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The Glory of Yahweh
Bible Curious - March 17, 2024 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 53 (Exodus 39-40): Now, on the one-year anniversary of the Exodus, Yahweh gives His final instructions to Moses for erecting and anointing the tabernacle, which Moses faithfully obeys. The walls and the pillars, the covering over the tent, the ark, the holy furniture, the altar of sacrifice a...
The Cost of the Tabernacle
Bible Curious - March 10, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 52 (Exodus 36-38): As tabernacle construction gets underway, the builders face a crisis of too much generosity from the children of Israel. They weave curtains for the covering of the tabernacle, construct boards for assembling the walls, then create the veil and screen to be used for partiti...
The Lord Renews the Covenant
Bible Curious - March 03, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 51 (Exodus 33-35): At last the children of Israel are ready to construct the tabernacle for their God. Yahweh will remind them to strictly observe the Sabbath while constructing this dwelling. After all, they are no longer slaves of the Egyptians, and should act as a new people.
The Golden Calf
Bible Curious - February 18, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 50 (Exodus 30-32): As Moses continues to receive divine revelation from God for forty days and forty nights upon Mount Sinai, the people grow restless and rebellious, acting out in flagrant defiance against God's previous commandments.
God Will Dwell Among the People
Bible Curious - February 11, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 49 (Exodus 28-29): Yahweh wished to dwell among His people, but needed to establish a strict protocol for how He would be approached by an inherently sinful human race.Now Yahweh would create a mediated relationship with His people by instituting the office of a High Priest in Moses' brother ...
The Ark of the Covenant
Bible Curious - February 04, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 48 (Exodus 25-27): After delivering the Law and ratifying the covenant, Yahweh now instructs Moses to build a tabernacle, a portable tent-sanctuary where God will dwell among His people, the Israelites. Before listening to this chapter, I strongly recommend that you search the Internet for im...
The Covenant Sealed
Bible Curious - January 28, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 47 (Exodus 22-24): The Book of the Covenant is a continuation of the legal code given to Moses by Yahweh on Mount Sinai. In this chapter, Yahweh provides further regulations that are intended to promote justice, equality, and social order in ancient Israel. These laws cover a wide range of to...
The Ten Commandments
Bible Curious - January 21, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 46 (Exodus 19-21): The Ten Commandments, though brief in their wording, are considered to be the foundation of the Law of Moses and are still studied and observed by many religious and ethical traditions today. You will notice that these laws begin with Yahweh Himself at the very center, and ...
Bread from Heaven
Bible Curious - January 14, 2024 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 45 (Exodus 16-18): Having crossed the Red Sea and escaped the clutches of Pharaoh's army, the Israelites find themselves wandering in the wilderness of Sin. As their provisions begin to dwindle, they grumble and complain against Moses and Aaron, longing for the comforts of their former lives ...
Parting the Red Sea
Bible Curious - January 07, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 44 (Exodus 13-15): Now that the Exodus has begun, Yahweh is ready to perform one of the most spectacular miracles of the Old Testament: the parting of the Red Sea. The Angel of Yahweh, who was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, wanted to set up a dramatic confrontation between the fleeing I...
Death of the Firstborn
Bible Curious - December 31, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 43 (Exodus 10-12): Now that Yahweh has Egypt's undivided attention, He prepares two more terrible plagues as judgement for their abuse of His people: a deadly swarm of locusts, followed by three days of inky darkness. However, these two plagues are only prologue the a final and most devestati...
I Will Stretch Out My Hand
Bible Curious - December 24, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 42 (Exodus 7-9): Exodus 7 marks the beginning of the ten plagues that God inflicts on Egypt as part of His plan to free the Israelites from their enslavement. In this chapter, God calls Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh and commands them to perform miraculous signs to convince Pharaoh to let the...
Recommending Documentary: Gaza Fights for Freedom
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - December 20, 2023 05:00 - 5 minutesI recommend to my listeners the amazing documentary, Gaza Fights for Freedom. You can find it free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s It centers on the 21 months of nonviolent demonstrations by Gazans at the border with Israel in 2018-2019.
The Israelites' Cry
Bible Curious - December 17, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 41 (Exodus 4-6): Moses, exiled to the deserts of Midian on the Arabian Peninsula, encounters the great Yahweh Himself, who wants Moses to return to Egypt and demand that Pharaoh let his people, the children of Israel, leave Egypt to worship their God. However, Moses is not confident that he c...
Moses at the Burning Bush
Bible Curious - December 10, 2023 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 40 (Exodus 1-3): When we concluded Genesis, Abraham's grandson Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, had fled from famine in Canaan to settle with his twelve sons and their families in the fertile lands of Egypt. There they lived under the protection of Pharoah and Jacob's second youngest son Josep...
