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: Effective June twenty-seventh, all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible, and the Ten Commandments, into their curric…

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: This week, in our new, shorter format, we will explore the new role of convicted felon and former president, Donald Trump in Get Th…

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: The amount of research that goes into each show makes it difficult to release episodes in a timely manner. By the time that we gather …

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 fict…

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 wom…

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 situati…

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 …

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 ta…

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…

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 t…

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-marketin…

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://ww…

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 …

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: This week we have a special open conversation. It will start with one of lemuel’s many sad memories of childhood, and end with reviewi…

Episode Notes Episode 51: Love and Happiness 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: We start with a story of a man who is a shame to the cloth in a short segment of Get the Behind Me, …

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: This week we are discussing church and state - how it is supposed to be separate and how our activist court is eroding that separat…

Episode 49: Jesus is for Closers Not Necessarily the Good News Amity: “The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike…

Episode Notes Not Necessarily the Good News President, Dictator, and former KGB Head Vladimir Putin was attending a rally in March in support of his actions against Ukraine. This was early in the war, and over 20,000 Russians attended the rally, mostly those who support Putin’s aggression and his dream of recreating an empire. Putin had given reaso…

Episode Notes Not Necessarily the Good News Just a few months ago former national security advisor Michael Flynn made this statement: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.” He did this at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, the bully pulpit …

Episode Notes As we approach the holiday season we will hear a great deal of rhetoric about families and family values. We will hear about the historical importance of Thanksgiving and Christmas, and how they were both expressions of Christian values. Christmas is a religious holiday that has been adopted by all kinds of people as a secular celebra…

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: This week we complete our conversation on Saint Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know. The More You KnowLemuel: We have covered the ne…

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: This week we continue an exploration to investigate influential and problematic saint Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know. First we…

Episode Notes 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 will talk about hypocrisy in the Church- and continue with our conversation about the most problematic declarations of a problematic …

Episode Notes This week we continue an exploration to investigate influential and problematic St. Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know. But first we’re going to visit the Supreme Court in a brief detour of Not Necessarily the Good News. Not Necessarily the Good News In its final week of session, SCOTUS ruled in favor of a Philidelphia Catholic chari…

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: This week we will begin an exploration of an equally influential and problematic saint in The More You Know. But first a moment of …

Episode Notes This week we do something a little different as we go to media for our source. We watched 1960's Inherit the Wind, based on a play based on a trial set in the south in the 1920s pitting a school teacher against the state for uttering Charles Darwin's name in his class. We discuss the spectacle, the oration, the acting and the ice crea…

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. Today, a short exploration into the work of Bishop Usher. But first, Amity has a condemnation of the Vatican she would like to speak to. A…

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 investigate an instance of heathen idolatry a CPAC. Yes, someone a actually made and worshipped a golden idol. There …

Episode Notes Get Thee Behind Me, Felicia! I want to speak a moment about US Representative from the state of Georgia Margery Taylor Greene. This woman makes me want to say some very rude and uncharitable things but I am an adult and will do my best to engage with this subject in a mature way. Ms. Greene is a white woman from the south that subscri…

Episode Notes This week a touch of good news with a large group of clergy finally taking a stand on the right side of history and then we get further into our series on Creationism. Stand Up and Testify Last month, more than 370 religious leaders from around the world are calling for a global ban on conversion therapy. The declaration, spearheaded …

Episode Notes For our first episode of the new year, we will spend a little time discussing a positive step for our country in Canon Fodder, and Lemuel visit an interest he’s had since childhood and discuss dinosaurs, and how they fit into the fundamentalist narrative in, The More You Know. Canon Fodder 2021 has already been quite a year. Within th…

Episode Notes Today we will have an open discussion about bad Supreme Court decisions and COVID in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.” Then, we learn about the prodigal son in, “The More You Know. NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS: When we spoke last about the Supreme Court, it was in reference to the latest addition - at that time only a nominee - now a…

Episode Notes We have a freeform discussion about the election, the results, the meanings of both and where we go next. Find us on Twitter: @WithoutWorksPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withoutworks Email @ withoutworkspod@gmail.com Transcripts available at our internet home: www.withoutworkspodcast.com Find out more at https://without-works.…

