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37 | Resisting Excarnation: Three Prompts to Thrive Next Year
In this end of year episode, Anthony and Blaine unpack three invitations to a deeper life in God in 2025: communion with the Holy Spirit, unceasing prayer, and simplic...
36 | The Acts of (the Spirit through) the Apostles (among others)
The Acts of the Apostles is not a complete history of the Church in the first century. But it is a genre-blending masterpiece. It is a historical treasure trove, a cat...
35 | A Christian Political Commitment
To follow Jesus is to engage a political project: It is to submit to Jesus as he establishes his upside-down Kingdom by his Spirit through the Church. Anthony and Blai...
34 | Resurrection People: The Church and Israel Part 2
What happened to the northern tribes after the Assyrian deportation? Were they ever gathered back from the nations? How does that relate to the diversity of church exp...
33 | A Timely Encouragement from Mount Vigil
Anthony and Blaine (and friends) interrupt their discussion of Church history with a brief, timely encouragement.Where to ConnectMount Vigil has come to an end but you...
32 | God Cuts a Deal: The Church and Israel Part 1
Anthony and Blaine continue their conversation on the Church by examining the canonical relationship between God and His covenant partners. As Joseph Ratzinger put it,...
31 | By Love For Love
The Trinity is the fountainhead of reality and the mystery at the center of all things. And so it should go without saying (but it often doesn't) that the Church only ...
30 | How to Love the Church (aka What's Next for the MV Podcast)
We're back. In this episode, Anthony and Blaine map out the territory ahead and offer their thoughts on constructive engagement with Church history. In brief: be ecume...
29 | An Announcement from Mount Vigil
Mount Vigil is going on hiatus; we've wrapped up our two year long Story of God series and we'll be taking the next few months to pray into the future. We're living th...
28 | Palestine, Israel, and Divisions in the Body of Christ
In this conversation, Blaine and Anthony share a few thoughts on responding to current events in terms of allegiance to Jesus. The crisis involving Israel and Palestin...
27 | The Paradise King
Blaine's written a book, folks! It's an epic introduction to Jesus in terms of the story of God. If you've been following MV, this book is for you. From night raids an...
26 | Apocalypse
We've spent hours contemplating Revelation. Now it's time to hear the text itself. This will be our acid test: Can our long-term engagement with theology, Church histo...
25 | His Government and His Peace - Revelation Part 5
This is it: the finale of the 5-part series on Revelation, as well as the finale of the 19-part series on the Story of God in the Bible. In this episode, Blaine and An...
24 | Beasts and Harlots and Virgins Oh My - Revelation Part 4
In this series, Blaine and Anthony have argued that Revelation is the theological capstone of the Bible. Nevertheless, because its method of doing theology draws upon ...
23 | Seven Messages - Revelation Part 3
“While each church receives a message reflecting its own situation, there is one overarching issue: whether or not to compromise. Specifically, will these churches be ...
22 | The Capstone of the Bible - Revelation Part 2
In this episode, Anthony and Blaine continue their Story of God series by returning to the book of Revelation. Questions discussed in this conversation: How does John ...
21 | Follow the Lamb - Revelation Part 1
“Revelation is not only one of the finest literary works in the New Testament, but also one of the greatest theological achievements of early Christianity.” So says Ne...
20 | Two Questions at the Mount of Olives - The Return of Christ Part 2
When it comes to anticipating the return of Jesus, two New Testament texts loom especially large: The Olivet Discourse and the Revelation of John. In this episode, Bla...
19 | The Lord Himself Will Come - The Return of Christ Part 1
In this episode, Blaine and Anthony begin a conversation on the culmination of the Story of God: the bodily return of Jesus and the final marriage of heaven and earth....
18 | Praxis Makes Perfect
In this episode, Blaine and Anthony discuss the everyday life of the people of God. The Church is a glorious reality; on the ground, it is also a gritty reality. The p...
17 | Flesh of My Flesh - The Church Part 2
The Church is the Bride of Christ, and that, more than any other dimension of Church life, is an eschatalogical reality. It is a fact that anchors the purpose of the C...
16 | Mysteries of the Kyriakon Doma - The Church Part 1
“If the Church is really supposed to be yours, you’ll have to make that much more obvious than it is at present.”Joseph Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI, paraphrasing ...
15 | Cloud Rider, Tongues of Fire
In this episode, Anthony and Blaine discuss the Ascension and Pentecost, linking those events as two sides of the same coin in the story of God. In the Ascension, Jesu...
14 | The Carnal Solution - Jesus Part 3
In this episode, Anthony and Blaine discuss suffering, surrender, and incarnate spirituality as Jesus’s solution to the World and the Flesh. This is the third installm...
13 | Siege on Hades - Jesus Part 2
In this episode, Blaine and Anthony continue their conversation on the work of Jesus: How, exactly, does Jesus deal with the problem of spiritual oppression? Why does ...
12 | Apocalypse Priest - Jesus Part 1
In this episode, Blaine and Anthony continue their series on the Story of God by arriving, at last, at Jesus. In particular, this show addresses the way in which Jesus...
11 | Israel
Why did God choose to create the nation of Israel? How was God’s decision to create a people where there was no people part of his plan to deal with sin, death, and sp...
10 | Examen
In this special episode, Blaine and Anthony discuss self-examination. Self-examination, or Examen, is a practice that followers of Jesus have used for centuries to see...
9 | Down From the Mountain of God
In this episode we continue our Story of God series by talking about the Fall, or more accurately the Falls. We explore the origins of evil in the world, including the...
8 | Eden Inception
In this episode we pick up where we left off in telling the Story of God. We ask the big questions like: What is the meaning of life? Why did God create is? What are w...