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This is the story about the Pharisees trying to trap Jesus: do we pay taxes to Caesar or not? Yeah, you thought you could trap Jesus. C'mon, man. Face Palm Emoji. I'll retell the story and then we'll work through three movements of the story. 1) There's always a struggle/battle over what has ulti…

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The parable of the wedding banquet. This is the third parable Jesus tells to protest/critique his own religious tradition, or possibly all religious traditions. Here we enter into the wedding banquet parable. The invitation goes out, but the guests refuse to show up. I imagine the king was pretty …
Another vineyard story - here we go! Triumphal entry. Peaceful protest against Roman Empire and the religious establishment. Religious leaders are piiiiiissed. "Who do you think you are? Where did you get your authority?" they ask. Jesus is all - the tax collectors and prostitutes are in better sha…
Jesus is challenged by the authorities, "Who do you think you are? By what authority are you doing these things?" What things is Jesus doing? I'll give some background: it's the Monday of Holy Week. He's led a protest parade. Exciting! Crowds love it. Then he goes into the temple and clears things…
Forgiveness is central to the message of Jesus, but Peter wants to know how much forgiveness that is. Is there a limit to grace? Jesus says, "Seventy-seven times." Or, seventy times seven times, depending on how you want to translate the ambiguous language of Jesus. Then Jesus tells the story abou…
This is the third in our series The Sage and The Son, where Aaron and Tony sit down to discuss topics of theology, social justice, and where they see the American Church heading (and where they hope it will go). Speaker: Aaron Vis and Tony Vis
Paul says these things are good and right and true and beautiful. They sound simple...until we try to do them. The church in Rome was the location this letter was headed, and Paul was writing to a deeply divided church. So where are we in the letter? We're about three quarters of the way through. …
This is the story of the beginning of the book of Exodus. It is one of our primal stories, a foundational one. So first, let's walk slowly through a retelling of the story and I'll comment along the way. Pharaoh has all the power. Yet he's afraid of people who have no power. He does what fearful p…
This is the story of the Canaanite woman asking for healing for her daughter. Okay, so this is another story, along with the version found in Mark, that I've preached several times. Here, we have yet another angle. The world is starving for good news these days. It seems like every corner we look …
Here's the story of Jesus walking on water, but from a different angle than usual! There's an interesting relationship that Christianity has had with fear, especially over the last 50-100 years, maybe even longer. Don't know what to call it. Buff Christianity? No Fear Christianity? Instead of maki…
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