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Love: God’s Gift and Our Calling
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Advent E4 — We’re ending our short Advent series with a reflection on love. In the Hebrew Bible, the word “ahavah” involves faithfulness to Go...
Joy: Responding to God’s Goodness
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Advent E3 — In the third week of Advent, we’re reflecting on joy. Joy’s not only a feeling based on circumstances but a rich biblical theme expr...
Peace: Wholeness, Completion, and Flourishing
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Advent E2 — In the second week of Advent, we’re reflecting on peace. The word most often translated as “peace” in the Hebrew Bible is shalom, ...
Hope: Waiting, Stretching, and Trusting
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Advent E1 — Over the next four weeks, we’ll be exploring the four key words associated with the Advent season: hope, peace, joy, and love, startin...
Why Is There Wilderness Imagery in the Lord’s Prayer?
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness Q+R (E13) — Is Adam being formed outside of Eden a prototype of the wilderness pattern? Are the biblical authors linking David and Na...
Past Scenes From the Wilderness
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness Hyperlink Episode (E12) — In every theme study, we try to isolate a biblical topic and trace its appearances in the biblical story. B...
Living in the Wilderness Now
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E11 — After his death and resurrection, Jesus sends his disciples out into the world to share the good news of the Kingdom and make d...
Jesus, the New Shepherd in the Wilderness
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E10 — Throughout ancient Israel’s long history of wandering in the wilderness, failing in the garden land, being exiled to the nati...
Jesus Passes the Wilderness Test
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E9 — After Jesus’ baptism, the Holy Spirit leads him into the wilderness to be tested for 40 days. The exodus generation spent 40 y...
Why Does Jesus Get Baptized in the Wilderness?
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E8 –– In the Bible, God often turns wilderness wanderings into times of testing, purification, and preparation for returning to the...
The Wilderness Remixed in Israel’s Prophets
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E7 — By the time we get to the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, the meaning of the wilderness is well established. It’s a desolate, da...
David Finds Refuge in the Wilderness
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E6 — In the Genesis and Exodus wilderness stories, God is present with his people, testing them and teaching them to listen to his vo...
Lessons From the Wilderness for the Garden Land
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E5 — After 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, Moses and the second generation of Israelites stand at the border of the promised...
Why Does God Lead Israel Into the Wilderness?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E4 — After God delivers the Israelites out of Egypt, he tells Moses to lead them to the promised land—through the wilderness. This ...
How Do People End Up in the Wilderness?
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E3 — In the Bible, the wilderness is a hostile, dangerous place where humans can’t survive. Because of this, the wilderness also re...
The Wilderness of the Sea
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E2 — In the Bible, the wilderness is an uninhabitable, hostile place for human life. And in the creation narratives of Genesis 1 and ...
The Worst, Best Place to Be in the Bible
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wilderness E1 — This year, we are looking at themes that play a prominent role in the Exodus story. And today, we’re starting a new series on ...
Did Jesus’ Death Have to Be a Gruesome Crucifixion?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption Q+R (E12) — Is deliverance from evil spirits a redemption from the evil one over to God’s possession? Was God demanding a redemption pa...
Earlier Explorations of Redemption
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption Hyperlink Episode (E11) — There are so many themes in the Bible, from redemption to exile, to mountains and cities. In every series, we a...
An Eternal Redemption
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E10 — We’ve made it to the end of our series on redemption, where we’ll look at two last examples of redemption in the New Testament....
The Power of Jesus Over Death
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E9 — So far in the series, we’ve been talking about how redemption means being reclaimed—freed from slavery and returned to where we ...
Jesus’ Death as Redemption in Romans
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E8 — Both in his public ministry and sacrificial death, Jesus redeems people from humanity’s cosmic “pharaohs,” the Satan, sin, and...
How Does Jesus Redeem People?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E7 — When murmurs about the birth of the Messiah began spreading, 1st-century Jewish people already had very specific expectations of wha...
Redemption From Enemies and Death Itself
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E6 — In the book of Psalms, the Hebrew words for “redemption” are often used to simply mean save, rescue, or release. This is especia...
Yahweh the Redeemer in Isaiah
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E5 — For many centuries, ancient Israel lived in the land of promise but consistently broke their covenant with Yahweh. The prophet Isaia...
If the Bible Was Written by Humans, Does that Change Its Reliability?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How the Bible Was Formed Q+R (E5) — What is the relationship between the written word of the Bible and Jesus as the Word at the beginning of creatio...
