Matt and Josh explore Israel’s role as a family that embodies God’s reign, God’s promise for humans to share in his divinity and rule, and a nuanced view of God’s judgment.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
00:35 Advent Season
06:31 Christmas Movies
10:48 Recap (Kingdom of God vs. Empires of the Powers)
13:26 Subplots of the Bible
16:04 The Divine Promise (Gen 12)
22:21 Israel Embodying God’s Reign
26:42 Deuteronomy’s Warnings
28:45 Less-Than-Ideal Kingdom
34:21 Israel’s Failure
40:43 God’s Justice in the Bible
51:41 Exiled from God’s Reign (Again)
52:40 The Hope of the Prophets (The Return of the Kingdom)
59:14 Waiting for the King
01:03:14 Outro

Books or references: The Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Greg Boyd; Flood and Fury by Matthew J Lynch

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Matt and Josh discuss the Bible’s answer to what is wrong with the world. They take another look at the fall through the lens of humanity losing their role in creation and subjecting themselves to the gods or powers of the nations.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
00:35 Happy Late Thanksgiving
01:57 One Battle After Another and Netflix
06:52 What’s Wrong with the World? (Gen 3-11)
15:07 Heaven and Nothing in Creation
24:42 Humanity’s Fall from Heaven (Gen 3)
44:28 Nephilim and the Kingdom of the Powers (Gen 6-11)
01:04:40 Thinking about the Powers Today
01:10:00 The Problem in the Biblical Story
01:21:35 Next Time
01:24:02 Outro

Books or references: The Emergence of Sin by Matthew Croasmun

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Matt and Josh discuss what it looks like to live under God’s reign by exploring Genesis 1-2 and the meaning of the incarnation in the context of creation.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:36 Sex in the City and Zombies
07:00 God’s Administration
12:27 God’s Reign in Genesis 1
17:06 God’s Reign in Genesis 2
28:35 Incarnation as the Goal of Creation
43:29 Questions that Come Up
46:57 Outro

Books or references:
The Lost World of Adam and Eve by John Walton

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Matt and Josh begin a new series on the theme of the Gospel of the Kingdom. They explore what the Gospel isn’t and introduce the idea of God’s Kingdom.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
00:36 What We’re Watching
03:41 New Chairs, New Series
04:24 Kingdom of God in Church
08:23 Different Churches Spiritual Formation
15:00 The Kingdom Is the Gospel
16:38 Guaranteed Prosperity Is Not the Gospel
20:31 The Gospel Is Not Transactional
30:40 Justification Is Not the Gospel
33:51 Social Progress Is Not the Gospel
35:58 The Gospel Transforms the Whole Life
40:49 The Kingdom as Theme and Story
46:54 Outro

Books or references:
Jesus and the Victory of God by NT Wright

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Matt and Josh respond to questions, including: “Why should we care about what the early church thought?” “Is the Bible God’s Word?” and “Is Josh a real scientist?”

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Q&A or Q&R
01:42 - Why Is Our Couch So Ugly?
03:13 - Why Talk about Movies?
06:07 - Why Care about the Early Church?
22:39 - Are New Interpretations Dangerous?
28:03 - Is the Bible “God’s Word”?
43:38 - Does the Bible Talk about Dinosaurs?
50:51 - Reading Revelation Responsibly
55:42 - Outro

Reading Revelation Responsibly by Michael Gorman

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Matt and Josh discuss how to read the Bible with the end of the world in mind, and why it shapes how we live as the Church today.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - What We’re Watching
04:05 - Catching Up
05:26 - Should Gentile Christians Appropriate Jewish Culture?
12:02 - The Role of the Spirit in Bible Reading
19:57 - Recap and Figural Reading
22:07 - Jesus and Jewish Eschatology
25:01 - Reading the Bible Eschatologically
29:56 - Living Now as Eschatological People
35:18 - Reading Song of Songs in All 4 Senses
44:06 - The Fruit of Reading Scripture
46:52 - Outro

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Happy Halloween! Matt and Josh discuss the moral sense of Scripture and how morality is not the goal of the Christian life, but a byproduct of being a community united with God’s Spirit. They also discuss what it means for the Bible to be “authoritative,” and if that is an appropriate word to describe how the Bible should function in the community of believers.

Books or references:
Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues by NT Wright

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Josh Likes Smells
02:37 - Our Buddy Mac DeMarco
04:57 - New Movies
07:15 - Happy Halloween!
12:59 - How Does the Bible Shape Our Morals?
18:54 - The Instructive Story of the Bible
25:47 - Is the Bible “authoritative”?
29:01 - Renewing Our Minds and How Not to Cherry-Pick Verses
37:23 - The Apostles Didn’t Prooftext
44:11 - Wrestling with the Narrative in Community
49:17 - What If My Community Isn’t Loving?
53:42 - Reading Scripture Across Denominations
57:24 - Outro

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Matt and Josh discuss why Biblicism doesn’t take the Bible seriously and examine how the Bible is designed to be read typologically, with patterns that unify all the books into a grand narrative fulfilled in Jesus.

Books or references:
Why Biblicism is Bad! by Michael Bird
Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Richard B. Hays
God’s power or human violence: The meaning of the Virgin birth by Esau McCaulley

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Catching Up with Josh and Anglicanism
05:53 - Important TV
07:56 - Recap
09:06 - Why Biblicism Is Bad!
15:47 - Reading the Bible Isolated and Flatly
23:43 - What is Biblical Typology?
27:06 - Ex. 1 The Destroyed Temple Type
30:56 - Understanding Jesus through Patterned Types
34:17 - Ex. 2 The Suffering Servant Type
40:04 - Ex. 3 Did Isaiah Predict Jesus’s Birth?
49:05 - The Beautiful Complexity of the Bible
51:35 - Ways This Can Go Wrong
56:18 - Outro

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