Both Matthew and Luke show in grand poetic fashion how Jesus is not only the Messiah, but the very purpose of the entire Law of Moses, Emmanuel, God Himself. And they both do it in Chapter One.

The “New Testament” describes not just a book of scripture but an agreement between God and His people. What is that agreement and how do we keep it?

Mark and Bry revisit the important themes of the Old Testament by reviewing their favorite scriptural Hebrew words. Hilarity ensues.

Our Old Testament course draws to a close, and we discuss Zechariah’s and Malachi’s counsel to their people and their visions of the last days. In their time, and ours, the question is the same: when will the day of the Lord come?

When the Jews returned from exile, it wasn’t a victorious procession back to Jerusalem and a sudden return to faithfulness. It was a long, slow process that required faithfulness and determination from three very important people—Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

The most important message in Daniel wasn’t that we should resist worldly influences over the substances we take in, or that God can save us from a lion’s den, or even a fiery furnace. It is that Christ overcomes the world precisely when it rejects him, and it is delivered—figuratively speaking—straight from the horse’s mouth.

Bry Cox joins the program, for a discussion of the children of Israel in exile. Daniel and his friends refuse the King’s food, survive the fiery furnace and the lion’s den, and Esther saves the Jewish people from a Persian genocide.

Ezekiel’s vision of an idealized temple has everything to teach us about God’s plan, our need for a Savior, what it means when we sin, and how we ourselves are a sanctuary for the Spirit.

When Israel was carried away captive, God promised them a miracle every bit as amazing as raising a valley of dry bones up from the dead. What was the miracle? Believe it or not, it’s God changing YOUR heart!

How could the ancient Israelites have discerned between Yahweh’s prophets and the many false prophets among them? How can we?