Heavenly Minded, Earthly Good

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The crew sits down with Michael Allen to chat about his latest, Grounded in Heaven - Recentering Christian Hope and Life on God. Allen is the John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He’s also a multiple-time guest, making the professor a real Spin survivor!This time around, Michael challenges the contemporary idea of a new heaven and new earth with a more classical, Reformed term: visio Dei, or beatific vision. Does he mean that you can be so heavenly-minded that you’re no earthly good? How does being heavenly-minded inform the way we face life struggles? Allen gets personal answering these queries, and debunks a myth that heavenly-minded people are uninvolved or unproductive in social affairs. Michael keeps building his case, and even uses the word - wait for it - asceticism! Obviously, you don’t wanna miss this conversation…but, have a dictionary close at hand!Show Notes·The Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life by John Calvin·The words of Jesus in Matt. 13:44-46; Matt. 10:38-39; Matt 6:33We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to win a free copy of Grounded in Heaven, which is a generous gift of Eerdmans Publishing. Also, Dr. Allen and the Paideia Center for Theological Discipleship are offering five free registrations for their conference in Orlando this January (each, a $99 value). Register here for the opportunity to win one, if you intend to go!Congratulations to the winners of Still Protesting: Why the Reformation Matters, from our episode More Dangerous Than Yoga?Angelia C. - Bedford, VAMatt H. - Colorado Springs, COYvonne S. - Centreville, VA

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.4	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.5	Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.7	This is Amy Bird, and I'm excited to be talking with you today with my usual co-hosts, Carl Truman,
0:51.9	professor over at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, and Todd Pruitt,
0:57.7	influential reformed tweeter, who we all look forward to his next tweet, and we are holding
1:04.5	our breath for that one. But what we're really excited about today is our guest, who is a return
1:10.7	guest, and we like this guy so much that we actually accidentally caught him.
1:16.8	He must be on our speed dial or something like that, because we accidentally caught him when we were going to interview a different guest.
1:24.1	And he was gracious to us then as well.
1:26.9	He's like the Alec Baldwin of Saturday Night Live.
1:29.5	He's just keeping back.
1:31.2	I like that.
1:31.8	That's so good, Todd.
1:33.2	That's exactly what he's like.
1:34.6	And we're talking about our favorite Michael Allen.
1:37.7	He is John Dyer-Tremble, professor of systematic theology and academic dean over at
1:43.6	Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
1:46.3	And he has a new book out, which we are very excited to talk about, called Grounded in Heaven,
1:51.2	re-centering Christian hope and life on God.
1:54.3	Hi, Mike. How are you doing?
1:55.5	Hey, thanks, Amy.
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