Ruth, Naomi, Boaz, and a Cosmic Redemption
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E4 — During a dark time in ancient Israel, idolatry, injustice, and death ruled the land and its people. In the midst of a famine, a dest...
Redemption, Justice, and Cities of Refuge
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E3 — So far in this series, we’ve explored the theme of redemption in the Eden story and in several stories in Exodus. In this episode,...
How Does Redemption Work in the Passover and Jubilee?
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E2 — Redemption involves a transfer of possession, and in the grand story of the Bible, humanity is under the possession of sin and death...
What Does Redemption Mean in the Bible?
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Redemption E1 — Following our series on the Exodus Way, we’re going to explore a word that first shows up in the Exodus scroll, redemption. This w...
Pentecost and the Expected Unexpected Spirit (Re-Release)
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Pentecost in Acts 2 is brimming with rich imagery and hyperlinks from the Hebrew Bible. God’s Spirit dramatically fills a house of Jesu...
How Did the New Testament Come to Be?
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How the Bible Was Formed E4 — In the last three episodes of this short series, we focused on the formation of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament...
When Was the Hebrew Bible Finished?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How the Bible Was Formed E3 — Today, most Bibles are a single book that’s easy to carry and flip through. But the Bible started as an assortment o...
How Was the Hebrew Bible Written?
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How the Bible Was Formed E2 — The Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, is a collection of 24 scrolls, passed down for generations, that tells the long...
What Is the Deuterocanon or Apocrypha?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How the Bible Was Formed E1 — If you’ve ever compared a Protestant Bible to a Catholic Bible, you may notice some additional books in the Catholic...
How Are the Passover and Yom Kippur Lambs Connected?
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way Q+R (E14) — What birth imagery do we find in Exodus? Are there hyperlinks elsewhere in the Bible that connect to Pharaoh’s hardened...
The Seven Women Who Rescued Moses—and Israel
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E13 (Bonus Interview) — The exodus from Egypt was a foundational story for ancient Israel, but without a special group of seven often...
N.T. Wright Interview: Baptism and the Exodus Story
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E12 (Bonus Interview) — If we come to the New Testament without much knowledge of the Hebrew Bible, we may think that baptism is just...
Paul and the New Exodus People
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E11 — After Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension, his followers grew into a movement known simply as “The Way”—a new exo...
Followers of “The Way” in Acts
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E10 — The Exodus story was core to the identity of ancient Israel. Inspired by the prophet Isaiah’s words, 1st-century Israelites w...
Jesus’ New Exodus at Passover
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E9 — All four gospel accounts build anticipation for Jesus to accomplish a new kind of exodus when he arrives in Jerusalem. But later...
Jesus as the New Moses—and Much More
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E8 — Before the arrival of Jesus, Israelites already viewed their current circumstances and hopes for God’s salvation through the l...
Passover Psalms at the Last Supper
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E7 — In Mark 14, we’re told that Jesus and his disciples celebrated Passover and sang a hymn before going out to the garden of Geth...
Isaiah’s Promised New Exodus
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E6 — By the time of the prophet Isaiah, the Assyrian Empire had already exiled the northern kingdom of Israel. Isaiah prophesied that...
The New Pharaohs of Joshua and Judges
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E5 — By the time we get to the scroll of Joshua, the Israelites are preparing to enter the land of promise. But we quickly discover a...
Israel’s Deliverance and the Song of the Sea
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E4 — We’re tracing the narrative theme of Exodus in the Bible, and we’re finally ready to trace it in … Exodus! There are three...
How Did Israel End Up in Egypt?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E3 — Before we get to the Exodus story, we must first ask a question: How and why did Israel end up enslaved in Egypt in the first pl...
Exodus in the Creation and Flood Stories
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E2 — The main beats of the Exodus Way are the road out of slavery, the road through the wilderness, and the road into inheritance. Th...
An Exodus-Shaped Reality
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Exodus Way E1 — Most followers of Jesus are familiar with three foundational biblical stories: the story of Jesus in the gospels, the creation s...
How Can We Live Out the Idea of the Mountain Now?
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain Q+R (E14) — Could the Tower of Babel be considered a man-made mountain? How does Yahweh asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on the mounta...
We’ve Been on This Mountain Before
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain Hyperlink Episode (E13) — If you’ve been following along in our series on the mountain, you may have had moments where you thought, “...
