This week BibleWorm reads Luke 13:1-9 and 31-35, which includes Jesus’s discussion of the causes of suffering, the parable of the fig tree, and Jesus’s lament over the city of Jerusalem. We wrestle with the popular theology that bad things happen to the worst sinners and with Jesus’s apparent counterclaim that all of us, in fact, are sinners who deserve punishment. We ponder Jesus’s parable of the fig tree, which offers a model for nurturing rather than threatening people into repentance. And we encounter Jesus’s tender lament over Jerusalem, the city he wishes to embrace, but which is so enthralled with its own power that it cannot receive his prophetic voice.
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)
Episode 351The Poor Will Always Be with You (John 12:1-8)
Episode 350 The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:7-15)
Episode 349 The Eye of the Needle (Luke 4:16-21 and 18:18-30)
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