The Teaching Series
Welcome to The Teaching Series. Below you will find short video teachings about. 12-20 minutes in length (also available as a podcast) that will help you study the Bible and understand its original context. Great for personal use, small group study, teams, family time, etc. Accompanying each teaching are discussion questions, and at times, additional resources for going deeper. Look out for new teaching every other Tuesday. Don’t want to miss an episode?
Episode 158 – Characters of Christmas Pt 3: Lowly Shepherds
Key Passage(s): Luke 2:8-16; Micah 4:8; Micah 5:2
There are multiple aspects to the shepherds and the Christmas story in Luke 2 that we’ve traditionally gotten wrong. By understanding first-century shepherding practices and […]
Episode 157 – Characters of Christmas Pt 2: Mother Mary
Key Passage(s): Luke 1:26-27, 38; Matthew 1:18; Deuteronomy 22:23-24
Traditional Christmas pictures of Mary show a meek, quiet woman keeping watch over her infant. But the cultural implications of Jesus’s birth suggest a […]
Episode 156 – Characters of Christmas Pt 1: Town of Bethlehem
Key Passage(s): Luke 2:1-7; Micah 5:2
We’ve all seen the Christmas Pageants where Mary and Joseph show up in Bethlehem within minutes of Mary […]
Episode 155 – David and Goliath Pt 4: That They May Know
Key Passage(s): 1 Samuel 17:45-46; 1 Kings 8:41-43; 1 Kings 18:37; 2 Kings 19:19; John 17:22-23; Matthew 5:16
In this final episode of our mini-series on David and Goliath, we’ll look at the […]
Episode 154 – David and Goliath Pt 3: Use Your Gift
Key Passage(s): 1 Samuel 17; Judges 20:15-16; 1 Chronicles 12:1-2
David and Goliath is one of the most well-known underdog stories in the world. But what if it’s not an underdog […]
Episode 153 – David and Goliath Pt 2: A Tale of 2 Shepherds
Key Passage(s): 1 Samuel 9:1-4; 1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Samuel 17:32-36
Before there was David and Goliath, there was David and Saul. The literary design of 1 Samuel reveals a tale of two […]
Episode 152 – David and Goliath Pt 1: Guard Your Shephelah
Key Passage(s): 1 Samuel 17:1-3, 1 Samuel 17:13-15
David and Goliath is a story we all know. But like all stories that stand the test of time, there’s more to it than we […]
Episode 151 – The Easter Pattern
Key Passage(s): John 12:24, Luke 23:48, Luke 24:2-3, Acts 1:3, Luke 24:50-51; Acts 2:4
While Christians the world over celebrate Easter each year, many of us struggle to live out the transformative power […]
Episode 150 – Living Dead to Sin
Key Passage(s): Romans 3:23-24; Romans 6:6-11
Despite being dead to sin and alive to Christ, many followers of Jesus inevitably fall prey to excusing or rationalizing our failures. “I’m a sinner saved by […]
Episode 149 – Lenses of Context Pt 6: Literary
Our final episode in the Lenses of Context series examines the brilliant and highly intentional literary background of the Bible which is key to understanding the Bible. We don’t read a legal document the same way we read a […]
