Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: Today we will have an open discussion on the controversies around a recent film, “The Book of Clarence,”  a recent comedy about fictional characters who live in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, and interact with Jesus and his disciples.  Lemuel: The stories’ protagonist is a feckless young man played by LaKeith Stanfeild. Accompanied by his best friend Elijah, played b ..read more

Show Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: Today we will look at the new speaker of the house and his opinions in Not Necessarily the Good News and Lemuel will look into the woman who started it all in Pillars of Wisdom. Necessarily the Good News  Amity: Current speaker of the House , Republican Mike Johnson expressed his point of view this way:  “I am a bible believing christian. Someone asked me today, in the me ..read more

Show Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. This week, we are going to discuss the events occurring in the Gaza strip, the history of the region, and the evangelical view of the situation. This is being recorded on October 28, 2023 and we are doing our best to give the latest information. Amity: I have tried to keep this as straightforward and clear as possible. I am extremely emotional about this topic and have spent much of the p ..read more

Show Notes Your Own Personal Jesus 1.Was Jesus a pacifist? Jesus taught non-violence. That’s what we have been told. Is it true? You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. Matthew 5:38–42 This is what comes ..read more

Show Notes **Not Necessarily the Good News ** On June 8, 2023, Televangelist, three times decorated veteran, political consultant, media mogul, presidential hopeful, philanthropist, founder of Regent University and the Christian Broadcast network died in his home at the age of 93.  He had a few close calls in the closing years of his life. He had taken a bad fall from a horse in 2017,  suffered an embolic stroke in 2018, and suffered another fall in 2019 in which he broke three ribs. Despite all this, he continued mostly regular appearances on his syndicated television program ..read more

Show Notes Pillars of Strength Who was she? She appears in only one of the Gospels, the last of them, the Gospel of John, Chapter 4, in verses 4 through 42. It’s not a synoptic Gospel, meaning that it does not have crossover material in the other Gospels. Jesus is going through Samaria with his disciples. He passes through a town called Sychar, and while his disciples go out to look for lunch, Jesus sat by a historic well, a well dug by the ancient Patriarch Jacob hundreds of years earlier. “When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” … The Samarit ..read more

Show Notes Not Necessarily the Good News Marjorie Taylor Greene, political gadfly, professional bully, anti-semite, anti-Catholic, and tantrum throwing child, said this recently, when addressing the arrest of former president, and professional mountebank, Donald Trump: "Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today," she said during an interview with Right Side Broadcasting in New York. "Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus — Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government." Comparing that man to Jesus Christ, is blasphemy. The ..read more

Show Notes Not Necessarily the Good News https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154880673/jesus-commercial-super-bowl-billboard-he-gets-us-hobby-lobby-evangelical-billion https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec/index.html https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/march/he-gets-us-ad-campaign-branding-jesus-church-marketing.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viSIMcWAe48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1idNZnX0F8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W127-l1t4T4 The More You Know Last episode we looked into the nature of God. It was too big a subject for one conversation ..read more

Show Notes Not Necessarily the Good News https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/stories/fr-rafael-garcia-sj-fulfills-vocation-in-ministry-with-migrants/ https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/sacred-heart-church-provides-shelter-to-all-migrants-regardless-of-legal-status-immigration-el-paso-texas-border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HPOPYrilw https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145245308/el-paso-migrants-church-shelters-christmas-freezing The More You Know Christianity has borrowed God from earlier sources, Judaism of course, and that sourced several more ancient religious ideas. The Creation cycle and ..read more

Show Notes Episode 53: Bearing Witness Cannon Fodder Jan Karski Stand Up and Testify Amity: This is the segment where we tell a personal story about something that we are grateful for. Lemuel: A few episodes ago we talked about my health issues. Late last year I discovered that the almost staggering pain in my back were not a pulled muscle, but an unusual , frankly rare case of coccidioidomycosis. It ate through the discs in both my upper and lower back, and that pain was the grinding of my vertebrae together. After months of misdiagnosis I was able to get the care I needed. A ten hour surgery ..read more