The Light in Every Thing

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supp…

Our journey through Ephesians brings us to chapter five's controversial teaching on submission—a passage that has caused immense pain when wielded as a weapon for oppression.

We begin by examining our…

We venture into the profound depths of marriage as a cosmic mystery, exploring the universal archetypes that underpin Paul's guidance in Ephesians 5. Far beyond simple gender roles or power dynamics,…

In our next episode, Jonah and Patrick lead us towards a new understanding of a particularly challenging portion of Paul’s letter (Eph 5:22-33). Paul describes a re-ordering of the universe through C…

What is the relationship between Christ’s light and the darkness in and around us that does not bear fruit (Eph 5:11-14). As Paul himself experienced so dramatically on his way to Damascus, the road …

Our series continues with Jonah and Patrick reflecting on the people of Ephesus, who were being led into a new faith experience with Jesus Christ. The birth of a new community in Christ was a fusion …

In our next episode, Jonah and Patrick explore the darkness and light within  each of us as described by Paul in Ephesians 5:1-14. Paul calls us to be “imitators of God” while we live and wrestle wit…

Our next episode continues with Paul’s description of what we might expect as we attempt to put on the true garment of our humanity, the resurrected Jesus Christ (Eph 4:25-32). The Risen One was tran…

Dear Listeners,

Due to illness and other factors beyond our control, we have gotten behind our regular podcast production schedule here at the seminary. But, we didn’t feel like we could ask you to wa…

In this second part of Patrick and Jonah’s conversation, we are given insight into what “putting on the new human” might feel like. Christ Jesus is walking with and working in every single human bein…

In our next episode, we delve deeper into the heart of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 4. Paul calls us “to be renewed in the spirit of [our] minds and to put on the new self” (Eph 4:23-24). …

"We want a name. What do we want to build something? We want a name. What do we want to build? Whose name do we want? To be receiving glory. So I need these maturation processes in me to get me ready…

In this episode, we the beginning of chapter four in the Letter to the Ephesians. It leads us into three of the qualities of character that the author names as humility, gentleness, and patience. We …

Our series continues, this Christmas Eve, as Patrick and Jonah lead us into Ephesians 4:1-8. We recently heard Paul’s beautiful prayer for strength that we may “know the love of Christ” and “be fille…

Dear Listeners,
There will be no full podcast on the theme this week, but Patrick is offering up this prayer from Ephesians 3:14-21 for us. We invite you to listen to the short audio above. This trans…

In our next episode, Jonah and Patrick take us deeper into the significance of the Adam, or human being, first being created in the ‘selem’ or image of God (Genesis 1:26-27) and its relationship to P…

Our series continues with a closer look at Ephesians 3:8-11, where Paul points to the ‘manifold wisdom of God’ being made known even in the heavenly places, by the ecclesia—the community of all who h…

The word ‘mystery appears in the New Testament twenty-seven times, with twenty-four references coming from Paul’s letters to the ancient churches. In modern times we can easily understand mystery as …

In our next episode, Patrick and Jonah go deeper into Paul’s understanding of God’s work to shape a “people”, the whole idea of ancient Israel. What is revealed is that the separating off and forming…

The next episode in our series focuses on the particular way that Jesus Christ works with sin, or human error. We are reminded that Christ condemned no human being while on earth; his condemnation wa…