Easter mini-series Part Two.

We all have blind spots. We can't conceive of anything different. This episode walks you through the ideas about suffering that the disciples of Jesus could not begin to imagine differently, and also invites you to reflect on what you believe about suffering, and how that might be impacting your experiences of suffering.

Credits & Sources:

Moises Silva, David Steinmetz, Brian Ross, N.T. Wright, Ellen David, Brad Jersak, Richard Hays.  

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(03/24/24)

This one includes an Easter challenge/experiment that I hope you will engage. It has been the practice that has opened many people's eyes to see Jesus, reality, Scripture, and this entire world in a whole new way. If you feel like your life story or this world's story isn't going where you wish it was going, this short series and the experiments suggested are worth your time.

Credits & Sources:

David C. Steinmetz, Ellen F. Davis, Richard Hays, Matt Vincent, Tim Chester, Carlos A. Rodriguez, Alan Culpepper, Robert Karris, Richard Rohrbaugh, Bruce Malina, Donald Kraybill.

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(03/17/24)

Have you ever done something with the very best of intentions, but most people think you made a complete mess? Part of the human experience is feeling misunderstood and misinterpreted. Like nobody really gets you. If you have a friend who's super intelligent, but they can't interpret you, how deep can that friendship go? We all long for someone who interprets us, and can see what's under the surface, our deeper intent, our true meaning. We long for relationships that run deeper than data. We long for someone to interpret us.

Credits & Sources:

Nijay Gupta, N.T. Wright, Leonard Sweet, Craig Keener, David Garland, Eugene Peterson, Fred Craddock, Joel Green, Justo Gonzalez, Tim Geddert, Alan Culpepper, Brian Zahnd, Johannes Louw, Eugene Nida, Brad Jersak, Moises Silva, Mark Baker, Greg Boyd.

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(02/25/24)

This episode explores many dimensions of the experience of ancient lepers. It also explores the ways that we think of "lepers" similarly to how we think of "leopards" or other zoo animals (as something exotic, endangered, or extinct) rather than thinking of them as the kind of person we will probably see every day of the week. In what way does this way of seeing the Gospels and the world cause the teaching of Jesus not to gain the traction it is meant to have in our lives?

Credits & Sources:

Alan Culpepper, Tim Geddert, Justo Gonzalez, Bruce Malina, Richard Rohrbaugh, Joel Green, Fred Craddock, David Garland, Darrell Bock, Leonard Sweet, Ben Witherington, Mark Strauss, Frederick Dale Bruner, Moises Silva, Donald Kraybill, Nicole McNichols, Greg Boyd, David DeSilva.

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(02/18/24)

This isn't only Simon Peter's story. Your story is wrapped up in this story. Over and over in a hundred different ways the Spirit of Jesus beckons you: "Follow me." What does this mean to you? This episode isn't meant to "tell you what to do." It is intended to help you find your place in this story and listen to Jesus calling you to follow him today. Whatever happens next is up to you.

Credits & Sources:

Gerhard Lohfink, Scot McKnight, Moises Silva, C.S. Lewis, Leonard Sweet, Brian Ross, Bill Wilson, Tim Geddert, Justo Gonzalez, Richard Rohr, Thomas Merton, Craig Keener, David Garland, Kenneth Bailey, Alan Culpepper, Joel Green, Anthony Blair.  

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(02/11/24)

We all assess threats. We all have a limbic system. We all struggle to regulate our emotions and our bodies at times. We move into attempts to escape reality, or control reality. Either way we chose, the farther we go into these tendencies, the more our life happens at the expense of others. What way does Jesus show us out of this vicious cycle?

Credits & Sources:

Kenneth Tanner, Leonard Sweet, Tim Jennings, Robert Fryling, David Garland, Louw and Nida, Tim Geddert, Alan Culpepper, Joel Green, Craig Keener, Scot McKnight, Nicole Specter, Ashley Olivine, and Brian Zahnd.

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(02/04/24)

Our world can explain almost anything. It doesn't matter whether you are wrestling with an addiction, a parenting struggle, financial struggle, weight loss, relationship struggle, or something else; you hear in a million different sound bites every day that whatever help you need can be found in yourself. "Just access these tools. You just need this information." Information is so important, and so necessary and good.....AND... sometimes we still don't find the help we need.

What then?

Credits & Sources:

Alan Culpepper, Tim Geddert, Craig Keener, Bruce Malina, Richard Rohrbaugh, Bill Wilson, Justo Gonzalez, Thomas Merton, Mark Baker, Joel Green, Christian Miller, David Garland, Brian Ross, Brad Jersak, Richard Rohr, Brian Zahnd, Gordon Fee, Paul Eddy, and James Beiby.

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(01/21/24)

If you could receive a heartfelt apology, an expression of genuine remorse, and real efforts to repair the situation from anyone; who would you choose? What happens when you long for that apology, but there is no apology? How do you cope, and does it help?

Credits and Sources:

Brian Zahnd, Brennan Manning, Jean Anouih, R.B. Chisholm Jr., Joel Green, Craig Keener, John Delahouse, Alan Culpepper, Tim Geddert, Justo Gonzalez, Bruce Malina, Richard Rohrbaugh, Darrell Bock, Kenneth Bailey, Greg Boyd, Kate Murphy, Mario Gollwitzer, Milena Meder, Manfred Schmitt, Kevin Carlsmith,Timothy Wilson, Daniel T. Gilbert.

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(01/07/24)

Nobody wants to think of themselves as gullible. But what if the most difficult temptation to face and often the most destructive, is the temptation that you don't recognize as a temptation at all? This episode explores the final temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, and how we encounter aspects of this same temptation in everyday life.

Credits & Sources:

Donald Kraybill, Tim Geddert, Alan Culpepper, David Garland, Craig Keener, Joel Green, Justo Gonzalez, Darrell Bock, Frederick Dale Bruner, Henri Nouwen, N.T. Wright.

Music Credits:

Tyler Chester, Michael Gungor.

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(12/17/23)

What if there was a magic button you could push and suddenly people saw things your way? Everyone has people they wish they could change. Their goals for change can be "oh so good" and they fail to even realize that their method of pursuing those good goals is "oh so diabolical." This is the temptation on the mountain that Jesus encountered and rejected.

Credits & Sources:

William R. Herzog II, Gerhard Lenski, Marva Dawn, Philip Zimbardo, Josh Schneider, Ed Grabianowski, Saul Mcleod, Robert Sutton, Greg Boyd, Vicki Haddock, Jonathan Becker, Deborah Gruenfeld, David Fitch, Donald Kraybill, Richard Beck, Tim Geddert, N.T. Wright, David Garland, Justo Gonzalez, Lee Camp, Allan R. Bevere, Dacher Keltner, G. Ward.

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(12/10/23)