"He really didn’t do much. He didn’t lead Israel out of Egypt. He didn’t call fire down from heaven. He didn’t raise the dead. He didn’t survive a world flood. He mostly lived out in the wilderness and raised some good sheep and cattle. But God promised to do something incredible through him and his seed, and without him everything afterwards falls apart."

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as the discuss Abraham, who his seed are, and justification by faith.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/by-faith-abraham?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"As promised, we will talk about dinosaurs today – dinosaurs and the deification of the dead – and I hope we’ll get to Abraham as well, but let’s start with dinosaurs."

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they discuss dinosaurs, the implications of the cultural shift from Dragons to Dinosaurs, and what past cultures believed about the diety of the dead.

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/i-believe-in-dragons?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=truehttps://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/i-believe-in-dragons?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"We left off last time right on the precipice before the Tower of Babel..."

Mankind reached for godhood, building a tower they imagined was unto heaven, building a society in rebellion to God's command to "Fill the earth." God quickly showed them that wasn't going to happen.

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they discuss the post-flood world,

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-tower?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What are the sons of God in Genesis 4? What was the actual scope of the flood? What happened to culture after the flood? Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss all this and more in this week's episode.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/htz-2023-12-28?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss the way culture grew in the first 2,000 years of history, from Cain and Abel to the flood and the technology and other advancements of the time.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-world-before-the-flood?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

"I think we’re wrapping up and beginning the long trudge through 6,000 years of human history."

Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss what exactly we are looking forward to, what (who) the substitute really is, and the aspects of a good story that we get directly from God's storytelling.

Transcript:

https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/674540dc-48dc-43a4-845b-f2f380bc11dc

"What are the framing ideas to the way we look at history?"

Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss how and why sin affects our actions and our perception of history.

Transcript:

https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/32ae0b7c-ef65-496a-87f9-20e166c37e4d

Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss God's commandment to "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth," what being the image of God means, and the implications of continued Christian growth and fellowship in eternity.

Transcript:

https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/daf67e49-f950-46ca-a59e-a9103fd9f792

As we enter season 3, we welcome our new host, Rachel Voytek, to join Greg Uttinger and Emily Maxson. In this new season, we're focusing on World History and Church History, and how they relate.

And as any discussion of history should, we start at the beginning... again.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/in-the-beginning-again?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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