Kingdom Commentary

Matt and Josh discuss Paul's presentation of the gospel and why he includes gentiles in the restoration of Israel, explaining that ethnic reconciliation is not just a fruit of the gospel but core to the gospel announcement itself. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Josh Is Irritated 04:59 The Message of Marty Supreme 09:33 The Cosmic Gospel 14:33 Paul’s Gospel Presentation 16:37 Paul’s Multiethnic Missio...

Matt and Josh discuss how the incarnation, the ministry of Jesus, the crucifixion, the resurrection, the ascension, and the giving of the Spirit of Jesus play different roles in the one arrival of God's reign over Israel and the nations. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Stranger Things 5 08:35 The Reign of God as a Medieval Kingdom 16:36 How Incarnation Defeats Death with Death 32:59 Making Sense of th...

Matt and Josh are joined by Isaac to discuss how kingdom ends cannot come without kingdom means. They also touch on violence in the kingdom of God, the way of the cross, messianic expectations, Marty Supreme, and Knives Out. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Holy Matrimony! 01:41 Josh Got Robbed 03:36 New Year’s Resolutions 06:39 Marty Supreme and Knives Out 09:39 Kingdom of God Recap 16:57 Kingdom Ends...

Merry Christmas! In this special episode, Matt and Josh discuss the ministry of Jesus as the anticipation of his enthronement and the centrality of the Beatitudes. They also rank the best and worst Christmas movies and songs. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Christmas in San Francisco 03:33 Best and Worst: Christmas Edition 22:56 Thank You for Supporting Us 24:39 Recap 26:57 What “Gospel” Means 28:58 W...

Matt and Josh explore Israel’s role as a family that embodies God’s reign, God’s promise for humans to share in his divinity and rule, and a nuanced view of God’s judgment. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Advent Season 06:31 Christmas Movies 10:48 Recap (Kingdom of God vs. Empires of the Powers) 13:26 Subplots of the Bible 16:04 The Divine Promise (Gen 12) 22:21 Israel Embodying God’s Reign 26:42 Deut...

Matt and Josh discuss the Bible’s answer to what is wrong with the world. They take another look at the fall through the lens of humanity losing their role in creation and subjecting themselves to the gods or powers of the nations. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Happy Late Thanksgiving 01:57 One Battle After Another and Netflix 06:52 What’s Wrong with the World? (Gen 3-11) 15:07 Heaven and Nothing in...

Matt and Josh discuss what it looks like to live under God’s reign by exploring Genesis 1-2 and the meaning of the incarnation in the context of creation. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 Sex in the City and Zombies 07:00 God’s Administration 12:27 God’s Reign in Genesis 1 17:06 God’s Reign in Genesis 2 28:35 Incarnation as the Goal of Creation 43:29 Questions that Come Up 46:57 Outro Books or refere...

Matt and Josh begin a new series on the theme of the Gospel of the Kingdom. They explore what the Gospel isn’t and introduce the idea of God’s Kingdom. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:36 What We’re Watching 03:41 New Chairs, New Series 04:24 Kingdom of God in Church 08:23 Different Churches Spiritual Formation 15:00 The Kingdom Is the Gospel 16:38 Guaranteed Prosperity Is Not the Gospel 20:31 The Gospel...

Matt and Josh respond to questions, including: “Why should we care about what the early church thought?” “Is the Bible God’s Word ?” and “Is Josh a real scientist?” CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Q&A or Q&R 01:42 - Why Is Our Couch So Ugly? 03:13 - Why Talk about Movies? 06:07 - Why Care about the Early Church? 22:39 - Are New Interpretations Dangerous? 28:03 - Is the Bible “God’s Word”? 43:38 -...

Matt and Josh discuss how to read the Bible with the end of the world in mind, and why it shapes how we live as the Church today. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - What We’re Watching 04:05 - Catching Up 05:26 - Should Gentile Christians Appropriate Jewish Culture? 12:02 - The Role of the Spirit in Bible Reading 19:57 - Recap and Figural Reading 22:07 - Jesus and Jewish Eschatology 25:01 - Reading t...

Happy Halloween! Matt and Josh discuss the moral sense of Scripture and how morality is not the goal of the Christian life, but a byproduct of being a community united with God’s Spirit. They also discuss what it means for the Bible to be “authoritative,” and if that is an appropriate word to describe how the Bible should function in the community of believers. Books or references: Surprised by Sc...

Matt and Josh discuss why Biblicism doesn’t take the Bible seriously and examine how the Bible is designed to be read typologically, with patterns that unify all the books into a grand narrative fulfilled in Jesus. Books or references: Why Biblicism is Bad! by Michael Bird Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Richard B. Hays God’s power or human violence: The meaning of the Virgin birth b...

Matt and Josh discuss what the early Church meant by reading the Bible "literally," why some Christians feel the impulse to defend the historicity of the Bible, and how to read the Bible in its literary and historical context. CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Welcome 02:17 - What We’re Watching 06:59 - Different Traditions and the Bible 09:32 - What Does Reading “Literally” Mean? 16:15 - Our Denomin...

Matt and Josh discuss why the Bible can be so hard to read. They then contrast modern ways of reading the Bible with the 4 ways/senses the early Church used to read the Bible. They also discuss their own experiences with the Bible in their church traditions and a terrible movie they recently saw. CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Welcome 02:55 - Him (2025) was Bad 05:39 - Reading the Wrong Way 09:59...

Times are changing fast, and in our increasingly complicated world, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed, not know right from wrong, truth from lie, and it can be hard to know what it looks like to respond as a faithful follower of Jesus. Kingdom Commentary is a series of discussions where we look at Jesus’s answer to the brokenness of our world: the kingdom of God. With thoughtfulness, nuance, and...