Modern Mind, Ancient Book

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What Makes Desire Honoring? | Song of Songs 3–5

Modern Mind, Ancient Book ·

2026/08/17

Send us Fan Mail What makes desire honoring rather than possessive? This Bible study follows Song of Songs from chapter three, verse one, through chapter five, verse one—from a woman's nighttime search and a royal wedding procession to attentive bodily praise and a protected garden that opens by invitation. We hear the Song first as human love poetry. We explain its unfamiliar images without mockery or voyeurism, preserve the woman's agency, and explore how timing, protection, covenant fait...

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The Bible Did Not Happen All at Once

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2026/08/14

Send us Fan Mail One bound Bible carries events, empires, books, and surviving witnesses from many different times. How do we keep those timelines distinct without losing the unity of Scripture? In Episode 1 of The Bible in Its World, Roger Ferguson introduces four questions that can help us read more carefully: 1. When is the event set? 2. What historical world surrounds it? 3. What kind of book carries the event, and when did that book take shape? 4. What surviving witnesses bring that bo...

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Why Is This Love Poem in the Bible? | Song of Songs 1–2

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2026/08/10

Send us Fan Mail Song of Songs, Session One — Desire Without Shame Why does Holy Scripture preserve a love poem that begins with a woman unashamed to voice desire? In Session One of our Song of Songs study, we follow the poem from chapter one, verse one, through chapter two, verse seventeen. We listen first to the Song as human love poetry, examine its voices and images, consider its conservative Solomonic-period placement without pretending the authorship questions are settled, and explore...

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Why Some Paths Hollow Us Out | Jesus Is the Way That...

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2026/08/07

Send us Fan Mail Why do some paths leave us feeling empty? Not every road that promises freedom leads to life. Some slowly hollow us out. Others restore us into the people God created us to become. In the opening episode of the Walk the Way series, we explore one of the Bible’s most consistent themes: every person is already walking a path. Throughout Scripture, paths are never merely directions—they represent ways of living, trusting, worshiping, and becoming. This episode follows the biblic...

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Psalm Week 4 — The King Who Suffers, Shepherds, and...

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2026/08/03

Send us Fan Mail Psalms 22–24 form a powerful three-part portrait of the Messiah: the King who suffers, the Shepherd who leads, and the King of Glory who reigns. Psalm 22 begins with the agonizing cry, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” David describes rejection, mockery, suffering, and apparent abandonment—language that Jesus would take upon His own lips at the cross. Yet the psalm does not end in defeat. Suffering gives way to praise, worldwide worship, and the proclamation of God’...

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8 of 7: Walk the Way — Trust and Walk in God’s Ways

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2026/07/31

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to trust God when tomorrow remains uncertain? Jesus said: “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”Jesus did not promise that faithful people would never experience suffering, uncertainty, loss, or hardship. Instead, He taught us to seek God’s Kingdom, receive today as it comes, and trust the Father with what we cannot yet see. This bonus episode—8 of 7 in the Walk the Way series—follows the ...

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Psalm week 3 — The King Who Suffers, Shepherds, and...

Modern Mind, Ancient Book ·

2026/07/27

Send us Fan Mail Psalms 22–24 form one of the Bible’s most remarkable portraits of Jesus. Journey from the cry of the suffering King, through the comfort of the Good Shepherd, to the triumphant entrance of the King of Glory. Discover how these psalms proclaim the Messiah centuries before His birth and reveal God’s faithful plan of redemption.

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7 of 7 Walk the Way — Honoring the Sabbath | Trusting...

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2026/07/24

Send us Fan Mail What if one of the greatest acts of faith is simply stopping? Many Christians understand prayer, worship, and Bible study as essential parts of following Jesus, yet the Sabbath often remains one of Scripture’s least understood gifts. Is it merely an Old Testament law, or does it still reveal something vital about God’s design for His people? In this concluding episode of the Walk the Way series, we explore the Sabbath as a weekly invitation to trust God rather than our own st...

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Psalm week 2 — When the Righteous Cry | Psalms 3–8 |...

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2026/07/20

Send us Fan Mail Psalms 3–8 bring us into the prayers of the righteous sufferer, the troubled king, and the worshiper who cries out to God in fear, danger, weakness, and wonder. After Psalms 1–2 introduced the blessed way and the LORD’s anointed King, Psalms 3–8 show what faith sounds like when the righteous one is surrounded by enemies, lying down in danger, waking by mercy, waiting for justice, and learning to trust the God who hears. In this episode of Modern Mind, Ancient Book, we walk ...

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6 of 7 Walk the Way — Internal Positioning and the...

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2026/07/17

Send us Fan Mail Many of us come to Scripture with questions already in our hands. Sometimes those questions are good. Sometimes they are wounded. Sometimes they are arguments dressed up as questions. We bring church debates, personal pain, cultural assumptions, favorite teachers, inherited systems, fear, pride, hope, confusion, and desire. Before long, Scripture can become raw material: a verse becomes ammunition, a story becomes a slogan, and a promise becomes detached from the covenant wo...

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Psalms week 1 — The Blessed Way and the Anointed King

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2026/07/13

Send us Fan Mail Psalms begins by showing two foundations for the life of faith: the blessed way of Torah-shaped wisdom and the hope of God’s Anointed King. Episode Description: Psalms does not begin with private emotion, but with a choice: the way of the righteous or the way of the wicked. In Psalms 1–2, Israel is taught how to walk, pray, worship, and hope after the wounded kingdom of Samuel. Psalm 1 shows the blessed person rooted in the instruction of the LORD. Psalm 2 lifts our eyes to ...

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5 of 7 Walk the Way — Learning Where to Stand Before...

Modern Mind, Ancient Book ·

2026/07/10

Send us Fan Mail Many of us come to Scripture with questions already in our hands. Sometimes those questions are good. Sometimes they are wounded. Sometimes they are arguments dressed up as questions. We bring church debates, personal pain, cultural assumptions, favorite teachers, inherited systems, fear, pride, hope, confusion, and desire. Before long, Scripture can become raw material: a verse becomes ammunition, a story becomes a slogan, and a promise becomes detached from the covenant wor...

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4 of 7 Walk the Way — The One New Man: Humanity...

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2026/07/03

Send us Fan Mail What does God restore in Jesus? Not merely better labels, better arguments, or better religious categories — but humanity itself. This episode traces the biblical story from creation, fracture, covenant, remnant, Messiah, reconciliation, and restoration to Paul’s teaching on the One New Man in Ephesians 2. Categories can describe us, but they cannot restore us. In this episode of Modern Mind, Ancient Book, we ask a deeper question: What kind of humanity is God restoring throu...

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Samuel week 4 — not a throne, but an altar

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2026/07/03

Send us Fan Mail Samuel ends not with royal triumph, but with an altar. In 2 Samuel 21–24, we see Saul’s bloodguilt, Rizpah’s grief, David’s weakness, the song of deliverance, the hope of righteous rule, the census, the plague, and sacrifice at Araunah’s threshing floor. David’s throne matters, but it is not ultimate. The kingdom still needs mercy — and the faithful Son of David.

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3 or 7 walk the Way — From Categories to Restoration...

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2026/06/29

Send us Fan Mail A person can know their theological label, defend their tradition, identify their church background, and win arguments — yet still remain proud, harsh, impatient, cold, loveless, or unchanged. Labels can describe you, but they cannot restore you. In this MMAB Topical episode, we ask a deeper biblical question: Am I using categories to prove I am right, or am I being restored into the image of God through Jesus? This teaching does not attack doctrine, truth, or the church. Doc...

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2 of 7 Walk the Way — Learning God for a Lifetime |...

Modern Mind, Ancient Book ·

2026/06/15

Send us Fan Mail Many people approach God as something to solve—something to master quickly through information, arguments, or certainty. But Scripture presents a different picture. The danger is not ignorance. The danger is believing we already see clearly. In this episode of Walk the Way, we explore why premature certainty often blinds us, why we bring assumptions into Scripture without realizing it, and why Jesus continually formed people through relationship rather than simply giving i...

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1 of 7 Why We’re Going Back to Move Forward | The...

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2026/06/08

Send us Fan Mail Why does context matter? Modern Mind, Ancient Book begins with a simple conviction: truth is best understood in the world in which it was first given. Scripture was not written in our world. It was written to real people, in real places, through real languages, cultures, and historical moments. Over time, traditions can preserve truth—but they can also collect assumptions, systems, and ideas that may not belong to the original story. This episode explores the foundation be...

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Samuel Week 3 — David, Bathsheba, and the Fractured...

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2026/06/05

Send us Fan Mail David defeated giants, conquered enemies, and received covenant promises from God—but Samuel turns dramatically in 2 Samuel 11–20. In Week 3 of our Samuel study we explore David’s sin with Bathsheba, Nathan’s confrontation, Absalom’s rebellion, family collapse, and how private failure became national crisis. This study examines: • David and Bathsheba • Nathan’s prophetic confrontation • The Amnon and Tamar narrative • Absalom’s rebellion • Hebrew word studies and literary s...

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Were Jesus and the New Testament Antisemitic? |...

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2026/06/01

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2 moves into one of the most difficult and debated questions in Christian history PURCHASE/READ HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Persecuted-Jesus-Constantine-Mark-Baker-ebook/dp/B0GTWMVXWP Visit: persecutedproject.org Were Jesus and the New Testament writers antisemitic? Drawing from The Persecuted: Jesus to Constantine by Mark Baker, we examine claims that Christian hostility toward Jewish communities can be traced back to interpretations of Jesus and the New Test...

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Samuel Week 2: David, the Shepherd King and the...

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2026/05/29

Send us Fan Mail Why did God reject Saul and choose David? In Week 2 of our Samuel study, we move into one of Scripture’s greatest turning points: the rise of David and the covenant that reshaped biblical history. We examine David’s anointing, David and Goliath, the wilderness years, covenant friendship with Jonathan, Jerusalem’s rise, and the Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7—the promise that eventually points toward Jesus as the greater Son of David. Topics include: • David’s anointing at B...

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