Jesus For Sex Workers, Church People, and Me

About Jesus For Sex Workers, Church People, and Me

The church is failing its mission. Rather than answering Jesus’s radical call to be salt and light, church people have chosen to go to war with their neighbors. Todd Austin shows how the ancient words of Scripture goad the righteous of today back toward the true way, and how those same words kick open a door to those the church has shut out. Season 1 focuses on the gospel of Matthew, with its announcement of the coming of a new nation—the kingdom of heaven—and the expectations Jesus has for those who choose to enter this kingdom. It’s a message that is both potently challenging and surprisingly freeing. Season 2 moves into the gospel of Mark, where we learn with the first disciples what it means to follow the Way of Christ—a way that is so counter intuitive that every single one of them walked away by the end of the book. But when they came back to it, this way transformed who they were and changed the world.

Publisher

Todd Austin

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Apr 2023

Latest episode

16 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 13 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   s02-e01: Jesus Wins!

   John Mark explores how Jesus offers a hopeful alternative amidst societal collapse and competing salvation promises.

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   29 Jan 2025

   Episode 12: On Earth as it is in Heaven

   Good Church People love to quote 2 Chronicles 7:14. Or rather they love to wear it, because it’s usually printed on a t-shirt with an eagle carrying an American flag. This is the verse that says, “…if my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their...

3. 

   18 Jun 2024

   Episode 11: What Does God Look Like?

   Good Church People have a problem with legalism. It’s a problem they recognize, but they can’t seem to rid themselves of it. The source of their legalism is in a place they’re afraid to look. It’s in the black box at the core of their faith. The black box that tells them who God is,...

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   9 Apr 2024

   Episode 10: Hic Sunt Dracones

   Is it a persistent illusion, or delusion, that we see ourselves as inherently better than the ancient followers of God? We scoff at their faithlessness. Why couldn’t they see the truth of what was going on? Why didn’t they listen to the prophets? Why did they worship those silly idols? We think if we had...

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   27 Dec 2023

   Episode 9: The Yeast of These

   The ten chapters of Matthew 13—22 are about the same thing, and it’s one of Matthew’s central ideas. But it’s likely not something you learned about in church.

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   16 Nov 2023

   Episode 8: By the Authority Vested

   Who are the first twelve people you meet in the Kingdom of Heaven? And what can they tell us about who this kingdom is for?

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   13 Oct 2023

   Episode 7: We’ve Seen Worse

   We’ve been doing the same things over and over again, expecting different results. Some would say that’s the definition of insanity, but others would say we just need to try a little harder, for a little longer. Who do you believe?

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   18 Sept 2023

   Episode 6: Inside Outside Upside Down

   After 50 years of all-out war, who is winning? And, remind me, who are we supposed to be fighting?

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   16 Aug 2023

   Episode 5: John Wick or Jesus?

   In this new Kingdom of Heaven, what are the standards of crime and punishment? Of law and order?

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    13 Jul 2023

    Episode 4: First, Do No Harm

    There are 613 statutes in the ancient Hebrew law. How many are there in the new law?

11. 

    18 Jun 2023

    Episode 3: A More Perfect Union

    You say you want a revolution. Well, you know… sometimes you find it in the most unexpected, but shockingly familiar, of places.

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    15 May 2023

    Episode 2: How Do You Fix What Is Broken?

    If you want to make the world a better place, where do you start? Join us as we look at answers in Matthew that go against what we've always thought.

13. 

    7 Apr 2023

    Episode 1: A Story of Incest, Prostitution, Seduction, and Rape

    Join us as we uncover surprising details in the seventeen most-skipped-over verses in the Bible.

Inside a recent episode

s02-e01: Jesus Wins!

Published 16 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Mark lifts the opening phrase of his gospel almost word for word from inscriptions like this. If we imagine Mark pausing after the words, the beginning of the good news about, his audience would have instinctively finished the sentence with Caesar. But Mark surprises them. Instead of Caesar, he names Jesus. It's an attention-grabbing way to begin. Mark takes a political slogan belonging to Caesar and uses it to force his audience to see something about Jesus they were missing. And remember, Mark isn't writing to convince people that Jesus is Lord. He's writing to people who already confess this. […]

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5.0 / 5

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