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Join co-hosts Jonathan Fuller and Seth Roseman as they talk about Bible stories, laugh a little, and try to answer two fundamental questions: What's the story? What's the point?
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Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Mary's Magnificat and Luke's narrative lift up the role of women in the Church. Unlike the traditionally passive portrayal of Mary in nativity stories, Mary has agency. She takes center-stage, singing a song about God's work in the world and in her womb. Jonathan and Seth wrestle with how women have been historically excluded in the Church because of men like them.
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
John the Baptist tells the truth. When Mark begins, John is in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance and telling about the one to come after him. Jonathan and Seth discuss baptism and how it empowers Christians to tell the truth.
Saturday Nov 28, 2020
Saturday Nov 28, 2020
Isaiah cries that God has hidden God’s face. The miraculous deeds of the past have ended. Yet, Isaiah is confident that God is the potter and God’s people are the clay, which Jonathan and Seth discuss in more detail.
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Jesus' story of the sheep and the goats continues Matthew's theme of Emmanuel, God-with-us. Jesus is with us in the hungry, thirsty, outcast, naked, sick, and imprisoned. Jonathan and Seth explore how the disarming simplicity of providing food or a drink to someone can complement reforming entire systems.
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Psalms 120-134 are Songs of Ascent, which were sung as pilgrims went up to Jerusalem, which sat on a hill. These Psalms combine praise with poetic descriptions of Israel's past; they describe where the people of Israel are going and where they've been. With Psalm 123 as a guide, Jonathan and Seth discuss the state of the Church and where it needs reform.
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Jesus’ parable of the 10 bridesmaids cautions us to stay awake and be prepared because “you do not know the day or the hour” (25:13). Jonathan and Seth try to read against the grain while wrestling with the parable in light of God’s love.
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Micah rails against Israel's injustice as the Assyrian army encroaches. He blames the oppression by influential rulers, priests, and prophets for Israel's situation. We discuss the failure of those in power to listen to the needs of people "who [can] put nothing into their mouths" (3:5).
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
When asked what is the greatest commandment, Jesus answers with two of them: love God and love your neighbor. Jonathan and Seth discuss how these two commandments are intertwined. They also disagree about which gospel is the greatest.
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
In what might be the oldest book in the New Testament, Paul praises the Thessalonians for being models to others in their region. Jonathan and Seth discuss what being a model might look like and how the early, persecuted Jesus-followers differ from the contemporary Church.
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Paul writes to the Philippians from prison; the letter-carrier, Epaphroditus, almost dies during his journey (Phil. 2:25-30). Yet Paul's letter is characterized by joy. Jonathan and Seth discuss what rejoicing in the Lord looks like and how admonitions to "Rejoice!" land differently depending on the position of the sender and recipient.