[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5752058/height/90/width/600/thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/570535/custom-color/06287b” height=”90″ width=”600″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Love is hard to believe. For all our longing for love, all of our hope that love wins…, to actually trust in love when it is offered is incredibly difficult, especially when the offer comes from God. In this episode we look at Jesus’s...
Author: Kirk Winslow
We Were Expecting Someone More…Messiah-y – Luke, Part 17
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5719848/height/90/width/600/thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/570535/custom-color/06287b” height=”90″ width=”600″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] For 2,000 years Jesus has been confounding messianic expectations – never quite looking the part of “savior.” I mean, shouldn’t a divinely-appointed deliverer be easily recognizable? A little radiant glory, perhaps? Or at the very least the trappings of earthly power! And...
God, Self & Other – Luke 16: Jesus and Christian Ethics (Sermon on the Plain, Part 2)
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...