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Thanks for listening! This is the first of three episodes on the story of Noah. We hope it is fruitful for you as you are figuring out what it looks like to be a Christian in the 21st century. We appreciate your support. Feel free to follow us on whatever platform you are listening to this on, give us a rating, and share this episode with a family member, friend, neighbor, etc. who you think would benefit from it!

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Thanks for listening! We had a blast talking with the band Felix as they let us in on their EP, "The Benediction." Please share this with your friends and make sure to go listen to their EP wherever you stream music. All music used in this episode was from the band, and we have been given permission to use their content. Songs used in order: Joyful Joyful, Amazing Grace, Nothing but the Blood, Run (For the Joy).

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thanks for listening! In this episode, we discuss the beginning of Genesis 6. This high contested passage has a sole message that we often miss because of the attention-grabbing nephilim. We appreciate your support. Feel free to share this episode with a friend, family member, neighbor, or anyone else you know. Also, if you aren't already following us, we would love to have you join us on our journey through Genesis.

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In this episode, we discuss the genealogies from Adam that lead up to Noah. We appreciate your support. Feel free to share this episode with a friend, family member, neighbor, or whoever else you know! We would love for you to join the community by following us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you are listening. We hope you enjoy!

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Today on the podcast we sat down with Austin Koukal about his album, "Broken." We talked about the story behind the album, the album art, and the process of writing the album. We hope you enjoy!

All of the music in this podcast was from Austin's album "Broken," and we have been given permission to use it by the artist. Music used in order: Heavenly Country, Broken, Broken Rainbow, Doubt, Fading Wind, Vivid, I Know.

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Thanks for listening to the episode! Today on the podcast, we talked about the Cain and Abel story in Genesis 4. We appreciate all of your support! Feel free to share this episode with a friend, family member, neighbor, and/or anyone else you may know. Let's go on this journey together through the book of Genesis.

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Welcome to narratology! Join us as we attempt to view the Bible in a unique and fresh way. Come along on the journey with us! Feel free to follow us and rate and review our podcast. Produced by: Matthew Lindh and Brett Johnson Instagram: narratology.podcast

Welcome to the third episode in our Genesis series. Today, we hop into the story of human's exile from the garden.

2:10 - 22:00 Matthew and Brett start discussing Genesis 3. They both bring up the main theme of the episode, anxiety. Brett explains that the serpent will use anxiety in humans to get what he wants. They also discuss the act of taking throughout the Old Testament and what that theme looks like, starting with Adam and Eve taking the fruit in the garden.

22:20 - End: The knowledge of good and evil was meant for God, but humans wanted to take it for themselves. Now, the world will never be the same. Guilt, blame-shifting, toil, and fomo towards our favorite people, events, and experiences.

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Welcome to the second episode in our Genesis series.

Introduction (0:43 - 16:34) Matthew and Brett introduce to the listener the importance of a good ordinary world in a story. This ordinary world brings the consumer of the story into the world they are experiencing. It does this through three main connection points: presenting a good setting, laying the foundation for relatable characters, and planting the seed for the main conflict or journey of the story.

Part 1 (16:54 - 29:03) Finding Nemo is a great example of a story that exemplifies a good ordinary world. In this section, Matthew and Brett show just how great the first five minutes really are. “The ordinary world is your home base. As you go through the story, the discomfort comes from a yearning for home. You just want to go back.”


Part 2 (29:58 - 38:26) The ordinary world presented in Rocky is a hopeful foreshadowing of his future to come. “Your frame of reference is the single character of Rocky.” Rocky shows himself to be a relatable character because he presents traits that everyone wants to have: confidence, strength, and resilience.

Part 3 (38:55 - 50:50) Matthew and Brett discuss Genesis 2 and its importance in setting up the ordinary world of the Bible. One important insight is that when it comes to Genesis 2, “rest is the backbone of our setting.” Everything is based around and made complete with rest. Our indicator for living in the garden or not is based around our culture of hurry. Other themes discussed are work,

Part 4 (51:29 - 71:10) Finally Matt and Brett discuss the relatable characters in Genesis 2 along with the foreshadowing of the main conflict. Through this, they discuss topics of work, community, passion, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Welcome to episode one in our Genesis series.

In this episode, we focus on Genesis chapter 1 through the lens of the creation of the world in comparison to the creation of an apartment.

Part 1 (1:10-19:42) We get introduced to the original character in this story: God. With no context, this character is mysterious, all we know is that He is creating the world. One thing that we do know very quickly is that this mysterious God is unique from the gods of the cultures and communities around Israel. Next, we find out that this creation of the world is for the goal of humans, seeing that the chapter culminates in the creation of humans.

Brett explains that we as readers need to consider becoming comfortable with Genesis, especially the beginning of Genesis. This is because the rest of the biblical authors are writing with Genesis memorized and ingrained in their bones, and this comes out in their writing. Being comfortable with Genesis allows us as Bible readers to see the rest of the book come alive. He compares this to watching the first 5 minutes of a movie. If you miss that, it would be very difficult to keep up with the rest of the story, because the first 5 minutes of any great movie lays the foundation for the rest of the movie. Being comfortable with the setting and character development in the first few minutes of a movie makes the rest of the movie come alive.

Part 2 (20:10-44:14) The apartment analogy is introduced. It starts as a mess that you can't even walk in. Holes in the wall and ceiling, baseboards are undone, but there is something there and God saw that it was good. This foreshadows Genesis 3 where humans see something that is contrary to God as good. Next, Matthew and Brett talk about looking at Genesis 1 in a literal sense and discuss the firmament and dry land while wearing their "Hebrew sandals." The apartment then gets an upgrade of walls and new flooring so we can now go inside.

Part 3 (44:44-1:09:34) The guys discuss Genesis 1 as being broken into two halves. The first 3 days are about setting up the spaces for things to dwell and days four through six are about inhabiting the spaces. The apartment gets an addition of lights for night and then it's move-in day. The residents of the apartment are humans. These humans were made by God in the image of God.

Brett and Matthew discuss the "Image of God Paradox" where we are made in the image of God in Genesis 1 but yet we doubt that and try to attain the image of God by doing twisted acts. "It is engrained in the human identity to want to be like God, not knowing that it is already true of us."

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