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The prophet Jeremiah used the phrase "new covenant" to describe God's restored relationship with Israel. That phrase was crucial to the way Jesus described what God was doing through him, and the apostles picked it up. It has come to represent the documents of the New Testament itself.

In this third installment of their series "Old in the New," John and Ron turn their attention to this crucial phrase.

This is the fourth episode in the Introduction to the Bible series John and Ron first released several years ago.  In this episode, they turn their attention to the New Testament for the first time.

When they first released this episode several years ago, John and Ron solicited ideas for series.  The series they suggested, the Sermon on the Mount, actually happened!  You can find it on their website.

However, suggestions are still welcome.  Send us a message at [email protected].  We'd love to hear from you.

"No New Testament without the Old" ... John and Ron have repeated it over and over. In this episode they look at how the apostle Paul quoted the Old Testament in his first letter to the Corinthians.  

According to them, Paul's point was intellectual humility, although he had a point to make about hope, too. He reached for the Old Testament multiple times to support his argument.

John and Ron tackle the majority of the Old Testament in this third of the series where they introduce the Bible in just five episodes!

From the Historical Books to the Writings to the Prophets ... they cover it all in a whirlwind tour.  The goal, though, is the big picture, and they argue the Old Testament sets up a problem the New has to solve.

John and Ron open their new series, Old in the New, with a study of Peter's sermon at Pentecost, Acts 2. How did Peter rely on his Bible, the Old Testament, to interpret what they had seen up to that day?

This is the second installment in John and Ron's whirlwind five episode introduction to the Bible as a whole.  Here they conclude their discussion of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible.

In the next episode, John and Ron will begin their series on the Old Testament in the New.

John and Ron conclude their series on Faith and Reason with this episode. In a wide ranging discussion, they cover everything from Galileo's discoveries to modern biblical criticism.

As we enter the summer of 2024, John and Ron are wrapping up a series on Faith and Reason. They will finish that series in the episode after this one.

Through the summer they plan to release a series of episodes called The Old Testament in the New. They will examine places where the New Testament quotes or alludes to the Old. 

When they do that, it will help to have the big picture of how the Bible is put together. The Bible is a complex set of documents assembled over a vast period of time. When the New Testament relies on the Old, it makes more sense when you know how those pieces fit together.

To help with that, John and Ron are re-releasing a series they produced a few years ago. It is a survey of the whole Bible in just five episodes! Over the summer, they will intersperse these episodes from the Bible survey with newer episodes on the Old Testament in the New.

This episode begins the re-release, and it is the first in that Bible Survey series. Thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy the new series along with the encore.

What does it mean to "bet on God"?! That's the question as John and Ron read through portions of the classic argument called "Pascal's Wager." They introduce Pascal himself, and they tease out what he was trying to say.

In this episode, John and Ron turn their attention to Anselm, a medieval archbishop of Canterbury.  They walk through Anselm's "ontological proof" for the existence of God -- and then argue the proof isn't really what mattered to Anselm!