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Hebrews 3:1-6 - Hold Fast
April 22, 2024 19:56 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBListen along as we continue our series through the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 3:1-6 (Chris) Title: Hold Fast “doesn’t merely talk about where our calling originated or where our calling is taking us. It also describes the quality of our existence; the kind of person we are designed to be. Our lives now and forevermore are to be characterized by the values of heaven; energized by the power of heaven; shaped by the beauty of heaven. We are to live now, on earth, heavenly lives....
Hebrews 2:1-18 - Perspective and High Priest
April 14, 2024 20:06 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBListen along as we continue our series through the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 2:1-18 - Chris "Love does not mean the abandonment of justice and right; nor is it a sentimental benevolence which does not have the capacity for holy wrath.” George Ladd “Pay attention to what you pay attention to.” “The most basic form of love is attention” “What you pay attention to expands” Phil 2:5-8 “The drive for autonomous living—to control my own life and destiny—runs counter to Christia...
Hebrews 1:1-14 - Is He Worthy?
April 08, 2024 16:20 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBListen along as we begin our journey through the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 1:1-14 - Kim “(1) Whereas pastors in the Christian communities were normally referred to as “elders” or “overseers,” in Hebrews alone among the New Testament documents they are called “leaders” (hegoumenoi) (13:7, 17, 24). Outside the New Testament this designation for church leadership occurs in two early Christian documents, 1st Clement and The Shepherd of Hermas, both of which we know to have been ...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: What is that to you?
March 31, 2024 20:10 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBListen along as we celebrate the resurrection and look at our final hard saying of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: John 21:20-25 “The original creation of light itself is almost too extraordinary to take in. The little cookout on the beach is almost too ordinary to take seriously. Yet if Scripture is to be believed, enormous stakes were involved in them both, and still are.” - Frederick Buechner “Jesus matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living the...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Silence
March 24, 2024 20:47 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBListen along as we look at the space between Good Friday and Easter Sunday contemplating the silence of God. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 13:1-6 - Jon “Habakkuk lived in the final decades of Judah, Israel’s southern kingdom. It was a time of injustice and idolatry, and he saw the rising threat of the Babylonian empire on the horizon. Unlike the other Hebrew prophets, Habakkuk doesn’t accuse Israel or even speak to the people on God’s behalf. Instead, all of his words are addressed to God. The bo...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Why Have You Forsaken Me?
March 18, 2024 16:45 - 44 minutes - 61 MBListen along as we look at the cry of dereliction. Notes//Quotes: Slides Cry of Dereliction Slide 1 “And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” Luke 24:25-27 Slide 2 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: WOE
March 17, 2024 23:41 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBListen along as Anthony continues our series through the hard sayings of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: Kim reading Matthew 23:25-27 1–3 “…The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God’s Law. You won’t go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don’t live it. They don’t take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It’s all spit-and-polish veneer. 4–7 “Instead of giving you God’s Law as ...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Depart from Me
March 03, 2024 21:27 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBListen along as we look at the close of the Sermon on the Mount. Notes//Quotes: Matthew 7:21-29 Deut 30:15-20 ”We learn at least that it is possible to work for Jesus and yet not live under him. We can be intoxicated by the power of Jesus and yet be hostile to his hard Commands. “I never ever really knew you; get out of my face, you doers of the very opposite of my teachings.” They believe that they know Jesus, but apparently they never gave him a chance to know them (“I never really kne...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Revelation and Invitation
February 25, 2024 20:29 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBListen along as we look at Matthew 11:25-30 and see the revelation of who Jesus is coupled with his invitation to rest. Notes//Quotes: Matthew 11:25-30 “At the heart of the revelation is this simple fact: God’s whole truth (“absolutely everything”) has been placed in and revealed through Jesus the Son. The key to divine revelation is Jesus. In Jesus, God gets a face. Jesus invites us to himself, and we feel quite naturally that we are invited to God.” - Dale Bruner Hebrews 1:1-4 ...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Fear Not?
