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The BEMA Podcast
The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible and the Text itself, as well as surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them through the lens of historical context. The main body of work is contained in Seasons 1–5, and we encourage you to start with episode 0 (or even -1) and continue in order through episode 204. Beyond that, we explore new topics, revisit old topics, and dive deeper into practical ways of living out the…
Episodes
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157: 2 Corinthians — Apostleship
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the second letter to the Corinthians and see their continued struggle to live out the gospel in their unique context…
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156: 1 Corinthians — Broken Body
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings take a trip to Corinth for an examination of the first letter to that complex city. Discussion Video for BEMA 156 Paul Through…
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155: Romans — God’s Mission, Paul’s Mission
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings wrap up the verse-by-verse journey through the book of Romans and look back to see Paul’s big argument buried in this…
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154: Romans — Therefore
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings watch Paul transition from a larger argument to the massive implications for how we interact in this new Kingdom. An Outline…
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153: Romans — The Potter
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings tackle the pesky idea of predestination and election. Discussion Video for BEMA 153 In the Dust of the Rabbi — Ray Vander Laan…
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152: Romans — The Struggle
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings let Paul teach us from the metaphor of covenants and death. If part of us died at baptism, why would we live as if we were…
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151: Romans — Buried Alive
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings listen to what Paul says about walking in righteousness. Discussion Video for BEMA 151 The Evolution of Adam by Peter Enns…
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150: Romans — Righteousness from God
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue the journey through Romans, addressing the question of where we find righteousness. Discussion Video for BEMA 150…
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149: Romans — Blended Family
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings enter into a verse-by-verse journey through the book of Romans, looking at Paul’s introductory section as he addresses this…
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148: Galatians — Set Free to Be Free
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings wrap up the study of Galatians and try to grapple with the implications of this gospel for Jews and Gentiles. Discussion Video…
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147: Galatians — Two Women, Two Covenants
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings talk about the importance of covenants and how they are relevant to different audiences. Galatians — Two Women, Two Covenants…
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146: Galatians — The Curse
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the third chapter of Galatians, unpacking big ideas about Gentiles, their relation to the family of God, and a “curse”…
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145: Galatians — Right Hand of Fellowship
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings spend time in the second chapter of Galatians, bringing some context to a much misunderstood and often misrepresented passage…
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144: Galatians — Paul’s Gospel
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, listening to Paul describe a gospel he received straight from…
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143: The Epilogue
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings set everything we have studied about Acts back into the context of the larger Textual narrative, wrapping up the greater story…
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142: Calling of a Prophet
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings circle back to a question from a few episodes ago: Did Paul experience a conversion, a repentance, or something else entirely?…
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141: Mathetes or Talmidim?
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings see how Paul’s methodology changes and then draw some conclusions about what we see happening in his ministry. Discussion…
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140: Not to Burden You
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine how the early church community handled applying the gospel to a major cultural problem, seeking to learn from their…
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139: Theosabes
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings come back to the story of Saul and see what is impacting his experience and how that is calling him to impact the Greco-Roman…
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138: Unclean Sheets
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings meet Saul, persecutor of Jesus, and wrestle with the questions of his identity and his experience; they also encounter the…
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137: A Dry Tree
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings challenge listeners to consider our methods of advancing God’s agenda and the implications of this new king and new kingdom…
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136: Each One
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings make observations about what this early church community was accomplishing together with the help of the Holy Spirit…
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135: Uncut Corners
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the opening of the book of Acts and the beginning of the Spirit-filled movement changing the course of human history…
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134: Session 4 Intro
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings begin to see how God’s people apply the reality of Christ into their first-century contexts. Session 4 Intro Presentation…
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133: Session 3 Capstone
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hold the usual capstone conversation, concluding a journey through the gospels, and reviewing the story from Genesis to John…
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132: Go
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings bring the discussion of the Gospels to a close with a brief look at the resurrection and the great commission. Discussion…
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131: Betrayal
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the betrayals of Jesus and discuss which characters are involved in it. Discussion Video for BEMA 131 BEMA 79: Silent…
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130: The Plot to Kill Jesus
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the question of who brought about Jesus’s execution, acknowledging the different characters at play and the role they…
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129: The Final Week
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings set the stage for the final week of Jesus’s earthly ministry. Discussion Video for BEMA 129 The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel…
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128: Faithful and Wise Steward
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at one of the most perplexing passages of Jesus’s ministry, asking if this is about the end times or ancient times…
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127: Six or Seven?
