Monthly Archives: September 2025

The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 4

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

In this episode we see Judas in the grip of “not God.” That’s Jesus’s response to Judas’s question. Jesus has said to him, “He has you now.” “Who?” said Judas. “Not God.” Judas is happy Jesus called him to be … Continue reading →

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Texas Ten Commandments – a Little More

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

One of the new laws in the state of Texas mandates the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. You walk into a classroom and you see a poster that looks like this: Several interpretive questions come … Continue reading →

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Hauerwas vs. Glass Buildings

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We continued our discussion of Stanley Hauerwas’s essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community.” We picked up discovering his preference for brick buildings over glass buildings. Sure, he’s from a family of brick layers and he’s using … Continue reading →

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Hauerwas Lays Brick

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Stanley Hauerwas came from a family of bricklayers. It’s natural then, that as he looks for a craft to analogize to discipleship, he settles on bricklaying OUR DISCUSSION of this section of his essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as … Continue reading →

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The Popularity of Manichaeism

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Though you’ve likely never heard of Mani, Manichaeism or a Manichaean view of the world is still very popular. When Manichaeism looks at the world they see an absolute distinction between good and evil. There is no middle ground, nothing … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 3

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We’re still in Holy Week, racing toward the cross. Jesus knows it. Sanhedrin leaders are plotting for it. The Romans are uneasy. The disciples are confused. Yet in the midst of everything happening this episode had many laugh out loud … Continue reading →

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Jesus vs the gods

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

I just finished a sermon series on Jesus vs the gods. The “gods” I referred to in the messages were names from the ancient world: Greco-Roman names plus one, Mammon, from the Semitic world. Those their names aren’t as much … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 2

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Season 5 depicts the beginning of Passion Week. It’s framed by teaching of Jesus from the Upper Room Discourse in the Gospel of John with bits from Luke 22. The sharpest bit from Luke 22 is v.36. In the NIV … Continue reading →

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A non-Hauerwasian Interlude

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Last week we looked at this paragraph in Stanley Hauerwas’s essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community.” For example, one of the great problems facing liberal and conservative churches alike is that their membership has been schooled … Continue reading →

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Hauerwas – “What Do You Mean ‘We’ Kemosabe?”

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

The essay we’ve been looking at, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community,” was written with a particular audience in mind. He writes, In this respect it is interesting to note how we—that is, those of us in … Continue reading →

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