Synopsis
Straight talk on all topics religious or secular. Interesting and relevant issues that matter. If you are easily offended, welcome.
Episodes
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The Sermon on the Mount 26: The Beatitudes
22/05/2022 Duration: 26minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 25: The Beatitudes
15/05/2022 Duration: 28minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 24: The Beatitudes
08/05/2022 Duration: 23minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 23: The Beatitudes
01/05/2022 Duration: 33minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 22: The Beatitudes
24/04/2022 Duration: 35minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 21: The Beatitudes
17/04/2022 Duration: 37minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The 2022 Easter Resurrection Gospel Rant
12/04/2022 Duration: 20minEvery year we take a short hiatus from our regularly scheduled podcasts (Gospel Rant and The Forgiving Path) to focus on what the death and resurrection of Jesus really mean for us today. What difference does it make to real people living in an increasingly frightening and violent world?What Jesus did should leave us open-mouthed--with a lack of words. No one else loves us anywhere near that much. We don't love ourselves that much. Such a disproportionate loving will be to a certain degree uncomfortable and unnerving for such undeserving objects of that loving. In fact, the closer we get --by the Holy Spirit's power-- to actually experience even a little of the height, width, length and depth of the adoring gaze of Jesus, the louder that critical inner voice in our head testifies that it is dangerous to believe it as true. This is the normal human inner struggle for we very imperfect, shame-prone, and often unloveable Jesus followers--never more so than during the Easter season when we tend to focus on the sh
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The Sermon on the Mount 20: The Beatitudes
10/04/2022 Duration: 30minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The 2022 Easter Gospel Rant
28/03/2022 Duration: 36minEvery year we take a short hiatus from our regularly scheduled podcasts (Gospel Rant and The Forgiving Path) to focus on what the death and resurrection of Jesus really mean for us today. What difference does it make to real people living in an increasingly frightening and violent world?What Jesus did should leave us open-mouthed--with a lack of words. No one else loves us anywhere near that much. We don't love ourselves that much. Such a disproportionate loving will be to a certain degree uncomfortable and unnerving for such undeserving objects of that loving. In fact, the closer we get --by the Holy Spirit's power-- to actually experience even a little of the height, width, length and depth of the adoring gaze of Jesus, the louder that critical inner voice in our head testifies that it is dangerous to believe it as true. This is the normal human inner struggle for we very imperfect, shame-prone, and often unloveable Jesus followers--never more so than during the Easter season when we tend to focus on the sh
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The Sermon on the Mount 19: The Beatitudes
27/03/2022 Duration: 25minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 18: The Beatitudes
20/03/2022 Duration: 35minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 17: The Beatitudes
13/03/2022 Duration: 40minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 16: The Beatitudes
06/03/2022 Duration: 48minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 15: The Beatitudes
27/02/2022 Duration: 48minDr Bill is taking us on an informative and provocative journey through the Sermon on the Mount. It is the capstone of the entire gospel message of Jesus. If we don’t understand what Jesus is saying and means to say, it will affect our experience of Him and His Spirit. We think that your life will be changed as you wrestle with us on this path.About it, Frederick Bruner writes, “I think something actually happens to listening people when Jesus’ Beatitudes are passed on to them…The Beatitudes are concentrated Gospel…The person for whom the experience of impoverishment is a spiritual crisis, who groans in his or her spirit under the poverty, who is on the way down and who cries out—to this person Jesus announces, “Look up! I am here, taking your part, and the Kingdom I bring is especially for you!” (160)The Sermon on the Mount is the core foundation for all the rest of Jesus’ gospel. The Beatitudes (the Blessed Bes) are the cornerstone for the entire Sermon on the Mount, and the first beatitude (5:3) is the pinn
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The Sermon on the Mount 14: The Calling of the Disciples
