Marc Jolicoeur (aka "Jolly Thoughts")

This feed is a grab bag of thoughts, reflections, and tomfoolery. The Bible will be talked about, other books will be talked about, concepts will be wrestled with, Jesus will be made much of. marcjolicoeur.substack.com

Marc Jolicoeur (aka "Jolly Thoughts") is a religion podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 102 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Marc Jolicoeur (aka "Jolly Thoughts"), a religion show with 102 episodes published.

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  Talk on AI, Songwriting, and Worship Leading with Paul Baloche

  May 22, 20261h 8mS0

  <p></p><p>“Just for a moment</p><p>Can we fix our eyes on Jesus?</p><p>There is no other reason</p><p>We stand and sing these songs”</p><p>from Magnify (Just For A Moment) by Paul Baloche</p><p>I have not seen the adjective “pastor” attached to Paul Baloche very often, but I can tell you that there are few people I’ve met in the wider world of worship leading who are more pastoral than he. I was blessed to have him on the pod way back in 2022 (episode here), where we talked about…</p>...

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  "Just" is a Four-Letter-Word: The Eucharist & You

  May 15, 20261h 27mS0

  <p>How did we get from the gospels recording Jesus’ words as “Take, eat, this is my body broken for you” to Youth Pastors offering donuts & Coca Cola as “communion”? How did the primary locus of mystical Christian worship become “just a symbol”? How did the evangelical church get here, and (in the adapted register of The Clash)... should we stay or should we go?</p><p>[to watch this video, either scroll down or visit the pod on YouTube]</p><p>In his recently defended PhD thesis, my friend & Kingswood co-labourer (and newly minted doctor) Axel Kazadi traced a bit of a histo...

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  What’s the matter with the Church? (or, rather, “Does the Church still matter?”)

  May 8, 20261h 2mS0

  <p>“From the beginning, the Israelites were a multi-ethnic family whose most prominent members often married foreigners. Later laws against intermarriage are focused exclusively on protecting Israelite worship rather than trying to maintain the purity of the Israelite bloodline.” (pg 30)</p><p>Just one of the many wonderfully provocative snippets that litter Dr Carmen Joy Imes’ third book, Becoming God’s Family: Why the Church Still Matters. But Carmen is not a provocateur. This book (like the others in the trilogy) is aimed squarely at helping us think Biblically about the topic at hand, which in this case is the nature o...

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  Did Jesus Really Say He Was God?

  Apr 3, 202649 minS0

  <p>Did Jesus really say He was God?</p><p>Belief in Jesus’ divinity is generally held to be a core Christian belief (if you need a refresher on the Nicene Creed, you can check out last year’s conversation with Dr Jerome Van Kuiken), but recent survey data out of the US seems to indicate that roughly 43% of American evangelicals do not necessarily believe He was God… which is mindblowing, yes, but perhaps not entirely surprising, since biblical scholars have been chipping away at the criteria for this case for a long time now. However, it’s also not the ques...

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  Letting The Catechesis Outta The Bag

  Mar 20, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>-“…despite a relatively high bar for entry, the young church grew rapidly…” (pg 30 of Making Disciples by Alex Fogleman</p><p>)</p><p>Some churches offer what is sometimes called “spontaneous baptism” (an opportunity for someone to show up on a Sunday morning who had not planned to get baptized to get straight into the water that very morning), while some churches have a 2-3 year waiting period between when a person expresses a desire to be baptized and when they can actually go through the waters. How can we have such a wide range between these criteria? What makes a...

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