S2 E78 What makes Paul a Christian and Being Redeemed Now (week of Oct. 9, 1st to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Taeger and Kerry address what Philippians can teach about the question of what makes Paul such a great Christian. What is it about who and what he is that enables him to be such an effective tool in spreading God's word? They also ask how we can accept others when they have motives and ideas that our different from ours. They then explore the difference between justification, sanctification, and perfectionism. They discuss how we can be changed by Christ and belong to Christ and the Father. They analyze the metaphor of life as a race and pressing forward in that race. They talk about what it means to be redeemed by Christ, even right now, at this present time in our lives.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for our editor, BJ Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them. |
| 0:16.0 | And we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein. and today I have with me my my longtime friend |
| 0:21.5 | and colleague, Dr. Stefan Tager, who is a professor of ancient scripture in the same |
| 0:29.9 | department that I'm in. I think you've got your PhD here, specializing in what we call |
| 0:35.1 | homiletics, which is, he'll give you a better definition of this, |
| 0:39.5 | but it's drawing lessons from scriptures and from what we read and being able to use those |
| 0:46.4 | in a way that we can draw real lessons from them. And he also taught the Seminary and the Seminary |
| 0:52.8 | and Institute program for a number of years, and it's just a gifted teacher. |
| 0:56.1 | So, and I met him first, him and his wife, as we are going along some pioneer trails and four-wheel drives in Wyoming together. |
| 1:05.7 | So he's got a wonderful wife as well. |
| 1:07.5 | So welcome, welcome. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you, Gary. I'm glad to be here. Why don't you tell us a little bit more? What else should we know about you? |
| 1:14.9 | Sure. So my PhD is in instructional psychology, but my research is in homiletics, |
| 1:18.3 | which is the study of preaching. So I'm really interested in the principles and practices |
| 1:23.9 | of communicating scripture. And specifically, I study narrative preaching and how to storytelling and story structure relate |
| 1:32.1 | to communicating the gospel. |
| 1:34.1 | And I teach Book of Mormon on campus. |
| 1:36.5 | And I also teach the New Testament as well. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:40.3 | Well, we are glad to have you with us today. |
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