Episodes
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Episode 69: Gospel of Mark Part 14--The Fifth Controversy--The Withered Hand
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
What's lawful on the Sabbath? To restore a man to the community and to service or to plot a political assassination?
And I want to say a word about looters and rioters vs peaceful protesters and activists and what they have in common with people who adopt fake Hebrew names on social media.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Well, the Pharisees finally decide to get in Yeshua's face for realsies--no more beating around the bush. The debate is over whether it is more important for a poor man to legalistically keep the Sabbath, which fasting for lack of food, or to avail himself of the provision in Torah to eat his fill and celebrate the Sabbath. On one hand, the Pharisees say not to work, on the other hand, they say no fasting is allowed. What will Yeshua do with this catch-22 and how will He begin to set Himself apart as the Greater David, and the Pharisees who oppose Him as the modern-day equivalents of Saul and Doeg the evil shepherd?
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
The third controversy dialogue! This time, the question is, "why aren't your disciples fasting like the disciples of John and the Pharisees?" Yeshua/Jesus, however, doesn't bother to answer that question. Instead, He asks a better question and answers that one instead--in a very confusing way. This can be a troublesome passage of Scripture because the mini-parable of the wineskin and the torn cloak can be a bit confusing but hopefully, you will come out of this much clearer on the concept that Yeshua was striving to communicate.
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
What happens when Yeshua/Jesus has the audacity to eat with a Roman collaborator and his sinner friends? The controversies are heating up and, this time, the scribes of the Pharisees are the ones with a beef against the Messiah's choice of eating companions.
The book I mentioned this week is Craig L Blomberg's Contagious Holiness, highly recommended