Podcast appearances and mentions of david p. gushee

Calvin Moore sits down with Dr. David P. Gushee to discuss his book, "After Evangelicalism."  Gushee's experience with evangelicalism Differentiation between ethics and Christian ethics What is Christian humanism?  What is religious identity and how is it constructed?  Rigidity vs. flexibility  Why is progressivism so short on providing people with answers?    

Rev. Dr. David Gushee wraps up our Christmas series with "Christmas is Christ Supreme," where he offers a parting word on his last Sunday as our interim pastor. Scripture Reference: Colossians 1:15-20

Dr. David Gushee finishes our series on John's Jesus by reflecting on the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in John 11. What implications does this have for you and me? Listen to find out. Scripture Reference: "When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.' Jesus said to her, 'Your brother will rise again.'" (John 11:17-23) Read the rest here.

Dr. David Gushee shares with us from John 8:31-59 and looks at the discussion between Jesus and the Pharisees concerning "fathers" and "identity." What does this conversation actually have to do with us? What does it imply for us in today's world? Scripture Reference: Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not have a permanent place in the household; the son has a place there forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you look for an opportunity to kill me, because there is no place in you for my word. I declare what I have seen in the Father’s presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the Father.” (John 8:34-38). Read the rest of the passage here.

Dr. David Gushee shares with us from John 7:53-8:11 about the story of the woman caught in adultery. But what about the man who was with her? What is it about the Old Testament laws that seem to favor men over women? How is Jesus different? Dr. Gushee gives us a thought-provoking glimpse. Scripture Reference: Then each of them went home, while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, sir." And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”

Dr. David Gushee continues to share with us on "John's Jesus" by reflecting on John 5:1-18 and the story of the man who had been crippled for 14,000 days. Do you know it? Scripture Reference: Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaderssaid to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. -- John 5:1-18

Dr. David Gushee continues our new sermon series on "John's Jesus" by reflecting on John 2:13-25 and the story of Jesus cleansing the temple. Scripture Reference: "The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, 'Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!' His disciples remembered that it was written, 'Zeal for your house will consume me.' The Jews then said to him, 'What sign can you show us for doing this?' Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' The Jews then said, 'This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?' But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. "When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone." -- John 2:13-25

Dr. David Gushee kicks off our new sermon series on "John's Jesus" by reflecting on John 1:1-14 and John 2:1-11. He looks at not only the prologue of John, but the miracle at the wedding in Cana.

After one year of serving as the Interim Pastor at FBC Decatur, Dr. David Gushee shares with us where we are as a church, how we've grown, and what we have to look forward to. Scripture Reference: "Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.'" -- Matthew 28:16-20

Dr. Gushee finishes up our sermon series on the Parables of Jesus by sharing from Luke 18:1-8. Scripture: Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” -- Luke 18:1-8

Rev. Dr. David Gushee continues our sermon series on the Parables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. This one's from Luke 15:11-32, the story of the Prodigal Son. Scripture Reference: Luke 15:11-32 "Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’” -- Luke 15:31-32

Devita Parnell shares with us from Luke 14:15-24, continuing our series on Parables from the Gospel of Luke. Scripture Reference: "Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.'" – Luke 14:23

Rev. Dr. David Gushee continues our sermon series on the Parables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. This one's from Luke 12:35-48. Scripture: "'Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks.'" (Luke 12:35-36).

Rev. Dr. David Gushee continues our sermon series on the Parables of Jesus as they are found in the Gospel of Luke. This one's from Luke 12:13-21. Scripture: "And he said to them, 'Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions...'" (Luke 12:15).

Rev. Dr. David Gushee continues our new sermon series on the Parables of Jesus as they are found in the Gospel of Luke. This one's about probably the most famous parable of all: the Good Samaritan. Scripture References: Luke 10:25-37 "'Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?' He said, 'The one who showed him mercy.' Jesus said to him, 'Go and do likewise.'" -- Luke 10:36-37

Rev. Dr. David Gushee kicks off our new sermon series on the Parables of Jesus as they are found in the Gospel of Luke. This one's about the Parable of the Sower. Scripture References: Luke 8:4-15 "When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: 'A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of moisture. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.' As he said this, he called out, 'Let anyone with ears to hear listen!'" -- Luke 8:4-8

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the final part of our sermon series on Genesis 1-11. Scripture References: Genesis 8:20-9:17: "God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.'" -- Genesis 9:1-3

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the sixth part of our sermon series on Genesis 1-11 (this one's about the flood). Scripture References: Genesis 6:5-8, 7:11-24 "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.” — Genesis 6:5-8

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the fifth part of our sermon series on Genesis 1-11. Scripture Reference: Genesis 4:1-16 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.” — Genesis 4:7

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the fourth part of a new sermon series on Genesis 1-11. Scripture References: Genesis 3:8-24 "By the sweat of your face     you shall eat bread until you return to the ground,     for out of it you were taken; you are dust,     and to dust you shall return.” —Genesis 3:19

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the third part of a new sermon series on Genesis 1-11. Scripture References: Genesis 3:1-7 "The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;’ but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’ But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ ” — Genesis 3:2-5

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the second part of a new sermon series on Genesis 1-11. Scripture References: Genesis 2:18-25 “And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man[c] this one was taken.’ ” — Genesis 2:22-23

Rev. Dr. David Gushee leads us in the first part of a new sermon series on Genesis 1-11. Scripture References: Genesis 1:1–2:3 “Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” —Genesis 1:26

Pastor David Gushee shares with us in the final part of our series on the Holy Spirit. Scripture Reference: Acts 2:1-13 "When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability." (Acts 2:1-13)

Pastor David Gushee shares with us in part six of our 7-part series on the Holy Spirit. Scripture References: John 14:25-26, Acts 10:34-48 "While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, ‘Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?’ So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days." — Acts 10:44-48

Pastor David Gushee shares with us in part five of our 7-part series on the Holy Spirit. Scripture References: Romans 12:3-8, 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 "For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, o we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another." — Romans 12:3-5

Pastor David Gushee shares with us in part three of our 7-part series on the Holy Spirit. Scripture References: Galatians 5:16-26 "By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit." — Galatians 5:22-25

Who is the Holy Spirit? Why don't Baptists tackle this theological gray area for many Christians? Rev. Dr. David Gushee tackles this very involved "answer" in the first of a 7-part series on the Holy Spirit. Scripture References: Isaiah 63:-7-14 John 3:1-10 Romans 8:9-11

The final installment of our Lenten Preaching Series on "Meanings of the Cross," delivered by Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee on Easter Sunday.

Dr. David P. Gushee is a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. His research interests focus on the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ and the Christian theological-ethical tradition, together with its contemporary implications for Christian discipleship and public witness. In this talk he speaks on his personal journey toward a change of his own heart and mind in becoming an advocate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church, and his recent book ‘Changing Our Mind' and the impact that it is having. 30 July 2015

Dr. David P. Gushee is a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. His research interests focus on the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ and the Christian theological-ethical tradition, together with its contemporary implications for Christian discipleship and public witness. In this talk he speaks on his personal journey toward a change of his own heart and mind in becoming an advocate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church, and his recent book ‘Changing Our Mind' and the impact that it is having. 30 July 2015

Dr. David P. Gushee is a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. His research interests focus on the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ and the Christian theological-ethical tradition, together with its contemporary implications for Christian discipleship and public witness. In this talk he speaks on his personal journey toward a change of his own heart and mind in becoming an advocate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church, and his recent book ‘Changing Our Mind’ and the impact that it is having. 30 July 2015