THE INDOUBT SHOW

How’s faith in Canada? Some studies have come out in the past few years that look into some specifics when it comes to the general attitudes and beliefs in Canada. It’s a privilege to have Executive Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada, Wyatt Graham, with us this week to discuss some of those findings and how the church can best respond. For example, why are we seeing young people more interested in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy today? Why are liberal/progressive churches shrinking? Join us for this week’s conversation.

How can we effectively evangelize Gen-Z? How can we equip the younger generations to spread the gospel? This week we are joined by Shaila Visser, National Director of Alpha Canada, to help us better understand how to approach evangelism with Gen-Z. She also walks us through some of the generational differences between millennials and Gen-Z, and discusses the importance of planting seeds whose fruit may not be seen for many years to come.

The word “worship” usually brings up ideas of religion and gods. But the reality is, all of us, no matter who or what we believe, worship – every day. We look to ourselves, others, objects, and many other things as worthy of our time, devotion, money, and honour. In fact, we were made to worship – our hearts are wired that way. This week we chat with worship leader and author Bob Kauflin. He defines Christian worship, helps us cultivate a worshipful heart, and answers our question, “If we don’t agree with a song theologically on a Sunday service, should we still sing it?”

How can we live a life devoted to Christ amid an increasingly political society? Special guest Bruce Clemenger, president of Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, joins us today to help navigate how we can maintain unity in Christ as clashes between politics and faith arise. Bruce also dissects the intricate relationships between the Church, the state, faith, and politics, and discusses how we can approach issues of freedom, vaccinations, restrictions, choice, and conscience from a biblical perspective

What does it really mean to be human? Society has reduced what it truly means to be alive down to simply “not dying”. Today we are joined again by special guest Andy Steiger, president of Apologetics Canada, to walk us through the key differences between living and flourishing. He also dives into how this topic relates to many of the current cultural and societal issues surrounding individualism, freedom, and pandemic-related fear. Tune in to discover Andy’s biblically inspired, thought-provoking ideas that aim to challenge how we rank our life priorities.

Many Christians claim that Christianity is exclusive – and we believe that to be the truth. But what exactly does that mean? Are there different aspects to it? With us to walk through the exclusivity of Christianity is Derek Rishmawy. Not only do we talk with Derek about the basic understanding of this truth, but why it can be hard to swallow.

Pastor and author Kyle Idleman joins us this week to discuss his newest book One At A Time. He challenges us as Christians to see those around us in the same way that Jesus would, with care and compassion. He also calls us to always be on the lookout for that one person with whom we can connect and show the love of Jesus to.

What do Jen Hatmaker, Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, Bart Ehrman, and many others have in common? They’ve, in some form or another, deconverted from their once “evangelical” Christian faith. We know this because they’ve publicly made it known. Now, they probably wouldn’t call it a “deconversion” story, but nevertheless, they’ve taken to the blog-podcast-video-internet world to make their stories known. Now, it’s in their stories that we find a kind of outline – a few points that they seem to hit on. We have with us this week author and professor Dr. Michael Kruger to help us see the plot line of the deconversion story. He also helps us see the general beliefs of liberal theology, and provides an encouragement and call for people to stand on the only solid truth-foundation – the Bible.

What’s the Bible in one sentence? It can be easy to view the Bible as a variety of writings that are put together without a pattern or purpose. But, this is not the case at all. The Bible, we find, tells one unifying story with one purpose. This week we look at what this story is, how it can be summed up in one sentence, and how we can shape our lives around it. We’re thankful to have pastor Jonathan Neufeld with us to walk us through the Bible’s story.

Many of the letters written to the early church are split into two parts: the theology and then how that theology looks like in real life. Christian ethics seeks to answer the question, “What does all of the Bible say about how to engage ____ in real life?” With us, this week is world-renowned theologian Wayne Grudem who’s just written a brand new book that gives an introduction (quite a large one) to biblical moral reasoning. Many of us have instinctual feelings that some things are wrong and some are right, but Wayne helps clarify why those things are right or wrong. In our conversation, he talks about his new book, lying/telling the truth, marijuana, and more.