20/02/2022 Duration: 40minThere are two passages that have challenged and shaped the passion and calling of Gospel App Ministries--and of course The Gospel Rant. They are Eph 3:14-21, where we learn of the "secret working" of the Holy Spirit in our inner-being, and the Sermon on the Mount-- Jesus' marching orders to his disciples. Both sections are oozing with his power. Our expectations are that as we jump in the deep end, we will be exposed to his creative power--all of us who come to that hillside, hold up empty needy hands and who ask for his power to change. Join us? Help us get the word out. The SOM is all about igniting new individual revolutions of Kingdom-coming each time someone listens and hears the words of our pursuing rescuer.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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The Sermon on the Mount 13: The Calling of the Disciples
13/02/2022 Duration: 41minThis ain't your parent's Sunday School class. There are two passages that have challenged and shaped the passion and calling of Gospel App Ministries--and of course The Gospel Rant. They are Eph 3:14-21, where we learn of the "secret working" of the Holy Spirit in our inner-being, and the Sermon on the Mount-- Jesus' marching orders to his disciples. Both sections are oozing with his power. Our expectations are that as we jump in the deep end, we will be exposed to his creative power--all of us who come to that hillside, hold up empty needy hands and who ask for his power to change. Join us? Help us get the word out. The SOM is all about igniting new individual revolutions of Kingdom-coming each time someone listens and hears the words of our pursuing rescuer.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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The Sermon on the Mount 12: The Calling of the Disciples
06/02/2022 Duration: 41minThis ain't your parent's Sunday School class. There are two passages that have challenged and shaped the passion and calling of Gospel App Ministries--and of course The Gospel Rant. They are Eph 3:14-21, where we learn of the "secret working" of the Holy Spirit in our inner-being, and the Sermon on the Mount-- Jesus' marching orders to his disciples. Both sections are oozing with his power. Our expectations are that as we jump in the deep end, we will be exposed to his creative power--all of us who come to that hillside, hold up empty needy hands and who ask for his power to change. Join us? Help us get the word out. The SOM is all about igniting new individual revolutions of Kingdom-coming each time someone listens and hears the words of our pursuing rescuer.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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The Sermon on the Mount 11: The Temptation of Jesus
30/01/2022 Duration: 17minThis ain't your parent's Sunday School class. There are two passages that have challenged and shaped the passion and calling of Gospel App Ministries--and of course The Gospel Rant. They are Eph 3:14-21, where we learn of the "secret working" of the Holy Spirit in our inner-being, and the Sermon on the Mount-- Jesus' marching orders to his disciples. Both sections are oozing with his power. Our expectations are that as we jump in the deep end, we will be exposed to his creative power--all of us who come to that hillside, hold up empty needy hands and who ask for his power to change. Join us? Help us get the word out. The SOM is all about igniting new individual revolutions of Kingdom-coming each time someone listens and hears the words of our pursuing rescuer.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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The Sermon on the Mount 10: The Temptation of Jesus
23/01/2022 Duration: 38minThis ain't your parent's Sunday School class. There are two passages that have challenged and shaped the passion and calling of Gospel App Ministries--and of course The Gospel Rant. They are Eph 3:14-21, where we learn of the "secret working" of the Holy Spirit in our inner-being, and the Sermon on the Mount-- Jesus' marching orders to his disciples. Both sections are oozing with his power. Our expectations are that as we jump in the deep end, we will be exposed to his creative power--all of us who come to that hillside, hold up empty needy hands and who ask for his power to change. Join us? Help us get the word out. The SOM is all about igniting new individual revolutions of Kingdom-coming each time someone listens and hears the words of our pursuing rescuer.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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The Sermon on the Mount 9: The Temptation of Jesus
16/01/2022 Duration: 37minThis ain't your parent's Sunday School class. There are two passages that have challenged and shaped the passion and calling of Gospel App Ministries--and of course The Gospel Rant. They are Eph 3:14-21, where we learn of the "secret working" of the Holy Spirit in our inner-being, and the Sermon on the Mount-- Jesus' marching orders to his disciples. Both sections are oozing with his power. Our expectations are that as we jump in the deep end, we will be exposed to his creative power--all of us who come to that hillside, hold up empty needy hands and who ask for his power to change. Join us? Help us get the word out. The SOM is all about igniting new individual revolutions of Kingdom-coming each time someone listens and hears the words of our pursuing rescuer.Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.