Bridgetown Audio Podcast

The Cutting Room Floor: Inerrancy

From the series It Is Written as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

John Mark Comer and Dr. Gerry Breshears discuss the idea of the Bible being “inerrant” or without error. The Bible is a library of books written by humans as they were led by the Holy Spirit. Does this mean the Bible has human errors or is it a flawless telling of the story of God? Is inerrancy a helpful, intelligent, and accurate way to talk and think about the Bible?

Where On Earth Did the Bible Come From?

From the series It Is Written as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

What does it mean to believe that the Bible is a divine word to God’s people? Does it require a belief that the book fell from heaven or that its origins are less than human? In this teaching we’ll explore a crash course on the history of the Bible and why it came into existence. It’s a covenant document, telling the story of how has rescued and redeemed a people, invited them into a covenant relationship, and given them the terms of the covenant relationship. That story all leads to Jesus and the family he invites all humans to join.

Shaped

From the series It Is Written as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

This week we tackle the question, what is the Bible for? What is this library of writings supposed to do in our life and community? We make the case that Scripture was designed to be read for formation, not just information. We are all being formed in a certain kind of person by our habits, our community, and our environment; Scripture is counter-formation. We read the Bible to consciously cooperate with God in shaping us into the image of Jesus.

Interpreting the Bible’s Creation Stories

From a Midweek Lecture as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Genesis chapters 1 and 2 contain some of the most explosive ideas about God and human beings that history has ever known, but they’ve been sadly overlooked due to the creation-evolution controversies in American history.  In this evening lecture, Tim Mackie will help us rediscover how ancient Israelites would have read and understood these stories, and explore how they contribute to the Biblical storyline as a whole. 

The Book of Strange, New Things

From the series It Is Written as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

What is the Bible? A lot’s at stake here. If we misunderstand what the Bible is, we’ll turn in into something it’s not. We’ll use and abuse it for our own ends. In this teaching, we make the case that the Bible is a library of writings that are both divine and human, that together tell a unified story which leads us to Jesus.

The Problem With the Bible

From the series It Is Written as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy. 

We have a problem with the Bible. More and more followers of Jesus in the west don’t read it, don’t now how to read it, don’t even like it, and frankly, take issue with it. So why do we follow the Bible? Because we follow Jesus. He is our authority, but he has mediated his authority through the Bible. And on its pages we discover the map to the life that Jesus has on offer.

Sabbath as Resistance

Jesus and the Paycheck

Yes & No

Kavod