That's What She Said

Deep Water. This is Luke’s story alone, where Jesus invites potential disciples to fish in the “deep water.” Can we talk about that allegorically? Like, what is the deep water of our own Christian discipleship? Deeper than “going to church,” deeper than a list of do’s and don’t’s, deeper contemplation of God’s power and presence than we’ve been invited to before… 

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This episode of That’s What She Said features an original song written by Emma J, a musician from Alabama who found us on TikTok and joined our Inside Out livestream worship community. They recently released an EP, Generation Now, and you can check it out on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1il4TaH5AjpbsWaKs3gchk?si=uHNN6WYMRzeJStAd_mJvVQ

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Good News? It Depends. We come back to this message again and again at Galileo: the gospel is good news or terrible news depending on the position of the hearer. If you’re waiting to hear that God especially loves you, and hates all the same people you hate, it’s gonna sting. This is the inaugural event of Jesus’s ministry in Luke’s gospel, and it makes his hearers so mad they try to kill him – already! 

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Don’t Get It Twisted. The wildest thing about saying “yes” to God is, the human mind (or a personified Enemy, you decide) can come up with a million ways to twist religious commitment into US getting what WE want. The one with a new (or renewed) enthusiasm for Christian faith can imagine all kinds of ways that this is going to make life better, easier, more prosperous… but we’re invited here to be extremely skeptical of that. 

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Son of God, Son of Humanity. This is Jesus, blissfully in tune with God and the human family, the mediator who understands us both, the peacemaker, the one who stands in the gap, Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Live In.

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The kids are all right. If last Sunday honored the long lifetime wait, this Sunday speaks to the possibility of youth as a revelation of what God is going to do next. Here, God is revealed as Jesus’s “father” (much to Joseph’s chagrin, I imagine), and we catch the foreshadowing of his provocative engagement with scripture and VRPs as he begins to imagine what comes next.

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What if we wait our whole lives... We live accelerated lives. Everything is fast. But the life of faith is s-l-o-w. On God’s timeline, you could wait your whole life, fasting and praying in the temple, for one glimpse of one baby, and say “I can die now.” We’re invited to see our lives, our generation, as one in a long line of the faithful, stretching out behind and before us, like Simeon, like Anna.

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The nobility of the shitty job. Out of everybody the angels could have appeared to that night – shepherds! Was everyone else too busy to see them? Too focused to look up? In bed, with the privilege of daytime work? Could we find here a redemption of our own shitty jobs – the ones we’ve had, the ones we have now? Does God’s favor extend to people who are working tonight, on Christmas Eve?

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Beautiful losers. Mary is nobody from nowhere, young and in trouble, no Planned Parenthood in sight, her life basically over. But she sings of her own empowerment, of the advantage that comes to those who are last in this world. God’s imagined future is her fuel. 

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New regime, new economy. John’s instructions to those who ask how to prepare for the coming messiah are all economic (vv. 10-14). How does Jesus coming into the world and into our lives disrupt our own economies?

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Tender mercies for our enemies, too? In a polarized political and relational climate, how do we maintain our integrity while also interfacing with humans we disagree with and maybe even hate?

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