The Burros of Berea Podcast

The Burros do a deep dive into one of the most villainized men that ever lived, the betrayer of Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot. They comb through the texts to try and unearth clues into this man's psyche to determine how someone so close to the Son of God could get it all wrong. This is a very "burroesque" approach with speculation and opinion! We hope you look into this yourselves! If you'd like to...

This week, our guest, author Jon Paul Miles joins the Burros to share his personal testimony. Growing up in church and begin in a charismatic movement, Jon struggled with his own personal views on the grace of God. Over time, the Lord would challenge his foundations and he would begin a journey of studying the scriptures. This would impact his life in incredible ways, which led him to write about...

Rick and Andy sit down in Giraffe Studio with their long time friend, Jim Beaver to hear his personal testimony. Growing up in a home that was encumbered by mental illness, Jim heard the gospel at a young age when his father turned on a Billy Graham special on television. After asking for salvation, Jim would eventually pick up a guitar and begin to master the instrument. Throughout the course of...

Sarita "the Edge" Edgerton leads our latest Side Study on The Beatitudes. We have special guest, Jim Beaver, in the studio with us to discuss the opening statements of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. From the moment he starts, his teaching turns the world upside down. We hope you enjoy this episode! If you'd like to support our podcast, please visit: www.patreon.com/theburrosofberea . If you'd like to...

Tiziana Severse is back in the studio with her fourth part of the series, Homosexuality and the Bible. In an attempt to avoid "clobbering" with what are called "the Clobber Verses", she begins to break down certain aspects of the Greco-Roman culture and why specific terms do not mean what we interpret them to mean in our modern vernacular. We hope you'll listen in to hear the fascinating historica...

Rick Welch and Big Daddy Carter of the Burros sits down with Pastor David Curtis, Dr. Amy Castillo, Joel Rosenauer and Bob Cruickshank for a Roundtable discussion about how to get the word out about preterism. With each person at the table being holding to a fulfilled eschatalogical view, the group discuss ways they share preterism and give ideas on how to promote this view to our fellow believers...

In our second testimony episode from our Berean Bible Church recordings, Joel Rosenauer sits down with Rick Welch, Big Daddy Carter and Cherrie Lewis to share his personal testimony. After becoming a Christian, Joel would soon be called into the ministry. However, during the Covid lockdown he began to diligently search the scriptures which would shake his eschatalogical foundation. He kept followi...

The Burros of Berea travel back to Berean Bible Church to meet with Dr. Amy Castillo to hear her testimony. WARNING! The content in this podcast is disturbing and is not suitable for children Parentel Supervision is highly suggested. Dr. Castillo tells of growing up in church, getting saved at 15, going to medical school, then meeting her husband. After having 3 children, her husband began to show...

Rick Welch of the Burros joined Michael Miano on the Power of Preterism Network back in May 2023 to discuss the Berean Bible Church Conference. They talk about the speakers, what they taught and some of the lessons they learned while fellowshipping with others. Bob Cruickshank, one of the speakers, joined in by phone to share his thoughts as well. If you'd like to support our podcast, please visit...

On February 14th, Valentine's Day, Rick Welch was a guest on Michael Miano's Power of Preterism Network to share his personal testimony. Born in Michigan, he moved to Maine with his family as an infant and moved to North Carolina at the age of 5. Growing up in the mountains surrounded by "a church on every corner" Rick was introduced to the gospel at the age of ten. Although he was never in foster...

Tiziana Severse is back in the studio to bring us Part 3 of her deep dive study of Homosexuality and the Bible. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains issues dealing with sexuality, perversion and abuse. Please be advised and parental guidance is strongly suggested! In this episode she digs deep into the book of Leviticus to map out the verses commonly used in regard to this topic. Did you know th...

This week the Burros of Berea speak with Pastor Douglas Wilson, of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho and listen to his personal testimony. Growing up in a Christian home, Pastor Wilson called upon the Lord at the age of 4 and later was baptized at the age of 10. After graduating high school he then entered the U.S. Navy where his faith was put to the test. We hope you enjoy listening to the journey o...

As the Burros still await the return of the rest of the cast, Rick, Andy, Sarita and Cherrie sit down at Giraffe Studio with the intent of discussing The Beatitudes. Rick veers off from that and discusses his ideas on what Liberty in our country is and how he thinks the meaning of it changes with every generation. He also brings to the table the reality of our most sacred American document, The Co...

Dr. Kenneth Berding, professor of New Testament Studies at Biola University joins the Burros to share his testimony. It's a fascinating story of a young man who watched his parents get radically saved during the Jesus Movement in California and soon he himself would call on Jesus for salvation. What would follow was a life devoted to sharing the gospel and teaching others in new and exciting ways....

In our final part of our Dr. Sam Frost Friday series, the Burros dig into some of the time texts found within scripture and listen to differing views of interpretation. Over the course of these four episodes we've heard lots of different ideas regarding the original languages of the Bible and their translations. What does "soon", "near" and "at hand" mean within the context? Although this was just...

The Burros of Berea receive tons of emails asking us some very hard questions concerning the bible and Christianity. We are hardly to lot to be giving these answers, but in a show of solidarity, we attempt to do just that! If someone asks you if they've committed the unpardonable sin, how do you respond? We hope you'll listen in to hear some of your questions and some of the answers we wrestled wi...

In Part 3, the Burros continue their discussion with Dr. Sam Frost. We begin by continuing to mine Revelation 21 and 22 to determine, if this is stating something future to us, what is it exactly? Are there those outside the gates that can hear the words "Come" by the Spirit and the Bride? Can those outside "wash their robes and have access to the tree of life?" While looking at the book of Revela...

The Burros of Berea are back in Giraffe Studio with our newest cast member (he didn't know that at the time), Josh Sexton! After a thorough study of the bible in regard to the doctrine of "hell" or eternal conscious torment, the Burros go on a deep dive thr0ugh the Old and New Testaments trying to understand the Hebrew word, Sheol, and the Greek words, Hades and Gehenna. For centuries the church h...

Tiziana Severse is back in the studio to continue her study of Homosexuality and the Bible. The term "sodomite" has been used in society to describe the sexual sins of the people of Sodom, who were destroyed by a raining hail of fire, along with the city of Gomorrah. Taking a microscope to the scriptures and the way in which they describe the sins of Sodom, surprisingly they never mention the sexu...

In Part 2, Dr. Sam Frost joins us in Giraffe Studio to continue our discussion of why he left Full Preterism and endeavored to seek out scholarship to assist him in understanding what he found in the scriptures he could not explain. Rick Welch asks him a question in regard to the description of heaven and if the events mentioned in Revelation are in fact future, what does that look like. At the en...

Big Daddy Carter and Rick Welch begin a discussion that wasn't planned in regard to the topic of Universalism. The conversation deals with what the idea of universal salvation is, what the distinctions are, and why there are some who hold to this theological system. Tiziana and Andy jump in to add their thoughts and perspectives as well. Note: This is a conversational podcast, not an ideological o...

Dr. Sam Frost sits in Giraffe Studio to begin discussing the issues he discovered in Full Preterism that caused him to leave. Some of the questions brought into the conversation was "Is God Infinite? Or is He eternal? Is there a distinction?" or when Jesus says "all that has been given to me I will raise at the last day, if all was fulfilled in AD 70, then is no one else getting raised?". We appre...

The Burros sit down in Giraffe Studio to discuss something in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 that is driving Rick Welch bananas. Although this episode is releasing after our conversation about the pluperfect tense of words found in the Bible with Dr. Sam Frost, Rick brings up an issue regarding the English translation that can easily shift the meaning of a doctrinal position. Genesis 1 states that man w...

Dr. Sam Frost, author of "Why I Left Full Preterism" joins the Burros of Berea at Giraffe Studio to give his personal testimony. Growing up in a Pentecostal church with his mother and with a loving stepfather who was a Seventh Day Adventist, Dr. Frost had a love for the Holy Bible and the Church for as long as he can remember. In his later years, he battled with drugs, alcohol and his faith until...

Rick Carter brings a study on a book that is mentioned and quoted from in the Holy Bible, the book of Jasher. The Burros sit in and discuss this book and how it relates to the scriptures understanding that it is not part of the canon of the Old Testament. However this book is referenced as "proof texts" or "cites" of the stories told within it its pages. It's an interesting look at a book some of...