38 episodes
Holy Ghost Stories Justin Gerhardt
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- Religion & Spirituality
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5.0 • 361 Ratings
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Bible stories told in all their dark, haunting fantasticness. You’ll dig it.
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Target: Audience (The Exodus, part 3)
A much-anticipated audience with Pharaoh does not go as planned. (At least, not as Moses planned.)
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Induction (The Exodus, part 2)
Yahweh stages a surprise meeting, enrolling Moses in a plan that seems destined for failure.
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Labor & Delivery (The Exodus, part 1)
The enslaved Israelites become the target of a genocidal decree from Pharaoh, but a few brave women refuse to play by the despot's rules.
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The Alchemist, the Strangers, and the Volunteer (Part 3)
Boaz wants to marry Ruth, but there's one thing standing in the way.
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The Alchemist, the Strangers, and the Volunteer (Part 2)
Ruth's situation in Bethlehem looks dire until she meets someone who may be able to help. But will he want to?
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The Alchemist, the Strangers, and the Volunteer (Part 1)
When Naomi and Ruth's husbands die unexpectedly, all seems lost. But Yahweh has been at work in the dark.
Customer Reviews
Just listened to The Alchemist, The Strangers, and The Volunteers
I’m not sure what I was expecting. Whatever it was, this exceeded my expectations.
I already find the account of Ruth to be soo full! It has every plot element a story could need: tragedy, conflict, history, redemption, and, of course, meaningful impact on the future with ties to the past. All of this contained in very few chapters.
The narrator seemed to do his due diligence and take great care of some of time period details, as well as realistic, grounded treatment of the figures. Not far removed, two dimensional people who spoke in thees and thous. But people who chewed on barley. People who pushed hair back out of their faces.
The narrator has great timbre and the phrases, comparisons, and metaphors he uses to coax meaning into a moment add much richness to the experience.
This podcast is a must!!!
If you're a Christian or not the way he tells these stories grasps and holds your attention. I can imagine what the artists was like as a kid. Around a bon fire. But seriously his vocabulary and the curating of music for the show all becomes one amazing story to hear. He goes behind the message and looks for the back story and fills inmost if not all the blanks of "well I wonder why that happened?" That are historically there. I truly appreciate this podcast as it gives me great opportunity to speak to others about the Bible not only with my kids butbelivers and non believers alike. It's an amazing tool for growth in biblical stories in my opinion my favorite had to be the story Jeremiah. As he tells the story I can see it happening... Amazing amazing podcast!
Bacon
Imagine wrapping the poetry and beauty of story around the reality of a living God—it’s better than a bacon wrapped jalepeno popper baby! It may get spicy, but you’re gonna like it!