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
153 Episodes
20 – 40

Prof Dion Forster - Faith Like a Mustard Seed

Prof Dion shares on: 'Faith like a mustard seed' out of Matt 13:31-33, 44-52. Dion also looks at how faith starts, how it grows, and what faith uncovers in our lives and the lives of others.
20 Jul 2023 9 min

Prof Dion Forster - Perfection vs Imperfection

Prof Dion shares about the tension between perfection and imperfection in our Christian lives (Eph 2:8-10) “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For…
6 Jul 2023 9 min

Prof Dion Forster - Faith and Uncertainty

“Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.” - Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei. Dion also takes a look at 2 Cor 5:7, that we walk by faith (keeping our eyes fixed on the…
29 Jun 2023 9 min

Prof Dion Forster - Co Labouring with Christ

Prof Dion talka about becoming an answer to our prayers. He touches on becoming co-laborers, alongside God, in the world, recognizing that we are placed in certain places, and amongst certain people, to pray and love and act for the sake of God’s loving will to be done.
1 Jun 2023 8 min

Prof Dion Forster - Freedom Day

Prof Dion joins us on Freedom Day and talks about forgiveness and freedom. He shares some wonderful stories out of his own life about the struggle and the joy felt on the 27th of April, all those years ago.
27 Apr 2023 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - Is Jesus Really the Lord of your Life?

The Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization that met in Cape Town in 2010 has a saying: Jesus Christ is is Lord of all, or he is not Lord at all. Dion reflects on what it means for Jesus to be the Lord of every aspect of our lives. It has…
13 Apr 2023 11 min

Prof Dion Forster - Holy Thursday

Prof Dion walks us through Holy Thursday, which commemorates Jesus' last supper with his disciples, and some say the initiation of the Lord's supper. There is also a focus on Jesus' example of service.
6 Apr 2023 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - Gethsemane Moments

Prof Dion touches on Gethsemane moments and reflects on Mark 14 - where we see that even in the life of Jesus, God works to turn pressure into great promise! God can redeem lost and painful realities for redemption and salvation by His grace.
16 Mar 2023 10 min

Prof Dion Forster - The Consequences of Our Prayers

Prof Dion challenges us with this question: "What might we mean when we pray, ‘Lord Jesus, make me like You.’ Or, ‘Your will be done on earth, as in heaven.’. Do we understand the consequences of these kinds of prayer
2 Mar 2023 8 min

Prof Dion Forster - Living Truthfully

Prof Dion takes us to Matt 5:37 and these integrity-challenging questions: Are you living truthfully, and is your YES, really a YES, and the same with your NO?
16 Feb 2023 11 min

Prof Dion Forster - How God works to 'unearth' treasures

Prof Dion shares a fascinating look at how we consider the things of the past compared to the things of now, in day to day life and in our spiritual walk. Matthew 13:52, ESV: And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of…
9 Feb 2023 8 min

Dion Foster - Humility

Prof Dion shares on the importance of humility. The notion of humble strength, or humble confidence, like Jesus was with his disciples, and even persons who persecuted him.
2 Feb 2023 10 min
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