<![CDATA[The Gospel you never heard]]>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:31:19 +0000Captivate.fmMaurie Daigneauhttps://artwork.captivate.fm/a1ee2efd-81ff-4af4-8097-aa15159d8c3c/_Kh5AN0WqncKMRgVOxMtR2n3.jpgThe Gospel you never heardMaurie DaigneauMaurie DaigneauA little more than a decade ago, a popular author and leading pastor said the following: “I don’t think we’ve got the gospel right yet…” Of course, as one might expect, there were choruses of loud “Amens” from some quarters and those of vigorous disagreement from others. It was with no small amount of personal vigor that I found myself in agreement with his sentiment. This website (and book, The Gospel You’ve Never Heard, An Understanding That Will Change Your Life) will tell you why. The gospel is purported to be a message of “Good News” communicated to the world some two thousand years ago. It came via a man who validated His identity as the Son of God by rising from the dead. The story of this Man, His message, and His life has been preserved for us in the book we call the Bible. It is the primary source for any and every faith perspective regarding this “Good News” and its faith outgrowth, Christianity. The wisdom the Bible contains is essential to any discussion if one hopes to find and understand the true reason that God sent His Son into the world.https://the-gospel-you-never-knew.captivate.fmnoepisodicWhole audiobookWhole audiobookThis is the whole audiobook test

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]]>e259b298-ba97-46d8-838b-8004c1521002Sat, 02 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -070005:05:44nofull13Maurie DaigneauEpisode 2Episode 2I wrote my book because of my growing concerns for our country, our world, and my grandchildren. A little over four years ago, in an article entitled “Americans Worry About Moral Decline, Can’t Agree on Right and Wrong,” Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research, noted that there had been a huge shift between the way older (older than forty-five) and younger (thirty-five or younger) Americans think about morality. Stability regarding moral rights and wrongs is no longer the norm.

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]]>3c7fbc20-c985-4a78-b657-2863d4283ed1Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:45:00 -070011:40nofull12Maurie DaigneauIntroductionIntroductionThe difficulty in today’s world is that the credibility of the Bible hangs by a thread, if at all. In his book Letter to a Christian Nation, noted atheist/author Sam Harris suggested that it is long past time to “admit that the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.” And similarly, in his book god is not Great, fellow atheist/author (the late) Christopher Hitchens wrote, “the case for biblical consistency or authenticity or ‘inspiration’ has been in tatters for some time, and the rents and tears only become more obvious with better research, and thus no ‘revelation’ can be derived from that quarter.”

While I understand their perspective, I don’t share it. I have been on my own Christian faith-life journey for over 48 years. There is only one possession I have that means more to me than my Bible, and that is the spiritual presence of its Author in my life. I have been taught to embrace the words on the pages of the Bible as the spiritual words that represent the spiritual thoughts that emanate from the mind of the only One any of us are to call “Teacher” (see 1 Cor. 2:12–16; also Matt. 23:8). The Bible tells us that the Son of God brought understanding into the world (see 1 John 5:20) and that by abiding (remaining) in the Bible (His word), we would know the truth of that understanding and that such an understanding would make us free (see John 8:31–32).

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While I understand their perspective, I don’t share it. I have been on my own Christian faith-life journey for over 48 years. There is only one possession I have that means more to me than my Bible, and that is the spiritual presence of its Author in my life. I have been taught to embrace the words on the pages of the Bible as the spiritual words that represent the spiritual thoughts that emanate from the mind of the only One any of us are to call “Teacher” (see 1 Cor. 2:12–16; also Matt. 23:8). The Bible tells us that the Son of God brought understanding into the world (see 1 John 5:20) and that by abiding (remaining) in the Bible (His word), we would know the truth of that understanding and that such an understanding would make us free (see John 8:31–32).

]]>6444baee-fca1-4f0d-a1a2-21386896deb7Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -070005:51nofull11Maurie Daigneau