes
As One Beggar to Another (Introduction to the Gospel of John Series)
October 29, 2019 20:31An Introduction to the Gospel of John Please open up to John 20:30-21, but before we jump in and read it, we need a little context. We are starting a series on the Gospel of John today, but I don’t’ want to jump straight into verse one. In fact, we’re going to start near the […]
Elijah: A Nature Like Ours – Burnout, Depression & The Let-Down Effect
July 20, 2019 15:06Turn with me to 1 Kings 18:1–40 and I want to read two stories about the prophet Elijah today, but we need to read a large section so we can get the whole story. A lot has already happened up to this point, but you’ll figure out how things are going as we read. […]
Why Jesus, Only Jesus? (Does Roman Catholic Doctrine Lead to Salvation?)
May 28, 2019 14:38Turn with me to Hebrews 1 and we’re going to read some scriptures there about the supremacy of Jesus. The whole message of Hebrews is an argument about how Jesus is better than anything and anyone. The people who first heard this message were Jewish Christians who were under a lot of growing persecution. […]
How Do I Experience The Power of God? (HC:LD18c)
May 22, 2019 19:03Imagine following in the footsteps of Moses – how huge a task that would be. Moses is probably the most important person in the Old Testament. It was through Moses that the nation of Israel was delivered from Egypt. It was Moses that led and judged the people for decades. It was Moses that […]
The Gift of the Holy Spirit (HC:LD18b)
May 14, 2019 19:33Turn with me to Luke 24:50-53 and then we’ll be headed into Acts 1. Luke and Acts are actually two parts of the same work, both written in about 60-70AD by Luke, a gentile, Christian doctor who travelled with the Apostle Paul and was commissioned by someone named Theophilus to write a history of the […]
Why Did Jesus Leave? (HC:LD18a)
May 07, 2019 21:12A Farewell Address in the Upper Room On the night before Jesus went to the cross, He had a lot of things to say to His disciples in the Upper Room. Matthew, Mark and Luke give some of the story like what Jesus said and did, but it is the Gospel of John, written […]
Jesus Rose From the Dead? So What!? (HC:LD17B)
May 02, 2019 11:00Last week we looked at 1 Corinthians 15 in light of how critical the resurrection of Jesus Christ is to not only Christians but to the very meaning of life itself. We read it last week during the Easter service and I said that we’d be revisiting it today because there’s more to see […]
The Resurrection is EVERYTHING. (HC:LD17a)
May 01, 2019 15:36A lot of us are like those two followers walking down the road to Emmaus. They start out, perplexed, anxious, disappointed in how things have turned out, confused about God’s plan, talking to one another about things they don’t understand, and hoping that if they keep walking away, that somehow they will leave […]
EPIC (for Palm Sunday)
April 16, 2019 21:09Chapter 1: The Beginning “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) This is the start of our story. Notice how I said that it’s the start of our story. Not the beginning of The Whole story. Just our part. God is eternal, existing before there was either heaven or […]
Lord, Is This Normal? (Jesus, Founder and Perfecter – HC:LD16)
April 09, 2019 17:43When doing any kind of experiment or making any kind of change, you need to establish a “baseline”, a starting point that serves as the one, known point of measurement that everything else will be compared to. Whether you’re studying climate change, time zones, altitude, typography, medicine, or physics, you need somewhere to start. […]
Why Must We Suffer? (HC:LD15)
March 27, 2019 18:40If you recall back to the last series of weeks in our study of the Heidelberg Catechism you’ll remember that we’ve been talking a lot about the question, “Who is Jesus?”. This part of the Heidelberg is going through the Apostles Creed and we are on the second section that speaks of what Christians believe […]
Contemplating Sin & Rebirth (Lent 2019)
March 19, 2019 16:38“From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who […]
Lent & The Beatitudes (Lent 2019)
March 12, 2019 17:04“Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, […]
Why is Jesus Called “Only Begotten Son” and “Lord”? (HC:LD13)
February 19, 2019 15:55The question we’ve been answering for the past few weeks is “Who is Jesus?” We’re going through the Heidelberg Catechism, which, at this point, is taking us through a line-by-line, word-by-word study of the Apostles Creed, the oldest and most reliable summary of Christian beliefs we have. It goes all the way back to […]
Why is Jesus Called “Christ”? (HC:LD12)
February 14, 2019 12:00Turn with me to Mark 8:27-33. This scripture occurs in the final year of Jesus’ earthly ministry as His focus has grown more steadily towards His journey to Jerusalem and the cross. He has already gathered His disciples and they have been with Him for a couple years. He has already done much travelling and […]