Steadfast in the Simple Gospel
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43 episodes
Jonah 3 - Big Picture & Chapters 1-2
In this episode we talk a short time about what big picture or reason why the book of Jonah was written, as well as covering the first two chapters in brief. It's not a verse by verse full coverage teaching, but pulling out different observatio...
Jonah 2 - Historical Background
In this episode, we cover the historical background and context for the book of Jonah! This will help us better understand what the author intended to communicate to his audience.
Jonah 1 - Introduction
This is a teaching I gave in the School of Biblical Studies on the book of Jonah. In this (short) episode, I introduce the book! The second episode would have been HUGE so I decided to split up the introduction and the historical background.&nb...
Psalms 5 - Genre, pt. 2
This is the final episode of my Psalms teaching, and the part two of walking through the different genres in Psalms. We look at the three most prevalent genres of psalms: hymns, laments, and thanksgiving...
Psalms 4 - Genre, pt. 1
In this episode, we start with a brief introduction to genre within Psalms. There are different types, important things to keep in mind while studying the genre of individual Psalms, and an understanding of why the tool of genre is so useful fo...
Psalms 3 - Imagery
In this episode, we talk about the second major characteristic of Hebrew poetry (and many different cultures' types of poetry), which is imagery! I summarize a few relevant observation labels we use to go through the text. We do a couple of exe...
Psalms 2 - Hebrew Poetry & Parallelism
In this episode, we are talking all about poetry! First, I give an introduction to poetry in general, and then an introduction to Hebrew poetry. When discussing Hebrew poetry, the first thing we spend time on is something called "P...
Psalms 1 - Introduction & Historical Background
This is the first episode of my Psalms teaching at the School of Biblical Studies over here in Kona. There will probably be quite a few episodes because this lecture was two sessions instead of one! In this episode, I give an intro...
Overview of Jonah
This is a little teaching I did at a local Hawaiian church, Helani Congregational Church. They have been studying through every book of the Bible before their sermons, and some of us staff of the SBS were asked to come in and help teach! <...
Philippians, Part 5 - Final Encouragements, "Thank You", and Joy
We have arrived at the end of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. These last verses contain many of Paul’s most well known verses. In 4:4-9, Paul gives his final encouragements. He writes a thank-you note for their generous gift in 4:10-20, and g...
Philippians, Part 4 - Lives Worthy of the Gospel
(2:19-4:3) Lives Worthy of the GospelThis section is all about encouraging the Philippians to live their lives in a manner worthy of the gospel. He does this by giving example of others and himself, as well as ...
Philippians, Part 3 - The Christ Hymn
(1:27-2:16) The Christ Hymn ChiasmThis section is something we call a chiasm. A chiasm is a tool of structure, and it is a way the biblical authors emphasized their most important points. It works like this, with the emphasi...
Philippians, Part 2 - Paul's Eternal Perspective
In this episode, we look at 1:1-26, focusing in on Paul's eternal perspective. In 1:12-14, Paul talks about even though he has been suffering, God has used it to spread the gospel in 2 ways. Knowing the historical co...
Philippians, Part 1 - Intro, Background, Structure, Themes
I first introduce the book, sharing how this letter is different from Paul's other letters, and share a little bit about why I loved preparing to teach it. Then for the bulk of the episode we cover the historical background (the 'B...
Book: James, Part 3
Faith in ActionAt one point in time, these believers were living out the words of Jesus, but now they weren't, which is why the idea that faith needs to be active is something James emphasizes time and time again. <...
Book: James, Part 2
Prayer(5:13-18) The OR's (Original Readers) situation is bad, so James encourages them to pray! (1:17-18) He talks about the character of the One they are praying to, reminding the OR ...
Book: James Part 1
In this episode, I introduce the book of James with an illustration. For those of you wondering, I was eating McDonald's :)We go over the historical background of the book (BRI), taking a look at authorship and dating as well as who the...
Book: Haggai Part 3
In this final episode on the book of Haggai, we talk about the third oracle, found in 2:10-19. This is Haggai's conversation with the priests about the holiness (or rather, unholiness) of the people.We then look at Haggai's fourth...
Book: Haggai Part 2
In this section, we look at Haggai 1:1-2:9. Our first look is at Haggai's first oracle in 1:1-1:11, in which we see the prophet Haggai confront the people’s passivity in building the temple, by explaining that their disobedience ha...
Book: Haggai Part 1
In the first few minutes the students share their first initials thoughts and questions regarding the book. For most of this episode we go over the literary and historical context of Haggai, something we call the BRI. Other acronym...
Book: Hosea Part 3
In this section, we jump around in the book of Hosea quite a lot. There's not really a super clear structure but there are a few different themes and so we go through those. The way we go through this section is through looking at these:
Book: Hosea Part 2
In this episode, we go over the chiastic structure of the first three chapters of Hosea. A chiasm is a literary device used by Hebrew authors. This article helps to describe it, an...
Book: Hosea Part 1
This is the first episode of my Hosea teaching in the School of Biblical Studies. In this episode, I introduce the book of Hosea, cover some historical background (called BRI in this school), talk about some different themes, and at the end tak...
Book: Job Part 3
In this section, we jump into the cycles of dialogue with Job and his three friends (4-27), take a look at the interlude on wisdom (28) and also step into the next section of discourse and look at what Job has to say about it all (29-31). ...
Book: Job Part 4
In this fourth and final episode on Job, we come to the end! We wrap up Elihu (32-37) and YHWH's discourse (38-41) as well as look at Job's closing statement (42:1-6) and the epilogue (42:7-17). After this, I share a little bit about what God s...
Book: Job Part 2
In this episode, we jump into the book! We make it through the prologue of the opening heavenly scene and all that happens to Job (1-2), Job's opening statement (3) as well do a little work to set up the cognitive setting in the next section wh...
Book: Job Part 1
This is a teaching I gave in the School of Biblical Studies. I introduce us to the book of Job, God's promise to His suffering people, as well as look at the ambiguity of the background surrounding the book!
Book: 2 Timothy Overview
A session I taught on the book of 2 Timothy at seminary.
Topic: Biblical Leadership Examples
This is a session I taught at seminary, going through Bublical examples of leadership. We looked at the lives of a few different leaders and talked about principles we can pull out and apply in our own lives.
Sermon: “Light in the Darkness”
This is a sermon I gave at one of the seminary’s chapel services that we took over. I start in Lamentations 3 and go all over the place. This was one I enjoyed writing, but didn’t have enough time do everything I wanted to in it. I’m looking forwa...