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Equipoise — 217 episodes

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1

Confessor Corrected & Caiaphas Challenged - Matthew 16:21-28

2

"Upon This Rock" - Matthew 16:13-20

3

“Two Ways To Miss Jesus” - Matthew 16:1-12

4

“From Crumb to Crowd” - Matthew 15:21-39

5

"Traditions and Trojan Horses" - Matthew 14:34-15:20

6

“Water, Wind, Wonder, Worship” - Matthew 14:22-32

7

"Bloodsoaked Banquet vs. Compassionate Feast" - Matthew 14:1-21

8

Six Sections, Six Lessons, One Message: Matthew 13:31-58

9

Beats and Basilicas: Navigating Culture's Effects on the Church

10

Seeds, Weeds, and Hell: A Victory Story: Matthew 13:24-30

11

A Semiquincentennial Quandary

12

"The Parable of the Sower" - Matthew 13:1-23

13

"Give Us a Sign!" - Matthew 12:38-50

14

"Which Spirit, Which Kingdom?" - Matthew 12:22-37

15

“A Pernicious Political Plot vs. a Potent Paradigm of Peace” - Matthew 12:15-21

16

K.O. in Two Rounds! - Matthew 12:1-14

17

"3 Cities, 3 Woes, 1 Mountain, 1 Yoke" - Matthew 11:20-30

18

Episode 200!

19

Dispelling the Jesus of Our Imagination - Matthew 11:1-19

20

When Being Wrong is Wrong

21

The Resurrection: The Earliest Creed

22

“Compassion & Commitment: Part 2 of 2” - Matthew 10

23

“Compassion & Commitment: Part 1 of 2” - Matthew 9:36-38

24

“Two Stories of Blind Men” - Matthew 9:27-35

25

On Thin ICE

26

The Hell Question, Part 3 of 3: Torment or Termination?

27

The Hell Question, Part 2 of 3: Hell In The Balance

28

The Hell Question, Part 1 of 3: A Biblical Survey of Hell

29

The Sin of Empathy?

30

“Twelve Years of Death and Life” - Matthew 9:18-26

31

“Near or Far?” - Matthew 9:9-17

32

"We Have Seen Strange Things Today" - Matthew 9:1-8

33

“Storm and Swine” - Matthew 8:23-34

34

"The Call to Covenantal Commitment" - Matthew 8:14-22

35

"How To Amaze Jesus" - Matthew 8:5-13

36

"He Will Make You Clean" - Matthew 8:1-4

37

"Final Warnings" - Matthew 7:13-29

38

"The Golden Ruler" - Matthew 7:12

39

"A Tension of Trust" - Matthew 7:7-11

40

"Judge Not" - Matthew 7:1-6

41

"Worry Like a Bird" - Matthew 6:25-34

42

"From Goals to Gods" - Matthew 6:19-24

43

The Lord's Prayer - Part Two of Two - Matthew 6:9-15

44

The Lord's Prayer - Part One of Two - Matthew 6:9-15

45

No Good?

46

Israel - A Balanced Perspective

47

Recognition, Reward, and Relationship - Matthew 6

48

Kingdom Ethic 6: A Love Without Boundaries - Matthew 5:43-48

49

I Went to Mass

50

Common Denominators

51

Kingdom Ethic 5: The Rejection of Retaliation - Matthew 5:38-42

52

Kingdom Ethic 4: “Throw Me The Rope” - Matthew 5:33-37

53

Kingdom Ethic 3: Marriage and Divorce - Matthew 5:31-32

54

Kingdom Ethic 2: Amputations, not Band-Aids - Matthew 5:27-30

55

Kingdom Ethic 1: Revenge and Reconciliation - Matthew 5:21-28

56

"From Scales to Music" - Matthew 5:17-20

57

"Who You Are" - Matthew 5:13-16

58

"The Last of the Beatitudes" - Matthew 5:10-12

59

Pacifism: Biblical or No?

