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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February 26, 2025 Genesis 45:3-11, 15
Our world feels utterly ripped apart, and it can appear impossible for the chasm to mend. When massive harm happens, forgiveness and healing seems unreachably far away. Joseph's brother did an extreme degree of harm to Joseph. The tried to kill him, chose to sell him into slavery instead, and robbed him of home, comfort, and love. For years, his life was a desperate struggle for survival. Yet, when he ended up in a position of great power and had the opportunity to rightly punish his family, he chose to forgive and love. So, we know that with God, that level of healing is at least possible.
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46min
February 13, 2025 Luke 6:17-26
We can all too easily over spiritualize this whole religion. We can imagine a God that cares for souls, and thus, we should be in the caring for souls business. We trust in Heaven and serve no earthly good. God does care for souls, but God cares holistically - for the immaterial and the profoundly material. The Sermon of the Mount points to the soul. The Sermon of the Plain grounds us in reality. God has a special place in God's heart for the poor and downtrodden, and woe to us if we don't do the same.
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44min
February 12, 2025 Luke 5:1-11
Jesus leads Peter and friends to catch a massive amount of fish. This, my friends, is a metaphor for life in God's Kingdom. It's easy in our modern moment to feel massively disconnected and cut off, and it's even easier to believe that we cannot bridge the divides that rend us asunder. Yet, God can forge an abundance of connection. It's hard to believe that's possible, but that is exactly the kind of miracle that sits at the core of who God is.
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37min
January 29, 2025 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
We like the way this scripture sounds. "Love is patient. Love is kind." It's a glorious example of what Paul is capable of as a writer, but it's not a romantic or nice text. He's reaching the height of some hard hitting rhetoric about the Corinthians arrogance and lack of love. This ode of love is a master stroke in an extended argument. It's a challenge. Love is the greatest of all. Is that reflected in your actions?
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44min
January 24, 2025 How to Restart a Church: Interview with Daryl Van Tongeren
Daryl Van Tongeren is a Professor of Psychology at Hope College, and he researches life's biggest question - including the psychology of religion. In 2024, he published Done: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion, which looks deeply at folks who have left religion - who decided that they are done. His words carry a strong message for churches everywhere. We are going to live into our mission of meeting people where they are, we will need to become a humbler and more ethical faith.

Buy Done: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion
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The Flourishing Collective
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52min
January 23, 2025 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
The Body of Christ is one interconnected body, and we are all a part of it. We each have a piece of the puzzle and a part to play. It's easy to get comfortable, to sit on the sidelines, to use our gifts for our own purpose. It is also easy to ignore how we are all connected together. When we do that, we miss something vital. Us, using our God given gifts, form God's plan for the transformation of the world. We are the plan.
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49min
January 17, 2025 How to Restart a Church: Appalachia Service Project (Repost)
(Editor's Note: The original version of this video had an editing mistake that made it unwatchable, and then, we were out of the studio for 3 weeks. This is the fixed version!)

Melisa Winburn is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Appalachia Service Project - an organization that has been helping Appalachians with their homes since the 1960s. It's an organizations that strikes the balance between having deep roots across a five state area and being able to coordinated the energies of 10,000 short term missions workers every year. Hurricane Helene profoundly altered their mission field and there work, but at the core, it remains about building relationships by caring deeply for communities.

Give to ASP:
https://asphome.org/give/
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38min
January 16, 2025 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
We can all feel like imposters sometimes - like everyone around us is more gifted than we are. Christians can also get obsessed that whatever gifts that they possess are the most important or most spiritual. People clearly felt both of these things in the 2000 years ago as much as we do now because Paul devotes a good chuck of 1 Corinthians to yelling the opposite of both at the top of his lungs. Everyone has a God given gift, and all gifts are of equal value.

The United Methodist Church's spiritual gifts inventory:
https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/spiritual-gifts-inventory/en
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46min
December 24, 2024 Luke 1:39-55
Mary, the mother of Christ, plays a huge role in the first chunk of Luke's Gospel. She remains a global celebrity today with churches, art, apartment complexes, and entire nations devoted to her. She is a tremendous historical anomaly. She's not a queen or an empress - just a normal teenager for Galilee. Her faithfulness rather than the situation of her birth makes her worthy of her lasting following.
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49min
December 18, 2024 Luke 3:7-18
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - everywhere you go. You house is filling with objects, boxes, and shipping envelopes. John the Baptist's call to simple and connected economic existence can feel particularly hard hitting. "If you have enough, share the rest. Don't exploit people." How can I do this, when I've got four more people on my Christmas list? This probably isn't a tension that one can easily resolve....
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59min

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The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.