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“Love is the name of the game” rolls regularly off my tongue; but what does it look like in practice?

In this episode we examine some of Jesus’s seemingly extreme demands of his disciples and discover they are not a loyalty test, but rather a call to love with vitality and devotion. Such love requires risk, but it can (and will!) change the world.

Included are a few examples of what we can do today to put love to work in our lives and the lives of others.

The text for this episode is Luke 14:25-35 (NRSV).

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Once again, Jesus disrupts dinner party decorum. In this case, it is to heal a man suffering terrible pain.

A worthy cause, his Pharisee hosts, would agree. But this particular dinner was happening on the Sabbath, and, well…healings were “work” and should wait. Or should they?

In this episode we get another look at Jesus’s attempts to reveal the depth of the love of God (and the response of our love for neighbor it should provoke) and how deeply ambivalent we humans can be.

The text for this episode is Luke 14:1-24 (NRSV).

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The life of faith will have its share of sleepless nights. The question is whether we are having them for the right reasons.

In this episode we look at Jesus’s parable of the “narrow door” – a stern warning to those who, in their self righteousness, would never bother to question their citizenship within the Kingdom of God. But question they should, question we all should. NOT to foster undue fear, shame and/or anxiety, but so that – like an athlete in training – they might recognize the very real need to be ever on task, preparing or the critical work of the kingdom that is our true mission.

In an effort to be especially practical, In the sermon I mention a Rule of Life we did at Canvas for Lent 2016. Here is a link to the .PDF file. If you want to hear more about the idea of Rule, you can listen to Ep. 131 of the podcast.  Or read more about Rule here.

The text for this episode is Luke 13:22-35.

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