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Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture

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Learning about God’s grace from Scripture & Passing that grace on to others.

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19:58

Rendering

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/09/08

We look at rendering of 3D wireframe images inside a computer into 2D, simulated 3D full color video. We draw an analogy of God rendering us from empty wireframes devoid of color and life into full color living human beings who have been forgiven. We consider Psalm 116, which notes God has rescued the Psalmist from Sheol or Hades, and which asks how the psalmist can render an appropriate act of thankfulness to God. Finally, ask what we can do today to render our thanks to God.

22:01

Yeshua, there's a pork in my shoe!

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/09/01

The title of this podcast comes from something my boy, who is 32, said when he was 3. We're going to look at the derivation of the name "Jesus", and learn some intriguing things about it. This will help us understand a parallel between the story of the conquest of Canaan with the story of Jesus. It will teach us something about language. It will also teach us something about what really matters on this Earth.

21:32

Faith on the Silk Road

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/08/25

For a millennia and a half, the Silk Road provided a vast avenue of exchange for trading commercial products, carrying on philosophical discussion and for the transmission of faith. We look at how this might have impacted the development of Christianity. We also look at the new Silk Road - the Internet, and we consider its positive and negative impacts on Christian faith.

20:01

The Gospel of the Holy Spirit

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/08/18

We look at the Book of Acts of the Apostles - which is very inappropriately named - and how it tells us of the incredible missionary journey of the Holy Spirit. We learn of the immensely deeper and inspiring sense that the earliest believers had of the Holy Spirit, compared to our modern notion. We see that we do not have to wait for Jesus to return, as the Holy Spirit is already alive, within us. We see just what the Holy Spirit can do to our lives.

22:16

The Grateful Dead

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/08/11

We look at the apocryphal book, the Book of Tobit. It is a wild tale in which a man marries a woman who has had seven previous bridegrooms die before the marriage was consumated, a man is blinded by bird crap, and an angel disguises himself as a man. It is also a tale that tells us just what it means to be a Christian. We will also look at how the Grateful Dead apparently named their band...

20:18

The truth about our creation myth

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/08/04

We look at the Genesis story of creation: many call it a useless myth, and say that we need to focus on the real, scientific way in which we came into existence. We see that there is tremendous truth in the Creation Story, and that in it we see the most critical facts about why we exist and what we are meant to do on this planet. We discover that the myth is truth.(THIS IS A REPOST. THE ORIGINAL SOUND FILE BECAME CORRUPTED.)

20:41

Corrupted in the place of honor

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/07/28

I once had a student in one of my university courses come to my office after not having done any work all semester. Without asking if anything was wrong, I launched into a professorial lecture about how he should have been doing what I told him to do if he wanted a decent grade, and no, I would not give him an incomplete. He would fail. He broke down sobbing - and I learned that something very bad was indeed wrong in his life. We look at the parable of the man who insists on sitting at the seat

20:40

A place of joy and regeneration

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/07/21

I once drove to Mexico with my half-Brazilian father. When we drove back over the border, he discovered that he had forgotten to take an ID with him - and of course, he looked like a Mexican. In this podcast, we look at the task of building our church today. We realize that we are judged in very superficial ways - as I was afraid my father would be. We are seen as ignorant and hurtful. They see our church as coming to an end, with no revival possible. But God has a much longer and deeper view

20:02

God's grace can protect

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/07/13

When I was in kindergarten I decided one day to hitchhike to school. I stood on the sidewalk with my thumb out. Quickly, someone did indeed pick me up. We look at God's grace and how it can protect us, both spiritually and physically. We consider the issue of what our role is in God being able to use his grace to keep us from harm and to limit evil in this world.

22:04

The wedding banquet that matters

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/07/07

I once spoke with a woman who was dying from heavily metastasized cancer. She was worried that she would miss her daughter's wedding. I talked to her about the wedding that really matters, the one that both she and her daughter would be at - the wedding from the parable Jesus told. In this parable, the wedding stands for the final judgement. We look at the way Christians need to be confident that they will get an invitation to this wedding and that they will be honored guests.

