[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6429571/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] The great theologian Johnny Cash once wrote: “You’re so heavenly minded you’re no earthly good.” Only Jesus said it better. In this episode we look at the temptation to be so focused on the hereafter that we miss the presence of the kingdom of...
Author: Kirk Winslow
God, Self & Other – Luke 45: Love of Self
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6411356/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] What does it look like – in practice – to love self? And is such love truly godly? (Isn’t love of self was the very definition of selfishness, and that love of God and others are the true virtues?) In this episode we look...
God, Self & Other – Luke 44: Millstones, Mustard Seeds and the Tension of the Christian Life
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6407682/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] Maturity in the life of faith requires the ability bear unresolved tension, to live amidst truths that seems to contradict each other. In this episode we examine three (more) declarations of Jesus that – at first read – appear terribly uncharitable. But as we...