Welcome to Exploring My Strange Bible by Tim Mackie, lead theologian and co-founder of BibleProject.
125 episodes transcribedThis section is about showing that Jesus is the human embodiment of the priesthood from the Old Testament. Why should we care about Jesus of Nazareth...
This section is based off of Chapter 6 of the Letters to the Hebrews. It's the pastor's meditation on the nature of God’s covenant promises. What does...
In this episode, we dive into Hebrews Chapter 4. In the chapter, the pastor urges these followers of Jesus to remember a whole bunch of themes and sto...
This teaching comes from Hebrews chapter 2 and it is exploring the portrait of Jesus as God becomes human that the anonymous pastor goes into. What is...
This is a letter that doesn’t actually behave like a letter. There is no proper introduction. So what this first letter does is orient us towards the...
In this last episode, we are going to look at a phrase that appears in one of the four gospel accounts about Jesus. It’s a phrase that Jesus uses call...
In this episode we are going to look at the way that the spirit’s presence in the Bible story is often connected to a physical building… the temple or...
In this episode we explore the story of the baptism of Jesus. This story is very powerful and there are many many biblical themes colliding here. This...
In this message we are going to look at something very personal, very serious... it is the motif of how God’s spirit is particularly present in moment...
The longest part of the series is about God’s spirit… what does that even mean? In this teaching called the spirit and the fruit, we are looking at Go...
If someone didn’t really grow up in a tradition that emphasized the spirit of God, then these are kind of abstract and difficult things for people to...
In this episode we’re exploring the story of Jesus. We’re going to explore the version from the Gospel of Mark. Jesus fundamentally redefines his unde...
This teaching is more like story time rather than a lecture. I wanted to try to capture the story that is driving the fist three quarters of the Bible...
This teaching is about character and the role of God as a judge of human behavior (specifically human’s moral behavior). What does it mean to say that...
This first teaching explores the word “God” both in English and in the Bible. I discuss the divine name of God revealed through Moses to the people Is...
This teaching is based on the last chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Paul talks about how the good news about Jesus should influence the day...
This teaching explores how Paul challenges the Christians to explore God’s spirit. The whole debate about God’s spirit and how he expresses God’s powe...
This teaching comes from chapter 4. It is where Paul shifts, specifically from focusing on practical out-workings in day to day life of the grand visi...
It was important to Paul that Jesus' followers were a diverse group of people across many ethnicities. In this teaching, we explore Paul’s vision for...
This first teaching is actually from the middle of chapter 1. It’s a prayer that Paul prays for the followers of Jesus in Ephesus. It’s an amazing pra...
