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An Introduction to the Life and Work of Tim Keller at TGC Netherlands
TGC Podcast - November 10, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsAt TGC Netherlands 2023, Collin Hansen examines Tim Keller's life and ministry through the concept of "rings on a tree," revealing the different influences that shaped Keller as a believer and pastor. Hansen describes how Keller held an inspiring commitment to lifelong learning and spiritual for...
From Fatherlessness to Adoption: Embracing God as Our Heavenly Father
TGC Podcast - November 03, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn her message at TGC's 2022 Women's Conference, Blair Linne teaches on the importance of understanding the role of God as our Heavenly Father, especially in the context of healing from fatherlessness or difficult relationships with earthly fathers. Linne highlights these key points: The Bless...
Draw Wisdom and Strength from God’s Word
TGC Podcast - October 27, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGC's 2018 West Coast Conference, Bobby Scott teaches on 2 Timothy 3:10-17 and emphasizes the importance of being a bearer of the gospel and living a life centered on the Word of God. He challenges believers to consider whether our actions and words reflect the beautiful messag...
Canadian Pastors’ Forum 5: Biblical or Christian Counselling
TGC Canada Podcast - October 23, 2023 19:50 - 56 minutesOver the past decades, Christians have developed various approaches to counselling. Some call their method biblical counselling, others Christian counselling, and others will use use language like Christian psychology. How can we understand these various approaches to counselling? In this panel...
Canadian Pastors’ Forum 4: Israel and Hamas
TGC Canada Podcast - October 23, 2023 19:27 - 18 minutesIf you are a pastor, you probably have already fielded questions about the war between Israel and Hamas. Few of us our political experts. Yet Israel has a special place in our theological outlook of the world. And many Christians are asking questions about this conflict. How can we as pastors an...
Faithfully Discern Truth in the Midst of Godlessness
TGC Podcast - October 20, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGC's 2018 West Coast Conference, Juan Sánchez teaches the importance of discerning false teachers and ungodly influences within the church. He discusses the challenge of discerning between those who are open to repentance and those who are hard-hearted, unrepentant, and opposi...
The Power We All Need (Re-Release)
TGC Podcast - October 13, 2023 12:54 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratings“I want to be content in the presence of God with me, no matter what the circumstances are around me.” – David Platt David Platt preaches a message at TGC21 based in Hebrews 13:1-21. He begins by reminding us that we have an adversary who wants to destroy our intimacy with Jesus and divert his ...
Canadian Pastors’ Forum 3: Burnout
TGC Canada Podcast - October 11, 2023 01:30 - 52 minutesWe’ve all been hearing about increasing rates of burnout amongst pastors, we’ve been hearing about high rates of anxiety and depression, and we’ve also been hearing about this “Great Resignation” – the data seems to indicate that it was and is worse in the States than hear, but it does seem to be...
How to Live in the Fellowship of Christ’s Sufferings
TGC Podcast - October 06, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn this panel discussion from TGC's 2018 West Coast Conference, Collin Hansen, Ray Ortlund, Kevin DeYoung, and Juan Sánchez discuss the prevalence of suffering in the lives of faithful Christians, citing examples from history and encouraging listeners to embrace their own suffering as a means of...
How to Live Strengthened by the Grace of Christ
TGC Podcast - September 29, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGC's 2018 West Coast Conference, Kevin DeYoung teaches from 2 Timothy 2:1–13 on what it means for Christians to be strong, not according to their own strength, but by that which has been given to them by God through Christ. When Paul writes to Timothy, he compares spiritual s...
Suffering for the Gospel According to the Power of God
TGC Podcast - September 22, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGC's 2018 West Coast Conference, Michael Horton teaches on 2 Timothy: 9–18, encouraging believers to live unashamed of the gospel, even amid suffering. Focusing on the centrality of the gospel in suffering witness according to God's power within us, Horton says the ministry o...
Rely on God's Power Within You
TGC Podcast - September 15, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGC's 2018 West Coast Regional Conference, Ray Ortlund emphasizes the importance of enduring faithfulness and making sacred commitments to the Lord. He draws inspiration from the book of 2 Timothy and highlights the theme of God's enduring faithfulness. Ortlund reads verses fro...
Before You Share Your Faith! How to Be ‘Evangelism Ready’ (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - September 08, 2023 04:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsAre you ready to tell someone about Jesus? How can you be prepared? Matt Smethurst, author of Before You Open Your Bible and companion book Before You Share Your Faith, outlines seven tips for becoming “evangelism ready.” “The greatest obstacle to evangelism is not unbelievers,” Smethurst says....
The Strength Gen Z Christians Need
TGC Podcast - September 01, 2023 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsToday’s generation of young people is more anxious, more depressed, and less Christian than ever before. What is causing this? Chris Colquitt, campus minister for Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Northwestern University, explores how safetyism and fragility are hazards to Generation Z's m...
Rethink the Self (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - August 25, 2023 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsTrevin Wax, general editor of The Gospel Project and author of the book, Rethink Your Self, observes that today's common wisdom says you’re free to create yourself, design yourself, and define yourself. Yet the way of Jesus, Wax argues, would have us realize we’re already created, designed, and ...
