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Interview with Sean Cole
I’m a very task-oriented person and I resonate with being told what to “do” in order to “get busy” serving Jesus. I didn’t have that great of a grasp on who I was in Christ. In seminary, one of my professors heavily emphasized “being before doing” and that has stuck with me since...
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Knowing the World Behind, In, and Around the New Testament

Interview with Michael Bird
Knowing the world behind, in, and around the New Testament enables us – in movie terms – to see things in digital, colour, three dimensional precision. It adds clarity, depth, realism, and clarity. You just understand the New Testament better and are less prone to weird anchronisms...
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An Open Letter to

An Open Letter to the “Dones” (and “Nones”)

Thoughts to those who identify as Christians but have given up on church
If you’re “done” with church and institutional religion, the main thing I want to say to you is: I get it. I’ve been there. I see it too. I’ve also experienced it – more than I wish were the case. Churches can be very proud, judgmental, inward-focussed, exclusivist social or ethnic gatherings with little meaningful connection to the heartbeat and mission of Jesus in this world that God loves to death...
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Seeing God in Everyday Glory: Sex, Leaves, Romance, etc.

Interview with Gerald McDermott
...even when sexual intercourse seems fulfilling to each partner, both are sometimes left with a thirst for more. If not physical fulfillment, then more emotional and spiritual union with each other.
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Arts and Entertainment Media

You Should Know Flannery O’Connor

The Consummate Orthodox Outsider
O’Connor’s intense religious devotion, along with her father’s death when she was only a teenager, and then her own long struggle with lupus, are some of the crucial elements of her life that formed and informed her writing and gave her the uncommon voice she is rightly celebrated for (and often misunderstood because of)...
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Back to the Basics of Christianity

Interview with Sean Cole

Knowing the World Behind, In, and Around the New Testament

Interview with Michael Bird

Seeing God in Everyday Glory: Sex, Leaves, Romance, etc.

Interview with Gerald McDermott

You Need to Know Geerhardus Vos

Interview with Danny Olinger

What if Adam & Eve Never ate the Fruit?

Interview with Rowland Ward

Looking at God's Face

Interview with Hans Boersma

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The SIX questions we all ask

What is the Gospel?

What is the “Gospel” and what practical implications does the Gospel make in my everyday life? For many it’s heaven to gain and a hell to shun – only applying to our afterlife.

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What is sin?

What is “sin” and what is so terrible about it? And what is my motivation to not sin?Especially since our favorite sins like sex, porn, gossiping, selfishness, drunkenness, etc. are things we actually really enjoy. 

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Why did God create me?

What is God’s end goal for this world, all humans of this world, and me personally? Where is He taking it and what does it look like for me to be a part of that goal? 

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How can I change?

How can I, as a Christian who fully believes the Gospel, be compelled to genuinely desire God and His kingdom enough to become a true disciple – willing to consider all things loss in comparison? 

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What are God's thoughts of me?

As a Christian, at the end of a long day (when I have done what I ought not to have done – and not done what I ought to have done) what are God’s thoughts of me when I lay down my head at at night and fall asleep?

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What is my mission?

What is God’s mission given to us and how do I fulfill it without it becoming a
feeling of another thing I have to do for God? And based upon that, What is needed at the personal, and church level to shape culture and to be on strategic mission?

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The Laymen’s Lounge is a resource for everyday Christians (those who make up the majority of the Church) to learn how to do everyday life with other everyday theologians. Theology is for laymen too: all people of faith need to seek understanding of how work and play, at home, the office, the garden, or anywhere else, relates to the God of the gospel and the gospel of God. 

Theology is about paying attention to God’s presence and activity in all areas of life. Here in the Lounge you will find help in answering key questions, such as “What is the gospel?” and “Why did God create me?” We will bring scholars, professors, pastors, and missionaries into the lounge to help us wrestle with questions and issues that are part and parcel of daily living. 

