This past Sunday I had trippled duty at my church: I helped lead worship with my friends Andy and Kyle, finished the adult class I was leading called “Incarnational Living” and preached a sermon on Mark 12:28-34 and Jonah on Jesus’ confrontation with another Lawyer over the most important command.
What’s amazing about this passage is that Jesus absolutely links God-love with neighbor-love; it is impossible to love God without loving neighbor and He makes this clear by His response to the Lawyer. I then back tracked from Mark 12 to Luke 10 and then to Jonah to highlight the disastrous consequences of a lack of neighbor love.
Take a listen and let me know what you think 
-jeremy
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UPDATE 2: It plays this time…for really reals!
UPDATE: OK, I’ve fixed the audio…it plays correctly, now.
A few Sundays ago I preached a message in my church on Exodus 3, the burning bush scene where Moses is called out by God, set apart, and sent on mission. It was a follow-up to my first message on The Missional Commission of Jesus (which I’ve turned into a weekly Missional Monday series.) I thought I would post an audio recording of that message for those who need encouraging that God does in fact use ordinary people who are radically devoted to himself to complete His mission.
At the beginning of the message I showed a clip from Prince of Egypt, so I would recommend watching that beforehand.
Enjoy!
-jeremy
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Ever since school started I have been wrestling with the incredible weight of interpreting the Bible well and correctly. Especially as one who has been called to be a teacher and gifted spiritually with teaching and shepherding, the implications of interpreting the meaning of God’s Revelation beneath the Text of the Holy Scriptures are tremendous, especially as it relates to such important, weighty issues as homosexuality. Maybe we have some interpretations horribly wrong? I know history is writ large with bad interpretations of the Holy Scriptures, even by well meaning people who claim Sola Scriptura. Maybe I am getting some things horribly wrong. The later is much more scary, especially as people look to me to interpret well and help them glorify God with their living…
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1. Introduction
2. Postmodernism, The Emerging Church, Truth and Knowing
3. Thoughts on Orthodoxy and Fundamentals
Today is a double feature podcast! The first one is a reflection on a conversation I had with a friend regarding her dying mother and the fact she has lived well within a living hell; her mother has had a shitty life, but one that reflects the way of Jesus, yet would not be categorized as “saved” by most Christians. And I really wrestle with what God does with someone like her…
The other post is on a Systematic Theology 1 class discussion over the nature of revelation and whether or not revelation has ceased. I say one kind has and another hasn’t.
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The Series
1. Introduction
2. Postmodernism, The Emerging Church, Truth and Knowing
Today’s podcast reflects on a conversation I had with a professor over lunch that centered on why the emerging church conversation finds it so difficult to draw at least some boundaries and identify some fundamentals to the Christian faith.
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