A Generous Gospel (Remastered)
May 14, 2026
New Testament Themes E4 — In the Apostle Paul's mind, the good news about Jesus becomes most persuasive when his followers live with incredible generosity. And that’s because radical generosity…
Welcome to Exploring My Strange Bible by Tim Mackie, lead theologian and co-founder of BibleProject.
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Protecting the Witness (Remastered)
May 08, 2026
New Testament Themes E3 — In the New Testament, “witness” is what Jesus' followers do together as they live, committed to one another and to Jesus. How is this understanding of witness different from…
The Cost of Following Jesus (Remastered)
Apr 30, 2026
New Testament Themes E2 — Many who are intrigued by Jesus of Nazareth have a difficult time balancing his overwhelming generosity and grace with his challenging call to discipleship and making…
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The Kingdom of God Has Arrived (Remastered)
Apr 24, 2026
New Testament Themes E1 — When we open the New Testament and start reading about Jesus, his message, and his mission, it’s not what most people imagine when they think of Christianity. Early on, we…
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A God of Love, a World of Suffering
Apr 16, 2026
During his earthly ministry, Jesus interacts with multitudes of hurting people. So how does he process, understand, and respond to all the suffering and evil he encounters? Tim explores the book of…
A Future for My Work (Remastered)
Apr 09, 2026
Theology of Work E2 — Many Christians believe the world will ultimately be destroyed when Jesus returns, and so our day-to-day lives don't really matter. But the Apostle Paul teaches the opposite in…
A Story About Work (Remastered)
Apr 02, 2026
Theology of Work E1 — Whether we’re young and still discovering our career, or perhaps more seasoned in work but new to following Jesus, integrating our vocation with our discipleship to Jesus is…
Prayer and Paradise
Mar 26, 2026
Prayer and encountering God’s presence are biblical topics we can study, but they’re also very personal experiences for each of us, and so this message combines both. First, Tim shares his personal…
The Gift (Remastered)
Mar 12, 2026
Ecclesiastes E2 — In the first teaching of this series, we explored the teacher’s core metaphor for life, which is the Hebrew word hevel, meaning “smoke” or “vapor.” The teacher takes a pretty dim…
Hevel (Remastered)
Mar 05, 2026
Ecclesiastes E1 — In the book of Ecclesiastes, the teacher shows how most of our daily time and energy is spent on meaningless things. The core metaphor he uses to make this point is smoke or vapor…
A History of New Testament Manuscripts and English Translations (Remastered)
Feb 26, 2026
Making of the Bible E3 — The manuscript history of the New Testament is very different from that of the Old Testament. The number of manuscripts, the amount of time they cover, the history of…
Old Testament Manuscripts & the Making of the New Testament (Remastered)
Feb 19, 2026
Making of the Bible E2 — In this series of lectures, we’re building the foundation for understanding where the Bible came from. When looking at Scripture through this lens, we discover that the texts…
The Making of the Old Testament Books (Remastered)
Feb 12, 2026
Making of the Bible E1 — Many people who view the Bible as God’s word believe it must have come into existence with little or no human agency. But this idea is foreign to the biblical authors and to…
Torah Crash Course: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (Remastered)
Feb 05, 2026
Torah Crash Course E3 — The books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy tell the story about God’s covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai—and make up two-thirds of the entire Torah! God gives Israel…
Torah Crash Course: Exodus (Remastered)
Jan 29, 2026
Torah Crash Course E2 — Israel’s liberation from Egypt and the night of Passover were the foundational stories for ancient Israelites, and they’re also crucial for understanding Jesus and his…
Torah Crash Course: Genesis (Remastered)
Jan 22, 2026
Torah Crash Course E1 — For many modern readers, the first five books of the Bible—known as the Torah—can feel strange, overwhelming, or confusing. But when we look at these five books as a single…
The Surprising, Actual Story of Genesis 1-2
Jan 15, 2026
In modern Western culture, we have two very different narratives swirling around the first two pages of the Bible. In the first narrative, the creation story in Genesis 1-2 represents a literal seven…
Science and Faith (Remastered)
Jan 08, 2026
Many people view science and religious faith as bitter enemies with conflicting views of the universe, especially when you consider the scientific explanation for the universe’s origin versus the…
When God Loves Your Enemy (Remastered)
Jan 01, 2026
The Amazing Jonah E5 – We’ve come to the final episode of a five-part series on the book of Jonah. And this last part of the book is one of the most puzzling. After Jonah preaches his strange…
Thrones and Ashes (Remastered)
Dec 25, 2025
The Amazing Jonah E4 — After the great fish vomits Jonah onto the shores of Nineveh, the prophet finally—and begrudgingly—obeys God. Even though Jonah only utters a strange five-word sermon to the…
A Severe Mercy (Remastered)
Dec 18, 2025
The Amazing Jonah E3 — After he is thrown into the sea and swallowed by a fish, Jonah utters a strange and beautifully intricate poem from inside the fish’s belly. He is in a moment of crisis that is…
Asleep at the Wheel (Remastered)
Dec 11, 2025
The Amazing Jonah E2 — Jonah is portrayed as God’s prophet, but ironically, he is the only person in the book who refuses to listen to God. How can this story invite us to consider our own lack of…
Running From Your Life (Remastered)
Dec 04, 2025
The Amazing Jonah E1 — Many of us know the story of Jonah as the prophet who gets swallowed by a whale. And while that is part of the story, it’s only a couple sentences in a longer narrative. So who…
What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?
Dec 01, 2025
After his baptism and testing in the wilderness, Jesus leaves Nazareth for Capernaum. There, he begins his public ministry, inviting fishermen to follow him and calling on people to “repent, for the…
The Meaning of Hope (Remastered)
Dec 01, 2025
Hope is an important virtue that God’s people have actively cultivated for thousands of years. And the messianic hope we see throughout the Hebrew Bible is a kind of hope that followers of Jesus…
(Re)introducing Exploring My Strange Bible
Dec 01, 2025
In 2016, we began releasing this collection of sermons and lectures that Tim Mackie gave over almost twenty years as a teaching pastor and professor. Then in 2019, we stopped releasing new episodes…
The Crocus Flower and the Empty Tomb - Gospel of Matthew Part 35
Feb 11, 2019
We explore the FINAL story in the Gospel according to Matthew in this episode.
The Blood Cries Out - Gospel of Matthew Part 34
Jan 28, 2019
In this episode, we continue exploring the Gospel of Matthew (almost done, folks!).
Panic Attack - Gospel of Matthew Part 33
Jan 13, 2019
In this episode, we continue exploring the Gospel of Matthew.