1 Peter 3:8

This episode is about sharing life with people who have different personalities, perspectives, communication styles, sensitivities, hot buttons, or approaches than you. What are the prayerful qualities that the Spirit wants to cultivate within you to help you share life together?

Credits & Sources:

Daniel Taylor, Joel Green, Erland Waltner, Jacob Collier, Scot McKnight, John Elliott, Dennis Edwards, Moises Silva, Brian Zahnd, James Gall.

Sermon by Aaron Carlson

For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org

(09/20/26)

1 Peter 3:1-7

The apostle Peter calls women the "weaker vessel". Other translations say, "the weaker sex, “the weaker sex, the more fragile vessel, the weaker partner", or “She isn’t as strong as you are, or she has a weaker nature.”

Please don't give up on listening! Some of the strongest people I have ever known have been women. This one looks at what Peter says to wives and husbands that is both challenging and liberating. I believe you'll end up seeing Peter as quite subversive and radical in his day.

Credits & Sources:

Rodney Stark, Erland Waltner, Adam L. Bean, Greg Boyd, Pam Hogeweide, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., John Elliott, Karen Jobes, Douglas Harkink, Dennis Edwards, Craig Keener, Pheme Perkins, Nijay Gupta, Joel Green, Warren Carter, Magda Misset-Van De Weg, Betsy Bauman-Martin, Catherine Clark Kroeger, Scot McKnight, Sharyn Dowd, David Barlett, Moises Silva, Dan White Jr., Rachel held Evans, David DeSilva, Christian Miller, Marvin Wilson, Seth Rodriquez.

For further reading: The Trouble with “Submit” - Joel B. Green

Sermon by Aaron Carlson

For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org

(09/13/26)

1 Peter 2:18-25

When the apostle Peter said, "Slaves, be subject to your masters...." was he telling millions of African slaves that when their white masters (many who called themselves "Christians") punished them in whatever cruel way they deemed fit, that the only option those slaves had was to give in, accept it, shut up and take it, suffer and not lift a hand in resistance? Was he telling people like Martin Luther King Jr. that injustice is just the way things are? Is this what the apostle Peter was saying?

And if not, then what was Peter saying?

This episode looks not only at the specific evils of slavery, but also at the ways that we go about working with the Spirit of God against the evils that embed themselves in social fabric, systems, cultures, social structures, power structures and economies.

Credits & Sources:

Joel B. Green, Moses Finley, Gregory of Nyssa, Esau McCaulley, John H. Yoder, Jemar Tisby, Michael Emerson, Christian Smith, James Cone, Miguel De La Torre, Rodney Stark, Karen Jobes, Miroslav Volf, John F. Defelice Jr., Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, Isabel Wilkerson, Dennis Edwards, Erland Waltner, Scot McKnight, John J. Elliott, David Bartlett, Pheme Perkins, Sharyn Dowd, Moises Silva, John Woolman, Brad Jersak, Justo Gonzalez, Douglas Harink, S.S. Bartchy, Warren Carter, James Aageson, Craig Keener.

For further reading: The Trouble with “Submit” - Joel B. Green

Sermon by Aaron Carlson

For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org

(09/06/26)