First Reading

Dr. Wrenn and Tim do a fantastic job making difficult biblical texts come to life. Their insights and attention to details often overlooked by the naked eye in scripture is a blessing.

I’ve found this podcast very helpful for preaching. My worship committee requested a summer preaching series on the prophets and these episodes have helped me prepare faithfully. Thank you!

For the most part it’s a decent podcast with introductory background of first reading texts. I like the brevity and I give it credit for focusing on first readings since we don’t really see many podcasts use this as a point of discussion. I also appreciate Rachel getting into some of the Hebrew. What really turns me off at times are the presumptuous remarks by Tim. In one episode he said he would “fail Jesus for his exegesis.”

This podcast is full of great scholarship and helpful angles with which to approach the text for sermon writing. It had quickly become a go to resource for me. Thank you so much Rachel and Tim!