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God, Self & Other – Luke 11: Love Beyond Every Boundary (Healing a Man with Leprosy)

June 14, 2017June 14, 2017Kirk WinslowLeave a comment

If you’ve ever wondered how far the grace of God extends, the short answer is: beyond every imaginable barrier and boundary.

In this episode we look at Luke 5:12-16 – a short, but dramatic, encounter between Jesus and a man afflicted with leprosy. In the ancient world, few conditions were more feared or carried greater stigma. And Judaism held strict rules about contact between lepers and literally everyone else. Yet Jesus crosses every prohibition of fear and piety to take confer healing to a child of God in need. It is a first glimpse of what theologians refer to as “the great exchange” – Jesus taking what is ours (the curse of sin) and making it his, taking what is his (shalom) and making it ours.

To anyone who has ever thought themselves “too far gone” to be welcomed by God, this is yet another reminder that there is no such condition.

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God, Self & Other – Luke 10: How Honest Faith Begins (Calling of Peter, James and John)

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017Kirk WinslowLeave a comment

True faith doesn’t happen in an instant. At least it didn’t for Peter…or James or John (Jesus’s innermost circle)! Honest faith is a process that unfolds over a lifetime, and contains elements of wonder, doubt, confusion, awe, more confusion, agony, guilt, healing… This up-and-down, in-and-out journey is the authentic process of transformation (sanctification), and is the message we are to proclaim to the world.

In this episode we look Jesus’s calling of his first disciples and the manner in which their life of faith began. It’s a lesson in the realities of the Christian life and the gospel to which every disciple bears witness.

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God, Self & Other – Luke 09: Jesus 1, Captivity 0 (Miracles in Capernaum)

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017Kirk WinslowLeave a comment

Here we get a first, detailed look into Jesus’s ministry of healing and exorcism. (Luke has mentioned such activity in the past, but finally we get are given a description of an actual event.)

In this episode, regular contributor Rev. Ian Farrell demonstrates that there is much more to Jesus’s “healings” than mere demonstrations of divine power. They are nothing short than experiences of God’s kinship being exercised in creation (bringing restoration), granting freedom to captive bodies and hearts and calling us to new life!

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