Category Archives: Jesus

The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 8

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

The highlight of this episode – maybe the highlight of the season for me – was the depiction of Jesus calling Thaddeus. As things go, reading the Bible alone, we know next to nothing about Thaddeus. He’s been much more … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 7

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Though each episode this season has begun with a bit of conversation from the Last Supper/Upper Room Discourse, in this and the next episode we’re finally getting into the set up and beginning of that last night itself. For all … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 6

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

So far Season 5 has begun each episode with vignettes from Jesus’ time with the disciples in the Upper Room. We see them seated at tables. We hear Jesus teaching, some from the synoptic gospels, quite a bit from John’s … Continue reading →

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The Chosen, Season 5 Episode 5

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Just a few brief comments on this episode we watched last week: The characters around Jesus continue to be absolutely sure they know what they’re doing – and that they are correct. Caiaphas, the high priest, is sure that he’s … Continue reading →

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Methodist Desire

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

A while back I mentioned the Methodist General Rules. Briefly summarized they say: First, Do no harm. Second, Do Good. Third, Attend to all the ordinances of God. Let’s consider the first rule in more detail. In context the full … Continue reading →

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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 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 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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