Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue this series of reflection, working to apply the lessons of community from the Mishkan. Presentation for Sabbath Reflection III — Community (PDF) BEMA 327: Sanctuary — Feasting at the Mishkan
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings watch as Jesus returns to Nazareth to become a prophet without honor in his hometown. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue through this series of reflection, working to apply the lessons of love from the Mishkan. Presentation for Sabbath Reflection II — Love (PDF) BEMA 326: Sanctuary — Entering the Mishkan
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings return to The Chosen to watch as the disciples are commissioned as apostles and sent out in pairs. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb Cohortes Urbanae — Wikipedia The Kingdom (Teaching Series) — Marty Solomon, YouTube Addendum: James Who? — Marty Solomon, YouTube BEMA 259: Kevan Chandler — We Carry Kevan...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings start a series of reflection, working to apply the lessons of the Mishkan once again. Presentation for Sabbath Reflection I — Truth (PDF) BEMA 325: Sanctuary — Waking Up in the Mishkan
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings jump back into The Chosen with the first episode of Season 3. The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb BEMA 21: With All Your Soul & “Very” Machaerus — Wikipedia...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings venture into new territory and approach the podcast with a different perspective for a season. “The Sabbath Year” by Marty Solomon
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings wrap up Session 6 of the podcast and reflect on where we’ve been. Marty on Goodreads The Kingdom (Teaching Series) — Marty Solomon, YouTube Book Tour Recap blog post Book Tour Recap on YouTube BEMA 307: Tohu va Vohu (State of the Podcast)...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Andrew DeCort, author of Flourishing on the Edge of Faith . He holds a Ph.D. in Religious and Political Ethics and is the founder of the Neighbor-Love Movement and the Institute for Faith and Flourishing. Andrew has taught at a variety of universities around the world, and he and his wife, Lily, live and work between Ethiopia and Chicago. Flourishing on the Edge of Faith by Andrew DeCort BEMA 275: Kate Schmidgall — BitterSweet The Neig...
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks muse on the mysteries of rest and holiness, and conclude the anthology on the tabernacle. Presentation for Sanctuary — Resting with the Mishkan (PDF) Strong Bad Email #58: Dragon — YouTube The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel “When You Believe” from The Prince of Egypt — YouTube “Doubting Doubts” by Citizens & Saints — YouTube...
Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks gather once again around the fire and wrestle with the radical implications of putting the Divine Image into practice. Presentation for Sanctuary — Traversing the Mishkan (PDF) “Man as the Image of God in Genesis in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels” by Edward Mason Curtis — University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Image of God — Wikipedia BEMA 248: Joy and Lot’s Untitled Wife w/ Elle Grover Fricks...
Brent Billings is with Josh Bossé and Reed Dent to see how God’s presence shows up in surprising ways throughout the tabernacle. Presentation for Sanctuary — Moving the Mishkan (PDF) BEMA 294: John — Sacrifice, Suffering, and Joy
Brent Billings is with Josh Bossé and Reed Dent to consider the role of priests in the tabernacle through their clothing. Presentation for Sanctuary — Listening by the Mishkan (PDF) A Commentary on the Book of Exodus by U. Cassuto Diary of a Country Priest (1951 film)...
Brent Billings and Josh Bossé examine the communal life and stability found in the sacrificial altar. Presentation for Sanctuary — Feasting at the Mishkan (PDF) Ship of Theseus — Wikipedia
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Josh Bossé to consider the boundaries established for the tabernacle and the love hidden within them. Presentation for Sanctuary — Entering the Mishkan (PDF) Symbolism of the Biblical World by Othmar Keel Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns Join the BEMA Slack...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Josh Bossé to begin a series on the tabernacle of Exodus and the parallels it has to the Creation story, turning those spiritual principles into tangible practices. Presentation for Sanctuary — Waking Up in the Mishkan (PDF) Tabernacle — Wikipedia “What’s So Special About the Tabernacle?” — BibleProject Podcast BEMA 286: John — The Test of Bread...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Anita Grace Brown. She has been using yoga for 25 years to heal from trauma, fear, and spiritual struggles. She engages nature and uses art to help others find redemption. Grooveology Website It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere Podcast Kamikaze Yogi by Anita Grace Brown Christians Practicing Yoga The Yoga Abbey I’m Gonna Stress You Out — Online Course Additional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Anita Grace Brown....
