{"podcast":{"title":"Seeking the Hidden Thing Podcast","slug":"seeking-the-hidden-thing-podcast-6406212","podcast_index_feed_id":6406212,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1673613.rss","website_url":"https://www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1673613/311a02413f9d986e678e61123f04b8a8.jpg","author":"Kruptos","episode_count":204,"summary":"Seeking the Hidden Thing searches for the deeper truths, the wisdom, the understanding, that is hidden beneath the surface. The quest here is to look past the surface phenomenon of our society, seeing what lies on the other side, making sense of it all.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seeking-the-hidden-thing-podcast-6406212"},"episode":{"title":"166. Year A - 5th Sunday of Easter - 1 Peter 2:2-10 - \"You Are God's Chosen Race\"","slug":"166-year-a-5th-sunday-of-easter-1-peter-2-2-10-you-are-god-s-chosen-race","published_at":"2026-05-07T16:36:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seeking-the-hidden-thing-podcast-6406212/166-year-a-5th-sunday-of-easter-1-peter-2-2-10-you-are-god-s-chosen-race","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seeking-the-hidden-thing-podcast-6406212","url":"https://www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/166-year-a-5th-sunday-of-easter-1","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196799897/f24cf80dea43e71c2be8da528b16c63c.mp3","summary":"Scripture Reading 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Pulpit Notes [n.b. This is one of those instances where the variance between what was spoken and what was on the page in front of me is significant] Today is the fifth Sunday of Easter. In this period between Easter Sunday and Pentecost we spend our time meditating on passages that explore and open up for us the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ for the world and in the life of us as believers. We struggle to properly relate to the New Testament scriptures in part because we live in an age of technology, of science. We live in a time where there only things that m…","meta_description":"Scripture Reading 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the L…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1826,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/seeking-the-hidden-thing-podcast-6406212/episodes/166-year-a-5th-sunday-of-easter-1-peter-2-2-10-you-are-god-s-chosen-race/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seeking-the-hidden-thing-podcast-6406212/166-year-a-5th-sunday-of-easter-1-peter-2-2-10-you-are-god-s-chosen-race.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}