Crazy Faith Talk

Dec 10 2024 409 ep. 32 mins 41
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An engaging, comedic, serious, and hopefully interesting foray into the world of Christianity. Join the discussion...believer, atheist, or skeptic alike! Hosted by Pastor Erica, a Methodist, Pastor Sarah, a Lutheran, and Pastor Steve, who is also Lutheran, Crazy Faith Talk is an ecumenical experiment of cross conversation (pun intended).

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Episode 409: Hope in Exile, Part Two--Nativity Under Empire

Dec 10 2024 20 mins  
This Advent, colleagues in ministry Sarah, Natalie, Erica, and Steve are exploring the biblical theme of hope in times of exile as a way of better understanding what the coming of Christ meant for people in the first century, as well as for us today. In this episode we explore the meaning of the Empire's presence in and around the backdrop of the birth of Jesus, and how traumatic i

Episode 408: Hope in Exile, Part One

Dec 03 2024 25 mins  
Every year, Christians around the world sing the ancient words from “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” which continues, “…and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appear.” So what did exile mean in the Biblical story, and what does it mean for our hope this season? What did it mean for the birth of Jesus that his homeland was under foreign

Episode 407: Questions to Ask God, Part Four--Why the Long Wait?

Nov 26 2024 25 mins  
In this final episode of our series, "Questions We'd Like to Ask God," colleagues in ministry Erica, Sarah, Natalie, and Steve wrestle with the matter of two millennia Christians have been waiting for the coming of Christ in glory. Why has Jesus not come back yet? And is that a matter of the fixed timing of God's plan, or somehow is it up to human choices or actions? Is there anyth

Episode 406: Questions to Ask God, Part Three--Who Is God?

Nov 19 2024 37 mins  
For as long as human beings have been seeking the divine (which is probably pretty much from the beginning), we have been arguing about the right ways to talk about God, how to understand God, and how to identify God. Sometimes we argue with spoken debates or written theses (maybe posted on a door), and sometimes we have launched wars (we call "holy") in the name of getting God's i

Episode 405: Questions to Ask God, Part Two--What Breaks God's Heart?

Nov 12 2024 22 mins  
In this November's series, "Questions We Want to Ask God," colleagues in ministry Erica, Sarah, Steve, and Natalie are getting to lob out the BIG questions we still wrestle with. This time, the question is, "What (that human beings do) breaks God's heart the most?" And over the course of this conversation we'll explore what the Scriptures suggest matters most to God, and what it ev

Episode 404: Questions to Ask God, Part One: Free Will

Nov 05 2024 29 mins  
In a new series this November, Crazy Faith Talk is welcoming an additional voice around the table and posing questions we have always wanted to ask God. In addition to our regulars, Erica, Sarah, and Steve, we welcome Natalie, who is a seminary intern learning ministry in the congregational setting where Steve serves, and we're glad to have her around the microphone! In this episod

Episode 403: Discipleship as Apprenticeship, Part Five--Apprentices to Teachers

Oct 28 2024 31 mins  
In a sense, Jesus' disciples are meant to be forever learning: there is always deeper to go, and there are always new adventures on which Jesus invites us to accompany him. But at the same time, Jesus' disciples do move from being solely students to becoming teachers and leaders as well. In Matthew's Gospel, for example, there is a well-known scene after the resurrection in which J

Episode 402: Discipleship As Apprenticeship, Part Four—Obstacles

Oct 22 2024 20 mins  
If following Jesus were a short sprint on a clear track, it would be easy. But in reality, discipleship is a lifelong marathon on rough terrain, and it involves the ongoing challenges of dealing with setbacks, obstacles, and course corrections. How does Jesus help his disciples, both in the Gospels and today, to face the obstacles in our path as we follow him? Join us for this late

Episode 401: Discipleship as Apprenticeship, Part Three--Practices

Oct 15 2024 30 mins  
It's not just WHAT Jesus does, but HOW he does it. And it's not just about head-knowledge but training our hands and hearts to live out what we believe. As we continue this fall's series on Discipleship as Apprenticeship to Jesus, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve now look at how Jesus models for his disciples practices like prayer, fasting, and giving, and how he teaches us still to

Episode 400: Discipleship as Apprenticeship, Part Two

Oct 08 2024 25 mins  
In this, their 400th episode of Crazy Faith Talk, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve look at the central teachings of Jesus as the beginnings of our apprenticeship to him. We'll see how the parables of Jesus and teachings like the Sermon on the Mount are not merely "head knowledge" or trivia to be memorized for a test, but a whole new way of seeing the world and understanding our rela