SM #25: How to be Perfec t
Jesus leads us from mere religious holiness to relational wholeness. He is teaching us how to be "perfect" in mercy, not just morality.
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- Aug 11
- 43 min
SM #24: Loving Like God
God-like love will change our hearts, and God-like love will save the world. Freely we have received, and freely we give.
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BOO
- Jul 14
- 40 min
SM #23: Becoming Surprising
God has surprised us with undeserved, unexpected, unconditional love, and we ought to pay it forward.
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BOO
- Jun 10
- 20 min
SM #22: Sanctifying Speech
Truth spoken in love should be the national language of the Kingdom of Christ.
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BOO
- Dec 9, 2023
- 21 min
SM #20: The Look of Lust
Using others as kindling to stoke our inner fires of desire is one of the ways we devalue and dehumanize God's image on earth.
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BOO
- Nov 4, 2023
- 37 min
SM #19: Murder in the Mind & Mouth
According to Jesus, whatever it is we think anger and outrage are helping us accomplish, love will do a better job.
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BOO
- Jul 29, 2023
- 14 min
SM #18: HOW TO EAT THE BIBLE (An Introduction to the Six Antitheses)
Jesus teaches his disciples how to internalize and metabolize the teaching of the Bible to energize our spiritual lives.
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BOO
- Jul 9, 2023
- 19 min
SM #17: Above & Beyond (Real Righteousness, Part 4)
Jesus leads us into a righteousness that goes above the law to find the love, and goes beyond justice to mercy.
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BOO
- Jul 5, 2023
- 15 min
SM #16: The Law of Love (Real Righteousness, Part 3)
Life is love, period. Everything else is commentary.
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BOO
- Jun 24, 2023
- 20 min
SM #15: The End of the World as We Know It (Real Righteousness, part 2)
The cataclysmic shift from Old to New Covenant changes everything about how we relate to God and one another and even our own Bibles.
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BOO
- Jun 10, 2023
- 28 min
SM #14: FILL 'ER UP! (Real Righteousness, Part 1)
Jesus pictures the Bible as a vessel, like a clay pot, that he has come, not to smash on the ground, but to fill up with its true meaning.
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BOO
- May 8, 2023
- 15 min
SM #13: This Little Light of Ours
Disciples of Jesus are meant to live together in ways that spread the light of God’s love.
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BOO
- May 1, 2023
- 24 min
SM #12: Out of the Saltshaker
Disciples of Jesus are meant to get out of the saltshaker and into the world.
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BOO
- Apr 23, 2023
- 12 min
SM #11: The Beatific Way
In the Beatitudes we see who Jesus is and we see who we are becoming.
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BOO
- Apr 16, 2023
- 18 min
SM #10: In Good Company
Jesus-people have the privilege of forming an alter-culture of good company where we celebrate grace with joy, despite persecution.
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BOO
- Apr 6, 2023
- 17 min
SM #9: Peacemaking & the Ministry of Mending (Part 2)
Peacemaking is inherently evangelistic. The Gospel is the message that Jesus brings us peace with God and with one another.
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BOO
- Mar 26, 2023
- 11 min
SM #8: Peacemaking & the Ministry of Mending (Part 1)
Peacemaking goes beyond being nonviolent to actively engaging in the work of mediation and reconciliation.
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BOO
- Mar 15, 2023
- 18 min
SM #7: Seeing God
Purity of heart is both a matter of undiluted moral cleanness and undistracted mental focus. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus.
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BOO
- Mar 3, 2023
- 15 min
SM #6: Mercy Me
Any committed relationship between imperfect people will require an ongoing devotion to mercy.
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