Author: lowen

  • I Want to Know More, 2/15/2025

    Many times the key to understanding the full application of scripture is understanding the names of the people who are in that passage. This week ont he podcast we explore the meanings of the names David, Bathsheba, Eliam, Uriah, and even Ahithophel.

  • I Want to Know More, 2/8/2025

    The story of David and Bathsheba is one of the great tragedies in the Word of God. On the podcast this week, we begin our study of this pivotal event in the life of David with an overview; we will dig much, much deeper as the weeks go by. There are so many things we…

  • I Want to Know More, 2/1/2025

    Getting back to the story of David, we review Joab’s partial victory over Syria and Ammon. Why partial? Joab let’s them go back to their city. This is the right thing to do, but at the same time now an ongoing war with Ammon is in the works. This event will directly precipitate the reign-changing…

  • I Want to Know More, 1/25/2025

    We next meet the Ammonites after their defeat at the hands of Jepthah at the very beginning of the reign of Saul. This week, we explore the amount of time between these two events and the background of the battle between the Ammonite king Nahash and Saul, over the city of Jabesh-Gilead.

  • I Want to Know More, 1/18/2025

    At this point, we run a bit of a rabbit by looking at what the trouble was with Ephraim. Judges 8 and Judges 12 record the story of a bitter tribe of Ephraimites; bitterness that spanned multiple generations, at that. Bitterness that they weren’t in the center of the battle getting all the glory was…

  • I Want to Know More, 1/11/2025

    There are few passages in Scripture that are more conflicting than Judges 11:29-40. The story of how Jepthah vowed a rash vow, went on to defeat the Ammonites, and then came home to be bound by that rash vow, resulting in him doing a thing God called an abomination tears at the heartstrings like few…