Exploring My Strange Bible
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Exploring My Strange Bible
Welcome to Exploring My Strange Bible by Tim Mackie, lead theologian and co-founder of BibleProject.
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Torah Crash Course: Genesis (Remastered)
Torah Crash Course E1 — For many modern readers, the first five books of the Bible—known as the Torah—can feel strange, overwhelming, or confusing. Bu...
The Surprising, Actual Story of Genesis 1-2
In modern Western culture, we have two very different narratives swirling around the first two pages of the Bible. In the first narrative, the creatio...
Science and Faith (Remastered)
Many people view science and religious faith as bitter enemies with conflicting views of the universe, especially when you consider the scientific exp...
When God Loves Your Enemy (Remastered)
The Amazing Jonah E5 – We’ve come to the final episode of a five-part series on the book of Jonah. And this last part of the book is one of the most p...
Thrones and Ashes (Remastered)
The Amazing Jonah E4 — After the great fish vomits Jonah onto the shores of Nineveh, the prophet finally—and begrudgingly—obeys God. Even though Jonah...
A Severe Mercy (Remastered)
The Amazing Jonah E3 — After he is thrown into the sea and swallowed by a fish, Jonah utters a strange and beautifully intricate poem from inside the...
Asleep at the Wheel (Remastered)
The Amazing Jonah E2 — Jonah is portrayed as God’s prophet, but ironically, he is the only person in the book who refuses to listen to God. How can th...
Running From Your Life (Remastered)
The Amazing Jonah E1 — Many of us know the story of Jonah as the prophet who gets swallowed by a whale. And while that is part of the story, it’s only...
What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?
After his baptism and testing in the wilderness, Jesus leaves Nazareth for Capernaum. There, he begins his public ministry, inviting fishermen to foll...
The Meaning of Hope (Remastered)
Hope is an important virtue that God’s people have actively cultivated for thousands of years. And the messianic hope we see throughout the Hebrew Bib...
(Re)introducing Exploring My Strange Bible
In 2016, we began releasing this collection of sermons and lectures that Tim Mackie gave over almost twenty years as a teaching pastor and professor....
An Update From Tim
A message from Tim to let everyone know that we will be putting this podcast on pause for now. It will remain active online so you can still listen or...
The Crocus Flower and the Empty Tomb - Gospel of Matthew Part 35
This story has changed the course of human history over the past 2,000 years. Of course the story is profound, but the IMPLICATIONS of what it means t...
The Blood Cries Out - Gospel of Matthew Part 34
We are in the final moments of Jesus’ story, and we focus on his trial, but also the story in Matthew about Judas after his betrayal of Jesus. Judas e...
Panic Attack - Gospel of Matthew Part 33
We’ve come to (from my perspective) one of the most profound, mysterious, and almost terrifying stories of the Gospel. It is the story of Jesus right...
The Passover Meal - Gospel of Matthew Part 32
This teaching is actually kind of a replay and development of a teaching that I gave numerous times about the Messianic Passover. As we retell the sto...
Gold, Darkness, and Dwarves - Gospel of Matthew Part 31
Today we ponder a pretty well-known peril of Jesus that has been misused and abused in unfortunate ways when it is read out of context.
This sto...
Signs of the Times - Gospel of Matthew Part 30
We go over Matthew Chapter 24 today, which in modern, especially American Protestantism, has become a very controversial text related to biblical disc...
Love and the Rebirth of the Universe - Gospel of Matthew Part 29
We are in the “passion” week during Jesus’ stay in Jerusalem for Passover, and there are a series of controversies. Today we explore a controversy tha...
Love Poems, Vineyards, and Rocks - Gospel of Matthew Part 28
We look at a story from a controversy that Jesus was involved in in this episode. During his final week in Jerusalem for Passover, he ends up telling...
