Expedition 44

Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt have a conversation with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt about 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and the issues surrounding head coverings. Bio: Dr. Peppiatt has been Principal at Westminster Theological Centre (WTC) since 2013. She teaches courses in Christian doctrine and in spiritual formation. Lucy holds bachelor’s degrees in both English and Theology, and completed an MA in Systematic...

Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Dr. Nilay Saiya about his book “The Global Politics of Jesus”. Bio: Nilay Saiya is an associate professor or public policy and global affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a Yang visiting scholar in world Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. He is author of two books on religion and politics. He earned his PhD from the Universit...

Today Dr. Will Ryan and Paul Lazzaroni discuss a recent article on Expedition 44.com Read the Article on this video here: https://expedition44.com/2024/09/21/3... Richard Rohr calls “liminal space”—a particular spiritual position where human beings hate to be, but where the biblical God is always leading them. Many of the greatest stories are messages of stepping positively out of liminal space. A...

In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt have a conversation with Dr. Preston Sprinkle about his new book Exiles and how the church should relate to the governments and empires/kingdoms of the world as the people of God. Dr. Preston Sprinkle is a biblical scholar, speaker, podcaster, a New York Times bestselling author, and is the co-founder and president of The Center for Faith, Sexuality &...

In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt have a conversation with Dr. J. Richard Middle about his book Abraham's silence: The Binding of Isaac, The Suffering of Job, and How to talk back to God . BIO J. Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary and Roberts Wesleyan University in Rochester, NY. He has been President of the Canadian-American The...

Part 2 of 2 Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt continue the interview with Dr. Philip Payne. In this episode we discuss women in ministry in 1 Timothy and Titus, mutual submission in marriage, gender equality in the church, and how this theology affects our mission. Dr. Philip Payne is the founder and president of ⁠ Linguist’s Software ⁠ , and is a specialist in New Testament Studies. He is well known for...

In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Brian Zahnd and have a conversation about his newest book “The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross”. Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of severa...

Part 1 of 2 Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Dr. Philip Payne. In this episode we discuss the concept of gender roles, the meaning of "head" and "headship", and the text critical issues with 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 and how it relates to inerrancy and gender equality. Dr. Philip Payne is the founder and president of Linguist’s Software , and is a specialist in New Testament S...

In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt look at the NT author’s usage of Isaiah 53. It is quoted 9 times in the NT directly. We’ll also look at Acts where we’ll see how the disciples use the same depiction we encountered in the last episode to describe the Servant and the people’s actions against Him. Last, we’ll look at “bearing sin” in the NT and show show it also lines up with how it is desc...

Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt dive into Isaiah 53 looking at the textual and message differences in the Septuagint (LXX) and the Masorectic Text (MTT). When read as pros (singular voice) these 2 texts disagree with each other and depict 2 different pictures of God. So, in this episode we examine the message of each (and imported doctrines) and see if they agree. The main points of this conversa...

In this episode Dr. Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Dr. John Walton on his new book The Lost World of the Prophets. Dr. John Walton is an emeritus professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois and an editor and writer of Old Testament comparative studies and commentaries. Throughout his research, Walton has focused his attention on comparing the culture and literature of the Bible and the...

Today Dr. Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Steve Gregg on his updated edition of the book Why Hell?: 3 Christian Views Critically Examined . Steve Gregg is a teacher, author, and international lecturer on the Bible, theology, and discipleship. He is the author of “Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary”(1997, 2013) and “All You Want to Know About Hell: Three Christian Views” (2013) and most rece...

In this series, we have looked at the doctrine of Original Sin. We believe there was an original sin but disagree with the doctrine of Original Sin. We observed that Augustine introduced this doctrine into the church over 400 years after Jesus and none of the earliest church writers (or the Bible) affirm this doctrine. It’s actually more closely linked to Pagan and Gnostic ideas than Biblical Idea...

Romans 5 is the central Original Sin prooftext so today we’re going to dig in and look at what it says. As we mentioned in our first episode Augustine used Romans 5:12 as the cornerstone text for his doctrine of concupiscence, original sin, and infant depravity. First we need to set the context of Romans before we exegete the text.  Context of Romans Romans is a pastoral (Shepherding) letter that...

Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt consider the incarnation of Jesus and the ramifications regarding Original Sin. We want to give a Shout out to Warren McGrew of Idol Killer and Will and Brian of The Church Split for their series’ on Original sin and for helping us articulate some of the content in this episode. • The immaculate conception of Mary is a late dogma created to prop up original sin. Bu...

Today we are going to look at 2 main things: 1) Does the Bible say sin is transferable or inheritable? And  2) What does the Bible say about the state of infants and children (are they doomed from the womb?). Do they inherit Adam’s guilt.     Does the Bible say Sin and Guilt are Transferable/Inheritable? Deut 1:39 Sons punished for a Father’s sin? Ezekiel 18:19-23 Deut 24:16  2 Kings 14:6  Exodus...

Genesis 2-3  In Genesis we see Adam and Eve as the first priests in Eden with the vocation to image God. God gives them one command- to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. Notice it is the tree of the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL. It is knowledge and not just of evil.  Some things to notice: ·      The things cursed are the Nahash and the ground. Adam and Eve are not.  ·      God...

Today Dr Will Ryan & Dr. Matt launch a series examining the Doctrine of Original Sin. If you’ve followed us long enough you’ve probably seen there are 2 theologies we tend to jab at quite a bit: Dispensationalism, and Calvinism/Reformed Theology, So we basically have issues with doctrines that promote fear and a distortion of God’s Character. In this series we’ll be looking at how Original Sin...

We started a series on the church back in July of 2022 and a year and a half later we are wrapping It up.  Today we’re going to recap where we’ve been.  The big idea is that the church is not an institution … it’s an organism (it’s organic)! ·      There was equality- No clergy/laity divide ·      The giftings of the entire body were active to display Jesus ·      They met face to face throughout...

Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Dr. Scot McKnight about his newest book- Pivot: The Priorities, Practices, and Powers That Can Transform Your Church into a Tov Culture. Order the Book here: https://a.co/d/9R6hqSY A practical guide to help you build a culture in your church or organization that resists abuse and cultivates goodness. After the release of their groundbreaking book,  A Church Cal...

Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt talk with Steve Gregg about Biblical Israel and Dispensational Theology.  Steve Gregg is a teacher, author, and international lecturer on the Bible, theology, and discipleship. He is the author of “Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary”(1997, 2013) and “All You Want to Know About Hell: Three Christian Views” (2013) and most recently his series on the kingdom of G...

Part 2 of 2 on Giving- Tithes, Offerings, and First Fruits. History tells us that: • Tithing (10%) did not become an accepted “New Covenant Doctrine” in the church for over 700 years after the cross. • Before this in 585 the church at the Council of Macon in France, they tried to enforce tithing on its members and were unsuccessful. • It was not until the year 777 that Charlemagne allowed the chur...

Part 1 of 2 on Giving- Tithes, offerings, and first fruits All the these the audience and commands on tithing are directed to specifically the children of Israel- the ones under the Mosaic Law. And directly connected to being in the Promised Land. • For the gentiles the concepts and commands in the Law are good but they are shadows of the substance which is Christ. They are signposts pointing to s...

Reimagining Community Acts 2:42-47 Communion Frank Viola (Pagan Christianity): The Lord’s Supper, when separated from its proper context of a full meal, turns into a strange, pagan-like rite. The Supper has become an empty ritual officiated by a clergyman, rather than a shared-life experience enjoyed by the church. It has become a morbid religious exercise, rather than a joyous festival— stale ind...

During our 5-fold episodes we never really gave a history of the 5-fold office thinking so we’ll begin with that today and recap those 4 episodes before we look at the other gifts and how we should look at the church as a body of many gifts working together and not a hierarchical system with 5 gifts on the top. X44 Article written last March: Most of the Pentecostal world believes in the 5 fold mi...