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God, Self & Other – Luke 14: Healing on the Sabbath??? (When Love Breaks the Law)

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017Kirk WinslowLeave a comment

What does it look like – in practice – to love God? In this episode we look at 3 events (Luke 6:1-16) that bring into sharp relief the distinction between Jesus and his religious opponents (in this case, the often maligned Pharisees), particularly with regard to what it means to love God. Is love ultimately a matter of the will, choosing to obey the divine rules? Or is there more to it…?

Join us as we examine the relationship between love of God and love of neighbor.

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God, Self & Other – Luke 13: Dinner with a Tax Collector (Jesus Calls the Apostle Levi [Matthew])

July 24, 2017July 24, 2017Kirk WinslowLeave a comment

Jesus scandalizes his religious contemporaries by accepting an invitation to dine with Levi, a known tax collector (one who purchased the right to ” collect” – read “overcharge” – the taxes of their fellow Jews).

The occasion reveals a fundamental clash of values, in which Jesus declares that God has come to rescue the “righteous” or the “sinners”? Indeed the time of that rescue is at hand, and the invitation is ultimately extended by God himself. But to accept it, will require a letting go of some previous (misguided) expectations of salvation. One will have to put new wine into new wineskins…

Levi accepts the invitation and we will later come to know him as the Apostle Matthew (and author of the Gospel of the same name).

With apologies for the audio quality, here is our friend, Rev. Mike Regele examining this dramatic encounter in detail.

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God, Self & Other – Luke 12: “We Have Seen Strange Things…” (Resurrection, Part 1 – Jesus Heals a Paralytic)

June 16, 2017June 16, 2017Kirk WinslowLeave a comment

Jesus’s miracles are never mere exhibitions of power, meant only to demonstrate his divine identity or access to power. While they do this, they are far more – they are embodiments of the Kingdom of God. In Jesus’s presence, an ailing creation is made whole, broken humanity made new.

In this episode we look at a profound moment in Jesus’s ministry – the healing of a man afflicted by paralysis and a demonstration of paradigmatic example of faith (in the acts of the man’s friends). The afflicted man is, of course, healed and in ways that foreshadow the greater Kingdom this is yet to come.

This sermon was originally preached on Easter Sunday 2016 – just in case you were looking for an Easter sermon in mid-June. 😉

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