Making Sense of Life Through The Biblical Story Podcast

As we’ve been tracking the Story, it’s become apparent that Israel is going to need a king if they are going to experience the blessings YHWH has offered them. In today’s episode, as we look at the life of Samuel, the Last Judge, we’ll see Israel decide that they do, indeed, want a king. But the king they desire turns out to be an explicit rejection of the very thing they need. To see how that plays out, let’s get into the Story.

In today’s episode, were going to focus on another of the godly women of the Story, and the important role given her. Her name is Hannah, and by most accounts, she would probably be considered a minor character, and yet she advances the Story in a surprising and significant way.

In today’s episode, we’ll be looking at the story of Ruth, a godly woman, who although she was a Gentile, and a Moabite at that, moves the Story forward by being faithful to the role entrusted to her. 

In this weeks podcast, we will see the Promise to Abraham fulfilled as Joshua leads Israel to finally take possession of  the Promised Land.

In today’s episode, we’re going to get a glimpse of the future as we look at the Song of Moses presented in Deut 32. This glimpse is going to provide some important details that will help us understand the path of the Story takes between Moses and our time, and also where we can expect it to head in the future.

In today’s episode, we’re going to look at the Larger Spiritual Reality in which the Story occurs. This aspect of the Story often gets neglected, causing us to mishandle the parts of the Story we tend to focus on. Now, a big part of the reason it gets overlooked is because we only catch glimpses of it here and there. So, today, we’re going to take a little different approach — we’re going to step back and take a collective look at some of these glimpses that are spread throughout the Story. We won’t try to be nail down all the details given about this Larger Spiritual Reality now; we just want to understand enough about it to make sense of Deuteronomy 32, which we’ll talk about next week.

In today’s episode, we’re going to look at the choice that Israel faced in the Mosaic Covenant — the blessings that would come with obedience, and the cursing that unfaithfulness would bring.

In this episode, we’re going to review God’s faithfulness to Israel in the first of 3 speeches that Moses makes to the 2nd Generation of Israelites. This will lay the foundation for the commitment required of Israel in the Covenant that will be laid out in the 2nd speech. The book of Deuteronomy is built around these three speeches.