Jesus is often misunderstood as teaching a moral system – a new vision of right and wrong that will be more pleasing to God. But to hear him in this way is to miss the greater point of his message. In this episode we explore Jesus’s famous “Sermon on the Plain” (Luke 6) and how...
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God, Self & Other – Luke 15: Blessings and Woes (Sermon on the Plain, Part 1)
Reminiscent of the Sermon on the Mount (in Matthew’s Gospel), in this episode we arrive at Jesus’s “Sermon on the Plain” in Luke. Once again, Jesus opens with a series of “beatitudes” (blessings), that are difficult to interpret. What are we to make of Jesus’s declaration that the poor and hungry are “blessed”? (Poverty and...
God, Self & Other – Luke 14: Healing on the Sabbath??? (When Love Breaks the Law)
What does it look like – in practice – to love God? In this episode we look at 3 events (Luke 6:1-16) that bring into sharp relief the distinction between Jesus and his religious opponents (in this case, the often maligned Pharisees), particularly with regard to what it means to love God. Is love ultimately...