Dr. Howard in the Hot Seat, Part 2

Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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During today’s conversation on Back Porch Theology Alli and I are back at Belle’s house with a gaggle of friends because we had such an engaging, provocative, and revelatory time last week when we got to ask Dr. Howard hard questions about God, that we unanimously agreed we wanted an encore! I mean it’s not every day you get to honestly process what sometimes feels like a gaping hole in your faith with someone who has five earned degrees and a PhD from Dallas Theological Seminary. Another one of my theological heroes, Helmut Thielicke, who I won’t get to meet until Glory because he passed away in 1986, said this: “Unless a theology works at the margins of life, it’s not worth anything even if it makes sense at the easy center.” I’m sixty years old now and in my experience, life can be a whole lot of things – it can be breathtakingly beautiful, excruciatingly hard, messy, wonderful, devastating, delightful, surprising – but I’ve rarely found life to be easy. At least not for long. And thankfully our Creator Redeemer doesn’t expect us to pretend like it is. Our Heavenly Father invites us to bring everything to Him – including our questions – nowhere in His Word will you find the command to curate your emotions and only present the optimistic, compliant parts to Him. God created us to be His image bearers, not soulless automatons. Those of you saints who still have questions about things like the nature of the Trinity, or the historical reliability of Scripture, or the sole sufficiency of faith in Jesus for the atonement of sins, or whether there’s a literal heaven, you’re very welcome to join our motley crew of Christ followers. So please grab a cup of your favorite caffeinated beverage and a Bible – if you have one - and come hang out on the porch with us. Log onto Angel.com/Cabrini for showtimes Save 25% on Dwell at DwellBible.com/Lisa

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0:31.3	Access more. Flood. During today's conversation on Back Porch Theology, Ali and I are back at Bell's house with a gaggle of friends because we had such an engaging, provocative, and revelatory time last week when we got to ask Dr Howard hard questions about God that we
0:54.8	unanimously agreed we wanted an encore. I mean it's not every day you get to
1:00.3	honestly process what sometimes feels like a gaping hole in your faith with
1:06.0	someone who has five earned degrees and a PhD from Dallas Theological Seminary.
1:10.4	Another one of my theological heroes, Helmut Teilica, who I won't get to meet until glory because
1:16.9	he passed away in 1986, he said this, unless a theology works at the margins of life, it's not worth anything, even if it makes sense at the easy center.
1:29.0	I'm 60 years old now, and in my experience experience life can be a whole lot of things.
1:34.9	It can be breathtakingly beautiful, excruciatingly hard, messy,
1:38.9	wonderful, devastating, delightful, surprising, but I've really found life to be easy, at least not for very long.
1:46.6	And thankfully our Creator Redeemer doesn't expect us to pretend like it is.
1:51.5	Our Heavenly Father invites us to bring everything to him, including our
1:56.0	questions. Now where in his word will you find the command to curate your emotions
2:00.7	and only present the optimistic compliant parts to him.
2:04.8	God created us to be his image bearers, not soulless automatants.
2:10.6	Those of you saints who still have questions about things like the nature of the
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