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By Alex Flood & Nick PerezSociety & CultureReligion & SpiritualityChristianitySpiritualityPhilosophy
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- SwordPlay - S2E2 - Ruth 2SwordPlay - 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 (17-18)- How has God not withdrawn His kindness from the dead?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 SermonsAlex: What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life by Johnny MathisNick: Roxanne by Stingview our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review.feel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:46 min
- SwordPlay - S2E1 - Ruth 1SwordPlay - 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 Stingview our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review.feel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:48 min
- SwordPlay - S1E36 - Col. 4SwordPlay - 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?view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review.feel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:1 hr 3 min
- SwordPlay - S1E35 - Col. 3SwordPlay - 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)view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review.feel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:1 hr 15 min
- SwordPlay - S1E34 - Col. 2SwordPlay - 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)view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. Please "Like" us or even write a review.feel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:1 hr 25 min
- SwordPlay - S1E33 - Col. 1 - Pt. 2SwordPlay - 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)Nick's blog:https://notsecretsecret.wordpress.comview our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts or Google Play Music. "Like" us or write a reviewfeel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:54 min
- SwordPlay - S1E32 - Col. 1 - Pt. 1SwordPlay - 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)view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts or Google Play Music. "Like" us or write a reviewfeel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:53 min
- SwordPlay - S1E31 - Nahum 2-3SwordPlay - 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?view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts or Google Play. "Like" us or write a reviewfeel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:1 hr
- SwordPlay - S1E30 - Nahum 1SwordPlay - 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)view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts or Google Play. "Like" us or write a reviewfeel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:50 min
- SwordPlay - S1E29 - JonahSwordPlay - 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?view our website:swordplay.cast.rockssearch "swordplay" in iTunes podcasts or Google Play. "Like" us or write a reviewfeel free to re-post to social mediasend questions and comments to:1 hr 16 min
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