SwordPlay

By Alex Flood & Nick Perez

Welcome to your double-edged perspective on Scripture. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another as we thoroughly examine each book, chapter, and verse.... more

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May 23, 2019 SwordPlay - S2E2 - Ruth 2
SwordPlay - S2E2 - Ruth 2
- Who is Boaz? (1)
- Why does Ruth glean the grain after the reapers? (2-3, 7)
- Why would Boaz have to command his servants not to touch Ruth? Was she in danger? (9, 15)
- Did Ruth’s reaction show her view of foreigners or her expectation of an Israelite view? (10)
- Are Ruth’s good deeds counted as a work of faith in God’s eyes? Are works rewarded today? (12)
- Does being under the wings of Yahweh imply an accepted conversion or covenant relationship? (12)
- Is there any significance to Boaz joining his workers at mealtime? (14)
- What was significant about a measure of barley? (17-18)
- How has God not withdrawn His kindness from the dead? (20)
- What does it mean for Boaz to be a kinsman-redeemer? (20)
- What did Naomi mean about the danger of someone falling upon Ruth in another field? (22)
- How long was barley harvest to wheat harvest? (23)
One Minute Sermons
Alex: What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life by Johnny Mathis
Nick: Roxanne by Sting
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May 16, 2019 SwordPlay - S2E1 - Ruth 1
SwordPlay - S2E1 - Ruth 1
- Author: Who wrote Ruth?
- Date: When was Ruth written?
- Purpose: Why was Ruth written?
- What do we know about Moab? (1)
- What significance is there to mentioning a famine in the land? (1)
- Did these Jewish brothers break the Law? (4)
- How precarious would Naomi’s position be without her husband or sons? (5)
- How did God visit His people to give them food? (6)
- Did God determine that Naomi should lose her Husband and sons? (13)
- Is Naomi encouraging her daughter-in-laws to commit idolatry? (15)
- How does Ruth going to Judah relate to her receiving Naomi’s God? What did the Law say? (16)
- Is Naomi correct in attributing her bereavement to God? (20-21)
- Is there any significance to the timing of Naomi’s return and the barley harvest? (22)
One Minute Sermons
- Nick: Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
- Alex: Fields of Gold by Sting
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February 20, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E36 - Col. 4
SwordPlay - Ep. 36 - Col. 4
- How does keeping alert relate to being thankful in prayer? (v.2)
- How does God open doors for the Word? (v.3)
- Did Paul not speak clearly at times? How does his speech factor into being inspired? (v.4)
- Who are the outsiders? (v.5)
- How does Paul relate his speech to the Colossians speech? (v.4, 6)
- Who is Tychicus? (v.7)
- Who is Onesimus? (v.9)
- Who is Aristarchus? (v.10)
- Who is Barnabas and Mark? (v.10)
- Who is Jesus Justus? (v.11)
- Who is Epaphras? (v.12)
- What connection does Colossae have with Laodicea and Hierapolis? (v.13)
- Who is Luke and Demas? (v.14)
- Who is Nympha? What significance is there to the church meeting in her house? (v.15)
- What letter did Paul send to Laodicea? (v.16)
- Were all the New Testament letters meant to be circulated? (v.16)
- Who is Archippus? (v.17)
- What does it mean to “fulfill your ministry”?
- Why would Paul mention his hand writing? (v.18)
- What are some of the major take-away lessons from Colossians?
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1h 3min
February 15, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E35 - Col. 3
SwordPlay - Ep. 35 - Col. 3
- How are we “raised with Christ”? (v.1)
- What is significant about Christ being at the right hand of God? (v.1)
- How do we seek/set our minds on the things above? What are the “things?” (v.1, 2)
- What does it mean for one’s life to be “hidden with Christ in God”? (v.3)
- Why would we mortify (put to death) the earthly things within us? (v.5)
Lightning Round (v.5):
- What is “sexual immorality”?
- What is “impurity”?
- What is “passion”?
- What is “evil desire”?
- What is “covetousness”?
- How does greed amount to idolatry? Is greed literally idolatry? (v.5)
- Who are the sons of disobedience? How will God’s wrath come upon them? (v.6)
Lightning Round II (8):
- What is “anger”?
- What is “wrath”?
- What is “malice”?
- What is “slander”?
