Podcast Description

In this episode we see the prophets calling God’s people to holiness while a restless heart wrestles with its own delay. Theophilus of Antioch urges us to examine the prophets, who consistently taught one God, the rejection of idolatry, and a moral life that leads to eternal reward. He shows how the prophets—simple shepherds and uneducated men—spoke with one voice about creation, the unity of God, and the folly of idols.

Augustine continues his intense inner struggle. Listening to the story of radical conversion, he confronts his own long delay in surrendering to God. At thirty-two years old he still begged for chastity “but not yet,” afraid that God might answer too quickly and take away the sins he still wanted to enjoy.

Thomas Aquinas explores the causes of pleasure, explaining that true d ...