Displaying episodes 31 - 60 of 66 in total
35. Virgin Birth
This week we cover chapter 21 of Genesis. This is the story of Isaacs's birth and the surrounding events. Join us as we discuss the story and the overlooked but incred...
34. Allophyloi
As already discussed many times in this podcast, Abraham's story in the book of Genesis is anything but linear. For every move in obedience to God, there is a counterm...
33. Don't Look Back
Join us as we read through Genesis 19 and critique the popular reception of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Intro and outro music Copyright © Holy Transfiguration ...
32. Abort Your Ideology - an Interlude
Our ideologies are our downfall. We cannot use scripture to suit our desires and our ideological premises. We should not even come to scripture with our questions. We ...
31. The Hospitality of Abraham
Join us this week as we hear the pericope of Abraham's hospitality toward YHWH, his master. YHWH is identified in the appearance of three men- who are these three men?...
30. Cult of the Creedal Statement - an Interlude
In this interlude episode, I argue that the fundamental problem with "theology" is that it reduces scriptural faith into something that is to be "believed" rather than...
29. What a Joke
Perhaps you’ve heard before that God has a sense of humor. Well, that is true but not in the way you might think. Often, if we say God has a sense of humor it is so th...
28. All About Circumcision
Circumcision is probably the most controversial covenant in the entire scriptural story. From the onset of the common era, the implications of this covenant for the ge...
27. Father of the Emaciated Lamb
Something that Rowdy and I have pressed many times throughout these podcasts is the fact that names not only have special meanings in the Hebrew text, they define the ...
26. A Child Born For Slavery
Today we will hear chapter 16 of Genesis. We are coming off of last weeks reading, chapter 15, when we heard of God’s first covenant with Abram where he promised to hi...
25. Saint Paul's Source Text
If you’re familiar with St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians, the next few chapters of Genesis will be extremely familiar to you. This is because St. Paul almost exclusi...
24. A Priest Without A Temple
Today we read chapter 14 of Genesis. Like most nations in history, the nations of this chapter are consumed with chasing wealth. Conflict is naturally the means by whi...
23. Interlude: 55 Maxims of Fr. Thomas Hopko
01. Be always with Christ, and trust God in everything 02. Pray as you can, not as you think you must. 03. Have a keepable rule of prayer, done by discipline. 04. S...
22. You Should Have Stopped Walking
In today’s episode we will read the rest of chapter 12 as well as chapter 13. This is the story of how Abram ignored God after walking according to his command and pas...
21. Start Walking
Today we will jump right into the story of Israel starting with the father of faith- Abram. But, as we will see, he is not the wonderful example of faith we often like...
20. Split Lips
Today we hear the story of the Tower of Babel and the fools who built it. We must remember always that the fools in scripture, that is, all characters in scripture, ar...
19. We Are All Gentiles pt.2
Today we conclude our reading of chapter 10 of Genesis. We will hear the remainder of the names featured in this section, as well as an interesting grammatical device ...
18. We Are All Gentiles pt. 1
Chapter 10 features what many call “The Table of Nations,” which lays out Biblical geography and cultural dispersion across the Scriptural authors’ known world. There ...
17. Canaan, the Slave of Slaves
God does not endorse human behavior. God is not a cheerleader. If we are hearing scripture we will understand that humans are wicked and God stoops down to their level...
16. The Birds Are Not What They Seem
Today we pick apart the intricacies of Genesis chapter 8. From wordplay to metaphor, the authors are making distinct choices to cause us to hear a specific story- not ...
15. Interlude: Consume Scripture!
This week we will have a revisiting discussion about what it is exactly that we are trying to accomplish with this podcast, so we will read from a few selections of sc...
14. The Ark is for Everyone
Today we will read Chapter 7 of Genesis and begin our hearing of the story of the flood dominating the earth and her inhabitants. In chapter 6 we heard the story of Go...
13. The Ark is Not a Boat
Today we will unpack the story of Noah and the ark he builds in preparation for the flood God is bringing upon the earth. This is one of the most famous stories from t...
12. Rest in Repentance
God’s rest is not something to sit back and enjoy. How can it be? Our bodies deteriorate with every passing breath. We approach the end of our lives with the fleeting ...
11. Many Years
In the Eastern Christian world, it is common to wish people a hearty “many years” whenever they are celebrating any meaningful life event whether that be a birthday or...
10. Dynasty of Darkness
All too often we humans are guilty of elevating ourselves and our own importance to the heights of godliness. I am guilty of it! The moment we concern ourselves with o...
9. Yes, You Are Your Brother's Keeper
Join us as we embark on the story of Genesis chapter four. We will meet new characters and hear various details that work to establish the lore of the story of Genesis...
8. He Told You So
In this episode, we discuss Genesis chapter 3 and the story that is unfolding, which includes the introduction of a new character, the serpent. Join us as we listen to...
7. God, The Bedouin
Did God really make Woman for her to be subordinate to man? In today's episode, we read through Genesis chapter 2 and discuss a variety of things such as the images of...
6. Who is Elohim?
In this episode, we conclude our reading of the "first creation account" and discuss what has been the character introduction of God, as well as the introduction of th...