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In a world in which “you can’t always get what you want,” whether it’s justice, abundance, equality, or a decent political candidate, how do we continue to place our hope in God? Why should we place our hope in God? Haggai 1:15b-2:9 In the midst of grave disappointment God says, “Don’t give up on me… Read more about Living in Hope (on the Brink of an Election) #LectioCast

Sometimes the chaos of the world compels us to call on God to set all things right. Sometimes the chaos of the world compels us to delight in God’s presence in the midst of hardship. Can we take hold of both? Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 A cry for justice in a time of uncertainty. And a… Read more about The Contemplative Practice of Faithfulness to God with Corinna Guerrero #LectioCast

In order for shame to be undone, our whole system of judgment must be turned on its head. God honors those whom the world would shame. But are we really ready to hear it? The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector might push us to our limits. Joel 2:23-32 A holistic picture of… Read more about Leaving Shame, Finding Righteousness #LectioCast

What is the Bible and what are we supposed to do with it? What does knowing God mean, and how does scripture help? How will we know when we are seeing an accurate representation of God? These are the questions the Lectionary guides us through this week. 2 Timothy 3:14–4:5 Scripture is inspired by God—for… Read more about Scripture, Law, and Knowing God #LectioCast

How do we live as people who are not in charge? How do we live among a people who are not like us, how do we respond to life’s calamities, how do we respond to life’s blessings? What do our responses show us about what kind of people we are and how we do or… Read more about Finding Life, Thanking God #LectioCast

A series of challenging passages invite us to image what sort of hope we have for the “life” that God promises us in Christ. The passages this week are: Luke 17:5-10 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Lamentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26 Psalm 137 Daniel Kirk is a writer, speaker, and blogger who lives in San Francisco, CA. He is… Read more about Whips of Hope #LectioCast

Tim Conder joins the LectioCast again, bringing his wisdom as a community organizer and pastor to texts calling us to account for how we look to God, how we deal with our money, how we love our neighbor. 1 Timothy 6:6-19 Where pseudo-Paul comes in sounding a whole lot like Jesus, challenging us with warnings… Read more about Collaborating with Divine Generosity with Tim Conder #LectioCast

Tim Conder joins the LectioCast to talk about lament, finding our role in the biblical stories, and understanding how Jesus confronts and overthrows the oppressive power structures of the world. Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 The lament we need to embrace if we want to celebrate the comedy of the gospel. The right answer does not silent the… Read more about Finding Gospel Comedy in a Tragically Broken World with Tim Conder #LectioCast

This bonus edition was recorded before a live audience at the 2016 Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC. Michael and Daniel sit down to talk about how Christians should read the Old Testament. Do we take on board the NT authors’ view of things, that Jesus as Messiah is the interpretive key to the… Read more about Bonus Edition: What Difference Does Jesus Make for How We Read the Old Testament? with Michael Kimpan #LectioCast

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Anti-creation. And it’s all the fault of God’s faithless people. Talk about terrifying. Psalm 14 Here we face the question: what does it mean to consume God’s people? Slave labor? Prison industrial complex? It might be that we say “there is no God” in ways that we’d be surprised about. 1 Timothy… Read more about From Anti-Creation to Heavenly Party #LectioCast

Listen to how Jim responds to being put on the spot with this one: Does God change? And it only gets better from there! Jeremiah 18:1-11 The God who can change, and who can change our futures. Here is the potter who can start over with the malformed lump. Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 When God knows… Read more about Does God Change? with Jim Kast-Keat #LectioCast

Divine hospitality is put on display in God’s great acts of salvation. And God wants God’s people to reflect that lavish hospitality to one another and to expect that God’s own desire is to continue lavishing such abundance on God’s people in the present. Jeremiah 2:4-13 Strong words from God when Israel does not live… Read more about Hospitality and the Fruit of Your Lips with Jim Kast-Keat #LectioCast

This week we get a picture painted in four different shades of divine deliverance. Luke 13:10-17 A loosing that confronts us with our desire to guard sacred space and time. And a story that reminds us that praise must always be grounded in experience. Jeremiah 1:4-10 Jeremiah is set aside from the time he was… Read more about Deliverance & Praise #LectioCast

