God Loves Justice

<p>In this final episode of our five-part series on widows in the Bible, we turn to Jesus’s own words and the powerful parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18. We look at Jesus’s parable in its historical context...

<p>Episode 15 This is episode 4 of a 5 part series on widows in the Bible. In this episode, we explore how the first generation church cared for widows in Acts 6. From appointing leaders to oversee daily food...

<p>Episode 14 In part three of this five-part series on widows in Scripture, we turn to the New Testament to see how widows are woven into the story of Jesus and the early church. From Jesus’s genealogy, where three...

<p>Episode 13 </p><p>In Episode 2 of the five-part series on widows in the Bible, we move from values to practice by exploring how the Law of Moses built concrete, everyday protections for widows into Israel’s life...

<p>Episode 12 </p><p>In the first episode of a five-part series on widows, we begin by asking two foundational questions: Why were widows particularly vulnerable in biblical times? And how does God describe His...

<p>Episode 11 </p><p>In this episode, we take a look at several Old Testament passages that show how people, creation, and God himself respond to justice & righteousness. We talk about how many of us grew up assuming...

<p>Episode 10 </p><p>In this episode, we look into a messianic prophecy from Isaiah 42 that shows up again in Matthew 12. It gives us a picture of the kind of justice (mishpat) that Jesus brings. His justice isn’t just...

<p>Episode 09 </p><p>In this episode, we look at the Biblical metaphor of Kingdom of God, and how justice and righteousness are deeply connected to it. We start by looking at how Scripture uses the idea of a “kingdom,”...

<p>Episode 08 </p><p>In this episode, we explore why justice can seem hidden in the New Testament, and how some of that actually comes down to translation. We talk about how, when we first go searching for the English...

<p>Episode 07 </p><p>In this episode, we dig into a big question many Christians wrestle with: “Why is it so hard to see justice in the New Testament?” We break down four reasons why justice can be hard for modern...

<p>Episode 06 </p><p>In this episode, we look at what it means in Hebrew when justice & righteousness appear together as a single phrase. We look at how this phrase points back to God’s original design in Eden, where...

<p>Episode 05 </p><p>In this episode, we look at the Hebrew word sedeq/sedeqah, another word that God repeatedly says He loves. We learn that relationships are foundational to sedeq. It’s also a standard for life that...

<p>Episode 04 </p><p>In this episode, we learn about an example of what “doing mishpat (justice)” looks like. In 1 Kings 3, Solomon uses the wisdom God gave him to bring justice to painful injustice. In the story, we...

<p>Episode 03 </p><p>In this episode, we look at the Hebrew word “mishpat,” the word that God repeatedly says He loves. Instead of treating this like an academic language study, we approach it as a way to understand...

<p>Episode 02 </p><p>In this episode, we look into how differently justice is understood in modern Western culture compared to ancient Hebrew culture. Western justice tends to be legalistic—focused on rules...