Welcome to the Surviving the Bible podcast. This is a lectionary podcast not just for pastors or preachers, but for Bible nerds everywhere. Each week Christian and Amy Piatt (from the Homebrewed CultureCast) and Tripp Fuller (from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast) explore the bible readings for the week. You’ll get three different perspectives on three different texts… Read more about Surviving The Bible: The One About The Trinity...
May 26, 2018•26 min
Welcome to the Surviving the Bible podcast. This is a lectionary podcast not just for pastors or preachers, but for Bible nerds everywhere. Each week Christian and Amy Piatt (from the Homebrewed CultureCast) and Tripp Fuller (from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast) explore the bible readings for the week. You’ll get three different perspectives on three different texts… Read more about Surviving The Bible: The One About The Spirit...
May 15, 2018•48 min
Welcome to the Surviving the Bible podcast. This is a lectionary podcast not just for pastors or preachers, but for Bible nerds everywhere. Each week Christian and Amy Piatt (from the Homebrewed CultureCast) and Tripp Fuller (from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast) explore the bible readings for the week. You’ll get three different perspectives on three different texts… Read more about Surviving The Bible: There Is No Spoon...
May 11, 2018•25 min
Welcome to the Surviving the Bible podcast. This is a lectionary podcast not just for pastors or preachers, but for Bible nerds everywhere. Each week Christian and Amy Piatt (from the Homebrewed CultureCast) and Tripp Fuller (from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast) explore the bible readings for the week. You’ll get three different perspectives on three different texts… Read more about Surviving The Bible: The Second Pentecost...
Apr 30, 2018•43 min
Welcome to the Surviving the Bible podcast. This is a lectionary podcast not just for pastors or preachers, but for Bible nerds everywhere. Each week Christian and Amy Piatt (from the Homebrewed CultureCast) and Tripp Fuller (from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast) explore the bible readings for the week. You’ll get three different perspectives on three… Read more about Surviving the Bible: It’s Not Personal, It’s Just Biblical...
Apr 23, 2018•44 min
Welcome to the first episode of the Surviving the Bible podcast. This is a lectionary podcast not just for pastors or preachers, but for Bible nerds everywhere. Each week Christian and Amy Piatt (from the Homebrewed CultureCast) and Tripp Fuller (from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast) explore the bible readings for the week. You’ll get three… Read more about Surviving The Bible: An Inconvenient Christianity...
Apr 16, 2018•1 hr
It’s Holy Week, and Tripp, Amy and Christian are here on the LectioCast to help you survive Easter. John 20:1-18 | Amy shares the Easter message she would preach, the calling out of Mary’s name and the importance of the act of naming, the significance of Jesus the gardener, opening ourselves to truth, being broken… Read more about #SurvivingTheBible for Lent: No Less Than Physical
Mar 28, 2018•1 hr 10 min
This week is the Palm Sunday Edition of the LectioCast: the Triumphal Entry versus the Annunciation. Christian tries to convince Amy and Tripp that they should preach on the Annunciation texts, and not the triumphal entry, by showing how they’re connected. In Isaiah 7:10-14, Christian tells us about the scandal of particularity, and being participants in Easter… Read more about #SurvivingTheBible for Lent: The Theological Theatre of Palm Sunday...
Mar 20, 2018•1 hr 3 min
This week on the LectioCast Tripp gives you your Bible-nerd fact of the day, you’ll hear about why David is like the Harvey Weinstein of the Hebrew Bible, what Mandy Moore has to do with the Psalms, and our avoidance of suffering. First up, Jeremiah 31:31-34. Tripp once again gives you many options for preaching this… Read more about #SurvivingTheBible for Lent: The Democratization of God...
Mar 13, 2018•1 hr 11 min
This week on the LectioCast you’ll hear about snakes on a stick (Numbers 21:4-9), Eddie Izzard, and Princess Leia. Christian and Amy Piatt join Tripp to talk about some of the problems of reading this passage literally, the role this text plays in the relationship between God and Israel, those wilderness times in our lives,… Read more about #SurvivingTheBible for Lent: Snake on a Stick
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 10 min
This edition of the LectioCast is from the second live session of Surviving the Bible for Lent, with Tripp and Christian and Amy Piatt. They take a look at the texts for the second Sunday in Lent (Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; John 2:13-22). Tripp gives you 3 different sermons you can preach for Lent using this text,… Read more about #SurvivingTheBible for Lent: Cleansing Our Temples...
Feb 28, 2018•1 hr 1 min
This special edition of the LectioCast is from the first live session of Surviving the Bible for Lent, with Tripp and Christian and Amy Piatt. They take a look at the texts for the second Sunday in Lent (Mark 8:31-38; Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Romans 4:13-25) plus a brief look at last week’s texts. They talk about… Read more about Super-Duper Pooper-Scooper Messiah #SurvivingTheBible
Feb 20, 2018•56 min
The lectionary this week is daring you to dodge Genesis 22. I talk about the other texts, but how do you pass on Genesis 22! In this episode I mention… Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling Derrida’s The Gift of Death Gerhard von Rad’s Genesis, Revised Edition: A Commentary James Kugel’s The Bible As It Was
Jun 26, 2017•1 hr 5 min
This week on the lectiocast I took some advice from twitter, which is tantamount to a genius, and attempted to sing the introduction to the episode. If the Good Dr. Daniel Kirk returns early to the podcast you will know why… he wants to sing. The texts for the week include Jesus getting hardcore with… Read more about There will be conflict! #LectioCast
Jun 19, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Just because you might be rocking a green stole doesn’t mean you have to dial back the sermonic nerdiness. After all this week you get one of the most important texts in the entire Bible – Genesis 18:1-15. On top of Abraham’s transformation of hostility to hospitality with the three strangers you have Matthew 9:35-10:8… Read more about Hospitality, Suffering, and the Impossible Possibility of God...
Jun 11, 2017•48 min
The good Doctor Daniel Kirk is on a road trip across the country with Clan Kirk, but no need to fear your Lectiocast is still here! It is an honor to fill in for Daniel and talk some lectionary goodness. We will see how long it takes before Daniel quits his trip and gets me… Read more about Questions for Trinity (Sunday) #LectioCast
Jun 06, 2017•48 min
The Spirit enables Jesus’s followers to speak to all the devout Jews, reconfiguring our understanding of “devout,” forcing us to reimagine who it is that belongs to the inner circle of the people of God. Acts 2:1-21 The Spirit of God comes as an image of eschatological judgment and of eschatological salvation, surprising us all… Read more about Pentecost: The Spirit Has a Surprise for You #LectioCast...
May 29, 2017•33 min
After Jesus got that resurrection body, God wasn’t done. The resurrected Jesus is exalted, enthroned, and glorified. Because Jesus receives God’s glory, we get to as well. Acts 1:6-14 God might not be restoring the kingdom to Israel, but God is restoring the kingship of the earth to humanity. The disciples will know it when… Read more about Jesus is Glorified, And So Are We #LectioCast
May 22, 2017•33 min
Jesus has been raised. I think this means we don’t have to worry about crazy passages from 1 Peter. Acts 17:22-31 Paul unravels the narrative of polytheism, claiming for one God a unique place of sovereignty and honor. And then he pulls in a Jesus juke at the end to call for repentance. Masterful. Psalm… Read more about Jesus is Raised: So Walk in Loving Fear #LectioCast
May 15, 2017•31 min
Jesus. This week is all about Jesus. Jesus reconfiguring the identity of the people of God. Jesus receiving God’s vindication in the face of humanity’s rejection of him. Jesus holding the identity that we get to share in: living stones, the one in whom the father is at work so that the father might be… Read more about The Stone Lives #LectioCast
May 08, 2017•37 min
The resurrected Jesus is the shepherd of the sheep. And the community of the Good Shepherd is one where people radically reconfigure how they spend their money. Are we ready for that kind of discipleship? Are we ready to form those kinds of communities? Acts 2:42-47 The message we most need to hear, the message… Read more about The Shepherd Wants Your Money #LectioCast
May 01, 2017•31 min
The crucifixion is humanity’s attempt to say No to God’s anointed Lord and Christ. The resurrection is God’s mighty Yes to Jesus, and God’s continuing Yes to humanity as well. Acts 2:14a, 36-41 God continues to say YES in the face of humanity’s feeble NO. God says YES to Jesus, and God continues to say… Read more about God’s Great Yes to Humanity’s Feeble No—Easter 3 #LectioCast...
