1. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the story of the woman with the flow of blood healed by touching the garment of Jesus.
  2. We've found Katie Koplin, in the midst of moving into an old church, and working on her training to become a Christian counselor.
  3. Life Isn’t Fair, and The World Is Mean. In this episode, we discuss Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac while reading Kierkegaard’s commentary on it and comparing it to Martin Luther and Rene Girard’s comments on it. It’s a meta-meta episode, and one of us confuses Kierkegaard’s biography with that of Nietzsche for much of the episode.
  4. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the story of Jesus falling asleep in the boat.
  5. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Basil of Caesarea, a Greek Bishop and Monk, one of the few given the title “the Great.”
  6. In this episode, Dr. Paulson outlines how knowledge of the gospel becomes the starting point for reading scripture.
  7. In this episode, Paulson explains how allegory turns all Scripture into moral or legal lessons.
  8. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss Mark's account of Christ countering the accusations of the Pharisees that he has a demon.