One of our goals at Passages is to cultivate a deeper understanding of the Holy Land, its people, and its significance to the Christian faith, both during our participants’ time in Israel and after they’ve returned home. To supplement our participants’ experiences in the Holy...
While our modern method of determining truth is to interpret information as either true or false, the Bible takes into account another side of “truth” that may not be so simple. In our final episode of the season, we discuss the concept of truth as...
Epistles in the Bible are letters written to God’s people by the apostles and prophets. Similar to the modern-day sermon, they reason with their listeners and offer wisdom for their lives. While the biblical epistles today are often dissected and applied broadly to Christian life,...
In our last episode, we talked about what stories do. Now, let’s look at how they do it. If you dissect any good story and look at its structure, you’ll get a conflict, tension, rising action, and conclusion. But what does that have to do...
Why are stories so important? Stories, both fictional and non-fictional, have been used since the beginning of time to impart wisdom and reason upon their listeners. While all written at various times by various authors, bible stories are unique; looking at them together gives us...
How is biblical law unique from other legal systems throughout history, or even today? While ancient law codes were often lists of rules believed to be created by distant deities and ignored by their subjects. Biblical law, on the other hand, demonstrates God’s love for...
What do you think of when you hear the word “law”? Does it sound rigid, harsh, or punishing? Contrary to our modern assumptions, biblical law doesn’t work in the ways our law does today. When we look at the law of the Bible through the...
Now that we’ve established how biblical poetry works, it’s time to look at some biblical examples. In this episode, we’ll be reading through Philippians 2 together, giving you tools to interpret it through the lens of Hebraic thought. We’ll also be taking a look into...