Episode 29: Ascension and Pentecost

Episode 33: The Fight for the Human Race

The ancient battle between good and evil continues today in each human heart. God calls; darkness seduces; and here, now, each one of us is faced with the choice on which our fate rests, a choice as old as the angels and our first parents. Will we accept life with God, embracing in all humility the path He lays out for us? Or will we draw up hedges around our egos, echoing those fallen words: “I will not serve”? The decision is ours; our eternal destinies are in our hands. www.primematters.com [https://primematters.com/] A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text [https://primematters.com/recommended-texts].

Episode 32: The Church through the Ages

The controversy sparked by the life of Jesus has followed his Church down through the ages. Deemed a refuge for the ignorant as often as the ark of salvation, a haven for barbarism as often as a lover of freedom, Darth Vadar as often as a queenly and tender mother, the Church remains plagued by division, confusion, and betrayal in its adherents. And yet it continues to find new converts, new Christians, even in a secularized and materialist culture. For in its most significant aspects, the Church has served as the keeper of the sacraments: visible signs of the invisible reality that God has kept his promise – the human race will be made new. www.primematters.com [https://primematters.com/] A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text [https://primematters.com/recommended-texts].

Episode 31: The Apostolic Age

Pentecost ushered in the apostolic age of the Church, those years in which Peter, Paul, and all the apostles ventured across the known world, spreading the Gospel to all nations, evangelizing Jews and Gentiles alike. Before long, small churches popped up across Asia, Africa, and Europe, even as disciples began to cultivate a Tradition and the beginnings of a book of Scriptures, all amidst an atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom. The Church had taken root. www.primematters.com [https://primematters.com/] A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text [https://primematters.com/recommended-texts].

Episode 30: The Second Coming of Christ and the Life of Eternity

Where is the great drama of human history headed? What does the Christian know about his future? We consider here what we know and what we do not know about the pilgrimage of the human race toward its ordained end. As we await the end of history as we know it, the “end times,” the “apocalypse,” the final judgment, in what (or whom) shall we place our hope? www.primematters.com [https://primematters.com/] A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text [https://primematters.com/recommended-texts].

Episode 29: Ascension and Pentecost

After His Resurrection, Jesus’s disciples wondered: would he now establish the long-awaited messianic kingdom, authoritative and powerful beyond measure? But Jesus had something different – and far more satisfying – in store. The divine Logos was to ascend once more to the Father, sending down the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, establishing the Lord’s presence within each of His followers. And the fruit of the Spirit would become manifest in each of them: in dramatic form as the Apostles spoke in tongues at Pentecost and in subtler form as they went out into the world with tender hearts, clear minds, and resilient wills for the mission they were to carry forward. www.primematters.com [https://primematters.com/] A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text [https://primematters.com/recommended-texts].