In part 2 of this lesson, we move to consider people who either did or may have committed the unforgivable sin, often paying for it with their lives. The New Testament has much to say about this sin, just as the Old Testament does. Take a listen and...
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October 9, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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This is an important lesson, if I may judge by the reactions I get to this content whenever I present it. So many are afraid because they do not have a firm grasp on what this sin is. We should fear it enough to tend to our hearts,...
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October 9, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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In this lesson, we conclude our analysis of the horrific concubine story in Judges 19. We ask ourselves the question, “Who pushed the Girl out?” & “Why was she chopped up and sent by post to so many people in bits?” The Answers may surprise you.
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October 9, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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The story of the murdered concubine in Judges 19 is a horror. Nothing that I say about it will change that. What I can offer, however, is a corrective to the feminist reading of it, and some insights into the details that makes its place in Scripture more...
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October 9, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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This is the final of six lessons I’ve done on Reading Genesis like a pagan… which means reading Genesis not with a modern scientific lens, but with an understanding that Genesis was written to preach a Biblical Worldview in a pagan context. It is shaped to be particularly...
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September 24, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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In this lesson we discuss the details of what a scientific vs. Ancient Near Eastern Reading of Genesis 1-11 means with a particular focus on Genesis 1:1-3. We consider three different ways of reading the first three verses of Scripture.
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September 3, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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In this session we unpack the importance of Kingdom Establishment paradigms from the Ancient Near East, as well as a subset of that pattern that I have labeled Helderkampf (Hero Battle). Kingdom is one of the controlling metaphors of Genesis Creation stories.
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September 3, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Inductive Bible Study by Richard Alan Fuhr Jr. and Andreas J. Köstenberger. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016, 371 pp., $34.00, Hardbound In Inductive Bible Study, Drs Fuhr and Köstenberger strive to apply evangelical advances in hermeneutics to the topic of inductive study...
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September 2, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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We continue our discussion on the importance of Reading Genesis for what it is… a worldview document of the creation of the order of the world. It is curtailed to the issues on the table at the time of its writing and, thus, helps those struggling in a...
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August 19, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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In this lesson we continue our discussion on the importance of reading Genesis as a message to those struggling within a world drowning in Pagan worldview. Its imagery is borrowed from that world.
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August 13, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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In 1987, when I was 20 years old, 175 lbs of tight muscle with a full head of hair and a lot less sense, I was sent to a phone counseling center in New York City to work off an evening of my summer ministry internship. As I...
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August 13, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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In this video we begin to unpack what I regard as a better way to read Genesis than we typically find in Christian circles. Genesis was written to accomplish many things: It is ancestor epic, wisdom literature, worldview shaping, origin story, etc. But it was written to those...
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August 3, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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I knew a man who returned to Christ after decades of drugs and dealing, trafficking girls, violence, theft, and homelessness. Raised in church, he came back on fire for Jesus, witnessing openly and boldly everywhere he went. His life choices had a body count. He was diminished in...
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August 1, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
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Galileo said, “Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe.” In Genesis 1:3ff, God said, “Let there be… and there was…” Psalm 19:1-4 praises, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to...
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July 29, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Meditations on God
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When I was growing up, if you said “trigger” everyone thought about guns or Roy Roger’s horse… maybe shooting guns while riding Roy Roger’s horse. Today if you say “trigger” someone is worried that something they’ve said or done has set off a negative chain reaction in someone...
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July 26, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Language Issues
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Shame[1] is bad… right?! Our whole society today cries how terrible it is. Only people who shame others should be made to feel shame. So shame must be bad, right?!! From a pure feelings orientation, shaming certainly looks victimizing, impresses as irredemptive… unloving, even. So, how can shame...
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July 25, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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As a teenager I worked in a grocery store doing anything that needed doing, whether bagging, cashiering, stocking produce, or even painting the kick spaces on the shelves. How many times a day will customers say, “Laying down on the job, Aye!” while painting those spaces? Many, indeed....
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July 22, 2024 Andrew Sargent
So you've Accepted Jesus
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This lesson concludes the discussion of Lot's supposed offer of his daughters to save two male strangers. Things are not what they appear to a modern reader.
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July 21, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
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It shouldn’t be too long into joining a church that you hear something that strikes you as rather peculiar—The Second Coming of Jesus Christ… not to mention whispers of an equally peculiar book for which this events takes center stage—Revelation. For pagans, who dominated the globe from earliest...
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July 20, 2024 Andrew Sargent
So you've Accepted Jesus
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Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Interpreting The Wisdom Books: An Exegetical Handbook by Edward M. Curtis as part of the Handbooks for Old Testament Exegesis series edited by David M. Howard, Jr. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2017, 204 pp., $21.99 Paperback. In Interpreting The Wisdom Books:...
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July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
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