Episodes

  • 453: Qohelet Tries to Party
    Jun 5 2025

    Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Josh Bossé follow Qohelet into many parties to see if we can find any meaning in joy.

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    56 mins
  • 452: Qohelet Gets Out of Bed
    May 29 2025

    Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks launch an exploration of one of the least understood books of Tanakh (Ecclesiastes).

    BEMA 320: The Forgotten Women — Sages and Wise Women

    The Wind Rises (2013 film) — JustWatch

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • 451: Ashlee Eiland — Say Good
    May 22 2025

    Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Ashlee Eiland, author of Say Good, and someone who seeks to join in God’s redemptive work on Earth. Ashlee is the head of school at Living Stones Academy, and formerly served as co-lead pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in western Michigan. Ashlee and her family live in Grand Rapids.

    Say Good by Ashlee Eiland

    Thought of the Day: Say Good — Marty Solomon, YouTube

    Myles and His Many Friends by Ashlee Eiland

    Books by Steve Carter

    Human(Kind) by Ashlee Eiland

    The Colossian Forum

    Leap of Faith (2024 film)

    The Van Lunen Center Fellows Program

    Ashlee Eiland on Instagram

    Special Guest: Ashlee Eiland.
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    41 mins
  • 450: Talmudic Matthew — The 7
    May 15 2025

    Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé truly cap off this series by taking a second gander at the Lord’s Prayer.

    One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

    BEMA 286: John — The Test of Bread

    Why Is Shavuot Celebrated — Aleph Beta

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 449: Talmudic Matthew — The Seven
    May 8 2025

    Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé close out this series by taking a gander at the Lord’s Prayer.

    BEMA 97: Done in Secret

    BEMA 332: Andrew DeCort — Flourishing on the Edge of Faith

    Textus Receptus — Wikipedia

    Codex Sinaiticus — Wikipedia

    Codex Vaticanus — Wikipedia

    Alexandrian Text-Type — Wikipedia

    Byzantine Text-Type — Wikipedia

    “Ancient Amulets with Incipits” — Biblical Archaeology Society

    “The Lord’s Prayer” (Live from Jerusalem in 2001) — Charlotte Church, YouTube

    BEMA 325: Sanctuary — Waking Up in the Mishkan

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 448: Talmudic Matthew — Secret
    May 1 2025

    Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks step into their prayer closets and shut the door on the babbling pagans.

    BEMA 97: Done in Secret

    Lares — Wikipedia

    Bornless Ritual — Wikipedia

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    47 mins
  • 447: Talmudic Matthew — Wages
    Apr 24 2025

    Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks take a spin with Jesus’s concept of rewards or wages.

    Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity by Gregg E. Gardner

    BEMA 97: Done in Secret

    De Re Publica, De Legibus by Cicero — Internet Archive

    Pietas — Wikipedia

    Virtus — Wikipedia

    Politics by Aristotle — Internet Archive

    Politics (Aristotle) — Wikipedia

    Euergetism — Wikipedia

    Synagogue Wall Decorations — Sardis Expedition

    Inscriptions of the Megiddo Mosaic — Museum of the Bible

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    49 mins
  • 446: Talmudic Matthew — Children
    Apr 17 2025

    Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover Fricks take a crack at what it means to be children of God.

    “What’s Wrong with Winsomeness?” by Russell Moore — Christianity Today

    The Greatest Prayer by John Dominic Crossan

    BEMA 80: Silent Years — Pharisees

    BEMA 102: Son of Man

    Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes by E. Randolph Richards and Richard James

    Dr. Anna C. Miller — Xavier University

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    50 mins
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