February 19, 2024 16:56 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBListen along as we continue our series looking at the hard sayings of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: Luke 12:4-7 - Mike It's the age of doubt And I doubt we'll figure it out Is it you or is it me? Age of anxiety Fight the fever with TV In the age when nobody sleeps And the pills do nothing for me In the age of anxiety - Arcade Fire “Unfortunately, many of us presume that the world is the ultimate threat and that God's function is to offset it. How different this is from the biblical position th...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Let the Dead Bury the Dead
February 11, 2024 21:40 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBListen along as we continue looking at the hard sayings of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: Luke 9:57-62 Throughout history various religious traditions have used the imagery of pilgrimage or journey to describe spiritual development. These journeys were focused on an eternal destination, a spiritual transformation of the individual. Today, however, the “pilgrimage” is all about the individual’s own life journey. The contemporary self does not have to literally be on the move to be on the road. Bei...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: If You Want To Be Perfect
February 05, 2024 02:42 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBListen along as we look at Matthew 19 and look at Jesus' interaction with the rich young ruler. Notes//Quotes: Matthew 19:16-30 - Faith “It is wrong if eternal life is an additional “acquisition,” if one wants the spiritual as a complement to all the other good things one has—physical, financial, social, and the like. “I am a successful businessman, a good father, and respected in my community; now I want to be a success with God as well.” Service clubs sometimes seek such well-roundednes...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Eating Flesh, Drinking Blood
January 28, 2024 21:32 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBListen along as we look at John 6 and the hard sayings of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: John 6:52-60 - Jack A. “Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. "Those who come through me will be safe," he said. "They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the limit.” In other words, eternal life is not prima...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Not Peace, but a Sword - Matthew 10:34-39
January 21, 2024 19:09 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBListen along as we continue our series looking at the hard sayings of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: Matthew 10:34-39 - Karen W Reading “Don’t think I’ve come to make life cozy. I’ve come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mother-in-law—cut through these cozy domestic arrangements and free you for God. Well-meaning family members can be your worst enemies. If you prefer father or mother over me, you don’t deserve me. If you prefer son or daughter o...
The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Did You Not Know? Luke 2:40-52
January 14, 2024 21:17 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBListen along as we begin our new series through the hard sayings of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: Luke 2:40-52 - Mike Reading “If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.” - Augustine “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do.” - Anne Lamott “I can state unequivocally that childlike surrender in trust is the defining spirit of authentic discip...
Becoming - Colossians 3:12-17
December 31, 2023 21:14 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBListen along as we look at Colossians 3 and meditate on the invitation to transformation. Notes//Quotes: Colossians 3:12-17 Zyler Reading “Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person.” Dallas Willard “How much misery we would avoid if we permitted “the peace of Christ” to umpire in our hearts. How many words we would hold back if he were the ...
On the Incarnation: Resurrection and Return
December 24, 2023 19:34 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBListen along as we wrap up our advent series and reflect on the resurrection and return of Jesus. Notes//Quotes: 1 Cor 15:1-8 1 Cor 15:17-19 “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him ...
On the Incarnation: Death
December 17, 2023 19:20 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBListen along as we continue our Advent series. Notes/Quotes: Mark 10:32-45 - Kim J Title: Suffering Savior “31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.” (Mark 8:31-32) “but that's not what's going on here at all. And why not, you may say? If God is really a loving ...
On The Incarnation: Life
December 10, 2023 20:46 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBListen as we continue our series through Advent. Notes//Quotes: Slide 1 Jesus was born to perfectly fulfill all of the commandments that Israel had failed to honor. Slide 2 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17 Slide 3 “And beginning with Moses and the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” Luke 24:27 Slide 4 “Jesus says that H...
On The Incarnation: Birth
December 03, 2023 18:41 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBIsaiah 9:2-7 In general the whole Liturgical calendar is set up so that you never have celebration without preparation. Advent is focused more on preparation. Advent is designed to call us into rest, into reflection and into hope for what’s next. That’s what Christians are focusing on when they celebrate Advent. - Tish Harrison Warren The entire thrust of this season is designed to bring us face-to-face with reality—reality about sin and death, reality about the human race, reality about G...
Proverbs: Friendship
November 27, 2023 16:23 - 43 minutes - 80.8 MBListen along as we wrap up our series through the Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Kim J reading - Proverbs 27:1-10, 17 “In the bible wisdom is certainly not less than being moral and good but it’s much more. It’s being so in touch with reality that you know what is the right thing to do in the vast majority of the situations that the moral rules don’t apply to. The vast majority of your choices, your decisions, you’re going have a whole lot of different choices in front of you and in most cases ...
