Matthew

Posts related to the Gospel of Matthew

Episode 6 Transcript

Episode 6: Inside Outside Upside Down Introduction One of the shared but unspoken views of good church people is that the New Testament is version 2.0 of God’s Law. That God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit got together and worked all the bugs out of the Old Testament, and now we have the New Testament….

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Episode 5 Transcript

Episode 5: John Wick or Jesus? Introduction In the beginning, at the very start of the Bible, we have the book of Genesis. It tells us the story of creation, twice. It tells us about Adam and Eve, about Cain and Abel, Noah and the Ark, the Tower of Babel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Esau,…

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Episode 4 Transcript

Episode 4: First, Do No Harm Introduction Simeon: Matthew, you say Jesus didn’t come to do away with the law, and then you talk about him like he’s a new Moses, delivering a new Deuteronomy. Replacing the Law of Moses with a new one seems to be the very definition of doing away with the…

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Episode 3 Transcript

Episode 3: A More Perfect Union Introduction What is it that makes a nation great? At the heart of it, greatness is bound up with thriving. A great nation is one where the common trait shared by its citizens is one of well-being. In a great nation, there is peace. Peace between neighbors, between communities,…

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Episode 2 Transcript

Episode 2: How Do You Fix What Is Broken? Introduction When we talk about Mary, the mother of Jesus, what are the stories and images that pop into your mind? I bet I know what some of those stories are. I bet those stories have a lot to do with the ways we celebrate Christmas….

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Episode 1 Transcript

Episode 1: A Tale of Incest, Prostitution, Seduction, and Rape Introduction Use your imagination to join me in eavesdropping on a conversation from a long time ago. It’s a conversation between two men, after a great calamity. It is set late in the first century of the common era, in the city of Antioch, well…

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Episode 5: John Wick or Jesus?

In this new Kingdom of Heaven, what are the standards of crime and punishment? Of law and order?

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Episode 3: A More Perfect Union

You say you want a revolution. Well, you know… sometimes you find it in the most unexpected, but shockingly familiar, of places. 

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