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Bruce Reyes-Chow joins the LectioCast, and God tries to convince him to rejoice. He resists… but only for a while. Zephaniah 3:14-20 Bruce doesn’t want us to get too crazy about celebration without taking stock of where it comes from. Daniel draws attention to the beautiful peculiar. And then, what does it mean to be… Read more about Rejoicing as We Wait #LectioCast w/ @breyeschow

Micha Boyett joins the LectioCast to talk through the business of waiting on the Lord for Advent week 2. We uncover how the biblical texts expect a beautified people waiting for a beautiful and celebrated arrival of God. Malachi 3:1-4 Micha draws our attention to how much time is spent focusing on the messenger rather… Read more about A Beautified, Expectant People #LectioCast w/ Micha Boyett

Daniel was joined by his beloved brother, Alex Kirk, who helped shine all kinds of preaching light on passages about the reign of God’s faithful king. 2 Samuel 23:1-7 Daniel wants us to incorporate people into worship—his pet heresy. Alex directs the conversation toward how God names us and identifies us as God’s own. Daniel… Read more about Reign of David, Reign of Christ #LectioCast

Carol Howard Merritt joined Daniel to kick off the new Lectionary year with some reflections on faithful waiting. Jeremiah 33:14-16 Carol reflects on biblical anticipations of the future that should expel our fear in hope of safety. Daniel rides his human-representatives-of-God hobby horse. Psalm 25:1-10 Carol runs the ideas of trust and waiting through the… Read more about Waiting for Safety #LectioCast w/ Carol Howard Merritt

Daniel was joined by folks from around the world for the second ever Periscope party recording session. Unfortunately, he doesn’t speak Turkish. That liability aside, the readings for the penultimate Sunday of the church year took us into the liminal space between those actions of God we have seen and the acts of God we… Read more about Waiting in Hope #LectioCast

In an episode in which Daniel is stood up by his co-host, the Periscope faithful help guide the discussion toward helpful insights and useful thoughts for preaching. The episode finds its thread in the recurring role of God as one who transforms the shame and weight of death of the world into glory and freedom… Read more about The God Who Upends the World #LectioCast

It is time to prepare your sermon. There are assigned Bible passages. What do you do? #LectioCast Hebrews 9:11-14 The human Jesus enters the Tabernacle not made with hands and is himself the sacrifice in God’s presence (not on the cross). Mark 12:28-34 This story is weird because things go so well for the scribe.… Read more about this is the week for feasting #LectioCast

This is the week where things that were off kilter get better and God is celebrated for it: Job gets his stuff back, the psalmist is answered, the suffering obedient Son is exalted eternally to God’s side, and Jesus gets a follower with sight enough to follow him to the cross. Scott Jones makes his… Read more about Mind = Blown #LectioCast

Mark 10:35-45 A funny story, showing us what it looks like to deny that Jesus has to die on the cross. There is glory to be had, but how are we to have it? And, you get to find out what Daniel’s favorite verse is in the whole Bible! Job 38:1-7, (34-41) Wrestling with the… Read more about Glory: Christ’s, God’s, and Ours #LectioCast

E. Scott Jones joins the program, and he loves to preach on Job! This is a good thing, inasmuch as Job 23, Ps 22, and Heb 4 are all Job-like stories. And it might just be that the failure of Mark’s rich man is a failure to embrace the Job narrative himself. Job 23 Spoiler… Read more about The surprising posture of confessing God #LectioCast

Proper 22, October 4, 2015 Job 1:1; 2:1-10; Psalm 26; Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16 Job 1, 2 God drawing Satan’s attention to a good guy might make one a wee bit nervous. But fortunately for everyone jrdk has a Mountain Goats song to help get you through it. Psalm 26 “The prayer for those… Read more about Love of Mountain Goats & Children #LectioCast

Proper 21, September 27, 2015: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22, Psalm 124, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:38-50 These passages challenge us to live in the world in such a way that God is with us, that God being with us matters, and that God in the world makes the world better than it could otherwise possibly be. In… Read more about Toward a Second Naïveté #LectioCast

We keep slogging through wisdom texts, passages that invite us to the daring work of embracing an economy that flips the way of the world on its head.Bo drops his great line again, week 2 out of 2: “Each person is a seat of the presence of God.” Mark 9: Daniel fills out Jesus’ “son… Read more about Investing in God’s Way of Being in the World #LectioCast

Bo Sanders emerges from his doctoral exam prep cave to enliven and enlighten our study of the Lectionary Texts for Proper 19, Sept 13. He brings in a theme that will run through the next four weeks: “Everyone you meet a seat for the presence of God.” Across these texts we’re confronted with the likelihood… Read more about Finding Life by Listening #LectioCast

Danielle Shroyer wraps up her four-week stint by challenging us on privilege, empowerment, and trust while working through the texts for Proper 18. A theme emerges about entrusting ourselves to God’s economy of abundance, with its call for lives of generosity. James 2: Favoritism. James’s warning about favoritism gets contextualized into a world of (white)… Read more about Entrusting Ourselves to Abundance and Generosity #LectioCast

