Boxset Binge the Bible

Severn Vineyard
  • 0,0 (0)
  • CHRISTENDOM
  • WEKELIJKS BIJGEWERKT
Boxset Binge the Bible podcast

The Bible is an amazing, potentially life changing, collection of literature. It’s been inspirational for thousands of years - and some say you can hear God through it. In this podcast, we’re going to share our experiences of listening through the Bible at a boxset binge pace. We’re going to engage with it and let it move us. The journey will take us through time and space with some of history’s most remarkable characters and world-shaping ideas. Who knows how differently we’ll see life along the way? Find out more and join the journey with us at https://severnvineyard.org/bible

  1. 16 UUR GELEDEN

    Week 38 - beginning of Chronicles (and quite a few bonus thoughts about stuff God is doing today)

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the opening chapters 1 to 21 of the first book of Chronicles. A bit like Deuteronomy, this book is a retelling of familiar stories from a different perspective, and this time the special purpose of the book might make it look like the Bible has contradictions within itself. What if it does? Bern shares discomfort about this idea, coming from being told as a young adult about how to deal with people who said “the Bible is full of contradictions” and didn’t want to put faith in God. Chronicles seems to show, however, that the people who agreed what should count as scripture were happy to bring together partisan and conflicting views which show how God moved different people at different times. What does this mean for us? Do we need to rethink how we engage with the Bible and take lessons from it or quote fragments in our prayers and worship? Can we also grasp what it means for us to be part of God’s movement of people through history, and be ready to keep moving? WARNING: inspired by ideas sparked in Chronicles, Owen and Bern’s discussion moves into other topics about how God engages with us, how we sometimes miss the point and try to adopt snapshots of someone else’s history as our own, and how we can experience God moving us into new life with a new perspective. In the next part of our boxset, we continue Chronicles with a look at how Israel was inspired to remember the goodness of worshiping God together. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    39 min

  2. 13 SEP.

    Week 37 - ends of Deuteronomy and Proverbs

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the final chapters of the books of Deuteronomy (20 to 34) and Proverbs (27 to 31). In lots of ways, we might not appreciate the revision sections of old laws. There are lots of questions about how they were conceived, what they meant to people, and what - if anything - they might mean to us today. What can we gain from understanding them better? Being outside the Jewish family and the covenant described in Deuteronomy, we don’t have a duty to follow its rules, but we can appreciate something about what God was doing. The social order created by this covenant helped to define people and create a sense that they could live and grow in relationships and trust.  We can still wonder how much of what this society practised would benefit us today, but it might be more helpful to see its formation as a signpost towards even better life in the future. Was “an eye for an eye” ever intended to encourage vengeance, or to limit it? And was it meant to be the final state of the life God wanted for people, or more of a step towards the ability to forgive and love enemies, as Jesus expected? The ending of Proverbs might also create more questions than answers. The writer realises that they have not, in the end, learned wisdom. There is still much for them to learn. How important is it to recognise the depths of what we still don’t know, especially in relationships? Can seeing ourselves on a continuing journey help us gain from Proverbs’ final picture of ideal life as a source of hope and encouragement instead of an unrealistic burden? In the next part of our boxset, we begin the book of Chronicles, another re-telling of familiar material from a different viewpoint which can help us understand God’s people and their history in more depth. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    40 min

  3. 6 SEP.

    Week 36 - beginning of Deuteronomy

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the first 19 chapters of the book of Deuteronomy. This name means that it’s a repeat of the law described in the first few books of the Bible. Why is it there? The perspective isn’t quite the same as the first time this law was described, and seeing something from more than angle can make a huge difference to how we understand what it is, how it works and how it fits into people’s lives. The Jewish law is part of a bigger social order which helps set people’s expectations of how to deal with each other and progress through life. Rules can be interpreted in different ways, so understanding how a society works turns out to be essential to know what a rule means to people - Bern has a good example from his recent holiday! To understand Deuteronomy, it’s also useful to consider when, how and why it was written. Scholars’ views range from traditional - that it’s all from Moses exactly as presented - to more common current views that it was, at least partly, written or refined much later to help reform God’s people in a time of crisis. Can allowing for fresh interpretation like this strengthen our connection with God? In next part of our boxset, we finish Deuteronomy and the final five chapters of Proverbs. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    23 min

  4. 30 AUG.

    Week 35 - Hebrews, Thessalonians, Titus and Philemon

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the New Testament letters to the Hebrews, the Thessalonians, Titus and Philemon. What does faith look like for Jewish believers in Jesus as their promised anointed saviour? Hebrews is the name we give to a letter written to the first such believers, and it connects their inherited identity, stories and hopes with the new life they discovered in Christ. It turned out that they now had the best possible prophet, priest and leader, who was not new but had been working since the creation of everything. Could it be true that their familiar religious structures were only shadows of what God was always wanting for them? If so, what would change for Jewish believers in Jesus? For example, what would it mean that Jesus replaced imperfect, temporary sacrifices with a perfect, eternal one? And what could everyone learn from the examples of faith that the writer drew from Jewish history to set high expectations for life following Christ? Elsewhere, Paul’s instructions to churches and leaders reflected his understanding that Jesus was returning, perhaps very soon. But even if we knew this would happen tomorrow, how should we live today? Paul encouraged hope in Jesus’ return, but also investment in the life and communities people had. Could his understanding and application of this have changed over time, perhaps as his experience grew and his viewpoint changed? How can we best learn from his teaching, and what are the dangers of taking some of it out of context? In next part of our boxset, we look back at some very familiar stories, re-told in a revised way and maybe showing some viewpoints we’ve not yet seen, through the book of Deuteronomy. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    33 min

  5. 23 AUG.

