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Jethro Has a Great Idea: Israel Wanders in the Desert Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - August 16, 2022 04:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsI will admit this next story is not full of battles between Israel and a clan of giants, or there aren't any miraculous moves of God to amaze. Instead, this is a simple story of Moses being stuck with a difficult task to perform and his father-in-law Jethro coming up with a brilliant solution. Bu...
How to Live in Times of Cultural Chaos: Lessons from the Lives of Joash and Josiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - August 09, 2022 13:19 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsI am unable to put out a podcast this week on our new series of Israel and their years of wandering in the desert. I am unable to because I am at one last camp for the summer season of 2022. This summer I told the story of Kings Joash and Josiah, and how their lives teach us many things. Some bad...
Yahweh is My Banner: Israel Wanders in the Desert Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - August 01, 2022 16:58 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIsrael is on the move, all 2 million souls. They are following Moses and Yahweh as they lead them away from Egypt towards the promised land. They move in stages, from one oasis to the next, making their way towards Mount Sinai. It felt like aimless wandering to the average Israelite but not to Ya...
The Way of Faith or the Way of the Whine: Israel Wanders in the Desert Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - July 28, 2022 02:21 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week we are going to start a new series. We are going to tell the story of Israel and its desert wanderings. We are starting today where the desert wanderings began: right after the victorious high of experiencing the miracle of crossing the Red Sea. Moses then leads roughly 2 million people...
Nehemiah and the Call to Obedience: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - July 19, 2022 03:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWe come to the end of the story in Nehemiah, but sadly for Nehemiah, the obstacles he faces are not over. He is about to meet one of his most significant obstacles, one of the tallest mountains he has ever had to climb. King Artaxerxes called Nehemiah back to be his cupbearer once again, and for ...
Nehemiah and the Joy of the Lord is your Strength: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - July 05, 2022 02:22 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe walls are built, and the people are moving into Jerusalem to live safely behind the new walls. Things are going exactly to plan. And then Ezra reads the law. He reads the Pentateuch for 6 hours as the people stand and listen. And what happened next will shock you, but it will also remind you ...
Nehemiah completes the wall: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - June 21, 2022 04:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNehemiah, and the people of Judah, finally complete the wall. And they meet it in record time. They completed the wall in only 52 weeks. What a fantastic feat, and it shows the brilliance of Nehemiah, but it also indicates that the hand of God was with Nehemiah. One way the hand of God was reveal...
Nehemiah Fights an Enemy While Building a Wall: The Ezra Nehemiah story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - June 14, 2022 04:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNehemiah is an organizational genius. He not only had to come up with a way to rebuild a wall nearly 2 miles long and 30 - 40 feet high, but he also had to come up with a way to build it under the threat of constant attack. How is he going to do that? How can he organize the people so they can ov...
Nehemiah Returns to Jerusalem and Inspects the Wall: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - June 07, 2022 15:12 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNehemiah wept over the state of the wall in Jerusalem. He was grieved to hear of the city's danger and the failure of the returned exiles to complete the job of establishing Jerusalem once again. Nehemiah felt that he had to do something. He felt God calling him to holy action. And so, his first ...
Nehemiah Asks the King a Big Favor: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - May 31, 2022 04:56 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe book of Ezra introduced us to the exiles' journey back home to the Promised Land after a 70-year absence and all that the exiles went through attempting to rebuild the Temple. Finally, the Temple was built, and Ezra worked hard preaching and teaching the Law to the people. But now we run into...
Ezra Pricks the Conscience of a Nation: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - May 23, 2022 23:27 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week we meet Ezra, the man the book is named after. We also come to the end of the story. Ezra was a man dedicated to three things: studying the Word of God, obeying the word of God, and teaching the word of God. Those three things were the dominant theme of his life and ministry, and they a...
The Work Begins Anew: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - May 17, 2022 04:17 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe people gave up. For over 15 years, the Jewish people quit building the temple. They were threatened by the people of the land, who did not want them to continue the rebuilding. The Babylonian authority told them to stop. Everything was working against them, and in many ways, the Jewish people...
Stopping the Work of God: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - May 10, 2022 13:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsZerubbabel is forced to stop building the Second Temple. Jeshua and Zerubbabel had done so well. They had led the people back to the promised land, and they had made a new altar and begun daily sacrifices again to Yahweh. After a silence of 80 years, sacrifices were once again being offered to Ya...
Zerubbabel Returns Home: The Ezra Nehemiah Story
Baldhead Bible Podcast - May 03, 2022 04:04 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week we start a new series on the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Many believe they were originally one book later split into two, and that idea makes sense when you realize their story focuses on the same overall event: the return of the exiles to the promised land. The return of the Jewish peo...
Jesus Arrested and the Great I AM: Snapshots from the Life of Jesus
Baldhead Bible Podcast - April 20, 2022 15:57 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWe last left Jesus in the garden, praying, begging for this cup of suffering to pass from him. But in the end, Jesus knew it was His cup to bear, His cup to drink, and with His final conversation with His Father, He stood up ready to face the coming onslaught. And there was very little time for H...
