
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


For the first time on Scripture First, we welcome Lars Olson to have a conversation with Adam, Kiri and I about this week's lectionary text about the middle section of Jesus' Sermon on the Plain.
This part of Jesus' sermon is all about loving your neighbor. Jesus is telling us what the law expects of us—or what most of us think are the things we should be doing as good Christians.
But as we'll find out, the bar is impossibly high. We can't complete it. And that's where we end up: the kingdom of God is not a reward for the righteous and good. It's given as the goodness of God to the unrighteous and undeserving.
Questions Adam, Kiri and Mason ask:
Interested in sponsoring an episode of Scripture First? Email Sarah: [email protected]
Support the show
Interested in sponsoring an episode of Scripture First?
Email Sarah at [email protected] or visit our donation page: lutherhouseofstudy.org/donate
By Luther House of Study4.9
7676 ratings
For the first time on Scripture First, we welcome Lars Olson to have a conversation with Adam, Kiri and I about this week's lectionary text about the middle section of Jesus' Sermon on the Plain.
This part of Jesus' sermon is all about loving your neighbor. Jesus is telling us what the law expects of us—or what most of us think are the things we should be doing as good Christians.
But as we'll find out, the bar is impossibly high. We can't complete it. And that's where we end up: the kingdom of God is not a reward for the righteous and good. It's given as the goodness of God to the unrighteous and undeserving.
Questions Adam, Kiri and Mason ask:
Interested in sponsoring an episode of Scripture First? Email Sarah: [email protected]
Support the show
Interested in sponsoring an episode of Scripture First?
Email Sarah at [email protected] or visit our donation page: lutherhouseofstudy.org/donate

15,975 Listeners

2,184 Listeners

19,296 Listeners

841 Listeners

764 Listeners

1,018 Listeners

909 Listeners

432 Listeners

248 Listeners

214 Listeners

13 Listeners

69 Listeners

17 Listeners

71 Listeners