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks finish out the series by turning their attention to two figures in the book of Revelation. Cinnabar — Wikipedia Litter (vehicle) [palanquin] — Wikipedia Epiphanius of Salamis — Wikipedia Hippolytus of Rome — Wikipedia Isis — Wikipedia BEMA 300: John — The Migdal...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to survey the forgotten women of the New Testament. Learning Greek with Elle — Servant (PDF) Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Trireme — Wikipedia Didache — Wikipedia Junia (New Testament person) — Wikipedia BEMA News & Events...
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé draw their chairs closer to the fire of the accounts of women who may have been overlooked in the Hebrew Bible. Binders Full of Women — Know Your Meme BEMA 209: Midrash — Noah’s Backstory and the Nephilim
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks study sages and wise women of the Text. Nadītu — Wikipedia
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to discuss how to navigate the dangers of presentism and primitivism as we start a series on the forgotten women of the Bible. Presentation for The Forgotten Women — Presentism and Primitivism (PDF) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari BEMA 240: Sin and the Archaeology of Joshua w/ Elle Grover Fricks Levant — Wikipedia The Red Tent by Anita Diamant BEMA 308: The Chosen S2E9 — “The Messengers” BEMA 310: The N...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Alonzo Felder, author of Discovering A. S. J. Allen . Over the course of his career as an IT analyst at Duke University, Alonzo became an expert in a number of research methods and has done extensive work on his own family history. Discovering A. S. J. Allen by Alonzo Felder “Do You Know” Scale Review of Discovering A. S. J. Allen — Marty Solomon, Goodreads Coming soon: Online Course for Family History Research Coming soon: Documentary...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Erin Geiselman, leader of the launch team for Marty’s book Asking Better Questions of the Bible , to discuss what the experience of writing a book was like for Marty. Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon BEMA 207: J. R. Briggs — The Sacred Overlap The Writing Life Course — Kairos Partnerships From Novice to Expert by Patricia Benner BEMA 57: Lamentations — Lament and Hope Erin Geiselman on Twitter Additional audio prod...
Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the unforgiving servant and the end of bookkeeping and seeing our enemies as ourselves. BEMA 121: The Key to Your Own Prison The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf Join the BEMA Slack...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Reed Dent to discuss the lost son of Luke 15 and what it means to be lost. The Pharisees by Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon...
Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the rich fool and the dynamics of money and relationships. Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson Hope: The Prophet Candle — The BEMA Liturgy “Tripping Billies” by Dave Matthews Band — YouTube Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey The Parable of the Rich Fool — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship Join the BEMA Slack...
Brent Billings is joined by Reed Dent and Elle Grover Fricks to talk about the story of the Good Samaritan and what it looks like to love people we’d rather not. Elle Meets John Piper “On Priests and Jericho in the Second Temple Period” by Joshua Schwartz — ResearchGate The Parable of the Good Samaritan — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are bringing in Reed Dent to launch a miniseries on parables, starting with a discussion about what a parable is and why anyone would want to teach in that way. Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson The Great Spiritual Migration by Brian McLaren Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins from The Apple That Astonished Paris Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins ...
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Keith Simon, co-author of Truth Over Tribe , who co-planted The Crossing, a politically diverse church where he is the co-lead teaching pastor. He hosts a podcast by the same name, Truth Over Tribe, and teaches on Ten Minute Bible Talks. Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon Truth Over Tribe Podcast Ten Minute Bible Talks BEMA 309: On Social Media Additional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Keith Simon....