Apr 25, 2017•33 min
Acts 2:14a, 22-32 “A Man Attested by God”: Here it is! My book is right! *ahem* Also, Easter is an event of the Spirit. This connects us to Jesus, who also had a Spirit-filled ministry. The story of the church is the continuing story of Jesus. Psalm 16 Quoted by Peter, as fulfilled in Jesus.… Read more about The Spirit that Animated Jesus Returns to Us—with Jay Emerson Johnson #LectioCast...
Apr 18, 2017•45 min
This episode is a crossover episode with the Good Doctor Daniel Kirk (of the LectioCast fame). How high was the early church’s Christology? Daniel is on this podcast to talk about his new book A Man Attested by God, and answers this very question. This book is a bit oppositional. The Good Doctor is taking on very trendy… Read more about A Man Attested by God with Daniel Kirk
Apr 12, 2017•1 hr 24 min
He is risen indeed! Acts 10:34-43 The radical social practice of table fellowship: showing us how broad is God’s desire for communion with people. The gospel erases the boundary lines we otherwise see as normal and even critical for our survival. Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 God is greater than empire: the rejected stone has become the… Read more about Resurrection of the Lord, with Jay Emerson Johnson #LectioCast...
Apr 10, 2017•40 min
It’s time to follow Jesus to the cross: where God is absent, and the mission seems to fail. Except for those words from the centurion that turn the world upside down. Isaiah 50:4-9a The teacher is called to sustain the weary, even as he suffers the indignities of rejection. But shame is not the story,… Read more about Lent Week 6: Liturgy of the Passion #LectioCast
Apr 03, 2017•36 min
The darkness of death, and of Lent, cannot keep the resurrection light of Easter from shining. And when resurrection light shines, you know you’re seeing the glory of God. Ezekiel 37 The Great Zombiepocalypse is one of the most arresting scenes in the whole Bible. A beautiful mixture of resurrection, return from exile, and new… Read more about Lent Week 5: Easter Rising #LectioCast
Mar 27, 2017•36 min
The scripture passages this week bring us into a world of light: of light that shines so that we can see. Or, perhaps, shows us how we have been seeing people without perceiving them rightly in more ways than we are comfortable admitting. Seeing the light and becoming the light means allowing Jesus to reinterpret… Read more about Lent Week 4: By Your Light We Become Light #LectioCast...
Mar 20, 2017•40 min
In times of hunger and thirst, do we trust God to be present? Do we trust God to provide? Do we believe that this is the path to eternal life rather than a roadblock keeping us from it? Genesis 17:1-7 The people grumble and test and complain. But only because they were worried about dying… Read more about Lent Week 3: Is the Lord Present to Provide? #LectioCast
Mar 13, 2017•37 min
From Abram to Jesus to the inclusion of the Gentiles we are called into a story of utter dependence on God: trusting God to do for us what we would otherwise try to do for ourselves. Genesis 12:1-4a Abram has to leave behind everything that should provide for him. God promises a blessing that is… Read more about Lent Week 2: Utter Dependence #LectioCast
Mar 06, 2017•37 min
