Fightin Words: Spiritual exercise for rank & file believers

Readings: Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16; 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14. For full, free access visit https://pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-h06. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10. For full, free access visit htps://pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-h04. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19; 1 Peter 1:17-23; Lu ke 24:13-35. For full, free access visit https://pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-h03. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Acts 2:14a, 22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31. For full, free access go to https://pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-h02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Jeremiah 31:1-6; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 28:1-10. For full, free access visit https://pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-h01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: 🎶Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; 📜Matthew 21:1-11. For full, free access visit pewpewhq.com/tfwa-l06. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: 📜Ezekiel 37:1-14; 🎶Psalm 130; 📜Romans 8:6-11; 🦅John 11:1-45. For full, free access visit pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-l05. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9. For full, free access visit pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42. For full, free access, visit pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-l03. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Readings: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11. For full access, visit pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-l01. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Exodus 24:12-18; Psalm 2; 2 Peter 1:16-21; Matthew 17:1-9. For full, free access, go to pewpewhq.com/tfw/e-06. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Isaiah 58:1-9a; Psalm 112:1-9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-12; Matthew 5:13-20. For full, free access go to https://pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-e05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Micah 6:1-8; Psalm 15; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; Matthew 5:1-12. For full, free access go to pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-e04. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: Isaiah 9:1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Matthew 4:12-23. For full, free access go to PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-e03. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: 📜Isaiah 49:1-7; 🎶Psalm 40:1-11; ✉️1 Corinthians 1:1-9; 🦅John 1:29-42. For full, free access, go to PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-e02. Also, check out uswithoutThem, a podcast exploring the discography of mewithoutYou! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readings: 📜Isaiah 42 :1-9; 🎶Psalm 29; 📜Acts 10 :34-43; 😇Matthew 3 :13-17 From the TRNG Room: How to Read Scripture Like You’re Still in the Field Bapti-piphany Sunday What is Epiphany Central Thesis/Theme: In this first episode of the Epiphany season, I explore what "epiphany" really means in the Greek imagination—a divine appearance when all seems lost—and why the lectionary's focus on Jesus'...

Readings: 📜Jeremiah 31:7-14 ; 🎶Psalm 147:12-20; 📜Ephesians 1:3-14; 📜John 1:1-18. For full access, go to pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-x02. In this episode, I wrestle with the growing tension I feel between Pauline Christianity and the Jesus I encounter in the Gospels. The Christmas readings this week force me to confront my discomfort with Paul's privileged position and philosophical approach versus Chri...

Readings: 📜Isaiah 63 :7-9; 🎶Psalm 148; ✉️Hebrews 2 :10-18 😇Matthew 2 :13-23. Full, free access at PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-x01 I'm launching a three-year project called Fighting Words, which transitions from my previous First Formation podcast into a broader exegetical work I call "the fighting word"—a military-centered paraphrase of the Bible for rank and file believers. This isn't just rebranding;...

⁠📜Isaiah 7⁠:10-16; ⁠🎶Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; ⁠✉️Romans 1⁠:1-7; ⁠😇Matthew 1⁠:18-25.  A distinctive six-part Hebraic formula—"You shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name X"—appears only twice in Scripture when spoken by a divine messenger: to Hagar about Ishmael and to Mary about Jesus. This pattern reveals how Matthew and Luke connect Jesus not just to Isaiah's prophecy but to th...

Readings: Isaiah 35, Psalm 146, James 5, Matthew 11:2-11. *Full, free access at ⁠PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-a3⁠. John the Baptist's doubt from prison reveals a fundamental debate about confronting systemic oppression. John sees Rome as the primary enemy requiring direct anti-imperial resistance, while Jesus targets something deeper—the ideology of entitlement that creates in-group/out-group categories. Je...

Readings: Isaiah 11;Psalm 72; Romans 15; Matthew 3. *Full, free access at PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-a02. The Divine Warrior motif reveals God's power as fundamentally creative rather than combative. Where Babylonian cosmology imagines creation emerging from divine conflict, the Hebrew imagination presents a God who speaks reality into existence—conquering not through violence but through divine intent an...

Readings: Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44. Full, free access at PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-a01. The Advent season inaugurates a new way of seeing humanity itself—the "son of man" as both ordinary human and harbinger of radical transformation. This first Sunday reintroduces the lectionary cycle not as institutional prescription but as framework for discovering what Scripture says...

Readings: Isaiah 12; Psalm 98; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19. Central Theme: Jesus's prophecy against Herod's ornate temple reflects a consistent biblical pattern of God rejecting centralized religious power and wealth accumulation in favor of decentralized, agrarian faithfulness. Key Insights: Luke writes post-70 CE with knowledge of the temple's destruction, but this doesn't negate Jesus'...

Readings: Haggai 1:15b-2:9; Psalm 98; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; Luke 20:27-38. Learn More: - "What Was Jesus' Real Name?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices