Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent talk about pride (or, rather, vainglory). The King of Comedy (1982 film) — Letterboxd Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner There Will Be Blood (2007 film) — Letterboxd Whiplash (2014 film) — Letterboxd Soli Deo Gloria — Wikipedia John Chrysostom — Wikipedia “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace (YouTube) “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace (Amazon) Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung Jesus and the Victory of God by N. T. Wright The We...
Oct 09, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue analyzing Season 5 of The Chosen with a discussion of the fourth episode. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb Dayenu — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast...
Oct 06, 2025•42 min
Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Elle Grover Fricks talk about greed. Wall Street (1987 film) — Letterboxd Glengarry Glen Ross (1992 film) — Letterboxd The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film) — Letterboxd Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner “Is Greed Good? On God and Wealth” by Donald Goergen — Church Life Journal To Have or to Be? by Eric Fromm Fight Club (1999 film) – Letterboxd BEMA 356: Sabbath Practice — Friendship w/ Derrick James Rohr III The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstro...
Oct 02, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue analyzing Season 5 of The Chosen with a discussion of the third episode. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb Jesus and the Victory of God by N. T. Wright Support The BEMA Podcast...
Sep 29, 2025•38 min
Brent Billings and Reed Dent gorge themselves on gluttony and its many forms. “Living Lent” by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis When Harry Met Sally (1989 film) — JustWatch The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom “Hungry Mungry” by Shel Silverstein in Where the Sidewalk Ends “The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer” by Wendell Berry in The Mad Farmer Poems Support...
Sep 25, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue the analysis of Season 5 of The Chosen with a discussion of the second episode. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb Support The BEMA Podcast
Sep 22, 2025•28 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent dive into the first of our vices, lust. Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Amazon) Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Project Gutenberg) Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung Game Genie — Wikipedia The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner “The Two Loves” from The Hungering Dark by Frederick Buechner NOOMA 002: Flame by Rob Bell The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. ...
Sep 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings dive into Season 5 of The Chosen with a discussion of the first episode. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast...
Sep 15, 2025•33 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent embark on a journey through the vices and virtues. The Gospel of Being Human by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Amazon) Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Project Gutenberg) Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas — Wikipedia Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung The Cardinal and the Deadly by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom The Seven Deadly Sins by Kevin Vost The Seven Deadly Sins by Solomon Schimmel The Inferno by Dante Alig...
Sep 11, 2025•58 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Ethan Bryan, author of A Year of Playing Catch , along with many other books. He has found himself in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the White House, and he is self-proclaimed “one of the best benchwarmers [from his] high school junior varsity baseball team.” A Year of Playing Catch by Ethan D. Bryan Baltimore Orioles at Kansas City Royals, May 28, 1979 — Baseball Reference “Remembrance of Royals’ Krispy Kreme promotion in 2000...
Sep 04, 2025•49 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Josh Bossé close out this series, and—instead of letting Qohelet do the talking—consider the reflection of Qohelet in our hearts and in our lives. The Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington III Sabbath as Resistance by Walter Brueggemann Opportunities — Impact Campus Ministries Campuses — Impact Campus Ministries Sign up for Josh’s newsletter — Constant Contact Support The BEMA Podcast...
Aug 28, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Brent Billings and Josh Bossé see Qohelet peacefully on her way. Support The BEMA Podcast
Aug 21, 2025•1 hr 36 min
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Reed Dent join Qohelet by the pond. “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” by Rainer Maria Rilke — The On Being Project Support The BEMA Podcast
Aug 14, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks sharpen the ax with their friend Qohelet. Support The BEMA Podcast
Aug 07, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Brent Billings and Josh Bossé join Qohelet as she draws us closer to a conclusion. Abel Beth Maachah — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Josh Bossé turn their ears to Qohelet and learn to avert disaster. Support The BEMA Podcast
Jul 24, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks consider what is truly important. Persona (1966 film) — JustWatch Support The BEMA Podcast
Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by the BEMA Kokomo discussion group from Indiana, which launched in 2021, to share their story and give everyone an idea of what a healthy, thriving group can look like. BEMA 317: Asking Better Questions of the Bible w/ Erin Geiselman Bridgeway Church in Kokomo, Indiana Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Evolving Faith Podcast 1: Evolution, Apocalypse, and Remembering Rachel Held Evans “We Are One” by One Sound Coming soon: “Show Me ...
Jul 10, 2025•51 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Josh Bossé reflect on the tension of human evil and the problem of desire. Support The BEMA Podcast
Jul 03, 2025•57 min
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Qohelet herself look deeply at the roots of evil. “Let My Words Be Few” by Rebecca St. James — YouTube Support The BEMA Podcast
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Brent Billings and Josh Bossé watch Qohelet cast her gaze on injustice and oppression. Support The BEMA Podcast
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Reed Dent consider the appointed time for everything. BEMA 382: Psalms — Small, Not Insignificant First Reformed (2018 film) — JustWatch Support The BEMA Podcast
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Josh Bossé follow Qohelet into many parties to see if we can find any meaning in joy. Support The BEMA Podcast
Jun 05, 2025•56 min
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks launch an exploration of one of the least understood books of Tanakh (Ecclesiastes). BEMA 320: The Forgotten Women — Sages and Wise Women The Wind Rises (2013 film) — JustWatch Support The BEMA Podcast
May 29, 2025•1 hr 27 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Ashlee Eiland, author of Say Good, and someone who seeks to join in God’s redemptive work on Earth. Ashlee is the head of school at Living Stones Academy, and formerly served as co-lead pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in western Michigan. Ashlee and her family live in Grand Rapids. Say Good by Ashlee Eiland Thought of the Day: Say Good — Marty Solomon, YouTube Myles and His Many Friends by Ashlee Eiland Books by Steve Carter Human(Kind) by Ashlee E...
May 22, 2025•41 min
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé truly cap off this series by taking a second gander at the Lord’s Prayer. One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp BEMA 286: John — The Test of Bread Why Is Shavuot Celebrated — Aleph Beta Support The BEMA Podcast...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé close out this series by taking a gander at the Lord’s Prayer. BEMA 97: Done in Secret BEMA 332: Andrew DeCort — Flourishing on the Edge of Faith Textus Receptus — Wikipedia Codex Sinaiticus — Wikipedia Codex Vaticanus — Wikipedia Alexandrian Text-Type — Wikipedia Byzantine Text-Type — Wikipedia “Ancient Amulets with Incipits” — Biblical Archaeology Society “The Lord’s Prayer” (Live from Jerusalem in 2001) — Charlotte Church, YouTube BEMA 325: S...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks step into their prayer closets and shut the door on the babbling pagans. BEMA 97: Done in Secret Lares — Wikipedia Bornless Ritual — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast
May 01, 2025•47 min
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks take a spin with Jesus’s concept of rewards or wages. Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity by Gregg E. Gardner BEMA 97: Done in Secret De Re Publica, De Legibus by Cicero — Internet Archive Pietas — Wikipedia Virtus — Wikipedia Politics by Aristotle — Internet Archive Politics (Aristotle) — Wikipedia Euergetism — Wikipedia Synagogue Wall Decorations — Sardis Expedition Inscriptions of the Megiddo Mosaic — Museum of the Bible Support The BEMA Podc...
Apr 24, 2025•49 min
Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover Fricks take a crack at what it means to be children of God. “What’s Wrong with Winsomeness?” by Russell Moore — Christianity Today The Greatest Prayer by John Dominic Crossan BEMA 80: Silent Years — Pharisees BEMA 102: Son of Man Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes by E. Randolph Richards and Richard James Dr. Anna C. Miller — Xavier University Support The BEMA Podcast...
Apr 17, 2025•50 min
