Episodes
Monday Mar 04, 2024
The Reconstitution of the Subject From Romans 7 to Romans 8
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Jeff, Jim, David, Brian, and Paul compare and contrast the Human Subject of chapter 7 and the reconstituted Subject of Romans chapter 8.
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Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Romans 7: The Split Within as the Sickness Unto Death
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Jim, Jeff, Brian, David, and Paul discuss Romans chapter 7 as providing a diagnosis of the human disease, in which the self is divided against itself. In Calvinism and justification theory this is presumed to be the normal Christian life, but this is Paul's picture of the human disease.
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
Does Baptism Make an Ontological Difference?
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
In the conclusion to our discussion of Romans 6, Matt, Jim, Brian, David and Paul discuss the question as to how to describe the difference in the Christian life. God's universal plan of salvation and the reality of evil create the question whether there is an ontological distinction with those in Christ.
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Saturday Feb 24, 2024
The Dialectic of the Law Displaced in Being Joined to the Body of Christ
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Jim, David, Brian, Matthew, Jonathan, Matt, and Paul discuss how the law functions as a deep grammar giving rise to the antinomies of a dialectic which functions as an end in itself. Romans 6 describes baptism as the cure to this dialectical antagonism by being joined to the body of Christ in baptism. Here the sign no longer floats free of the signified.
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Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Jeff, Matt, Brian, Jon, David, and Paul discuss Louis Martyn's depiction of the Galatian heresy as captivity to the elementary principles as this can be equated with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher, and how conversion pertains to mind transformation through deliverance from this cosmos through Christ as fundamental reason.
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Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Sermon: Exposing the Idol of Modernity
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Modernity and secularism in capitalism are made of the same stuff as Aaron's Golden Calf, captured in Paul's picture of the law as an idolatrous temptation, after Christ. The principalities and powers continue to reify that which has no substance and the Gospel exposes this idolatrous power.
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Monday Feb 12, 2024
The Reign of Death, Not Law, as the Primary Human Problem
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Matthew, Brian, Jon, Matt, Jeff, and Paul discuss how the false teacher's understanding has melded with the Augustinian misreading of Romans 5 to make law and sin the primary human problem, while in Paul's Gospel, the orientation to death is the cause of sin and the primary human problem.
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Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Sermon: Exposing the Secular as the Law of Sin and Death
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Treating the secular as a unique epoch in history runs the danger of reifying this reality as if it is a true description, when it is on a continuum with the age-old deception of the law of sin and death that has a grip on the human heart.
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Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Jim, Jeff, Brian, Matt, and Paul conclude their conversation about the false teacher, who embodies the human problem of reifying law and language, which is Paul's definition of sin and the psychoanalytic diagnosis of the human predicament.
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Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Sermon: Christ as Synthesis of the Fractured Image
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Antinomies, dualisms, alienation, and divide, are reflected in every realm of human thought from the psychological, the philosophical, gender relations, and even religion. Male/female, Plato/Aristotle, Spirit/flesh, sociology of religion/religious studies all represent a partial truth grounded in the lie of division and antagonism. Jesus Christ is the singular synthesis, bringing together that which cannot synthesize itself, thus he is healing, fulfilling and completing the fractured human image.
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