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Interviews Theologians

Back to the Basics of Christianity

Interview with Sean Cole
I’m a very task-oriented person and I resonate with being told what to “do” in order to “get busy” serving Jesus. I didn’t have that great of a grasp on who I was in Christ. In seminary, one of my professors heavily emphasized “being before doing” and that has stuck...
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Interviews Theologians

Knowing the World Behind, In, and Around the New Testament

Interview with Michael Bird
Knowing the world behind, in, and around the New Testament enables us – in movie terms – to see things in digital, colour, three dimensional precision. It adds clarity, depth, realism, and clarity. You just understand the New Testament better and are less prone to weird anchronisms...
Read More
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An Open Letter to

An Open Letter to the “Dones” (and “Nones”)

Thoughts to those who identify as Christians but have given up on church
If you’re “done” with church and institutional religion, the main thing I want to say to you is: I get it. I’ve been there. I see it too. I’ve also experienced it – more than I wish were the case. Churches can be very proud, judgmental, inward-focussed, exclusivist social or...
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Interviews Theologians

Seeing God in Everyday Glory: Sex, Leaves, Romance, etc.

Interview with Gerald McDermott
...even when sexual intercourse seems fulfilling to each partner, both are sometimes left with a thirst for more. If not physical fulfillment, then more emotional and spiritual union with each other.
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Arts and Entertainment Media

You Should Know Flannery O’Connor

The Consummate Orthodox Outsider
O’Connor’s intense religious devotion, along with her father’s death when she was only a teenager, and then her own long struggle with lupus, are some of the crucial elements of her life that formed and informed her writing and gave her the uncommon voice she is rightly celebrated for (and...
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You Need to Know Geerhardus Vos

Interview with Danny Olinger
Vos would emphasize the Old Testament is a book of redemption that bears an organic connection to the salvation that has come in Jesus Christ. There is no separation between the Old Testament work of God and the work of Jesus. The two constitute a single body of supernatural revelation...
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An Open Letter to Christians Struggling with Anxiety

Dear Troubled Believer, I see you.I know it feels like you’re army-crawling through morning and afternoon. I know how your soul slinks on the ground, breathing in the dust, while everyone around you seems free as birds in the breeze. They don’t understand the willpower it takes to do the...
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What if Adam & Eve Never ate the Fruit?

Interview with Rowland Ward
What would have happened if Adam and Eve never ate from The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden? It’s a hypothetical question since they did eat, but the parallel with the last Adam, Jesus Christ, shows that obedience would ultimately have led to...
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A Christian View of Writing

by Pierce Taylor Hibbs
My friends, God has marked the entire world, the entire cosmos, with his personal presence, and it can’t help but “speak” of him. God, in other words, is a writer. He was the first writer. We write reality as we know it, and we write in his image. Apply this...
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  • 6 questions we all ask
    • What is the Gospel?
    • What is Sin?
    • Why did God create me?
    • How can I change?
    • What are God’s thoughts of me?
    • What is my mission?
  • Topics
    • Arts and Entertainment
    • Economics & Work
    • Education
    • Family & Romance
    • Government & Politics
    • Media
    • Religion & Theology
  • An Open Letter to
    • Christian Singles
    • Christians Struggling with Anxiety
    • An Open Letter to the “Dones” (and “Nones”)
  • A Christian View of
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    • Sales
  • Interviews
    • Jordan Ballor
    • Joel Beeke
    • Michael Bird
    • Hans Boersma
    • John Bolt
    • Eduard Borysov
    • Sean Cole
    • James DeJong
    • John Frame
    • Gerald McDermott
    • Danny Olinger
    • Rick Schaeffer
    • Sam Storms
    • Kevin Vanhoozer
    • Rowland Ward
    • Trevin Wax
  • What is the Gospel?
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    • Why did God create me?
    • How can I change?
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    • What is my mission?
  • Topics
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    • Economics & Work
    • Education
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    • Government & Politics
    • Media
    • Religion & Theology
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    • Christians Struggling with Anxiety
    • An Open Letter to the “Dones” (and “Nones”)
  • A Christian View of
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    • Joel Beeke
    • Michael Bird
    • Hans Boersma
    • John Bolt
    • Eduard Borysov
    • Sean Cole
    • James DeJong
    • John Frame
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