Special Episode: Living Humanly Under Occupation
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - December 01, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutesThe story of my short sojourn in Palestine 22 years ago and what I learned from the Palestinians. This is a slightly revised sermon that I delivered at Pasadena Mennonite Church in August of 2001.
Hacked! The Facebook page was hacked and then suspended by Facebook...Call for end to the genocide in Gaza!
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - November 16, 2023 23:00 - 12 minutesMy personal Facebook page is on the same account as the podcast page. It was hacked and then Facebook suspended it. I have alerted them to the hack and appealed the suspension, but as of this writing it is still suspended. A part of me suspects that this is just Facebook trying to silence those ...
He Who Argues with God
Bible Curious - October 15, 2023 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 39 (Job 40-42): Job stands humbled before the majesty of God, understanding the futility of questioning His rulership over earth. God then takes this moment to give Job and his companions a taste of what it would mean to be ruler over earth, to have authority to bring down the wicked and the ...
Special Episode: The Gospel Made Perfect in Weakness
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - October 13, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutesThe Gospel overturns not just the order of society but our conception of God as well. When Jesus cries out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" we should be shocked. We should not just gloss over the implications of such a statement in this story about God revealed in a human Palestinian...
Out of the Whirlwind
Bible Curious - October 08, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 38 (Job 38-39): At long last, Almighty God Himself appears before Job and his companions, but surprisingly, Yahweh offers His audience more questions instead of answers, and in so doing, takes us on a grand tour of creation. As you listen, notice that this account of creation is quite a bit d...
Where is God My Maker?
Bible Curious - October 01, 2023 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 37 (Job 35-37): The young Elihu is offended that Job accuses God of wrongdoing. He's also offended that Job would question the need to obey God, asking what's in it for me? After all, what's in it for God? Is God harmed by Job's disobedience, or helped by Job's righteousness? How does Job hav...
I am Young and You are Very Old
Bible Curious - September 24, 2023 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 36 (Job 32-34): Job and his three companions had reached an impasse. Job insisted that he had done nothing so wrong that it deserved the punishment he got, and none of his friends could pry out of him a confession of wrongdoing. Now a fifth person, named Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, ente...
Special Episode: The House That Love Built (Sermon)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - September 18, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutesThis episode is a sermon that I delivered at Pasadena Mennonite Church on September 17, 2023. In this sermon I connect the dots between U.S. military and economic aggression abroad with domestic housing justice. The passages cited are: Matthew 12:46-50 Mark 10:29-30 Matthew 6:19-21
My Steps were Washed with Butter
Bible Curious - September 10, 2023 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 35 (Job 29-31): When people experience deep tragedy, does it draw them closer to God, or does it widen their separation? With Job, his immediate reaction was to bless Yahweh, but as the reality of his situation sunk in, he found himself drifting away from his faith, and we can see that Job's ...
Man Who Is a Worm
Bible Curious - September 03, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 34 (Job 24-28): Job, having put God on trial for His many injustices, now makes his closing argument before his three companions, describing a fallen world with no divine intervention, where the mighty are wicked, the poor are wretched, many turn to criminality, and all are equally cut down b...
Why Do the Wicked Live?
Bible Curious - August 27, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 33 (Job 21-23): In the aftermath of Job's astonishing tragedy, a raging debate has broken out between him and his wise friends. Because God is always just, rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked, it follows that Job's anguish must be proof that he has committed a grave offense again...
My Redeemer Lives
Bible Curious - August 20, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 32 (Job 17-20): Last chapter, Job cried: 'Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!' Now Job's anguish reaches a feve...
Announcing the Launch of the MHCH Podcast and a quick reflection on Deut. 15:1-8
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - August 18, 2023 22:00 - 10 minutesThe Making Housing and Community Happen (MHCH) Podcast has launched, telling stories of social transformation and housing justice! You can listen to the first episode here. You can also search for "Making Housing and Community Happen" on your podcast app. You can visit the Making Housing and ...
If a Man Dies, Shall He Live Again?
Bible Curious - August 13, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 31 (Job 14-16): Job sees himself as one unjustly persecuted by God, one whose punishment is completely out of proportion to any wrong he may have committed. Now, Job contemplates the mortality of Man, questioning the finality of death. Shouldn't Man, after he dies, experience life again, as a...
Can You Fathom the Mystery of God?
Bible Curious - July 30, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 30 (Job 10-13): Last chapter, Job complained that it wasn't fair for God, who is not human, to judge Man, who is. Why have a relationship with God, if it only condemns us to His judgment? 'For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment. There ...
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