Jesus Opens the Way to the Cosmic Mountain
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E12 — If Jesus’ role as the promised mountaintop intercessor was unclear from the mountain stories in the Gospels, the author of the ...
Jesus on Seven Mountains in Matthew
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E11 — We’ve learned that mountains in the Hebrew Bible often become a space where Heaven and Earth overlap and human beings must choo...
The Cosmic Mount Zion in Isaiah
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E10 — The prophet Isaiah depicts Mount Zion as a cosmic mountain where Heaven and Earth overlap and God’s blessings flow down to all ...
Looking Back at 2024 (And Celebrating Ten Years!)
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode of 2024, Tim, Jon, and BibleProject CEO, Steve Atkinson, reflect on ten years of the project, all the resources we got to make an...
Who May Dwell on God’s Holy Mountain?
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E9 — The mountain theme shows up again and again in biblical narrative, but it’s also prominent in the Psalms. Particularly in Psalms...
Elijah’s Contrasting Mountain Tests
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E8 — On two different mountains, we witness mountain tests with two very different Elijahs. On Mount Carmel, he partners with God in ch...
What Went Wrong With Solomon on Mount Zion?
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E7 — After King David's failures, we hope that his son Solomon will fare better on the cosmic mountain of Mount Zion. And initially, he...
David, the Failed Intercessor on Mount Zion
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E6 — In 2 Samuel, David is crowned king of a unified Israel, and after choosing Jerusalem as his capital city, he brings the ark of the...
Moses, the Intercessor on Mount Sinai
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E5 — Moses has a complicated identity. He's an Israelite, but he was raised in the house of Pharaoh. He was born in Egypt, but he flees...
Noah and Abraham Surrender on the Mountain
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E4 — After the exile from the first cosmic mountain of Eden, humanity spirals into depravity and violence. God chooses to expedite thei...
How Can We Discern Who Is a True or False Prophet?
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount Q+R 5 (E39) – Should we judge abusive behavior in others? Do we need faith in Jesus and the Holy Spirit to be righteous? And how...
Is the Garden of Eden on a Mountain?
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E3 — The biblical authors portray Eden as a cosmic mountain—an overlapping Heaven and Earth space in God’s presence. Humans are pla...
A Mountain Rising From the Chaos Waters
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E2 — Ancient Israel’s neighbors believed that the world originated as a mountain rising up out of the chaos waters. The gods ruled fr...
What Do Mountains Represent in the Bible?
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mountain E1 — What comes to mind when you think of mountains? Is it a strenuous climb or a feeling of smallness as you gaze on the majesty of na...
Jesus as the Ultimate Gift (Re-Release)
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How is God’s generosity meant to change us? In the Bible, God’s gifts are intended to bring about transformation in our lives. This generosity cha...
The Abraham Experiment (Re-Release)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when humans misuse the gifts God gives them? From Eve’s attitude toward the births of Cain and Seth, to the Tower of Babel, to Abraham’...
God as the Generous Host (Re-Release)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Bible begins with a portrait of God as an amazing and generous host to humanity, an image that is on full display in the Genesis creation narrativ...
Abundance or Scarcity (Re-Release)
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What comes to mind when you think of generosity? Is it sharing your money, resources, or even time with others? For the biblical authors, generosity i...
This Isn’t the End
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E38 – When Jesus finishes the Sermon on the Mount, his first audience responds with astonishment. What will our response be? And...
A House on Rock and a House on Sand
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E37 – The final teaching of the Sermon on the Mount addresses the most important aspect of the choice Jesus presents to his li...
True and False Prophets
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E36 – In the second part of the final section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus emphasizes the tension present in the choice b...
If We Don’t Forgive Others, Will God Not Forgive Us?
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount Q+R 4 (E35) – Can Jesus’ riddle about the good eye and the bad eye also apply to Genesis 3? Does the Bible offer conflicting v...
The Narrow and Wide Gates
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E34 – Jesus closes the Sermon on the Mount by presenting his listeners with a choice, illustrated in three parts. He first descr...
What Makes the Golden Rule the Greatest Command?
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E33 – The final teaching in the main body of the Sermon on the Mount is commonly known as the Golden Rule: do to others what you...
What Does Jesus Mean by Ask, Seek, and Knock?
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E32 – In his fourth teaching on relationships and conflict in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus encourages his listeners to ask God...
Why Does Jesus Talk About Pearls and Pigs?
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E31 – Is it possible to evaluate the behavior of others in a healthy way? Jesus offers two parables that illustrate the wisdom n...
