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 167 – Birthday, Deathday & the Resurrection
Holy Week invites us to hold death and life in creative tension. We pause to consider Jesus’s death on the cross, but then we celebrate the new life bursting out of the empty tomb.
Episode 166 – Ruth Pt 6: Trust God’s Character
Most stories build to a climactic moment (Boaz redeeming Naomi & Ruth at the city gate) and then conclude with falling action. Not Ruth.
Episode 165 – Ruth Pt 5: Restored to Fullness
The climactic scene in the book of Ruth takes place in the city gate. Two kinsmen are poised to provide the rescue Naomi and Ruth desperately seek.
Episode 164 – Ruth Pt 4: Praying With Your Legs
More ink has been spilled over what happens between Ruth and Boaz at the threshing floor than any other scene in the book of Ruth. That’s because Ruth 3 is loaded with sexually suggestive language.
Episode 163 – Ruth Pt 3: In the Path of Blessing
Despite having arrived in Bethlehem, Naomi, and Ruth are still vulnerable widows dependent upon the generosity of others to meet their needs. And in a time when everyone is doing what’s right in their own eyes, that doesn’t bode well for them.
Episode 162 – Ruth Pt 2: Clinging to Community
In the face of overwhelming loss, Naomi does what many of us do when we’re hurting: she isolates and cuts herself off from those around her. But Ruth embodies a dramatically different response.
Episode 161 – Ruth Pt 1: Acknowledging Our Famines
One of the most beautiful and moving stories in the Bible is found in the book of Ruth. But it doesn’t start that way. Set in the times of the Judges, the story of Ruth begins in a place of famine and death.
Episode 160 – Characters of Christmas Pt 5: King Herod & King Jesus
In this final episode of Characters of Christmas, we explore a subtle, yet powerful distinction Matthew makes between Jesus and Herod that many people completely miss.
Episode 159 – Characters of Christmas Pt 4: Magi from the East
There’s a lot the Bible doesn’t say about the Magi. For example, it doesn’t say there were only three of them or that they were kings. So, who exactly were the Magi?
Episode 158 – Characters of Christmas Pt 3: Lowly Shepherds
There are multiple aspects to the shepherds and the Christmas story in Luke 2 that we’ve traditionally gotten wrong.
