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- What the Gospel Isn't - The Kingdom of God Part 1 - KC #007
Matt and Josh begin a new series on the theme of the Gospel of the Kingdom. They explore what the Gospel isn’t and introduce the idea of God’s Kingdom.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:36 What We’re Watching
03:41 New Chairs, New Series
04:24 Kingdom of God in Church
08:23 Different Churches Spiritual Formation
15:00 The Kingdom Is the Gospel
16:38 Guaranteed Prosperity Is Not the Gospel
20:31 The Gospel Is Not Transactional
30:40 Justification Is Not the Gospel
33:51 Social Progress Is Not the Gospel
35:58 The Gospel Transforms the Whole Life
40:49 The Kingdom as Theme and Story
46:54 Outro
Books or references:
Jesus and the Victory of God by NT WrightWe would love to hear from you! If you have questions or thoughts about today’s episode, feel free to email us at [email protected] and engage the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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48 min - Is the Bible God's Word? - How to Read the Bible Q&A - KC #006
Matt and Josh respond to questions, including: “Why should we care about what the early church thought?” “Is the Bible God’s Word?” and “Is Josh a real scientist?”
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Q&A or Q&R
01:42 - Why Is Our Couch So Ugly?
03:13 - Why Talk about Movies?
06:07 - Why Care about the Early Church?
22:39 - Are New Interpretations Dangerous?
28:03 - Is the Bible “God’s Word”?
43:38 - Does the Bible Talk about Dinosaurs?
50:51 - Reading Revelation Responsibly
55:42 - Outro
Reading Revelation Responsibly by Michael Gorman
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57 min - End Times Patterns and Living into the Future - How to Read the Bible Part 5 - KC #005
Matt and Josh discuss how to read the Bible with the end of the world in mind, and why it shapes how we live as the Church today.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - What We’re Watching
04:05 - Catching Up
05:26 - Should Gentile Christians Appropriate Jewish Culture?
12:02 - The Role of the Spirit in Bible Reading
19:57 - Recap and Figural Reading
22:07 - Jesus and Jewish Eschatology
25:01 - Reading the Bible Eschatologically
29:56 - Living Now as Eschatological People
35:18 - Reading Song of Songs in All 4 Senses
44:06 - The Fruit of Reading Scripture
46:52 - Outro
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48 min - Which Rules Do We Obey? - How to Read the Bible Part 4 - KC #004
Happy Halloween! Matt and Josh discuss the moral sense of Scripture and how morality is not the goal of the Christian life, but a byproduct of being a community united with God’s Spirit. They also discuss what it means for the Bible to be “authoritative,” and if that is an appropriate word to describe how the Bible should function in the community of believers.
Books or references:
Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues by NT WrightCHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Josh Likes Smells
02:37 - Our Buddy Mac DeMarco
04:57 - New Movies
07:15 - Happy Halloween!
12:59 - How Does the Bible Shape Our Morals?
18:54 - The Instructive Story of the Bible
25:47 - Is the Bible “authoritative”?
29:01 - Renewing Our Minds and How Not to Cherry-Pick Verses
37:23 - The Apostles Didn’t Prooftext
44:11 - Wrestling with the Narrative in Community
49:17 - What If My Community Isn’t Loving?
53:42 - Reading Scripture Across Denominations
57:24 - OutroWe would love to hear from you! If you have questions or thoughts about today’s episode, feel free to email us at [email protected], and engage the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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59 min - Patterns that Lead to Jesus - How to Read the Bible Part 3 - KC #003
Matt and Josh discuss why Biblicism doesn’t take the Bible seriously and examine how the Bible is designed to be read typologically, with patterns that unify all the books into a grand narrative fulfilled in Jesus.
Books or references:
Why Biblicism is Bad! by Michael Bird
Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Richard B. Hays
God’s power or human violence: The meaning of the Virgin birth by Esau McCaulleyCHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Catching Up with Josh and Anglicanism
05:53 - Important TV
07:56 - Recap
09:06 - Why Biblicism Is Bad!
15:47 - Reading the Bible Isolated and Flatly
23:43 - What is Biblical Typology?
27:06 - Ex. 1 The Destroyed Temple Type
30:56 - Understanding Jesus through Patterned Types
34:17 - Ex. 2 The Suffering Servant Type
40:04 - Ex. 3 Did Isaiah Predict Jesus’s Birth?
49:05 - The Beautiful Complexity of the Bible
51:35 - Ways This Can Go Wrong
56:18 - OutroWe would love to hear from you! If you have questions or thoughts about today’s episode, feel free to email us at [email protected], and engage the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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58 min - Should We Read the Bible Literally? - How to Read the Bible Part 2 - KC #002
Matt and Josh discuss what the early Church meant by reading the Bible "literally," why some Christians feel the impulse to defend the historicity of the Bible, and how to read the Bible in its literary and historical context.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Welcome
02:17 - What We’re Watching
06:59 - Different Traditions and the Bible
09:32 - What Does Reading “Literally” Mean?
16:15 - Our Denominations and the Bible
20:15 - Scripture as Human and Divine
28:37 - Genesis One
33:48 - Truth and Appreciating Genre and Context
40:21 - Contradictions in the Gospels
45:29 - How the Early Church Read “Literally”
53:27 - Prophecy, History, and Science
1:01:54 - OutroBooks or references: The Lost World of Genesis 1 by John Walton
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1 hr 3 min - Why Is the Bible So Hard to Read? - How to Read the Bible Part 1 - KC #001
Matt and Josh discuss why the Bible can be so hard to read. They then contrast modern ways of reading the Bible with the 4 ways/senses the early Church used to read the Bible. They also discuss their own experiences with the Bible in their church traditions and a terrible movie they recently saw.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Welcome
02:55 - Him (2025) was Bad
05:39 - Reading the Wrong Way
09:59 - The Danger of Reading Alone
19:00 - The Four Senses of Scripture
48:15 - Reading the Bible in Community
57:01 - OutroBooks or references: Scripture and the Authority of God by NT Wright
We would love to hear from you! If you have questions or thoughts about today’s episode, feel free to email us at [email protected] and engage the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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58 min - TeaserTimes are changing fast, and in our increasingly complicated world, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed, not know right from wrong, truth from lie, and it can be hard to know what it looks like to respond as a faithful follower of Jesus. Kingdom Commentary is a series of discussions where we look at Jesus’s answer to the brokenness of our world: the kingdom of God. With thoughtfulness, nuance, and compassion, we take a look at the ideas, narratives, and tools that surround the kingdom of God (from the Bible through Church history) and discuss how they can shape our imaginations today so we can participate in the work of God here in our present time and place.1 min
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Discussing the tools, ideas, and narratives that surround what Jesus called the Kingdom of God for the shaping of our imagination today.