Out of Exile

Benjamin Giffone and Rebekah Devine•outofexileshow.wordpress.com

A podcast about biblical studies, the Ancient Near East, and everything else. With Rebekah Devine of Wheaton College, and Benjamin Giffone of LCC International University

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FEED EXPIRING – Advent Sermon: “Trading Away Our Glory”

This is the audio (37:57, 26.3 MB) of a sermon preached at Center Church (EPC) of Grove City, PA, on November 27, 2022. The main texts are Genesis 1:26–31; 2:7; and 3:1–11 . You can also watch the service on YouTube . This was my first sermon as pastor of this church! As I have shared previously , soon I will no longer be sharing all my sermons in this podcast feed. Here are new links to follow my work: Audio/video of lectures and talks: https://thinkhardthinkwell.com/category/podcast/feed Weekl...

Nov 28, 2022

PLEASE UPDATE PODCAST FEED

New links to follow my work: Audio/video of lectures and talks: https://thinkhardthinkwell.com/category/podcast/feed Weekly services of Center Church (EPC), mostly my sermons: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdS3H6sJL_Sv_whbHB3SOzQ Personal website: thinkhardthinkwell.com Archive of past sermons: thinkhardthinkwell.com/sermons Church website: http://www.centerchurchgc.org ***** As I have shared in the last few months, I am transitioning from serving as a professor who is involved in ministry pa...

Nov 09, 2022

Sermon: “I Am the Bread of Life” (John 6:25–71)

This is the audio (49:10, 38.0 MB) of a sermon preached at Center Presbyterian Church (EPC) of Grove City, PA, on September 18, 2022. The main text is John 6:25–71 . You can also watch the service on YouTube . This was my candidating sermon at this church. Immediately after the service, a congregational meeting was held, and the church voted (on the recommendation of the Session and the search committee) to call me as pastor! I am very blessed to have received this call, and will probably blog a...

Oct 04, 2022

Sermon: “We Are Members of One Another” (Ephesians 4)

This is the audio (37:24, 11.9 MB) of a sermon preached at Klaipėda Free Christian Church, on August 14, 2022. The main text is Ephesians 4 . The sermon was translated back-and-forth into Russian, for the benefit of Ukrainians who have joined our church since February. (Older Lithuanians in our congregation know Russian, and younger Lithuanians understand English.) I took this audio from my phone, which was in my breast pocket–so you might not hear Liubava’s translation. Since the scripture was ...

Aug 19, 2022

Sermon: “Those Who Sigh and Groan” (Ezekiel 8-9)

This is the audio (51:13, 46.8 MB) of a sermon preached at Kaunas Free Christian Church, on May 15, 2022. The main text is Ezekiel 8:1-15 and 9:1-11 . An excerpt: Our passage for today is one that has been rattling around in my head for the last two years, and I’m finally collecting my thoughts to say something about it. It’s kind of like an expose, a bit of “hidden camera footage” that shows what the religious leaders of Israel were doing in secret, in the Jerusalem temple, in its last days bef...

May 16, 2022

Sermon: Sage Gibson on Mark 5:25-34

This is the audio (30:08, 26.9 MB) of a sermon preached at Klaipėda Free Christian Church, on April 3, 2022, by one of my students, Sage Gibson. The main text is Mark 5:25-34 . Sage completed a course on the Book of Isaiah with me in Fall 2021. We continued to work together on an article based an idea in a paper she wrote for that course. The article is under review with a journal; we decided to preach sermons based on our studies for the article, which is about the use of Isaiah 63-66 in Mark 5...

Apr 17, 2022

Sermon: “I Stretched Out My Hands All Day Long” (Isaiah 65–66)

This is the audio (43:17, 99.1 MB) of a sermon preached at Klaipėda Free Christian Church, on March 27, 2022. The main text is Isaiah 65:1–9, 12–15; and 66:1–6 . Have you ever had an experience with a toddler that you knelt down, held out your arms, and waited for the child to run to you to be hugged—and instead the child runs past you to someone else? (This can also happen with dogs!) No one really takes this personally when it happens, because—children are children! But if, let’s say, you’re a...

Mar 28, 2022

Sermon: “Hide the Fugitives!” (Isaiah 15:8–16:5)

This is the video (22:16, 145 MB) of a sermon preached at Klaipėda Free Christian Church, on March 13, 2022. The main text is Isaiah 15:8–16:5 . The sermon follows on my report of a trip to Western Ukraine, to bring supplies to fellow Christians from Zaporizhzhia, and to bring back refugees to Lithuania. An excerpt: The church is Jesus’s household, his kingdom on earth. We should absolutely be a place of refuge for refugees and those fleeing for their lives—just as the Davidic kings of ancient J...

Mar 13, 2022

Sermon: “Oh, That You Would Rend the Heavens!” (Isaiah 63:7-64:12)

This is the video (45:43, 573 MB) of a sermon preached at Kaunas Free Christian Church, on February 13, 2022. The main text is Isaiah 63:7–64:12 . The prayer in Isaiah 63–64 is a great example because the faithful prophet knows what his people need: they need God to change their hearts, and they need God to be near to them. It is passionate, and thoughtful, and based on God’s promises to his people. It’s also beautiful for us to think about how God answered this prayer: including in ways that hi...

Feb 14, 2022

Seminar: “Images of Healing, Healing Images”

Fragment of a terracotta statue of a god. U. 16993; BM 122934. (Ur) Walker & Dick 1999, “The Mesopotamian mis pî Ritual” This is the audio (34:04, 31.2 MB) of a [virtual] talk I gave on January 28, 2022, entitled, “Images of Healing, Healing Images.” It was my honor to address a group of professors, physicians, researchers, and graduate students at the Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality and Religion (YPMSR) , at the invitation of Prof. Ben Doolittle : a physician, a professor, a researc...

Jan 30, 2022

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