Episodes
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Sermon: The Slaughter of the Innocents
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Paul Axton Preaches - The story of Herod's lying guise of wanting to worship Jesus and his subsequent slaughter of the innocents calls upon us to consider the moral cost of the perpetual battle for power in which political leaders will put on the façade of religion and where the powerless and the poor are slaughtered for the powerful.
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
Sermon - The Inevitable Nature of Salvation - Slaves of Righteousness
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: Freedom does not mean that we are constrained by nothing so that true freedom arises in a vacuum. We are to be slaves of truth, slaves of righteousness, slaves of happiness. This is true freedom. Christ frees us from the slavery to death to slavery to righteousness and this accords with absolute freedom.
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Monday Sep 16, 2019
Sermon - Imitation
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: The basic negative emotions – shame, jealousy, envy – can be understood as arising with mimetic rivalry – desiring what the other desires; desiring life and wholeness and feeling its absence. With the faith of Abraham made complete and available in Christ, imitating his faith saves from blind sacrificial violence.
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Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Sermon - Is Sacrifice Necessary?
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: In Christ what sacrifice hides is now revealed. No longer can we claim that sacrifice and murder are perpetuated by God – as His murder and all murder “shall be charged against this generation” (Luke 11:51). All that would claim the necessity of His sacrifice perpetuate the lie that killed Him.
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Sermon - How a Word Can Save
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: The Word of Christ can save as it displaces a word that kills around which we would center ourselves.
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Sermon - Delivered from the Delusion of Evangelicalism and Politics
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: Evangelicalism reproduces forms of idolatrous religion because it is of the same mold. We are no longer deceived and we can name this idol.
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Aug 24, 2019
Sermon - A Place for Deconstruction
Saturday Aug 24, 2019
Saturday Aug 24, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: Religion and thought is world preserving in comparison to Christianity which is world deconstructing. The revolution we are called to be part of is world deconstruction.
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Aug 17, 2019
Sermon - Christian Racism?
Saturday Aug 17, 2019
Saturday Aug 17, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: The election of Donald Trump and evangelical support for Trump is a living proof that white supremacy is alive and well, not in spite of, but because of evangelical Christians. Is a faith that requires oppression and exclusion, which explicitly tolerates and promotes white supremacy, “Christianity"? Isn’t this, as Douglas would have it, “the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels?”
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Sermon - The Foundation of Ethics
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: We live in a time in which ethics has been separated out from the Christian story so that people do not hesitate to embrace the ethic of the culture rather than the ethic of love. – keeping the foreigners at bay, putting children in cages, making America Great Again at the expense of Christian ethics.
The question arises as to the ground of ethics and especially Christian ethics. Is our ethics grounded in love? And what does this mean?
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Music: Bensound
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Sermon - Naming the Idol of Capitalism Through the Koinonia
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Paul Axton preaches: The dividing wall of hostility between Jew and Gentile is broken down in Christ, and the removal of this barrier is, for Paul, the archetype of salvation. Money shared by Gentiles and accepted by Jews is the token of its accomplishment.
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Music: Bensound