Paradox: Recent Episodes
Craig Hadley
Pastor Craig Hadley offers an introduction and overview to 1 Timothy.
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Pastor Craig Hadley takes a look at his lifelong relationship with the Bible in an attempt to answer the question, "If the Bible is filled with contradictions, then what value does it have for us today?"
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Pastor Craig Hadley offers a commentary on Lamentations 3, a surprising and authentic poem of hope.
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Pastor Craig Hadley offers an audio commentary on Lamentations 2.
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Pastor Craig Hadley discusses the first of five poems in the book of Lamentations.
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Pastor Craig Hadley takes a look at the story of Samson's Mother in Judges 13, and sees a lot of parallels between this ancient story and a recent movie.
Pastor Craig Hadley looks at Judges 19, one of the most tragic and gruesome stories in the entire Bible. This commentary looks at the ethics of masculinity and what happens when women's humanity is rejected.
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Pastor Craig Hadley offers an audio commentary on Judges 11, and looks closely at the tragic story of Jephthah's daughter and our promises to God.
Pastor Craig Hadley offers an audio commentary on Judges 9, the story of Abimelech and a Certain Woman with a millstone, and looks at the idea of heroes intersected with the ethics of violence.
Pastor Craig Hadley offers a commentary on Judges 4 and 5, the story of Jael, Deborah, Barak, and Sisera, and shares why he believes that Judges is a deceptively progressive book from the Bible.
Pastor Craig Hadley offers the final part of our Easter 2021 series with a close look at the resurrection. He asks the question, "What does the resurrection mean to me today?" which is a question that every Christian should be asking.
Pastor Craig offers a commentary on Holy Saturday, the day that Jesus Christ stayed in the Tomb. This is part of our Easter Series at Paradox, entitled, "Resurrection Weekend."
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Craig offers a commentary on Mark 15 as he looks at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He gave this sermon at Paradox Church in Redlands, CA on March 27, 2021.
Craig offers this commentary on Deuteronomy 23:1, Acts 8, and Isaiah 56. This sermon was given at Paradox Church on Saturday, March 20, 2021.
Craig gave this teaching on premarital sex, Deuteronomy 22, and what the church needs to do going forward on March 13, 2021.
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Pastor Craig Hadley offers a commentary on Deuteronomy 22:5, and discusses every verse in the Bible that speaks about transgender and non-binary identities.
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Pastor Craig offers commentary on Deuteronomy 15:12-15 while discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates' article "The Case for Reparations," progressive and regressive ethics, and what all of this has to do with us today.
Pastor Craig offers this commentary on Deuteronomy 15 and discusses why the cancellation of student debts today is rooted in the Biblical tradition.
Craig looks at The Shema, the most important prayer in Judaism, and how it challenges our notion of prayer in 2021 today.
Pastor Craig Hadley discusses Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ's parable of the tax-collector and the Pharisee in Luke 18.
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Pastor Craig Hadley offers this commentary on Deuteronomy 1-4 with a close look at the historical context of the setting, composition, and reading of this book. He discusses the Capitol being stormed on Wednesday, January 6, and talks about the best way to work against this insurrection.
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Pastor Craig discusses John 3:16, Christmas, fatherhood, boyhood, and the pandemic in this sermon.
Craig Hadley discusses 2 Chronicles 36 with a look at King Jehoiachin and the alternate endings of Chronicles and Kings.
This is an in-depth discussion about 2 Chronicles 34, God, King Josiah, the Prophetess Huldah, and a mysterious scroll found in the basement of the Temple.
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Craig discusses 2 Chronicles 28-32 and the story of King Ahaz, King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib and the siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE
Craig teaches on 2 Chronicles 1-9. Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, October 3, 2020.
Craig gave this teaching on 1 Chronicles 21:1 and 2 Samuel 24:1 on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at Paradox.
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, May 30, 2020 over Facebook and YouTube live.
Pastors Craig and Mandy sit down to talk about why "essential" is a bad label to assign to church.
Craig interviews Garrett Speyer about his six weeks he spent in New York City as an ICU nurse during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Craig gave this teaching from his living room at Paradox Church on Saturday, May 9, 2020.
Mandy Cordero, the Youth Pastor at Paradox, sits down with Craig Hadley to share her story, and how she came to work at Paradox.
Our Administrative Pastor, Adam Washington, walks through his career and shares what led him into pastoral ministry.
Craig calls his friend Kyle to talk about New York City in the midst of the COVID19 Pandemic.
Craig gave this teaching for Paradox Church from his living room on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
Adam, Craig, and Mandy answer the questions we didn't have time for during Paradox After Dark.
Adam asks Craig questions about his teaching, "The Divisive Nature of Miracles" on John 9.
Adam interviews Craig about his teaching "The Economic Ethics of Miracles," including questions from the congregation.
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, February 8, 2020.
This teaching is heavily influenced by Richard Rohr's writing about this miracle entitled, "Scarcity or Abundance?"
Adam answers questions about his sermon "Twice Toward Justice" that he gave at Paradox on Saturday, February 1, 2020.
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, January 25, 2020.
The story about Hippocrates and Artaxerxes can be found in the book "Hippocratic Lives and Legends" by Jody Rubin Pinault, published in 1992 (she also tells us that Plutarch recorded this story).
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, January 11, 2020.
This teaching is heavily influenced by the work of Richard Rohr.
We had 14 questions left over from Paradox Unscripted.
Pastor Adam asks Pastor Craig those 14 questions on this episode.
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, December 14, 2019.
This teaching is heavily influenced by the work of Rob Bell, particularly his sermon "An Introduction to Joy."
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, November 2, 2019. This teaching is heavily influenced by Rob Bell's work and an event Craig attended in 2016 called "Finding Your Groove with Rob Bell."
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, October 12, 2019.
For a reference on the name of God, please check out Richard Rohr's fantastic book "The Naked Now."
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, July 20, 2019.
Sources: Margaret M. Mitchell (New Revised Standard Edition Study Bible Commentary), Bart Ehrman (Forged), Karen Armstrong (St. Paul; The Apostle We Love to Hate).
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, July 13, 2019.
Sources: Forged by Bart Ehrman, NRSV Study Bible (commentaries by Margaret M. Mitchell), St. Paul, The Apostle We Love to Hate by Karen Armstrong, Making Sense of the Bible by Adam Hamilton.
Craig gave this teaching at Paradox on Saturday, June 15, 2019.
Featuring readings and reactions by Canda Lodge, Elissa Giang, Bev Ching, Judy Brauer, Erica Ariza, and Deidre Coutsoumpos.