Redemption HOU podcast

In God's new political arrangement an alternative world is made available. Stepping into this new world means existing in a wholly other realm. We step into a new community, into new norms of values and behavior, and perhaps most importantly, a new wardrobe. Priya Parker's art of throwing a good party, helps us see how taking a seat at Jesus table is to step into another world.

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Perhaps no other parable reveals the drastic difference between the politics of Jesus and our own like his Parable of the Tenant Farmers in Matthew 21. In it we are vividly shown the all-too-familiar trope of the religious establishment seizing what belongs to God and making it their own. But Jesus invites us to consider whether we are in danger of doing the same.

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In Matthew 21:23–32, Jesus challenges our assumption that to live free of authority is to be our own. Confronted by the religious leaders of His day, Jesus reveals the all-too-common hunger to find power and security in religious systems, ideas, and institutions, and suggests that the same power grab might just live in each one of us. In its place, He offers a compelling vision of life not free of authority, but held by the only One whose authority can be trusted: God.

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In our world fairness is about output, earning, a Protestant work ethic. But Jesus tells a story that explodes our arrangements—offending the very people who have worked the hardest. Jesus' political reality is good news, if you can stomach a generosity that refuses to be earned.

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A Jesus-centered community will be a scandalously merciful one. Jesus’ parable in Matthew 18:21-35 asks us to inhabit a community whose political arrangements are organized around mercy. Taking seriously a task far beyond us will mean returning over and over again to the mercy we have already received.More information at ⁠https://www.redemptionhou.com

In a broken and imperfect world, what does it look like to be a people of reconciliation? Jesus doesn’t task us with reconciling the world, but with inhabiting the reconciliation he has already accomplished. Doing so will mean embracing a politic which cuts against everything we know about politics. It will be good. It will be beautiful. And it will be really hard.

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We live in a world of haves and have nots, big people and little people, palaces and prisons. Our human reflex is to seek security, power, prestige. But in Jesus Christ, God goes to the cross and invites us to follow—to set our minds not on human things but divine things.

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Our journey through the book of Matthew has bore witness to what Jesus has done, now the Spirit takes us somewhere deeper and gives us something we can not give ourselves. This gift not only radically transforms our ideas of God but reorients everything about us, so are we ready for what happens next?

Many of us have been told that people like us can’t belong at Jesus’ table. An odd story. A gatekeeping Jesus. A Canaanite woman who wrestles with God and wins. What’s found at the center of it all is not new, but it is shocking.

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"I'm drowning." It is an all too common description for life right now. More and more asked of you. Less and less offered back. It seems life is utterly out of your control. If you're here right now we get it. Here's a story to offer some hope.

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