Tripp Fuller

Tripp Fuller returns to the podcast and drops his best breakdown of Anselm’s ontological argument. But not before we see stories that draw us to Jesus and draw us to the grace of God. This is good, because in order to understand Anselm’s God, we have to have been drawn already.

John 6  What does 5,000 mean, and for whom is this a miracle anyway? We break down the feeding narrative and Passover, and how to navigate the idea that the miracle is found in everyone sharing their lunch. With a little help from Bultmann. SPOILER ALERT: the story is actually about Jesus.

2 Samuel 11:1-15 Tripp wonders if David and Bathsheba really should be a youth group text. JRDK wants you to call rape rape. The benefits of stopping before David: recognizing our own need for grace, and the destructive nature of our twisted cover-ups.

Psalm 14  The patronizing Christian says to the atheist a fool. Kirk can’t add 2 + 2. Tripp sets the record straight about Anselm and Psalm 14: it’s the Christian who is a fool when s/he doesn’t try to know God. Kirk brings it back to the Bible. As he does. But only to say that Tripp is right.

Ephesians 3 Paul comes in to back Anselm’s play: there is God, who is in relationship with the world, and this has some implications for knowledge and ethical action.

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, blogger, and New Testament professor who lives in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of a pair of books, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is off to the printers. He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (jrdkirk.com). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

Tripp Fuller

Follow Tripp on Twitter because that’s his favorite form of distraction.

JRDK refuses to enable our Marcionite brethren who just want to talk about Jesus. But in the end, slogging through the First Testament text is worth it.

2 Samuel 7 God is identified with the story of the people, but God is going to be in charge of how it plays out. Tripp tells the form/content distinction to step off. Daniel wants you to know that “son of God”—it does not mean what you think it means. He also wants you to buy A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels. But it’s not out yet, so you’ll just have to read Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? as a stopgap.

Psalm 89 God and the king are enmeshed. But it’s God’s gift on God’s terms. JRDK gets a little excited about humans controlling the waters.

Ephesians The son of God language gets applied to everyone. And that’s awesome! Then Tripp invokes the Nicene Creed while JRDK excuses himself for a cup of coffee. Presence of God and Temple is post law, post place, and post tribe. And Tripp didn’t know it, but he gave an NT Wright reading of the identity of the people of God. (Shhhh… don’t tell!)

Mark 6 Jesus is king—he speaks for God, brings physical nourishment, exercises authority over waters, and brings physical restoration to bodies. Tripp encourages us to not only imitate Jesus but also imitate the crowd in opening themselves to God.

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, blogger, and New Testament professor who lives in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of a pair of books, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is off to the printers. He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (jrdkirk.com). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

Tripp Fuller

Follow Tripp on Twitter because that’s his favorite form of distraction.

Bo Sanders wraps up his first tour of duty on LectioCast with a four-point sermon on being God’s beloved children and a disclosure of something that only his therapist knew before. This week we see the arrival of all sorts of kings, from God to David to Jesus to us.

Texts for the Week include 2 Samuel 6, Psalm 24, Ephesians 1:3-14 & Mark 6:14-29.

2 Samuel 6: The kingship of David evolves: military power and priesthood. Is he exceeding his boundaries or growing into a larger blessing? Follow us through the complexity.

Psalm 24: Daniel and Bo go crazy thinking about ways that the king of glory might arrive: in the Temple, in Jesus, in the exaltation, and in our world. The sacredness of God’s holy place can blow up to fill the earth.

Ephesians 1:3-14: Bo goes hardcore gospel on us and drops an impromptu four-point sermon on what it means to be embraced into God’s family. Then Daniel takes the special particularity of the family and looks for it to overflow to the whole earth. (And this is where you loop back to Ps 24…)

Mark 6:14-29: JRDK comes out of the gate with a HUGE spoiler. You’ll have to listen though, because the only thing worse than a spoiler is a spoiler telling you what the spoiler said. Bo opens up to us as he has only before opened up to his therapist. If you can get through all that, there’s some awesome entrees to the Jesus story and the kingdom of God.

Book alluded to: David Lamb, God Behaving Badly

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, blogger, and New Testament professor who lives in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of a pair of books, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is off to the printers. He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (jrdkirk.com). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

Bo is wrapping up a PhD in Practical Theology at Claremont School of Theology while in full-time ministry. He is a pastor, coffee shop theologian, tattoo evangelist, and a soccer fan. His field of Practical Theology has an inter-disciplinary approach which allows him to be engaged in a wide analysis of diverse subjects. Academically, he is in conversation with 4 main areas of study including Sociology of Religion, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Comparative Theology.

