Paul has a little bit to say about Bishops and reveals his primary reason for writing this letter to Timothy. 

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a masterpiece. It's a song about life, and love, and sex, and loss... but is it about God? 

Paul said women can't speak in church, but what would he say to Deborah?

A lesson on prayer and we discuss verses 11-12:
"Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent."

Why did Paul write this? 
Should we still abide by it? 
What does the rest of the Bible say?

Also, I will be posting my lesson from last year on Deborah as a companion to this podcast. 

How do we grieve? As people of faith, and even as people who struggle with faith, what do we do with pain, or emptiness? 

Grief is a bigger part of life than we want to admit. Our grief is obvious when we lose a loved one, but less obvious at other times. Good things can even cause us to grieve, like moving for a better job, becoming an empty nester, and retiring. 

In this episode we talk about all of this and more. 

No one likes to talk about death, but the undeniable truth is that we are all going to die. The Bible has a lot to say about death, and what comes after. 

How do you describe God? What are you thankful for?

The last chapter of Romans. 

Paul tells us the secret to happiness and why he wrote Romans.

If you want to eat meat, eat meat!
If you don't, don't. 

Let others do what they think is best, and don't judge.