One Accord

Episode 150 lands on one of the sharpest turns in Israel's history. Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 1 Kings 10 and 11, where Solomon's gold, wisdom, and international fame give way to idolatry and a kingdom about to be divided. Along the way they take up church buildings and beauty, whether prosperity should be read as a warning, and whether Solomon was resisting God's will or secretly fulfilling...

The glory of the Lord fills the temple, Solomon prays one of the most theologically loaded prayers in Scripture, and God declares that His name, His eyes, and His heart will be in this place perpetually. But what does "forever" actually mean? Joe, Eric, and Greg work verse by verse through 1 Kings 8 and 9 and hit one of the sharpest disagreements of the entire Biblical Theology Project: whether Go...

Solomon spends seven years building a house for the name of the Lord and thirteen building his own palace. Is that a misplaced priority, or is it exactly backward from how modern readers assume? In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg work verse by verse through 1 Kings 5-7, wrestling with what it means for God's name to dwell in a building He cannot be contained by, why the...

The Biblical Theology Project opens a brand new book. Joe, Greg, and Eric walk through 1 Kings 1-4, where David's reign ends in political chaos, Adonijah crowns himself without an invitation list, and Solomon consolidates a kingdom through a series of executions the Bible reports without flinching. Along the way the guys wrestle with what it means that God shows up to bless a king who is already c...

In this episode, the One Accord Podcast wraps up the book of Second Samuel by tackling chapters 20 through 24. From Joab's ruthless return to power and a broken ancient treaty that triggered divine judgment, to the provocative question of whether God can truly be "moved by prayer," this conversation digs into some of the most theologically charged passages in the historical books. The hosts also e...

n this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 2 Samuel 17–19, where God's sovereign hand orchestrates the collapse of Absalom's rebellion. From the divine thwarting of Ahithophel's counsel to Absalom's infamous death in a tree, this passage raises hard questions about God's providence, the ethics of deception, and what it looks like when a father grieves the son who tr...

Nathan's prophecy begins its devastating fulfillment as David's household collapses from within. In this episode, the guys work through some of the darkest chapters in David's story: Amnon's assault on Tamar, Absalom's calculated revenge and eventual rebellion, and David's puzzling passivity through it all. Along the way, they tackle tough questions about lust disguised as love, cultural assumptio...

In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg walk through one of the most well-known and devastating passages in all of Scripture: David's sin with Bathsheba, the murder of Uriah, and God's confrontation through the prophet Nathan. This episode explores the destructive spiral of unrepentant sin, how comfort and complacency open the door to moral failure, and the stunning reality...

In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg work through five rich chapters of 2 Samuel, wrestling with some of the Old Testament's most pressing questions. Why did God strike Uzzah dead for seemingly doing the right thing? What does David's worship tell us about instruments in the church today? And what makes the Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7 one of the most important passages...

The One Accord Podcast kicks off a brand new book as Joe, Eric, and Greg dive into 2 Samuel chapters 1–5. From David's grief over Saul and Jonathan to his controversial accumulation of wives, this episode wrestles with real moral complexity in the biblical text. The guys tackle battlefield ethics, the often-forgotten king Ishbosheth, and what it means that David heard directly from God as both pro...

In this episode, the One Accord Podcast wraps up the book of 1 Samuel by working through chapters 28–31. The guys tackle one of the Old Testament's most debated passages — the medium at En-dor — and ask whether the spirit that appeared was truly Samuel or something else entirely. Along the way, they explore what it means to strengthen yourself in the Lord, how deception snowballs, and what Saul's...

David narrowly avoids a massacre, gains a wise new wife, and then flees to enemy territory — all while God's promises hang in the balance. In this episode, the team digs into Abigail's bold intercession, the Bible's portrayal of strong women, the difference between vengeance and justice, whether open doors always mean divine permission, and the heated question of whether God decrees every human ac...

In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, the team works verse-by-verse through 1 Samuel 20–24 and runs headlong into one of Scripture's thorniest tensions: David repeatedly deceives Saul, the priests at Nob, and the king of Gath — yet he's called a man after God's own heart. Is lying always a violation of the Ninth Commandment, or does context change the verdict? And when David asks God whether...

