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Kyle Worley is joined by Jared Wilson to answer the questions, would you describe Moses as being friends with God?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Would you describe Moses as being friends with God?
• What is friendship with God?

Guest Bio:

Jared C. Wilson serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Author in Residence, and General Editor, For the Church. He is the author of a number of books including but not limited to Gospel Wakefulness, The Prodigal Church, The Pastor’s Justification, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. He also serves as an elder at Liberty Baptist Church. He and Becky have been married for twenty-three years, and they have two daughters: Macy and Grace.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 33:11, John 15:15
• “Friendship with the Friend of Sinners” by Jared Wilson

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley trace the theme of God showing His power through unique signs in Exodus 4:1-9.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What are some places we see God demonstrate His power through unique signs?
• What’s significant about the serpent and the hand?
• What is happening with Moses journey to Egypt?
• To be born again in the New Testament means to be born of water and blood, does that tie into this?
• What about the God fearing pagan assisting and helping God’s people?
• Why do we as the audience keep getting God saying the same thing?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 4:1-9, Judges 6, Exodus 5-6

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Kyle Worley discuss is joined by Matthew Barrett to answer the question, what is the value for non-catholics in learning and reading from ancient catholic theologians?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is the value for non-catholics in learning and reading from ancient catholic theologians?
• What catholic theologian from the early church would you point someone to?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Matthew 16:18
• “On the Incarnation” by Saint Athanasius

Guest Bio:

Matthew Barrett is Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the founder and executive editor of Credo Magazine and the host of the Credo podcast. He is the author of numerous books, such as Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God, God’s Word Alone: The Authority of Scripture, and Canon, Covenant, and Christology: Rethinking Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel.

He is originally from California, receiving his BA from Biola University. He received his MDiv and PhD in systematic theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is married to Elizabeth and they have four children. Dr. Barrett is an elder at Emmaus Church in north Kansas City. 

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the themes found in Exodus 3:1-8.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is the biggest shift of Moses' life from the previous chapter to now?
• Moses is now a shepherd - is that something to note?
• Where else do we find fire in this story or throughout the story of scripture?
• Where else is there a theme of encountering holiness and hiding one's face?
• Who is God?
• What does Yahweh mean? Should we even say it?
• What does God tell Moses is going to happen?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 3:1-8, Genesis 15:17-21, Exodus 13:21, John 8:12, Isaiah 6, Luke 5:8, Revelation 21:23
• “Founding God's Nation” by Leon Kass

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue with the story in Exodus by looking at Exodus 2:23-25.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What has gotten us to this point?
• Why is this moment significant?
• When it says God “remembered?” Does that mean God forgot?
• How does this connect the theme of “crying”?
• What is covenant?
• How are covenants shown throughout the rest of the story of scripture?
• Is there a covenant made in the Garden of Eden?
• How does the Mosaic covenant fit in if the Abrahamic covenant is always in play?

Helpful Definitions:

• Covenant: A promise in which God obligates himself to his people. Through divine initiative, God breaks into human history to reveal himself and to enter relationship in the terms of an oath, with his people.
  • Unilateral Covenant: One party obligates themselves to another party (or parties) in a way that doesn’t presume any conditions on the other party.
  • Bilateral Covenant: Some level of mutuality or mutual exchange in the agreement.
• Pactum Salutis: Also known as the eternal covenant or covenant of grace. Begins in the eternal fellowship of God (the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) by which He makes a covenant to save for Himself a people.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 2:23-25, Genesis 1-3, Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 3:15, Genesis 12, 15, 17, 22, Matthew 1:1, Exodus 19

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue to explore the themes found throughout Exodus as they look at the story of the birth of Moses.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What are some of the birth narratives we see in scripture? What are some things we see in this specific birth narrative we should not miss?
• Do the midwives in this story foreshadow the virgin woman who conceives (Mary)?
• What are some other birth narratives the lead to deliverance in the Bible?
• What happens to Moses immediately following his birth?
• What is the word for basket that is used here?
• How does the theme of rivers show up here?
• How does the theme of water show up in the Story of the Bible?
• What about the crying in this story? Is crying a biblical theme?

Helpful Definitions:

• Tebah (תֵּבָה): Hebrew word for a box, chest. Used to describe the ark of Noah.
• Systematic Theology: Studying doctrine found in scripture.
• Historical Theology: Studying how doctrine has developed over time.
• Biblical Theology: Studying themes found throughout scripture.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 1:15-2:1, Genesis 3:15, Matthew 1-3, John 3:1-21, Numbers 11:15-23, Amos 5:24
• “Founding God's Nation” by Leon Kass

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss Exodus 1:1-11 and trace the themes of multiplication, wicked kings, and exile throughout scripture.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is biblical theology?
• What is an overview of the book of Exodus?
• Where did the idea of multiplication come from?
• How do we see the theme of the wicked kings and serpents throughout scripture?
• How do we see Exile reverberate as a theme beyond Exodus?
• How do these themes show up in other familiar stories?
• How do we see the theme of ineffectual persecution in scripture?
• What is the story of Exodus trying to give us hope in?

Helpful Definitions:

• Systematic Theology: Studying doctrine found in scripture.
• Biblical Theology: Studying themes found throughout scripture.
• Ineffectual Persecution: Where the forces of evil intend to crush the people of God but instead the forces of evil end up being crushed by the living God.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Genesis 15, Genesis 37-50, Exodus 1:1-14, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 3:15, 1 Samuel 17, Revelation 12, 1 Kings 22:29-40, Genesis 3:23-24, 2 Kings 24-25, 1 Peter 1:1
• Knowing Faith: 
  • The Story of Exodus
  • Joseph in Egypt Pt. 1
  • Joseph in Egypt Pt. 2

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the book of Exodus! In this episode they give an overview of central characters, stories, and themes that appear in the book and why the are important.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Jumping into Exodus: What’s the story so far?
• Is the Exodus event the fundamental event of the people of Israel that distinguishes them?
• Is Exodus a book of the Bible or a chapter of a book that has five chapters?
• Who are the central characters in Exodus?
• What are some of the major events?
• What are some major themes we can see in Exodus and throughout the rest of the Bible?
• What is a specific part of Exodus that has impacted your own life?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 33, Proverbs 9:10, Exodus 1:11
• “You are a Theologian” by Jen Wilkin and J.T. English

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Season 11 of the Knowing Faith podcast begins on August 31! In this episode, Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley give you a preview of what is to come in Season 11 as they cover the book of Exodus!

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What are we going to cover this season?
• What are our sister podcast shows?
• Why are we doing all of this?

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Dr. Katie McCoy to ask the question: If God created men and women to live as complements to one another, why do we find so much division and brokenness and confusion between men and women?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• If God created men and women to live as complements to one another, why do we find so much division and brokenness and confusion between men and women?
• How might Greek philosophy have impacted the way we think about these things?
• Has there ever been a time when it has been more confusion to address questions of manhood or womanhood?
• How did Aristotle subvert the Hebrew world view in our own thinking about our faith? Why have we lost this heritage?
• Walk us through the most difficult Old testament law for women to read and help us see how our own presuppositions cause us to fear it and how we should resolve it?
• How would you respond to someone who told you - “Listen, why are you even trying to make this work...the OT is a misogynistic document that subjugates women to male control.”

Guest Bio:

Dr. Katie McCoy, serves as an assistant professor of theology in Women’s Studies at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She holds a Ph.D. from Southwestern in Systematic Theology where she wrote on OT laws about women’s personhood and what they can show us about human dignity. You can find her online @blondeorthodoxy and blondeorthodoxy.com.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” by Carl R. Trueman
• Numbers 5:11-31

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