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Gospelbound

Gospelbound

Van: The Gospel Coalition Collin Hansen
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Gospelbound, hosted by Collin Hansen for The Gospel Coalition, is a podcast for those searching for firm faith in an anxious age. Each week, Collin talks with insightful guests about books, ideas, and how to navigate life by the gospel of Jesus Christ in a post-Christian culture.2020 The Gospel Coalition Christentum Politik & Regierungen Spiritualität
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  • The 2000s So Far in Four Eras

    The 2000s So Far in Four Eras
    20 Oct 2026

    Last month marked 20 years since my Christianity Today cover story “Young, Restless, Reformed.” And last year we recognized 20 years since the founding of The Gospel Coalition. During TGC’s most recent Colloquium, a private meeting of our Council, president Mark Vroegop asked me to reflect on the “Not-So-Young, Restless, Reformed.” I took his prompt as an occasion to reflect on four eras that have unfolded over those 20-plus years, noting distinctive characteristics of ministry amid the changing tides. Then I reflected on the perspective we bring to cultural change, with an emphasis on the benefits of focusing on the deeper structures that don’t change as often. The result, I hope, helps church leaders understand the times without over-reacting to superficial trends—all the while staying focused on God’s unchanging promises.

    Resources Mentioned:

    • The Gospel Coalition
    • Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics
    • Gospel-Centered Ministry by D. A. Carson and Timothy Keller
    • A History of the Work of Redemption by Jonathan Edwards
    • A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
    • The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
    • A God-Sized Vision by Collin Hansen and John Woodbridge
    • City of God by Augustine

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    36 min.
  • How North Korea Became the Most Religious Place on Earth with Jonathan Cheng

    How North Korea Became the Most Religious Place on Earth with Jonathan Cheng
    6 Oct 2026

    What if I told you that one of the most powerful evangelical revivals of the 20th century, and one of the greatest missionary success stories of all Christian history, gave way in one generation to the most enduring, notorious, oppressive, anti-Christian communist personality cult of all time?

    Now you know why I say that Jonathan Cheng’s new book, Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult, is one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I wrote about the famous 1907 Pyongyang revival for my 2010 book A God-Sized Vision: Revival Stories that Stretch and Stir. I knew that Presbyterian missions in Korea contributed to the large number of Korean Americans who attend and lead Presbyterian churches today. And I knew of course that Pyongyang is the capital of communist North Korea today, so something bad must have happened.

    But the missionary success story was so much greater, and the fall from grace was so much farther, than I imagined. Jonathan Cheng worked on this book for more than 10 years, and the depth of research shows. Originally from Toronto, Cheng lives in Beijing and works as the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Before that he worked as the Korea bureau chief, covering both North and South Korea. He’s one of my most helpful people to follow on X, for news from and about China. Let’s dive in to this fascinating and horrifying story about the Christian origins of North Korea’s Kim dynasty.

    Editor’s Note: Please note that due to a technical issue during recording, the video quality becomes choppy towards the end of the episode. The audio was mostly unaffected, so we chose to keep the full conversation for listeners to enjoy.

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Korean Messiah by Jonathan Cheng
    • God-Sized Vision by Collin Hansen

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  • How Do You Want Your Children to Remember You? (with Michael Keller)

    How Do You Want Your Children to Remember You? (with Michael Keller)
    22 Sep 2026
    I want to tell a story about how I learned something that changed my life. It was the first Keller Center retreat in 2023. Our inaugural fellows, a couple dozen of them, didn’t know each other well. We had just finished a team-building scavenger hunt crisscrossing Manhattan. We settled into a Sunday school room at Redeemer West Side on W 83rd Street. We were about to do a Zoom call with Tim from his hospital room. It was the last time many of us spoke with him. He would die within weeks. He left us notes on what he wanted to see from the center.In that exercise before we talked to Tim, I led a discussion on the Great Dechurching, the unprecedented decline in Christian practice in the United States since the year 2000. I’ve led this exercise many times before and since, without incident. The goal is to identify what events and trends really shift culture. In this case, a majority of Americans had the internet in their homes by 2000. Add smartphones and social media and now AI and you can see that the dawn of the information age is perhaps the biggest story of the 21st century so far.But the exercise didn’t sit well with many of our fellows. We weren’t yet comfortable with each other. Some wanted to dig a lot deeper with ideas and a lot further back in history. Others saw the internet more as a vehicle rather than the driver of cultural change. Some just misunderstood the exercise altogether.I’ll never forget Michael Keller’s response. He pulled some of his dad’s notes on how to share the gospel in our current age. He described various overlapping and conflicting cultural narratives that help us make sense of the world, apart from God. And then he showed how Jesus critiques and ultimately completes those narratives. It was brilliant work.The whole center rallied around this idea. We recorded and wrote the group study Making Sense of Us: Exploring Six Stories that Shape How We Live. Michael Keller wrote the foreword. And we rallied behind a new book, The Stories We Live By: Seven Cultural Myths That Fail Us and the Story That Never Will, published by Zondervan. It’s written by Michael and his father, Tim, based on those notes we saw in 2023. Ever since that day I’ve adapted what I learned into my own teaching, not just about cultural narratives, but about how we think about the various deep levels of cultural change. And I’m eager to talk now about this book with Michael on Gospelbound. We’ll also discuss another new book Michael recently wrote, Talking to Kids About Hard Things: Honest Conversations When Life Gets Complicated. He wrote that book with Rebekah Hannah and published it with New Growth Press. In This Episode:00:00 – Why the best gospel presentation cannot save your children00:58 – How an early Keller Center retreat shaped The Stories We Live By05:02 – How Michael and Tim Keller began the book together07:11 – The seven cultural stories shaping modern life09:37 – Why identity may be the defining cultural narrative of our age11:10 – Cultural narratives as Christian heresies13:52 – The strengths and failures of expressive individualism15:58 – What Michael hopes The Stories We Live By changes in the church18:15 – How cultural narratives shape Christians too20:27 – What remains in Tim Keller’s unpublished notes23:06 – How Michael handles ongoing criticism of his father25:35 – Tim Keller, “third way” criticism, and diagonalization26:50 – What church planting taught Michael that he could not learn secondhand29:56 – Redeemer’s transition after Tim Keller30:49 – Why the best way to honor Tim Keller is not to imitate him32:28 – Introducing Talking to Kids About Hard Things35:09 – Why Michael was skeptical of parenting books36:36 – “Your kids need your repentance more than your perfection”38:25 – Why apologizing to your children matters40:14 – The gospel in action through forgiveness and repentance41:40 – Why technique cannot produce saving faith44:01 – How to help children feel safe asking hard questions45:17 – Teaching like Jesus by asking questions47:53 – How parenting reveals who we really are49:18 – Control, repentance, and what parenting exposed in Michael51:52 – How Michael wants his daughters to remember him53:27 – Collin on integrity between public ministry and private family life54:58 – Integrity, not perfection57:29 – Final reflections and recommended books58:16 – OutroResources Mentioned:The Stories We Live By by Michael Keller and Timothy KellerTalking to Kids About Hard Things by Michael Keller and Rebecca HannahMaking Sense of God by Timothy KellerThe Reason for God by Timothy KellerCenter Church by Timothy KellerMaking Sense of UsHanding Down the Faith by Christian Smith and Amy AdamczykGospel in LifeKeller Center for Cultural ApologeticsThe Gospel Coalition — — —📫 SIGN UP for my newsletter, Unseen Things:https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospelbound🎁 Help The Gospel ...
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