This week Amy and Bobby read 1 Kings 5:1-6 13-18 and 8:1-13, the story of the Temple’s construction. We think a lot about the messy intermingling of self-interest and service to God or to the good, in Solomon’s time and today, and we appreciate that while the text doesn’t comment on it, it doesn’t try to hide it, either. We see the need to be suspicious about the way that religion can be manipulated to gain political power. And we sit with the almost amusing juxtaposition of an infinite God, who dwells in a cloud, who travels the desert, coming to inhabit this incredibly grand, seemingly permanent, and deeply human structure of cedar. It is a slightly awkward but sort of sweet meeting place for humans and the divine.
Episode 440 Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10:1-17 and 34-48)
Episode 439 The Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20)
Episode 438 The Resurrection (Matthew 28:1-10)
Episode 437 Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-17)
Episode 436 The Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46)
Episode 435 Celebrating 100,000 Downloads SPECIAL EPISODE (Genesis 2:4b-25)
Episode 434The Parable of the Bridesmaids (Matthew 25:1-13)
Episode 433 The Parable of the Wedding Banquet (Matthew 22:1-14)
Episode 432 The Laborers in the Vineyard (Matthew20:1-16)
Episode 431 Accountability and Forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-35)
Episode 430 SPECIAL EPISODE Who is the Greatest? (Matthew 18:1-14)
Episode 429 The Transfiguration (Matthew 16:24-17:8)
Episode 428 Parables of the Kingdom (Matthew 13:24-43)
Episode 427 Do Not Judge (Matthew 7:1-14, 24-29)
Episode 426 Do Not Worry about Tomorrow (Matthew 6:25-34)
Episode 425 REPLAY The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:7-15)
Episode 424 The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-20)
Episode 423 Temptation in the Wilderness (Matthew 4:1-17)
Episode 422 The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:1-17)
Episode 421 The Magi and King Herod (Matthew 2:1-23)
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