1. Only briefly distracted by another Christmas rant, Craig and Troy return to the book of Timothy to examine the qualifications of a deacon of the church
  2. Today on the Almanac, we head to South Africa to look at the missionary career of Johannes Van Der Kemp.
  3. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Lilian B. Yeomans, Medical Doctor, and Pentecostal Evangelist.
  4. לויתן - “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?" JOB 41:1–2
  5. בעלת־אוב - And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets. Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.” 1 SAMUEL 28:6–7
  6. גלל - When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. JOSHUA 5:8–9
  7. The year was 1833. We remember the preacher Lemuel Haynes, with a reading recorded by a friend.
  8. When we approach the Bible from a hyper-individualistic viewpoint, the burden to be in it daily is on our individual shoulders, the burden to interpret and understand it is all on our individual shoulders, and we can end up sitting down to what can appear at first glance to be an enormous to-do list we cannot live up to--an activity to dread. It's the "just read it and then do it" method.
  9. This is not a drill... We return to Patrick Henry Reardon's book, Christ in the Psalms. In this episode, we consider Psalm 6 and the very real, earthly effects of God's wrath, along with political bookends.
  10. On episode THIRTY of Let the Bird Fly! the guys abandon Peter, so he is forced to find something to talk about.