Proverbs: The Wisdom of Love
November 19, 2023 21:10 - 43 minutes - 39.2 MBListen alongs as we continue our series in Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Proverbs 2:1-22 “Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that’s easier th...
Proverbs: Marriage, Blessing or Ball and Chain?
November 12, 2023 23:44 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBListen along as we continue our series through Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Prov 18:22 & 21:19 - Mike Reading Title: Blessing Or Ball & Chain “So where did this pessimism come from, and why is it so out of touch with reality? Paradoxically, it may be that the pessimism comes from a new kind of unrealistic idealism about marriage, born of a significant shift in our culture’s, understanding of the purpose of marriage. Legal scholar John Witte, Jr., says that the earlier "ideal of marriage as a ...
Learning Wisdom: Work and Money
November 05, 2023 20:38 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBListen along as we continue to see God's wisdom for life. Notes//Quotes: Kim J reading - Prov 6:6-11, 3:9-10, 23:4-5 Gen 2:15-17, Gen 1:27-28 Prov 10:4 Prov 15:6 Prov 22:1-2, Prov 23:5 “The works of monks and priests, however holy and arduous they be, do not differ one whit in the sight of God from the works of the rustic laborer in the field or the woman going about her household tasks, but that all works are measured before God by faith alone… Indeed, the menial housework of a ma...
Proverbs: Children and Parents
October 29, 2023 20:24 - 47 minutes - 64.8 MBListen in as we continue our series through the Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Prov 3:1-12 - Linda B Proverbs 3:1-12 Proverbs 26:11, 1 Prov 5:17, Prov 11:22 They were happy, or at least as happy as a family can be when it's burdened by a grief too large to be absorbed by time. - Frederick Backman “The parents’ chief resource is constructive, namely their ‘law’, taught with loving persistence. This ‘law’ (tôrâ) is a wide term which includes commands (cf. 3:1; 7:2) but is not confined to them:...
Proverbs: Wisdom for Direction
October 22, 2023 19:58 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBListen in as we lean into God's wisdom for life today. Notes//Quotes: Proverbs 4:20-27 “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” - Frederick Beuchner The father is vitally concerned to keep his son moving on the right path in his life. In many w...
Proverbs: Wise Words
October 16, 2023 21:25 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBListen along as we continue learn wisdom as we look through the Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Larry & Jorgen reading, Proverbs 10:18,19,31,32; 12:13,14,17,18; 15:1,4; 16:23,28; 18:13,21; 24:26 “There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” Proverbs 12:8 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21 “A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.” Proverbs 16:28 “an evil man is trapped by his si...
Proverbs 1:1-7: Learning Wisdom
October 08, 2023 18:57 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBListen along as we begin a new series looking at the book of Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Prov 1:1-7 “You’ve heard of the meat of the word and milk of the word, proverbs is the hard candy of the word. You don’t just swallow it. You don’t just bite into it. You have to let it dissolve very slowly on your tongue.” Tim Keller The book of Proverbs opens by breaking up the plain daylight of wisdom (ḥokmâ) into its rainbow of constituent colours. Derek Kidner “For my ally is the Force, and a powe...
Learning Prayer: Psalms
October 02, 2023 19:36 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBListen in as we hear from multiple people in our congregation.
Psalm 37:1-7 - Don’t Worry, Be Happy
September 24, 2023 19:55 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBListen in as Bill Berve continues our series through the Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 37:1-7 - Larry and Jorgen Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb. Psalm 37:1-2 "When you're looking to the left or the right to see how you measure up to other people whether good or bad--you have an inability to see what God is doing for you. In the case of both envy and self-righteousn...
Psalm 67:1-7 - Let the Nations Be Glad
September 24, 2023 14:16 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBListen along as we continue our series through the Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 67:1-7 - Kim Slide 1 Big Idea When it comes to God’s plan, it’s about us, but it’s about much MORE than us! Slide 2 “‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.” Number 6:24-26 Slide 3 … that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the...
