Tripp Fuller

The resurrected Jesus is the shepherd of the sheep. And the community of the Good Shepherd is one where people radically reconfigure how they spend their money. Are we ready for that kind of discipleship? Are we ready to form those kinds of communities?

Acts 2:42-47 The message we most need to hear, the message we least want to heed: they had everything in common, they created a distinctive community, and everyone loved it.

Psalm 23 The Shepherding Lord: David’s, Jesus’s, and ours.

1 Peter 2:19-25 The cross of Christ tells us about God, and about us. It calls us to do right, no matter what the cost, trusting the God who judges justly. Oh, and that cross? We can think of what it does in about a hundred different ways.

John 10:1-10 The good shepherd makes sure the sheep are well tended. The declaration that he brings abundant life holds up a mirror to us, asking if we’ll actually believe that handing everything into his care will lead to the abundance of life we crave.

 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

The crucifixion is humanity’s attempt to say No to God’s anointed Lord and Christ. The resurrection is God’s mighty Yes to Jesus, and God’s continuing Yes to humanity as well. 

Acts 2:14a, 36-41 God continues to say YES in the face of humanity’s feeble NO. God says YES to Jesus, and God continues to say YES to Israel and to humanity as a whole.

Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 Here we see the daring of God who is willing to have God’s own praiseworthiness tied to the actions of God on the earth. 

1 Peter 1:17-23 We become part of a new family by being begotten anew: the power at work in Jesus’s resurrection is at work in us to give us new life. That new life means a new way of being, putting to death who we were before.

Luke 24:13-35 Who is the only one who (doesn’t) know? Jesus walks and talks and stirs the hearts of the disciples. But their eyes are only opened and Jesus is only revealed in the breaking of bread. Oh, and don’t you dare pine away for knowing what Jesus said on the road.

 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

Acts 2:14a, 22-32 “A Man Attested by God”: Here it is! My book is right! *ahem* Also, Easter is an event of the Spirit. This connects us to Jesus, who also had a Spirit-filled ministry. The story of the church is the continuing story of Jesus.

Psalm 16 Quoted by Peter, as fulfilled in Jesus. Bodies matter, and the pleasures that they enable us to experience.

1 Peter 1:3-9 Our future has been revealed, and yet, it’s hidden and waiting to be revealed as well. Perhaps our comfort has occluded our ability to see what we truly need and desire: communion with each other and with God.

John 20:19-31 God doesn’t just hit “reset,” Jesus is walking through the real business of reconciliation. Reconciliation demands confrontation. Doubt is not the opposite of faith, fear is. Then there’s this other opposite: killing as power and resurrection as power. We have to figure out how to live out the self-giving love with which we’re called to love the world.

 Jay Emerson Johnson, Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Pacific School of Religion, is an Episcopal priest and has served congregations in the Midwest and the San Francisco Bay Area. He came to PSR as a staff member at the school’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) in 2003 and began teaching courses for the school’s Certificate of Sexuality and Religion program. In addition to numerous articles on sexuality, Christian theology, and spirituality, he is the author of Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope (2005). More recently he is the author of Divine Communion: A Eucharistic Theology of Sexual Intimacy (2013) and Peculiar Faith: Queer Theology for Christian Witness (2014).

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

This episode is a crossover episode with the Good Doctor Daniel Kirk (of the LectioCast fame).

How high was the early church’s Christology? Daniel is on this podcast to talk about his new book A Man Attested by God, and answers this very question. This book is a bit oppositional. The Good Doctor is taking on very trendy New Testament scholars and early church theologians around the emergence of a high Christology early in the history of the church. He discusses:

Tripp also has three very big concerns about Daniel’s book, since Daniel had three very big concerns about Tripp’s book (which you can purchase in ebook form for $2.99 along with the HBC Guide to God and End Times…)

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He is risen indeed!

Acts 10:34-43 The radical social practice of table fellowship: showing us how broad is God’s desire for communion with people. The gospel erases the boundary lines we otherwise see as normal and even critical for our survival. 

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 God is greater than empire: the rejected stone has become the chief. And this is what makes people thankful.

Colossians 3:1-4 Christ’s past is our future, which becomes our present as well. Our unknown future becomes a present reality that has immense power to surprise us.

John 20:1-18 Stories that draw us together, even when they show us that we have to struggle through conflict. And new creation is dawning in the garden of resurrection. The exalted Jesus embraces the disciples into his relationship with the Father.

 Jay Emerson Johnson, Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Pacific School of Religion, is an Episcopal priest and has served congregations in the Midwest and the San Francisco Bay Area. He came to PSR as a staff member at the school’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) in 2003 and began teaching courses for the school’s Certificate of Sexuality and Religion program. In addition to numerous articles on sexuality, Christian theology, and spirituality, he is the author of Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope (2005). More recently he is the author of Divine Communion: A Eucharistic Theology of Sexual Intimacy (2013) and Peculiar Faith: Queer Theology for Christian Witness (2014).

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

It’s time to follow Jesus to the cross: where God is absent, and the mission seems to fail. Except for those words from the centurion that turn the world upside down.

Isaiah 50:4-9a The teacher is called to sustain the weary, even as he suffers the indignities of rejection. But shame is not the story, because vindication comes from God.

