Episodes
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Romans Part 10 At One Ment
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
For Paul, salvation is not just a transaction between you and God, where you believe the right things and he saves you because of it. For Paul, salvation is a dynamic relationship where you come to understand that God is faithful to you, and you learn to trust in him because you believe that he is faithful.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Parables of Grace Part 9 The 10 Lepers and Vultures
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Death is all of the resurrection we can now know - the rest is faith! Wherever the corpses are, this old vulture's going to find them and raise them up!
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Romans Part 9 None, No Not One
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Paul's goal isn't to grind you down. It's to invite you to let go of expectations that were never realistic to start with. So that you can discover faith in the God who is faithful to you!
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Parables of Grace Part 8 The Barren Fig Tree
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
It's this acceptance of death that Jesus continues to press in the parable of the Barren Fig Tree. As long as His death feeds our roots, we'll never be cut down.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Romans Part 8 Who has the Advantage?
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
A fundamental aspect of Jewish identity was their sense of holding a special status, "we are God's favorites". They thought this excluded them from God's wrath. But Paul is not done. If he hasn't gotten everybody mad at him in this letter, he keeps going.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Parables of Grace Part 7 Watchful Servants
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, clerical bigmouths with ego's to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks. The preacher has only to deliver food, not flash, Gospel, not uplift.
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Romans Part 7 Refresher
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
At the core of this letter is an attempt, by Paul, to make sense of the mystery of God's grace extended to us in Jesus. May we come to know who we are in the light of God's love, just like Paul.
Friday Mar 01, 2024
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
What the riders are doing here, they are not God sending the apocalypse on humanity. They are images of humanity beginning to recognize the cracks in the system. Remember the revelation comes after the sacrifice of Christ, after the fact that we begin to see sacrifice for what it really is.
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Romans Part 6 Faith and Trust
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Try to imagine these Jews, who for a generation have thought that being God's chosen people meant being God's only people. Paul says actually "No". This is why Paul can say that even those who don't have the law and yet they do what's required, they show that God is written on their hearts.
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Parables of Grace Part 6 Swept and Garnished
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
It is the blessed foolishness of the preaching of the cross that we are saved. If we allow that death to be our only light, then we are light indeed.