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“C” for this week - Cue and Craving

Coming off last week’s episode where it was discussed that we are primarily lovers and not thinkers. The next question then is, how do we change our loves?

Join Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes as they discuss how loves form us so we are called to form our loves. Dive deeper through research and personal testimony, as the discussion unfolds on how to habitually form those loves.

What is the habit loop and how do we change our habits, thus our loves? Listen in this week to find out!

Points within:

- How do we practically love God?

- Romans 6-8

- Book: Atomic Habits, James Clear

- What is the Habit Loop and how does it relate to your loves?

- Book: You are what you Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit. James K.A. Smith

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Who are we as people and what causes us to do what we do? Why do we feel a tension as we are trying to Follow Jesus? What are your “loves?”

Join Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes as they discuss what causes us to do what we do. They will unpack an early Church Father, Augustine, and what he said about who we are as people. And how this actually clashes with Enlightenment thinking and Secularism.

So, what does Augustine have to say to Secularism and the conversation of Christianity and Culture today?

Listen in to find out!

Points within:

- Augustine: “You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.”

- Why do you sin?

- Enlightenment and Romantacism - who are we?

- Where is Truth found?

- Do our feelings matter?

- Rightly ordered loves

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The third “C” for this week is conflict drawn from Jesus calling people to “follow him.” Christianity, Culture and Conflict.

How does this clash with the narrative and values of our secular culture and how does it create conflict?

Join Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes as they explore this topic and show how Jesus not only creates conflict with our current culture, but also created conflict as he called the disciples.

Points within:

- What does “follow me” mean?

- How does Jesus create conflict with his disciples?

- The Gospels

- How to do evangelism?

- What is authenticity within Christianity?

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The third “C” for this week is Creeds or Confessions.

What is a Creed? How many are there? Why is it important that we know them? And how does this relate to “Am I on the right Track?”

Join Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes as they converse with this and demonstrate how knowing the Creeds will help us in our secular Culture today.

Topics within:

- What is a Creed?

- How do they relate to Ecumenical Councils? (What is an ecumenical council?)

- What are the main/important ones?

- How do you know you are in a cult?

- How does the Apostles Creed relate to the Bible?

- How do Creeds bring a rootedness to your faith?

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People today are asking the question“Am I on the right track,” which then begs the question, what actually is The track?

Join Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes as they establish what “the Track” is. Moving from Jesus, to the Apostles, to the Early Church, they will discuss how The Truth and The Faith were established. Looking at passages in Paul’s letters and elsewhere in the New Testament, they will demonstrate how very early on The Church sent Christianity on a specific trajectory. This trajectory is The Track we are looking for.

Topics within:

- What is the track?

- What is “the Faith” and “the Truth”?

- What trajectory did the Apostles and Early Church send us?

- What is Dogma? What is Doctrine? How do we know the difference between?

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Join hosts Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes as they begin their 6 part series on a “Am I on the Right Track?” As they gathered research, this was a question which came up repeatedly, asked in different ways.

In this first episode of the series, they will discuss why we are even asking this question in the first place. Why does the intersection of Christianity and Culture cause us to ask this question today?

With Mark’s extensive research on Secularism over the past 6+ years for his PhD, along with statistical trends happening amongst Christianity and religion in America today, they will answer this question of why we are asking this question.

Join us, for Conversation about Christianity and Culture and why You Are Here today.

Points discussed:

- What is Secularism?

- Book: A Secular Age, Charles Taylor

- How did we end up here?

- How does Secularism relate to asking the question “Am I on the right track?”

- Biggest religious shift in America since the Great Awakenings.

- Book: The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why they are Leaving, and What will it take to bring them back. Jim Davis, Micheal Graham, Ryan Burges

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Where is here and why does it matter that You Are Here?

Join Dr. Mark Masucci and Nathan Hughes in this inaugural episode as they discuss the intersection of Christianity and Culture and explain where here is and why you need to know.

Conversations about Christianity and Culture.

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