Dec 14, 2018
Peace is an endangered species. From the violence of war, to our conflicted politics, to the internal battle for rest and quiet within our self, peace feels more elusive than ever. And in quest to find it, to have it, we are tempted to believe that the way to peace inwardly is to first establish peace outwardly. When...
Dec 7, 2018
Hope is essential to a life of love. But it can be hard to come by, especially when so much that matters to us is outside of our control. In this episode we look honestly at the difficulty of hope and how we regain it. In particular, we turn to the psalms (a constant guide to connection with God), and how one Hebrew...
Nov 15, 2018
We have already witnessed a radical transformation in Paul - from zealous persecutor of the church to faithful Christian. But there is more to come.
Paul is called by God to be an apostle (lit. "a sent one"), not to his fellow Jews, but specifically to the Gentile world. It is a mission that revolutionizes his theology,...
Nov 12, 2018
How does one go from being the church's greatest persecutor to its greatest advocate? The short answer, in Paul's own words, is: grace.
In this episode, we examine this most central theme in Paul's theology. What exactly is "grace"? How do we experience it? And is it a new development in God's character, or has the God...
Nov 7, 2018
The letter to the church at Rome - essentially a treatise on the saving work of God across history - is the Apostle Paul's magnum opus and one of the great works of Western literature.
It is so profound in its insight and broad in application that we are tempted to read it apart from its context. But it is the work of a...