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 420 The Genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:1-17)
Episode 419 Christmas Eve Special Episode (Luke 2:1-20) REPLAY
Episode 418 Joseph’s Christmas Dream (Matthew 1:18-25)
Episode 417 SPECIAL EPISODE Biblical Women: Bathsheba (1 Kings 1)
Episode 416 Gentle Justice (Isaiah 42:1-9)
Episode 415 For a Time Such as This (Esther 4:1-17)
Episode 414 Wait for It Still (Habakkuk 1:1-7; 2:1-4; 3:3b-6, 17-19)
Episode 413 Swords into Plowshares (Isaiah 36:1-3, 13-20; 37:1-7; 2:1-4)
Episode 412 Micah’s Ideal Ruler (Micah 1:1-5; 5:2-5a; 6:6-8)
Episode 411 The Healing of Naaman (1 Kings 5:1-15)
Episode 410 SPECIAL EPISODE Biblical Women: Rahab (Joshua 2)
Episode 409 Solomon’s Wisdom (1 Kings 3:4-28)
Episode 408 Confronting David (2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-27; 12:1-9; and Psalm 51:1-9)
Episode 407 Retelling the Story (Joshua 24:1-18)
Episode 406 SPECIAL EPISODE Biblical Women: Tamar (Genesis 38:1-26)
Episode 405 Living the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19:1-8 and 21:1-21)
Episode 404 Crossing the Red Sea (Exodus 14:5-14, 21-29)
Episode 403 Joseph in Potiphar’s House (Genesis 39:1-23)
Episode 402 Go to Be a Blessing (Genesis 12:1-9)
Episode 401 From Destruction to Covenant (Genesis 6:5-22; 8:6-14; 9:8-17)
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