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Dec 2024
Freeing Your Family for God
Friends, I always love preaching on the Feast of the Holy Family because I think the biblical message here is very surprising. We say the Bible is associated with family values, and indeed it is, but they're probably not the ones we would automatically think of. We see this in th ... Show More
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Mar 10
The Light of the World
Friends, on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, we hear the incomparably rich story of the man born blind, which has beguiled Christians up and down the centuries. We are meant to identify with this man: All of us are born into a world that has been infected by cruelty and violence and h ... Show More
15m 45s
Mar 3
Thirsting for God
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, we hear the story from John’s Gospel of the woman at the well—a kind of master class in evangelization. What is evangelization all about? It’s about telling starving people where to find bread; it’s about telling people dying of thirst where ... Show More
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Jan 2025
Hidden Wisdom or Heresy? The Enigma of the Gospel of Thomas
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Apr 2023
Messianic Checkpoint: The Gospel of John (2023)
You've made it to the first Messianic Checkpoint! Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to introduce the Gospel of John. They discuss the structure of this Gospel and what makes it so different from the other three Gospels. We learn that the Gospel of John doesn't just tell us what Jesus di ... Show More
21m 32s
Dec 2024
Is Jesus For Non-Christians, Too?
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Most Christians would likely agree that Jesus and the Gospels provide us with guidance for how we should be living our lives. People of non-Christian faith traditions, or those with no religious belief at all, might have a somewhat different response ... Show More
36m 32s
Mar 2024
Did Jesus Really Call Her a Dog?
One of the most uncomfortable scenes in the gospels is when a Canaanite woman follows Jesus, begging for his help. First, he ignores her. Then he insults her. Why? The story is actually a wonderful one, with great spiritual lessons that are especially useful as we begin Lent.
1h 28m
Feb 2025
Why Should We Think Mark Was the First Gospel?
Knowing when something was written helps to better understand answers to other questions - like why it was written, and how it relates to other texts from that time. Unfortunately, ancient authors rarely wrote the date at the top of the page when they started writing, which makes ... Show More
56m 11s
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Why Should We Think Luke and Acts Have the Same Author?
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Our Actions Reveal Who Jesus Is | Kwan Park
Wherever you go in this world, you can tell what people believe much more through the way they behave than the words they say. So what does that mean for a Community reshaped together by the resurrected Jesus? As Pastor Kwan brings our series in the book of Matthew to a close, he ... Show More
37m 36s
Oct 2024
What Are the Synoptic Gospels?
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Feb 2025
The Agrapha: The Lost Sayings Of Jesus?
In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan & Ryan explore the unwritten and lost sayings of Jesus know as the Agrapha (ἄγραφον) and whether or not they are the authentic words of Christ.
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In this episode, we will discuss:
• What Are The Argapha, Or Unwritten Wor ... Show More
1h 2m
Aug 2018
An Open-Minded Faith - Gospel of Matthew Part 17
<p>This episode addresses faith in a story about Jesus healing a blind man in Matthew Chapter 9. In the Gospels, the word “faith” and specifically "having faith and trust in Jesus" really has a specific meaning.</p>
<p>We see that different people have very different ex ... Show More
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Friends, why was the story of Jesus with the little children, versions of which appear in the three synoptic Gospels, so vividly remembered by the first Christians? I think they intuited that it got very close to the heart of Jesus’ teaching. The way Mark sets up his account of this story in our Gospel for this weekend is frankly funny, and it’s an example o ... Show More
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Start talking about the Gospels, and most people will have a rough idea of what you're talking about - a narrative account of Jesus' life.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Today, however, we throw all of that familiarity out of the window and ... Show More
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are widely understood to be a two-volume set, written by a single author.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Given that we've spoken before on Misquoting Jesus about how difficult it is to identif ... Show More
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">The phrase "synoptic gospels" is thrown around a lot in Biblical scholarship, but what does it mean, and why are they important?</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Are they as similar as people seem to think, and what do non-academics get wrong ... Show More
