May 31, 2018
One of the best ways to learn good theology is to study historically bad theology - to see where we tend to go astray (after all, there are really only about 10 true heresies, we just manage to repeat them in every generation).
In this episode, I give a short introduction to the idea of "heresy" and then examine the...
May 21, 2018
The Gospel of Luke ends with a series of new beginnings.
First, Jesus's reveals his resurrection to his disciples in a manner that would have constituted certain proof in the ancient world.
It is also a sign that the age of salvation has begun, and with it, a new mission for Jesus's disciples. Where once they...
May 17, 2018
On a spring Friday, somewhere around the year AD 29, two kingdoms (Love and Evil) went to war - a battle brewing since the Garden of Eden. And Evil appeared to have won...briefly. And then it lost everything!
In this episode we arrive at proof of Love's victory - an empty tomb and a resurrected Jesus! It is also the...
May 14, 2018
By every visible measure, Good Friday marked the moment love lost. In Jesus, God himself had entered into creation to free his people from their bondage to sin...and in their sin they (we!) crucified him.
In this episode we examine the events leading up to and including Jesus's death - events that surely prove Jesus...
May 10, 2018
Never doubt the power of sin in the world. It led one of Jesus's closest friends to betray him. Led another to deny they'd ever met. It led Jewish authorities to demand an execution of one of their own, and caused the crowds to shout, "Crucify him!" of the one they'd cheered with "Hosanna!" less than a week before.
In...