Psalm 31:9-16 Untimely death: it’s the experience of the person who has been rejected and is the source of plots against his life. It’s a story of trust in God—but will the trust be rewarded?

Philippians 2:5-11 The Christ hymn shows us how to be human. The mind of Christ enacts the humble trusts that God rewards, exalts, and glorifies. The “form,” or “image” of God is God’s gift to give.

Matthew 26:14-27:66 From Judas’s agreement to betray Jesus, through the tomb made secure, this week’s Gospel text takes us through the whole passion story. There we find trifectas of failure, Jesus’s complete abandonment, and the paradoxical fulfillment of Jesus’s calling through his death on the cross.

 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

The darkness of death, and of Lent, cannot keep the resurrection light of Easter from shining. And when resurrection light shines, you know you’re seeing the glory of God.

Ezekiel 37 The Great Zombiepocalypse is one of the most arresting scenes in the whole Bible. A beautiful mixture of resurrection, return from exile, and new creation, it teems with images of life and of God’s creative love. 

John 11 The resurrection and the life are not just for the eschaton. Jesus makes the future present. Life is a gift here and now. And the resurrection of the beloved disciple proves it.

Romans 8 If you know any measure of holiness then you know a taste of the resurrection life to come. To set our minds on the Spirit of God is to enter into the life that God is holding for us in the future. It is to be empowered by the life-giving Spirit who also raised Jesus from the dead.

Psalm 130 Why should God be feared? Because of a strict accounting of justice? Because of retribution that comes when we sin? How about because of forgiveness? How about because of the redemption that God gives to God’s people?

 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

The scripture passages this week bring us into a world of light: of light that shines so that we can see. Or, perhaps, shows us how we have been seeing people without perceiving them rightly in more ways than we are comfortable admitting. Seeing the light and becoming the light means allowing Jesus to reinterpret the world for us. In that world turned upside down we might even find that we’re sitting down to a feast, prepared by the Lord Shepherd, and looking into the eye of our enemy, who eats and drinks with us in the Kingdom of God. 

John 9:1-41 “I see you.” Everyone thinks they see, but seeing Jesus rightly only comes with seeing rightly the blind beggar whom folks ignore every day. Be careful: we just might be the Pharisees.

Ephesians 5:8-14 Light and darkness are more than personal piety, they are systems of power and weakness, of empire and subjugation. We shine as we become little Christs. 

1 Samuel 16:1-13 God has plans for Israel, plans that the house of Jesse thought were the eighth best of eight options. God has a rebuke for our tendency to make snap judgments rather than learning about a person’s heart. But maybe David’s a flawed hero himself.

Psalm 23 “The table is the most important piece of furniture in the kingdom of God.” And a table set before the face of enemies can only be a place of communion across lines of difference.

Jon Huckins. is a pastor and the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project; a  peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. Jon with his co-founder Jer Swigart is author of the forthcoming Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World which you can pre-order right now for less than $10 on Amazon. He writes for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT. Jon also co-leads a Christian intentional community in his neighborhood of Golden Hill in San Diego. Find him at jonhuckins.net, on twitter @jonhuckins and on facebook.com/jon.huckins.1.

Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

In times of hunger and thirst, do we trust God to be present? Do we trust God to provide? Do we believe that this is the path to eternal life rather than a roadblock keeping us from it? 

Genesis 17:1-7 The people grumble and test and complain. But only because they were worried about dying of thirst. God doesn’t just give them water: God gives them Godself.

Psalm 95 God as the rock of salvation: the rock from whom waters come when needed. God as the God worth trusting because God has made everything.

Romans 5:1-11 Justification doesn’t take away the suffering, but the suffering is part of the promise of glory. Be at peace with God: because God has already reconciled us. 

John 4:5-42 The woman at the well is willing to ask for what she needs, and is willing to see Jesus offering it. Jesus doesn’t seem to mind that he’s hungry or thirsty because he knows what God is up to.

 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.

From Abram to Jesus to the inclusion of the Gentiles we are called into a story of utter dependence on God: trusting God to do for us what we would otherwise try to do for ourselves. 

Genesis 12:1-4a Abram has to leave behind everything that should provide for him. God promises a blessing that is too big for Abram to control or contain. 

Psalm 121 A psalm of trust in God’s holistic care. Where does our help come from? Are we willing to give ourselves to the God who made heaven and earth?

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 The inclusion of the Gentiles means rereading the story of Abraham. Abraham is blessed through his trust. Abraham trusts the God whom Paul preaches: the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not exist.

Matthew 17:1-9 Remember when Jesus refused to bite during those satanic temptations to explore what “son of God” might mean for him? God honors that trust, and will honor it again in Jesus’s resurrection.

John 3:1-17 Nicodemus gets Jesus talking. Dependence on God, trust in God, comes to its ultimate manifestation in the need to be born from above, by the Spirit, in order to see the Kingdom. Scary as that might be, it’s a stipulation held in the hands of the God who sent His Son into the world to save it, rather than condemn. This God can be trusted.

Books discussed this week: JRD Kirk, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God.

 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA where he is currently Pastoral Director for the Newbigin House of Studies. His third book A Man Attested by God: the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, is hot off the presses. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and is the author of, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? He blogs regularly at StoriedTheology.com  (http://patheos.com/blogs/storiedtheology). You can follow him on Twitter @jrdkirk and on Facebook at Facebook.com/jrdkirk.