Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé discuss Psalm 13. The Message of the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann Telling the Truth by Frederick Buechner BEMA 282: John — The Dance of Grief Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings join Reed Dent as he launches a series on the Psalms. Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Free at Last by dc Talk — YouTube “[Psalm] 40” by dc Talk — YouTube The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible by Thomas G. Long BEMA 349: The Chosen S3E8 — “Sustenance” (Bonus Episode) The Message of the Psalms by...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Lea Schrumpf, Director of Pastoral Care at Purdue Christian Campus House, to discuss how we are shaped by harm, but how we are created for delight and honor, and how we can enter our stories with compassion and kindness. BEMA 242: Spiritual Abuse — Commodities and Variables The Allender Center Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson Being Known Podcast Adam Young Counseling The Place We Find Ourselves podcast The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings conclude the journey through Isaiah by looking at his prophetic visions for the future and how hope changes the substance of our conversations, desires, and experiences. BEMA 137: A Dry Tree BEMA 71: The Prophetic Table BEMA 332: Andrew DeCort — Flourishing on the Edge of Faith Friend or Foe #1: The Truth and Proper Place of Guilt sermon — YouTube Overview of Isaiah — BibleProject King Chizkiah, the Almost Messiah — Rabbi David Fohrman, Aleph Beta Aleph Beta...

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Reed Dent discuss the maternal images seen throughout Isaiah. Aleph Beta Academy Subscribe to Aleph Beta Academy BEMA listeners can use code friendsofbema for one month off of a monthly Premium membership. Behavior of a Pallas’s cat — YouTube Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings press on into the final chapters of Isaiah’s servant discourse, hearing the famous passage of God’s suffering servant and searching for the fruit of those trials. Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings enter a new season of Isaiah’s prophecy. Times have changed, circumstances are different, but God’s love remains the same. Tikkun Olam — Wikipedia BEMA 192: Telling a Story BEMA 64: 3 Isaiah — Servant BEMA 289: John — Loved to the End Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Preston Ulmer, author of Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus, founder and director of the Doubters’ Club, pastor at North Point Church in Springfield, MO, and many pastoral roles before that. Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus by Preston Ulmer The Doubters’ Club (website) The Doubters’ Club (book) by Preston Ulmer Encanto (2021 film) Conversational Intelligence by Judith E. Glaser Preston on Instagram Additional audio production by Gus...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are with Elle Grover Fricks to discuss the historical portion of Isaiah that bridges the two parts of the prophetic work, considering the possibilities for voices and redactions. BEMA 82: The Text — When, Where, Who, and Why Documentary Hypothesis — Wikipedia Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon “The Re-Emergence of Source Criticism: The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis” by Joel S. Baden — Yale Divinity School BEMA 71: The Prophetic Table The...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings consider the reality of God’s anger in the next portion of Isaiah. The Jewish Study Bible: Second Edition “JPS Bible Translation Enters Digital Era with Sefaria” — The Jewish Publication Society JPS Tanakh 1917 — BibleHub New Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the next portion of Isaiah to see God’s message aimed directly as His own people. BEMA 176: Revelation — Smyrna and Their Crown Beth Moore on the Church in History — Twitter BEMA 136: Each One Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear the universal pronouncement of God’s care and judgment in Isaiah, and then see the response of the prophet to what could lie ahead. Support The BEMA Podcast

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks are joined by Elisa Bosley, founder of Spiritual Eldercare. Elisa has decades of experience leading worship services and Bible studies, and also working with adults who have dementia. Combining those efforts, she became a chaplain in 2016 and serves at a long-term memory care community in Boulder, Colorado. Spiritual Eldercare Additional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Elisa Bosley. Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear Isaiah communicate the comprehensive and exhaustive nature of how God carries the burdens of all nations, not just the ones that bear His name. Presentation for Isaiah — Burdens (PDF) NIV Archaeological Study Bible NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter Cross Vision by Gregory A. Boyd Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory A. Boyd Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings venture further into Isaiah and the days of Ahaz to see God’s invitation to trust the story—and warnings for what might happen if that invitation is not accepted. Support The BEMA Podcast

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé dig a little deeper into the cultural context of Isaiah 6. “Isaiah's Impure Lips and Their Purification in Light of Akkadian Sources” by Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz — JSTOR Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria by Lewis Spence Bārû — Wikipedia Bāru (Mesopotamian priest) — Britannica Bārûtu — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings journey into the text of Isaiah, hearing the call of a father to his stubborn children. The Ache for Meaning by Tommy Brown The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter BEMA 51: 1 Isaiah — Vineyard Isaiah: Holy, Holy, Holy — Derrick Rohr, Campus Christian Fellowship Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Reed Dent to continue the introduction to the prophecy of Isaiah and consider Walter Brueggemann’s ideas about the prophetic imagination. The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann “What Prophecy Is For” — BibleProject Podcast Thought of the Day: Prophetic Imagination — Marty Solomon, YouTube Support The BEMA Podcast