Is There Ever a Time to Judge Others?
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E30 – After the four-part section on our relationship to money, Jesus turns to addressing our relationships with each other. He ...
What Does Jesus Say About Anxiety? (Featured Episode)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E29 – In Jesus' fourth and final teaching on money, he offers his listeners an antidote to the worry that accompanies life’s...
What Does Jesus Say About Anxiety? (Studio Conversation)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E29 (Studio Conversation) – In Jesus’ fourth and final teaching on money, he offers his listeners an antidote to the worry t...
God and Money (Re-release)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does an obedient follower of Jesus do with their money? In this re-release of one of our most popular episodes, Jon and Tim share the story of Jo...
What Does Jesus Say About Money? (Studio Conversation)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E28 – In his third teaching on money, Jesus issues a warning about elevating wealth to the position of God in our lives. To des...
What Does Jesus Say About Money? (Featured Episode)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E28 – In his third teaching on money, Jesus issues a warning about elevating wealth to the position of God in our lives. To desc...
How Is the Eye the Lamp of the Body?
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E27 – Jesus continues addressing our relationship to money and possessions with a riddle about the eye being the lamp of the bod...
What Kind of Treasure Is in Heaven?
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E26 – The third section of the Sermon on the Mount's main body opens with a call to examine how we think about our stuff. Jesus ...
Do Jesus’ Teachings Conflict With Old Testament Violence? - Sermon on the Mount Q+R 3
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount Q+R 3 (E25) – What does Jesus mean when he describes people entering the Kingdom of the skies? Are the promises in the Beatitude...
Does God Lead Us Into Temptation? (The Lord’s Prayer Pt. 5)
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E24 – Many of us first learned the King James translation of the final, personal request in the Lord’s Prayer: “Lead us no...
What Forgiveness Is and Isn't (The Lord's Prayer Pt. 4)
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E23 – The second half of the Lord’s prayer contains four requests on behalf of the person praying. The second personal request...
What Does Jesus Mean by “Daily Bread”? (The Lord’s Prayer Pt. 3)
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E22 – The first half of the Lord’s Prayer features three requests on behalf of God and his Kingdom: he is our Father in the sk...
What Does “Hallowed Be Thy Name” Mean? (The Lord’s Prayer Pt. 2)
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E21 – Prayer is at the center of the center of the Sermon on the Mount. And it’s in this section of teaching that Jesus gives ...
How Does Jesus Teach Us to Pray? (The Lord’s Prayer Pt. 1)
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E20 – We are now halfway through studying Jesus' most famous sermon, which brings us to the Lord’s Prayer. What’s the signif...
Why Say “Kingdom of the Skies” Instead of “Kingdom of Heaven”? – Sermon on the Mount Q+R 2
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount Q+R 2 (E19) – How do we reconcile Jesus’ words about the Law with other New Testament teachings? How is God’s justice with g...
Jesus’ Surprising Warning About Religious Practices
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E18 – In Matthew 6, Jesus turns his attention to religious practices of his day, specifically generosity to the poor, prayer, an...
What "Hypocrite" Means to Jesus
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E17 – In Matthew 6, Jesus transitions from sharing a vision for righteousness that fulfills the Torah and Prophets to talking ab...
Why Does Jesus Want Us to Love Our Enemies?
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E16 – In Matthew 5:43-48, Jesus shares his sixth and final case study based on the wisdom of the Torah, and it may be the most c...
What Jesus Means by “Turn the Other Cheek”
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E15 – In Matthew 5:38-42, Jesus offers wisdom from the Torah about retaliation, justice, and nonviolent resistance to injustice....
Why Does Jesus Say Not to Swear Oaths?
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E14 – In Matthew 5:33-48, Jesus offers three case studies about how people can work together in spite of conflict. The first cas...
How Jesus Responded to the Divorce Debate
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E13 – In Matthew 5:31-32, Jesus offers a quote from the Torah about when it is lawful to divorce, and then he shares his perspec...
Jesus' Vision for Sex and Desire
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sermon on the Mount E12 – In Matthew 5:27-30, Jesus references the Torah’s command to not commit adultery (Exod. 20:14), going on to say that any ...
Why Do the Beatitudes Matter for the Overworked and Hopeless? – Sermon on the Mount Q+R 1
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we not find the Sermon on the Mount in the gospels of Mark or John? Why is “blessed” not a good translation of the word makarios? And if Je...