<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/874393/open_sms">Send us a text</a>The story of the Magi evokes sentimental, feel good memories of Christmas for many of us, but this story, for its original audience, signaled hopes of liberation from a brutal occupation.

Send us a text The story of the Magi evokes sentimental, feel good memories of Christmas for many of us, but this story, for its original audience, signaled hopes of liberation from a brutal occupation.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/874393/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us a text</a>The story of the Magi evokes sentimental, feel good memories of Christmas for many of us, but this story, for its original audience, signaled hopes of liberation from a brutal occupation.

Episode 4: The Magi, Matthew 2:1-12

This podcast takes a journey through the Gospel of Matthew, unpacking its story of Jesus as a peasant leader of a nonviolent movement for a new society that he calls “The Kingdom of Heaven.” Each episode explores literary, cultural and historical context, passage by passage.

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