Jesus and the Garden of Suffering: Snapshots from the Life of Jesus
Baldhead Bible Podcast - April 12, 2022 03:52 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this week's snapshot, we see the humanity of Jesus on full display. Remember that Jesus was 100% man and 100% God all simultaneously. And many times, we forget that Jesus was fully man and suffered in very human ways down here on earth. Sadly, in the garden, we see Jesus overwhelmed with the h...
Jesus gives a graduation speech: Snapshots from the life of Jesus
Baldhead Bible Podcast - April 05, 2022 03:41 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn the next couple of episodes, we will look at snapshots from the life of Jesus. From the last supper to His triumphant resurrection. We begin with looking at graduation day for His disciples. Jesus had been honing and shaping them in the Jesus school of ministry for the past three years, and no...
Can I Trust God Even When I Suffer?: Scenes from the Life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - March 29, 2022 03:42 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis is the final episode in the Jeremiah series, and this is the last day he gets to spend in Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar has sacked Jerusalem and burned it to the ground. And now the people of Judah are being deported to Babylon, and Jeremiah is being dragged along with them and his trusty sideki...
Jeremiah in the deep, dark pit: Scenes from the life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - March 22, 2022 04:10 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIt had to be dark in that pit as Jeremiah slowly sank into the mud. As he stood there, he must have felt himself sinking further down into the mud at the bottom of this nasty, stinky cistern. How did Jeremiah end up there? Why did Jeremiah end up there? What could have been so bad that he deserve...
King Jehoiakim, Jeremiah and the burnt scroll: Scenes from the life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - March 15, 2022 04:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsJeremiah is a wanted man. King Jehoiakim of Judah wants Jeremiah gone, dead, killed off. Yet God commands Jeremiah to go and read all the prophecies of doom and destruction that God has given to Jeremiah over the last 25 years, to go and have them read to Jehoiakim, the very man who is trying to ...
Jeremiah Wears a Yoke and Buys a Field: Scenes from the Life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - March 08, 2022 04:32 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWe go back and look at two more visual parables this week. God would use any method He could to reach His people Israel. Sometimes he asked His prophets to portray His message to His people visually. Last time it was dirty underwear and broken clay pots. This week it is a yoke and buying a field....
Jeremiah, Uriah and the heavy cost of discipleship: Scenes from the life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - March 01, 2022 04:36 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhat was it like for Jeremiah to preach? This week, we look at a scene from Jeremiah's life showing the challenges he had to face every time he preached. And one of his greatest challenges was that he spoke under the threat of imprisonment and the grave possibility of death every time he preached...
Jeremiah, Clay Pots and Nasty Underwear: Scenes from the Life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - February 22, 2022 04:27 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn the Bible, God would use any means to reach His people Israel. He would send prophet after prophet to warn His people, or He would send plague, disaster, or some other act of judgment to try to wake His people up. And sometimes, if the people were unwilling to listen, God would use symbolic ac...
What is God's call on your life?: Scenes from the life of Jeremiah
Baldhead Bible Podcast - February 15, 2022 05:17 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week we are starting a new series on the book of Jeremiah. We will be focusing on specific scenes from the life of Jeremiah, the prophet. Jeremiah was called by God to speak, to preach, to weep over a crumbling culture slowly drifting away from the worship of Yahweh. I believe there are thin...
A Tragic Ending, But a Hopeful Beginning: The Divided Kingdom Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - February 08, 2022 05:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWe come to the end of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, and boy is it a sad ending. King Josiah led Judah towards a godly future. One where the people of Judah were once again in covenant with Yahweh. But then he died, and his sons were left to run the country, and unlike their Father, they had no intere...
King Josiah and the Discovery of a Lifetime: The Divided Kingdom Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - February 01, 2022 00:04 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsJosiah is a fabulous King in the eyes of the LORD. He has a heart wholly devoted to him and is busy tearing down high places and removing idolatrous practices from the nation of Judah. He began to rebuild the broken parts of the Temple to restore the site dedicated to the worship of YAHWEH. The H...
Can an 8 year old child be the GOAT of all the Kings of Judah?: The Divided Kingdom Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - January 25, 2022 05:10 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAs King of Judah, can an 8-year-old child be the Greatest Of All Time? The greatest king Judah, and in fact, all of Israel ever had? The writer of 2 Kings thinks so. He wrote of this 8-year old King that "Neither before nor after . . . was there a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did—wi...
Manasseh is buried in the backyard: The Divided Kingdom Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - January 18, 2022 04:56 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsHezekiah was a good King who followed Yahweh with all his heart. Though he did not end his reign on a high note, overall, he was a King who pleased God. And for eleven years his son Manasseh co-reigned with him, learning from his Dad how to lead the nation in a way that pleases God. And when his ...
King Hezekiah gets sick: The Divided Kingdom Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - January 04, 2022 05:39 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis week we come to the end of Hezekiah's story. The GOAT of Judah, one of the greatest Kings Judah ever had, is coming to the end of his days. He is dying, and the prophet Isaiah has shown up to tell him that God wants him to get his house in order because he will die. But Hezekiah is not ready...
King Hezekiah versus Sennacherib: The Divided Kingdom Series
Baldhead Bible Podcast - December 28, 2021 06:19 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe great Assyrian King was threatening the very walls of Jerusalem. He had marched throughout the Samaritan region, destroying nations and taking many captive and exiling them to Nineveh and the cities of his Assyria. And he had one prize left, the city of Jerusalem, and he was primed to siege a...
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