For most of us, the story of Zacchaeus is little more than a Sunday school tale or a children's song. But, for Luke's telling of the Gospel, it is a foundational story that serves a crucial role.

Matthew's Gospel is a retelling of the Exodus story. It is the New Exodus.

It's not the most exciting topic, but understanding the call to suffer for the sake of others is critical to understanding what it means to be a Christian.

Because of what Jesus has done, your are not "unclean." There is nowhere that you can go where He won't find you and bring you into the family.

The church all too often enters into strife, argument, and ultimately violence when it attempts to engage the world around it. Today we talk about Peter's instruction to think and act differently - to engage with love and respect.

The key to Christian life - truly living as we are called - is understanding who Jesus is NOW. Once we know this, listening, believing, and following are the only possible response.

Without an appreciation for the years leading up to he arrival of Messiah, we miss a lot of what the people were think and saying, and what Jesus was teaching and doing.

The theological task is the work of the church that seeks to stand "between text and context." It asks how to we make the universal and timeless truth we find in the Biblical texts a reality in the midst of the particularities of our situation. It is a task that never ends, because the circumstances are always changing.

Today, we look at the parable of the Mustard Seed and ask how we understand it, and then make it a reality for us.

The Bible poses all sorts of conundrums for the post-enlightenment mind. Often it makes little, if any, sense. In this discussion we look at the first of two creation narratives in an attempt to make sense of them in light of the world they in which they were created.

Oh, and we talk quantum mechanics in order to do so.

Enjoy!

1 Timothy 2:8-15 is one of the most controversial passages in the NT for our modern context. For years, people - mostly men - have looked to it to silence women and keep them from positions of authority within the church.

Today, we're looking at the historical context of Ephesus where Timothy was working as well as a number of artifacts from the early periods of the church. Together, they paint a clear picture that tells us our "traditional" view of this passage is neither traditional, nor correct.