    Week 34 - end of Isaiah and some Psalms

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the final chapters of the book of Isaiah and Psalms 79 to 89, some of which reflect how people shared difficult experiences with God. What does it mean to rely on God, and why is this important? Israel suffered through much of its history. While maintaining religious and legal systems which made it look and feel like they relied on God, the prophet Isaiah said they had really been relying on themselves, or on alliances with others, or on wealth or strength instead. God would show them a different way of life through a suffering servant, someone totally reliant on God and, as we believe with hindsight, was also God in the flesh. What sort of life would become possible because of this? Isaiah’s words held a mysterious hope for people who hadn’t yet encountered Jesus, and would also be a source of blessing and joy for people who believed God’s promise was fulfilled in him.  In next part of our boxset, we look at how some of the first Jewish believers in Jesus were encouraged to develop their faith in the letter to the Hebrews, as well as other letters written to the Thessalonians, Titus and Philemon. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    37 min

  6. 16 AUG.

    Week 33 - middle of Isaiah

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the chapters 28 to 49 of the book of Isaiah. When was the last time you thought about how amazing it is that people - including us - can hear from God? How can we know we hear from the real God, and don’t just replay our own ideas about life? Isaiah gives lots of guidance on this to people who desperately needed to know the reality of God’s presence with them, love for them and hope for their future. One way to measure this would be justice - life following things other than God ended up denying people’s access to this, but social justice would be achievable when people followed a way of life that God promised to reveal. While people might have expected this way of life to be about recognisable strength, riches and powerful allies, Isaiah surprisingly prophesied that it would be more about service. Israel would learn how this works through a remarkable servant that God would raise up among them. In exile, Israel might have considered Daniel to be a leader like this, but did God have even greater plans, involving an even greater servant - God himself, revealed in Christ Jesus? In next part of our boxset, we complete what Isaiah and his disciples shared with Israel about Israel’s future and God would change the world with them, and listen to Psalms 79 to 89. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    22 min

  7. 9 AUG.

    Week 32 - beginning of Isaiah

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about the first 27 chapters of the book of Isaiah. Can we imagine the horror and trauma of national exile? How would we feel and what would we do to try and feel better about ourselves and our future if it happened to us? From a distance, we could look at Isaiah’s words of God’s judgement and correction to Israel as a history lesson we can easily grasp, but if that’s all we do, could we miss the point? And could we put ourselves in danger of repeating their mistakes? According to Isaiah, God’s main desire was for social justice, and religious rules and practices were becoming part of the problem, not the solution. When we think and pray about how the world could or should be better, do we share God’s values as revealed here? The vision God gave Isaiah for the better future he would bring about was promised to be surprising and new. Could listening and letting it reshape our vision also surprise us today, even if we’ve heard it before? In next part of our boxset, we continue with Isaiah’s developing message as a new way of life is promised to emerge where life looked impossible chapters 28 to 49. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    17 min

  8. 2 AUG.

    Week 31 - 2 Corinthians, Philippians and Colossians

    Bern Leckie and Owen Lynch share thoughts and feelings about Paul’s guidance to the church in his letters 2 Corinthians, Philippians and Colossians. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians had been harsh, strict and apparently hurtful to some in that church in some ways, and in this follow-up, we get to see more of Paul’s heart - what did he really want for them? It looked like people had been arguing about who should have authority, and it might seem to us that Paul joined in this tussle for power, setting clear directives which might sound like instructions for us today too. But was Paul really pushing for his own authority or trying to point everyone in the direction of a more certain foundation for life - Christ? If so, what did this look like for him, and what can we expect if we recognise and build on Christ as a foundation today? If we believe Paul that Christ is in everyone, should that change the way we treat other people, especially people who don’t yet believe in God? There seems to be a mixture of messages about this in Paul’s letters. It can be hard to know how to put his teaching into practice. His views, assumptions, expectations and practices may have been works in progress. But could Paul’s direction to work things out together, with God-given love and a growing faith in Jesus, be any clearer? In next part of our boxset, we go back to the story of Israel in the Old Testament and listen to what had corrupted society, its leadership and religion, why God’s people were suffering, but also what hope they could expect for the future from God’s viewpoint, shared through the prophet Isaiah, chapters 1 to 27. Listen along at your own pace at severnvineyard.org/bible.

    46 min
Bekijk alles (41)

Trailer

Info

The Bible is an amazing, potentially life changing, collection of literature. It’s been inspirational for thousands of years - and some say you can hear God through it. In this podcast, we’re going to share our experiences of listening through the Bible at a boxset binge pace. We’re going to engage with it and let it move us. The journey will take us through time and space with some of history’s most remarkable characters and world-shaping ideas. Who knows how differently we’ll see life along the way? Find out more and join the journey with us at https://severnvineyard.org/bible

Informatie

  • Maker
    Severn Vineyard
  • Jaren actief
    2023 - 2024
  • Afleveringen
    41
  • Beoordeling
    Veilig
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 Severn Vineyard
  • Website van aflevering
    Boxset Binge the Bible

Om naar expliciete afleveringen te luisteren, moet je inloggen

Blijf op de hoogte van dit programma

Log in of meld je aan om programma’s te volgen, afleveringen te bewaren en de laatste updates te ontvangen.
Kies een land of regio

Afrika, Midden-Oosten en India

Azië, Stille Oceaan

Europa

Latijns-Amerika en het Caribisch gebied

Verenigde Staten en Canada