God has hopes for creation that include a flourishing of justice for all. The summons and the warning both point toward God being on the side of those who need the world’s abundance to overflow to them and embrace them. Isaiah 5:1-7 An encapsulation of God’s hope for a beautiful, abundant place for everyone and… Read more about Faithfulness Justice with Kimberly Knight #LectioCast

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Worship in the courts versus justice in the community. Surprise: sacrifice doesn’t give the people the purification they’re after. Maybe our religiosity itself is the evil God despises. Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23 The city that God abandons in Isaiah is the city the people praise in Psalm 50. Here’s an invitation to wrestle… Read more about The Secular as Barometer of Sacred Fidelity with Sean Gladding #LectioCast

Hosea 11:1-11 A story of a deeply conflicted God: a God who has to discipline, but a God who has treated Israel with tender lovingkindness in its history—that sounds a note of hope for the future. God is the one who always longs to get God’s people out of Egypt—and Egypt out of God’s people.… Read more about Slavery and Food, Sex and Money with Sean Gladding #LectioCast

This week the lectionary hovers around the beauty—and necessity!—of God’s forgiveness. Mercy triumphs over judgment, and demands that we become a different kind of people as well. Hosea 1:2-10 A favorite Christian praise song illustrates the stark judgment of God and also, in the end, the triumph of mercy. Psalm 85 A song the echoes… Read more about Mercy Triumphs over Judgment #LectioCast

Colossians 1:15-28 A hymn to the cosmic Christ. Perhaps the most important thing to get about the Christian story: you are the image of God. Who God is making us is not defined by our sin, failure, or who we are not. Luke 10:38-42 Mary and Martha, distraction and presence. Are we ready to be… Read more about God is Not Ashamed—of Us with Rev. Sarah Heath #LectioCast

Luke 10:25-37 The well-known parable of the Good Samaritan wants to challenge our assumptions about who is worthy of our love. The challenge for us might be owning up to the ways in which we have decided to direct our love to some and not to others. Colossians 1:1-14 Paul celebrates a faith that does… Read more about True Love #LectioCast

2 Kings 5:1-14 – Naaman the Syrian discovers that the power of God does not run in the channels carved by the political and military powers of the world. Servants and messengers upend his expectations and demonstrate that God’s power is often found in the places we are least inclined to look for it. Psalm 30 … Read more about Reconfiguring our Politics for the Fourth of July #LectioCast

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 When Elisha takes the mantle from Elijah. This pattern runs deep in the biblical story, including with Jesus and his followers. Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 Another psalm to raise the question, How on earth could there be any Christian culture in which lament is not a regular part of what we do,… Read more about Getting Intimate with God #LectioCast

1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a A classic burnout passage: at the moment of greatest achievement, Elijah is ready for it to all be over. God meets it with compassionate provision. In fact, God seems to be feeding Elijah every time we turn around—it all starts to sound like the Exodus. And in the end, the… Read more about What Are You Doing Here? #LectioCast

The question Jesus asks Simon, Do you see this woman?, becomes a probe for us as well: do we see ourselves, and do we see the people around us. Do we embrace whom God has embraced? Do we recognize our own failed attempts to make the people of God after our own image? Luke 7:36-8:3… Read more about Do You See? with Bryan Berghoef #LectioCast

This week we see a cluster of stories that show God making the impossible possible. Whether it’s life out of death or a transformation of a violent aggressor into a vessel of self-giving love, God has the power to create and renew and rejuvenate. 1 Kings 17:8-16, (17-24) The places and ways that God works… Read more about God Making the Impossible Possible with Bryan Berghoef #LectioCast

What does God have to do in order to be recognized as God by the nations? What do we need to do to be the kind of people who can make God’s name known? Who do we need to be if we are going to receive the nations into our communities? 1 Kings 18:20-21, (22-29),… Read more about God’s Glory Among the Nations #LectioCast

“Tradition is at once a passing on and a betrayal.” John 16:12-15 “Revelation is progressive.” Ok. But how do we know God’s revelation when we hear it? Looking for community and listening for the Jesus story. Romans 5:1-5 The Spirit empowers the recapitulation of Jesus’s story. But how do we proclaim the Jesus story without… Read more about Heeding the Spirit, Finding the Trinity with Broderick Greer #LectioCast

The Spirit of God is a life-giver in the midst of chaos, one who works chaos in our lives so that we are forced to reckon with the fact that it’s God who is our life-giver. There is comfort and life from the hand of God. It’s the same comfort and life and parental care… Read more about Life Out of Chaos with Jonathan Martin #LectioCast

In a world where people enact laws, run for office, vote, and protest as people of faith, how do we know when we are in the right? How do we know the Christian story when we see it? This week’s passages give us some pointers. They invite us to be the people who are entrusting… Read more about Trusting Jesus with Our Lives with Jonathan Martin #LectioCast

The story of God is repeatedly a story of coming down: God’s glory coming down to shine on people’s faces, God the Father and the Son coming down to dwell with God’s people, and heavenly Jerusalem coming down to the earth. It’s our past, present, and future. Acts 16:9-15 A Macedonian call to the margins—outside… Read more about The Downward Movement of the Gospel with Jonathan Martin #LectioCast

Morgan drops the money quote this week: “God’s song is big enough that there is a part for everyone.” This may have something to do with the big reveal from last week:What makes Christians distinct? This is a fantastic week of conversation about what identifies us as the people of God. Acts 11:1-18 The Cornelius… Read more about The breadth of God’s song #LectioCast

The resurrected Jesus stands as an agent of mercy and care—not keeping us from times of trouble, but walking with us through them. The slaughtered lamb upends conventional understandings of what God’s victory means while summoning us to listen. Acts 9:36-43 The way of mercy is embodied both as power from the Lord and in… Read more about There Will Be Valleys, But Christ is With Us #LectioCast

Easter is about the glory of the resurrection, but that only happens by way of the cross. Acts 9:1-20 Does Jesus ask this question of us: Why are you persecuting me? When we hurt other people we are persecuting our savior. Salvation is not just about heaven on the other side of death, it’s about… Read more about Doing Easter Right with Morgan Guyton #LectioCast

Acts 5:27-32 Copping just the right attitude—what’s needed for civil disobedience. Speaking truth to authority and walking in costly commitment to God. Psalm 150 The definitive Scriptural proof text in favor of the worship band! Revelation 1:4-8 A kaleidoscope of imagery describing both Christ and God. The future of God is God’s arrival for… Read more about Peace, Spirit, Forgiveness, Grace (That’ll Preach) with Micky ScottBey Jones #LectioCast

Isaiah 65:17-25 “New creation” means that God is up to a whole lot more than saving our souls. There is a process God is engaged in that we get to participate in. Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 This story that we so quickly associate with Jesus is a source of comfort and vision for oppressed people. The… Read more about When God Says, “I Don’t Think So” to the Powers of the World #LectioCast

What on earth is the Lectionary trying to do lead us into as we go through Holy Week? Tripp Hudgins, an ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Theological Union breaks it down for us. He leads us into an understanding of this week as the center of the church’s life, and invites us to see… Read more about Holy Week Special with Tripp Hudgins #LectioCast

Isaiah 50:4-9a The prophet models the cost of faithfulness to God, a pattern Jesus fulfills in his own faithful suffering. We learn what it means to be a good teacher—starting with listening and waking up. Following God means that people don’t get to act as judge of what is disgraceful or who is worthy of… Read more about Liturgy of the Passion w/ Micky ScottBey Jones

With Scott MacDougall back on the podcast we explore various dimensions of our embodied spirituality. The great things that God does for God’s people promise to be visible, tangible, and recognizable as great even to those to who do not recognize our God as their own. Lent is our time to set aside some goods… Read more about Embodied Spirituality with Scott MacDougall #LectioCast

Hitting the halfway point in our Lenten journey, we find ourselves confronted with the wonder of God’s work of new creation and the extraordinary gift of forgiveness on which it’s based. We are invited to consider the question of whether we are willing to both receive and embody the reconciling, unifying forgiveness that God uses… Read more about Freedom, Forgiveness, and New Creation with Scott MacDougall #LectioCast

