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13 mins read|07/10/22But it is not always helpful to create tidy categories of good and bad and to say, “Stop being ‘a Martha’ and do a better job of being ‘a Mary.’” That is a dangerous sermon to preach. In doing so, we can fall into the very thing we see Martha doing.
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11 mins read|07/10/22What might be a unique challenge of this text is how our preaching of it might itself resonate with its mystery. It goes to a broader question: How can we retain a sense of the “mysterious” in our preaching of mysterious texts?
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5 mins read|07/09/22Happiness in Slavery. We continue to read and discuss the parable of the Grand Inquisitor, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov. In this episode, the Grand Inquisitor details why Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s temptations in the wilderness doomed humanity.
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1 min|07/04/22In this episode, Paulson identifies the worry that all religion tries to answer "Am I chosen by God?"
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13 mins read|07/03/22[Because] of the relationship of presence the LORD has with His people, His holiness ‘gets on them,’ and, as a result, this is what their life now looks like because the holy LORD is their God.
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9 mins read|07/03/22Paul is giving thanks for the reality that the gospel grows just as much in the little places as it does in the centers of power.
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13 mins read|07/03/22The parable of the Good Samaritan is both a call to faith in Jesus and a call to love our neighbor.
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14 mins read|07/03/22Whether or not there be grand thoughts behind a text, it is guaranteed that behind each text the Holy Spirit is lying in wait, and He is trying to enter into conversation with you.
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4 mins read|07/03/22Why? Why? Why? We read and discuss Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor. What happens when we discuss evil and the work of the evil one apart from God’s Word, his preacher, and Christ’s cross?
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6 mins read|06/27/22The worship service is less like servants entering the throne room to wait on the king’s needs and more like a father joining his family around the dining room table.
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1 min|06/27/22In this episode, Paulson helps listeners envision Luther's idea that the preacher is a "long-bowman" taking aim at the heart.
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