- What is “obscene talk”?
- When did the Colossians lay aside the old self and put on a new self? (v.9, 10)
- How are they being renewed? What is the renewal? (v.10-11)
Lightning Round III (12):
- What is “compassion”?
- What is “kindness”?
- What is “humility”?
- What is “meekness”?
- What is “patience”?
- What is forgiveness? How do we forgive as Christ forgave? (v.13)
- What does it look like for “the peace of Christ [to] rule in [our] hearts”? (v.15)
- How does the indwelling of the Word relate to admonishing one another? (v.16)
- What does it mean to do all in the name of the Lord Jesus? (v.17)
- What is the significance of giving thanks? (v.15, 16, 17)
- What does it mean for wives to be subject to their husbands? (v.18)
- What does it mean for a husband to love his wife? (v.19)
- What does it mean for children to be obedient in all things? How old are these children? (v.20-21)
- Tough Text: Does the Bible condone slavery? (v.22, 4:1)
- What if the slave has an evil master? (v.23)
- What is the reward of the inheritance for the slave? (v.24)
- Is there a veiled reference to a certain group being made? (v.25)
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1h 15min
February 07, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E34 - Col. 2
SwordPlay - Ep. 34 - Col. 2
- Why is it for the Colossians sake that Paul rejoices in sufferings? (1:24)
- Why does Paul mention his flesh? (1:24)
- How could Paul fill up Christ’s afflictions? How is Christ lacking affliction? (1:24)
- What is the mystery and how was it hidden? (1:26)
- How is Christ in them? What are the riches and hope of glory? (1:27)
- What does it mean to admonish? (1:28)
- What does it mean to be complete in Christ? (1:28)
- What is the power working in Paul? (1:29)
- How does Paul struggle on their behalf? (2:1)
- How is Christ the true knowledge of God’s mystery? (2:2)
- Why would someone want to argue against what Paul is saying? (2:4)
- How was Paul with them in spirit? (2:5)
- What is the faith? (2:7)
- What did Paul mean by philosophy and empty deception? Tradition of men? Elementary principles of the world? (2:8)
- What does Paul mean that in Christ all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form? (2:9)
- How are we made complete/full in Christ? (2:10)
- Is baptism equivalent to Old Testament circumcision? (2:11-12)
- What is the body of the flesh? (2:11, 13)
- How was our debt certificate hostile to us? (2:14)
- Who are the rulers and authorities and how did the cross disarm them? (2:15)
- Are they being judged for participating or abstaining from certain activities? (2:16-17)
- What is our prize and how would one disqualify us from it? (2:18-19)
- What are the elementary principles of the world and how did we die to them? (2:20)
- What are the things destined to perish with use? (2:22)
- If these are laws of Moses, then why are they called “of men” and “self-made?” (v.22-23)
- What exactly would they do as severe treatment of the body? (2:23)
- Why don’t these help with fleshly indulgence? (2:23)
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1h 25min
January 31, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E33 - Col. 1 - Pt. 2
SwordPlay - Ep. 33 - Col. 1 part 2
- What is redemption? (v.14)
- Is there an early church hymn in ch.1? (v.15-18 or 20)
- What does it mean that Christ is the image of the invisible God? (v.15)
- Is Jesus a created being? (v.15)
- Why contrast heaven and earth, visible and invisible? (v.16)
- What are the thrones, dominions, rulers, and authorities? (v.16)
- How do all things hold together in Christ? (v.17)
- How is Christ the beginning? Firstborn from the dead? (v.18)
- Does Christ not already have first place in everything? (v.18)
- Tough Text: What is the “fullness” and what difference does translation make? (v.19)
- What does reconcile mean? (v.20, 22)
- What did He make peace? (v.20)
- What things in heaven would need to be reconciled? (v.20)
- How would one not continue in the faith? (v.23)
- How could the gospel be proclaimed in all of creation in the first century? (v.23)
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54min
January 30, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E32 - Col. 1 - Pt. 1
SwordPlay - Ep. 32 - Col. 1 part 1
- Who wrote the book of Colossians? (Author)
- To whom was the book of Colossians written? (Recipients)
- When was the letter written? (Date)
- What problems did the Colossian Church have? (Occasion)
- Why was this letter written? (Purpose)
- What relationship does Colossians have with Ephesians and Philemon? (Intertextuality)
- Who are the saints what makes one a saint? (v.2)
- When did the Colossians first hear the gospel? (v.5)
- What does it mean that the gospel is bearing fruit in “all” the world? (v.6)
- Who is Epaphras? (v.7)
- What does it mean to “love in the spirit?” (v.8)
- How does God fill us with the knowledge of His will? (v.9)
- What does it mean to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord? (v.10)
- What’s the difference between the Christian bearing fruit and the gospel bearing fruit? (v.6, 10)
- How do we increase in the knowledge of God in v.10 if God already filled us with the knowledge of His will in v.9? (v.10)
- How are we strengthened with all power? (v.11)
- What is our inheritance? (v.12)
- Who are the saints in light? (v.12)
- What is the domain of darkness? When/how are we transferred? (v.13)
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53min
January 17, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E31 - Nahum 2-3
SwordPlay - Ep. 31 - Nahum 2-3
- Who is the scatterer and who does he come up against? (2:1)
- When did God restore Jacob? Who devastated them? (2:2)
- What are the vine branches? (2:2)
- Who are the “mighty men” and how are they described? (2:3-4)
- Who is the woman and her handmaids? (2:7-8)
- What does the lion imagery represent? (2:11-13)
- What does Yahweh of Hosts mean? (2:13; 3:5)
- Why is Nineveh called a harlot and sorceress? (3:4)
- Tough Text: Why is Yahweh pictured as shaming a naked woman? Is this rape? (3:5-7)
- Why were the children killed during war? (3:10)
- Why are the people under attack called “women?” (3:13)
- How strong were Nineveh’s fortifications? (3:14)
- Which groups are being referred to as locusts? (3:15-17)
- Which king of Assyria is being referenced? (3:18)
- What is the incurable wound? (3:19)
- Are people actually celebrating the downfall of Nineveh? (3:19)
- What do we take away as Christians when studying Nahum?
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January 09, 2019 SwordPlay - S1E30 - Nahum 1
SwordPlay - Ep. 30 - Nahum 1
- Who is Nahum?
- When was this book written?
- To whom did Nahum prophecy?
- How is the book itself structured?
- Do various manuscripts offer any insight?
- How does Nahum’s vision of YHWH differ from what most people think about God today? (1.2-3)
- Why would Nahum mention Bashan, Carmel, and Lebanon? (1:4)
- What does it mean for God to pursue His enemies into darkness? (1:8)
- How are tangled thorns and drunkards related? (1:10)
- Who will be cut off and who was afflicted? (1:12)
- Tough Text: Who was the wicked counselor plotting evil against Yahweh? (1:11, 15)
- Are there allusions from Nahum made in the New Testament? (1:15)
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December 20, 2018 SwordPlay - S1E29 - Jonah
SwordPlay - Ep. 29 - Jonah
- When was Jonah written?
- Who was Jonah?
- What is the occasion and purpose for the book?
- What do know about Nineveh? (1:2)
- What do we know about Joppa and Tarshish? (1:3)
- What does it mean the God hurled a great wind? (1:4)
- How did the sailors know how to pray or sacrifice to Yahweh? (1:14-16)
- What could have swallowed Jonah? (1:17)
- Could it have/Did it happen that Jonah really was swallowed by a fish & survived three days?
- Tough Text: Did Jonah die? (2:2,5,7)
- What is “the pit?” How does ancient cosmology read this verse? (2:6)
- Is Jonah referring to the earthly or heavenly temple? (2:4, 7)
- Why would Jonah mention idols in his prayer? (2:8)
- What did Jonah vow? (2:9)
- Is there a time gap between 2:10 and 3:1?
- Why did the people of Nineveh believe so quickly? (3:5)
- Why would the king think that God can change His mind? (3:9)
- What sort of deeds did Nineveh perform? (3:10)
- Why is Jonah so bitter? (4:2-4, 9)
- Is Jonah holding out hope for destruction? (4:5)
- What does it mean that God appointed the wind and sun? (4:8)
- What makes Nineveh a great city? (1:2; 3:3; 4:11)
- Does God consider animal life when bringing judgement against a city? (4:11)
- What are some New Testament touch points?
- What significance does Jonah hold for the Christian today?
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1h 16min

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