Because I didn't! The idea here is that every three months I'm going to take a week off and not charge you, the patrons, for that week so that your support of this podcast will always only be for f...
2020-09-04 15:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We are into the second big speech that Matthew structures his book around. This one is called the missional discourse, and it’s nothing but fun except for the floggings.
Thank y...
2020-08-31 14:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
...to the original audience? This is a weird team he's about to send out, and for the first couple of days this week we're going to break down how that would have come off and what it means theolog...
2020-08-24 06:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
... conversations I recorded with Aron Utecht over the past couple of episodes which bought me a little extra needed time with family this week. Tuesday morning we’re back to Matthew.
Than...
2020-08-17 05:34:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we are getting into the homestretch of Matthew chapter 9, and soon will be rounding the corner into something very different in chapter 10.
I appreciate you very much. 2020-08-11 00:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post
...my heart tells me this must be official week 40. We're hitting episode 200 this week and that will allow me to make a reasonable estimate as to how many episodes it's going to take to get throug...
2020-08-03 05:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
...I'm very grateful for how helpful that mistake has proven to be in explaining the next passage in Matthew 9. Was it worth it? Totally no, but when life gives you lemons...
We're getting i...
...pushed into that weird personal place that deals with the human heart and how the human heart affects society, and there's plenty more of that kind of material this week. We've got more of Matth...
2020-07-20 06:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
... I think there’s much more important stuff to mine from this story about forgiveness and why anyone in their right mind would be against forgiveness and in favor of not forgiveness and perpetu...
2020-07-13 06:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we get started on Matthew 9, but before we do, I want to say thanks for the week off and for the gracious feedback on the format last week.
From time to time I’m going a reset ep...
2020-07-06 05:44:19 +0000 UTC View Post
...as to who they're actually dealing with here. Jesus flexed his muscles in ways that were freakish, but could possibly be explained away, and now he's taking that to new places that leave people ...
2020-06-23 04:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post... demonstrate and intimate understanding of the social norms of the day; so intimate that he knows exactly how to blow past them. More of that and more old testament quotes from Matthew this week...
2020-06-15 05:53:47 +0000 UTC View Post
... rapid fire evidence of Jesus' credibility that he's going to put in front of them to demonstrate that he has not just enough authority to impress an audience with a great speech, but authority ...
2020-06-08 06:47:04 +0000 UTC View Post...for the first time since, what, last year? This has been a slow, hopefully careful trek through perhaps the most influential speech in human history. I hope you've found it as useful and meaning...
2020-06-01 17:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post...a little weird because we're going to spend two days in 1 John processing through this three-fold test for how to know if you're a kingdom citizen or not.
After that, more Matthew 7.
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....which I think is absolutely fascinating, but requires a lot of thought and care considering it's only one little verse. After that, it's one more super-challenging point from Jesus and then ont...
2020-05-18 05:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post...the end of the Sermon on the Mount and then transitioning into whether there's any reason to believe Jesus could actually deliver on that stuff.
This next chunk gets really fun in new ways...
2020-05-11 03:26:33 +0000 UTC View Post...a big giant reset of everything we've covered so far. It's so dang tough to dive all the way down into the implications of Jesus' individual teachings in the sermon on the mount without losing t...
2020-05-04 04:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're going to put some time into breaking down the Lord's Prayer. Is it possible to recite something so much that it loses it's meaning? This prayer may be a candidate for that, but when...
2020-04-27 03:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostI had a little technical hiccup, but this link should work...https://youtu.be/3Fs14BKgEHk
2020-04-21 01:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post...tomorrow (Monday) at 7pm. I'll post a link here for you a few minutes before 7.
This isn't mandatory, but I'd still love to have you swing by and say hello.
...because Jesus keeps getting more and more in our business as the Sermon on the Mount goes along. We've got more than a chapter to go with this tone from the text and this level of intensity, the...
2020-04-20 03:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post...into the just as difficult, if not more difficult, content in chapter 6 of Matthew. Honestly, this chunk of the book is the most challenging stuff in maybe the entire Bible, but I'm having a lot...
2020-04-13 03:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe're in a part of the Bible that's meant to demonstrate the beauty of what God built with his law, and to demonstrate our inability to do it. It seems counter-intuitive that this would be a good t...
2020-04-06 02:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostGet used to this phrase amigos, because it's going to happen A LOT over the next two weeks as Jesus continues to flesh out what the thing is with the fulfillment of the law.
I hope you're hea...
2020-03-30 04:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post...mostly because we're all locked in our houses, but also because we're talking about the intricacies of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
Thanks for your support, it means even more in ...
2020-03-23 05:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post...let's double-down on thinking about the stuff we talk about. It's not esoteric religious abstraction, it's rubber-meets-the-road important in a time like this.
Glad to be in it together wi...
2020-03-16 05:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostJesus is landing the plane on part one of the Sermon on the Mount, and in doing so, he uses two very important metaphors that require a little bit o' thinkin' to figure out the manner in which he's...
2020-03-02 02:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe ability to assess something is earned, and maybe we're not top-notch seminary professors, but we've still put in the work to position ourselves to have a take on what the Beatitudes mean in who...
2020-02-23 20:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post