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Resurrection is Lived Out in Physical Bodies
While we’ve been taught that the goal of life is to leave our bodies behind and join God in spiritual form in the spirit world, resurrection (a core belief that Christianity stands and falls on according to Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:12-19) is actually about being given new physical bodies to live in. Throughout 1…
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Abraham and Lot Split Up
Is Lot’s decision to move towards Sodom as neutral as it appears at first? We take a look at a few Bible clues to address that question. Check out today’s episode and then join us on our Discord channel! https://www.jxncloud.com/discord
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Resurrection Takes Place on Earth
I, like a million other people, really enjoyed the Left Behind series growing up. Maybe it was my love for sci-fi and fantasy or maybe it was the allure of the possibility that Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins were right in all of their predictions of how the book of Revelation would play out.…
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Genesis Presents: A Trilogy of Sister-Wife Lies
There are three stories in the book of Genesis that all sound very similar. In each one, a man tells his wife to pretend they’re not married, giving way to weird and awkward scenarios. Today we take a look at those three stories and discuss them. Check out today’s episode and then join us on…
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Jesus’ Favorite Message
One of Jesus’ favorite themes to preach on was the Kingdom of Heaven—or the Kingdom of God depending on which gospel you’re reading—though it doesn’t matter what you call it, the two titles are synonymous with each other. Though regardless of what you call it, the meaning of the title can get lost in American…
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How Does Abraham Know What God Looks Like?
There’s that weird story where God walks up to Abraham and he recognizes God in physical form. How is that possible? The answer to that question is found sooner in Abraham’s story than you might think. Check out today’s episode and then join us on our Discord channel! https://www.jxncloud.com/discord
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Separated by Babel, United by Pentecost
God first makes the case clear that the gospel is for all nations in the story of Pentecost, which finds its roots in the story of the Tower of Babel. You’ll recall from our discussion in Chapter 3 that Deuteronomy 32:8 tells us that when God divided up the nations, he handed each nation over…
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The Deuteronomy 32:8 View of the Tower of Babel
There is WAY more going on at the Tower of Babel than you might think. Not only is the story often misunderstood in the first place, but there have also been some Bible translation problems that have kept us from better understanding what happened at Babel. But both this tower and the entire Biblical worldview…
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Don’t Be a Nimrod
In one of those boring Bible genealogies in Genesis there’s a guy named Nimrod. We miss it in English, but there’s an important Hebrew word that should be getting us to think of him in a certain light—and the same is true of the Tower of Babel which he took part in creating. Join us…
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The Surprise of Evangelism
Much of Jesus’ focus in outreach while He was on the earth was to reach “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Mt 15:24). It’s not that He didn’t care about the people of other nations or reach out to them too, but He knew that a part of His mission in that season…