It’s a cross-over podcast explosion! Homebrewed Christianity + LectioCast = zesty nerdiness! In the CLOBBERCAST we tackle all the clobber passages some Christians use against the LGBTQ members of the church. Not only do we end up discussing the pastoral consequences and personal tensions connected to the larger conversation, but Rev. Mixon and Daniel share… Read more about The Clobbercast: Sexuality, the Bible, and Ministry #LectioCast #NerdOut

Scott MacDougall joins us and provides a beautiful overview of how the rhythm of Lent leads us into reality that the life we live is often lived in a period of fallowness and death and decay—all the while we hope for resurrection life on the other side. Isaiah 55:1-9 The invitation to come to the… Read more about Hunger, Thirst, and Provision with Scott MacDougall #Lectiocast #Lent

A migrant people are promised their land, and Jesus’ own migration promises to end in death. This week’s Lectionary texts take place in the gritty places where divine deliverance is needed. Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Warning: Daniel downer debunks a favorite interpretation of God passing through slaughtered birds. But the gift of the land creates its… Read more about God’s Faithfulness and Our Own with Aric Clark #LectioCast

We kick off Lent this week with some reflections on Lenten practices. And we see how entering into Lent after Transfiguration Sunday forces us to leave the glory of the mountain in favor of the road to Jerusalem. Deuteronomy 26:1-11 The offering of the fruits of the land is a seal and celebration of the… Read more about Lenten Fasting in the Midst of Plenty with Aric Clark #LectioCast

The holiness of God comes down to be in, with, and among the people. And Jesus subverts our understanding of the power of the profane. These are a series of stories about what happens when God shows that the place for glowy glory is not just up in heaven, but down here among us as… Read more about When Holiness Comes Down with Aric Clark #LectioCast

Cindy Wang Brandt joins Daniel again, drawing our conversation into broader spheres of consideration than we might have found otherwise. She reminds us of the importance of children—how this is astounding in the ancient context and a witness to God’s power. We walk through Psalm 71 and hear of a salvation that spans generations and… Read more about Who Matters? with Cindy Wang Brandt #LectioCast

For the third Sunday after Epiphany we have the appearance of Jesus at the Synagogue of Nazareth. We get a glimpse of Jesus’ mission through his reading of Isaiah. A social gospel manifesto. The Spirit who inspired Jesus then comes to us as it makes us one with Christ—and forces us to ask how we… Read more about The Social Gospel and the Present Christ #LectioCast

It’s the Second Sunday After Epiphany and we are joined by Cindy Wag Brandt for some LectioCast fun! Isaiah 62:1-5 Celebration. Praise. Delight. We’re familiar with all these—but are we ready to see them as God’s own posture toward God’s people? (Also, Daniel rides his hobby horse about God sharing God’s awesome stuff with God’s people.)… Read more about God’s Celebrations with Cindy Wang Brandt #LectioCast

Eric Barreto wraps up his tour of duty by helping usher us into Epiphany. Isaiah 43:1-7 A HUGE REVEAL! The deepest vocational longing of Daniel’s heart is laid bare! Also, there is intimate language of God’s care for God’s beloved children, maybe an anticipation of the baptism scene itself. Psalm 29 attempts to depict the… Read more about God’s Beloved Children with Eric Barreto #LectioCast

Eric Barreto is back to help us round off our Christmas episodes. We catch a vision of God creating a unified people in Christ, and Eric calls us to more faithfully interweave our understandings of heaven and earth. Jeremiah 31:7-14 In a diffuse world of turmoil, Jeremiah promises unity as God gathers people together. The… Read more about The Dynamic God Who Creates One People with Eric Barreto #LectioCast

Eric Barreto leads off by inviting us to embrace the fact that we always read in community. Everyone’s reading is a gift and value for the church. We see characters all around the edges of the stories and society finding their place right at the middle of God’s work. 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26 Hannah gives… Read more about It’s Christmas! #LectioCast

Margaret Aymer Oget joins for the final installment of our Advent series. Our wide-ranging discussion ties together texts, the character of God, first advent, and second Advent. We remember what it’s like when God breaks through in the midst of the sorrow and brokenness to upend the powers the oppose God’s shalom. Micah 5:2-5a We… Read more about When God Breaks Through #LectioCast w/ @mayog