22:35

God's Grace: ultimate power

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/06/30

I had an aunt who owned a pet ocelot. One night, a man with a gun tried to rob her. That ocelot loved my aunt beyond anything in the world. The ocelot bit off the robber's forearm. God is that kind of protector for us. We do not have to earn that protection with good works. Our faith is enough to ensure that God will always be with us. We look at a couple of the letters of Paul to see just what God's grace - that unearned grace, given through faith alone - can do to transform us.

22:23

A Covenant of Grace

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/06/23

We look at one of the biggest complaints about the Bible: the brutal massacre of the Canaan people, ordered by God. We take a historical perspective on the Bible, when, by whom, and how it was written. We consider the Canaan story in this historical context. We also look at a buddy of mine who got shot by a farmer with a shotgun. Our goal is to figure out not just the reason for this violent story, but also who we, as Christians are today.

20:01

Allies and enemies?

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/06/16

We look at a major issue in our society today: the insistence that people are either our allies, that they completely buy into our priorities and stand side by side with us as soldiers - or they must be considered enemies. We consider a man whom I knew as a boy, a man who married a woman with 7 young children. This man did not live that way. He looked for the good in people. He looked to improve himself. He was a man of faith who walked in the Kingdom of God, and was not trapped in the Kingdom

20:09

The spurious story

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/06/09

We look at a story that was apparently inserted after the fact in the Gospel of John: the story of the adulterous woman. We discover that it is a very complex, multi-faceted story that requires great study. The Pharisees want to stone the woman to death. Jesus writes in the dirt and mysteriously, the Pharisees slither away. Why did they do this? What are the various explanations for this passage? Why should we be glad the story did make its way into the Gospel? And where did the story

20:01

The Lord holds us by the hand

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/06/02

When I was a young man working as a computer programmer in a subbasement office, I met a man who had been badly maimed by a grenade thrown in his tank in World War II. He gave me a perspective of God and our dependence on God that is reflected in a very unusual Psalm - number 37. This Psalm is very much in the Wisdom literature category. It tells us just how God deals with those who do good and those who do evil - and therefore how we should live each day.

20:34

He also created the worlds

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/05/26

The opening of Hebrews tells us about the difference between Old Testament revelation and the revelation of Jesus Christ. The Old Covenant was the ponderous War and Peace, but the New Covenant is the shortest of short stories - and one delivered not by a long series of human prophets, but by the Son of God himself. We look at what that means for us today, in terms of our urgency to live as faithful people. We consider practical things we can do to more fully live our faith today - to live a

19:58

Do not imitate evil

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/05/19

There is tremendous conflict in the Christian Church in the U.S. and in the world today. We look at a letter called 3 John, the shortest book in the New Testament, by number of words, and we get a glimpse of conflict in the very early Church. We see that even at the very beginning of the Church, conflict like we have today arose. In the letter, we see a man named Diotrephes who is apparently the source of conflict, a man who, because of his anger and his impatience, is imitating evil. We look at

20:30

The Way of Life and the Way of Death

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/05/12

The Didache is an Ancient Greek document that perhaps should have made its way into our Bible - but it didn't. It could have been written as early as the year 50 A.D., and it might have been source material for one or more Gospel. It was long lost - until it was rediscovered in the late 1800's. We look at its content: the Didache (the "Teaching") tells us about the Way of Life and the Way of Death, as well as how to organize and maintain a healthy church. It is tightly written and easy to read

22:01

Baptized with the Holy Spirit

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/05/05

We return to the Book of Acts, and to a man who I spoke with, a man who was about to find out if he had cancer. We look at a very powerful theme in the Book, but something that is often overlooked: our ability, if we accept the gift, to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. We see what it did, not just to the Apostles and to Paul, but to ordinary volunteers who worked with the Great Evangelists. We learn how our lives can be radically changed.

20:20

Putting teeth in the Two Great Commandments

Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture ·

2024/04/28

We study the Torah - and consider the often talked about issue of it teaming with ridiculous laws, such as not being allowed to wear clothing made of two different materials, like linen and wool. In truth, we discover some very demanding - but valuable - laws, ones that push us way beyond the norms of our nation. We see what it means to put some real teeth in the two great commandments of Jesus, to love God with all our hearts, minds, and souls, and to love our neighbor accordingly.

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