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Jesus and the God of the Old Testament
The Joseph Story Ep. 7. In lieu of a write-up of the class I’ll leave you with a couple of quotations. The first, from St. Maximus the Confessor, which framed our discussion. The second, from…
All Israel Will Be Saved
The Joseph Story Ep. 6. Jewish scholar Yair Zakovitch says that the book of Genesis is the Table of Contents for the Bible. Everything is contained Genesis in embryonic form, it is the genetic code…
Judah the Lion-King
The Joseph Story Ep. 5The Roaring LionAt the end of the Joseph story the elderly patriarch Jacob gathers his sons around him to deliver last words to each of them. It is Judah (along with Joseph)…
The (Hellish) Judgment of God
The Joseph Story Ep. 4This week we take a close look at Joseph’s scheme (dissembling) that he puts his brothers through. The scheme serves the purpose of forcing the brothers to experience the…
Trauma and Re-membering the Dismembered
The Joseph Story Ep. 3A preliminary remark: One of the gifts of Scripture is that its stories allow us to process our deep-seated personal pain in a safe way. I can talk about my own pain a lot…
The Lance of His Compassion (Good Friday 2026)
A Sermon for Good Friday 2026A Good Friday sermon on Psalm 229 Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.10 On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother…
Family Wounds
The Joseph Story Ep. 2 Because of the additional “duties” that Holy Week brings, I was unable to write up an overview of this week’s class. I’m sure that with Easter Sunday on the horizon you will…
Joseph the Dreamer
The Joseph Story Ep. 1The Jewish scholar Jon Levenson has said that the Joseph story in Genesis “is arguably the most sophisticated narrative in the Jewish or the Christian Bibles.” Chris Green…
C.S. Lewis: Magic vs. Miracles
Paul pens both his letters to Timothy to encourage him to continue his struggle against the false teachers in the congregation at Ephesus. Paul planted this church years earlier. Luke records this…
Women in Ministry?
As we close our study of 1 & 2 Timothy we come to the most notorious lines in either book: “11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to…
The Powerlessness of God
Suffering and Power2 Timothy is a tender letter. It is written from a jail cell by a man who knows he is not long for this world. Paul’s heart is opened wide to Timothy throughout. The letter begins:…
Election and Predestination (in Christ)
Last week we looked at the non-rivalrous, non-competitive posture the church is to have to the world. The church is called to be for the world not against it. In 1 Timothy 2:1—5 Paul says that there…
The Church: Being-for-the-World
What relationship is the church to have with the world? Many versions of Christianity assume that the church and world are locked in a metaphysical fight to the death. One will win, the other will…
Authority and the Problem of Power
Pillars That Make Shared Life PossibleWe are moving outward in concentric circles from the center of the church (the eucharist), to ordained ministry, to sociality within the church mediated by…
Between Me and You: Christ the Mediator
Perhaps the most famous line in either First or Second Timothy comes in 1 Timothy 2:5, “There is one God, and so there is one mediator between God and man, namely the man Jesus Christ.”We can easily…
The Everyday, Humdrum, Holy Work of God
In 1 Timothy 4 Paul reminds Timothy that he was commissions into ministry “by Spirit-filled utterance [prophecy] and with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.” Again in 2 Timothy 1 Paul…
The Eucharistic Life
Paul writes to his young protégé Timothy to “command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer.” Paul does not ever clearly explain what these false teachers were teaching (Timothy…
How To Spot a False Teacher
“Sound teaching strengthens, while sick teaching weakens…sick teaching leads to sick holiness.” -Dietrich BonhoefferSick Teaching, Sick HolinessGordon Fee argues that the primary purpose of Paul’s…
Advent from Prison (2)
“By the way, a prison cell like this is a good analogy for Advent; one waits, hopes, does this or that—ultimately negligible things—the door is locked and can only be opened from the…
Advent from Prison (1)
I.Fleming Rutledge says that “Advent begins in the dark.” She writes, We live in a world where the season of Advent is simply relegated to the “frenzy of holiday” time in which the commercial…
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