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Story / Symbol / Spirit
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Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures.
We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Story - The Bible’s truth is communicated primarily as a story or a narrative. Genesis 1 - Revelation 22 is a unified narrative, and all of the stories, characters, and events in the Bible fit within this story. In order to understand a particular story in the Bible, you have to first understand and internalize where it fits in the grand story of Scripture.
The Bible Project: https://bibleproject.com/
NT Wright: Simply Christian https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Christian-Christianity-Makes-Sense/dp/0060872705/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36NJI02KLF9JP&keywords=simply+christian&qid=1675703176&sprefix=simply+christian%2Caps%2C252&sr=8-1
Scot McKnight: Blue Parakeet https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Parakeet-2nd-Rethinking-Bible/dp/0310538920/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3Q2DOJ1O1J8HE&keywords=blue+parakeet&qid=1675703266&sprefix=blue+parakeet%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1
Symbol - Christians confess that God created the world. And God created the world for the purpose of being in relationship with Him. He wants us to know Him, and so He reveals who He is to us. One way He does this is through creation or “nature.” Every created thing has the imprint of the creator. So, everything in this world has the imprint of the Creator. The Bible sees the world this way, so in order to understand the meaning of a part of Scripture, we too must see the world through these eyes.
James B. Jordan: Through New Eyes https://www.amazon.com/Through-New-Eyes-Developing-Biblical/dp/157910259X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YW53ZJS8SHYE&keywords=through+new+eyes&qid=1675703324&sprefix=through+new+eyes%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jamesb.jordanarchive564/videos
Spirit - Our modern world is materialist - we intuitively view the world as time, space, and matter that is sustained in a closed system of material cause-and-effect. In this kind of worldview, there is very little room for the Spiritual world - angels, demons, gods, unseen forces of good and evil. But the Bible explicitly believes that the world is NOT simply material. The Bible assumes an unseen realm that not only exists, but interacts with the reality that we inhabit. In order to understand the meaning of a part of Scripture, we have to see the world through these eyes.
Michael Heiser: The Unseen Realm https://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Realm-Recovering-Supernatural-Worldview/dp/1683592719/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Y0SZOGX4CYIK&keywords=unseen+realm&qid=1675703428&sprefix=unseen+realm%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-1
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244. Witness Aggression Program - Lev. 24
4d ago00:43:40Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.ed.: jackie mitchell cease this confusing and disturbing factionalism you will claw tiramisu from my fossilized skeleton
Transcribe →243. Ask Not What Your Kingdom Can Do For You – Ask What You Can Do For Your Kingdom
1w ago00:57:51Tap to summarizeA guide for a life of five loaves and two fish.Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →242. Life Before Life After Life After Death
2w ago00:58:15Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →241. Tell Time! Or Else Time Tells You. – Lev. 23
3w ago00:48:40Tap to summarizeEd.: As I understand it, the so called first month is called first mostly because it's the month with Passover in it, and Passover's the best. If you want to say that's the holy and divine way to reckon the new year, that's fine, but for common everyday folk and things, the festival opening the seventh month is the "normal" new year. There's also New-Year-for-Trees, which has never been relevant to me, so I don't know why it's a third thing.Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →240. Idol / Curiosity? (State of the Bible '26)
3w ago00:55:38Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →239. Absolutely Not A Pawn Shop; or, The Red Queen's Mind-Boggling Excuse - Lev. 22
4w ago00:41:41Tap to summarizeThe slave is our brother.Hosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey."there are some who call him… the notorious TIM" – fascinating carne project
Transcribe →238. Contentment + Ambition
4w ago00:52:06Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →237. This Room Certified Corpse-Free - Lev. 21
Apr 1300:43:22Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →236. "Happy Easter Monday; Here's What to Do If Someone You Know Has Sacrificed a Child to Molech"
Apr 600:44:12Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
Transcribe →235. Return to God!
Apr 200:55:08Tap to summarizeHosted by John McCambridge and Jackie Mitchell.---Story / Symbol / Spirit is a podcast about how to make sense of Scripture. The Bible is a beautiful gift from God with the power to help us know God and better understand our lives, identity, meaning, and purpose. But for many people, reading the Bible is difficult. The ancient and confusing nature of the stories within the Bible are often prohibitive to our engagement and learning. How can we make sense of the Scriptures?We believe that Story / Symbol / Spirit is a helpful framework to begin this journey.
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