He wouldn’t last long at most churches. He wore camel’s hair and liked to snack on locust. John the Baptist was a unique man who prepared the way for someone even more unique–the only begotten…

Every parent would like to know: what was Jesus like as a teenager? Scripture only gives us one glimpse of Jesus between infancy an adulthood. He’s twelve years old, he’s at the temple. When his…

Who would you announce a king’s birth to? CNN? NBC? How about some smelly, nomadic shepherds who haven’t slept indoors this year? Listen as we continue looking at the unusual and compelling story–the birth of…

There’s no story quite like the story of the birth of Jesus. Spoiler alert: we enjoyed the conversation so much, we got carried away. This will be a two-part episode. Join us as we talk…

Elizabeth. Zachariah. Mary. Joseph. They were good people. They lived ordinary lives in their times. Can you imagine what it was like to have an angel interrupt and turn the ordinary in to extraordinary?A barren old…

Prediction is very hard. Especially about the future. That’s what makes the predictions we find in the Hebrew Bible about Jesus so impressive. The quantity is staggering; there are hundreds! The quality is even more…

The Bible begins with the phrase, “in the beginning.” The gospel of John begins the same way. This week’s show takes place before that–before the beginning. Jesus existed before the foundation of the world. It’s…

The fourth gopsel: John. It’s the odd man out, the strange one in the group. Matthew, Mark, and Luke write so similarly that we call them the synoptics (“same” + “view”). John gives us a…

This week, Richie, Howard, and Matthew discuss the first gospel: Matthew. Matthew’s gospel is the most Jewish of the gospels. He cites the Hebrew Bible constantly and shows Jesus as a figure of Moses. Matthew…

Luke’s gospel is everything that Mark wasn’t. It’s long, it’s detailed, it’s precise. Volume one of Luke’s writings (the book of Acts is volume two) introduces us to Jesus. It upends the religious structures of…