The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings enter a new season of Isaiah’s prophecy. Times have changed, circumstances are different, but God’s love remains the same.Tikkun Olam — WikipediaBEMA 192: Telling a StoryBEMA 64: 3 Isaiah — ServantBEMA 289: John — Loved to the End

18 Jan 202455min

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Preston Ulmer, author of Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus, founder and director of the Doubters’ Club, pastor at North Point Church in Springfield, MO, and many pastoral roles before that.Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus by Preston UlmerThe Doubters’ Club (website)The Doubters’ Club (book) by Preston UlmerEncanto (2021 film)Conversational Intelligence by Judith E. GlaserPreston Ulmer on InstagramAdditional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Preston Ulmer.

11 Jan 202459min

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are with Elle Grover Fricks to discuss the historical portion of Isaiah that bridges the two parts of the prophetic work, considering the possibilities for voices and redactions.BEMA 82: The Text — When, Where, Who, and WhyDocumentary Hypothesis — WikipediaAsking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon“The Re-Emergence of Source Criticism: The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis” by Joel S. Baden — Yale Divinity SchoolBEMA 71: The Prophetic TableThe Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch by Umberto Cassuto (PDF)“You have been weighed, measured, and found wanting” — A Knight’s Tale, YouTubeBEMA 365: Isaiah — Prophet vs. Wizard PriestsAšipu — WikipediaWhere God Was Born by Bruce FeilerIf All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan2023 NFL Season — Wikipedia

4 Jan 20241h 12min

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings consider the reality of God’s anger in the next portion of Isaiah.The Jewish Study Bible: Second Edition“JPS Bible Translation Enters Digital Era with Sefaria” — The Jewish Publication SocietyJPS Tanakh 1917 — BibleHubNew Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh — Wikipedia

21 Des 202333min

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the next portion of Isaiah to see God’s message aimed directly as His own people.BEMA 176: Revelation — Smyrna and Their CrownBeth Moore on the Church in History — TwitterBEMA 136: Each One

14 Des 202354min

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear the universal pronouncement of God’s care and judgment in Isaiah, and then see the response of the prophet to what could lie ahead.

7 Des 202334min

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks are joined by Elisa Bosley, founder of Spiritual Eldercare. Elisa has decades of experience leading worship services and Bible studies, and also working with adults who have dementia. Combining those efforts, she became a chaplain in 2016 and serves at a long-term memory care community in Boulder, Colorado.Spiritual EldercareAdditional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Elisa Bosley.

30 Nov 202355min

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear Isaiah communicate the comprehensive and exhaustive nature of how God carries the burdens of all nations, not just the ones that bear His name.Presentation for Isaiah — Burdens (PDF)NIV Archaeological Study BibleNIV Cultural Backgrounds Study BibleThe Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by Robert AlterCross Vision by Gregory A. BoydCrucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory A. Boyd

16 Nov 202347min