60

"The Merciful, Pure-Hearted, Peacemakers, and...a Rich Young Ruler?" - Matthew 5:7-9, 19:16-24

61

“The Mourning, Meek, and Hungering” - Matthew 5:4-6

62

"The Poor In Spirit" - Matthew 5:1-3

63

"The Gospel of the Kingdom" - Matthew 5

64

“Apprentices Wanted” - Matthew 4:18-25

65

"The Kingdom of Heaven" - Matthew 4:12-17

66

"The Test" - Matthew 4:1-11

67

“Jesus the Baptized” - Matthew 3:13-17

68

"John the Baptizer" - Matthew 3:1-12

69

“We’ve Been Here Before” - Matthew 2:13-28

70

“Three Magi, Three Hearts” - Matthew 2:1-12, 16-18

71

“A Series of Unprecedented Events” - Matthew 1:18-25

72

“In the Beginning” - Matthew 1:1-17

73

Introduction to Matthew: Date

74

Introduction to Matthew: Authorship

75

Sunset, Sunrise: Introducing The Equipoise Commentary Edition

76

What Exactly Is Prayer?

77

What Is There To Understand?

78

Heretics, All!

79

"Apology Accepted, Access Denied"

80

Methodology in Missiology - Part 2 of 2 in our Missions Miniseries

81

An Estimation of Deputation - Part 1 of 2 in our Missions Miniseries

82

The Black Dog, Part Two of Two - "Trust Christ, Not Chemicals?"

83

The Black Dog, Part One of Two

84

"Settled"

85

The Managahd

86

There’s a Method(ist) to the Madness

87

Can I Get An Amen?

88

"Wow! I Had No Idea!"

89

I See That Hand

90

Beauty Will Save The World

91

A Time To Speak

92

The Will of God

93

Okay, Wait - Does He Get Us or Not?

94

The Special Valentine's Day Episode

95

I Played Pickleball

96

The Maine Midwinter Update

97

Reading With Responsibility

98

Don't Believe Everything You Read

99

Sometimes You Gotta Let 'Em Roll

100

New Year's Resolutions: An Encouragement

101

Learning to Wrestle Well

102

Spiritual Trump Cards - Part Three of Three in our "Hearing From God" Series

103

What Does The Bible Say? - Part Two of Three in our "Hearing From God" Series

104

"God, Speak To Me!" - Part One of Three in our "Hearing From God" Series

105

What About Taking God's Name In Vain?

106

The Cussin' Conundrum

107

A Community in Crisis: The Lewiston Tragedy

108

Building a Culture of Life...with Death?

109

Indecisive Imprecation: How to Respond to the Hatred of Hamas

110

A Balanced Approach to Church Meeting Times

111

Information Control

112

The Non-Episode

113

Read Your Bible, Pray Every Day...An Addendum

114

Read Your Bible, Pray Every Day...PART TWO OF TWO

115

Read Your Bible, Pray Every Day...PART ONE OF TWO

116

Baggage Claim

117

Episode 100

118

I Want Specifics

119

A Parley On Piercings

120

Into The Void

121

Pride Month

122

"Innepennent Funnamennal Babtiss" - A Follow-Up

123

Fundies...Fundies Everywhere...

124

The Dilemma Dissected (Part Three of Three in our Disability Dilemma miniseries)

125

A Lion In The Streets? (Part Two in our Disability Dilemma miniseries)

126

The Disability Dilemma, (Part 1 of 3 in our Disability Dilemma miniseries)

127

Five Cautions For Those Changing Or Questioning

128

The Trail of Blood

129

A Beast Is Born

130

Just Because It'll Preach...

131

Heuristics and Gas Stoves

132

Podcast Direction and Course Corrections

133

Listening to the Dead

134

Clown World

135

I Can't Believe It's Not Better, Or, How To Argue

136

The Grinch Who Loved Christmas

137

What A Church Worships

138

To Ink or Not To Ink?

139

Balance In Our Pursuit Of Balance

140

The Road Ahead

141

The Meaning of Life

142

Gambling, Golfing, and God

143

How It All Went Down - Continued! (Part Twelve of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

144

How It All Went Down (Part Eleven of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

145

Why You Should Use The King James Translation (Part Ten of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

146

The Idolatry Of Certainty (Part Nine of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

147

One Such Example (Part Eight of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

148

Things That Are Different Are Not The Same (That's Kind Of The Point) - Featuring Isaac Thibodeau (Part Seven of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

149

The Textual Topic - Featuring Isaac Thibodeau (Part Six of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

150

How We Got Our Bible - Featuring Isaac Thibodeau (Part Five of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

151

Mythconceptions (Part Four of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

152

If It Ain't Broke... (Part Three of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

153

Examining the Landscape (Part Two of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

154

Here We Go! (Part One of Twelve in our Bible Translation Series)

