Hello friends of theology in the raw. Thanks for joining me on this episode. What you're going to hear is a sermon

that I preached a few weeks ago at Park Hill Church in San Diego, California.

My good friend, Evan Wickham, recently planted a church

in, I guess it would be, well, it's actually

in the Point Loma area, in northern San Diego and I was down in San Diego with my son.

We had a weekend away, we're hanging out and Evan's like, hey, why don't you come over and preach my church

and I said okay let's do it so I preach a sermon on loving your enemies at Park

Hill Church and what you're gonna listen to is the audio of that sermon.

Now the sound quality is not the best.

It was a big tall kind of roof, a little echoy inside and I was using a handheld mic.

It sounded great when you're listening to it in the in the if you're listening to

it live I think it did it sounded good me but then again I was the one speaking so what do I know but it's a little echoy little tinny if that makes any sense but I really wanted to put this up on the podcast I think you'll enjoy it it gives a good kind of overview of my thoughts on loving

your enemies and and I guess my thoughts on nonviolence as the general rhythm of Christianity.

Now I think sometimes when we talk about nonviolence,

we can get lost into, you know, various scenarios like the killer at the door

who's busting in to slaughter your family or we can you

know ask other what about this what about that situations and you know my main

concern is not really with what I call absolute nonviolence, although I do hold

to that position.

That's not my main concern.

My main concern is that I do believe that there is a

profoundly militaristic spirit that pervades evangelicalism that we are not

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