Can Music Lead Someone to God? (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - August 18, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsGavin Ortlund—writer and pastor at First Baptist Church of Ojai (California)—ponders the question, why do we feel a sense of transcendence when we listen to beautiful music? Where does that feeling come from? What's the best explanation for it? Ortlund compares the naturalistic and theistic answ...
The Secular Longing (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - August 11, 2023 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsJeremy Treat, pastor at Reality LA in Los Angeles, observes how our longing for God does not disappear in a secular society. It just reappears in different forms: sports, politics, sexuality, and more. Treat describes how secular people today seek power, purity, and peace—traditionally sought in...
Why America Is Not a Christian Nation (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - August 04, 2023 04:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsMichael Horton explains why there is no such thing, in the new covenant, as a “Christian nation” apart from the worldwide body of Christ. “The problem with Christian nationalism is not that some Christians are taking a biblical idea too seriously,” says Horton, professor of systematic theology a...
How Beauty Compels Us to Pursue Justice (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - July 28, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIrwyn Ince—pastor and author of The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best—explains why beauty compels us to pursue justice. The harmony and goodness of beauty reflect God’s creation as it was meant to be. Redeemed by Christ’s death and resurrection, his followers shou...
Two Ways to Find Peace in an Anxious World (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - July 21, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsSarah Eekhoff Zylstra—co-author (with Collin Hansen) of the new book Gospelbound: Living with Resolute Hope in an Anxious Age—discusses some of the reasons anxiety is on the rise. She explains how Christians can find peace in two seemingly contradictory ways: by thinking big, and by thinking sma...
How Can Pastors Become Trusted Again? (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - July 14, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsPastor and apologist, Sam Allberry, addresses the reasons Christian pastors have become less trustworthy in society, and how they might become trusted again. Pastors need to appreciate why trust has been lost, Allberry says, and they should prioritize compassion, honesty, pointing people to Jesu...
Christians and Critical Race Theory (TGC Talks)
TGC Podcast - July 07, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsJustin Giboney—co-founder and president of the AND Campaign—addresses the self-serving lies conservative and progressives tell themselves about issues like justice, identity politics, and critical race theory. Many of us would prefer to be lied to rather than confronted with a truth that compl...
How to Strengthen Your Prayer Life
TGC Podcast - June 30, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsAt TGC Chicago's 2022 Regional Conference, Colin Smith moderates a panel discussion with Kevin DeYoung, H. B. Charles, and Juan Sánchez on on ways to enhance your prayer life. Kevin DeYoung defines prayer as, “a lifting of conversation in our hearts Godward.” They consider different practical w...
What Do We Do with Doubt?
TGC Podcast - June 23, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGCW22, Michael Kruger addresses the issue of doubt in Christianity, both in individual spiritual lives and within the larger culture. Kruger critiques two ineffective approaches to doubt: doubting shaming and intellectual superficiality. He argues that doubt should be approac...
Let the Lord’s Prayer Change You
TGC Podcast - June 16, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message from TGC Chicago's 2022 Regional Conference, Colin Smith teaches us how to pray the Lord’s prayer through five specific categories, drawing from Luke 11 when Jesus’s disciples actually requested that Jesus teach them topray, not how to pray. Smith highlights five things on which...
Cultivate a Healthy Marriage and Family
TGC Podcast - June 09, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsDuring a panel discussion led by Collin Hansen at TGCW22, Jackie Hill Perry, Preston Perry, Melissa Kruger, and Michael Kruger discuss what it looks like to have healthy, godly marriages. Both couples emphasize the need for respect, listening, authenticity, and confession. The panel also talks a...
Run to God in Prayer
TGC Podcast - June 02, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratings“God is so faithful. He says, ‘If you bring me your sin, if you uncover it before me, I will cover it. I will do the very thing that you're trying to do in your own strength and power. I will cover it in the blood of my Son.’” — Juan Sánchez In his message at TGC Chicago's 2022 regional confere...
How to Find Real Contentment in Christ Alone
TGC Podcast - May 26, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn her message at TGCW22, Lydia Brownback addresses the topic of contentment and points to where we can find true fulfillment for the things in our life that just don't feel quite right. When there is discontentment in our lives, there are usually two avenues we typically take to deal with it: ...
Explore the Heart of Jesus Through His High Priestly Prayer
TGC Podcast - May 19, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn his message at TGC Chicago's 2022 Regional Conference, Kevin DeYoung expounds on John 17, teaching us how to pray like Christ through his high priestly prayer. DeYoung summarizes Jesus’s prayer in three sections: Jesus prays for himself to be glorified, his disciples to be sanctified, and hi...
Canadian Pastors’ Forum 2: Liturgy
TGC Canada Podcast - May 17, 2023 17:02 - 1 hourThe Gospel Coalition Canada hosts a monthly podcast by Canadian pastors to resource the Canadian church. In this episode episode, Paul Carter, Paul Martin, Johnny Markin, RD Glenn, Jeff Eastwood discuss liturgy. Topics covered include: The impact of COVID on how we do offering, communion, etc.; ...
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