What if the Song of Songs is actually the least scandalous depiction of erotic love in the whole Bible? The “Dude’s Got Sex Appeal” edition of LectioCast entertains that possibility. Let that sink in for a minute. If you can’t take it, don’t worry: Daniel has a praise song that shows definitively that the whole… Read more about Dude’s Got Sex Appeal! #LectioCast

Danielle Shroyer brings her keen eye for the boundary-breaking God to a series of texts that show us how difficult God is to contain. John 6 continues to challenge us, we try to turn our offense back around on ourselves, and we reflect on the significance of the Temple for a post-Temple people. John 6… Read more about Beware the Boundary Breaking God #LectioCast

Danielle Shroyer joins Daniel Kirk to bring some much needed pastoral insight to the running theme of wisdom. Solomon gets it—for wanting what Adam and Eve grasped after in the Garden. Where do we find the wisdom to get over our aversion to naming God as worthy of praise? Can we find the path of… Read more about Wisdom: Solomon Got It, We Need It #LectioCast

Tripp Fuller joins Daniel Kirk to talk about John’s exclusive Jesus, the hard work of becoming truth tellers, and extending compassion to our heroes and ourselves. John 6 Tripp and Daniel get all deep about naming Jesus wrongly even when we have our facts straight. Tripp breaks down how Jesus as Logos of God opens… Read more about From the Word of God to the Words of our Mouths #LectioCast

A contest. Another contest. And the Lectionary Commentary for Proper 13, August 2, 2015. Tripp Fuller joins the party yet again. We end up threading together a conversation about neighbor love: how can focus on God get in the way? how can sermons on unity and gifts facilitate it rather than unraveling it? how does… Read more about Neighbor Hate, Neighbor Love, Neighbor Jesus #LectioCast

Tripp Fuller returns to the podcast and drops his best breakdown of Anselm’s ontological argument. But not before we see stories that draw us to Jesus and draw us to the grace of God. This is good, because in order to understand Anselm’s God, we have to have been drawn already. John 6 What does… Read more about Receiving Grace In Order To Know the Unknowable #LectioCast

JRDK refuses to enable our Marcionite brethren who just want to talk about Jesus. But in the end, slogging through the First Testament text is worth it. 2 Samuel 7 God is identified with the story of the people, but God is going to be in charge of how it plays out. Tripp tells the… Read more about Kingship and the Identity of God

  Bo Sanders wraps up his first tour of duty on LectioCast with a four-point sermon on being God’s beloved children and a disclosure of something that only his therapist knew before. This week we see the arrival of all sorts of kings, from God to David to Jesus to us. Texts for the Week… Read more about Arrival of God, Arrival of the King #LectioCast

This week Bo Sanders returns to LectioCast as we explore the importance of the presence of God. God’s presence marks David as a successful king, it marks Jerusalem as a place of safety and where God can be met, it becomes the source of grace for Paul (and us) in troubled times, and it quietly… Read more about My Grace is Enough for You—So Forget About the Thorn Already! #LectioCast

LectioCast 6: 5th Sunday After Pentecost, June 28, 2015 Listen as Daniel restrains himself, only with greatest effort, from launching into a full-on 80s rap music demo. Bo Sanders joins again for conversation about how God’s economy transforms the economies of the world. Swords and armies, forgiveness in action, mannah from heaven, dangerous faith—these tell us about… Read more about Kin(g)dom as God in Synergy with the World #LectioCast

Lectionary Commentary for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Year B). Daniel talks with guest host Bo Sanders who drops four-point sermons about David and Goliath and reading the psalms. Daniel comes back with his own three pointer to cover 2 Cor 6, and Mark 4 gets them agreeing that God is dynamically involved in the… Read more about Goliath is Super Huge, and How We Tell Our Stories Really, Really Matters #LectioCast

June 14: Third Sunday After Pentecost Texts this week include: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13, Psalm 20, 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 (11-13) 14-17 & Mark 4:26-34 This is another bunch of texts that’s hard to hold together. 1 Sam is about David’s anointing. Note the place of God in the first paragraphs: sorry God made Saul king, God provides for God’s self… Read more about God Repents and So Can You! #LectioCast

It’s the LectioCast! Thanks for all the initial support. Daniel and I are thrilled at the initial response and can’t believe after just our 2nd episode we have been in the top 10 on iTunes and in Religion’s “New and Noteworthy” list. If you haven’t reviewed or subscribed the the show go ahead and do… Read more about Escaping God at Church and Blaspheming of the Holy Spirit #LectioCast

  It is time for Trinity Sunday! Tripp joins Daniel for a discussion of this coming Sunday’s lectionary texts. In the conversation you will discover just what Isaiah’s call story has to do with the Trinity, delve into the Biblical notion of ‘glory’ and explore the invitation to participate in the divine life. Daniel will give… Read more about Trinity Sunday & the Glory of God #LectioCast

Homebrewed Christianity is proud, pumped, thrilled and down right tickled to release the first episode of the new podcast stream. The LectioCast will be a weekly podcast that tackles the lectionary texts for the upcoming week. With the good Dr. Daniel Kirk leading the exegetical charge we are sure that the preachers, teachers, and small… Read more about Pentecost – the arrival of the Spirit and the #LectioCast