In this episode, we discuss the fundimentals of how to pray the Psalms. How to pray the exact words of the Psalmist and how to let those words become our own words of prayer to God. Then we enter into practice of praying the Psalms. We look at Psalm 1 that we learned about on Sunday and we pray those words to God.

Most of chapter 11 is dense prophecy. The whole chapter is the recording of a vision Daniel received and the explanation. Job tackled this chapter and reminded us of God's purpose in giving us prophecy. In this podcast Job goes into a few parables Jesus taught that teach us how to approach and view prophecy as well as how to live in light of end times prophecy.

In Daniel chapter 10, the topic of spiritual warfare is unavoidable. We look at the reality of spiritual warfare and the "spiritual realm" as its taught in the Scriptures as well as the protection and victory we have in spiritual warfare.

In this episode, Nick, Bryan & myself discuss Old Testament prophecy & the 70 "sevens" of Daniel chapter 9. We do this from the road as we drive back to Rapid City from meeting with other Alliance pastors in Western Wyoming. We had fun with this episode. We hope you do too!

Daniel chapter 8 is another weird account of a strange prophetic dream. We talk about how we should approach Biblical prophecy & apocalypse, how the prophetic vision from Dan8 played out in history, and what the number "2300 evenings & mornings" ended up meaning, despite the calculations of Isaac Newton and others.

In Daniel chapter 7 things get weird. We acknowledge the difficult nature of apocalyptic literature & Bible prophecies, look at the accuracy of the Bible's descriptions of these empires long before they existed. And we see the significance of Jesus being the "Son of man coming on the clouds." How this speaks to his humanity & divinity in such a subtle way.

This week we look at Daniel chapter 6, the chapter in which we get the famous story of Daniel being thrown into the Lion's den. We consider the Biblical imagery of Lions, whether or not Christians can break the law and a story about Martyrs in the 4th century.

In Daniel chapter 5 we are introduced to King Belshazzar. We look at his route to becoming king and the writings that speak about him. We also look at repentance involving confession to one another and the value of knowing our sins through the practice of examen.

In chapter 4 we see Nebuchadnezzar's sad mental state and how rapidly it deteriorate. But, we see that wasn't the end of his story. This brings up how important the topic of mental health is and how we as Christ Followers can address it in ourselves and in others. How we should talk about it, de-stigmatize it, de-glamorize it and confront the darkness with light.

In this episode on Daniel chapter 3, we look at Nebuchadnezzer's attempt to avoid God's promise, how this chapter has formed Christian polticial ideologies over the centuries, a bit about Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego, and an inspiring example of non-participation in WW2.