Episode 132: Abraham and the Three Mysterious Visitors
This week we are beginning Torah portion Vayera, which covers the time from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah to the Akeida in chapter 22.…
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Episode 131: Hospitality, Travel, and Family in the Bible
Well, I was planning on doing a teaching on patience but that isn’t going so well lately so I decided that this was the perfect…
Episode 130: Being like Jesus–Kindness
Kindness is complicated. It’s a lot different than just being nice because Jesus wasn’t always nice but He was always kind. Being nice is just…
Episode 129: Being like Jesus—Goodness and the Holy Spirit
Well, whenever someone says goodness is how to be like Jesus, it makes me want to say, “Well, duh…” but what does goodness even mean?…
Episode 128: Being like Jesus—Faithfulness
What faithfulness means to us today and what the Greek word pistis meant to Paul are sort of the same but also very different. Fortunately,…
Episode 127: Being like Jesus—Gentleness
Mercy is a huge thing in the Bible and so we would expect Jesus to not only teach about the importance of being merciful but…
Episode 126: Being like Jesus—Self-Control
It’s one thing to say that Jesus had every single fruit of the Spirit to perfection, but quite another to look at what that really…
Episode 125: Your Prayers Don’t Have to Be Perfect!
Have you ever been scared to pray because you don’t want to say the wrong thing or because you are afraid that you can’t trust…
Episode 124: Being like Jesus—Forgiveness
Forgiveness is hard to understand and even harder to do. Grownups ask me all the time about what forgiveness is and isn’t, and if it…
Episode 123: The Lech Lecha Story
We are about halfway through the story of Abraham in the Bible. His life story in Genesis is traditionally divided into two “Torah Portions”–Lech Lecha…