In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg work through 1 Samuel 16–19 — from the anointing of David to the fall of Saul and the most iconic battle scene in all of Scripture. But did David actually kill Goliath the way you think he did? The answer may surprise you. Along the way, the team tackles God's troubling command to stop grieving, the evil spirit He sends upon Saul, whet...

In this episode, the guys dig deep into 1 Samuel 13–15, where Saul's disobedience costs him the kingdom and God declares He "regrets" making Saul king. What does divine regret actually mean — and could things really have gone differently? The conversation opens up one of the most honest and sustained theological exchanges in the series so far, as Calvinist, Arminian, and non-traditional perspectiv...

In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, the team digs into one of the most pivotal transitions in Israel's history: the shift from judges to monarchy. Covering 1 Samuel 8–12, the guys tackle hard questions about parenting failures and faithfulness, Israel's demand for a king and what it reveals about their hearts, Saul's surprising spiritual transformation, and what it means that God's anointed...

Israel marched the Ark of the Covenant into battle expecting guaranteed victory — and lost everything. Thirty thousand soldiers dead, the Ark seized by pagans, and the glory of God seemingly gone from His people. In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, Greg, and Micah dig into 1 Samuel 4–7 to explore why God allowed His own Ark to be captured, what the pagan Philistines understood ab...

In this episode of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Eric, and Greg begin their journey through 1 Samuel by exploring chapters 1–3. The conversation covers Hannah's barrenness and the sovereignty of God behind it, the inadequacy of human comfort in the face of deep suffering, the wickedness of Eli's sons and God's irreversible judgment, and the dramatic return of prophetic revelation to Israel through...

The One Accord Podcast tackles the entire book of Ruth in a single episode, exploring how a woman from a nation banned from the assembly of the Lord ended up in the genealogy of both King David and Jesus Christ. Joe, Eric, Greg, and Micah dig into the Deuteronomy 23 ban, the theology of God's providence in suffering, the beauty of kinsman redemption, and what this short but stunning book reveals a...

Joe, Eric, Greg, and Micah close out the book of Judges by working through chapters 19–21 — the Levite and his concubine, the atrocity at Gibeah, the near-extermination of Benjamin, and the bizarre "wife catching" plan to preserve a tribe. These three chapters are widely considered some of the darkest in the Old Testament, and the team wrestles honestly with what the text is actually emphasizing,...

We are back together for a verse-by-verse walk through Judges 17 and 18; two of the most disturbing and revealing chapters in the entire book. With no judge named and no foreign oppressor in sight, the narrative pulls back to show us the moral and religious condition of Israel itself. A wandering Levite, a homemade shrine, a stolen blessing, and an entire tribe carving out an inheritance God never...

In this episode, we tackle one of the most famous — and most misunderstood — figures in the Old Testament: Samson. Across four chapters of Judges, we meet a Nazarite who breaks his vow, a deliverer who looks more like a wrecking ball than a savior, and a man who somehow ends up listed among the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11. Was Samson a champion of God or a cautionary tale? The Bible's answer is...

In Episode 128 of The One Accord Podcast, Joe, Greg, and Eric dig into one of the most disturbing and debated passages in the book of Judges — the story of Jephthah, the valiant warrior born of a harlot who was rejected, rediscovered, and raised up to deliver Israel from Ammon. But his victory is shadowed by a vow so rash it has troubled readers for millennia. Did Jephthah actually sacrifice his o...

Judges 9-10 reveals one of the darkest chapters in Israel's history. Abimelech murders 70 of his own brothers to seize power, and the people of Shechem cheer him on. But when God sends an evil spirit to tear the alliance apart, it raises one of Scripture's most uncomfortable questions: Does a good God use evil means to accomplish righteous ends? Join Joe, Eric, and Greg as they unpack Jotham's pro...

The One Accord Podcast dives into one of the most beloved — and most misunderstood — stories in the Old Testament. In Judges 6–8, the team unpacks Gideon's unlikely calling, the real problem with "putting out a fleece," why God slashed an army from 32,000 to 300, and what Gideon's refusal of kingship reveals about God's design for leadership. Along the way, the guys tackle hard questions about gen...