John Chandler talked about Jesus’ words about anger, and even more important, how we act in response to our anger. Quotes or links mentioned: You Made it Weird #243: Henry Rollins Wikipedia: The Valley of the Son of Hinnom Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes

April Karli preached about a turning point in the Sermon on the Mount…and about Jesus as a turning point in history. Quotes or links mentioned: “I’m an atheist, but I am in awe of the fact the reaction of the Charleston victims’ families is genuinely Christ-like” — Johann Hari (original tweet) Emmanuel AME sermon clip “Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched … Read More →

John Chandler revisits Jesus’ metaphors of his followers as salt and light. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes

Chris Morton started us into the Sermon on the Mount with one of Jesus’ most famous teachings — the Beatitudes. Quotes and Links mentioned: Let’s consider something new: Yuccies. Young Urban Creatives. In a nutshell, a slice of Generation Y, borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the transcendent power of education, and infected by the conviction that not only do … Read More →

As we go through the Sermon on the Mount this summer, John invited all of us to read these words of Jesus from Matthew 5-7 once a week. Below is an audio version you can listen to, or you can get it by subscribing to the podcast. This version is taken from The Kingdom New Testament, translated by NT Wright.

As we begin our new series on the Sermon on the Mount, John Chandler talked about the pre-story, and ruined the ending, for Jesus’ magnificent teaching from Matthew 5-7. Quotes and Links mentioned: “This is the remarkable impact of the Sermon on the Mount. It is intensely life-challenging. It is a profoundly disturbing indictment of the religious establishment, those who … Read More →

John Chandler and others from the aMS community wrapped up our series on Hospitality by sharing reflections on what Hospitality might look like for each of us. Quotes and Links mentioned: “When you experience someone who is closed, hard, who has already arrived and needs no more, something is very wrong. The presence of the Spirit creates an openness. That … Read More →

Quotes and Links mentioned: “One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the universe—a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease, and sin. The difference is that Christianity thinks this Dark Power was created by … Read More →

John Chandler reminded us that in order to offer hospitality to others, we have to be present ourselves. Quotes and Links mentioned: Coffitivity Now Jacob begins to ponder the events of his life in a new way. A dimension of what has come to be called ‘the spiritual’ now lies open. “If God was here, and I didn’t know, then … Read More →

John Chandler continued our conversation on what it means to be a people who practice hospitality. The main idea: The person you see as a stranger is not a stranger to God. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes