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 Feb 25, 2024

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These comprehensive and engaging discussions shed light on historical, cultural, and literary considerations of Bible texts. Matt approaches each episode informed and ready to engage thoughtfully and personally with the subject matter.

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Welcome! You can start with today's episode or go back to the beginning of any of these four seasons: Season 1 - Matthew (Began October, 2019 - Episodes 1-800) Season 2 - One Book of the Bible Per Day (Began January, 2023) Season 3 - Esther (Began April 9, 2023) Season 4 - Nehemiah (Began January 1, 2024) Hey I'm Matt, and if you're interested in understanding the Bible better and you prefer your Christianity quick and punchy with a healthy side of humor, and an equally healthy side of me not telling you what to do, we're probably going to get along great. This is my podcast where we pick a book of the Bible and then break it down one part at a time every weekday morning.

Episode Date
NEH084 - It's Those Dirty Nobles Again
Apr 25, 2024
NEH083 - On Paper, it's Just a Wall, but Apparently it Made Quite the Impression on the Other Team
Apr 24, 2024
NEH082 - Jesus Will Forgive, but Nehemiah Don't Forget
Apr 23, 2024
NEH081 - California is a Lovely Place, Full of Delightful People, But Man Oh Man, That High Speed Train Debacle...
Apr 22, 2024
NEH080 - My Theory About What I Suspect Was a Very Clever Plan to Ruin Nehemiah
Apr 19, 2024
NEH079 - Does Dune Count as a Modern Myth Yet? Also, Somebody's Trying a New Way to Get Nehemiah Killed Again
Apr 18, 2024
NEH078 - The Bad Guys Are Always Trying to Muddy Up Remembrance
Apr 17, 2024
NEH077 - You're Making It up Out of Your Own Head
Apr 16, 2024
NEH076 - I'm Doing Something Cool Right Now, So I'm Not Going to Meet You Alone at the Murder Docks and I Don't Think I Should be Made to Feel Guilty for That
Apr 15, 2024
NEH075 - Alexander's Armor Was Covered in Blood and Mud and That's Why People Followed Him
Apr 12, 2024
NEH074 - How Much Clout Does Nehemiah Have Right Now?
Apr 11, 2024
NEH073 - Your Squaredance is Going to be Hot Garbage Unless You've Got a Bunch of People Who Are Willing to Get on the Same Page
Apr 10, 2024
NEH072 - Good Loan and Bad Loan
Apr 09, 2024
NEH071 - Year of Jubilee!
Apr 08, 2024
NEH070 - How Can the Bible Have Slavery In It and Still Be a Book that Promotes Justice?
Apr 05, 2024
NEH069 - The Old Testament Discourages Being a Scabby, Grubby Dirtbag
Apr 04, 2024
NEH068 - It Doesn’t Take a Moral Genius to Figure Out That the Exploitative Innkeeper in Wonka Is Bad
Apr 03, 2024
NEH067 - There's No Time For the Government to Fix This Crisis, It's Going to Have to Happen In House
Apr 02, 2024
NEH066 - Everybody Put Off Their Real Jobs to Build the Wall, But Now it's Catching Up With Them Economically
Apr 01, 2024
NEH065 - Leto Atreides Could Have Used Nehemiah's Trap Evasion Skills
Mar 29, 2024
NEH064 - Strategery Episode
Mar 28, 2024
NEH063 - The Temporary Governor is Cool Under Pressure and Gives a Good Speeches Too
Mar 27, 2024
NEH062 - When the Cold War Goes Hot
Mar 26, 2024
NEH061 - A Little Yeast Makes For a Lot of Sideways Energy
Mar 25, 2024
NEH060 - Nehemiah's Prayers Are Smart, Grounded, and Highly Intnetional and They're All Better Than My Very Best Hardee's Prayer
Mar 22, 2024
NEH059 - To Judge or Not to Judge, I Don't Think Was Nehemiah's Question
Mar 21, 2024
NEH058 - Now Nehemiah's Asking God to Have His Enemies Plundered
Mar 20, 2024
NEH057 - Nehemiah's Prayer Is Coming In Hot and I've Decided I'm Cool With That
Mar 19, 2024
NEH056 - Sanballat Has Said It Is So - Dead, Dry, Dusty Stones Coming to Life
Mar 18, 2024
NEH055 - How a Person Responds to Insults Tells You a Lot About Who They Are and What They Believe
Mar 15, 2024
NEH054 - Impotent, Sychophantic Whining
Mar 14, 2024
NEH053 - A Mental Map of Nehemiah's Jerusalem
Mar 13, 2024
NEH052 - The Build Montage
Mar 12, 2024
NEH051 - Nehemiah Is a Thinker and a Doer and I Think It's Good to Be Like Him in That Respect
Mar 11, 2024
NEH050 - The Repugnant Cultural Other
Mar 08, 2024
NEH049 - Sanballat Is Mad, I Get It, But I Want to Know Why
Mar 07, 2024
NEH048 - Nehemiah's Cinematic Full Moon Ride
Mar 06, 2024
NEH047 - The Sanballat Quagmire
Mar 05, 2024
NEH046 - Let's Put That in Writing and Get This Deal Set in Clay
Mar 04, 2024
NEH045 - We Kept Receipts!
Mar 01, 2024
NEH044 - Star-Crossed Lovers With a Tragic Ending
Feb 29, 2024
NEH043 - I Don't Know if Nehemiah Had Exactly the Setup He Wanted for This Conversation, but Either Way He's Getting His Answer Right Now
Feb 28, 2024
NEH042 - What Would You Do With a Blank Check From Artaxerxes?
Feb 27, 2024
NEH041 - I'm Not Sure How That Conversation Could Have Got Off to a Better Start
Feb 26, 2024
NEH040 - What Took Chapters to Get to in Esther Happens Right After the Opening Credits in Nehemiah
Feb 23, 2024
NEH039 - Light the Fuse
Feb 22, 2024
NEH038 - Chicago Made My Problem Its Problem and I'm Forever Grateful
Feb 21, 2024
NEH037 - God Doubles Down on the Deal Drawn Up In Deuteronomy
Feb 20, 2024
NEH036 - There's No Approval Like My Dad's Approval
Feb 19, 2024
NEH035 - God Said He'd Put it Back Together Under Certain Circumstances
Feb 16, 2024
NEH034 - No One Cares About Burger King in Greeley Anymore, but BOY OH BOY do They Still Care About Solomon's Temple
Feb 15, 2024
NEH033 - Nehemiah Clearly Knows the Rules of Overtime Unlike the San Francisco 49ers Who Clearly Do Not
Feb 14, 2024
NEH032 - Nehemiah Gets That This is a Serious Conversation and Prepares Accordingly
Feb 13, 2024
NEH031 - Even When I Didn't Believe In God There Was Still a Way it Made Sense to Pray
Feb 12, 2024
NEH030 - An Intense Catch-Up Conversation
Feb 09, 2024
NEH029 - The Sword and the Trowel
Feb 08, 2024
NEH028 - When Ezra Arrived in Jerusalem He Had One Problem; As the Book of Ezra Ends He Now Has Two
Feb 07, 2024
NEH027 - Mayhem and Regret in Jerusalem
Feb 06, 2024
NEH026 - Ezra's Prayer
Feb 05, 2024
NEH025 - Ezra Makes a Public Display of His Grief and Then Chases That With a Prayer for the Ages
Feb 02, 2024
NEH024 - Replicating Every Single Little Thing We Did in the Hopes of Duplicating Prior Desirable Results
Feb 01, 2024
NEH023 - NO MESSING AROUND TODAY, We’ve Got to Cover the Mosaic Covenant and It’s a Lot
Jan 31, 2024
NEH022 - Ezra Sees His People Making a Mistake That's Hard to Unmake, So He Does the Only Sensible Thing and Yanks Out His Beard
Jan 30, 2024
NEH021 - Ezra's Metaphorical Homecoming to His Metaphorical Alma Mater is a Disaster
Jan 29, 2024
NEH020 - So Your Plan Is to Walk across a Continent on a Road Full of Bandits with a Third of a Billion Dollars and Hope We Don’t Get Robbed? Precisely. And It’s Going to Work.
Jan 26, 2024
NEH019 - Ezra and His Pals Look like Tourists Which Is Already Very Attractive to Bandits, but the Fact That They're Carrying Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Gold and Silver Will Probably Make Them More Attractive to Thieves Along the Way
Jan 25, 2024
NEH018 - There Is a Problem, Ezra Has Made It His Problem, and He Is Writing About It in a Very Personal Way
Jan 24, 2024
NEH017 - Ezra Knows a Good Deal When He Sees It
Jan 23, 2024
NEH016 - I'm Not Sure I Can Imagine a More Extravagant Pile of Prizes Than What Is Being Offered
Jan 22, 2024
NEH015 - Like Former Oakland Athletics General Manager, Billy Beane, Ezra the Priest is a Reformer and He's Going to Rattle Some Cages
Jan 19, 2024
NEH014 - What Were You Doing Sixty Years Ago?
Jan 18, 2024
NEH013 - The Exiles Get Their Web Redemption But It's Real and Not Snarky
Jan 17, 2024
NEH012 - Here We Go Again vs Erasing Narratives That Once Seemed Written in Stone
Jan 16, 2024
NEH011 - The Old Hero Is Awakened From His Despair and Slumber
Jan 15, 2024
NEH010 - Act 2 of the Temple Rebuild
Jan 12, 2024
NEH009 - Rebuilding the Temple, Act 1
Jan 11, 2024
NEH008 - The Census in Ezra 2 Sneaky Says a Lot About the Values of the Returning Exiles
Jan 10, 2024
NEH007 - The Returning Exiles Were Kind of Like Pioneers and Pioneers Deserve Plaques
Jan 09, 2024
NEH006 - It Took Exactly One Sentence to Figure Out That We're Not In Esther Anymore
Jan 08, 2024
NEH005 - Medieval Cathedrals Speak to the Unity of Culture and Thought of the People Who Built Them, Ezra Tells the Story of Ancient Jews Trying to Muster the Same Resolve to Build Something Great
Jan 05, 2024
NEH004 - It's Kind of Like Dracula But There's No Obvious Blood Drinking
Jan 04, 2024
NEH003 - Persia's Been Good to the Jews, but it Won't Be Real Until They Build That Wall
Jan 03, 2024
NEH002 - Nehemiah Is the Product of a Crazy Confluence of Events and That Makes it Awesome and Not Boring
Jan 02, 2024
NEH001 - Whoever You Are, This One's For You
Jan 01, 2024
CHRISTMAS BONUS 05 - Herod and the Magi
Dec 29, 2023
CHRISTMAS BONUS 04 - Herod and the Magi
Dec 28, 2023
CHRISTMAS BONUS 03 - Herod and the Magi
Dec 27, 2023
CHRISTMAS BONUS 02 - Herod and the Magi
Dec 26, 2023
CHRISTMAS BONUS 01 - Herod and the Magi
Dec 25, 2023
EST185 - Esther In the Grand Scheme of Things
Dec 22, 2023
EST184 - Not Gonna Lie, These Legends Were Fun, But the Original Is a Masterpiece
Dec 21, 2023
EST183 - Legends of the Jews
Dec 20, 2023
EST182 - Big Themes in the Book of Esther
Dec 19, 2023
EST181 - We're Talking About Wall-E in This One; It'll Make Sense in a Minute
Dec 18, 2023
EST180 - Xerxes Assassinated in His Bed; Artaxerxes Is King
Dec 15, 2023
EST179 - How Would People Have Thought About the Xerxes Era?
Dec 14, 2023
EST178 - The Book of Esther Pays Off Jeremiah 29 Better Than Lower Back Tattoos
Dec 13, 2023
EST177 - The Olympics Hit a Lot Harder When You Know the Backstory
Dec 12, 2023
EST176 - Chapter 10
Dec 11, 2023
EST175 - All This Stuff Was Documented in the Most Official Places, and I Think That Claim Matters
Dec 08, 2023
EST174 - Who Is On Your Mount Rushmore of Old Testament Women?
Dec 07, 2023
EST173 - Esther Earned the Title of Queen and I Hope They Gave Her a Giant Ring to Wear at Parties to Commemorate That
Dec 06, 2023
EST172 - A Very Gracious Acceptance Speech From Mordecai and Esther
Dec 05, 2023
EST171 - When You Look Closely at the Recap of Esther in Chapter Nine, it Reads More Like a Warning Than a Summary
Dec 04, 2023
BONUS EPISODE - There Are Stickers Now and Other Important Stuff
Dec 02, 2023
EST170 - Eventually I Learned That If Grandpa Repeated a Story, it Wasn't Because He Was Forgetful, It Was Because I Was Missing Something I Needed to Hear
Dec 01, 2023
EST169 - The Jews Were Celebrating Snatching Victory From the Jaws of Defeat and I Think That's Awesome Even If I Live in an Era Where We Don't Do That as Much
Nov 30, 2023
EST168 - The Beginning of the White Letters on the Black Screen
Nov 29, 2023
EST167 - Now That It's All Shaken Out, How Are You All Feeling About Xerxes?
Nov 28, 2023
EST166 - I'm 0% Jewish, but I'm Super Interested In This Purim Thing
Nov 27, 2023
EST165 - Sorry I Gave You an Episode About Mass Hangings and Violent Purges on Thanksgiving, I Probably Should Have Timed It So This One Came Out Yesterday
Nov 24, 2023
EST164 - Esther Goes Scorched Earth and the Text Treats That as a Huge Win
Nov 23, 2023
EST163 - Xerxes Surveys a Gory Mess of His Own Making in His Own Backyard
Nov 22, 2023
EST162 - Esther Asks for a Purge of All the Politicians Who Are Trying to Kill All the Jews
Nov 21, 2023
EST161 - Esther is Certainly Formidable
Nov 20, 2023
EST160 - Not Plundering After a Victory In the Ancient World Was Very Weird
Nov 17, 2023
EST159 - When's the Last Time You Plundered Something, and How Did That Go?
Nov 16, 2023
EST158 - The Effective Reign of Mordecai the Great Is Underway, and It Is a Sight To Behold
Nov 15, 2023
EST157 - Weirdly, All the Leaders Who Fully Supported Haman Three Pages Ago Now Full-Throatedly Support Mordecai
Nov 14, 2023
EST156 - When Do You Quit Punching the Bully Who Was Trying to Beat You Senseless a Minute Ago?
Nov 13, 2023
EST155 - On the Morning of Battle the Jews Were Ready and Their Enemies Wilted
Nov 10, 2023
EST154 - Nothing Turns the Tables Harder Than the Cross and the Resurrection
Nov 09, 2023
EST153 - Whose Idea Was It To Put the Phrase “The Tables Have Turned” in the Book of Esther?
Nov 08, 2023
EST152 - The Tables Have Turned On What I Think is the Theme Verse of Esther
Nov 07, 2023
EST151 - God-Fearing is Like Being Into Country Music But Not Wearing the Hat and Boots
Nov 06, 2023
EST150 - Fear Made Them Convert, and I, For One, Respect It
Nov 03, 2023
EST149 - Why Are Susa and the Jews Celebrating Like They've Won When They Haven't Even Had the Fight Yet?
Nov 02, 2023
EST148 - The Whole City of Susa Views This Turn of Events as a Morally Unambiguous Gigantic Win and They Are Celebrating Without Reservation
Nov 01, 2023
EST147 - God Keeps Refusing to Let His Chosen People Jump Off of the Metaphorical Lawn Ladder and He's at it Again in Esther
Oct 31, 2023
EST146 - Though I Find Esther Chapter 8 Very Somber, the Tone of the Text is Jubilation and Celebration at the Prospect of Ultimate Deliverance
Oct 30, 2023
EST145 - There's No Softening the Violent Reality of the Situation Unfolding in Esther Chapter 8
Oct 27, 2023
EST144 - Time to Triple Stamp the Double Stamp
Oct 26, 2023
EST143 - We're Starting a New Thread, but This Time We're Ccing the Jews
Oct 25, 2023
EST142 - What Edict Would You Write If You Had the King's Ring? It's Harder Than it Looks, Right?
Oct 24, 2023
EST141 - I'm Announcing The Next Season of the Podcast at the End of This Episode, Also Mordecai Is About to Write an Edict in the King's Name
Oct 23, 2023
EST140 - Seems Like Xerxes Is Negotiating Against Himself
Oct 20, 2023
EST139 - Now, Before We Go Overreacting Here, Let's Go Back and Check the Receipts to Make Sure That Edict Said What We Think it Said
Oct 19, 2023
EST138 - What Is the Right Response to an Attempt to Kill the Jews?
Oct 18, 2023
EST137 - Xerxes' Decision-Making Approach Leaves Something to Be Desired
Oct 17, 2023
EST136 - I Done Screwed Up, But Today We're Going to Fix It
Oct 16, 2023
EST135 - The Battle of New Orleans Was Cool I Guess Except That the War It Was a Part of Was Already Over, Which Is a Pity
Oct 14, 2023
EST134 - It Feels Like This Should Be Over, Why Are There More Pages?
Oct 13, 2023
EST133 - Complete and Total Personal Victory Over a Rival in the Style of Alexander the Great
Oct 12, 2023
EST132 - So Many Flukey Little R2D2 Moments
Oct 11, 2023
EST131 - What's the Turning Point of Esther?
Oct 10, 2023
Processing Hamas' October 2023 Invasion of Israel in Light of Our Ongoing Conversations About Esther
Oct 09, 2023
EST130 - As Bad As a Party Can Go
Oct 06, 2023
EST129 - What Was Haman Hoping to Get Out of His Failed Plan?
Oct 05, 2023
EST128 - Party Gaffes Are Bad, but It Takes a Truly Huge One of Those to End Up With a Bag Over Your Head
Oct 04, 2023
EST127 - The King Finally Sees That Wormtongue's Been Dumping Poison In His Ear
Oct 03, 2023
EST126 - So Much Buildup, Such Swift Resolution
Oct 02, 2023
EST125 - The Most Consequential Conversation of Her Life
Sep 29, 2023
EST124 - A Thousand Years of History Happening in a Day
Sep 28, 2023
EST123 - Haman and Job Suffer Similar Calamities on Paper, but How They Got There and How They Respond Is Very Different
Sep 27, 2023
EST122 - Even Haman's Wife and Friends Know He's Stepped In It
Sep 26, 2023
EST121 - No Amount of Biased Narrative-Crafting Can Put Lipstick on Haman's Situation
Sep 25, 2023
EST120 - Haman Is Praying Your Party Doesn't Open With an Ice-Breaker Question About Your Most Embarrassing Moment
Sep 22, 2023
EST119 - Clothed in the Righteousness of God
Sep 21, 2023
EST118 - Mordecai Is Clothed in the Robe of the King
Sep 20, 2023
EST117 - A Parade of Bible Parades
Sep 19, 2023
EST116 - What Did Triumphs Mean to Ancient People?
Sep 18, 2023
EST115 - Haman Wanted People to Mistake Him for the King, But That Won't Be Happening Since He's Trudging Through the Poop-Slurried Streets of Susa Singing the Praises of His Rival
Sep 15, 2023
EST114 - What Should Be Done for the Man In Whom the King Delights?
Sep 14, 2023
EST113 - Speak of the Devil
Sep 13, 2023
EST112 - It Was an Honest Mistake, but it Has to Be Addressed Nonetheless
Sep 12, 2023
EST111 - Something's Nagging at Xerxes and it's not His Wife
Sep 11, 2023
EST110 - One Day More
Sep 08, 2023
EST109 - I'm Not Cracking a Bunch of Impalement Jokes This Time Around, That's Cheap Humor and It Has No Place on the Internet
Sep 07, 2023
EST108 - How Many of the Top 20 Grossing Films of All Time Can You Name? (Also There's a Point to This)
Sep 06, 2023
EST107 - If You Decide to Build 75 Foot High Gallows at a Party, You Should Always Sleep On That to See If You Feel the Same Way in the Morning
Sep 05, 2023
EST106 - My Wife Has Never Suggested That I Kill Anybody and I Think That's Good
Sep 04, 2023
EST105 - I Don't Like Haman at All
Sep 01, 2023
EST104 - If You Thought Mordecai Wasn't Rising to Show Respect to Haman BEFORE the Genocide Plan, You Won't BELIEVE How Much He's Not Standing Up Now
Aug 31, 2023
EST103 - Not Just Yet
Aug 30, 2023
EST102 - This Conversation Between Esther and Xerxes Reminds Me of the Conversation Between Herod and Herodias
Aug 29, 2023
EST101 - Esther Quashes Her Inner Kool-Aid Man, Summons Her Courage and Composure, and Tames the Beast
Aug 28, 2023
EST100 - The Persians Left Us a Picture Like What Happened When Esther Approached the King and We Need to Talk About This
Aug 25, 2023
EST099 - We've Reached the Moment of Truth
Aug 24, 2023
EST098 - Let's Look at Some of the Later Greek Additions to Esther
Aug 23, 2023
EST097 - Greek Esther Means Something Very Different Than Hebrew Esther
Aug 22, 2023
EST096 - Alexandria Was the Most Jewish City in the World Once
Aug 21, 2023
EST095 - Wait, Did You Say There Was Another Version of Esther? How Do We Know We're Looking at the Right One?
Aug 18, 2023
EST094 - Esther Has Passed Through the Ordeal Canal, Emerged a New Person, and Now She's Taking Charge
Aug 17, 2023
EST093 - A Hero Rises
Aug 16, 2023
EST092 - Mordecai Turns the Screws But Its to Save People Not to Eviscerate Them With a Deathray
Aug 15, 2023
EST091 - An Even Eunucher Episode
Aug 14, 2023
EST090 - Eunuch Episode
Aug 11, 2023
EST089 - Esther Balks at First, and I Think I Would Have Too
Aug 10, 2023
EST088 - Will Esther Heed the Call to Adventure?
Aug 09, 2023
EST087 - I Bet Mordecai's Grief Had a Lot of Layers
Aug 08, 2023
EST086 - What's Your Mourning Routine?
Aug 07, 2023
EST085 - Xerxes, Bro, You've Gotta Stop Handing Out Your Signet Ring
Aug 04, 2023
EST084 - Xerxes and Haman Are Having a Party and So Are We, But Our Party Will Have Zero Genocide
Aug 03, 2023
EST083 - One Super-Sloppy Decree
Aug 02, 2023
EST082 - Haman Got Rich the Old Fashioned Way, He Curried Favor With an Absolute Monarch and then Used His Political Office For Massive Personal Gain
Aug 01, 2023
EST081 - Genocidal Callback
Jul 31, 2023
Bonus Episode on Casting Lots
Jul 29, 2023
EST080 - The Outcome of Every Cast of Every Die In All of Ever Was Always Known By God, aaaaaand Now My Brain Hurts
Jul 28, 2023
EST079 - Is Casting Lots Bad?
Jul 27, 2023
EST078 - The Pur is Cast
Jul 26, 2023
EST077 - Time Passes and Xerxes' Reign Is Getting Tougher
Jul 25, 2023
EST076 - Double Episode About People Who Follow God and Obeying the Government
Jul 24, 2023
EST075 - Why Come No Tattoo?
Jul 21, 2023
EST074 - People Were So Much Dumber During Esther's Time Because They Were Always Freaking Out About Performative Kneeling and Not Kneeling
Jul 20, 2023
EST073 - Have You Ever Cheered for Something You Didn't Like Just Because You Were Supposed to?
Jul 19, 2023
EST072 - What if Agagite Was Just Slang For People Who Were Ancient Nazis?
Jul 18, 2023
EST071 - This Agagite vs. Jewish Rivalry Really Is One for the Ages
Jul 17, 2023
EST070 - It’s Bad Enough That Haman Stole the Credit, but It’s Even Worse That He’s an Agagite
Jul 14, 2023
EST069 - Mordecai Didn't Have to Help Xerxes But He Did, and Now It's Time For Rewards to be Handed Out
Jul 13, 2023
EST068 - Xerxes Is Keeping a List and He's Checking it Twice, and If You're Naughty He's Going to Impale You on the Beam of Your Own House and Then Slaughter Your Family
Jul 12, 2023
EST067 - If You Have the Right Passport, You Can Still Go to the Exact Place Where Esther Happened
Jul 11, 2023
EST066 - Esther’s Banquet Is a Reflection on and a Reversal of Vashti’s Banquet
Jul 10, 2023
EST065 - Is There Any Moral Example the Reader Is Supposed To Take From Xerxes’ Contest in Esther Chapter 2?
Jul 07, 2023
EST064 - Esther Crushes the Compromised Contest
Jul 06, 2023
EST063 - As We Learn the Rules of the Game, We Discover that Esther Absolutely Cannot Afford to Lose
Jul 05, 2023
EST062 - Why Isn't Esther Telling Anyone She's Jewish?
Jul 04, 2023
EST061 - Esther Is Positioning Herself to Graduate at the Top of Her Class
Jul 03, 2023
EST060 - Esther Is at the New Queen Contest and How She Got There Isn't of Chief Concern
Jun 30, 2023
EST059 - Mordecai Plays the Part of Wolverine, But Not In the Stabby Way
Jun 29, 2023
EST058 - Wait, How Old Is Mordecai?
Jun 28, 2023
EST057 - You Don't Put Your Stamp on Susa, Susa Puts Its Stamp On You
Jun 27, 2023
EST056 - Moving Is Hard, but Getting Moved Is Harder
Jun 26, 2023
EST055 - How Would The Original Audience Have Thought About Xerxes' Wife Contest? How Would the Girls Who Were In It Have Felt?
Jun 23, 2023
EST054 - CONTENT WARNING - I Don't Think This Was a Beauty Pageant in the Way We Think of Beauty Pageants
Jun 22, 2023
EST053 - If You Squint Real Hard, You Could Almost Feel Sorry for Xerxes
Jun 21, 2023
EST052 - Post-Greece Xerxes Does Insane Stuff and So Does His Wife
Jun 20, 2023
EST051 - Not Much Happened Between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Esther, OTHER THAN THE FATE OF THE PLANET BEING DECIDED
Jun 19, 2023
EST050 - Danger, Access, and Influence - That's the Game In Xerxes' Court
Jun 16, 2023
EST049 - That's the Stupidest Solution to a Problem Ever and We're All Dumber For Having Heard It
Jun 15, 2023
EST048 - Xerxes' Small Council Comes Up With a Head-Scratching Plan
Jun 14, 2023
EST047 - How Did the Author of Esther Know All This Stuff?
Jun 13, 2023
EST046 - Something Went Wrong at a Meeting, and We're Going to Solve It With Another Meeting
Jun 12, 2023
EST045 - Queen Vashti Isn't Having It
Jun 09, 2023
EST044 - Xerxes Gets Trashy
Jun 08, 2023
EST043 - Casino Royale Would Have Been Stronger if Xerxes Had Been at the Table
Jun 07, 2023
EST042 - Esther 1:1-8 The Party That Kicks Off the Book of Esther
Jun 06, 2023
EST041 - Wax On Wax Off
Jun 05, 2023
EST040 - Xerxes' Humiliating Defeat or Xerxes' Glorious Revenge?
Jun 02, 2023
EST039 - Two Nice Things About Xerxes the Great King, the King of Kings
Jun 01, 2023
EST038 - Chili's With Xerxes
May 31, 2023
EST037 - Darius' Last Dance
May 30, 2023
EST036 - Persia and Greece Frenemies Forever
May 29, 2023
EST035 - The History of the Presence of God With His People
May 26, 2023
EST034 - It's INSANE that the Second Temple Got Built at All
May 25, 2023
EST033 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment For Anyone Who Approaches King Darius the Wrong Way
May 24, 2023
EST032 - Then The King Made His Fateful Decision
May 23, 2023
EST031 - Today I'm Going to Read You the Full Text of an Ancient Letter
May 22, 2023
EST030 - And Now the Grishamesque Drama Ensues
May 19, 2023
EST029 - Darius + Cyrus = Heart Forever
May 18, 2023
EST028 - Darius Knows This Looks Suspicious, But He Wants You to Know There's a Perfectly Good Explanation For All of It and That Is That a Shapeshifter Took the Form of the King so Darius Killed Him
May 17, 2023
EST027 - Flipping Me Off Was Sufficient, You Really Don't Have to Follow Me Around Causing Problems for a Century for Me to Know You're Mad
May 16, 2023
EST026 - Ezra Is Going Out of Order Now, What's Going On With That?
May 15, 2023
EST025 - I Said I Didn't Like Her Like In a Girlfriend Boyfriend Way and Then Fire Flashed in Her Eyes, and I Realized I'd Loosed Some Ancient Evil Best Kept Locked Away in the Realm of Shadow
May 12, 2023
EST024 - The Returning Exiles Won't Be Accepting Help From the Likes of You, Sir
May 11, 2023
EST023 - The Dodge Colt Was Functional, But Upon Seeing It I May Have Shed a Tear Because It Was No Dodge Daytona
May 10, 2023
EST022 - The Enemy Is at the Gate, and the Gate Isn't Even Finished Yet
May 09, 2023
EST021 - Ezra and Nehemiah Make Esther Make More Sense
May 08, 2023
EST020 - The Jews In the Age of Esther Were Pretty Exclusive, But Does That Make Sense?
May 05, 2023
EST019 - Why Was Cyrus Being So Nice to Everybody?
May 04, 2023
EST018 - Sometimes People Do Raunchy Things at Banquets, and Sometimes People Don't Forget that Quickly
May 03, 2023
EST017 - I'm Rooting For the Mandalorians to Get Their Planet Back, Because How Can You Not Root For That
May 02, 2023
EST016 - Cyrus Has a Lot on His Plate Right Now and We're Hoping He'll Notice Our Thing
May 01, 2023
EST015 - This Sixth Century Stuff Matters and the Prophets Speak to It
Apr 28, 2023
EST014 - God Finally Deals With Babylon, That Old Rival
Apr 27, 2023
EST013 - Daniel Was There and Watched the Defeat of Babylon and the Birth of the Persian Empire
Apr 26, 2023
EST012 - If You Ever Cross Harpagus, Make Sure Not to Put Him In Charge of Your Army After That
Apr 25, 2023
EST011 - Cyrus the Great's Grandaddy Could Be a Bit of a Curmudgeon
Apr 24, 2023
EST010 - How the World Fell Apart So Persia Could Take it Over
Apr 21, 2023
ESTHER 09 - Darius Carved a Whole Giant Book on a Mountain and Left It There For All Time
Apr 20, 2023
ESTHER 08 - Cyrus Left Little Footballs Laying Around That All Said Cool Stuff About Him
Apr 19, 2023
ESTHER 07 - If You're Writing a Paper About Persia, Make Sure You Put Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ctesias in Your Bibliography or You're Going to Look Stupid
Apr 18, 2023
ESTHER 06 - How Does the Story of the Bible End Up In Persia?
Apr 17, 2023
ESTHER BONUS - Let's Map This Sucker!
Apr 15, 2023
ESTHER 05 - Esther Was So Good They Made a Holiday Out of It
Apr 14, 2023
ESTHER 04 - Nuts, Bolts and a Little Bit of Controversy About Esther
Apr 13, 2023
ESTHER 03 - Does It Really Even Matter When and Where Esther Happened?
Apr 12, 2023
ESTHER 02 - Can I Start Cold With Esther Or Do I Need to Watch the Prequels First?
Apr 11, 2023
ESTHER 01 - A book? That's right, and this is a special book.
Apr 10, 2023
BIBLE69 - Thinking About History, the Future, God, and Us With the Whole Bible in View
Apr 07, 2023
BIBLE68 - New Testament Summary
Apr 06, 2023
BIBLE67 - Old Testament Summary
Apr 05, 2023
BIBLE66 - Revelation
Apr 04, 2023
BIBLE65 - Jude
Apr 03, 2023
BIBLE64 - 3 John
Mar 31, 2023
BIBLE63 - 2 John
Mar 30, 2023
BIBLE62 - 1 John
Mar 29, 2023
BIBLE61 - 2 Peter
Mar 28, 2023
BIBLE60 - 1 Peter
Mar 27, 2023
BIBLE59 - James
Mar 24, 2023
BIBLE58 - Hebrews
Mar 23, 2023
BIBLE57 - Philemon
Mar 22, 2023
BIBLE56 - Titus
Mar 21, 2023
BIBLE55 - 2 Timothy
Mar 20, 2023
BIBLE54 - 1 Timothy
Mar 19, 2023
BIBLE53 - 2 Thessalonians
Mar 16, 2023
BIBLE52 - 1 Thessalonians
Mar 15, 2023
BIBLE51 - Colossians
Mar 14, 2023
BIBLE50 - Philippians
Mar 13, 2023
BIBLE49 - Ephesians
Mar 10, 2023
BIBLE48 - Galatians
Mar 09, 2023
BIBLE47 - 2 Corinthians
Mar 08, 2023
BIBLE46 - 1 Corinthians
Mar 07, 2023
BIBLE45 - Romans
Mar 06, 2023
BIBLE44 - Acts
Mar 03, 2023
BIBLE43 - John
Mar 02, 2023
BIBLE42 - Luke
Mar 01, 2023
BIBLE41 - Mark
Feb 28, 2023
BIBLE40 - Matthew
Feb 27, 2023
Kind of a Lot Happened Between the Old and New Testaments
Feb 25, 2023
BIBLE39 - Malachi
Feb 24, 2023
BIBLE38 - Zechariah
Feb 24, 2023
BIBLE37 - Haggai
Feb 23, 2023
BIBLE36 - Zephaniah
Feb 21, 2023
BIBLE35 - Habakkuk
Feb 20, 2023
I Just Finished the Old Testament and I've Got Some Things I'd Like to Say About That
Feb 19, 2023
BIBLE34 - Nahum
Feb 17, 2023
BIBLE33 - Micah
Feb 16, 2023
BIBLE32 - Jonah
Feb 15, 2023
BIBLE31 - Obadiah
Feb 14, 2023
BIBLE30 - Amos
Feb 13, 2023
BIBLE29 - Joel
Feb 10, 2023
BIBLE28 - Hosea
Feb 09, 2023
BIBLE27 - Daniel
Feb 08, 2023
BIBLE26 - Ezekiel
Feb 07, 2023
BIBLE25 - Lamentations
Feb 06, 2023
BIBLE24 - Jeremiah
Feb 03, 2023
BIBLE23 - Isaiah
Feb 02, 2023
BIBLE22 - Song of Solomon
Feb 01, 2023
BIBLE21 - Ecclesiastes
Jan 31, 2023
BIBLE20 - Proverbs
Jan 30, 2023
BIBLE19 - Psalms
Jan 27, 2023
BIBLE18 - Job
Jan 26, 2023
BIBLE17 - Esther
Jan 25, 2023
BIBLE16 - Nehemiah
Jan 24, 2023
BIBLE15 - Ezra
Jan 23, 2023
Bonus Episode - Review of the Story of the Bible Through the End of 2 Chronicles
Jan 21, 2023
BIBLE14 - 2 Chronicles
Jan 20, 2023
BIBLE13 - 1 Chronicles
Jan 19, 2023
BIBLE12 - 2 Kings
Jan 18, 2023
BIBLE11 - 1 Kings
Jan 17, 2023
BIBLE10 - 2 Samuel
Jan 16, 2023
BIBLE09 - 1 Samuel
Jan 13, 2023
BIBLE08 - Ruth
Jan 12, 2023
BIBLE07 - Judges
Jan 11, 2023
BIBLE06 - Joshua
Jan 10, 2023
BIBLE05 - Deuteronomy
Jan 09, 2023
BIBLE04 - Numbers
Jan 06, 2023
BIBLE03 - Leviticus
Jan 05, 2023
BIBLE02 - Exodus
Jan 04, 2023
BIBLE01 - Genesis
Jan 03, 2023
BIBLE00 - START HERE FOR THE BIBLE OVERVIEW SERIES
Jan 01, 2023
MATT800 - It Seems Like Matthew Was Trying to Get Us to Believe in Jesus All Along
Dec 31, 2022
MATT799 - The Team Splits Up in Different Directions Because Jesus Said To, and Then Most of Them Die For It
Dec 31, 2022
MATT798 - Something Crazy Happened in the Jerusalem Marketplace That Moved the Plan Forward
Dec 31, 2022
MATT797 - We’re Not Sorting it Out Now, Instead You’re Going to Take the Message of the Kingdom to Everywhere
Dec 30, 2022
MATT796 - Jesus Went Out of His Way to Prop Up Peter After All This and John Went Out of His Way to Tell Us About It
Dec 30, 2022
MATT795 - Surely I’m With You Always to the End of the Age
Dec 30, 2022
MATT794 - Baptism is Dramatic and Important, However It Is Practiced
Dec 29, 2022
MATT793 - Like Jacob and His 12 Literal Sons Fathered the Ethnic Family of God, So Jesus and His 12 Spiritual Sons Will Metaphorically Father the New Family of Faith
Dec 28, 2022
MATT792 - Authority Over Everything Including Totally Understandable Doubt
Dec 27, 2022
MATT791 - This Authority Theme Is WAAAAYYY More Pronounced In Matthew Than You Notice on the First Trip Through
Dec 26, 2022
MATT790 - The Disciples Doubted, but Jesus Just Rolls Right Past That and Points to His Authority as the Reason They Can Do What He’s Telling Them To Do
Dec 23, 2022
MATT789 - Which Mountain Are We Talking About Here and Does It Matter?
Dec 22, 2022
MATT788 - Mufasa May Have Ripped Off Jesus’ Three-Fold Commissioning, But I’m Not Mad
Dec 21, 2022
MATT787 - The Boys Are Back in Town, But Some of Them Doubted
Dec 20, 2022
MATT786 - The Ones With the Means Didn’t Have the Motivation, and the Ones With the Motivations Didn’t Have the Means
Dec 19, 2022
MATT785 - What Do We Know About Those Rumors Old Man Matthew Is Talking About?
Dec 16, 2022
MATT784 - Old Man Matthew Breaking the Fourth Wall
Dec 15, 2022
MATT783 - The Guards' Report Mostly Rounds Out the Theme of Reliable and Unreliable Witnesses in Matthew
Dec 14, 2022
MATT782 - Roman Military Culture Didn't Take Kindly to Failure
Dec 13, 2022
0781 - The Old Meat Sludge Boomerang Will Getcha Every Time
Dec 12, 2022
MATT780 - I Got Just the One Tennis Playbook and I Will Ride It All the Way to the L. Also, I Apparently Have This In Common With the Religious Leaders in Matthew
Dec 09, 2022
MATT779 - You Can Skip the Apology Speech, We're Good
Dec 08, 2022
MATT778 - Jesus Forgives His Disciples and Moves Forward With Them Like it Wasn't Even a Thing
Dec 07, 2022
MATT777 - The New Family Is a Thing Now
Dec 06, 2022
MATT776 - He Only Gets Out One Word and the Matter of His Supernatural Eternal Kingship Is Completely Settled In Their Minds
Dec 05, 2022
MATT775 - Matthew Is Written in a Way That's Patient and Empathetic With Those of Us Who Have Reasonable Questions
Dec 02, 2022
MATT774 - In Light of What's Happening, Here's What You Need to Do
Dec 01, 2022
MATT773 - It Changes Things When Someone Comes Back to Life
Nov 30, 2022
MATT772 - How was your day, honey? Pretty weird actually. Remember that corpse I was supposed to watch? Sure. Well, a glowing angel showed up and he came back to life! That's crazy, did you at least respond with dignity? About that...
Nov 29, 2022
MATT771 - The Ladies Just Keep Showing Up and Now They're Going to See Something Amazing
Nov 28, 2022
MATT770 - Preparation for Vindication
Nov 25, 2022
MATT769 - How Matthew Built the Enormous Tension We Feel Going Into Chapter 28
Nov 24, 2022
MATT768 - The Deck Is Usually Stacked Against Dead People Coming Back to Life, But It's SUPER Stacked This Time
Nov 23, 2022
MATT767 - Who Said Anything About Resurrection Gentlemen? Officers, Arrest These Men!
Nov 22, 2022
MATT766 - The Religious Leaders Counter Joseph's Bold Move With a Narrative-Shaping Bold Move of Their Own
Nov 21, 2022
MATT765 - The Holy Grail is the Holy Grail of Relics
Nov 18, 2022
MATT764 - What's a Relic and What Have Christians Believed About Them?
Nov 17, 2022
MATT763 - Joseph Is Making a Very Public, Very High Risk Play by Burying Jesus
Nov 16, 2022
MATT762 - Joseph of Arimathea is a Class Act
Nov 15, 2022
MATT761 - A Previously Unheard of Joseph Shows Up and Buries Jesus With Honor
Nov 14, 2022
MATT760 - All These Marys Seem Great, but Which is Which?
Nov 11, 2022
MATT759 - Worthwhile Women Witnesses
Nov 10, 2022
MATT758 - I'm Obsessed With These People Coming Back to Life But Today's the Last Day About That
Nov 09, 2022
MATT757 - How Could Something That Important Be Lost to History?
Nov 08, 2022
MATT756 - I Get What's Happening In This Resurrection Passage in Terms of Bible, But the Actual Mechanics of How That Happened and How it Comes Down to Us Is Trickier
Nov 07, 2022
MATT755 - Why Is Matthew Including This Dead People Walking Around Story?
Nov 04, 2022
MATT754 - The Signs and Omens are Pointing to Something and That Something Has to do With Reassembling Skeleton Sounds
Nov 03, 2022
MATT753 - The Division Between God and Man Just Ripped Right Down the Middle
Nov 02, 2022
MATT752 - How Thick Was This Curtain That Divided People From God?
Nov 01, 2022
MATT751 - Could the Power Team Rip the Temple Curtain?
Oct 31, 2022
Bonus Episode - I'd Love to Talk With You About What's Next for this Podcast
Oct 29, 2022
MATT750 - Then Jesus Released His Spirit
Oct 28, 2022
MATT749 - People at the Crucifixion Were Not Getting It
Oct 27, 2022
MATT748 - Last Words
Oct 26, 2022
MATT747 - Why Don't the Gospels Agree On What Time Jesus Was Crucified?
Oct 25, 2022
MATT746 - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Oct 24, 2022
Bonus Episode with Jeff Foote
Oct 22, 2022
MATT745 - That Eclipse Made an Impression on Me
Oct 21, 2022
MATT744 - Matthew is Better at Callbacks than Amazon
Oct 20, 2022
MATT743 - Are These the Likable Thieves With Hearts of Gold or Are These the Monstrous Kinds of Thieves With Hearts of Stone?
Oct 19, 2022
MATT742 - What Kind of Criminals Did Romans Crucify in 30 AD?
Oct 18, 2022
MATT741 - Why Did Matthew Leave Out the Part About the Criminal on the Cross Having a Change of Heart?
Oct 17, 2022
MATT740 - What if There Was a Sign Hanging Over Your Head That Said Exactly What You Really Are?
Oct 14, 2022
MATT739 - It's Dizzying to Read all That Was Going on at the Crucifixion; Imagine Trying to Take it All in if You Were the One Going Through it
Oct 13, 2022
MATT738 - Why Would These Elite Tennis Players In My Community Ever Hold Back When They Could Win These Recreational Matches at Will?
Oct 12, 2022
MATT737 - This Part of the Story Makes Your Narrative Compass Spin and That's On Purpose
Oct 11, 2022
MATT736 - It Looks Like Simon, or Someone, Took Christianity Back to North Africa After the Crucifixion
Oct 10, 2022
MATT735 - What Do We Know About Cyrene?
Oct 07, 2022
MATT734 - Some Random Guy Gets Picked Out of the Crowd to Have the Honor of Carrying Jesus' Cross
Oct 06, 2022
MATT733 - They Stood Over Him and Smashed Him In the Head With His Fake King Scepter Again and Again and He Just Took It
Oct 05, 2022
MATT732 - That Mock Kneeling Actually Sort of Counts
Oct 04, 2022
MATT731 - This Is One Farce That Isn't Going Down the Memory Hole
Oct 03, 2022
MATT730 - I Know You're Being Sarcastic, but in a Weird Way You're Actually Right About Him Being the King
Sep 30, 2022
MATT729 - If You're Going to Misreckon Someone, I Guess It's Better to Do It Nicely Than to Punch and Mock Them
Sep 29, 2022
MATT728 - You'd Have to Truly Detest Someone to Rat Them Out to a Government That Could be as Sadistic as Rome
Sep 28, 2022
MATT727 - Rome Stole All the Best Torture Ideas Because The Advertising Work Had Already Been Done
Sep 27, 2022
MATT726 - Flogging Is Probably Worse Than You're Picturing
Sep 26, 2022
MATT725 - The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life For the Sheep
Sep 23, 2022
MATT724 - Everybody Got In a Stab on Caesar
Sep 22, 2022
MATT723 - For All Have Sinned, and the Silver Lining is That We Have at Least That One Thing in Common
Sep 21, 2022
MATT722 - Historical Reactions and Overreactions Aren't Good But Do Happen
Sep 20, 2022
MATT721 - Pilate Doesn't Want to Throw the Flag Even Though the Hometown Fans Are Screaming For It
Sep 19, 2022
MATT720 - Procla Wife of Pilate and Her Dream
Sep 16, 2022
MATT719 - Caesar and Pilate Trying to Rise Above a Premonition
Sep 15, 2022
MATT718 - Was There a Barabbas and Does That Matter?
Sep 14, 2022
MATT717 - Why Was Barabbas Notorious?
Sep 13, 2022
MATT716 - I Shouldn't Have Said That About Brian, He Was a Nice Kid and Sure His Farts Were Loud But They Didn't Even Stink That Much, But the Point Is Jesus Got Picked Last
Sep 12, 2022
MATT715 - You'd Need F-15s to Defeat Rome and Jesus Didn't Have Any of Those
Sep 09, 2022
MATT714 - The Religious Leaders Smugly Rat Jesus Out
Sep 08, 2022
MATT713 - All the Old Testament Stuff That Points to Judas' Fate
Sep 07, 2022
MATT712 - Sure We Murder People Sometimes, but We'd NEVER Inappropriately Allocate Funds Which We Got Back From a Hit We Ordered
Sep 06, 2022
MATT711 - Judas Is a Burned Asset and No Amount of Groveling to the Religious Leaders is Going to Make Them Like Him
Sep 05, 2022
MATT710 - Matthew Plays With the Timeline, But He's Not Lying or Lazy
Sep 02, 2022
MATT709 - Pontius Pilate Processes Potent Pressure
Sep 01, 2022
0708 - Matthew Is Acting Like We Should Know Who Pilate Is, So I Guess We Should Look Into That
Aug 31, 2022
MATT707 - How Did Things Work Out in the End for Peter?
Aug 30, 2022
MATT706 - Will Peter Be Back Next Season?
Aug 29, 2022
MATT705 - Peter's THICK Redemption Arc in John
Aug 26, 2022
MATT704 - Peter Gets a Redemption Arc, But It's Not Totally Clear in Matthew
Aug 25, 2022
MATT703 - Is Peter Still Out There Crying to This Very Day?
Aug 24, 2022
MATT702 - Oh No, Peter
Aug 23, 2022
MATT701 - Jesus Takes the Abuse While Peter Starts Ducking Questions
Aug 22, 2022
MATT700 - The Rubicon is Crossed
Aug 19, 2022
MATT699 - How Could the Religious Leaders Miss on Jesus?
Aug 18, 2022
MATT698 - How to Show You're REAAALLLLY Mad in the First Century
Aug 17, 2022
MATT697 - The Fascinating Social Consequences of Influential People Making Big Bold Testable Claims
Aug 16, 2022
MATT696 - Could Jesus Have Walked If He'd Stayed Quiet?
Aug 15, 2022
MATT695 - Are You the Christ the Son of God? ...Yep.
Aug 12, 2022
MATT694 - Jesus Takes the Vth
Aug 11, 2022
MATT693 - The Best Lies Run Parallel to the Truth
Aug 10, 2022
MATT692 - The Two Witnesses Thing Is a Bit of a Double-Edged Sword
Aug 09, 2022
MATT691 - It Was Way Easier to Sneak Back Then Which Is Good For Peter Because He's About to Sneak
Aug 08, 2022
MATT690 - There Can Be Only One Mediator
Aug 05, 2022
MATT689 - Caiaphas Is an Interesting Cat
Aug 04, 2022
MATT688 - In Order From Worst to Best Stunning Payoff Stories - The Sixth Sense, Memento, The Usual Suspects, Matthew
Aug 03, 2022
MATT687 - Fulfilling All the Things
Aug 02, 2022
MATT686 -  ¿Por qué no usar espadas?
Aug 01, 2022
MATT685 - Should the Disciples Have Known Better on the Violence in the Name of Jesus Thing?
Jul 29, 2022
MATT684 - Christianity Caught on Without Violence, but Got Violent Later
Jul 28, 2022
MATT683 - Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
Jul 27, 2022
MATT682 - The Payoff Is Most After the Initial Reps
Jul 26, 2022
MATT681 - DOOOOOOON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK
Jul 25, 2022
MATT680 - Peter Tried to Stab Some Guy and Cut Off His Ear
Jul 22, 2022
MATT679 - One Man Betrayed With a Kiss
Jul 21, 2022
MATT678 - The Closing of a Chapter For Jesus and the Disciples and Also For You and Me
Jul 20, 2022
MATT677 - Super, Judas Is Back
Jul 19, 2022
MATT676 - John Kruk and the Cup of Suffering
Jul 18, 2022
MATT675 - Jesus' Top Priority
Jul 15, 2022
MATT674 - An Ancient Traveler Tells Us What He Discovered Looking for the Garden of Gethsemane
Jul 14, 2022
MATT673 - How Could You Sleep Away Our Last Minutes Together?
Jul 13, 2022
MATT672 - This is Usually Where God the Father Shows Up, But Something Feels Different This Time
Jul 12, 2022
MATT671 - Peter Stares at the Tree and So Would I
Jul 11, 2022
MATT670 - After You're Done Stabbing Me in the Back, Let's Meet Up for Drinks Back Home
Jul 08, 2022
MATT669 - The Bible Is So Dang Coherent and Good
Jul 07, 2022
MATT668 - Zechariah Points to Jesus in Story and in Specifics
Jul 06, 2022
MATT667 - Underrated Prophet
Jul 05, 2022
MATT666 - Yes, There Will Be an Episode 0666 on This Podcast, No it Will Not Be Dedicated to Lucifer, Lord of Darkness
Jul 04, 2022
MATT665 - People Tripping Over Jesus
Jul 01, 2022
MATT664 - They Sang a Song Before They Called it a Night and I Bet it Was a Good One
Jun 30, 2022
MATT663 - This "What Happens at the Lord's Supper?" Debate Only Super Matters If It's Tied to Salvation
Jun 29, 2022
MATT662 - In Remembrance of Me?
Jun 28, 2022
MATT661 - Metaphor is a Sharp Tool and Can be Confusing When Heard in a Different Context
Jun 27, 2022
MATT660 - The Literal Read on the Lord's Supper
Jun 24, 2022
MATT659 - Literally or Figuratively His Body and Blood?
Jun 23, 2022
MATT658 - Right on the Nose
Jun 22, 2022
MATT657 - How Many Participants Took Part in the First Communion?
Jun 21, 2022
MATT656 - Why Didn't Jesus Just Yell Out to Everyone That He Was the Christ While Flying and Shooting Eye Lasers
Jun 20, 2022
MATT655 - Say So
Jun 17, 2022
MATT654 - Judas, You're Going to Betray Me and Have Me Killed, Also Could You Pass the Bread Andrew
Jun 16, 2022
MATT653 - The Worst Family Holiday Incident
Jun 15, 2022
MATT652 - Premonition or Plan
Jun 14, 2022
MATT651 - Very Significant Holiday Planning
Jun 13, 2022
Bonus Episode - Your Opinions on an Ancient Mystery
Jun 11, 2022
MATT650 - Why Didn't Judas Just Give Jesus Up Right Away on the Spot After He Got Paid?
Jun 10, 2022
MATT649 - The Satan Part is Extra Troubling
Jun 09, 2022
0648 - It Was Satan All Along
Jun 08, 2022
MATT647 - You'd Need More Than Thirty Pieces of Silver to Buy a Field That Nice
Jun 07, 2022
MATT646 - That's Just Not Enough Money
Jun 06, 2022
Bonus Episode - Mysterious New Thing
Jun 04, 2022
MATT645 - How Much Did Judas Need to Have His Friend and Mentor Murdered?
Jun 03, 2022
MATT644 - Backstabbing is the Worst and All Cultures Seem to Agree on This
Jun 02, 2022
MATT643 – Is Jesus Being Dismissive of the Poor?
Jun 01, 2022
MATT642 – How Many Times Did Some Lady Anoint Jesus With Expensive Perfume in Bethany?
May 31, 2022
MATT641 – Matthew’s "The King is Here and Proximity to Him is the Most Important Thing" Theme
May 30, 2022
MATT640 – What Mary Got and What the Disciples Didn’t
May 27, 2022
MATT639 – My Kids Spend Most of What they Have on Their Mom’s Birthday Gifts and I’ve Decided to Let Them
May 26, 2022
MATT638 – Reclining at the Table of Simon the Leper
May 25, 2022
0637 – I Think You Get What I’m Going For With This Podcast and I’m Grateful
May 17, 2022
MATT636 - Did Any of the Religious Leaders Second Guess Their Murder Plot?
May 16, 2022
MATT635 - Caiaphas's Only Available Moves
May 13, 2022
MATT634 - Who's In the Position of Power Here?
May 12, 2022
MATT633 - The Pressures That Limited Caiaphas's Options
May 11, 2022
MATT632 - The Ancient Origins of the High Priesthood
May 10, 2022
MATT631 - The Midseason Flashback Episode Where We're Forced to Empathize With the Bad Guy
May 09, 2022
MATT630 - The Top-Tier Religious Leaders Have Entered the Chat and they Are NOT HAPPY
May 06, 2022
MATT629 - The Fact That it Was Passover Week is a Key Detail
May 05, 2022
MATT628 - Each Time Jesus Says the Thing You Can't Say, Stuff Escalates More
May 04, 2022
MATT627 - The Dark Turn We All Knew Was Coming
May 03, 2022
MATT626 - Simple Version of Matthew 24 and 25
May 02, 2022
MATT625 - The Olivet Discourse Was Hard, Here's Why I Think That Is
Apr 29, 2022
MATT624 - They Wouldn't Be Pointing Out the Gun If It Wasn't Going to Go Off at Some Point
Apr 28, 2022
MATT623 - The Father Has Good and Just Expectations for How His Children are to be Treated and For How They Are to Treat Others
Apr 27, 2022
MATT622 - Pet a Goat
Apr 26, 2022
MATT621 - I Feel Weird When Parents I'm Hanging Out With Firmly Correct Their Kids in Front of Me, but I Respect it and I Learn Things About Them
Apr 25, 2022
MATT620 - Making Peace With the Beautiful and Challenging Parable of the Talents
Apr 22, 2022
MATT619 - The High-Stakes Job and the High-Flex Safety Net
Apr 21, 2022
MATT618 - What If Five Talent Guy Tried But Failed?
Apr 20, 2022
MATT617 - The Parable of the Talents Has Affected Me and I Want to Talk About It Together
Apr 19, 2022
MATT616 - Fundamentally Not Getting the Job vs. Fundamentally Getting It
Apr 18, 2022
MATT615 - Elon Musk's Investments Say Things About Who He Is, and So Does the Master's Investments in All These Parables in Matthew
Apr 15, 2022
MATT614 - Each According to His Ability but not in the Communist Way
Apr 14, 2022
MATT613 - Time Crunch Plus Vestedness Equals Character Motivation
Apr 13, 2022
MATT612 - How Much Is a Talent of Precious Metal Worth Today?
Apr 12, 2022
MATT611 - The Character of the Master Lightens the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Apr 11, 2022
MATT610 - Everything the Opening Line of the Parable of the Ten Virgins Seems to be Setting Up
Apr 08, 2022
MATT609 - This Bridegroom and Wedding Imagery Has Been Begging for a Payoff for Centuries
Apr 07, 2022
MATT608 - Proper Potion Allocation Is a Factor
Apr 06, 2022
MATT607 - When Is the Ten Virgin Thing Happening?
Apr 05, 2022
MATT606 - You've Gotta Get the Wedding Customs to Get the Wedding Story
Apr 04, 2022
MATT605 - Weird As It Sounds, the Slave of the True King Will Be Ready
Apr 01, 2022
MATT604 - When You See the Hit Coming You Act Differently
Mar 31, 2022
MATT603 - How Could Jesus Ever Use Slavery As a Positive Metaphor?
Mar 30, 2022
MATT602 - Slavery in Jesus' Time vs Slavery In the American South
Mar 29, 2022
MATT601 - Is Jesus Talking About Servants or Slaves Here, Because I Think That Matters
Mar 28, 2022
MATT600 - Goofus and Gallant Only Tell You What to Do, but It's Harder to Think About Why
Mar 25, 2022
MATT599 - I Think Testing Negative Is Good, But I Might Have to Double Check
Mar 24, 2022
MATT598 - If You Know In Advance They're Coming to Steal Your Truck, You'll Be Waiting Up
Mar 23, 2022
MATT597 - What's the Point of the Famous Left Behind Passage?
Mar 22, 2022
MATT596 - But If You Close Your Eyes Does It Almost Feel Like You've Been Here Before?
Mar 21, 2022
MATT595 - I Can't Tell You Exactly When the Jump Scare Happens, but I Know When It's Getting Close
Mar 18, 2022
MATT594 - How Could You Not Know?!!!
Mar 17, 2022
MATT593 - The Most Climactic Part Is In View
Mar 16, 2022
MATT592 - There Are Only Seven Kinds of Stories and Matthew is All of Them
Mar 15, 2022
MATT591 - NEW LISTENERS START HERE
Mar 14, 2022
MATT590 - Talking 'Bout This Generation
Mar 11, 2022
MATT589 - Who Was Mufasa Talking To?
Mar 10, 2022
MATT588 - Ya'll Are Great at Interpreting the Seasons and That Is a Skill That'll Come In Handy In the Unfolding of History
Mar 09, 2022
MATT587 - The Son of Man Is the Solution To All the Push Factors
Mar 08, 2022
MATT586 - The Endgame of Jesus' Masterful Quote is Hope
Mar 07, 2022
MATT585 - The Stars Start Shaking, the Earth Was Quaking
Mar 04, 2022
MATT584 - The Empires Get Struck Back
Mar 03, 2022
MATT583 - Fancy Might be Fast as You, but Don't Ask Her on a Straight Tequila Night
Mar 02, 2022
MATT582 - Then The Winged Hussars Arrived
Mar 01, 2022
MATT581 - No Debate on That Call
Feb 28, 2022
MATT580 - When You See the Archway Monument, Don't Get Me Wrong You'll Be Baffled, But Also You'll Know It's the Archway Monument
Feb 25, 2022
MATT579 - There's Always Some Fake Jesus Skulking About In the Desert These Days
Feb 24, 2022
MATT578 - Don't Get Into the Free Candy Van No Matter How Much That Guy Says Your Mom Told Him to Pick You Up
Feb 23, 2022
MATT577 - Maybe the Real Meaning of the Abomination That Causes Desolation Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
Feb 22, 2022
MATT576 - Abominations of Desolations: Looking Back, Looking at Now, Looking Ahead
Feb 21, 2022
MATT575 - Alexander Was Great but Not Good
Feb 18, 2022
MATT574 - Sometimes the Greeks Were Sort of Jerks
Feb 17, 2022
MATT573 - Three Good Ol' Fashioned Temple Profanings in the Book of Daniel
Feb 16, 2022
MATT572 - Why Didn't Jesus Give a Simple, Direct Detailed Answer to the Disciples Reasonable Questions About the End Times?
Feb 15, 2022
MATT571 - When the Moonfalls, You'll Know
Feb 14, 2022
MATT570 - When Exactly Does Light Our Darkest Hour Mean?
Feb 11, 2022
MATT569 - Remember That Bit About Suffering From Earlier?
Feb 10, 2022
MATT568 - You're Going to Pass the Red Barn, Carhenge and the Mecca of Albino Squirrels
Feb 09, 2022
MATT567 - Fake Messiahs Inbound
Feb 08, 2022
MATT566 - Awkward Station Wagon Ride
Feb 07, 2022
MATT565 - And Now We're Ready For Matthew 24
Feb 04, 2022
MATT564 - Jerusalem Is Treading Water While Ancient Empires Play the Game of Thrones All Around Them
Feb 03, 2022
MATT563 - Famous Person Plus Interesting Place Equals Important
Feb 02, 2022
MATT562 - How Is This Little Scrawny Temple Supposed to Be Better Than Solomon's Wonder of the World Temple?
Feb 01, 2022
MATT561 - This Worked Last Time, Why Isn't It Working This Time?
Jan 31, 2022
MATT560 - Cyrus Sets the Captives Free and Gives Them a Ton of Other Peoples' Money On the Way Out the Door
Jan 28, 2022
MATT559 - A Solid Post-Credit Scene
Jan 27, 2022
MATT558 - Hard to Imagine a Darker Day
Jan 26, 2022
MATT557 - The First Temple Dedication Set the Bar High
Jan 25, 2022
MATT556 - Kids This Here's What the Temple's All About
Jan 24, 2022
MATT555 - So The Temple Was Big
Jan 21, 2022
Emergency Episode to Speak to What Happened Today
Jan 20, 2022
MATT554 - Ava Max's Sweet But Psycho Isn't Very Hard to Make Sense of and the Olivet Discourse Is Pretty Manageable, Too
Jan 20, 2022
MATT553 - That Was a Lot of Woes, but the Deliverance Plan Is Still On
Jan 19, 2022
MATT552 - How Can Things Be Desolate When Everything Is Pretty Great?
Jan 18, 2022
MATT551 - A Heartbreaking Lamentation
Jan 17, 2022
MATT550 - Even Though We All Wanted the Other Girl To Win, We Couldn’t Help but Be Sad When Her Rivals Fell on Their Faces
Jan 14, 2022
MATT549 - Apparently, You Can Leave Your Generation
Jan 13, 2022
MATT548 - Matthew Is Really Into the Whole Generation Thing
Jan 12, 2022
MATT547 - What the Heck Constitutes a Generation These Days?
Jan 11, 2022
MATT546 - Some Zechariah Solutions
Jan 10, 2022
MATT545 - So Many Zechariahs
Jan 07, 2022
MATT544 - A to Z
Jan 06, 2022
MATT543 - The One Where Matt's Daughter Gets Stuck
Jan 05, 2022
MATT542 - It’s Not Just a Difference of Opinion if Prophets Are Getting Killed
Jan 04, 2022
MATT541 - Your Heart Is Not Heavy, Scar; You Killed Him and You'd Do It Again
Jan 03, 2022
Part 5 - More Perfect Than Professional Purveyors of Piety
Dec 31, 2021
Part 4 - More Perfect Than Professional Purveyors of Piety
Dec 30, 2021
Part 3 - More Perfect Than Professional Purveyors of Piety
Dec 29, 2021
Part 2 - More Perfect Than Professional Purveyors of Piety
Dec 28, 2021
Part 1 - More Perfect Than Professional Purveyors of Piety
Dec 27, 2021
ADVENT EPISODE #4 - The Light Has Come
Dec 25, 2021
MATT540 - The Way to Defeat the Ol' Bait n' Switch is to Walk Away the Second You Know You Are Being Switched
Dec 24, 2021
MATT539 - Whitewashed Tombs
Dec 23, 2021
MATT538 - I Tricked an Entire Dinner Party Using Only a Stick Of Deodorant - Those Suckers Never Knew
Dec 22, 2021
MATT537 - My Brother’s Hand May Have Been Permanently Mangled, but That Gum Was Delicious
Dec 21, 2021
MATT536 - Camels Are Hard To Miss, but It Can Be Done With Focus and Dedication
Dec 20, 2021
ADVENT EPISODE #3 - About Mary
Dec 18, 2021
MATT535 - The Appeal of a Spelled Out Quest
Dec 17, 2021
MATT534 - Jesus Has Been Consistent on Integrity and Oaths Through the Whole Book
Dec 16, 2021
MATT533 - Moreon Oaths
Dec 15, 2021
MATT532 - Truth Weasel
Dec 14, 2021
MATT531 - I Swear
Dec 13, 2021
ADVENT EPISODE #2- Anticipating the Truest Realest Thing Together
Dec 11, 2021
MATT530 - Bad Seed Grows Bad Things Regardless of the Farmer's Hustle
Dec 10, 2021
MATT529 - Why Is Matthew 23:14 Missing From Most Bibles and How Much Does That Affect Matthew 23?
Dec 09, 2021
MATT528 - Then They All Remembered That He's Said You'd Have to be More Righteous Than the Pharisees and they Were Like Dang
Dec 08, 2021
MATT527 - Face Door Slamming
Dec 07, 2021
MATT526 - Jesus Is About to Stand In the Middle of a Toxic Mess and Call the Whole Thing What it Is Regardless of What It's About to Cost Him
Dec 06, 2021
ADVENT EPISODE #1 - Anticipating the Truest Realest Thing Together
Dec 04, 2021
MATT525 - Honorific Titles
Dec 03, 2021
MATT524 - I Empathize With the Pharisees, But I Get Why Jesus Needs to Call Them Out For the Ugly System They Built
Dec 02, 2021
MATT523 - Today We Phylacterize, My Friends
Dec 01, 2021
MATT522 - I Can Kick a Wallet Straight Into My Own Hand, But I Totally Don't Need You to Know That
Nov 30, 2021
MATT521 - A Cathartic Critique
Nov 29, 2021
MATT520 - Jesus Could Have Been Discreet, But Instead He Points Out the Uncomfortable Thing to Everyone In Ear Shot
Nov 26, 2021
MATT519 - Pharisees Make Business Decisions, Jesus Leaves It All On the Field
Nov 25, 2021
MATT518 - Jeff the Pharisee Explains to Mike How He and His Buddies Decided to Kill Jesus and Mike Continues to Be a Great Listener
Nov 24, 2021
MATT517 - Pharisee Jeff Tells His Friend Mike the Whole Saga of How Things Went Sideways With Jesus At an Applebee's
Nov 23, 2021
MATT516 - We're Going to Get Matthew In Our Hip Pocket
Nov 22, 2021
MATT515 - Jesus Says He Predates David and Is David's Lord
Nov 19, 2021
MATT514 - Psalm 110 Points Right at Jesus as King, Priest, and Victor
Nov 18, 2021
MATT513 - The Lamentation of Their Women
Nov 17, 2021
MATT512 - The Eyebrows Almost Went Up In the Middle, But Then They Went Down
Nov 16, 2021
MATT511 - That Should Have Exploded, But It Was Just So Simple and True that it Didn't
Nov 15, 2021
MATT510 - The Greatest Commandment
Nov 12, 2021
MATT509 - Two-Hit Combo
Nov 11, 2021
MATT508 - Glen the Bruiser Spits In His Palms and Balls Up His Fists
Nov 10, 2021
MATT507 - The Crowds Are Amazed, But Will They Actually Sign Up?
Nov 09, 2021
MATT506 - Moments Are Sort of Unrepeatable, Which Is What Makes Them Moments
Nov 08, 2021
MATT505 - God of the Living
Nov 05, 2021
MATT504 - Some Guy On YouTube Decoded Squid Game By Pointing to One Key Point That Was Right In Front of Everyone the Whole Time
Nov 04, 2021
MATT503 - The Sadducees Haven't Quite Got the Knack of Parables Yet
Nov 03, 2021
MATT502 - CONTENT WARNING - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GENESIS 38 AND IT'S GOING TO GET WEIRD
Nov 02, 2021
MATT501 - Are We Reading Things Into the Bible When We Talk About the Possibility of Resurrection?
Nov 01, 2021
MATT500 - The Question of Life After Death
Oct 29, 2021
MATT499 - The Sadducees Are Religious But Don't Think There's Much After Death
Oct 28, 2021
MATT498 - That Sadducees Are Going to Give it a Whirl Now
Oct 27, 2021
MATT497 - We Like Stuff a Lot and That Could Have Downsides
Oct 26, 2021
MATT496 - Human Currency Isn't Universal
Oct 25, 2021
MATT495 - WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT ROMAN COINAGE AND WE'RE HAVING FUN!
Oct 22, 2021
MATT494 - What Did Roman Money Mean In the Minds of the Bible's Original Audience?
Oct 21, 2021
MATT493 - I See Your Filthy Manipulation and I PUBLICLY CRUSH IT IN 18 WORDS
Oct 20, 2021
MATT492 - The Raiders and the Herodians Make For Strange Bedfellows
Oct 19, 2021
MATT491 - We All Know a Slimy, Gross, Disingenuous Weasel Question When We See It
Oct 18, 2021
MATT490 - Much Like That Netflix Comedy Special, We've Got Three Distinct Dynamics In Play In Matthew 21 and 22
Oct 14, 2021
MATT489 - For Many Are Invited, but Few Are Chosen
Oct 14, 2021
MATT488 - Are They Handing Out Free Wedding Getups at Frist Century Weddings Or Are People Making Stuff Up?
Oct 13, 2021
MATT487 - Could You At Least Wear a Tie, Tory?
Oct 12, 2021
MATT486 - It Was Such a Nice Story Until the Barf
Oct 11, 2021
MATT485 - You Could Have Just Not Come You Didn't Have to Kill Mike
Oct 08, 2021
MATT484 - Save the Date
Oct 07, 2021
MATT483 - Four Opinions People Have About The Relationship Between God, Israel and the Church
Oct 06, 2021
MATT482 - Who Are the Actual Cleveland Browns?
Oct 05, 2021
MATT481 - First of All - Welcome to Everyone New! Second of All - So What Happens to Israel?
Oct 04, 2021
MATT480 - The Firing Over Fruitlessness and Also Murder and Evil, That Was Also Part Of It
Oct 01, 2021
MATT479 - The Tree and Fruit Metaphor Is Being Paid Off
Sep 30, 2021
MATT478 - The Story Is Meant to Conjur Moral Outrage and Meant to Raise Questions About the Main Character's Character
Sep 29, 2021
MATT477 - Jesus Is Back on Offense Again and It's A Sight to Behold
Sep 28, 2021
MATT476 - Truth Never Even Occurred to Them
Sep 27, 2021
MATT475 - Let Us Marvel Together at Jesus' Wit and Calm
Sep 24, 2021
MATT474 - Thy Will Be Done vs. Whatever You Ask In Prayer
Sep 23, 2021
MATT473 - Hosea is ROUGH But It Ends With Hope
Sep 22, 2021
MATT472 - One of the Ugliest Chapters In the History of the Bible
Sep 21, 2021
MATT471 - A Living Metaphor
Sep 20, 2021
MATT470 - Who Withers Figs, Really?
Sep 17, 2021
MATT469 - How Would People Have Thought About Jesus Staying in Bethany Instead of In Jerusalem?
Sep 16, 2021
MATT468 - What's the Third Biggest City In Nebraska?
Sep 15, 2021
MATT467 - The Religious Leaders Completely Botch the Growing Pains Baby Test
Sep 14, 2021
MATT466 - Critics and Fans Do Not Agree on This One
Sep 13, 2021
MATT465 - Should We All Go Wreck Tables and Chuck Coins Like Jesus Did?
Sep 10, 2021
MATT464 - Famous Temple Cleansings
Sep 09, 2021
MATT463 - ENOUGH! I'm Cleaning This Garage Right Now and I Don't Care What Other Responsibilities I'm Neglecting To Do It
Sep 08, 2021
MATT462 - Why Weren't the Crowds Freaked Out and Upset at Jesus For Flipping Tables at the Temple?
Sep 07, 2021
MATT461 - Julius Caesar Rolled Into Rome and Went Right to Work Cleaning Things Up
Sep 06, 2021
MATT460 - Why Would You Bodyslam Your Sister When Everyone Is So Delighted By You?
Sep 03, 2021
MATT459 - Everyone is AMPED About Jesus Showing Up, But It Gets a Bit Murky as to Why
Sep 02, 2021
MATT458 - CRAAAAAAZYYYY Trick Ridin' Jesus Comes a' Rodeo Clownin' Into Town
Sep 01, 2021
MATT457 - The King Returns Exactly as Promised
Aug 31, 2021
MATT456 - Caligula Knows How to Make an Entrance
Aug 30, 2021
MATT455 - What Were the Guys Thinking As They Hiked Up the Mountain to Jerusalem?
Aug 27, 2021
MATT454 - This Has Been Great, But We All Know Everything Changes When We Get to Jerusalem
Aug 26, 2021
MATT453 - What Do You Want?
Aug 25, 2021
MATT452 - I See Who You Really Are Mithrandir
Aug 24, 2021
MATT451 - Two Guys Got Caught Weaseling and Now Jesus Has to Fix It
Aug 23, 2021
MATT450 - I Still Haven't Seen the Three Amigos, But I Know About the Kid Asking About the Watch
Aug 20, 2021
MATT449 - The Son of Man Will Suffer and Be Raised
Aug 19, 2021
MATT448 - Death Is One Thing, But Learning What It Looks Like Makes It More Real
Aug 18, 2021
MATT447 - Popular Big-Picture Reads on the Parable of the Landowner and the Workers
Aug 17, 2021
MATT446 - Two Ways to Interpret the Green Knight
Aug 16, 2021
MATT445 - Parallel Patient Parleys With Petulant Petitioners
Aug 13, 2021
MATT444 - I Didn't Get to Go to Showbiz Pizza Because My Dad Was Nice to People Who Didn't Deserve It
Aug 12, 2021
MATT443 - If You Don't Remember When Mel Sat on Terry's Sandwich You Should Get Paid Less
Aug 11, 2021
MATT442 - Signing Up Day Laborers
Aug 10, 2021
MATT441 - Peter Wants Answers Before Jesus Dies and Jesus Obliges
Aug 09, 2021
MATT440 - Interpretation of Art Is Subjective, Except When It Isn't
Aug 06, 2021
MATT439 - First In Line Was Not First In Line
Aug 05, 2021
MATT438 - Rickey Henderson Can See Two Things at the Same Time, and Now So Can Peter
Aug 04, 2021
MATT437 - Mammon Is a god Who Comes With a Heavy Burden, Jesus Is Proposing Something Much Lighter
Aug 03, 2021
MATT436 - I Don't Care If I Can't So Much as Move, I Will Not Empty This Backpack!
Aug 02, 2021
MATT435.5 - Peter's Honest Question About How This Whole Thing Is Going to Play For Him (with Daylan Woodall)
Jul 31, 2021
MATT435 - If That Didn't Work, Then How Could Anything Work? (with Daylan Woodall)
Jul 30, 2021
MATT434 - I Don't Think Jesus Was Talking About a Secret Gate
Jul 29, 2021
MATT433 - Did Jesus Mean to Say That It's Harder For a Big Heavy Rope to Pass Through the Eye of a Needle, or Did He Mean Camel?
Jul 28, 2021
MATT432 - The Heyward Foundation For Cramming a Camel Through the Eye of a Needle
Jul 27, 2021
MATT431 - Empathy For the Kid Who Got Cut to the Quick
Jul 26, 2021
MATT430.5 - What Do We Make of the Rich Young Ruler's Question and Jesus' Answer?
Jul 24, 2021
MATT430 - How Many More Bites Until I Can Get Down?
Jul 23, 2021
MATT429 - Does Jesus Mean It When He Says the Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Little Kids?
Jul 22, 2021
MATT428 - The Kids Get Run Out of the Autograph Line
Jul 21, 2021
MATT427 - Marriage and Singleness of Heart
Jul 20, 2021
MATT426 - The Theology Behind Marriage Stuff in the New Testament
Jul 19, 2021
MATT425 - Jeff Is Out of Town
Jul 16, 2021
MATT424 - If We're Talking About Marriage, Why Is Jesus Bringing Up Eunuchs?
Jul 15, 2021
MATT423 - God Condemns the Unjust Sham Divorces That Were Ruining Women's Lives
Jul 14, 2021
MATT422 - Technically Correct Is Not the Best Kind of Correct No Matter What Austin Says
Jul 13, 2021
MATT421 - Jesus' Baseline Assumptions on Men Women and Getting Married
Jul 12, 2021
MATT420 - Disingenuous Divorce Question For Jesus
Jul 09, 2021
MATT419 - The Forgiving Family of Faith Fascinates the Flock
Jul 08, 2021
MATT418 - Pop Pop!
Jul 07, 2021
MATT417 - Forgiveness is How This Gets Better Inside and Out
Jul 06, 2021
MATT416 - You Are That Man
Jul 05, 2021
Musical Easter Egg Bonus Extravaganza (with Jeff Foote)
Jul 03, 2021
MATT415 - Take It Easy On Me, But Also Mercy Is For the Weak
Jul 02, 2021
MATT414 - We're Back to Jesus' Teaching That Forgiveness Should Lead to Forgiving
Jul 01, 2021
MATT413 - How Did Peter Get to Seven Times As the Gold Standard of Forgiveness?
Jun 30, 2021
MATT412 - The Sage Reassures and Gives Wisdom In the Midst of Trial
Jun 29, 2021
MATT411 - Whatever You Bind In the Giant Monster Fighting Robot Will Be Loosed On the Outside of the Giant Monster Fighting Robot
Jun 28, 2021
MATT410 - My Mom and Dad Help Me Think Through Whether There Are Any Exceptions to the Basic Reconciliation Instructions in Matthew 18 and They Do a Lovely Job
Jun 25, 2021
MATT409 - Conflict in Church is Agonizing Even When Things Work Out
Jun 24, 2021
MATT408 - Three Steps For Fixing Screwed Up Relationships
Jun 23, 2021
MATT407 - The Anatomy of Our Recovered and Failed Relationships
Jun 22, 2021
MATT406 - The Good Shepherd
Jun 21, 2021
MATT405 - What To Make of Grandpa's Threats of Ear Boxing
Jun 18, 2021
MATT404 - How the New Family of Faith Handles Business Is a Bigger Deal Than Personal Naughty and Nice
Jun 17, 2021
MATT403 - The Fourth Big Speech In Matthew Has a Lot to Do With Us
Jun 16, 2021
MATT402 - The Millstone Thing Is Scary, But There's Proactive Positive Not-Scary Stuff In Here Too
Jun 15, 2021
MATT401- Millstone Harbor Church
Jun 14, 2021
MATT400 - My Boy Is Full of Wonder and Joy and Trust and That Pushes Me
Jun 11, 2021
MATT399 - The Only Time My Kind of Fishing Comes Up In the Bible I Think
Jun 10, 2021
MATT398 - My Friends Got Unlimited Quarters at Their Parents Roller Skating Rink Arcade and I Didn't
Jun 09, 2021
MATT397 -What's a Temple Tax and More Importantly, Do I Have to Pay It?
Jun 08, 2021
MATT396 - Jesus Rolls Back Into Town and Gets Immediately Nitpicked Again
Jun 07, 2021
MATT395 - Why Not Invite Everybody to the Transfiguration?
May 28, 2021
MATT394 - Jesus' Death Finally Sinks In For His Friends and It's Understandably Tough
May 27, 2021
MATT393 - God Can Do Whatever He Wants Whenever He Wants or He Isn't God, But He Could Also Withhold a Miracle He Could Do In Order to Make a Point Because of How Someone Is
May 26, 2021
MATT392 - We ALMOST Get to the Part Where We Talk About God and People and Miracles
May 25, 2021
MATT391 - Who Were Jesus' Angry Remarks Directed At?
May 24, 2021
MATT390 - How Much Does Believing Have To Do With Miracles?
May 21, 2021
MATT389 - Seems Like Every Time Someone Gets Transfigured There's a Lot to Talk About After
May 20, 2021
MATT388 - God Says Exactly What He's Thinking to Peter
May 19, 2021
MATT387 - There's No Social Protocol For What to Do When Your Friend Starts Glowing
May 18, 2021
MATT386 - Seeing Jesus on His Home Turf
May 17, 2021
MATT385 - Transformation (and Transfiguration) Always Mean Something Significant In a Story and Matthew 17 Follows the Pattern
May 14, 2021
MATT384 - Escape to Which Mountain?
May 13, 2021
MATT383 - 16 CHAPTERS OF MATTHEW IN ONE GRAND RESET EPISODE!!!
May 12, 2021
MATT382 - When Signing Up For Jesus, Make Sure to Use the Promo Code COUNTTHECOST
May 11, 2021
MATT381 - Without the Stakes, the Story Breaks
May 10, 2021
MATT380 - Peter Acts Like a Completely Understandable Normal Human Again and I Can Relate to That
May 07, 2021
MATT379 - Reflective Highway Anthems
May 06, 2021
MATT378 - WAIT!!! We Forgot to Talk About Why It Matters That Peter's Confession of Jesus as Messiah Happened at Caesarea Philippi
May 05, 2021
MATT377 - I Should Not Have Said That Word to My Cousin, But In My Defense, It Was Too Sharp an Instrument For a Young Person My Age to Have Been Trusted With
May 04, 2021
MATT376 - MASSIVE REVEALS!!! SO MUCH TO DISCUSS!!!
May 03, 2021
MATT375 - What Does Jesus Mean by Rock, Keys, and Binding and Loosing?
Apr 30, 2021
MATT374 - Two Reads on Matthew 16 and What Jesus Is Saying to Peter
Apr 29, 2021
MATT373 - The Fight Came Up In Passing, But the Main Point Is That We Found Turtles
Apr 28, 2021
MATT372 - The One Where I Rip Duct Tape Off My Arm But the Episode Somehow Was About Peter's Confession of Christ
Apr 27, 2021
MATT371 - What Do Other People Make of What You're Looking At?
Apr 26, 2021
BONUS EPISODE (with Daylan Woodall): How Do You Know Which Parts of the Bible You're Supposed to Do?
Apr 24, 2021
MATT370 - What Does Caesarea Philippi Mean?
Apr 23, 2021
MATT369 - The Disciples Have Been Hot 'n Cold, but They're Getting Warmer
Apr 22, 2021
MATT368 - Jesus' Disciples Are Pretty Sure He's Mad at Them, but He's Totally Not Mad at Them and They're Just Being Weird About Stuff
Apr 21, 2021
MATT367 - Did Jesus Actually Say Matthew 16:2-3? (With Dr. Craig Blomberg)
Apr 20, 2021
MATT366 - Are There Verses in the Bible That Shouldn't Be in the Bible? (With Dr. Craig Blomberg)
Apr 19, 2021
MATT365 - Why Repeat the Sign of Jonah Thing?
Apr 16, 2021
MATT364 - Magicians Make Me Uncomfortable Because I'm Not Allowed to Tell Them to Do It Over and Over Again Until I Figure It Out
Apr 15, 2021
MATT363 - Red Sky At Night, Red Sky At Morning
Apr 14, 2021
MATT362 - How Many Bullseyes Would Be Enough For You? I'm Going to Need a Number.
Apr 13, 2021
MATT361 - Comparing the Feeding of the 5,000 and the Feeding of the 4,000
Apr 12, 2021
MATT360 - Decapolistock's Memorable Last Night on Main Stage
Apr 09, 2021
MATT359 - Ya'll Wish You'd Been at Decapolistock
Apr 08, 2021
MATT358 - If the Decapolis Were a Competition, Robert Změlík Would Win Comfortably. But It's Not. It's a Bunch of Non-Jewish Towns That Get Mentioned in the Bible.
Apr 07, 2021
MATT357 - Punchlines Land Differently With Different People and it's the Same Way With Jesus Stuff in the First Century
Apr 06, 2021
MATT356 - Why Is Matthew Telling Us the Same Stuff Again?
Apr 05, 2021
MATT355 - Should Normal People Get After Bad Teachers Like Jesus Did?
Mar 26, 2021
MATT354 - Some Guy on TikTok Said Jesus Is a Racist, but He's Not
Mar 25, 2021
MATT353 - The Kingdom is Trippy
Mar 24, 2021
MATT352 - You Have No Idea How Much I’d Be Willing to Humiliate Myself if It Meant Saving My Kid
Mar 23, 2021
MATT351 - Was Jesus Momentarily Mind-Controlled by the Pharisees Who Were Wielding a Secret Mind-Control Bracelet?
Mar 22, 2021
MATT350 - Jesus' Mysterious Corporate Retreat
Mar 19, 2021
MATT349 - There's Poop In This One
Mar 18, 2021
MATT348 - WHY ARE WE YELLING!?
Mar 17, 2021
MATT347 - OFFENDOCOIN TO THE MOON BRO!
Mar 16, 2021
MATT346 - Flipping the Script on Clean and Unclean
Mar 15, 2021
BONUS EPISODE -- What Do the Two Storms at Sea Have to Do With Faith?
Mar 13, 2021
MATT345 - Not Much Between Despair and Ecstasy
Mar 12, 2021
MATT344 - One Game of One Away Can Make a Hard Man Humble
Mar 11, 2021
MATT343 - Sorry, Got These Sacks
Mar 10, 2021
MATT342 - Someone Who Denies Having Cooties Likely Has Cooties
Mar 09, 2021
MATT341 - Why Are We Fighting About Hand Washing?
Mar 08, 2021
MATT340 - Literally Nobody:God and Satan and Mary and Peter and Demons and Some Rando Soldier: Jesus Is the Son of God
Mar 05, 2021
MATT339 - I Get That the Rot and the Cure Are Both Contagious, But What's With the Handkerchiefs?
Mar 04, 2021
MATT338 - Where the Heck are the Countries of the Gadarenes, Gerasenes, Gergesenes and Gennesaret?
Mar 03, 2021
MATT337 - Then the Courage Went Out of Tormund
Mar 02, 2021
MATT336 - That Moment When Robert the Bruce Said He Wanted to Believe
Mar 01, 2021
BONUS EPISODE: Is the "I Am" Thing in John Real, Or Are People Just Seeing What They Want to Over There?
Feb 27, 2021
MATT335 - Jesus Answers the Question of Who He Is - While Walking on Water (Which Was Sort of a Hint)
Feb 26, 2021
MATT334 - People Standing Where They're Supposed to Be Is Reassuring, But the Same Person Standing Where They're Not Supposed to Be Is Horrifying
Feb 25, 2021
MATT333 - Jesus Stacked the Deck Against Himself
Feb 24, 2021
MATT332 - Easter Eggs, Breakdowns and Stuff You Might Have Missed From the Feeding of the Five Thousand
Feb 23, 2021
MATT331 - This Episode Was Foreshadowed In An Earlier Episode, That's How You Know It's Good
Feb 22, 2021
MATT330 - Why Don't Hockey Teams Just Keep Their Foot On the Accelerator Literally All the Time?
Feb 19, 2021
MATT329 - No Time to Grieve
Feb 18, 2021
MATT328 - Jesus Hears Hard News
Feb 17, 2021
MATT327 - Who Wanted What at the Beheading Party
Feb 16, 2021
MATT326 - I've Never Been to a Party Where Someone Got Beheaded
Feb 15, 2021
MATT325 - Herod Is a Champion of Censorship and an Abuser of Power, But John Speaks Truth to Him Anyway
Feb 12, 2021
MATT324 - Getting Rightly Called Out Brings Strange Things to the Surface In Us
Feb 11, 2021
MATT323 - How the Original Audience Would Have Thought About Herod Antipas
Feb 10, 2021
MATT322 - Herod Antipas Loses at Game of Thrones
Feb 09, 2021
MATT321 - How Did We Get to Herod Antipas?
Feb 08, 2021
MATT320 - I Think I See Why Jesus Didn't Do Miracles Every Time Somebody Walked Up and Told Him To
Feb 05, 2021
MATT319 - Does Jesus Need Your Belief to Keep Him Powerful?
Feb 04, 2021
MATT318 - The Only Homecoming Worse Than The One In 10th Grade Where I Didn't Get Kissed Was Jesus'
Feb 03, 2021
MATT317 - Probably Fewer People From Nazareth Accepted Nicholas Cage as Superman Than Accepted Jesus As Messiah, But Just Barely
Feb 02, 2021
MATT316 - NEW LISTENERS START HERE
Feb 01, 2021
MATT315 - The Parable of the Guy Who Had a Basement And There Was Some Stuff In There
Jan 29, 2021
MATT314 - Did You Understand These Things?
Jan 28, 2021
MATT313 - Again With the Question of God's Judgment vs. People's Judgment
Jan 27, 2021
MATT312 - Okay, Seriously, What Is Gnashing of Teeth?
Jan 26, 2021
MATT311 - Why Did Jesus Tell the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds and the One About the Net When They Seem to Be Doing the Same Thing?
Jan 25, 2021
MATT310 - There's More Than One Way to Catch a Fish, but the One Jesus Is Thinking Of Involves a Big Net
Jan 22, 2021
MATT309 - All-In Maximum Value Hardcore Mode
Jan 21, 2021
MATT308 - The Flawed Lifeboat Analogy
Jan 20, 2021
MATT307 - What Can't the Wheat and the Tares Mean?
Jan 19, 2021
MATT306 - Decoding the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds
Jan 18, 2021
MATT305 - The Best Rock Pushes Back on The Establishment in Ways That Not Everyone Hears Even Though They Might Be Singing Along
Jan 15, 2021
MATT304 - I Love Debriefing With My Friends After High-Pressure Social Situations
Jan 14, 2021
MATT303 - The Story Beats Point Toward Calm, Cool, Long-View Confidence
Jan 13, 2021
MATT302 - Why Is the Parable of the Yeast in the Bible if We Already Have the Parable of the Mustard Seed?
Jan 12, 2021
MATT301 - I'm Not Convinced Dynamite Comes In Small Packages, But I Am Convinced Mustard Seeds Are Small and Then Grow Bigger
Jan 11, 2021
MATT300 - The Servants and Mobs See Something Unredeemable, But the Master Sees It Differently
Jan 08, 2021
MATT299 - The Twist Is That We're All Outraged But the Actual Victim is Totally Calm
Jan 07, 2021
MATT298 - Did People Back Then Actually Throw Bad Seeds In Their Enemies Fields Or Was Jesus Making This Up to Illustrate a Point?
Jan 06, 2021
MATT297 - SABOTAGE!
Jan 05, 2021
MATT296 - What Kind of Dirt Are You, or Is That Completely the Wrong Question?
Jan 04, 2021
MATT295 - What Does the Parable of the Sower Mean?
Jan 01, 2021
MATT294 - You Won't Believe How Close We Come To Talking About Matthew 13:18-23 In This Episode
Dec 31, 2020
MATT293 - Let's Play Snaps
Dec 30, 2020
MATT292 - Why Isn't Jesus Taking It To the Hole?
Dec 29, 2020
MATT291 - If There Was Already a Matthew Out There, Why Did John Feel the Need to Write Another Gospel?
Dec 28, 2020
MATT290 - It Is a Strange Fate That We Should Hope With So Much Joy and Confidence Over So Small a Thing
Dec 24, 2020
MATT289 - I Feel Like I Know Some Stuff About the Person Who Owns In-N-Out From Eating at In-N-Out
Dec 24, 2020
MATT288 - Expectations Tempered
Dec 23, 2020
MATT287 - We're Switching to Parables Now
Dec 22, 2020
MATT286 - Jesus' Refraction Non-Miracle
Dec 21, 2020
MATT285 - I Am The Crowd
Dec 18, 2020
MATT284 - Jesus Is Not Particularly Interested in Being Collected By His Mom and Brothers
Dec 17, 2020
MATT283 - Lady Gaga Is Personally Responsible For Destroying My Backyard and I Haven't Received a Penny
Dec 16, 2020
MATT282 - Jesus Knows EXACTLY What RJ Fletcher Senior Would Be Saying If He Were Alive Today
Dec 15, 2020
MATT281 - You Can't Unsee the Sign of Jonah
Dec 14, 2020
MATT280 - We're Solving a Riddle and Somehow Jonah Fits Into It
Dec 11, 2020
MATT279 - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Dec 10, 2020
MATT278 - Jesus LOLs the 5th Amendment
Dec 09, 2020
MATT277 - Whatever Resides in the Bowels of the Earth That Makes Those Sulfury Smells at Yellowstone Is Genuinely and Completely Unpleasant
Dec 08, 2020
MATT276 - Look Out, Jesus Just Took Control of the Point and Transitioned to Offense
Dec 07, 2020
MATT275 - Jesus Sets Up a Withering Counter Attack
Dec 04, 2020
MATT274 - Limp, Lazy, Last-Ditch Attack
Dec 03, 2020
MATT273 - Jesus of Nazareth and the Easily Defended Accusation
Dec 02, 2020
MATT272 - The Four Servant Songs of Isaiah
Dec 01, 2020
MATT271 - Jesus Flips the Modern "Level-of-Certainty" Vs. "Level-Of-Yelling" Equation Upside Down
Nov 30, 2020
MATT270 - What Do You Do When Someone Legitimately Wants to Kill You, But You Just Can't Die Right Now?
Nov 20, 2020
MATT269 - How Did We Go From Sweet Little Promising Baby to "Death to the Radical!" in Just 12 Chapters of Matthew?
Nov 19, 2020
MATT268 - The Mandalorian and the Jews Made Huge Sacrifices to Honor Their Way and That Sticks With a Person When Confronted With the Prospect of Change
Nov 18, 2020
MATT267 - Jesus Lowered Expectations About How People Would Respond to Him
Nov 17, 2020
MATT266 - If the Miracles in Matthew Actually Happened, Why Didn't Everyone Who Saw Them Automatically Follow Jesus?
Nov 16, 2020
MATT265 - If That Guy's Dead Arm Just Grew Back Then That Changes Some Things About How I Understand the World
Nov 13, 2020
MATT264 - Why Is This Story About the Sabbath Grain Thing in the Bible and What Does It Mean For Your Weekend?
Nov 12, 2020
MATT263 - Jesus Completely Dominates at Idea Ball
Nov 11, 2020
MATT262 - Let's Play Idea Ball!
Nov 10, 2020
MATT261 - The Bonus Sabbath Laws the Pharisees Were Referencing Are Recorded In the Mishnah
Nov 09, 2020
MATT260 - How Did They End Up With Bonus Unwritten Rules In the Time of Jesus
Nov 06, 2020
MATT259 - This one time on vacation it took a bunch of bonus rules to make a basic rule about watching tv actually work
Nov 05, 2020
MATT258 - We Are Weary and Burdened and Jesus Promises Rest
Nov 04, 2020
MATT257 - How Do You Put Language to How Jesus Describes Himself?
Nov 03, 2020
MATT256 - What If You Could Know Someone As Well As You Know Yourself?
Nov 02, 2020
MATT255.5 - Is the "Son of God" Language in the Gospels Original to the Text or Was It a Later Addition?
Oct 30, 2020
MATT255 - Is Matthew 11:27 Genuine?
Oct 30, 2020
MATT254 - Jesus Finally Admits He's Iron Man
Oct 29, 2020
MATT253 - Ratcheting Tension Is About to Ratchet Way Harder
Oct 28, 2020
MATT252 - Why Is God Hiding Things From People?
Oct 27, 2020
MATT251 - Monster Molinism Mailbag
Oct 26, 2020
MATT250 - If You Had Listened to This Episode Five Minutes Ago, Everything Would Have Been Different
Oct 23, 2020
MATT249 - What're You Laughing at, Capernaum?
Oct 22, 2020
MATT248 - Why Did Everybody Hate Tyre So Much? They Seem Pretty Cool to Me
Oct 21, 2020
MATT247 - Flyover Country Taking a Verbal Beating
Oct 20, 2020
MATT246 - You Are Cool and I Like You
Oct 19, 2020
There's Something Very Off About Death, and I Felt That More Than Usual This Week
Oct 17, 2020
MATT245 - To What Can I Compare This Generation?
Oct 16, 2020
MATT244 - The Wind Is Inevitable
Oct 15, 2020
MATT243 - Wait, so Kyle's Greater Than John the Baptist? KYLE?
Oct 14, 2020
MATT242 - Nobody Punches John the Baptist but Me
Oct 13, 2020
MATT241 - The Scoreboard Tells the Truth
Oct 12, 2020
MATT240 - Was John the Baptist Being Dumb For Asking if Jesus Was the Messiah?
Oct 09, 2020
MATT239 - Is the Lord's Prayer the Sinner's Prayer?
Oct 08, 2020
MATT238 - After Action Report
Oct 07, 2020
MATT237 - Before This Episode is Over, We're Going to Figure Out Who Gets What Present
Oct 06, 2020
MATT236 - Here the Bannermen Go Again on Their Own
Oct 05, 2020
MATT235 - In Order to Hear This Program, You Must First Program Your Hearing
Oct 02, 2020
MATT234 - Today I Feel Exhausted by Division and Then The Passage We're Covering Is About Division
Oct 01, 2020
MATT233 - The One About Themes in Stories and In the Gospel of Matthew
Sep 30, 2020
MATT232 - Hawkeye and Jesus Are Excellent at Customized Encouragement Speeches
Sep 29, 2020
MATT231 - What the Heck Is Going on With Matthew 10:23?
Sep 28, 2020
MATT230 - Three-Part Dad Tennis Pep Talk
Sep 18, 2020
MATT229 - What Does "Son of Man" Mean?
Sep 17, 2020
MATT228 - I Cried When Prime Died, But Everything Felt Right When I Heard His Voice at the End of the Movie
Sep 16, 2020
MATT227 - Hey Gang, You're Getting Flogged; Also, It's Worth It.
Sep 15, 2020
MATT226 - How Is Jesus Structuring His Commissioning Speech in Matthew 10?
Sep 14, 2020
MATT225 - Taming of the Shrewd
Sep 11, 2020
MATT224 - Bears Are Very Dangerous, Also You Totally Want to Be Where the Bears Are
Sep 10, 2020
MATT223 - Put on Your Special Gaming Trousers, Because We're Playing the Animal Association Game and You're Going to Dominate!
Sep 09, 2020
MATT222 - Literally Hitler and Literally Sodom and Gomorrah (Adult Subject Matter Warning For Kids)
Sep 08, 2020
MATT221 - It's Reasonable for Samuel L. Jackson and Jesus of Nazareth to Expect to be Recognized
Sep 07, 2020
MATT220 - Is This One of Those Things Where The King's Arrival Is Obvious Like at Winterfell, Or Is It Missable Like in Henry V?
Sep 04, 2020
MATT219 - It's Dangerous to Go Alone. Take This.
Sep 03, 2020
MATT218 - Jesus' Announcement of His Kingdom Is Way Nicer Than Thanos's
Sep 02, 2020
MATT217 - Other Than Going to School Without Pants, Being on Stage Without a Script Is Everyone's Worst Nightmare
Sep 01, 2020
MATT216 - I Think This Sheep Thing Is Intentional and Effective
Aug 31, 2020
MATT215 - What's Jesus' Campaign Buzzword?
Aug 28, 2020
MATT214 - Why is Jesus, Who Loves Everybody, Telling His Disciples to Ignore Everyone But Jews?
Aug 27, 2020
MATT213 - Hey Mike, Have You Ever Had a Runza?
Aug 26, 2020
MATT212 - What Did Jesus' Screwy Disciple Draft Mean to the Original Audience?
Aug 25, 2020
MATT211 - Jesus' Band of Uninspiring Misfits That Sometimes Asks Jesus to Burn People to Death
Aug 24, 2020
MATT210 - The Kids Are About to Take a Big Step Forward
Aug 21, 2020
MATT209 - The Coolest Kid in 8th Grade Was the One Who Included Everybody
Aug 20, 2020
MATT208 - Hey, Not-Christian Friends, Let's Talk About the Fact That Jesus Just Told His Followers to Go Tell You About Him
Aug 19, 2020
MATT207 - Oh My GAWWWWWWWWWWWWSH!!! Somebody Else Should Do Something!!!
Aug 18, 2020
MATT206 - Jesus and the "Sinners' Prayer"
Aug 17, 2020
MATT205 - Do We Actually Know What the Original Audience Thought About Stuff?
Aug 14, 2020
MATT204 - Worn and Weary Like Sheep Without a Shepherd
Aug 13, 2020
MATT203 - Maybe Pirates or Possibly Satan?
Aug 12, 2020
MATT202 - The Idea of Blind and Deaf in the Bible Is Waaaay More Complex Than I Thought
Aug 11, 2020
MATT201 - Justice, Love, and the Ref Are All Blind
Aug 10, 2020
MATT200 - Looking at the Exact Same Data and Coming to Different Conclusions
Aug 07, 2020
MATT199 - The Blind Guys Could See What The Deal Was
Aug 06, 2020
MATT198 - Why Is Jesus Being So Dang Sneaky
Aug 05, 2020
MATT197 - Officer Niceguy Handles Duress Well
Aug 04, 2020
MATT196 - The Least Surprising Thing In the Bible Is That People Saw Jesus Bring a Kid Back to Life and Then They Told a Bunch of People About That
Aug 03, 2020
MATT195 - What If You Could Give Someone Back Their Dead Kid Alive and Well?
Jul 31, 2020
MATT194 - When Push Comes to Shove You Don't Grab the Fashionable Rope, You Grab the One You Think Will Work
Jul 30, 2020
MATT193 - What's Wrong With Bleeding for 12 Years?
Jul 29, 2020
MATT192 - This Guy Embraced the Evidence of His Eyes and Ears and Did Something Bold
Jul 28, 2020
MATT191 - I'm So So So Sorry for Killing That Hamster
Jul 27, 2020
MATT190 - What is Matthew Doing With the Order of Events in His Story?
Jul 24, 2020
MATT189 - Why Do People Who Write Stories Mess With the Order of Things?
Jul 23, 2020
MATT188 - Booze Exploded in My Truck One Time and That's Like the Bible (Trust Me, It'll Make Sense)
Jul 22, 2020
MATT187 - Sometimes I Wake Up and Realize My Categories Are Wrecked
Jul 21, 2020
MATT186 - There's Always Somebody Dangling From the Bottom Rung (Except in the Kingdom)
Jul 20, 2020
MATT185 - Does Jesus Even Care About His Reputation?
Jul 17, 2020
MATT184 - Why Did Matthew Skip the Big Dramatic Story?
Jul 16, 2020
MATT183 - Matthew (the one from the Bible, not me) Was the Repugnant Cultural Other
Jul 15, 2020
MATT182 - Forgiveness Is the Way (Seriously, This Is a Plan for How to Fix Things)
Jul 13, 2020
MATT181 - The Sword of Damocles
Jul 13, 2020
MATT180 - What If Jesus Couldn't Heal the Guy After He Said He Could?
Jul 10, 2020
MATT179 - Jesus Stakes His Claim as Owner of Forgiveness
Jul 09, 2020
MATT178 - There's Nothing Jesus Can Say to Make Them Happy
Jul 08, 2020
MATT177 - How Are You Going to Use Your Time Travel Tokens?
Jul 07, 2020
MATT176 - There's a Homework Assignment at the End of This One
Jul 06, 2020
MATT175 - Why Didn't They Wanna Hang Out With Jesus?
Jun 26, 2020
MATT174 - Remember When Biff Smashed Into That Manure Truck?
Jun 25, 2020
MATT173 - Demons Are Hard to Compute
Jun 24, 2020
MATT172 - Demon Honor Students Nail Tough Question
Jun 23, 2020
MATT171 - Whoa, What Exactly Are We Dealing With Here?
Jun 22, 2020
MATT170 - Sometimes the Sea of Galilee Tries to Murder People
Jun 19, 2020
MATT169 - Back to the Singleness of Heart Thing
Jun 18, 2020
MATT168 - Disclosure
Jun 17, 2020
MATT167 - Bands of Misfits Make the Best Super Hero Teams
Jun 16, 2020
MATT166 - Girls Are Gross in 4th Grade and 1st Century Galilee, but Jesus Thinks They're Not Gross
Jun 15, 2020
MATT165 - SHOCKING BIBLE CONTROVERSY! Matthew vs. Luke on the Centurion Story
Jun 12, 2020
MATT164 - Right Posture Before the King Ancestry
Jun 11, 2020
MATT163 - Jesus Says More Provocative Stuff
Jun 10, 2020
MATT162 - Right Posture Before the King
Jun 09, 2020
MATT161 - Walkie Talkies Sort of Transcend Distance
Jun 08, 2020
MATT160 - Jesus Does the Unthinkable
Jun 05, 2020
MATT159 - So Just How Committed is Jesus to These Kingdom Values?
