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 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)
Episode 348 What Does the Lord Require of You? (Micah 6:6-15 and 7:1-7)
Episode 347 Economics and Holiness (Leviticus 19:9-18 and 33-37)
Episode 346 Biblical Faith and Debt Forgiveness (Deuteronomy 15:1-11 and 24:10-15)
Episode 345 Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21 and Philippians 4:4-7)
Episode 344 Living the Christ Hymn (Philippians 2:1-13)
Episode 343 May Your Love Overflow (Philippians 1:1-18a)
Episode 342 Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16-34)
Episode 341 Of Jailers and Slave Girls (Acts 16:16-40)
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