155

Quick Update - The Calm Before The Storm

156

BODIES, BANS, BABIES AND BAD ARGUMENTS

157

Hyles In Charge

158

Media and the Mouse

159

Special Episode: Interview with Pastor Kevin Spencer

160

The One About Social Justice

161

Do The Work (Or, Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra)

162

Revisiting Bias (In Light of the Present Russia/Ukraine Conflict)

163

Søren, Simplicity, and Saints (A follow-up to "I'm Just A Simple Man")

164

"I'm Just A Simple Man"

165

The Word of God - Why Getting It Right Matters (Part 2 of 2 in our "Word of God" series)

166

The Word of God - Authorial Intent (Part 1 of 2 in our "Word of God" series)

167

15 Tips for Achieving Balance

168

"Off the Deep End," So They Say

169

Santa, Trees, and Mistletoe: A Christmas Conundrum

170

Just Me an' My Jesus (Part Two of Two in our "Individualism Hurts" series)

171

Just Me an' My Bible (Part One of Two in our "Individualism Hurts" series)

172

Just Checking In

173

T'was the Night Before Hallowmas

174

Dear AEBC

175

Final Objections and Conclusion (Part Seven of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

176

What about those verses...? (Part Six of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

177

Unscheduled Interruption: Mental Meanderings

178

Drinking Alcohol to the Glory of God (Part Five of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

179

The Case for Abstinence from Alcohol (Part Four of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

180

A History of Christians and Drinking (Part Three of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

181

A History of Abstaining (Part Two of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

182

Pint-Sized Preface (Part One of Seven in our "Vino or Volstead" Series)

183

The Postman Postulate

184

Pastors, People, and Painkillers

185

"Dress Your Best"

186

The Blame Game (Part Three of Three in our "Hearts and Hemlines" Series)

187

The Naked Truth (Part Two of Three in our "Hearts and Hemlines" Series)

188

Modestly Speaking (Part One of Three in our "Hearts and Hemlines" Series)

189

The Gospel of Greenwood

190

The FORBIDDEN AISLES!!!

191

Extra Episode: Some Responses

192

WeLL, bRoThEr, iT sAyS iN tHe gReEk...

193

Mutual Submission?

194

Has the Church Failed? (Part Two of Two)

195

Has The Church Failed? (Part One of Two)

196

What About Those Ordinances? (Part Five of Four in our Church Series -- Yes, I know what I typed. It's not a typo.)

197

The Point and Purpose (Part Four of Four in our Church Miniseries)

198

RAPID FIRE ROUND 6 of 6: The TRUE Church, Haymen?!? (Part of our Church Miniseries)

199

RAPID FIRE ROUND 5 of 6: Multi-Service and Multi-Campus Model (Part of our Church Miniseries)

200

RAPID FIRE ROUND 4 of 6: Israel and the Church (Part of our Church Miniseries)

201

RAPID FIRE ROUND 3 of 6: What about Church Membership? (Part of our Church Miniseries)

202

RAPID FIRE ROUND 2 of 6: When Did the Church Begin? (Part of our Church Miniseries)

203

RAPID FIRE ROUND 1 of 6: What Makes a Church a Church (Part of our Church Miniseries)

204

Episode Twelve: Local, Universal, or Something Else? (Part Three of Four...ish in our Church Miniseries)

205

Episode Eleven: Clearing the Brush (Part Two of Four...ish in our Church Miniseries)

206

Episode Ten: What's In A Name? (Part One of Four...ish in our Church Miniseries)

207

Episode Nine: Let's Talk About Relationships (Part Two of Two in our Religion vs. Relationship Series)

208

Episode Eight: What's So Bad about Religion? (Part One of Two in our Religion vs. Relationship Series)

209

Episode Seven: Propositional Space

210

Episode Six: Bunnies and Eggs and Ishtar, Oh My!

211

Episode Five: 3 Days? The Timing of the Crucifixion

212

Episode Four and a Half: How to Have a More Productive Conversation with Almost Anyone (another addendum to our bias series)

213

Episode Four: Battling Bias (Part 3 of 3 in our Bias Series)

214

Episode Three: House of Cards (Part 2 of 3 in our Bias Series)

215

Episode Two and a Half: One More Kind -- Chronological Bias (an addendum to our bias series)

216

Episode Two: Balance or Bias (Part 1 of 3 in our Bias Series)

217

Episode One: Introduction