Topic: Doctrine of Scripture

The 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/edit?usp=drive_link

Canon, Inspiration, Authority (Theology ep. 2)

Topic: Doctrine of Scripture

The third lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/17veBnyKKr1wMVdjHUijnuschhjGLNWojAG4of9g0bnc/edit?usp=drive_link

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

Topic: Doctrine of God

The fourth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZCQmvD2Fk80J41uzBOiIS25gNj-VMjSDHjavoYpcRIM/edit?usp=drive_link

Attributes Of God (Theology ep. 4)

Topic: Doctrine of God

The fifth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p55hVojihHDOotx8SQw-L_FUR6fBJcJ307HQQJ5wJ5k/edit?usp=drive_link

Trinity, Part 1 (Theology ep. 5)

Topic: Doctrine of God

The sixth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p55hVojihHDOotx8SQw-L_FUR6fBJcJ307HQQJ5wJ5k/edit?usp=drive_link

Trinity, Part 2 (Theology ep. 6)

Topic: Doctrine of God

The seventh lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/172zc-pbBMqaosRQld66Sjq4wHCS-BQf2RKDNvOxid2M/edit?usp=sharing

Creation (Theology ep. 7)

Topic: Doctrine of God

The eighth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RSEqI01p9H_j147aspWkcSKpEbfd7l5M7wPK-yQyPKU/edit?usp=drive_link

Providence (Theology ep. 8)

Topic: Doctrine of God

The ninth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/110PELLQs-MBFN0LeAsuL7qmkzpvHvCxsuAW8OEA_6HI/edit?usp=drive_link

Angels and Demons (Theology ep. 9)

Topics: Doctrine of Humanity, Doctrine of Sin

The tenth lesson in MERCYhouse's Systematic Theology Sunday School class. Taught by Alden Foelsche.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cDUo9vdUs4hF5eLTdTBjIZ1ozcj6I3-fduYhqCaqdCk/edit?usp=drive_link

Humanity, Sin (Theology ep. 10)

This is a recording of the first week of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? We survey the types of evidence that one can look for to assess whether the Gospels are historically accurate.

Patrick Grafton-Cardwell's Album

Gospels 1.1: Introduction (class format)

This is a recording of the week 2 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Patrick leads a discussion of the two different genealogies of Jesus  and begins to examine the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke.

Gospels 1.2: The birth of Jesus (class format)

This is a recording of the week 3 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Justin tackles a notorious problem about the census in Luke's infancy narrative, and then discusses the flight to Egypt in Matthew's infancy narrative.

Gospels 1.3: The birth of Jesus cont. (class format)

This is a recording of the week 4 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Austin surveys some of the evidence pertaining to the ministry of John the Baptist.

Gospels 1.4: John the Baptist (class format)

This is a recording of the week 5 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Patrick explores whether some of the parables attributed to Jesus in the Gospels are authentic.

Gospels 1.5: The teachings of Jesus (class format)

This is a recording of the week 6 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Justin surveys evidence that Jesus taught the things attributed to him in the Sermon on the Mount and other Gospel discourses.

Gospels 1.6: The teachings of Jesus cont. (class format)

This is a recording of the week 7 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Austin reviews some big-picture issues regarding the historicity of the Gospels, and then considers the evidence for the feeding of the five thousand and other miracles described in the Gospels.

Gospels 1.7: The deeds of Jesus (class format)

This is a recording of the week 8 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Justin canvasses historical evidence regarding some of Jesus' non-miraculous deeds, such as the cleansing of the temple.

Gospels 1.8: The deeds of Jesus cont. (class format)

This is a recording of the week 9 of Part 1 of our in-person course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Patrick takes us on a tour of historical evidence supporting the Gospel accounts of Jesus' arrest.

Gospels 1.9: Jesus arrested (class format)

Episode 5 of Part 2 of our course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Patrick introduces our discussion of the book of Acts. We discuss the question of why we're even talking about Acts in a class on the resurrection, as well as what evidence we have that Acts is a reliable historical source. We also look at the life of Paul and some stories about the early church.

Gospels 2.5: Can We Trust the Book of Acts?

Episode 1 of our series, Does Prayer Work? Won't God always do what's best if God is perfectly good? What's the point of praying, in that case? Either we're not asking for what's best, in which case God won't do it, or we are, in which case God was going to do it anyway! We take on this kind of concern here, discussing some reasons to think that our praying itself is a reason for God to act. We also cast some doubt on the idea that there is a single best way for the world to be, thus undercutting the idea that God will always bring about what's best.

Prayer 1: Why Pray if God Always Does What's Best?

Episode 2 of our series, Does Prayer Work? Maybe we can know that God answers prayers in general, but can we ever know when God answers one of our prayers? What does it take to have that kind of knowledge? What sorts of prayers might have a better or worse chance of being subjects of such knowledge? We discuss the difference between certainty (which is unlikely to have in any particular case) and a justified belief about such matters.

Prayer 2: Can We Know When God Answers Prayers?

Episode 6 of our series, Does Prayer Work? We ask the question why some prayers go unanswered. In talking about this, we discover that unanswered prayer is just one instance of what philosophers and theologians call the Problem of Evil. We talk about the traditional ways of responding to the Problem of Evil and how those responses can apply to the case of unanswered prayer.

Prayer 6: Why do Some Prayers Go Unanswered?

Episode 8 of our series, Does Prayer Work? This includes two separate, shorter discussions. First, we discuss the question in the episode title: why should we pray if God already knows what we're going to pray for? Second, we ask whether we should be praying for the past more than we do. We think both discussions will help you think through those difficult questions.

Prayer 8: Why Pray If God Already Knows What You'll Pray For?

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 happened? By causing it? We discuss these and other possibilities.

Puzzles 3: How does God know the Future?

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 us about some ways that people have gotten the Trinity wrong in the past.

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

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 resolving the apparent contradiction.

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

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 we can use this fact to build a cumulative case for God's existence.

How Does God Explain Everything?

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 the only explanation for the existence of contingent beings is the existence of a necessary being (who could bring them about). That's the start of the argument we discuss.

How Does God Explain Contingency?

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 recent (and historical) debate that's centered around this idea.

How Does God Explain Biological Design?

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 seemed to some that God's powers have to be the ultimate source of all possibility.

How Does God Explain What's Possible?

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