“Thou art a God of mercy — now kill me!” Pastor Eric Brown and Thomas Lemke read about Jonah’s frustrations at the fate of the Ninevites — not to mention his shade! Then, we begin our next book. In the Inquisition, Pastor Brown discloses his favorite of the Gospel accounts, and why. Thomas answers a […]

The tongue has great power — but that gag reflex, though! Pastor Eric Brown and Thomas Lemke read about Jonah’s return to dry land, and his successful preaching gig in Nineveh. Too successful, for the prophet’s taste. Speaking of taste (in a sense Ezekiel would have been familiar with), in this episode we debut a […]

Man overboard! Jonah finds God again as he face hits the water, and he prays what is (in Tom’s estimation) some of the most beautiful verse in the whole Bible. Come along with your hosts, Pastor Eric Brown and Thomas Lemke, as we crack wise about the second — and somewhat more smelly — leg […]

Count It All Joy is back, and we’re diving right in to… well, the belly of the whale, as it were. Come along with your hosts, Pastor Eric Brown and Thomas Lemke, as we read about God graciously sending His word to an unrighteous people. Much to Jonah’s chagrin. In the third segment, the Inquisition, […]

In this, our last Count It All Joy Show episode (at least for now), we tackled all of Mark chapter 10, including such goodies as Jesus’ thoughts on divorce, the disappointment of a good Jewish boy,  the disciples jockeying for the awesome positions in Jesus’ earthly kingdom, and the healing of yet another blind man! […]

In this episode we got to the story of the healing of the boy with the unclean spirit. Pastor commented on his love for the boy’s father’s confession, “I believe, help my unbelief”, and on the interesting nature of the disciples’ failure to cast out the spirit. Then Jesus gets down to some more teaching […]

Peter gets too big for his britches and tells Jesus that the cross is folly, and Jesus sets him straight. Then, they take a trip up a mountain where Jesus, like Moses and Elijah before him, has a mountaintop experience – with Moses and Elijah! The disciples are dumbfounded by this transfiguration, and admit to […]

Jesus returns to the area where he had cast out the Legion, and heals a deaf man with considerably less spectacle. Then he tests the disciples’ memories with another multi-thousand feeding, and fun with numbers ensues. The disciples still don’t get it, and we have another healing – one of a blind man who curiously […]

After once again mingling with the people and healing various afflictions, Jesus gets to go to another dinner party with the Pharisees, who use the opportunity to criticize the disciples’ personal hygiene (and then some). After putting them in their place, Jesus heads up North and meets a woman with a demon-afflicted daughter, and shows […]

Things start off nice with Jesus sending out the disciples to heal and teach in various and sundry towns. Then Mark throws in a little flashback to bring us up to speed on our Lord’s cousin John, and wouldn’t you know it if we don’t feel a little sympathy for Herod in the mix. Then […]