This week we continue the story of Cain. After slaying his brother, he is cursed from the ground. What does this mean? What is his future as a wanderer? What is being shown in the generations that come from him culminating in Lamech and his violent song?

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

This week we begin the story of Cain and Abel - why does God not look upon Cain’s sacrifice with favor? What is ritual sacrifice? Why was this so central to ancient worship? We will also examine God’s warning to Cain regarding sin - and when Cain does not master sin and kills his brother, what will God do?

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

What exactly happens in the Fall? Why is there a talking snake? Why does this one act of humanity fracture everything in the created world? This week, we discuss all this and more as we cover all of Genesis 3.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

In part two of this week’s episode, we see the creation of woman and the pre-fall sacrament of marriage. We will also look at The Tree of Life and The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. What does it mean to have access to the Tree of Life? Why do the humans not have access to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Why would God put a tree in the garden that the humans are not allowed to eat from?

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures.

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

This week, in a special two-part episode, we look at Genesis 2 - Genesis 2 is a second account of Creation that zooms in on the creation of man. It gives us a fresh look from a different angle about humanity, identity, sex and gender, marriage, and other things that Genesis 1 does not show. Humanity is created as dirt + divine breath (spirit) with two priestly tasks: Work and guard the garden, and take the glory of God that is in the garden to the rest of the world.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

After repeatedly saying, “Let there be…” prior to creating, before the creation of humans God says, “Let US make…” (Gen. 1:26). Who is the “us?” Is it the Trinity speaking to itself or is there something more going on here? While the Trinity is certainly at work (because God is Trinity), it seems there is more going on. This week, we will highlight something that comes up repeatedly in the story of Scripture and is specifically related to the “Spirit” aspect of our methodology: the Divine Council.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

This week, we continue our journey through Genesis 1. On the first three days of creation, God took a chaotic world that was not fit for life, and He brought to it order, beauty, and goodness - He prepared it in love to fill it with life. This week, we take a look at the next three days of creation. God fills his prepared world with life.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

Let’s begin! This week, we start our trek through the Bible with the creation story. In the first three days of creation,  you will see God take a world that is chaotic and disordered (and therefore without life) and pull order, beauty and goodness out of it. This is God’s hospitable preparation for the life with which He will go on to fill His creation.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

This week we dive into the book of Jonah and go through it from beginning to end. Why does Jonah flee from the call of God? Why is he so mad that the Ninevites repent? Shouldn’t this make him happy? And what does this strange story have to do with Jesus? We explore all of this in this episode of Story / Symbol / Spirit.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.

This week and next we will apply the Story / Symbol / Spirit grid to the book of Jonah. These two episodes will be a teaser to show how this will work as we go through the entire Bible together. Jonah is a prophet within the history of Israel. Who is Jonah? Where does he fit in the story of Israel’s kings and prophets? What does the rest of the Old Testament tell us about Jonah? We explore all of this in this episode of Story / Symbol / Spirit.

Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.

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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?

We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.