Westlake Lausanne Podcast

In today's episode of Tidings of Comfort and Joy I'm joined by 4 very special guests, to discuss a book we've enjoyed reading together! I hope you have as much fun listening to this as we had recording it!

In our first podcast for Advent, Rhys and I look at the first, and great, prophecy of the coming of Christ - the One who will undo all the work of the devil. Plus... there's an advent medley at the end!

A disagreement over a single, seemingly insignificant, word - filioque - laid the ground for the first major church split. A split that still divides eastern and western churches. In today's podcast Nik and I discuss that word and the controversy around it. 

Prepare to be educated!

In today's Episode we discuss how our current culture tells us that morality is socially constructed. And yet, at the same time, it is deeply inconsistent and moralistic. So how are we supposed to think about morality?

In today’s podcast I interview Randall Zindler on why leadership matters. As a former CEO and board chair, he should know! So… what makes for good leadership in a crisis? Why is character so important for a leader? What are some common deficiencies in leaders? And… what would an old and mature Randall say to a young Randall just starting out?

Our culture tries to form and shape us - not least to do with identity. Does that matter? And if it does, what can you do about it? Today’s episode - Identity Matters - discusses the stories our culture tells us about where we get our identity from, the dark side of that, and a much better story.

In today's episode, Nick Papageogiou and I discuss an ancient controversy about Jesus. Except, it's not so ancient, at least not in its importance. As one member of Westlake discovered this week, you may even get a letter in your mailbox from an organisation promoting it. It was also controversial enough to make St Nicholas slap someone. But you've got to listen to the end to discover what that was about!

In today's episode of our relaunched podcast I interview Nick Mahtani about how God saved first his father, then his family. It's all the more extra-ordinary as his father was Hindu.

Today's episode - The World is My Parish - is the last of our Westlake Daily Podcasts! Nik and I talk about the great evangelist of the the 18th Century, John Wesley. We may not agree with everything he taught, but when it came to a love for people of all classes, and a passion to see them saved, he was extraordinary! An encouraging way to start your weekend, and to end these podcasts!

Today's episode - When God Smiles Upon You - is our Friday 'Thought for the Day', and our penultimate daily podcast. What do you need to get through the day? What, if you have it, brings everything else into place? Psalm 80 gives us a clue.