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 Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! To celebrate(?), here is the trailer for Season 4 of "What do you mean, God speaks?" God awaits in the desert The prologue,  "They were born in the desert" Music : "Exodus" by Tenacious Orchestra - Licensed from PremiumBeat.com ----------------------------------------    Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

The fourth Season opens to explore the question of the people of Israel described in Exodus. Who were they? What is the significance of their story, regarding their oppression and slavery? What remnants or echoes, if any, remain of their story in the records and memory of ancient history, and what are their significance? And where are we headed from here?  2:21     Biblical stories as "Myth that has become History"               14:43    Opening of Exodus and the oppression of Israel                 19:45     Egypt and the Hyksos, the Shasu, and Israel                 27:46     Who were the Hebrews, 'Apiru, and why this matters                 35:03     The Slave Bible and Exodus story as timeless truth               ----------------------------------------  Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

It is an iconic scene in the Bible: God calls Moses from the burning bush. But, why the burning bush? After all, God can speak through an immeasurable number of things. It is because the bush that does not burn up, and the flame that blazes, yet will not burn itself out, means something to Moses--and to us--which connects us to how God, speaking all of reality, can speak to human individuals in a powerful and personal way. We'll explore what that is in this episode. (edit: Jan 30, added ~1 minute of content from 26:26, and revised sentences that were too long the final 5 minutes )              2:21     Moses is “born” twice – his birth narrative               8:28     Moses as a failed “Zorro / Batman”               16:51    Moses’s life before the Burning Bush               24:43    What was the fire, and "The Angel of the LORD"               32:33    What did the burning bush mean?               --------------------------------------------------- Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

Consider what it means for things to have names. Names point to things, and at least to some extent, tells us what they are. But, what could possibly be the name of God? After all, it would need to "point to" all of reality as a whole. According to the Bible, the name of God spoken to Moses is "I am that I am," which in turn is presented as the meaning of the Hebrew name of God, "Yahweh." This passage has fascinated theologians and philosophers, because of the concept of "Being" and "existence" that it presents. However, this meaning presents something more immediate to our lives; it points to our experience of reality that unfolds around us, and invites us to a journey to find out what will unfold in our lives.              3:59     What it means for God to speak from the burning bush               9:47     How Moses can know whether God really spoke to him               16:51     Why "miracles" God shows Moses is only the first step               23:07     What does it even mean to name God?               32:16     It / He Just IS, and what that means               37:30     Name of God calls us to see what reality unfolds        ----------------------------------------                    Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

 Trailer for the upcoming Season 3 of "What do you mean God speaks?"     Those who wrestle with God.           The trailer : "Monologue of the children of Abraham"  Music : "True Genesis" by Tenacious Orchestra - Licensed from PremiumBeat.com  ----------------------------------------   Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

What does it mean to say, “There’s no God?”  What it means for us today, to say, “there’s no God,” is quite different from what it meant for people living just several centuries ago, to say, “there’s no God.”  That's because people back then did not merely believe that God exists. They perceived God in their world. Then, some time ago, God disappeared from our perception. We forgot what it meant to hear God speak, or see God in our lives, and so, one day, ‘God’ was no longer "there.”  * Revised on April 3 for greater clarity and flow in the 2nd half.  3:00       How the ancients perceived their gods          10:10       What it means to perceive God          20:58      A metaphor made God disappear from the cosmos          27:53      A metaphor made God disappear from our lives                ----------------------------------------   Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

A short prologue to the 3rd Season of What do you mean God speaks?  -  "Those who wrestle with God.  1st main episode of Season 3 is scheduled to go live next week.   Music : "True Genesis" by Tenacious Orchestra - Licensed from PremiumBeat.com  ----------------------------------------   Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

 Abraham, Sarah, and their family--are they "historical" figures? The simple answer? No... and Yes. (Ok, so it's not a simple answer) Another answer is the actual title of this episode: "Historical in/significance of Abraham's story" This odd title can refer to four things. 1) The "insignificance" of Abraham as a "historical figure" for historians 2) The significance of Abraham's story in history 3) The historical dimension  "in the significance" of Abraham's story 4) The significance of Abraham in how history has unfolded ever since. And all of that leads us back to God's original promise to Abraham in Genesis, to bless him, to make him great, and to make his name significant, so that he will be a blessing to all people.  1:33    Primeval History in Genesis versus…         8:29     … the Ancestral History in Genesis         13:02     Who wrote Genesis and why?         21:12     The question of Abraham as a "historical" figure         27:35     Historical in/significance of Abraham         ----------------------------------------   Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

The Genesis account of Abraham, Sarah, and their children, invites its readers to follow in their path, and continue their journey toward God.  There's one, big problem: it doesn't tell us how to start. Their journey begins with God speaking to Abraham (Abram), but Genesis does not describe how God first spoke to Abram, and how Abram heard God for the first time. So, can we get an answer? This episode will explore and consider what it means to say Abraham, Sarah, and their family were real people, and what it was for them to begin their journey with God.  2:04     What can we say about Abraham as a real person?         6:54     What Christians are concerned about regarding the Bible        13:17     The silence on Genesis about how God spoke to Abram          19:10     How God speaks to all people according to Genesis          22:01     The voice that spoke to Abram          27:58     Did Abram know it was God speaking?                        ----------------------------------------   Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

To hear God speak to you, is to be presented with truth; they are the same thing. And God speaking to you often begins with uncertainty, because we don't know whether what is being presented to us really is true. Abram and Sarai hears God speak to them in how they are moved, or inspired, to follow an inner call. "Something" guides them, and that "something" unfolds events in their lives that enable them to follow the call. Because of this, they learn that what this Voice speaks, is really true. But, something more happens, and they gradually learn Who is speaking to them. Let's follow their journey (or for this episode, Abram's portion) to explore what happened.  2:02       Why there is uncertainty in hearing God speak  8:25       What Abram learned in Egypt         14:28      Abram's developing inner strength shown in Canaan         23:25      Abram's fateful meeting with Melchizedek           29:14      Abram learns that "God Most High" was speaking to him           ----------------------------------------              Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

The first extra episode for Season 3; the next main episode (S3E5) will go live early July. (update: there were more delays, so I couldn't complete the new episode by the end of June as I had originally planned. I apologize for the delay!) This episode addresses the more "meta" question about this series that I wanted to go over before releasing the next episode--what this series has been doing, how it has approached the questions and issues it has explored so far, and where this series is now heading. It also drops hints of future plans, and some long overdue thanks at the end.   ----------------------------------------     Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.

For ages, people have ascribed personality to their deities. What was their reasoning? And what would be the personality of God that speaks forth all things? How should we start thinking about this? And what about Abram, Sarai, and their family? What was the personality of God that spoke to them? How did they begin to learn Who God was in their lives, and what did they experience?  2:12     Our cognitive predisposition to belief in gods         8:40     How we ascribe personality to gods         14:39    What would be the personality of “God”?         19:00    The role of Promise in personal relationship with God         25:50   Abram and Sarai try to fulfill God’s promise themselves         30:25    God makes a separate promise to Hagar        ----------------------------------------              Support the show ---------------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatdoyoumeangodspeaks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_Seungoh website: https://whatdoyoumeangodspeaks.buzzsprout.com/ * Please review or rate this series on Apple Podcast and other platforms! * You can financially support this show by clicking the "Support the Show" line above.