Oil And Water Faiths, And Politics

About this episode

The episode explores the implications of treating biblical commands as optional and examines key moments from the Gospel of Luke.

A single Bible command can expose a whole culture’s excuses: “Be fertile and multiply.” We start there, not to argue statistics, but to ask a sharper spiritual question, what happens to our faith when we treat God’s plain words like optional suggestions, and why do we do it in the first place? We then walk through Luke 19, from the Triumphal Entry to Jesus weeping over Jerusalem and the moment he cleanses the temple. The line is unforgettable: God’s house is meant to be a house of prayer, ye...

People in this episode

Host: Jesse

Topics covered

• faith
• culture
• spirituality
• religion
• scripture
• politics

Keywords

• Bible
• faith
• spirituality
• Jesus
• Jerusalem
• Triumphal Entry
• cleansing the temple
• culture
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Bible

Places: Jerusalem

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