This is the weekly podcast of Legend Community Church, in Cincinnati, OH
The next wall we’re looking at is one that only “priests” get in. We’re to talk about the purity lines - their origin, the good of them, and how we have taken it a step in the wrong direction
The second courtyard that people experienced in Herod’s temple was the court of the women - a point past where women couldn’t go in their worship of God. We find in Jesus a breaking down of these kinds of barriers, as he brings women into his full community and full worship - and so the call goes out to us to build our church in the same way. How can we ensure that our community reflects the community of God in a fuller way?
The apostle Paul was asked to give up everything he had known and built when he was confronted by God on the road to Damascus. When called upon, can we go through the same process, and be part of a new thing God is doing in our own time?
Hopefully by now we have seen that our believe in God and in how real we believe the divine is, will be the measure of our faith, hope, and love. And many times it will call us into the unknown.
If faith is something that God gives to us in individual measure, then hope is something we actually work to develop. What can we do to make more hope in our lives, in the face of a world that simply doesn't have any.
The next island we are exploring in our venture into our soul is hope. What does hope look like uncharted? What would our lives be like if we lived bathed in a life of hope?
It's easy to get to a point where we lack faith - in both the big things and the mundane things, the world is beating us down as we go along. Jesus' answer for us where we can't believe is to come to him, and to have our faith increased, and to see how much he can do with just a little bit.
If Paul's assertion that Faith, Hope and Love are all that we have left, what does it mean to have faith? What should our faith be in? Jesus gives us a surprising answer, and an answer that changes how we interact with the rest of the world.
So many stories of Jesus get lost in translation. Although we are talking about forgiveness, maybe we will see it in a different light after the story.
Who picked up the check when Jesus and his crew (the actual greek word is "posse") sat down and ate? Who bankrolled these people roaming through Galilee? It was women, and some very interesting ones at that. This mothers day come hear how liberating and different Jesus' kingdom was from that of Herods.
