The beatitudes have been both fascinating to think about and also a very different feel from the rest of what we've been doing, because there's no getting around Jesus' tone, and even if we conside...
2020-02-17 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEven if literally no one listens to any of this week's stuff, I'm still grateful to you for putting me in a position where I had to process through serious stuff that super-matters.
I can't ...
I think the Sermon on the Mount is the most important block of theological teaching in the Bible, and this week we tear into it (in the good sense). I've been looking forward to thinking about this...
2020-02-03 07:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post....and then it gets real. Hope you've enjoyed the roll up, because as soon as we start getting into Jesus public life and teaching, it becomes mind-blowing.
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By the time we get to the middle of Matthew chapter 4, we still don't have a crystal clear picture of what Jesus' quest is, nor do we have a clear picture of the trajectory of this whole narrative;...
2020-01-20 05:47:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the final week on the temptation of Jesus. I've deeply enjoyed this slow-burn processing of the last scene before the Jesus thing goes public and goes big as we move to the second half of M...
2020-01-13 06:12:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis last week-plus since coming back from break has been so much fun. I'm still feeling all this out and developing a rhythm with it, but I'm sensing progress in that regard, and I'd like to think...
2020-01-06 06:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post...and I'm excited about it. To me, Jesus' temptation is far and away the most interesting passage we've looked at so far, and the implications for us today are very different than anything we've s...
2019-12-30 04:26:58 +0000 UTC View PostI'm putting a bunch of writing time in right now in preparation for the conclusion of chapter 3 and the completion of Jesus' preparation for ministry segment in chapter 4. There so much here, and I...
2019-12-16 07:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostWe're processing through John the Baptist and his rivals this week, and there's also a cool episode where we bring in an expert to sort out some stuff I'm not bright enough to process through alone...
2019-12-09 05:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostThese next couple of episodes will cover the big-picture take-aways from the birth and infancy narrative of Jesus from Matthew's Gospel, and then we're on to adult Jesus saying very compelling stuf...
2019-12-02 07:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post...and I say "probably" because there have been some great questions that might cause me to go a bit deeper on a couple of topics before we move on to chapter three of Matthew. The awesome thing ab...
2019-11-25 05:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostAs we've seen so far, there's a lot of history and historical context in the early going of the book of Matthew, and chapter two lobs us a softball in new ways. This week we're talking a ton about ...
2019-11-18 07:36:09 +0000 UTC View PostDoing a new daily podcast gives me several times the amount of opportunities to screw stuff up. That is what I did tonight by publishing a one second long podcast episode. This has since been remed...
2019-11-15 05:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostThey look cool. I'll admit I'm a little biased because my friend Bethany made the logo for me and I think she's spectacularly gifted at stuff like this, but even doing my best to put biases aside, ...
2019-11-11 02:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostSeriously, you came to dive deep into Bible stuff, and then we dove deep into Bible stuff and you're still at it! Thanks for being interested to engage with the text like this!
Since Christm...
We'll be diving deep in the controversies and beauty of Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus and talking about why it matters for our understanding of the rest of the book and for our understanding of Jesu...
2019-10-28 01:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostMy friend Jeff Foote made all this music himself, and he's been kind enough to let me use whatever I want on this podcast, so we've got some flexibility here. What do you think?
2019-10-26 06:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not going to lie, getting the rhythm of this thing dialed was a little challenging in week one, but it was still a joy to finally get this up and running. I LOVED hearing your thoughts and feed...
2019-10-21 01:37:41 +0000 UTC View PostI may not have a ton to say in this spot most days, but today I want to say thank you so much to all of you who jumped in at the very beginning. I've been wanting to do this for a long time, and it...
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