This week BibleWorm reads Matthew 16:24-17:8, the story of the transfiguration. We think about symbolic moments like this one, the ones that overflow with meaning, that fill your cup to overflowing, and how difficult it is for us humans to just co-exist with them without trying to grasp onto them somehow. We pull apart the different ways that the word life is used in this passage – preserving life as a focus on avoiding pain, vs preserving life as finding the strength to do what is real and godly even when it is hard … which it will be. And we wonder how we can live with a sense of urgency about the coming kingdom of God, even when the fulfillment seems to have been forestalled.
Episode 126: Mark 8:22-9:8 The Mount of Transfiguration
Episode 125 Mark 7:1-23 Controversy over Handwashing
Episode 124 Mark 6:1-29 Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Episode 123 Mark 5:21-43 Jesus Heals Two Women
Episode 122 Mark 5:1-20 Jesus Heals a Man Possessed by Unclean Spirits
Episode 121 Mark 4:1-34 Parables of the Kingdom
Episode 120 Mark 2:1-22 Community and Conflict
Episode 119 Mark 1:21-45 The Beginning of Jesus's Ministry
Episode 118 Mark 1:1-20 Baptism and Call
Episode 117 Luke 2 Christmas Eve SPECIAL EPISODE
Episode 116 Luke 1 The Birth of John the Baptist
Episode 115 Ezra 1 and 3 Rebuilding the Temple
Episode 114 Isaiah 40 Comfort My People
Episode 113 Jeremiah 33 Hope in a Time of Despair
Episode 112: 2 Kings 22-23 Josiah's Reform
Episode 111 Isaiah 5 and 11 How Does Your Vineyard Grow?
Episode 110 Hosea 11 God as Parent
Episode 109 1 Kings 18 Elijah and the Prophets of Baal
Episode 108 1 Kings 12 The Division of the Kingdom
Episode 107 2 Samuel 5-6 David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem
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