Peter had just confessed Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, and moments later he was pulling Jesus aside to tell Him He had the whole plan wrong. In this episode, guest preacher Pastor Kurt Klaus looks at the impatience that rises up in all of us when life stops making sense, and at the God who has been patiently working out a plan of salvation since the very first fall into sin. Along the way he shares a memory from a Minnesota farm town about two brothers, a field about to rot in the ground, and one neighbor’s answer to the question of how anybody knows things will turn out okay.
This episode draws from the Holy Gospel reading in Matthew 16:21-28 and the Epistle reading in Romans 12:9-21, with the service readings also including Jeremiah 15:15-21.
Key themes include patience in affliction, trusting God’s plan when you cannot see it, seeing life through the lens of the cross, suffering in a broken world, taking up your cross to follow Christ, and the assurance that a God who would give His own Son is not out to get you.
