Gospel in a Year: Recent Episodes
Alex Denley
The gospels are awesome. My name is Alex Denley and I have a lot to say about the gospels. New episodes every day at 3pm eastern. Enjoy!
One of my favorite images for the Pharisees. Also, does Jesus turn over all the Food Laws of the Old Law? The Canaanite women comes to Jesus for a healing but gets called a dog. Why does Jesus insult her like this?
In Matthew 15 the Pharisees confront Jesus about washing hands. Jesus confronts them about honoring Father and Mother, but it's hard to parse what he means. Isaiah 27-29 hold the clue for the story, destruction is coming!
The story of the rich young man is one the most difficult in the Gospels. Christ calls the young man to give away his possessions to be perfect, but he goes away grieving. Does Jesus then condemn wealth? Jesus says that it is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Is Christ calling for class warfare?
This is one of my favorites! How the parable of mustard seed in Matthew 13 has enormous importance for the gospel message. Jesus casts out a demon from a boy in Matthew 17 and tells the apostles to have faith as a mustard seed. But why? In Mark 11, Christ uses the image of having faith to cast mountains into the sea. How the mustard seed provides the answer. Also, quotations from Psalm 48, Isaiah 2, and Daniel 2.
David kills Uriah the Hittite and takes his wife Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 12. How Nathan uses a parable to have David condemn himself and his actions. Christ uses the parables likewise to condemn unfaithful Israel.
Part 1 of 2. Why does Jesus switch to parables in Matthew 13? How the opposition of the Pharisees to the mission of Christ provides the answer.
Part 3 of 3. The Son of Man judges the nations and separates them into sheep and goats in Matthew 25. How are they distinguished? How they treated the Christians is the answer. Social salvation of the Church vs Individual salvation.
This is Part 2 of 3. Daniel's prophecies are immense in their prophetic scope. How there is a timetable set out to predict the coming of the son of man and how the four empires will be overcome by the Saints of the Most High.
This episode is part 1 of 3. Caiaphas the High Priest tears his priestly garment when Christ declares he is the Son of Man in Matthew 26. Why does he take this title so seriously? Daniel 7 and 9 hold the answer. Prepare yourself for an intense two part episode
Why does Jesus call Peter Simon son of Jonah in Matthew 16 when in John 21 Peter is called Simon son of John? How the book of Jonah might provide the answer...
Matthew 5 is staggering in its internalization and intensification of the Law. How being in the Spirit and being a Son of the Father makes it happen.
The Beatitudes are intense and demanding. Being blessed while insulted and persecuted? How life in the Spirit and the Kingdom provides the answer.
Jesus takes the Pharisees head on in Matthew 12 when they confront him about plucking grain on the Sabbath. With a five combo punch, Jesus says he is greater than David, the priests, the Temple, the sacrifices, and that he is the Lord of the Sabbath.
In Matthew 1, Joseph resolves to divorce Mary quietly. But why exactly? Why I think holding that Joseph was suspicious of Mary for adultery is not a tenable interpretation.
What better way to prove a point than tell the entire story of salvation history. How there's WAY more to the Good Samaritan than at first glance.
Why in the world would the apostles leave everything based on one pun? Why fishers of men is a really big deal (Jeremiah 16).
Greatest born of women, but least in the kingdom is greater than him? In this intro to John the Baptist, we'll tackle why Elijah has reappeared in this greatest of the prophets. (Malachi 1-4!)
The Pharisee try to trap Jesus in Matthew 19... But how? How John the Baptist's beheading gives a clue. Also, the Christian vision of the indissolubility of marriage.
Oh this is a good one. Why I think the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16 is describing the ACTUAL Lazarus's life story which is found in John 11. Enjoy!
Nathaniel goes from super doubt to super faith in a short time in John 1. What happened? Isaiah 11 and Zecheriah 3-4 might give the solution.
It's a start! Welcome to the Gospel in a Year series. What is the big picture of revelation? What is the importance of the Incarnation? Where is this series going?