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No Church Answers!

The No Church Answers! podcast began as Man Up a Spiritual Oasis for Men in 2017, launched by Bill Cox, actor and DJ, and four regulars, Steven Titch, Robert Cocheu, Michael Cropper and Earl Lloyd–all from different Christian backgrounds. Our focus is on ways men could use their Christian faith to drive their goals, leadership and action. We feel the faith muscle needs regular exercise. The body is like a barrel. The outside is your education, money and health. The inside is your faith and soul. We bring different points of view to a scripture lesson and hash them out in a panel discussion. We strive for authenticity in representing what Christian men are thinking.

Contact us at www.nochurchanswers.com. We’re not pastors, just regular guys. Engaging, deep and often humorous looks at faith in today’s world by our panel.

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Latest Episodes:

Podcast 312 -- Advent: What Are We Waiting For? Isaiah 9:2-7 Dec 12, 2023

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Advent is supposed to be a time for joyous anticipation of our Savior and King. Yet for most men, it's four weeks of stress and pressure as they try to meet year-end work responsibilities, family demands and church and community needs. Our panelist Mike says it feels like "forcing a size 14 foot into a size 10 shoe." We won't deny frustrations and obstacles increase in the Christmas season, but we do talk about our ways of dealing with them.

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Podcast 311 -- "Get Used to Different" The Chosen, Season 1 Dec 05, 2023

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Drop your nets! Lock up your tax booths! Follow us as we journey into Season 1 of The Chosen. We talk about the elements that make this series different both from past attempts at Biblical dramas and more recent independent faith-based programming. Daring choices abound, starting with its adoption of world-building and multi-thread storytelling techniques used in secular shows such as The Wire, Friday Night Lights and Game of Thrones. Then there's its street-level depiction of 1st Century Capernaum life. Simon Peter is a brawler, gambler and Sabbath-breaker. Matthew is on the autism spectrum. Mary Magdalene is virtually a 13th apostle. So what makes a show about a ragtag group of provincials who decide to follow a Messiah compelling enough to draw more than $10 million in crowdfunding and some 300 million viewers worldwide?

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Podcast 310 -- Grace and Gratitude Ephesians 4:32, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, 2 Corinthians 4:15-16 Nov 21, 2023

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With Thanksgiving coming up, the fellows talk about how grace and gratitude are connected. Granting grace--excusing a transgression or forgiving a debt--may be the ultimate act of kindness. Gratitude understands the opportunity for renewal and change.

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Podcast 309 -- What is Faith? Hebrews 11:1-6 Nov 14, 2023

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Walk into a church service and it's guaranteed you will hear the word "faith" within five minutes. Yet, even long-time Christians can find themselves tongue-tied when asked to define or explain it. We attack the question from a variety of perspectives. Can faith be measured? Can one have too little faith? Is faith only truly expressed in action? Can faith exist alongside doubt? And what about the "sola fide" doctrine?. Is faith the only requirement for salvation?

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Podcast 308 -- Way of the Lord or Way of the World? Romans 12:2 Nov 07, 2023

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We're back with three hypothetical scenarios that would force committed Christians to consider whether a course of action suits the Lord's way or merely indulges selfish desires. Never afraid to make gray areas even grayer or take scripture out of context, we debate everyday ethical choices when it comes to responding to queries from insurance companies, problematic directives in final wills and re-selling highly sought-after Lego sets on eBay at twice the retail price.

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Podcast 307 -- Christians and Halloween Philippians 4-8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-56 Oct 31, 2023

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We debate whether it's appropriate for Christians to participate in traditional Halloween festivities of dress-up, trick-or-treating, parties and games. Is it a harmless secular holiday, or something darker? The fellows talk about the Halloween memories and family traditions, church programs such as Harvest Festivals and Trunk-or-Treats, and, yes, some of the pagan origins that the Church supplanted. Listen and comment.

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Podcast 306 -- "On Earth As It Is In Heaven" 1 Corinthians 15:20-24, Romans 8:18-25 Oct 24, 2023

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“Jesus rules the world?” a skeptic might ask. “Have you looked out the window lately?” In our final podcast on N.T. Wright's Simply Jesus, we examine his assertion that God, through Christ, has established his kingdom on Earth. Wright does not deny that evil still thrives. But his position is that Christians should be doing something about it because Christians, as kingdom people, have been called to participate in the plan.Jesus came to save the world, not trash it. If the Son of God, to the point of crucifixion, refused to concede creation to the principalities of darkness, neither should we.

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Podcast 305 -- "Hold Until Relieved" Acts 1:1-11, 1 John 3:16-18, Ephesians 1:3-10 Oct 17, 2023

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The Bible tells us Jesus ascended into heaven and promised to return. Jesus may be in heaven, but his disciples have been commissioned and are at work. According to N.T. Wright, “The whole book [Acts] is the story of how Jesus, exercising his power as the CEO of earth as it is in heaven, sends out his followers as ambassadors to make his kingdom a reality, climaxing with the strange paradox of Paul in chains announcing that the Roman world has a new emperor.” In our penultimate podcast on Wright's Simply Jesus, we talk about the Ascension, the second coming and how the Book of Acts models the Kingdom work we must do in between.

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Podcast 304 -- Why Did the Messiah Have to Die? Isaiah 9:6-7, 53:1-6, 10-13; John 19:16-22, 28-30 Oct 10, 2023

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In order to defeat sin and death, the Messiah had to battle sin and death, a battle played out on the Cross. In Simply Jesus, even N.T. Wright admits that in human terms, this was "the craziest vocation one could imagine." But these were cosmic terms, not mere human. Calling back to last week's podcast, this was the great Battle and this was how the Temple was cleansed and restored. Join us as we move past the simple church answer of "It was all God's plan" and discuss the divine purpose and miraculous work that lies behind it.

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Podcast 303 -- Space, Time and Matter 2 Samuel 7:5-7, 11-13; Mark 2:23-28, 4:35-41 Oct 03, 2023

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We talk about Jesus re-aligned sacred space, special time and the nature of our physical world. In Jesus, according to N.T. Wright, the concepts of Temple and Sabbath are simultaneusly transformed and fulfilled. We also talk about the significance of Jesus' miracles and the danger when Christians try to explain them away as either exaggerations or pre-Enlightenment misunderstandings. Wright asks provocatively, if Jesus is, as he claimed, the incarnate God breaking into this world, why wouldn't you expect the miraculous? We fearlessly dive in. Our text is Simply Jesus:A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters by N.T. Wright.

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