Jun 04, 2020
MATT158 - If You Have Leprosy, You Can't Come to the Christmas Party
Jun 03, 2020
MATT157 - My Wrestling Partner Literally Stunk Badly, and His Stink Got On Me
Jun 02, 2020
MATT156 - What Does Authoritative Credibility Even Sound Like?
Jun 01, 2020
MATT155 - IF This is all True, and IF Jesus Can Back it up, Then the Kingdom is the Truest Realest Thing Ever
May 29, 2020
MATT154 - Outside the Walls is Default
May 28, 2020
MATT153 - Only Sith and Jesus Speak in Absolutes?
May 27, 2020
MATT152 - The Threefold Test of Christianness from 1 John
May 26, 2020
MATT151 - How Do You Know If You're a Christian?
May 25, 2020
MATT150 - Nothing Has Changed: American Gladiators Will STILL Puke On Everything You Love
May 22, 2020
MATT149 - American Gladiators Will Puke on Everything You Love
May 21, 2020
MATT148 - My Dad Wanted Me to Hit His Pitches
May 20, 2020
MATT147 - What Am I Supposed to do With Dogs and Pigs?
May 19, 2020
MATT146 - Why Is Jesus Calling People Dogs and Pigs Right After He Said Don't Judge?
May 18, 2020
MATT145 - Kitties Will Puke On Everything You Love and So Will People
May 15, 2020
MATT144 - Don't Judge: The Dreaded Impenetrable Ping Shield
May 14, 2020
MATT143 - What Does It Mean If You Seek First the Kingdom of God and All These Things AREN'T Added Unto You?
May 13, 2020
MATT142 - Have We Seen Enough From Jesus Yet to Think He Could Deliver on All He's Saying?
May 12, 2020
MATT141 - Squish Like Grape
May 11, 2020
MATT140 - You Can't Hit It if You Can't See It
May 08, 2020
MATT139 - Two Investment Opportunities
May 07, 2020
MATT138 - I Totally Fast the Most out of Everybody and Now I'm Going To Tell You About It In Great Detail
May 06, 2020
MATT137 - Forgiveness = Subaru All Wheel Drive
May 05, 2020
MATT136 - Giant Matthew Reset
May 04, 2020
MATT135 - Does Jesus Make Me Forgive People For Horrible Things?
May 01, 2020
MATT134 - No Choking Me, but I Get to Choke You
Apr 30, 2020
MATT133 - What's the Only Part of the Lord's Prayer Where You Pray For Yourself to Do Something?
Apr 29, 2020
MATT132 - Vested Bannermen vs. Disinterested Peasants
Apr 28, 2020
MATT131 - What is an Oath of Fealty and Why Are We Talking About That Here?
Apr 27, 2020
MATT130 - If God Already Knows What's Going to Happen, Why Pray?
Apr 24, 2020
MATT129 - We're Different When We Talk With Eavesdroppers in Mind
Apr 23, 2020
MATT128 - It's Gross When I'm Hypocritical; I'll Try to Do Better
Apr 22, 2020
MATT127 - Mike Seaver Loves Babies Just Because It's the Right Thing To Do
Apr 21, 2020
MATT126 - Everybody's Afraid They're a Fraud Sometimes
Apr 20, 2020
MATT125 - What's the Point of Religious Drills in the Kingdom?
Apr 17, 2020
MATT124 - Dang, Matthew Five, You've Been Intense!
Apr 16, 2020
0123 - The Kind of Game Where You Play Against the Game
Apr 15, 2020
MATT122 - Is Loving Your Enemy the Hardest Thing Jesus Says?
Apr 14, 2020
MATT121 - My Mom Made Me Watch The Butter Cream Gang and I Still Love Her
Apr 13, 2020
MATT120 - Aggressive Cheek Turning
Apr 10, 2020
MATT119 - Did Matthew and Luke Cheat Off of Mark's Paper?
Apr 09, 2020
MATT118 - The One About Oaths That Starts With the Princess Bride
Apr 08, 2020
MATT117 - I Will MAKE it Legal!
Apr 07, 2020
MATT116 - Chiseling Away the Yuck to Find the Surprising Beauty Beneath
Apr 06, 2020
MATT115 - Adultrying is Hard
Apr 03, 2020
MATT114 - Settling Out of Court
Apr 02, 2020
MATT113 - Captain America's Note to Iron Man at the End of Civil War Made Me Cry & You Should Be Crying Too
Apr 01, 2020
MATT112 - Moving Beyond Just Not Murdering People (Although Not Murdering People Is a Great Start)
Mar 31, 2020
MATT111 - You Will Be Awarded Zero Points For Not Murdering Anyone, Because Not Murdering Is a Minimal Expectation In This Course
Mar 30, 2020
MATT110 - You Have Heard It Said... But I Tell You
Mar 26, 2020
MATT109 - It's A Trap!!!
Mar 26, 2020
MATT108 - BIBLE AVALANCHE - Jesus Fulfills Each Bit of the Sacrificial Law
Mar 25, 2020
MATT107 - Humans Feel Guilt Because We Just Do, and We Want Atonement Because We Feel Guilt
Mar 24, 2020
MATT106 - All the Shocking, Gory, Smelly, Bloody Sacrifices of the Old Testament and How Jesus Fulfills That
Mar 23, 2020
MATT105 - Is It Cocky For God to Be So Obsessed With His Own Glory?
Mar 20, 2020
MATT104 - How Does Jesus Fulfill the Old Testament Rules?
Mar 19, 2020
MATT103 - Five Laws From My Childhood Home
Mar 18, 2020
MATT102 - The Psyche of the Hill People
Mar 17, 2020
MATT101 - Hill People: So What Do We Do With the Religion We Already Had?
Mar 16, 2020
MATT100 - Light Bible Avalanche
Mar 06, 2020
MATT099 - I Still Have No Idea What "Hide It Under a Bushel" Means, But I Do Think Jesus' Light Analogy Makes Sense
Mar 05, 2020
MATT098 - Light is Frustratingly Permeating
Mar 04, 2020
MATT097 - Strange Times Prompt Important Thought
Mar 03, 2020
MATT096 - Somebody's Salty
Mar 02, 2020
MATT095 - Ain't No Use In Complainin'
Feb 28, 2020
MATT094 - Working the Persecution-Sympathy Game Isn't a Kingdom Value, But Justice Is
Feb 27, 2020
MATT093 - The X-Men Were Hated and Feared by the People They Were Sworn to Protect
Feb 26, 2020
MATT092 - ZAPP NRG DRINK!!!!! (How to Make an Awful Sales Pitch)
Feb 25, 2020
MATT091 - What Do the Beatitudes Mean?
Feb 23, 2020
MATT090 - Are the Beatitudes a Meme?
Feb 21, 2020
MATT089 - It's Like Poetry, It Rhymes
Feb 20, 2020
MATT088 - Once You Know to Look for This Literary Structure in the Bible You're Going to See it Everywhere
Feb 19, 2020
MATT087 - What Structure Was Jesus Using In Laying Out the Beatitudes?
Feb 18, 2020
MATT086 - Peacemakers Get Burned Down; It's the Nature of Peacemaking
Feb 17, 2020
MATT085 - Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Because We Like Fighting
Feb 14, 2020
MATT084 - Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
Feb 13, 2020
MATT083 - Sweet Mercy
Feb 12, 2020
MATT082 - My Son Is Playing the 90's X-Men Arcade Game Using Someone Else's Quarter
Feb 11, 2020
MATT081 - My Parents Didn't Get Me the Thing I Wanted and I'm Still Sort of Grouchy About It
Feb 10, 2020
MATT080 - Everyone Protects Their Crotch When Vince Carter Dunks On Them, And Nobody Thinks It Looks Cool
Feb 07, 2020
MATT079 - This is the Kingdom Everybody Wants
Feb 06, 2020
MATT078 - Jesus' Kingdom Manifesto
Feb 05, 2020
MATT077 - Changing Currency
Feb 04, 2020
MATT076 - Is Jesus Selling Time Shares?
Feb 03, 2020
MATT075 - Jesus Shows the New Guys What the Fishing Thing Looks Like
Jan 31, 2020
MATT074 - What's the Actual Message Jesus Was Going to Send Peter and the Guys Out With?
Jan 30, 2020
MATT073 - "Fishers of Men" Is Baked Into Christianity From the Beginning
Jan 29, 2020
MATT072 - Why Do Matthew and Luke Differ On the Story of Peter's Conversion?
Jan 28, 2020
MATT071 - What Would It Take For You to Quit Your Life and Follow a Cryptic Homeless Guy You Just Met?
Jan 27, 2020
MATT070 - When You Say "Fisher of Men," Exactly What Kind of Fishing Are You Picturing?
Jan 24, 2020
MATT069 - Jesus' Cousin Got Arrested For Saying Words, What's Jesus Going to Do?
Jan 23, 2020
MATT068 - Jesus Lived Where He Lived Because of Theology
Jan 22, 2020
MATT067 - What's the Deal With Capernaum?
Jan 21, 2020
MATT066 - Jesus Picks His Base of Operations, And It's Weird
Jan 20, 2020
MATT065 - Why Is the Temptation Account in the Bible?
Jan 17, 2020
MATT064 - Was it Possible For Jesus to Fail the Temptation?
Jan 16, 2020
MATT063 - Jesus' Temptation is a Road Map For Navigating Temptation
Jan 15, 2020
MATT062 - Why Does Jesus Keep Quoting From Deuteronomy When Dueling the Devil in the Wilderness?
Jan 14, 2020
MATT061 - Sweet, Hot, Dirty Delectable Power
Jan 13, 2020
MATT060 - I am not trying to rob you! I'm trying to help you. So stop with the testing.
Jan 10, 2020
MATT059 - How Would Matthew Have Got The Details of What Happened In the Desert When Only Jesus and the Devil Were There?
Jan 09, 2020
MATT058 - Lucifer Lord of Darkness Is Better at Bible Drills Than Your Awana Kid
Jan 08, 2020
MATT057 - The Duel Continues With Manipulative, Needy Weaseling
Jan 07, 2020
MATT056 - What do you mean, man can't live on bread alone?
Jan 06, 2020
MATT054 - Is Satan Real?
Jan 02, 2020
MATT053 - Was the Temptation A Garbage Strategy?
Jan 01, 2020
MATT052 - The Judean Desert Is a Hardcore Metaphor
Dec 31, 2019
MATT051 - Tempting
Dec 30, 2019
MATT050 - I Think The First Three Chapter's Worth of Events in Matthew Would Have Wrecked a lot of Seemingly Immovable Paradigms
Dec 20, 2019
MATT049 - John and Jesus Debate Who Should Baptize Who
Dec 19, 2019
MATT048 - Why Are We Cleaning a Clean Thing?
Dec 18, 2019
MATT047 - Jesus and the Chosen One Motif
Dec 17, 2019
MATT046 - What's the Difference Between John's Baptism and Jesus' Version?
Dec 16, 2019
MATT045 - You Can't Have the Tiger Without the Claws
Dec 13, 2019
MATT044 - John the Baptist's Poetic Verbal Drubbing (With Tuvia Pollack)
Dec 12, 2019
MATT043 - Are There Any Circumstances Under Which It's Okay to Call People a Brood of Vipers?
Dec 11, 2019
MATT042 - Who Were the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Dec 10, 2019
MATT041 - Let's Talk About That Voice in the Wilderness
Dec 09, 2019
MATT040 - John Thinks It's Time to Put the Chains On the Tires
Dec 06, 2019
MATT039 - Who Was John the Baptist?
Dec 05, 2019
MATT038 - Jesus' Baptism Isn't About Baptism
Dec 04, 2019
MATT037 - Maybe We Should Allow Ourselves to Hope
Dec 03, 2019
MATT036 - Clown Kings vs. the Promise of Something Real
Dec 02, 2019
MATT035 - Jesus: Homecoming
Nov 29, 2019
MATT034 - Herod Dies; Things Get Even Weirder
Nov 28, 2019
MATT033 - Herod Murdered Babies? Why Didn't Somebody Write That Down?
Nov 27, 2019
MATT032 - Herod's a Monster, Joseph's a Saint, and Jesus is the New and Awesomer Moses
Nov 26, 2019
MATT031 - Why's the Whole Herod/Magi Thing In the Bible?
Nov 25, 2019
MATT030 - Immorton Joe Benefits From a Bad Situation
Nov 22, 2019
MATT029 - Why Was God Using Astrology to Point to Jesus?
Nov 21, 2019
MATT028 - Christian Space Wizards
Nov 20, 2019
MATT027 - Moreon Herod the Great
Nov 19, 2019
MATT026 - Who Was Herod the Great?
Nov 18, 2019
MATT025 - Closing the Book on Chapter One
Nov 15, 2019
MATT024 - Adoption Counts for Kingmakers and for God
Nov 14, 2019
MATT023 - God NOT With Us
Nov 13, 2019
MATT022 - Isaiah, Ahaz, and the name Immanuel in the Old Testament
Nov 12, 2019
MATT021 - Why Does Luke Talk About Mary More Than Matthew Does?
Nov 11, 2019
MATT020 - Joseph is Soooooo Much Cooler Than We Think
Nov 08, 2019
MATT019 - Why Does It Matter If She Was a Virgin?
Nov 07, 2019
MATT018 - What Exactly Does the Bible Mean by "Virgin?"
Nov 06, 2019
MATT017 - Born of a Virgin
Nov 05, 2019
MATT016 - What's the Point of Jesus' Genealogy in Matthew?
Nov 04, 2019
MATT015 - Does the Curse of Jeconiah Wreck Jesus' Claim to the Throne of David?
Nov 01, 2019
MATT014 - The Erotic, Enterprising, and Indelible Women of Jesus' Genealogy
Oct 31, 2019
MATT013 - Jesus is the Completion of the Old Testament Story Arc
Oct 30, 2019
MATT012 - Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus vs. Luke's
Oct 29, 2019
MATT011 - Why Did Matthew Arrange His Genealogy of Jesus Around the Number 14?
Oct 28, 2019
MATT010 - Jesus Has the Right Bloodlines to Be King
Oct 25, 2019
MATT009 - Jesus the Messiah, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham
Oct 24, 2019
MATT008 - What is the Theological Context of Matthew
Oct 23, 2019
MATT007 - What's the Historical Context of Matthew
Oct 22, 2019
MATT006 - Themes and Structure of Matthew
Oct 21, 2019
MATT005 - Was Matthew the First Gospel?
Oct 18, 2019
MATT004 - When Was Matthew Written, and Why Would That Even Matter?
Oct 17, 2019
MATT003 - Did Matthew Actually Write Matthew?
Oct 16, 2019
MATT002 - Who Was Matthew?
Oct 15, 2019
MATT001 - Two Things That Are True About the Bible
Oct 14, 2019