This week we read the story of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, as told in Acts 6 and 7. We observe the struggles of the early Christian church as it grows from a small and homogenous movement to a large community of both Judean and Hellenistic disciples. We discuss the apostles’ neglect of the Greek-speaking widows and the community’s efforts to care for its own. And we discuss the trial and stoning of Stephen, part legal proceeding and part lynching, as he challenges the practice of establishment religion among the Jews of Jerusalem.
Episode 549 FORGOTTEN BOOKS For Everything There Is a Time (Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 and 3:1-11) REPLAY
Episode 548 FORGOTTEN BOOKS Everything is Mere Breath (Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 and 8:16-9:10) REPLAY
Episode 547 CREATION CARE Re-Creating the World (Ezekiel 47:1-12)
Episode 546 CREATION CARE Covenant and Creation (Leviticus 26:3-32, 34-35, 40-45)
Episode 545 CREATION CARE Bless the Lord, O My Soul (Psalm 104)
Episode 544 CREATION CARE God's Stream Full of Water (Psalm 65)
Episode 543 CREATION CARE From the Whirlwind (Job 38:1-38)
Episode 542 CREATION CARE In the Beginning (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Episode 541 The Gifts of the Spirit (Acts 2:1-4 & 1 Corinthians 12:1-13)
Episode 540 The Resurrection of the Body (1 Corinthians 15:1-26 & 41-47)
Episode 539 The Greatest of These Is Love (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
Episode 538 Unity in the Cross (Acts 18:1-14 & 1 Corinthians 1:10-18)
Episode 537 The Church in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1-9 and 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10)
Episode 536 The Disciples' First Miracle (Acts 3:1-10)
Episode 535 Waiting for the Spirit (Acts 1:1-14)
Episode 534 Easter without Jesus (Mark 16:1-8)
Episode 533 SPECIAL EPISODE Good Friday (Mark 15:16-41) REPLAY
Episode 532 SPECIAL EPISODE The Last Supper (Mark 14:12-42)
Episode 531 The Triumphal Entry and the Anointing at Bethany (Mark 11:1-11 and 14:3-9)
Episode 530 The Markan Apocalypse (Mark 13:1-8, 24-38)
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