Episode Notes Today we will have an open discussion about Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.” And we will explore saviorhood, and how it does not apply to Donald Trump in, “The More You Know. NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS: Judge Amy Coney Barrett is from the South and Midwest. Her career has been largely spe…

Episode Notes First up, on Friday, September 18th a cry went out over the land as the women of this country learned of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At 87, she had fought off colon cancer and several bouts of pancreatic cancer but was unable to overcome it one last time. On September 25th, she became the first woman and th…

Episode Notes Kimberley Guilfoyle is the kind of character who shows up a lot these days, and shows up a lot in American history: demagogue. Her personal history is checkered, as she has been the first lady of California, married to Democratic Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom, and is currently dating Donald Trump Junior. She doesn't have a consi…

Episode Notes Recently, Shaun King, writer and activist , made this unusual proposition: “Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been… They are a gross form [of] white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come …

Episode Notes Episode 28: Christ Jesus Not Necessarily the Good NewsGood ways to hold the bible: in both hands, under your arm, resting on your lap, or with a lectern. Bad ways to hold the bible: upside down in your fist over your head as though it were a bludgeoning weapon after ordering peaceful protesters and clergy tear gassed and removed so yo…

Episode Notes Cannon Fodder Two Sikh doctors in Canada, brothers, made the difficult decision to shave their beards in order to serve their patients. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/health/sikh-doctors-beards-coronavirus-trnd/index.html The More You Know We can assume, safely, that Jesus existed. This is not a joke; there was a historical-c…

Episode Notes Too Cool for Sunday School Maybe you weren't really paying attention that Sunday Morning.. Maybe church wasn't a part of your upbringing at all. There are Bible stories that you may have heard referenced, but you don't know the details of. Now you can do a little catching up. Today we will talk about another Bible story so popular tha…

Episode Notes Your Own Personal Jesus This week we face the terrors of Covid 19, but together, bravely in an entry of Your Own Personal Jesus Lemuel: Bishop Gereald Glenn of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia passed away last week at the age of 66. He had tested positive for Covid 19 a month earlier, but insisted on c…

Episode Notes The More You Know Because of the safety considerations that governments have put into place, Easter services will not be held at many churches around the world. Because of these safety restrictions, especially those about social distancing and gathering in groups, the regular traditional Good Friday and Easter services will be done th…

Episode Notes Canon Fodder Tonight we will declare a living person in a state of bliss: Jose Andres. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/03/17/jose-andres-says-people-have-to-eat-so-his-shuttered-restaurants-are-now-community-kitchens/ https://wck.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Andr%C3%A9s https://catholicexchange.…

Episode Notes The More You Know When we last approached the topic, we were speaking about a recent development in the news: Paula White, presidential advisor and false prophet, had prayed for spiritual abortions for the satanic conspiracies against president trump. We know there is not a demonic master plan led by the democratic party, but this bri…

Episode Notes We have discussed the National Prayer Breakfast before. It is a yearly, eccumencal event held in Washington D.C. and since 1980, in the Washington Hilton Ballroom. It is hosted by members of congress, and organized by the Fellowship Foundation, though attendance for the event is not restricted to Christians. President Trump followed t…

Episode Notes Episode 19: Spiritual Warfare Part 1 The More You Know Today we will begin a discussion on the topic of Spiritual Warfare. It has been brought up in the context of a recent bizarre statement by prosperity minster and not so spiritual advisor, Paula White. Just a few weeks ago she made this strange declaration during a sermon: “We comm…

Episode Notes Get The Behind Me, Felicia According to Genesis, after Noah's flood God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17): “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” So why, in its wisdom, did Kentucky’…

Not Necessarily the Good News On December 18. 2019 the House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. During the hearings, Congressman Barry Loudermilk, representative of Georgia’s 11th district, made the following claim: “When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate …

Episode Notes This week, we become war correspondents, creeping around the no man’s land of discarded wrapping paper and ribbons, to address the (fictional) war on Christmas and its heinous roots. Then, we talk about some of our Christmas traditions. Find us on Twitter: @WithoutWorksPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/withoutworksEmail @ withoutw…

Episode Notes A freewheeling conversation about the first Christmas. The Christmas story is something that everything thinks they know, but they might have missed the details or the meaning of the story as a whole. Many people are familiar with the details because of Charles Schultz. He decided to include a speech on the true meaning of Christmas i…