The Fire and Bones Podcast

On Episode 1 of Season 3, we interview Jonathan Leeman about meaningful church membership. Jonathan is the editorial director for 9Marks. He edits the 9Marks series of books as well as the 9Marks Journal and is the co-host of Pastors Talk. He has written for a number of publications and is the author or editor of a number of books.

Jonathan lives with his wife and four daughters in a suburb of Washington, DC and serves as an elder at Cheverly Baptist Church. He teaches adjunctively at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Reformed Theological Seminary. You can follow him on Twitter at @Jonathan Leeman.

If you're interested in purchasing Jonathan's books, you can find them in the 9Marks bookstore: https://9marks.myshopify.com/search?type=product&q=Leeman

In this last episode of the fall season, Michael and Nathan discuss the text of Revelation 14 and all the events surrounding. We hope you're blessed from a close look at this passage.

This week we discuss the Five Solas of the reformation and what they mean for the church today. We're joined by Blake White who is the pastor of South Side Baptist Church in Abilene and author of Five Solas: The Deliberately Protestant Church. The implications are as central as the doctrine of salvation and as practical as how we interact in small groups.

This week Michael is preparing to preach on the guarding of Jesus' tomb. Who was actually guarding the tomb? Does it matter? Maybe the felt board pictures of Roman soldiers guarding the tomb aren't historically accurate. We also address what is in our worship services. Why that order of service? Why those readings, songs, and prayer?

Michael and Nathan discuss the end times, what scripture says about it, what it doesn't say about it, and much more.

When you open a passage in the Bible how can we begin to understand and apply it? We talk through structure, context, and then move through the cross to application. We were able to record together in person while discussing Job 19 after a Simeon Trust workshop in Austin. Get your Bible out for this one!

How do we approach the text and what is the usefulness of meditation in the process of interpretation? On this episode we discuss our approach to Scripture and the meaning and application of Revelation 12 -- the Dragon and the Woman.

"Calvinism" is a loaded term in our Christian era and culture. What does it mean and is it biblical? This is fundamentally a discussion about the work of God through the whole Bible and what problems the gospel really fixes. Often referred to as the "doctrines of grace", in this episode we discuss the teaching which leads us to the "praise to his glorious grace" (Eph 1). Along the way we discuss the nature of sin, human freedom, and the sovereignty of God.

With so much talk in Christian culture around the identification of the mark of the beast, it's important for Christians to read the scriptures rightly. What is the mark of the beast? Should you worry about being marked? Is the COVID vaccine the mark of the beast? Let's read Revelation 13 and understand it in its context.

Americanity: to cause to acquire or conform to American characteristics. America has developed a vast and varied culture. How does a biblically faithful worldview mesh with American ideals which are prominent today?