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Scripture Unscripted

by Rev. Elizabeth Moseley and Rev. Phil Dieke

We're just two normal people talking in a normal way about scripture. We happen to be clergy, but don't hold that against us.Reading and reflecting on Christian sacred texts is easier than you think, and you don't have to do it alone.So turn on, be with, join in.Learn more: https://www.hpumconline.org/scripture-unscripted

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  1. Mark 2:1-17 Forgiveness, Irony, and Holistic Healing

    I (Phil) have recently started editing and producing this podcast and failed to post the correct edit of episode 152. My apologies for posting this episode twice. Hope you enjoy Mark chapter 2: This week we go in depth on another passage in the Gospel According to Mark. As we continue to read...

  2. Mark 2:1-17 Forgiveness, Irony, and Holistic Healing

    This week we go in depth on another passage in the Gospel According to Mark. As we continue to read through this Gospel at Highland Park UMC, we will provide you with commentary, insights, and perspectives you may not get by reading the text on your own. This week we talk the power of community,...

  3. Mark 1:1-15 An Introduction to the Gospel According to Mark

    This week we discuss the introduction to the Gospel According to Mark. We talk titles for Jesus, the author's intent or "agenda" (not a bad word), and some fun word plays that take place in the text. We chose to discuss Mark because at Highland Park UMC, we are beginning a church wide reading of...

  4. Matthew 7:15-23 Labor Day and an introspective look at fruit

    Matthew 7:15-23 15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree...

  5. Rebroadcast: Ecclesasties 1:18

    A look back at some of our favorite series we've recorded. This is series deals with Wisdom Literature that pushes beyond conventional wisdom, and it happens to be Phil's favorite book of the Bible

  6. Rebroadcast: Job 1-2

    Rebroadcast: Job 1-2 A look back at some of the favorite series we've recorded. This series deals with topics such as theodicy or why bad things happen to good people. Enjoy!

  7. Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Journey: How One Ending Leads to a New Beginnings

    Deuteronomy 34 34 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, 3 the...

  8. Matthew 2:13-23 Journey: Forced

    Matthew 2:13-23 The Escape to Egypt 13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." 14 So he got up, took the…

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  9. Acts 9:1-23 Journey: Interrupted

    Acts 9:1-23 Saul's Conversion 9 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take...

  10. Mark 6:30-34 Journey: Rest and Compassion

    Mark 6:30-34 30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." 32 So they went...

  11. Genesis 12:1-9 Journey: The Unknown

    Genesis 12:1-9 12 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you…

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  12. Colossians 3:12-17 through the lens of the Enneagram and relationships

    Colossians 3:12-17 12 As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14...

  13. 1 Kings 19:9-12 through the lens of Enneagram 7's

    1 Kings 19:9-12 9 At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" 10 He answered, "I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down…

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  14. John 14:1-12 through the lens of Enneagram 6's

    John 14:1-12 14 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take...

  15. Ecclesiastes 1:12-18, 8:14-17 through the lens of Enneagram 5's

    Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 12 I, the Teacher, when king over Israel in Jerusalem, 13 applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with. 14 I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and...

  16. Isaiah 61:1-3 through the lens of Enneagram 4's

    Isaiah 61:1-3 61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of...

  17. Luke 19:1-10 through the lens of Enneagram 3's

    Luke 19:1-10 19 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore…

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  18. John 15:12-17 through the lens of Enneagram 2's

    John 15:12-17 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know...

  19. Romans 8:1-6, 14-17 through the lens of Enneagram 1's

    Romans 8:1-6, 14-17 8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in…

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  20. Exodus 6:10-13 and 6:28-7:2 through the lens of Enneagram 9's

    Exodus 6:10-13 and 6:28-7:2 10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, 11 "Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land." 12 But Moses spoke to the Lord, "The Israelites have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?"13 Thus the Lord…

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  21. John 18:1-11 through the lens of Enneagram 8's

    John 18:1-11 18 After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. 3 So Judas...

  22. 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 through the lens of Suzanne Stabile, Enneagram Master

    Special Enneagram talk with Susan Stabile

  23. Mark 16:1-8

    Mark 16:1-8 16 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 They had been saying to one another, "Who will…

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  24. Luke 19:28-40

    Luke 19:28-40 28 After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, 30 saying, "Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a…

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  25. Luke 12:22-34

    Luke 12:22-34 22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither…

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  26. Luke 12:13-21

    Luke 12:13-21 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me." 14 But he said to him, "Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?" 15 And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life...

  27. Luke 10:38-42

    Luke 10:38-42 38 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. 40 But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him…

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  28. Luke 10:25-37

    Luke 10:25-37 25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 26 He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" 27 He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and…

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  29. Mark 4:35-41

    Mark 4:35-41 35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the…

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  30. Esther 4:1-17

    Esther 4 4 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry; 2 he went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 In...

  31. Philippians 4:4-9

    Philippians 4:4-9 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God,...

  32. Genesis 2:18-25

    Genesis 2:18-25 18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner." 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and...

  33. Judges 16:4-17

    Judges 16:4-17 4 After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, "Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order to subdue...

  34. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

    1 Corinthians 13 13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am...

  35. Special Edition with Craig Detweiler

    Enjoy this special edition! You can find out more about Craig Detweiler here

  36. Mark 8:31-37

    Mark 8:31-37 31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33…

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  37. Genesis 29: 16 - 30:2

    Genesis 29:16-30:2 16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah's eyes were lovely, and Rachel was graceful and beautiful. 18 Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." 19…

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  38. 2 Kings 5:1-16

    2 Kings 5:1-16 5 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. 2 Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl…

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  39. Exodus 20:1-6

    Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath,...

  40. Numbers 6:22-27

    The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the Israelites: You shall say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. So…

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  41. John 3:16-21

    "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not...

  42. Luke 2:8-20

    Luke 2:8-20 8 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see—I am...

  43. John 16:25-33

    John 16:25-33 25 "I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly of the Father. 26 On that day you will ask in my name. I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; 27 for the…

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  44. Isaiah 61:1-4

    Isaiah 61:1-4 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Good News of Deliverance 61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the...

  45. Luke 17:11-19

    Luke 17:11-19 11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, 13 they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" 14 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show...

  46. Mark 7:1-8, 9-23

    Mark 7:1-8 7 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash…

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  47. Acts 11:1-18

    Acts 11:1-18 11 Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, 3 saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?" 4 Then Peter began to...

  48. Matthew 15:21-28

    Matthew 15:21-28 21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon." 23 But he did not answer her at all. And his...

  49. Jonah 3:1-4:4

    Jonah 3:1-4:4 3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 "Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you." 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days'...

  50. Romans 14:1-23

    Romans 14 14 Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions. 2 Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables. 3 Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat; for God...

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We're just two normal people talking in a normal way about scripture. We happen to be clergy, but don't hold that against us.Reading and reflecting on Christian sacred texts is easier than you think, and you don't have to do it alone.So turn on, be with, join in.Learn more: https://www.hpumconline.org/scripture-unscripted

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