https://youtu.be/0HMdfnNTslI Let’s turn to Mark 1 and consider the nature and issue of Jesus’ authority (exousia). How authority is received In the first brief section (1:21-22), Jesus and his newly called disciples enter Capernaum. On the Sabbath Jesus enters the…
A series of podcasts in 1 Samuel Eli: Considering the `lazy leader https://youtu.be/HsGVpe6vXyE This is not a political blog, it’s the devotional journal of a working pastor. But of course, the cares and concerns of our lives spill out in all kinds…
https://youtu.be/n6x3_Qb6u3A Pentecost is crazy. The English translations underplay the fear-inducing, adrenalin-pumping, wind-tossed, fire-singed, smoke-filled turmoil of that experience. Those who observed this Pentecost visitation from outside the room are described as “bewildered” (v 6), “amazed and astonished” (v 7), and…
https://youtu.be/YBe-IOP2Zvo “And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DENJRb8BPY “Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.22 But Scripture has locked up everything under the…
https://youtu.be/QpZ0_tpTKUA https://www.udemy.com/course/the-idea-of-the-holy/ SHLM This is the root of the word shalom, which, of course, we translate as “peace.” The connection with lifestyle comes in the idea of shalom as “agreement” (think of a peace-treaty that’s made at the end of…
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised,…
My wife Val always insists on Heinz Tomato Ketchup. Anything else just won’t do.Once I surreptitiously filled an empty Heinz bottle with some new, cheaper stuff and just left it there on the shelf,but she wasn’t fooled. “What IS this?” she…
Here’s a clip from Ken’s book Jesus does Stand-up https://youtu.be/0H55dhgM-QE…
https://youtu.be/icxkjeAtDkM Looking at different ideas of the Atonement One of the oldest – and most obvious- ways of understanding the cross has been called the Christus Victor theory of Atonement. In this theory, Jesus dies in order to defeat the…
