Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton exams an absolute and Christian notion of Freedom and suggests our age is characterized by a pursuit of a false freedom giving rise to the sickness of the age. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton talks about  John Howard Yoder, one of the premier theological thinkers of the 20th century who suffered from a sexual perversion. Since he consciously developed his theology to include the fullness of personality the test here is to work out how this failure is reflected in the theology of John Howard Yoder. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton poses the question, "Do Christians have recourse to the law when so-called Christians are abusing them sexually or financially?" If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton weaves the thought of Wittgenstein with his personal journey in order to set the stage for understanding his philosophy. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The apostle Paul deals with the origin and depth of evil and explains to the Church in Corinth how to insure the power of the Passover Lamb applies to them. Part of what needs to be gotten rid of is the notion that law and love are opposed. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton explains that Ludwig Wittgenstein shifted philosophy and with it theology to a new appreciation of the embodied nature of language and thus the embedded contextual nature of being human. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on I Corinthians 4, where the apostle Paul says he does not judge anyone nor even presume to judge himself. He is describing a relinquishment of judgmentalism achieved by presuming responsibility as a servant and not a legislator of over the church. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The Church is an ethic, a form of spiritual worship constituting the presence of Christ. It does not simply have these things or do these things as if there is a gap of separation between them an the Church. This is definitive of the Church.   If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

 Scott McNay and Paul Axton discuss the influence of Eugene Peterson and the point of being a pastor through reflection on the book of Corinthians. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this sermon, Paul Axton suggests that Christ is the foundation of the cosmos in that he is creator and sustainer and this understanding accords with recent science but also goes beyond it and beyond the fundamental principles of reason available in a closed cosmos. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound