HelloBible with Richard and Michelle

Spooky season is here! Since it is time for (Holy) Ghost Stories, we’re having casual talk about Demon Hunters (the K-Pop kind) and a little about weather Christian should celebrate Halloween (the Hallowed-Evening, anyone?)  We’re having fun talking about Christian moms and other cultural topics this October.  Regarding Halloween and Samhain (pronounced sow-een), the earliest written sources date...

Tired of hearing: “Go to church, read your bible, and pray” when you express feeling distant from God? It can feel like a one-size-fits-all to your unique place in life… This episode might be a good dive into a new way of looking at connecting with god through Gary Thomas’ “Sacred Pathways.” Similar to how we can understand the way people work and relate through personality assessments like Enneag...

What is Heaven like? Do we stay there, is it the place we are supposed to go to after we die? The Bible's story may actually tell us a different answer than we assume... That's right, "Heaven" as we imagine it from the cartoons of our childhood, may not be where our "forever home" is. Scripture points us to a New Heaven and New Earth, where our forever is much more of a...

It's Easter Week! Let's talk Holy Week, Palm Sunday, the moments that take place throughout the final days of Jesus before the cross and His Resurrection. Also, a brief convo at the end about Easter tradition and its "possible" pagan roots. Lent: The 40 days before Easter Day, often celebrated with fasting Holy Week: Palm Sunday through the week, ending on Easter Sunday Eastertid...

Is the Grand Canyon just another hole in the ground… or something bigger than your eyes can fully grasp? Creation is a HUGE topic to cover and the story has to be retold various times from numerous perspectives in scripture - each building on the themes of each other. Today we are viewing four additional accounts of creation in the Old and New Testaments that fashion a type of “Creation Language”...

In the beginning God had two… creation stories? Plural? Many people are surprised to hear the opening chapters of Genesis contain TWO creation stories. And then even more surprised to hear the rest of Scripture contains a small handful more of creation accounts! Genesis 1:1-2:4 gives the account of a watery beginning, where God speaks from outside creation to tame and form the universe. Genesis 2:...

It's time to meet your Bible for the first time again. Richard and Michelle introduce the HelloBible Podcast sharing the heart and goal behind our conversations where we share some of the conversations we have about scripture, finding curiosity and wonder in some of the familiar stories and pages of Scripture. Let's talk about discovery and our love-hate relationship with the B.I.B.L.E acronym......

Most people don't think of Revelation as the first place to look for a solid Christmas, nativity story. Turns out, it's an often overlooked starting point a cosmic Christmas battle that we are still fighting today. In HelloBible's first episode, Richard and Michelle talk about the Nativity Story from a Heaven-down view and discuss dragons, sea monsters, Baby Jesus, and a few other ideas on how to...