Topics: Doctrine of Humanity, Doctrine of SinThe tenth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cDUo9vdUs4hF5eLTdTBjIZ1ozcj6I3-

Angels and Demons (Theology ep. 9)

Dec 10th, 2023 1h 11m

Topic: Doctrine of GodThe ninth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/110PELLQs-MBFN0LeAsuL7qmkzpvHvCxsuAW8OEA_6HI/edit?usp=d

Providence (Theology ep. 8)

Dec 3rd, 2023 1h 8m

Topic: Doctrine of GodThe eighth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RSEqI01p9H_j147aspWkcSKpEbfd7l5M7wPK-yQyPKU/edit?usp=

Creation (Theology ep. 7)

Nov 19th, 2023 1h 1m

Topic: Doctrine of GodThe seventh lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/172zc-pbBMqaosRQld66Sjq4wHCS-BQf2RKDNvOxid2M/edit?usp

Trinity, Part 2 (Theology ep. 6)

Nov 12th, 2023 1h 14m

Topic: Doctrine of GodThe sixth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p55hVojihHDOotx8SQw-L_FUR6fBJcJ307HQQJ5wJ5k/edit?usp=d

Trinity, Part 1 (Theology ep. 5)

Oct 29th, 2023 1h 3m

Topic: Doctrine of GodThe fifth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p55hVojihHDOotx8SQw-L_FUR6fBJcJ307HQQJ5wJ5k/edit?usp=d

Attributes Of God (Theology ep. 4)

Oct 22nd, 2023 1h 9m

Topic: Doctrine of GodThe fourth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZCQmvD2Fk80J41uzBOiIS25gNj-VMjSDHjavoYpcRIM/edit?usp=

Inerrancy, Clarity, Necessity, Sufficiency (Theology ep. 3)

Oct 15th, 2023 1h 8m

Topic: Doctrine of ScriptureThe third lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/17veBnyKKr1wMVdjHUijnuschhjGLNWojAG4of9g0bnc/edit

Canon, Inspiration, Authority (Theology ep. 2)

Oct 8th, 2023 1h 9m

Topic: Doctrine of ScriptureThe second lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.Access the class notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIogyjIPxLNeH_PyeZMkU00KzIIGKVkNwpmuyrU3yhA/edi

How Does God Explain What's Possible?

Aug 26th, 2020 17m 20s

Episode 8 of our series, How God Explains Everything. Patrick leads us through a discussion of the Argument from Possibility. We discuss what possibilities are, what reasons we might have for thinking they're related to God, and why it has seem

How Does God Explain Truth?

Jun 21st, 2020 24m 23s

Episode 7 of our series, How God Explains Everything. Patrick leads us through a discussion of the Argument from Propositions. We talk about what propositions are; how it seems like they're connected to truth, meaning, and thought; and why God

How Does God Explain Morality?

May 29th, 2020 26m 10s

Episode 6 of our series, How God Explains Everything. Austin leads us through a discussion of the Moral Argument for God's existence. We talk about what it means for there to be objective moral truths and why it might seem like a powerful perso

How Does God Explain Biological Design?

Apr 26th, 2020 31m 51s

Episode 5 in our series, How God Explains Everything. Justin leads us in a discussion of the Biological Design Argument. We discuss how biological life seems designed, and how this points naturally to a designer. We also talk about some of the

How Does God Explain Fine Tuning?

Mar 15th, 2020 31m 8s

Episode 4 in our series, How God Explains Everything. Justin leads us in a discussion of fine-tuning. We discuss some examples of the ways the universe seems fine-tuned for life, some reasons to think this is best explained by God, and some obj

How Does God Explain the Beginning?

Mar 1st, 2020 24m 11s

Episode 3 in our series, How God Explains Everything. Austin leads us in a discussion of what's called the "Kalam Cosmological Argument", an argument that establishes the existence of God from the fact that the universe must have had a beginnin

How Does God Explain Contingency?

Feb 16th, 2020 31m 33s

Episode 2 in our series, How God Explains Everything. Patrick leads us in a discussion of an argument for God's existence from the existence of contingent beings. Contingent beings are those that exist but might not have existed. It seems like

How Does God Explain Everything?

Feb 2nd, 2020 27m 28s

Episode 1 in our series, How God Explains Everything. Justin leads us in a discussion of why it's valuable to think about arguments for the existence of God, how the existence of a perfect being can explain a variety of other phenomena, and how

Puzzles 8: How Could God Become Human? (Part 2)

Dec 22nd, 2019 31m 39s

Episode 8 of our series, Puzzles About God. Patrick leads us in a discussion of how best to think about the idea that Jesus is both God and man, along with how to solve some apparent contradictions that come up in that context. We think about j

Puzzles 7: How Could God become Human? (Part 1)

Dec 8th, 2019 32m 41s

Episode 7 of our series, Puzzles About God. Austin leads us in a discussion of the Incarnation, the doctrine that God became man. We discuss the most important aspects of this doctrine and the ways that people can go wrong, especially by denyin

Puzzles 6: How Can God be both Three and One? (Part 2)

Nov 24th, 2019 31m 57s

Episode 6 of our series, Puzzles About God. Justin finishes our discussion of the Trinity. First, we get clear at just what the puzzle is: how can there be one God, three persons of the Trinity, and every person is God? We look at a few ways of

Puzzles 5: How Can God be both Three and One? (Part 1)

Nov 10th, 2019 29m 10s

Episode 5 of our series, Puzzles About God. Austin leads us in a discussion of the Trinity. How do we talk about the Trinity without going "out of bounds"? What does it mean that God is a Trinity? Austin outlines a Trinitarian grammar and tells

Puzzles 4: Can God Sin?

Oct 27th, 2019 23m 37s

Episode 4 of our series, Puzzles About God. Patrick leads us in a discussion of God's goodness might seem to threaten his power. After all, if God can do anything, then why couldn't God sin? We discuss some different ways to resolve this appare

Puzzles 3: How does God know the Future?

Oct 16th, 2019 28m 46s

Episode 3 of our series, Puzzles About God. Justin leads a discussion of God's omniscience, especially as it bears on God's knowledge of the future. Does God know the future by "seeing" it laid out? By inferring what will happen from what has h

Puzzles 2: Can God make a Rock So Big He Can’t Lift It?

Sep 29th, 2019 26m 12s

Episode 2 of our series, Puzzles About God. Patrick leads a discussion of God's omnipotence. What does it mean that God is omnipotent? Are there any limits to it? Should we understand it in terms of possible situations, logically possibility, o

Puzzles 1: Where Did God Come From?

Sep 15th, 2019 26m 8s

Episode 1 of our series, Puzzles About God. Justin leads us through a discussion of the question "Where did God come from?" We discuss God's relation to time, the fact that God is a necessary being, and the fact that God depends nothing else.