Hey everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this

week. All right, well, this is episode two of a six-part series represents a number of teachings I did

a number of years ago at Door of Hope Church when I was a pastor there.

We challenged the whole church to read through the New Testament in 90 days,

and we did it together, gathering every weekday morning,

to just read it aloud to each other and explore some of its main themes.

And then on Sundays, Josh White and I, the other teaching pastor, we would do our teachings based off of wherever we were in the read-through in the 90 days. And it was a super fun

experience, really powerful. This was a message that I gave a teaching based on Luke

Chapter 14, some of the very challenging sayings that Jesus gave

about counting the cost of whether or not you are really going to be down for following him.

So it's exploring the balance of both Jesus' incredible generous grace inviting anyone and

everyone into his communities, at the same time

giving them a stiff challenge of the great cost and sacrifice that's going to be required.

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