Podcast Episodes

When God Loves Your Enemy (Remastered)

Episode 122

The Amazing Jonah E5 – We’ve come to the final episode of a five-part series on the book of Jonah. And this last part of the book is one of the most puzzling. After Jonah preaches his strange, five-w…

Published on 9 hours ago

Thrones and Ashes (Remastered)

Episode 121

The Amazing Jonah E4 — After the great fish vomits Jonah onto the shores of Nineveh, the prophet finally—and begrudgingly—obeys God. Even though Jonah only utters a strange five-word sermon to the Ni…

Published on 1 week ago

A Severe Mercy (Remastered)

Episode 120

The Amazing Jonah E3 — After he is thrown into the sea and swallowed by a fish, Jonah utters a strange and beautifully intricate poem from inside the fish’s belly. He is in a moment of crisis that is…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Asleep at the Wheel (Remastered)

Episode 119

The Amazing Jonah E2 — Jonah is portrayed as God’s prophet, but ironically, he is the only person in the book who refuses to listen to God. How can this story invite us to consider our own lack of pe…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Running From Your Life (Remastered)

Episode 118

The Amazing Jonah E1 — Many of us know the story of Jonah as the prophet who gets swallowed by a whale. And while that is part of the story, it’s only a couple sentences in a longer narrative. So who…

Published on 4 weeks ago

What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?

Episode 117

After his baptism and testing in the wilderness, Jesus leaves Nazareth for Capernaum. There, he begins his public ministry, inviting fishermen to follow him and calling on people to “repent, for the …

Published on 1 month ago

The Meaning of Hope (Remastered)

Episode 116

Hope is an important virtue that God’s people have actively cultivated for thousands of years. And the messianic hope we see throughout the Hebrew Bible is a kind of hope that followers of Jesus stil…

Published on 1 month ago

(Re)introducing Exploring My Strange Bible

Episode 115

In 2016, we began releasing this collection of sermons and lectures that Tim Mackie gave over almost twenty years as a teaching pastor and professor. Then in 2019, we stopped releasing new episodes b…

Published on 1 month ago

An Update From Tim

Episode 114

A message from Tim to let everyone know that we will be putting this podcast on pause for now. It will remain active online so you can still listen or re-listen to his sermons.

If you want to hear mo…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

The Crocus Flower and the Empty Tomb - Gospel of Matthew Part 35

Episode 113

This story has changed the course of human history over the past 2,000 years. Of course the story is profound, but the IMPLICATIONS of what it means to the history of our universe leading up to Jesus…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago