Cape Pulpit 729AM Get Up & Go Breakfast - Life in Action Worldview - Prof Dion Forster

Get Up & Go Breakfast - Life in Action Worldview - Prof Dion Forster

Prof Dion Forster is the Head of Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, and the director of the Beyers Naudé Center for Public Theology. Every week Prof Dion helps us to express our faith practically with a dose of his infectious passion for life and the Word.
Weekly English South Africa Religion & Spirituality · Christianity
100 Episodes
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Prof Dion Forster - The importance of ‘being seen’

Recognition is a core human need - we long to be seen, truly seen. But, of course, that also requires some risk and honesty. Risk is common in the multimedia space, but not honesty. We try to ‘show’ people who we want them to think we are. God sees us…
18 Jul 9 min

Prof Dion Forster - God’s Plan for People and History

Dion shared powerfully how we all form part of a great story. and he shares how he found God’s comfort and provision in this quote from Stanley Hauerwas: “The story that makes the Jesus people a storied people is the story of God and God’s unfailing love for us. How…
11 Jul 9 min

Prof Dion Forster - Do Not Worry

Prof Dion takes us on a journey around Matthew 6, from verse 25...do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes" So if we know the truth,…
4 Jul 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - To Carry and to be Carried

Prof Dion shares from John 5, about the healing of the lame man at the pool of Bethesda, as well as from Matthew 9 about the person who was carried by his friends to Jesus when he was paralyzed, and he was healed because of their faith. Dion shares about…
20 Jun 8 min

Prof Dion Forster - Can I actually do anything to change the world?

John 6:1-14 - Can you actually do anything to change the world? Do you have enough agency, enough resources, enough ‘reach’ and ‘influence’? The story of the loaves and the fishes are an important lesson for us - God uses what we have to achieve God’s will, not what we…
6 Jun 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - You are Chosen

Prof Dion shares a powerful and personal story of the determination to succeed as the Chosen, and the tension created between that, and having the freedom to choose.
25 Apr 11 min

Prof Dion Forster - Life Generously

Prof Dion reminds us of how our generous God invites US to live generously. This is about more than money, it is about positivity, openness, trust, freedom, joy, hope and love.
11 Apr 8 min

Prof Dion Forster - Maundy Thursday

Prof Dion walks us through details of what happened on the Thursday before Good Friday and helps us see a bit deeper into what this really means for us.
28 Mar 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - Are you confident in the future?

Prof Dion emphasizes God’s promise of goodness, and our part in God’s promise. God promised a good future, and we have the privilege of being part of God’s plan to secure that goodness for God’s glory, the good of others, and our own blessing and destiny.
14 Mar 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - How God Deals With Our Sin

How God deals with our sin: Dion helps us focus on the balance between three important aspects; loving grace, loving justice, and loving responsibility, in other words, what needs to be done, what God does, what we should do.
7 Mar 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - We Need Each Other

We might not be able to do everything, or have every gift or ability. Buy, God places us among others to do our bit, and be blessed when others do their bit! Like Moses and Aaron!
22 Feb 8 min

Prof Dion Forster - The Beginning of Happiness

This past Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, and lent has begun. Prof Dion talks about the ‘beginning of happiness’ (Jeremiah 17:5-10 and Psalm 1). The idea is that happiness is not a goal, but a ‘fruit’ and we gain happiness by being ‘rooted’ in good soil.
15 Feb 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - Come, Follow Me

Prof Dion works through Mark 1:14-20, the calling of the disciples. He reflects on what it means when God calls us - the blessing, but also the courage to respond, and how to remain faithful when we might doubt. Jesus will never call us to do anything that he hasn't…
1 Feb 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - God Trusts in Us

“Jesus is infallibly devoted to us in spite of our inconsistent devotion to him..." Listen in as Prof Dion shares more on this very honest look at how God feels about us, versus how we might feel about Him.
25 Jan 8 min
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