Welcome to Exploring My Strange Bible by Tim Mackie, lead theologian and co-founder of BibleProject.
125 episodes transcribedIn this teaching we are going to explore Psalm 73, which is a prayer where the poet is expressing a crisis of faith. When he looks at the world, he do...
This teaching was exploring what it means to talk to God when we have seriously screwed up: hurt others, hurt ourselves, dishonored others and God, et...
Pslams teach us that protesting to God about horrors that take place in our world is a crucially important habit that we need to adopt. In this episod...
As a new follower of Jesus, I loved the Book of Psalms. I remember realizing for the first time that multiple points in Jesus’s life teaching, he used...
In this teaching we are exploring the word “covenant” and how it is crucially important for understanding the storyline architecture of the whole stor...
In this episode we’re exploring a biblical word that is commonly used, but mostly not understood: glory. This is actually a crucially important concep...
In this first teaching, I explore the biblical word and concept of holiness: God’s holiness, people’s holiness, the story underneath it all, and more....
In this episode, we explore the final pages of the bible (Revelation chs. 21-22) and how they describe the resurrection and the new creation. In this...
In this teaching we are going to explore the apostle Paul’s most in-depth conversation about the resurrection in 1 Corinthians It one the most import...
This episode dives into one of the most beautiful chapters of Paul’s writings- Romans Ch. 8. We watch him retell the story from Genesis to Revelation...
In this episode we'll explore the nature of Christian hope from 1 Peter ch.1. We'll learn the story of a Holocaust survivor named Victor Frankel and w...
This episode explores a story about the appearance of the resurrected Jesus in the Gospel of Luke Ch. 24. Two disciples who spent a lot of time with J...
In this teaching, we'll continue exploring the portrait of the first "church" community in Acts ch.2, specifically how they committed to sh...
In this teaching we'll explore the first depiction of "the church" in Acts ch. 2. What we discover may surprise you! We see a group of peopl...
This episode draws together all the ideas of the previous three lectures. We explore the images of eternal death and what these images mean, and the i...
The definitions of human life and death on pages 1-3 of the bible are based on the idea that humans can live in a state of death. The goal of God’s re...
In this lecture we tackle the biblical word “heaven," and what that does and does not mean. From there we tackle the language about life and dea...
In this first episode we explore the popular misunderstandings and distortions of the concepts of heaven and hell in Western culture. This will help u...
In this teaching we explore how Jesus' concept of prayer included asking God to act and acting oneself. We'll focus on the Lord's prayer, and discover...
In this teaching we'll explore the ancient practice of fasting, withholding food from yourself for a symbolic and intentional reason. This practice ma...
