Now It Makes Sense

Dr. William Attaway

Now It Makes Sense is a podcast for anyone who has ever found the Bible confusing, distant, or hard to trust, and wondered if it was even worth the effort. Hosted by Dr. William Attaway, a teacher who believes the Bible makes more sense than most people have ever been told, each episode brings the ancient world to life — its culture, history, geography, languages, and archaeology — so that what the text meant then becomes clear, accessible, and relevant now. No background required. No prior faith assumed. Just honest questions taken seriously, and a guide who has spent nearly 30 years helping people discover that context changes everything. God can handle your questions. This is the place for them.

Episodes

  1. 9h ago

    The Shepherd You Never Expected

    Most people think they know this story. A shepherd. A lost sheep. A happy ending. But the lost sheep parable meaning changes completely when you understand who the shepherd actually was in first-century Judea, and why Jesus choosing him as the hero would have stopped his audience cold. In this episode, we slow down Luke 15 and look at what the original audience already knew: that shepherds were ritually unclean, legally suspect, and socially marginalized. That a flock of a hundred sheep was a family's livelihood, not a casual pastoral image. That the Greek word for "lost" here (apollymi) doesn't mean wandering. It means destroyed. A sheep alone in the open hill country of Judea wasn't looking for its way home. It was dying. And the sheep cannot find its way back. The only way it comes home is if the shepherd goes out looking for it. That's the story Jesus tells to a crowd of religious leaders who believed holiness required keeping careful distance from people whose lives didn't measure up to theirs. And the point lands like a challenge: the lost don't stay lost, because the One who cares about them refuses to stop looking. God can handle your questions. This is the place for them.

    15 min

  2. 13h ago

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Now It Makes Sense is a podcast for anyone who has ever found the Bible confusing, distant, or hard to trust, and wondered if it was even worth the effort. Hosted by Dr. William Attaway, a teacher who believes the Bible makes more sense than most people have ever been told, each episode brings the ancient world to life — its culture, history, geography, languages, and archaeology — so that what the text meant then becomes clear, accessible, and relevant now. No background required. No prior faith assumed. Just honest questions taken seriously, and a guide who has spent nearly 30 years helping people discover that context changes everything. God can handle your questions. This is the place for them.

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  • Creator
    Dr. William Attaway
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Now It Makes Sense
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