The City of God Podcast

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he looks at leadership through the eyes of Alexander Hamilton. Every person has vast potential and Hamilton’s story reminds us of this. But even the most impressive person among us is in desperate need of God’s grace. Our chief need in life is not to be recognized as talented but our chief need is to be redeemed. It is only when we are redeemed that we are truly free. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he examines Donald Trump’s “locker room talk.” What is on display in Donald Trump is not true manhood. True manhood is found in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the True Man and men of God follow him. The True Man is alive today and He is the one who should condition manhood. If you want to be a man and talk about women, you talk about them in a way Jesus did. Our call is to model a better manhood, one that is shaped by the gospel of grace because there is something better than locker room talk, it’s gospel-shaped talk. True men don’t treat women as objects, they treat them as sisters in absolute purity. Donald Trump and the Abuse of Women by Dr. Owen Strachan

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he examines Donald Trump’s “locker room talk.” What is on display in Donald Trump is not true manhood. True manhood is found in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the True Man and men of God follow him. The True Man is alive today and He is the one who should condition manhood. If you want to be a man and talk about women, you talk about them in a way Jesus did. Our call is to model a better manhood, one that is shaped by the gospel of grace because there is something better than locker room talk, it’s gospel-shaped talk. True men don’t treat women as objects, they treat them as sisters in absolute purity. Donald Trump and the Abuse of Women by Dr. Owen Strachan

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he engages the issue of fatherhood. What is fatherhood and what does it mean to be a father in 2016? While fatherhood is an assumed state, Christians need to make it clear that fatherhood is an incredibly high calling, a calling rooted in God revealing himself as Father. Everywhere men are attempting to find the grand cause in their lives but, in reality, it is the plain things of life empowered by Jesus Christ that will fulfill them. Love that Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent’s Expectations by Ron Fournier

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he engages the issue of fatherhood. What is fatherhood and what does it mean to be a father in 2016? While fatherhood is an assumed state, Christians need to make it clear that fatherhood is an incredibly high calling, a calling rooted in God revealing himself as Father. Everywhere men are attempting to find the grand cause in their lives but, in reality, it is the plain things of life empowered by Jesus Christ that will fulfill them. Love that Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent’s Expectations by Ron Fournier

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he engages with Andrew Sullivan on technology. Life is not a photo feed. We cannot allow our lives to be media-ized and as Christians we are called to pursue a classically authentic life. Do not get lost in the ubiquity of devices and social media. Live your life. I Used to Be a Human Being by Andrew Sullivan

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he engages with Andrew Sullivan on technology. Life is not a photo feed. We cannot allow our lives to be media-ized and as Christians we are called to pursue a classically authentic life. Do not get lost in the ubiquity of devices and social media. Live your life. I Used to Be a Human Being by Andrew Sullivan

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he interviews Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer on the Christian imagination, the pastor as minister of reality, and Dr. Vanhoozer’s works.Dr. Vanhoozer is the author or editor of over twenty books, including The Pastor as Theologian and this year’s Pictures at a Theological Exhibition: Scenes of the Church’s Worship, Witness, and Wisdom. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, The Journal for Theological Interpretation, and Pro Ecclesia and is the North American Consultant for the second edition of the New Dictionary of Theology (IVP). He has lectured on four continents, most recently in Brazil. In 1999 he appeared on the cover of Christianity Today as one of “the new theologians.” He was the 2003 Westmont College Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Vanhoozer is married and has two daughters (and seventeen doctoral students). Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity by Kevin Vanhoozer

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he interviews Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer on the Christian imagination, the pastor as minister of reality, and Dr. Vanhoozer’s works.Dr. Vanhoozer is the author or editor of over twenty books, including The Pastor as Theologian and this year’s Pictures at a Theological Exhibition: Scenes of the Church’s Worship, Witness, and Wisdom. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, The Journal for Theological Interpretation, and Pro Ecclesia and is the North American Consultant for the second edition of the New Dictionary of Theology (IVP). He has lectured on four continents, most recently in Brazil. In 1999 he appeared on the cover of Christianity Today as one of “the new theologians.” He was the 2003 Westmont College Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Vanhoozer is married and has two daughters (and seventeen doctoral students). Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity by Kevin Vanhoozer

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on this episode of the City of God podcast as he engages with Tom Wolfe’s newest book and the importance of words. Secularists are unable to comprehend the origin of language but Christians realize that the origin of speech is rooted in God himself. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on this episode of the City of God podcast as he engages with Tom Wolfe’s newest book and the importance of words. Secularists are unable to comprehend the origin of language but Christians realize that the origin of speech is rooted in God himself. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he discusses death and how Jesus gives us a new perspective on it. For Christians, we are not only seeking to live a good life but to die a good death. Since we are united to Christ by faith, it is when we die that we truly live. When Breath Becomes Air by  Paul Kalanithi

Join Dr. Owen Strachan on today’s City of God podcast as he discusses death and how Jesus gives us a new perspective on it. For Christians, we are not only seeking to live a good life but to die a good death. Since we are united to Christ by faith, it is when we die that we truly live. When Breath Becomes Air by  Paul Kalanithi

Join Dr. Owen Strachan this week on the City of God podcast as he presses into a highly secularized culture with the transcendence of God. Christians have the most important message in the world and their responsibility is to help their neighbors see that there is not simply a ghost in the room next door but a God to be experienced salvifically through Jesus Christ. Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis Tegnér’s Drapa by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Idea of the Holy by Rudolph Otto

Join Dr. Owen Strachan this week on the City of God podcast as he presses into a highly secularized culture with the transcendence of God. Christians have the most important message in the world and their responsibility is to help their neighbors see that there is not simply a ghost in the room next door but a God to be experienced salvifically through Jesus Christ. Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis Tegnér’s Drapa by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Idea of the Holy by Rudolph Otto