[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...
Category: Sermons
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...
God, Self & Other – Luke 43: Living for Which Age? (Rich Man and Lazarus)
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6388405/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] How ought we interpret Jesus’s call to decisive loyalty (and the warnings that accompany them)? Is eternal, conscious torment truly the punishment that awaits the disloyal? In this episode we examine one of Jesus’s most disturbing parables, indeed one of the texts from which...