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BibleWorm
by BibleWorm
Getting to the core of the biblical text.
Episodes
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Episode 807 Holding the King to Account (2 Samuel 11:1-11, 14-18, 26-27; 12:1-10; and Psalm 51:1-12)
This week we’re reading the story of David, Bathsheba, and Nathan as told in 2 Samuel 11:1-11, 14-18, 26-27; 12:1-10; and Psalm 51:1-12. David, once a man of the people, has become a self-satisfied king, feeling entitled to whatever he wants. This leads him first to taking Bathsheba by force and...
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Episode 806 Recalling the Covenant (Joshua 24:1-27)
This week, we're reading Joshua 24: 1-27 – a chapter that challenged us to think about how we tell our own story – our biblical story, our national story, our family story -- and what the impact of that telling can be. What do we highlight, what do we leave out, and why? How do we tell the story…
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Episode 805 A Countercultural Way of Life (Exodus 19:1-8 & 20:1-21)
This week we’re reading the story of Israel receiving the Ten Commandments at Sinai in Exodus 19:1-8 and 20:1-21. We discover that these commandments, which have become a political lightning rod, in fact envision a radically countercultural world in which God refuses to be allied with any…
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Episode 804 Stand Your Ground (Exodus 14:5-14, 19-29)
Try a free month of our Patreon for FREE with no obligation! Click here to claim your free month! This week we read Exodus 14:5-14 and 19-29 -- the paradigmatic story of freedom, the crossing of the sea. We are right at the boundary of creation and uncreation. The flood is right there again,...
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Episode 803 Prospering Potiphar (Genesis 39:1-23)
Try a free month of our Patreon for FREE with no obligation! Click here to claim your free month! This week we’re reading the story of Joseph in Potiphar’s house, as told in Genesis 39:1-23. Joseph finds himself enslaved in Egypt in the household of an Egyptian official named Potiphar. While God...
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Episode 802 Go and Be a Blessing (Genesis 12:1-9)
Try a free month of our Patreon for FREE with no obligation! Click here to claim your free month! This week, we are reading one of our favorite Bible stories, and the source of some great power ballads in the Jewish world – Gen 12:1-9, the story of Avram being called to leave his land, his home,...
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Episode 801 Life Beyond the Flood (Genesis 6:5-22, 8:6-12, & 9:8-17)
Try a free month of our Patreon for FREE with no obligation! Click here to claim your free month! In this first episode of the new Narrative Lectionary year, we’re reading the story of God flooding the world as told in Genesis 6:5-22; 8:6-12; and 9:8-17. We struggle a bit with the fact that this...
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Episode 755 Revelation and Resistance: Awaiting New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:1-7, 22-27, & 22:1-5) REPLAY
This week we conclude our series on Revelation and Resistance with John’s vision of New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:1-7, 22-27, and 22:1-5. The text presents a moving depiction of God come to earth, dwelling among the people and wiping every tear from their eyes. In a renewed world with no death…
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Episode 754 Revelation and Resistance: Praising God in the Midst of Empire (Revelation 7:1-17) REPLAY
This week we are reading Revelation chapter 7, a vision that unfolds in the midst of the unsealing of seals and undoing of worlds as we have known them. It’s a vision that seems anchored in the past and the future simultaneously, a vision that evoked for us Ezekiel and Isaiah and Genesis and...
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Episode 753 Revelation and Resistance: The Letters to the Churches (Revelation 2:1-7 & 3:1-22) REPLAY
This week we’re continuing our series on Revelation and Resistance with the letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2:1-7 and 3:1-22. We note that most of the churches receive both praise and admonition from Jesus, celebrating what they have done well but warning them against their...
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Episode 752 Revelation and Resistance: Worthy is the Lamb (Revelation 5:1-14) REPLAY
This week we are reading Revelation 5 – the whole thing, which is only 14 powerful verses long. We encounter the image of a scroll covered with words that might change the world as we know it - but it has been sealed tight, with nobody to open it. We encounter the Lamb, in a series of images that...
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Episode 751 Revelation and Resistance: Unmasking the Empire (Revelation 13:1-18 & 17:1-6) REPLAY
This week we’re continuing our series on Revelation and Resistance series with Revelation 13:1-18 and 17:1-6. We examine the grotesque images of the Beasts rising from land and sea as images of the Roman Empire, a misshapen, deceptive, and violent creature trapping people unknowingly in the…
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Episode 750 Revelation and Resistance: Lifting the Veil (Revelation 1:1-20) REPLAY
Welcome to our summer series, Revelation and Resistance. This week we begin at the beginning, with Revelation 1:1-20, which sets the stage so beautifully for us and especially for me, who has never read Revelation before. We contemplate the “is-ness” of God – one that is beyond time as we know it…
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Episode 749 Disputing with God: Stay Awake! (Mark 14:32-42)
This week we conclude our special series on Disputing with God with the story of Jesus praying with his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane as told in Mark 14:32-42. We notice at least two disputes in this text, the first between Jesus, who is praying in anguish, and his disciples, who keep...
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Episode 748 Disputing with God: Persistence and Possibility (Matthew 15:21-28)
This week we’re continuing our summer series on “Disputing with God” with the story of Jesus’s encounter with a Syro-Phoenician woman as told in Matthew 15:21-28. This story makes us comfortable in a lot of ways, as Jesus appears to ignore the pleas of a foreign woman, who Matthew refers to as a...
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Episode 747 Disputing with God: Unrequited Lament (Psalm 88:1-18)
This week we continue with our summer series “Disputing with God” with Psalm 88, the Bible’s most unrelenting lament psalm. The speaker cries out to God from the depths of the pit, lamenting about the pain, suffering, and isolation that makes their life seem like a walking death, even accusing…
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Episode 746 Disputing with God: The Cost of Compassion (Jonah 3:1-4:11)
This week we continue with our summer series “Disputing with God” with the story of the prophet Jonah in Nineveh as told in Jonah 3:1–4:11. While we have often read Jonah as a comedic parody of Israelite prophecy, this time we explore what happens if we take Jonah’s concerns about God’s mercy...
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Episode 745 Disputing with God: Righteousness Entangled (Genesis 18:16-33)
This week we are reading one of the Bible’s most famous disputes with God – Abraham's insistence that God should have mercy on Sodom for the sake of its righteous, found in Genesis 18:16-33. Now, we love mercy as much as the next guy, but this time around we wrestled with the profound…
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Episode 744 Disputing with God: Reconciling the Relationship (Exodus 33:1-23 & 34:1-9)
This week we continue with our summer series “Disputing with God,” picking up where we left off last time with the story of the repair of the relationship between God and Israel after the incident of the Golden Calf, as told in Exodus 33:1–23 and 34:1–9. God is at first so angry about the Golden...
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Episode 743 Disputing with God: The Unmended Breach (Exodus 32:1-20 & 30-35)
In this first episode of our summer series on Disputing with God, we are reading the story of the Golden Calf, Exodus 32:1-20 and 30-35. We’ve read it together before, but the regular lectionary stops us pretty early in its unfolding ... and we found that moving farther into the story directed…
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Episode 742 The Diversifying Power of the Spirit (Acts 2:1-21 & Philippians 4:4-7)
This week we’re reading the texts for Pentecost with Acts 2:1-21 and Philippians 4:4-7. We ponder the connections between Christian Pentecost and Jewish Shavuot, both commemorating the establishment of a new relationship with God following an act of dramatic liberation. We notice the...
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Episode 741 Becoming Like Christ (Philippians 2:1-13)
This week we are reading Philippians 2:1-13, which contain within them the beautiful Christ Hymn, and this passage made us think a lot about the role of community in any given person’s ability to live the kind of life Jesus is asking people to live. What does it really mean to be of one mind, in...
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Episode 740 Proclaiming Christ (Philippians 1:1-18)
This week we’re reading Philippians 1:1–18, in which the apostle Paul gives thanks to the church in Philippi for their friendship and ongoing support of his ministry. Paul writes this letter from prison where, predictably, Paul is not wallowing in self-pity but continues his mission, even...
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Episode 739 Paul in Athens (Acts 17:16-34)
This week we are reading Acts 17:16-34, a story of Paul biding his time in Athens and engaging with the beliefs and culture of the local people there. Though he’s upset by their use of idols, this distress doesn't lead our notoriously hotheaded Paul to smash any idols or overturn any tables – he...
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Episode 738 The Best and Worst of Paul (Acts 16:16-40)
This week we’re reading Acts 16:16-40, where we encounter both the best and worst of the apostle Paul. On the one hand we find the feisty and faithful Paul, who, when arrested by the authorities, does not succumb to fear or anger but instead, there in the darkest part of the prison, turns to…
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Episode 737 Why Are You Persecuting Me? (Acts 9:1-19a)
This week we move on from the Gospel of John to the book of Acts, which will take us through these next weeks from Easter to Pentecost, or, on the Jewish calendar, from Pesach to Shavuot. Today we read Acts 9:1-19a. We meet Saul, a young, zealous, pretty aggressive guy, who seems an unlikely…
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Episode 736 Believing Thomas (John 20:19-31)
This week we’re finishing our study of the Gospel of John with the story of Thomas as told in John 20:19-31. While Thomas is remembered in the tradition for his disbelief, he is in fact the first person in the Gospel of John to confess that Jesus is God, making him a model of belief rather than...
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Episode 735 Raised to Life Anew (John 20:1-18)
This week, as we approach Easter Sunday, we are reading John 20:1-18, the story of the unfolding discovery by the disciples that Jesus has been resurrected. We wonder – why did Mary feel such urgency to be near Jesus’s body – or maybe the question is, why didn’t the other disciples feel it? What…
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Episode 734 At the Foot of the Cross (John 19:23-42)
For this special episode we’re reading the Narrative Lectionary texts for both Maundy Thursday and Good Friday in John 19:23-42. The text opens with two starkly different scenes set at the foot of the cross where Jesus is dying. On the one side, Roman soldiers gamble to see who gets to keep…
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Episode 733 Of Palms and Passions (John 12:12-17 & 19:16b-22)
This week, for Palm Sunday, we are juxtaposing two texts, set less than a week apart, but with a veritable eternity between them: Jesus’s celebrated entry into Jerusalem in John 12:12-27, and his crucifixion later that same week, in John 19:16b-22. Both texts are powerful, but the juxtaposition…
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Episode 732 No King but the Emperor (John 19:1-16a)
This week we’re reading a painfully difficult text, the continuation of Jesus’s trial before Pilate as told in John 19:1-16a. Here we find the religious leaders coercing Pilate into executing Jesus by accusing him of disloyalty to the Empire. “We have no king but the emperor,” they say, betraying...
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Episode 731 What Is Truth? (John 18:28-40)
Today we are reading John 18:28-40 - Jesus has been brought to the Roman authority by the religious authorities, and *all* the authorities mostly seem eager to make this situation go away. The story made us wonder - Why is it so very hard to speak what is true? How can it be that the intersection...
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Episode 730 Peter's Denial (John 18:12-27)
This week we’re reading Peter’s denial of Jesus as told in John 18:12-27. In what may be one of the most challenging discussions we’ve ever had, we discuss the moral injury that accrues, for Peter and for ourselves, when we encounter the gap between who we thought we were and who we turn out to…
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Episode 729 Unless I Wash You (John 13:1-17)
Today we are reading John 13:1-17, the story of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples as they head into the day before Passover. The story is just steeped in relationship – Jesus's relationship to God as he prepares to return to God, and Jesus’s deep connection to the people who are here with…
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Episode 728 The Threat of Life (John 11:1-53)
This week we’re reading the story of the raising of Lazarus as told in John 11:1-53. We think about the disciples, so keenly aware of the threat to Jesus’s life but willing to follow him anyway, living in the light for as long as there is light to live in. And we ponder Mary’s words that bring...
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Episode 727 ASH WEDNESDAY SPECIAL EPISODE The Good Shepherd (John 10:1-18)
For our Ash Wednesday episode, we are reading John 10:1-18 and, I’m not going to lie, wishing we had a lot more experience with sheep herding and sheep folds. We wonder – who are these robbers and thieves climbing over the fence, and what kind of fence is this if robbers and thieves can just skip...
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Episode 726 Blind from Birth (John 9:1-41)
This week we’re reading the rich and challenging story of Jesus healing a man blind from birth, as told in John 9:1-41. The story begins by rejecting the common theology that suffering is a result of sin, insisting instead that this man coming to see is to be a revelation of the glory of God. Yet...
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Episode 725 Miraculous Healthcare (John 4:46-54 and 5:1-18)
Our reading today is John 4:46-54 and 5:1-18 – the first healing stories we’ll read this season. And in this time when access to healthcare seems like its own miracle, stories that really struck us both. We remember the signs and wonders of Exodus, and their importance in building a lasting faith...
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Episode 724 The Woman at the Well (John 4:1-42)
This week we’re reading the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, as told in John 4:1-42. Here we find a story about a Jewish man and a Samaritan woman, from communities that have hated each other for centuries, finding common ground at the well of their mutual ancestor, Jacob. We...
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Episode 723 God So Loved the World (John 3:1-21)
Our reading today is John 3:1-21 ... and it contains within it what is probably the most famous of all biblical verses, John 3:16–for God so loved the world. We find the verse in a story about a man who is drawn to Jesus and seeks him out, but struggles mightily-almost comically-to understand…
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Episode 722 Disrupting the Business of Worship (John 2:13-25)
This week we’re reading the story of Jesus disrupting Temple commerce during the festival of Passover as told in John 2:13-25. Unlike the other Gospels, which place this story at the end of Jesus’s ministry, John places it at the very beginning, just after Jesus’ miracle of turning water into…
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Episode 721 Water into Wine (John 2:1-11)
This week we’re reading John 2:1-11, the story of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding -his first miraculous sign in the Gospel of John, and an unusual place to start. Jesus himself objects to his mother’s subtle suggestion that he ought to take action when she sees the wine has run out. I...
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Episode 720 Come and See (John 1:35-51)
This week we’re reading John’s version of the call of the disciples as told in John 1:35-51. Unlike the Synoptic story of Jesus beckoning Peter, James, and John from their fishing boats, this version of the call of the disciples is more subtle and variable. Two disciples follow Jesus because...
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Episode 719 The Lamb of God (John 1:19-34)
This week we move past the introductory material and into the story itself with John 1:19-34. It begins with John – John the Baptist, that is, who is indeed out there baptizing people, but he himself could hardly be more clear that what he’s doing is really not the point. What we should attune to...
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Episode 718 Christmas Eve SPECIAL EPISODE (REPLAY)
On this special Christmas Eve episode we’re discussing the birth of Jesus as told in Luke 2:1-20. We talk about the imperial setting of this story, which takes place during the reigns of Augustus, Herod, and Quirinius but announces the good news of a different lord and savior who brings peace to...
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Episode 717 The Light Shines in the Darkness (John 1:1-18)
For this fourth week of Advent we’re making the move to the New Testament with John 1:1-18, which describes the Word becoming flesh to dwell among us. We think about what it means for God to become flesh, and how lonely it must be to exist in a world where there is none like you, both a human and…
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Episode 716 My Ways Are Not Your Ways (Isaiah 55:1-13)
For this 3rd week of advent and our last week in the Hebrew scriptures, we are reading the gorgeous words of Isaiah 55. This text starts us out in these bodies we’ve been given, these bodies that need water and food, and joy, and God. Why do we consume so many things that don’t fill us up? How…
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Episode 715 The Valley of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
For this second week of Advent we’re reading Ezekiel 37:1–14, Ezekiel’s famous vision of a valley of dry bones. We wonder why God asks Ezekiel whether he thinks the bones can live and why on earth he instructs Ezekiel to prophesy directly to the bones, kind of a ridiculous prophetic task. But as...
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Episode 714 Into the Furnace (Daniel 3:1-30)
This week we are reading Daniel chapter 3 - a story that seems for a while to be moving in the direction of an over-the-top, cartoon worthy adventure, until you get to the utterly arresting, mic-drop statement of faith planted somewhere in the middle. We wonder: In an environment where loyalty to...
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Episode 713 Seek the Peace of the City (Jeremiah 29:1-14)
This week we’re reading Jeremiah 29:1-14, a text so hopeful about the future that it is often found on t-shirts and graduation gifts. But while the passage is indeed hopeful—“I know the plans I have for you”—in the context of Jeremiah it is a certain kind of difficult hope: a hope that must first...
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