Jesus, Prophet and Provocateur - Gospel of Matthew Part 27
In this teaching, we take apart Matthew Chapter 21 and the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem during the week of Passover, and he creates a storm. H...
Forgiveness - Gospel of Matthew Part 26
We slow down on Matthew Chapter 18 and address Jesus’ aside road trip in this teaching. He is trying to give his staff and disciples an idea of what i...
Of Millstones and Guardian Angels - Gospel of Matthew Part 25
This episode takes us into Matthew Chapter 18. Jesus was taking a road trip, and then he decided to go on a solo march towards Jerusalem for Passover....
Death and Taxes - Gospel of Matthew Part 24
At this point, we take a look at Matthew Chapter 17 about taxes and death. This isn't the most famous story about taxes in the Bible, but it is one of...
The Other Side of the Lake - Gospel of Matthew Part 23
At this point, we look at Matthew Chapter 15. It is a story about a woman who approaches Jesus and asks him to heal her child, and Jesus HESITATES (wh...
Severed Heads & Hungry Crowds - Gospel of Matthew Part 22
We’re looking at Matthew Chapter 14. I consider two stories alongside each other in this teaching. One is the story of John the Baptist getting behead...
Weeds and Wheat - Gospel of Matthew Part 21
We consider one of Jesus’ parables in this episode. Jesus is explaining who he is and what the kingdom of God that he is announcing is like. He is try...
Jesus Gives Us a Sign - The Gospel of Matthew Part 20
In this teaching, we address Matthew Chapter 12. Here, the leaders of Israel challenge Jesus and they want to make him prove his identity. Jesus respo...
One Way Road to the Grave - Gospel of Matthew Part 19
Matthew Chapters 11 and 12 are stories about people responding to what Jesus has been doing in chapters 4 -10. What we see here is one of the first no...
The Hammer that Heals - Gospel of Matthew Part 18
We look at Matthew Chapter 11 today. It is kind of a puzzling story, where John the Baptist (who is actually Jesus’ relative and played a very key rol...
An Open-Minded Faith - Gospel of Matthew Part 17
This episode addresses faith in a story about Jesus healing a blind man in Matthew Chapter 9. In the Gospels, the word “faith” and specifically "havin...
Who Can Forgive Sins? - Gospel of Matthew Part 16
We unravel a well-known story that takes place in Gospel Chapter 9 about Jesus forgiving the sins of a man who is paralyzed in legs. Then, he heals hi...
A Jesus-Centered Community - Gospel of Matthew Part 15
Today we look at a story in Matthew chapter 9. Each story makes a unique claim on Jesus’s identity, about his character, and the kind of communities t...
Storms and Swine - Gospel of Matthew Part 14
We are in the narrative chapters of Matthew Chapters 8 and 9, where Matthew has collected nine stories of Jesus performing a whole number of powerful...
Make Me Clean - Gospel of Matthew Part 13
In previous episodes, we explored the Sermon on the Mount, but now we turn a corner back into the story Matthew of chapter 8. We explore this story of...
Ask and You Will Receive - Gospel of Matthew Part 12
This episode explores Jesus’ teaching about prayer. It is the famous “ask and you shall receive” teaching.
Personally, prayer has always been on...
To Judge, or Not to Judge - Gospel of Matthew Part 11
Today we are going to explore one of the most memorable teachings of Jesus that many people, even non-Christians, know. It is the teaching that center...
The Lord’s Prayer - Gospel of Matthew Part 10
Specifically, we talk about the meaning and significance of one of the most important things that Jesus ever said to his followers. Jesus passed along...
Love Your Enemies - Gospel of Matthew Part 9
Today we explore the meaning and significance of Jesus’s command “Love your neighbor”, which even includes the people who hate you (or your enemies)....
Jesus, Truth & Spin - Gospel of Matthew Part 8
Today we are going to focus on Jesus’ teaching about swearing… as in “swearing oaths”. You’re probably not too hung up on “swearing too many oaths”, b...