Psalm 35:1-10 - Asking God Crazy Things
September 10, 2023 21:46 - 40 minutes - 55 MBListen along as we do an overview of the imprecatory Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 35:1-10 NGRAM Picture (attached) Psalm 69:22-25 Psalm 58:6-9 Psalm 137:8-9 “In the ancient Near East in general, life was dominated by the need to cope with the terrifying threat of curses and omens” New Dictionary of Biblical Theology The Psalms explore the full gamut of human experience from rage to hope. Indeed, it would be very strange if such a robust spirituality lacked such a dimension of vengean...
Psalm 51:1-19 - The Gift of Repentance
September 03, 2023 22:04 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBListen along as we continue our series in the Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 51:1-19 - Faith Title: The Gift Of Repentance “Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.” - Thomas Watson “Making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human beings the exact nature of our wrongs. Being entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. And humbly asked Him to re...
Psalm 142: How God Shows Up
August 27, 2023 21:40 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBListen along as we continue to learn prayer from the Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 142:1-7 1 Sam 22:1 Abraham debated. Moses protested. Jeremiah worried. And Elijah basically whined. But Jonah? Jonah ran. It's a reminder that arguing with God is not an obstacle to intimacy with God, but a primary channel into it. - Sharen Hodde Miller A portrait of the righteous in the Psalms tells the true story: they find their refuge in God and, as a result, receive a righteousness from him that inc...
Psalm 19: How to Know God
August 21, 2023 18:33 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBListen along as we continue our series through the Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 19:1-14 - Mike G Earth’s Moon is about 1/ 400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/ 400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size on the sky—a coincidence not shared by any other planet–moon combination in the solar system, allowing for uniquely photogenic total solar eclipses. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson Romans 1:20 Romans 8:20-22 We know Him by two means: First, by the creation, preserv...
Psalm 6: Surviving Suffering
August 13, 2023 21:07 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBListen along as Anthony walks us through Psalm 6. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 6:1-10 - Chris Fisher Reading Title: Surviving Suffering “Waiting is hard. ‘How long O Lord’ is the cry of someone who has walked with more pain and sickness than they thought they could ever bear.” - Timothy Keller “The most precious use of the word hesed in the Old Testament is used as a description of what God does. Having entered a covenant relationship with His people, God bound Himself to act toward them in ce...
Psalm 1: Learning Prayer
August 06, 2023 22:22 - 41 minutes - 57.5 MBListen along as we begin a new sermon series in the Psalms. Notes//Quotes: Psalm 1:1-6 - Kim J Book 1 - 1-41 - Distress//Confidence Book 2 - 42-72 - Lament//Hope Book 3 - 73-89 - Darkest of all (88) Book 4 - 90-106 - Doubts in Light of the Lord’s reign Book 5 - 107-150 - Declaration//Ascent//Ps119 - 176verses “Psalms are companions - They are the closest friends, wisest advisors, and faithful discerners. They understand your heart and provide words when we don’t have any.” Anthony Ga...
Galatians 6:11-18 - True Rest
July 30, 2023 20:36 - 36 minutes - 50.8 MBListen along as we have family worship and wrap up our series through Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 6:11-18 Bear Video (attached) Monkey video (attached) “He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.” Harry Emerson Fosdick All that matters is that, through Christ crucified, we are made a “new creation” (v 15). The gospel changes my future, giving me a place in Christ’s perfected re-creation. And the gospel ...
Galatians 6:1-10 - Life Together and the Long View
July 23, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBListen along as we near the end of Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 6:1-10 “The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself." - Henri Nouwen 1 Cor 10:12 “There is one burden that we cannot share … and that is our responsibility to God on the day of judgment. On that...
Galatians 5:13-26 - Freedom
July 16, 2023 21:05 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBListen along as we continue our series through Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 5:13-26 - Larry and Jorgen Title: Freedom “the “freedom” of the Messiah’s people cannot be used as “opportunity” (aphorme (ah-for-may), a “base of operations”) for “the flesh.” - N.T. Wright “In verse 3, Paul implicitly says that Christians are freed from obligation to obey the whole law. Then in verse 13, he tells us to “serve one another in love”; and in verse 14 he says that the summary of the law is ...
