What if Jesus isn’t asking us to give up our lives, but to stop trying so hard to possess them? In this episode, we look again at Matthew 16:21-27, at Peter’s struggle with a Messiah who refuses to play by the rules of power, and at Jesus’ provocative question: What good is it to gain the whole world and lose yourself? A conversation about control, ambition, presence, freedom, and the strange possibility that sometimes the way to find your life is to loosen your grip on it.

What if Jesus' question, "Who do you say I am?" isn't a theological question at all? In this episode we look again at Peter's famous confession and discover something personal: as Peter begins to discover who Jesus is, Jesus begins to tell Peter who HE is. Along the way we get to play with some keys, some questions, and the possibility that faith is less about having the right answers and more about becoming people who open doors rather than lock them.

Outsider women, and dogs, and crumbs, and silence, and arguments, and mind changes, and enlarged tables, and a healing. This passage has it all. But have we missed the deeper truth it holds? In this episode, we open up a passage from Matthew 15:21-28, refuse to explain the hard bits away, dare to ask it some difficult questions, and see where it all gets us...