Following the liturgical calendar leading to Easter, this sermon describes the character change of the new covenant described in Jeremiah through the life, death, and resurrection - and the high priestly ministry of Christ.

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Paul Axton follows liturgical readings leading up to Easter. Here he explains what it means to be fallen and saved and how the cross takes us from one world to another.

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Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Divine simplicity, which done wrongly gives us ontotheology but correctly understood it forecloses any notion which would reduce God - including penal substitution.

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Paul Axton concludes his sermon series on Hebrews.

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Paul Axton preaches on Hebrews 12:2 - Despising the Shame. It demonstrates the transvaluation taking place in Hebrews. It is still a system which accounts for honor but under a different mode of valuation.

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In this podcast, Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the need for humility in reading scripture: Coming to the scripture with the attitude of desiring to be shaped by it as a part of the community of Christ.

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Paul completes his five-part series on Yukio Mishima. Mishima longs for a return to a childhood omniscience. He will achieve this through a tragic cause which justifies his suicide

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Paul Axton continues his sermon series on Hebrews. Hebrews 12 pictures a present tense encounter with Mount Zion and the Heavenly Jerusalem. Bad apocalypse pictures ultimate destruction but biblical apocalypse pictures recreation from out of the midst of the the undoing of this world's principalities and powers.

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Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Karl Barth's doctrine of election. Barth recovers a profound NT insight which puts a very different emphasis on predestination and election.

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Paul Axton continues preaching on Hebrews. Chapter 11 characterizes faith as the capacity to face the reality of death and to trust God. This resurrection faith does not fall into the lie of denying or fearing death. But as with Martin Luther King Jr., and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, there is an acceptance of suffering and futility and a capacity for endurance to be found in living by the vision of an alternative through faith.

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