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God, Self & Other – Luke 28: Go and Bless (the Sending of the 70)

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Few words terrify the typical Christian like “evangelism.” It instantly conjures images of hellfire preachers on corners or, worse yet, the awkwardly forced conversation about Jesus with a “non-believing” friend (ugh!).

It’s worth noting that Jesus did neither of these, nor asked it of his disciples.

Jesus did, however, send. He sent ill-equipped, nervous followers to carry the good news of the presence of kingdom of God, and to bless whatever instances of grace they might find already at work. In this episode we look at this call to go and to bless; and hopefully discover it is quite a gift to be sent.

The passage for this week is Luke 10:1-16 (NRSV).

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The Dark Before the Dawn (Advent 2017), Part 01 – The False Hope of False Gods

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Interrupting your regularly scheduled sermon from Luke with a sermon for Advent…

Advent is the season of preparation for Jesus’s coming, a time to remember his birth in Bethlehem, yes, but primarily a time to remember that Jesus is coming again. In short, it is a time to get in touch with our need for a savior.

In this episode we join the story of Israel in the days after the settling in Canaan, and the slow turn away from YHWH to the Canaanite gods of Baal and Astarte. It’s a painful reminder of our human impulse to worship our prosperity.

The sermon text is Judges 2:6-23 (NRSV)

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God, Self & Other – Luke 27: A New Center of the World

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As Jesus “sets his face toward Jerusalem” (i.e., resolves to force a confrontation with the religious authorities), the conflict that will lead to his crucifixion begins to take shape.

It starts with a rejection of Jesus as he seeks to enter Samaria (located between the regions Galilee and Judea) and continues with Jesus’s rejection of some would-be followers.

In this episode regular J@2AM preacher, Rev. Mike Regele examines this very complex sequence (Luke 9:51-62), and put on a master class in exegesis (the scholarly work of interpreting a passage) and why such work is essential to our proper understanding of the biblical story!

 

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