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  • Matthew 25:14-30

    Matthew 25:14-30
    2026/11/11
    In the Parable of the Talents, the stand in for God rewards the folks to actually do something with what they were given. Those two guys understood what they received and understood why they received it - to do something for the stand in for God. We are that way too. God's given us a lot - life, talents, resources, and time. Those are all nice things to have, but the real purpose behind having them is building God's Kingdom.

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    44 分
  • Matthew 25:1-13

    Matthew 25:1-13
    2026/11/04
    We seem to want to focus on the end. What will the end look like? Who wins? Who loses? Jesus and the other voices of the New Testament have a very different idea of what we should care about. Consistently, they tell us to live our lives staying focused on God, loving and serving others, and holding onto our faith. We want to think about the fireworks, but what we are called to in discipleship. Yes, we need to be alert, but stay alert by staying connected to God.

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    34 分
  • Matthew 23:1-12

    Matthew 23:1-12
    2026/10/27
    It is good to believe in God. God calls on us to live our beliefs out loud, to be a light in a dark world, and to let our actions be a meaningful point of invitation. For some folks, they connect with God in elaborate and formal rituals. For others, something more akin to modern concert creates the right environment. All of that can be good and faithful. All of that can be a show to show off how religious and cool that we are and not really point to God. It's not about style. It's about the substance. It's a question of why we do it.

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    45 分
  • TV Show Review: Death of the Pastor's Wife

    TV Show Review: Death of the Pastor's Wife
    2026/10/23

    (Content warning for intimate partner violence and self harm)


    Netflix's Death of the Pastor's Wife details a relationship between a pastor and his wife and ends in the death of the wife. It's a tale of abuse, weaponized religion, and a lack of protective structures. This story is an extreme example of something that keeps happening. An unhealthy Christian leaders leverages their institutional power for their own ends rather than God's. The institution doesn't have strength to resist. Someone gets deeply harmed. It doesn't have to be like this, but it does mean that we have to reckon with our deeply unhealthy relationship with authority.


    Resources:

    Porn and Sex Addiction - pornaddictsanonymous.org

    National Domestic Violence Hotline - Text 88788 or call 1-800-799-7233

    Houston Area Women's Center - https://hawc.org/

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  • Matthew 22:15-22

    Matthew 22:15-22
    2026/10/15
    If you're the Roman Emperor, you probably expect to dominate people's thoughts. They certainly dominated a huge percentage of the known world. A whole image of the Messiah grew up around said Messiah kicking the Romans out of the promised land. Yet, Jesus doesn't seem to care at all. Sure. Pay taxes to Caesar. Who care? God is doing something completely different - something much larger, more powerful, and long lasting. Petty earthly empires just don't rate.

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    41 分
  • Exodus 32:1-14

    Exodus 32:1-14
    2026/10/07
    God performed some truly amazing miracle: parting the Red Sea, unleashing plagues on Egypt, sending mana from Heaven, bringing forth water from a stone. Still, the people, when left alone for a few days, create an entire separate religion based on a powerless golden object. We can easily think that we are not like that. We know that's there's only one God. But, do we act like it? Or, do we act like there are a lot of competing priorities, of which God is on on the list?

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    42 分
  • Philippians 3:4b-14

    Philippians 3:4b-14
    2026/10/01
    Paul had all the right and proper religious credentials. He was born the right way. He studied the right way. He had all the right opinions. He followed the Law. If anyone had a right to boast, he did. Paul earned it. However, compared to his encounter with Christ and the power that held for him al of his hard earned correct check boxes were basically trash. They didn't matter because it turns out that Christ is the most important thing.

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    44 分
  • Jonah 3:10-4:11

    Jonah 3:10-4:11
    2026/09/17
    Jonah is hilarious. It's pure comedy with the deeply profound point. Jonah acts in ways that constantly subvert your expectation, while God subverts his. He wants a God that will zap Nineveh, or at least, if he's going to have to go declare some zapping, he wants there to be zapping. Instead, God shows mercy and grace in light of their redemption.

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    41 分