One of the really cool features of the Gospel of Mark is that it can be heard aloud in a little over an hour.  Some folks have even committed the entire Gospel to memory.  
It is the most binge-able Gospel.
Pastor Chris and Pastor Peter take turns reading through.  We hope that you enjoy and we look forward to the ways that this Encouraging Word feeds your heart in following Jesus.  

Come along for a Lutheran dive into the Bible!  
We talk about four key and central ways that Lutherans engage the Bible:

• Law and Gospel (Comfort for the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable)
• What Shows Forth Christ (the Bible as the Cradle for God's love in Jesus)
• Scripture interpreting scripture (context matters!)
• The Plain Meaning of the Text (the Bible is not the Davinci code)
• Public Interpretation (we read best when our stories and God's stories meet)

In this episode, we look at how people's lived experience, their surroundings, challenges, joys, and time period shaped the way they encountered God.  You will also hear:

• Some good historical questions worth asking a text
• Why isn't the Bible as concerned with exact historical fact
• Does God's story tell the history of the winners or the losers/ordinary?
• An Encouraging Word!

Join us for a conversation about a literary (not literal) reading of scripture.  Dust off those metaphors and personification, because we are diving into the words within the Word.  
You will also hear:

• All the different kinds of Scripture genres (or at least a major chunk of them)
• A quick take on a prophetic passage
• Whether some types of writing in Scripture holds more weight or power
• How the Bible itself responds to questions of literal-"ism" and imagination

In this episode, Pastor Chris gets Lectio Bovina.   Put the coffee on or add an extra tea bag and let this podcast about letting Scripture seep in, seep in.

In this episode, Pastor Peter tackles the second library of material as the people of the Way of Jesus goes global.

In this episode, you will hear an overview of this amazing compendium of diverse voices and encounters with the incarnate God, as well as attend to the questions of chronology and authorship in the New Testament.  These 27 books, as well as all the faith and witness behind them, have truly transformed the world, and still are today.  You will also hear:

• How the order and canonization of the NT was constructed
• What we do with the multi-perspective-ness of the NT (4 Gospels)?
• The urgency of these writings, born out of struggle and crises (maybe like our own today in pandemic...)
• An Encouraging Word in how God continues to speak promise for/in/through us today!

This is our GENESIS episode and an experiment with this new format in an unusual time.  Thank you for listening and joining in.   Forgive some of the mic issues.  We are still learning!

In this episode, Pastor Chris starts us off with an overview of the Old Testament or Hebrew Scripture, some of the ways that it is constructed, as well as the variety of stories that it represents for God's faithful.  
You will also hear:

• A smorgasbord understanding of the Biblical witness
• A good place to start when reading the OT again 
• How the OT is really comfortable with a variety of perspectives
• Did Moses write the Torah or Pentateuch (first 5 books)?
• What if we are worried about encountering an angry God in the OT?
• An Encouraging Word!