You can find his HomeBrewed Blogs here. You might want to start with his 3 part series of ‘Why I’m Into Practical Theology‘, ‘Constructivism‘, and ‘When Good Isn’t Enough‘. He also had a popular series this Sumer on the ABC’s of Theology. Bo is helping to launch an emergent style gathering at his church in LA called the Loft, and you can connect with him on Facebook or Twitter (@theBoSanders) 

This week Bo Sanders returns to LectioCast as we explore the importance of the presence of God. God’s presence marks David as a successful king, it marks Jerusalem as a place of safety and where God can be met, it becomes the source of grace for Paul (and us) in troubled times, and it quietly empowers Jesus even when people turn him away.

Texts for the Week: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 Psalm 48, 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 & Mark 6:1-13

2 Samuel 5 We embrace the image of David as a good guy, at least for this week, drawing connections between David’s job and what Moses and Joshua did. Daniel also invites you to let go of your inhibitions and see a slew of parallels between David and Jesus.

Psalm 48 Somehow Jerusalem can be both city of David and city of God. If it’s city of God it’s because God has chosen to pour out God’s love there, to identify with the city, and to make a place where God can be met.

2 Cor 12 “I have a friend who has a rash.” And I think you all know what I’m talking about. *ahem* Then Bo shows us how to break down Paul’s thorn in the flesh—all in the service of clearing the decks to grab hold of the grace of God that Paul serves up for us.

Mark 6 That moment when… Jesus can’t do what he wants. *gulp* Only to have it offset by Jesus empowering his followers to do what he couldn’t do on his own. *whew*

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, blogger, and New Testament professor who lives in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of a pair of books, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is off to the printers. He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (jrdkirk.com). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.s

Bo is wrapping up a PhD in Practical Theology at Claremont School of Theology while in full-time ministry. He is a pastor, coffee shop theologian, tattoo evangelist, and a soccer fan. His field of Practical Theology has an inter-disciplinary approach which allows him to be engaged in a wide analysis of diverse subjects. Academically, he is in conversation with 4 main areas of study including Sociology of Religion, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Comparative Theology.

You can find his HomeBrewed Blogs here. You might want to start with his 3 part series of ‘Why I’m Into Practical Theology‘, ‘Constructivism‘, and ‘When Good Isn’t Enough‘. He also had a popular series this Sumer on the ABC’s of Theology. Bo is helping to launch an emergent style gathering at his church in LA called the Loft, and you can connect with him on Facebook or Twitter (@theBoSanders) 

LectioCast 6: 5th Sunday After Pentecost, June 28, 2015

Listen as Daniel restrains himself, only with greatest effort, from launching into a full-on 80s rap music demo. Bo Sanders joins again for conversation about how God’s economy transforms the economies of the world. Swords and armies, forgiveness in action, mannah from heaven, dangerous faith—these tell us about how God is (or isn’t) being made known in and through God’s people.

Texts for the Week: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27, Psalm 130, 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 & Mark 5:21-43

2 Samuel 1 Is the departure of Israel’s sword and spear in the hands of Saul and Jonathan a good thing or bad? Daniel and Bo explore the ambiguity of David’s song.

Psalm 130 Bo walks us through how this psalm might be a gift for a congregation dealing with tragedy. Our trust in God is wrapped up in God’s willingness to deliver and forgive. Daniel gets Bo to say “Amen.”

2 Cor 8 No joke here, Bo and Daniel go deep into the single most important thing Christians have to learn about our faith. We talk economy. God’s economy is not the economy of the world. Mannah isn’t just a story of the past, it’s the way God works, a way that we’re called to participate in.

Mark 5 Leaky Jesus! Dangerous approaches. Daniel talks about the necessity of being laughed at and Bo compensates by going deeply compassionate and pastoral.

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, blogger, and New Testament professor who lives in San Francisco, CA. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of a pair of books, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is off to the printers. He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (jrdkirk.com). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

Bo is wrapping up a PhD in Practical Theology at Claremont School of Theology while in full-time ministry. He is a pastor, coffee shop theologian, tattoo evangelist, and a soccer fan. His field of Practical Theology has an inter-disciplinary approach which allows him to be engaged in a wide analysis of diverse subjects. Academically, he is in conversation with 4 main areas of study including Sociology of Religion, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Comparative Theology.

You can find his HomeBrewed Blogs here. You might want to start with his 3 part series of ‘Why I’m Into Practical Theology‘, ‘Constructivism‘, and ‘When Good Isn’t Enough‘. He also had a popular series this Sumer on the ABC’s of Theology. Bo is helping to launch an emergent style gathering at his church in LA called the Loft, and you can connect with him on Facebook or Twitter (@theBoSanders)