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The BEMA Podcast

The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible and the Text itself, as well as surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them through the lens of historical context. The main body of work is contained in Seasons 1–5, and we encourage you to start with episode 0 (or even -1) and continue in order through episode 204. Beyond that, we explore new topics, revisit old topics, and dive deeper into practical ways of living out the…

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510: The Four Pillars — Soul Wrestling

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent reflect on the most famous wrestling match in the Bible. BEMA 14: Grappling with God, Part 2 Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark by James K. A. Smith Cenote — Wikipedia

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509: The Four Pillars — Don’t Let Go

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks burrow into three different ways to wrestle. Intertextual.Bible Sefaria Library BEMA 120: Truth and Light BEMA 502: The Four Pillars — Community BEMA 24: Creating a Space

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508: The Four Pillars — Wrestling

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings begin the last leg of the journey through the Four Pillars, examining the commitment to wrestling. The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns The Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow Prior The Gospel of Being Human by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent “Gulliver’s Travels: Week 13” by Karen Swallow Prior Artemis II — Wikipedia Pontius Pilate Discovers He’s in the Apostles’…

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507: The Four Pillars — Discipleship as a Forge

Brent Billings and Reed Dent consider how to create the right conditions for discipleship. The Pastor by Eugene H. Peterson The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

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506: The Four Pillars — Talmid & Morah

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover Fricks nurture the roots of the third pillar, discipleship.

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505: The Four Pillars — Discipleship

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the third of BEMA’s four pillars, being challenged by the historical setting and practice of discipleship. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim Nahum M. Sarna — Wikipedia Shmuel Safrai — Wikipedia David Flusser — Wikipedia Quest for the Historical Jesus — Wikipedia Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia Rudolf Bultmann — Wikipedia Dead Sea…

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504: The Four Pillars — Coming Home to Community

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are wrapping their hands around the pillar of community, guided by Elle Grover Fricks. Sam Goes With Frodo — Scene from The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 film) Father’s Letter — Scene from Little Women (2019 film) “Hallelujah” from Handel’s Messiah — Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Palouse Choral Society “How far back in time can you understand English?” by Colin…

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503: The Four Pillars — Japanese Woodworking Joint

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the pillar of community from the perspective of Reed Dent. “5 Spectacular Japanese Joints” by Emi Shinmura — Fine Woodworking BEMA 356: Sabbath Practice — Friendship w/ Derrick James Rohr III “Followers, Not Admirers” by Søren Kierkegaard in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

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502: The Four Pillars — Community

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the second of BEMA’s four pillars: the commitment to and experience of community. About Impact Campus Ministries (Definition of Success) Loneliness Sucks — Marty Solomon, YouTube Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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501: The Four Pillars — Tome at the Center of the Spiral

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks get the big picture about our holy book. Spiral Dynamics Illustration The Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser Review of The Unseen Realm — Brent Billings, Goodreads

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