Galatians 5:1-15 - The Gospel Of Self Sufficiency
July 16, 2023 16:10 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBGalatians 5:1-15 - Kim J Title: The Gospel Of Self-Sufficiency “The topic of circumcision had been in the background of Paul’s polemic against the Judaizers all along. In chap. 2 Paul reminded the Galatians of his successful resistance against the efforts of certain “false brothers” to have the Gentile Titus circumcised during their visit to Jerusalem. Similarly, those who belonged to “the circumcision group” had provoked the incident which led to Paul’s confrontation with Peter at Antioch...
Galatians 4:21-31 - Attempting the Impossible
July 02, 2023 18:16 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBListen along as we continue our series through Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 4:21-31 - Faith C. Reading Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. - Muhammad Ali At certain key points, Paul uses the Je...
Galatians 4:8-20 - The First Command
June 26, 2023 00:29 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBListen along as we continue our series through Galatians and arrive at Paul's first command in the text. Notes//Quotes: Gal 4:8-20 - Larry and Jorgen Galatians 4:8-20 Worship is the continuous outpouring of all that I am, all that I do and all that I can ever become in light of a chosen or choosing god - Harold Best “Evil, is the force, residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness. And goodness is its opposite. Goodness is that which promotes ...
Galatians 4:1-7 - Who Do You Think You Are?
June 19, 2023 16:59 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBListen along as Mike Gaston continues our series through Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Slide 1 Who do you think you are? Slide 2 “The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.” Neil Anderson Slide 3 Why is the period of Christ’s coming termed ‘the fulness of the time’? Various factors combined...
Galatians 3:15-29 - Talkin’ Torah
June 11, 2023 21:14 - 34 minutes - 47 MBListen along as Anthony teaches Galatians 3:15-29. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 3:15-29 - Mike G. reading Title: Talkin’ Torah “Paul may well have been responding here to the popular Jewish claim that they alone, along with a few proselytes, were the “true sons of Abraham.” Paul wanted to show that the greater fulfillment of the promise is not biological but Christological.” - Timothy George “After God gave the promise to Abraham, He gave the law to Moses. Why? He had to make things worse b...
Galatians 3:10-14 - Lay Your Deadly Doing Down
June 04, 2023 20:23 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBToday we cover Galatians 3:10-14 and continue our series through the letter of Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 3:10-14 “If we allow the Bible to become fragmented, it is in danger of being absorbed into whatever other story is shaping our culture, and it will thus cease to shape our lives as it should. Idolatry has twisted the dominant cultural story of the secular Western world. If as believers we allow this story (rather than the Bible) to become the foundation of our thought and a...
Galatians3:1-9 - Finding Our Way Home
May 28, 2023 19:28 - 37 minutes - 52 MBListen along as we continue our time in the letter of Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 3:1-9 “Being “a successful, effective storytelling engine,” is a business model that has been changed by an era of technology disruption. What was very, very clear to me is that technology would provide us the opportunity to tell more stories to more people.” - Bob Iger “Odysseus, bravest of heroes, Draw near to us, on our green island, Odysseus, we’ll teach you wisdom, We’ll give you love, sweete...
Galatians 2:20-21 - Gospel Identity
May 21, 2023 19:42 - 24 minutes - 33 MBListen along as we continue our time through the letter of Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 2:20-21 - Kim J Reading “The Messiah” is the locus of Jesus-believers’ identity. Calling him “Messiah” indicates both that he is the fulfillment of God’s plan for Israel and that he is now the place where, and the means by which, his people live, move, and have their being.” —N.T. Wright “28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you ...
Galatians 2:11-19 - When Things Get Wonky
May 15, 2023 16:26 - 35 minutes - 49 MBListen along as we continue our journey through the letter of Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 2:11-19 “When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.” - Brennan Manning Proverb...
Galatians 2:1-10- Gospel Courage
May 08, 2023 23:31 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBListen along as we continue our journey through Galatians. Notes//Quotes: Galatians 2:1-10 - Faith C. Reading “It was one thing for the Jerusalem leaders to give their approval to the conversion of the Gentiles, but could they approve of … commitment to the Messiah without inclusion in Judaism? Was their vision big enough to see the gospel of Christ not as a reform movement within Judaism but as good news for the whole world, and the church of Christ … as the international family of God?”...