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings dive into the list of woes Jesus gives to the Pharisees and ask what kind of person Jesus is describing. Discussion Video for…
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126: Trapped by a Question
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings see the religious leadership of both Pharisees and Sadducees attempting to trap Jesus with a series of testing questions, and…
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125: Are You Talking to Me?
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings see Jesus go on the offensive, confronting the corrupt priesthood that rules in Jerusalem. Discussion Video for BEMA 125 BEMA…
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124: Statement of Triumph
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the triumphal entry and Jesus’s confrontation of religious corruption on all sides. Discussion Video for BEMA 124…
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123: The Heat of the Day
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings discuss the parable of the vineyard, a generous God, and the interactions that follow as Jesus makes his way towards…
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122: A Naked Thing
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings find our understanding of divorce challenged by Jesus, and an ancient discussion taking place between the rabbis about the…
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121: The Key to Your Own Prison
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings discuss the many teachings of Matthew 18, including some parables and rabbinic insights from Jesus. Discussion Video for BEMA…
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120: Truth and Light
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings join Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Transfiguration as Jesus talks about his exodus with Moses and Elijah. Discussion…
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119: The Gates of Hell
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine Peter’s great confession at Caesarea Philippi and the intense conversation that follows. The Gates of Hell…
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118: Eyes That Cannot See
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the story of the feeding of the four thousand and watch the disciples struggle to apply its meaning. Discussion Video…
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117: Jesus Resorts to Name Calling
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings, with special guest Dr. Christopher Gambino, talk about Jesus’s critique of rabbinic traditions and the surprise he encounters…
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116: She Giggled
Brent Billings introduces the story of Peter walking on water and Marty Solomon interacts with it by sharing some of his thoughts originally written years ago…
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115: 5 Loaves, 2 Fish, and 1 Big Lesson
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings, with special guest Dr. Christopher Gambino, look at Jesus’s time in Nazareth, pass briefly through the beheading of John the…
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114: Fish in a Net
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings, with special guest Corey Knadler, look at the final parable in the string of teachings found in Matthew 13, searching for the…
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113: Treasures and Pearls
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings, with special guest Corey Knadler, discuss the next two parables of Jesus in Matthew 13. Discussion Video for BEMA 113 Corey…
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112: Explanations That Don’t Explain
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings try to learn from Jesus’s puzzling explanation for the parable of the weeds. Discussion Video for BEMA 112 Transcript for BEMA…
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111: A Farmer and a Woman
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at two intimately connected parables in the stories of a crazy farmer and his mustard seed, and a credulous woman and her…
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110: Jewish Hermeneutics
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings learn how to engage the methods of rabbinical teaching and unpack what a rabbi is trying to accomplish with his cryptic…
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109: Which Soil?
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings begin an exciting trip through the parables of Jesus, starting with his conversation about four different soils. Discussion…
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108: The Fruit of Beelzebul
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear the critique of the Pharisees who want to write off Jesus’s ministry as the work of evil. They also see Jesus field their…
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107: Donkeys and Rabbis
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue a verse-by-verse examination of the gospel of Matthew by dealing with the Sabbath and rabbinical arguments…
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106: Jury Duty in Sodom
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine Jesus as he moves on from John the Baptist and begins to confront the religious worldview around him. Discussion Video…
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105: An Explosive Kingdom
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear what appears to be the doubt of John the Baptist and the challenging response of Jesus that honors him. An Explosive…
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104: Innocent as Doves
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings listen to the second major discourse given by Jesus as he sends out his disciples on a mission to bring the Kingdom…
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103: Healing in His Wings
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings finish the ninth chapter of Matthew, seeing a handful of stories where Jesus brings shalom to the chaos of others. Healing in…
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102: Son of Man
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the story of a paralyzed man and his faithfully determined friends who inspire his healing. Addendum to BEMA 102 —…
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101: The Other Side
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue in Matthew’s narrative by jumping to the gospel of Mark, traveling to the other side of the Sea of Galilee…
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100: Healing at Great Cost
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings watch as Jesus brings the Kingdom to the brokenness of the world around him, observing the surprising responses of those who…
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99: Fruit of Fools
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings finish the Sermon on the Mount, talking about gates, trees, fools, and houses. Discussion Video for BEMA 99 Sermon on the…
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98: A Good Eye
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings discover how worry leads to judgment, and judgment leads to muddy pearls. Discussion Video for BEMA 98 Walking in the Dust of…