Bammerhab: Bible Explainer

<p>Jesus told the ancient church at Pergamum that they were living right next to Satan’s throne. Then Jesus said he had a sword ready for battle… but maybe not quite in the way you’d expect! </p><p>This episode...

<p>Jared Luttjeboer, is the creator of The Church History Project which is a deep dive into church history but with a unique “epic cinematic” feel where Jared explains to us all about the past through making it into the...

<p>Jesus promised the ancient church at Smyrna both persecution and peace. He promised the same thing to all believers, actually… But how does that work?</p><p>This episode continues the miniseries about the seven...

<p>Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:18 describes the church as a body with lots of different parts. These parts are not supposed to be the same, as Paul makes clear using an extended joke. Can a foot see? Can a hand hear? Can...

<p>Season five has finally arrived!</p><p>This episode also kickstarts a miniseries within season five about the seven churches of Revelation. Jesus said a lot to his disciples during his ministry, and they recorded...

<p>What comfort can God offer against the inevitable collapse of all great men and great movements? </p><p>Qum that’s what. Because qum can mean something that endures forever, but endures can also be translated as...

<p>The spiritual world abhors a vacuum.</p><p>That means if you reject Christ, you don’t revert back to being where you were as a pre-Christian, no, you actually get seven times worse. Jesus warns us of this in Luke...

<p>Paul says in Romans 8:28 that everything will work out for good for the believer. </p><p>Agathon means good in Greek. It’s a root word, an ancient word with no certain etymology. It just means good.</p><p>I guess we...

<p> “We Three Kings” is my favorite Christmas carol. However, there weren’t three of them, and they weren’t kings!</p><p>But yes, this caravan did come from the east and the Greek calls them magoi, or magicians or...

<p>A conversation with portraitist and comic artist Noah Snoke about how to pray from Philippians 4:6-7.</p><p>Paul tells us to pray with supplication, but supplication is a phrase we don’t use all that often...

<p>Vengeance is arguably the number one trait of our times. It lives on all sides of the aisle, among old, young and rich and poor.</p><p>And it is antithetical to Christianity. But why?</p><p>This episode digs deeper...

<p>[Continuing last week’s conversation with Chase Replogle about how pride is connected to offense.]</p><p>When Jesus said that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, the concept of ga’on is certainly...

<p>A conversation with Chase Replogle about how Jesus handled offense. </p><p>There’s no way to not get offended. It will happen. We can’t control that part. All we can control is how we respond to that inevitable...

<p>You plant the seed. You let it grow. Then you take the fruit.</p><p>That’s the normal way of things. It was just common sense.</p><p>In fact, Jesus quotes an old Greek saying: “There’s still four months to the...

<p>So much of the ancient world was explicitly built to avoid shame. So much of the modern world is all about people pleasing to avoid shame or rejection. That makes sense as shame is one of the most damaging things a...