The BEMA Podcast

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The BEMA Podcast episodes

November 20, 2025 486: Vice & Virtue — Temperance
Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Elle Grover Fricks talk about the virtue of temperance.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
“A Thousand No’s for Every Yes” — YouTube
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom
Face with Steam From Nose — Emojipedia
Dedicated by Pete Davis
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48 min
November 13, 2025 485: Vice & Virtue — Prudence
Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé dive into the virtues by talking about prudence (or wisdom).
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon
The Gospel of Being Human by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent
Inspired by Rachel Held Evans
BEMA 454: Qohelet Goes Off
Ordet (1955 film) — Letterboxd
The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom
Reed on Instagram
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1 hr
November 10, 2025 484: Dallas Jenkins — It Would Have Been Enough (Bonus Episode)
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back again with Dallas Jenkins to mull over the questions that arose from Seasons 4 and 5 of The Chosen.
The Chosen
The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia
The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb
This Is Not a Pipe — Wikipedia
Roundtable Discussion on the Women’s Supper
The Chosen Adventures (2025 TV series)
Dayenu in Many Languages — The Chosen, YouTube
Special Guest: Dallas Jenkins.
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58 min
November 06, 2025483: Annie F. Downs — That Sounds Fun
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Annie F. Downs, bestselling author, speaker, prolific podcaster, and “Queen of Fun.”
Annie’s upcoming events (Tour with Cain, etc.)
Let’s Read the Gospels Podcast
That Sounds Fun Podcast
That Sounds Fun 965: Jonathan Roumie
Annie’s Recommended Episodes
That Sounds Fun 906: Jonathan Merritt and Dr. James Merritt
That Sounds Fun 964: John Eldredge
That Sounds Fun 898: John Eldredge
That Sounds Fun 388: John Eldredge
That Sounds Fun 281: John Eldredge
That Sounds Fun 210: John Eldredge
That Sounds Fun 877: Esau McCaulley
That Sounds Fun 485: Esau McCaulley
That Sounds Fun 291: Dr. Matthew Sleeth
That Sounds Fun 178: Dr. Matthew Sleeth
That Sounds Fun 879: Dr. Scot McKnight
That Sounds Fun 494: Dr. Scot McKnight
That Sounds Fun 977: Lisa Harper
That Sounds Fun 504: Lisa Harper
That Sounds Fun 40: Lisa Harper
Remember God by Annie F. Downs
Where Did TJ Go? by Annie F. Downs
Single Purpose League
Cross Point Church
The UGA Wesley Foundation
Pastoring Singles
Blurry Creatures Podcast
Annie F. Downs’s website
Special Guest: Annie F. Downs.
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54 min
November 03, 2025 482: The Chosen S5E8 — “The Upper Room, Part 2” (Bonus Episode)
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings bring the analysis of Season 5 of The Chosen to a close with a discussion of the eighth episode.
The Chosen
The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia
The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb
Leil Shimurim — Chabad
Gethsemane — Blue Letter Bible
“Flee as a Bird” by Mary S. B. D. Shindler (1842) — A Cappella Hymns, YouTube
“Flee as a Bird” by Mary S. B. D. Shindler (1842) — The Cyber Hymnal
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36 min
October 30, 2025 481: Vice & Virtue — Sloth
Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé talk about the capital vice known as sloth—or rather, acedia.
David Hume’s Moral Philosophy: The Natural Virtues — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Making All Things New by Henri Nouwen
Inside Out 2 (2024 film)
Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Acedia & Me by Kathleen Norris
The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy
BEMA 2: Knowing When to Say “Enough”
1 Corinthians 3 — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship
BEMA 400: Talmudic Matthew — Salt
BEMA 401: Talmudic Matthew — Light
BEMA 402: Talmudic Matthew — Lightly Salted
Mark 11 (aroma reference) — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
BEMA 136: Each One
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
“Patient Trust” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Followers, Not Admirers” by Søren Kierkegaard in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter
Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila — Catholic Health Association of the United States
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Calorie — Wikipedia
Canada Geese and Diet Dr. Pepper — The Anthropocene Reviewed
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1 hr 16 min
October 27, 2025 480: The Chosen S5E7 — “The Upper Room, Part 1” (Bonus Episode)
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue analyzing Season 5 of The Chosen with a discussion of the seventh episode.
The Chosen
The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia
The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb
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37 min
October 23, 2025 479: Vice & Virtue — Wrath
Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about wrath (and anger and revenge).
“Goodbye Earl” by The Chicks — YouTube
Slow to Anger — BibleProject
“Justice” by George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons — The Literature Network
Brent reads “Justice” by George MacDonald on Instagram
Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Steve Holt! — YouTube
The West Wing S1E3, “A Proportional Response” (Part 1) — YouTube
The West Wing S1E3, “A Proportional Response” (Part 2) — YouTube
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1 hr 4 min
October 20, 2025 478: The Chosen S5E6 — “Reunions” (Bonus Episode)
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue analyzing Season 5 of The Chosen with a discussion of the sixth episode.
The Chosen
The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia
The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb
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38 min
October 16, 2025 477: Vice & Virtue — Envy
Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about envy.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999 film) — Letterboxd
Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
“The Other Six Deadly Sins” by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom
No Exit (1944 play) by Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
BEMA 39: A King After God’s Own Heart
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1 hr 3 min

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The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible and the Text itself, as well as surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them…