Episode 5: Talk about a Sunday-Monday gap. Last Saturday I watched as Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas. Last Sunday I heard about the peace that passes all understanding! A world at war is a world that Christ has not fully overcome. It is also a world that leaves us with many haunting questions
What do we make of the human tendency toward violence?What do we do with Bible passages, like the parable in Matthew 22:1-14, that suggest that God ordains violence?How do we respond when we are hurt, breaking cycles of retribution?In the second half of the podcast, I go a big deeper into working Bible passages that don't fit with our understanding of the God we have met in Jesus Christ.