The Goodness of God

By Trey Comstock

Every week, Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily talk about Scripture and what it means to try and be the Church in the 21st Century.

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January 31, 2024 Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Prophets know God's truth. We are told to head them. We tend to ignore them, and in doing so, get the order of the universe completely out of whack. Prophet don't speak their words. The good ones speak for God, and God should be at the center of everything that we do. In a world absent a singular prophet, we must first choose to follow in all that we do and, then, discern what that actually means.
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January 27, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Dr. Ashley Boggan
Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily welcome Dr. Ashley Boggan, General Secretary for the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. She's an expert in who the people called Methodist have been in the past and through the rhyming ways of history has a vision for how it can shape who the church can become. She presents a clear thesis. John Wesley chose to be "vile," to go places that he'd never thought that he'd go. Maybe, we should get back to being vile as well.

Amazing free Methodist History curriculum: https://umhistoryhub.teachable.com/
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36min
January 24, 2024 Jonah 3:1-10
Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily are joined by Dr. Ashley Boggan, from the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History to talk about Jonah, our Biblical prophet of fishy fame. Jonah's words shake loose change in Nineveh, but he wants to mad about the whole experience. Accountability can be incredibly important. Nineveh gets changed by it. Jonah wants all that grace from God for himself.
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37min
January 20, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
61 years later, Martin Luther King Jr.'s challenge to white clergy still rings true and still stings. It can be all too easy to push away the problems of the world, when those problems don't impact you directly. It can also be difficult to discern the right way to actually make an impact and when is the right time to get run out of town for standing up for what is right. It involves living into a strange tension between activism and cowardice and loving people so that can here the challenge to change.
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35min
January 17, 2024 1 Samuel 3:1-20
Calling gets complicated in the real world. We like the stories of God calling folks in clear, often audible ways. It doesn't work that way for most people. We like to think about how God has a special task for us. It sounds great. It all gets a lot more difficult, when we then need to be faithful to that task. Samuel and Eli show us those complications. A young man needs help to understand his calling. An older man has to face that he's missed the mark.
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41min
January 13, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Can You Really Change an Institution?
Karen Swallow Prior, a professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote an opinion piece for Religion News Service, comparing organizational and institutional change with romantic relationships. You shouldn't get into a relationship thinking that you're going to change someone. That is great human relationship advice, but does it hold true for how we should approach the Church?

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https://religionnews.com/2023/11/20/dont-go-into-a-relationship-or-institution-thinking-you-can-change-them/
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32min
January 11, 2024 Matthew 2:1-12
The story of the Magi (AKA the Three Wisemen, AKA the Three Kings, AKA Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar) matters profoundly because it brings the Gentiles into the fold. Whatever their names were and how ever many of them there were, they set out on a dangerous and uncertain journey to worship a king. They were motivated in the extreme by what they saw. May we all respond the same way.
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42min
January 03, 2024 Luke 2:22-40
Anna and Simeon see what God is doing, when it doesn't look like anything at all. Infants are born somewhere in the world every 4-ish seconds. Yet, Simeon and Anna had profound religious experiences encountering the infant Christ. They could see through the unlikely visual to the deeper more profound movement of the Spirit. May we all have the same eyes to see the movement of God in even the most unexpected wrappers.

Also, Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily have big plans for 2024. It's time to put some ideas into action!
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59min
December 20, 2023 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
A lot of things can never go back to the way that they were, but our relationship with God can. God's grace is more than a simple pardon. It's an opportunity for complete restoration. This sits at the core of who God is - across both the Old and New Testaments. So, this Christmas, we celebrate God's gracious story.

Also, as this is the last show of 2023, Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily run down the top 5 things that they learned about how to restart a church in the 21st century. The answers may just surprise you.
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December 12, 2023 Mark 1:1-8
Sometimes, God changes things all at once. We wait and wait and wait and think nothing will ever change. Then, in an instant, God changes everything. The arrival of Christ is one of those moments. God's people waited for hundreds of years, with no sign of change. Then Christ shows up, and the world shifted on its axis.

Also, Pew Research put out a study looking at new ways to talk about spirituality and religion. Turns out, the vast majority of people are still spiritual in some way, shape, form. This shifts what it means to have faithful conversations with an increasingly non-religious world.

Pew Research Center: Spirituality Among Americans
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/12/07/spirituality-among-americans/

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