Healing Eden, Part 18: Saul's Foolish Sacrifice
Today we arrive at a pivotal moment in Israel's young monarchy as King Saul faces battle against the vastly superior Philistine army. So gre...
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20 of 352 episodesHealing Eden, Part 17: Saul Anointed King
In our study of the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation we arrive at the anointing of King Saul – the first king of Israel – an occasi...
Healing Eden, Part 16: Israel Demands a King
As Israel's sufferings grow, she thinks she has struck upon a solution: a king! If only God would grant Israel a king, she would finally be...
Healing Eden, Part 15: From Bad to Worse (Eli)
If you've been with us for the journey thus far, you know that Israel as a people have been set apart – called by God to a unique, priestly...
Healing Eden, Part 14: When Hope Seems Lost (Hannah)
With this episode we step into the story of a woman named Hannah — whose deep personal pain symbolically reflects the larger, spiritual stat...
Healing Eden, Part 13: The Temptation of Acculturation (Judges)
Today we turn our attention to understanding the book of Judges, where Israel, newly settled in the Promised Land, faces a different kind of...
Healing Eden, Part 12: On the Cusp of Canaan
Today we arrive on the cusp of Canaan, that is to say: the promised land. After a generation of wandering in the wilderness, Israel arrives...
Healing Eden, Part 11: The Ten Commandments
In this episode we arrive, alongside Israel, at Mt. Sinai where God gathers the whole of his people to receive the Ten Commandments. But rat...
Healing Eden, Part 10: Trapped by the Red Sea
Today we turn our attention to events immediately following the exodus - as Israel makes her escape from centuries of slavery in Egypt. For...
Healing Eden, Part 09: Exodus and Passover
The exodus from Egypt becomes the gravitational center of the Old Testament as it forms Israel's image of what it means to be saved! After c...
Healing Eden, Part 08: God's Name and the Promise to Deliver
After more than 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the cries of God's people rise to heaven — and are heard! God's response? A call to Moses fro...
Healing Eden, Part 07: Slaves in Egypt
In this episode in our journey through the biblical story we come to the beginning of the book of Exodus where we find Israel in a very unex...
Healing Eden, Part 06: The Strange Geography of Election (Jacob and Esau)
Today we return to a fundamental theme in the biblical story, that of election – the idea that we belong to the community of salvation not b...
Healing Eden, Part 05: The Not-Sacrifice of Isaac
Today we come to one of the most emotionally charged moments in all of scripture: God's command to Abraham that he sacrifice his son Isaac –...
Healing Eden, Part 04: The Covenant of Salvation
In our endeavor to understand the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation, we have come to the question that drives the entire narrative:...
Healing Eden, Part 03: The Flood
In this episode we come to the Bible's version of The Flood Story - a story that was told by many Ancient Near Eastern cultures. Yet the Bib...
Healing Eden, Part 02: A Tale of Two Trees
As we continue our journey through the biblical narrative from Genesis to Revelation we come to the essential element of plot: conflict. Wha...
Healing Eden, Part 01: Twice Upon a Time
Welcome to part 1 of our series Healing Eden - a detailed journey through the grand story of salvation, from Genesis to Revelation. And as y...
Healing Eden, Part 00: The Best Kept Secret in Christendom
With this episode we begin an extensive and very personal-to-me new series titled, Healing Eden: The Story of Salvation from Genesis to Reve...
Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 03: Augustinian Meditation
Continuing our experiential examination of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, we turn this week to the great Doctor of the Chu...