When The Stars Disappear
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When The Stars Disappear
Probing human suffering and applying truth to life’s most crucial questions.
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The blissful consequences that are ours because of Christ’s sacrifice
In this, the final episode of Season 1 of When the Stars Disappear, Mark and KJ wrap things up by explaining how our accepting Christ’s work through f...
The righteousness of God revealed
Mark and KJ wrap up their discussion of the suffering that we may experience because of our first parents' rebellion by showing what is wrong with pro...
Why has this happened to me? Part 2
After Mark suggests that the language of Scripture should become so familiar to us that we naturally speak it back to God in prayer, he and KJ then go...
Why has this happened to me? Part 1
In this episode, Mark and KJ discuss how Robert Dabney and C. S. Lewis maintained their faith in the midst of profound suffering and then turn to cons...
What is Suffering and how does it affect us? Part 3
Mark and KJ examine a second way in which suffering—and especially profound suffering—affects us by disrupting our stories and thus blotting out virtu...
What is Suffering and how does it affect us? Part 2
Mark explains how his suffering prompted him to depend more on God, and then discusses with KJ whether some of our Lord's words in the Sermon on the M...
What is Suffering and how does it affect us? Part 1
Mark offers a way to characterize all kinds and degrees of human suffering and then explores with KJ how this can help us to live better, more deliber...
Christmas Greetings
Mark highlights the full Christian story by reading John Julian's hymn, "Hark! The voice Eternal," and then reflecting on human history's central turn...
Human Suffering as the Spoiled Fruit of the Fall
Mark and KJ discuss how human suffering is the spoiled fruit of Adam and Eve's fall into sin and how that means that God is not to be blamed for our s...
Review and Prospect
Mark and Karl—"KJ"—Johnson review the centrality of stories in our lives and begin to discuss how Adam and Eve's disobedience to God's command not to...
The Fall and its consequences - Part 3
This episode asks whether Adam or Eve was more responsible for the fall and then turns to show how suffering became inevitable once Adam and Eve ate f...
The Fall and its consequences - Part 2
Paul and Mark examine how the serpent led Eve to doubt God's warning that if she and Adam ate from the forbidden tree, then they would die, as well as...
The Fall and its consequences - Part 1
In this episode, Paul and Mark show why the penalty of death was the inevitable consequence of Adam and Eve's eating from the forbidden tree.
The forbidden tree - Part 2
Paul and Mark discuss how prohibitions add an important element to human life: they help us recognize what we must never do and they enable us to expr...
The forbidden tree - Part 1
Paul and Mark begin to explore the prohibition that God gave to Adam in Genesis 2:17—namely, “you must not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good an...
God’s gifts to Adam and Eve in Eden
Paul and Mark explore the remarkable implications of the Genesis 2 account of Adam and Eve.
What does Genesis 2 teach us about ourselves?
Paul and Mark discuss how the expansion of Genesis 1's account of the creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:4-25 enables us to understand more deeply...
Give me understanding that I may live
Paul Winters and Mark open their discussion of Mark's second volume, Give Me Understanding that I May Live, by exploring why we must understand the fi...
The Main Lesson of When the Stars Disappear
In this episode, John and Mark recap the main lesson from When the Stars Disappear—that it is only those who endure to the end through all persecution...
Tell me the story again!
Mark and John wrap up their discussion of When the Stars Disappear, Mark's first volume in his Suffering and the Christian Life series, by reflecting...
Living in the light of our Lord’s resurrection
After Mark offers some advice on the sort of help we need to understand Scripture, John and Mark address the question: Given the suffering in our worl...
Great suffering and deliverance with three Old Testament saints
The stories of Naomi and Job show us that while suffering can make us think that life will never again be good, God may restore us. And even if, as wi...
Breathing lessons
The psalmists provide us with breathing lessons for exhaling our pain and grief to God and then inhaling his promises as well as remembering what he h...
Should Christians expect to suffer in this life?
While we should expect to suffer in this life, we can find hope in the fact that God will always bring good out of our suffering.
After I was paralyzed...
Mark tells the story of his paralyzing accident, his sense of God's love that immediately followed it, and its subsequent blessings in his life.
Welcome
Welcome to the podcast "When The Stars Disappear" hosted by Dr. Mark Talbot, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois.