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Psalm 111, God’s acrostic love for his people
Mar 21, 2026
37m 12s
Good kissing & glorious dancing (Song of Songs part 2)
Feb 13, 2026
40m 38s
Tuning the modern ear to biblical poetry (Song of Songs part 1)
Jan 31, 2026
43m 57s
The truth that grounds every new year, and time itself
Dec 27, 2025
33m 40s
The inconvenience of Christmas
Dec 20, 2025
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 3/21/26 |  Psalm 111, God’s acrostic love for his people✨ | acrostic psalmsGod's love+3 | — | Redwood ChurchPsalm 111 | — | acrosticpsalms+4 | — | 37m 12s | |
| 2/13/26 |  Good kissing & glorious dancing (Song of Songs part 2) | Being discipled by chick flicks and pop songs, we tend to think of love as the initial flames set ablaze when we meet the person of our dreams. But the “flame of Yah”—true love as God designed it—is a cultivated fire from start to finish. To keep this marital fire burning brightly, Song of Songs depicts key elements of romance which we can cultivate in our own marriages. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 40m 38s | ||||||
| 1/31/26 |  Tuning the modern ear to biblical poetry (Song of Songs part 1) | If Song of Songs is truly named, then it is the best and most important song ever written. Yet the modern reader finds its poetry awkward, unsatisfying, and confusing. What help does God offer through this song for cultivating romantic affection in our own marriages—and how can we train our modern ears to find it profitable? Three elements contribute to poetic excellence, and help us to discern the value in Solomon’s work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 43m 57s | ||||||
| 12/27/25 |  The truth that grounds every new year, and time itself | Psalm 47 is a psalm that grounds all of time, drawing history together into a meaningful whole. Always it has been true, always it is true, and always it will be true. It is the great foundation of the past; the great promise of the future; the linchpin of yesterday, today, and tomorrow: King is God over the nations; very ascended is he. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 33m 40s | ||||||
| 12/20/25 |  The inconvenience of Christmas | Despite the celebrations, Christmas is a time of many mundane hardships and difficulties — from annoying relatives to stretched finances. Since it is easy for us to feel set-upon and inconvenienced, it is helpful to reflect on how the first Christmas is a story of stress and anxiety, confusion and unknowns for Mary and Joseph, who had their expectations, hopes, and plans for their lives completely upended. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 29m 28s | ||||||
| 6/21/25 |  Judges 6, part 1: the enduring problem of Christians fearing other gods | The mindset of fearing Canaanite gods, and allowing their altars to remain, seems alien and inconceivable to us—because we have no gods or altars of this kind. But do we have none of any kind? To the contrary, many hold sway in our lives, and we often convince ourselves that it is in our best interest to let them remain. We even offer fearful sacrifices to them. One such god is especially prevalent in the lives of modern Christians. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 37m 38s | ||||||
| 6/14/25 |  Judges 5, part 4: emulating God’s mockery and gloating | Does God delight in the death of the wicked? Should we? In the same way that we are instructed to seek his vengeance, we are also called to celebrate it. Though there is a danger in this becoming fleshly, yet there is still a pure way for us to laugh righteously at the calamity of the wicked. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 38m 47s | ||||||
| 6/7/25 |  Judges 5, part 3: should Christians curse their enemies? | In Deborah’s song, she recounts the angel of Yahweh cursing those who did not help God in battle. If we are to be holy as he is, should we follow his example? What is a curse, who is qualified to pronounce one, and when is it appropriate to do so under the new covenant of grace? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 38m 26s | ||||||
| 5/31/25 |  Psalm 32, the necessity of confession | Psalm 32 describes how to be happy, proved from David’s experience, and then taught to Israel. As long as we cover our sin, its weight crushes us with sorrow, but when we confess, God lifts our iniquity and gives us happiness. Yet this is not just an offer of forgiveness and joy; it is a command, to be heeded freely lest God have to “take our reins.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 35m 52s | ||||||
| 5/24/25 |  Judges 5, part 2: the active work of God in every event of our lives | Israel’s victories are not won by military strategy or strength of arms, but by the intervention of God’s presence with his hosts of angels. This is plainly depicted in Barak’s battle with Sisera, revealing a world not governed by mechanical, natural forces, but personal, spiritual agents. How does this affect our view of providence, and what is and (is not) possible? Rather than asking “what can I do in this situation?” and running a simulation in our heads, we should simply ask, “what should I do?” and leave the rest to God. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 42m 12s | ||||||
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| 5/17/25 |  Judges 5, part 1: how the church should write victory psalms | Whereas in one part of the church, singing anything but the Bible’s psalms is viewed as worldly progressivism, and in another part, singing psalms at all is viewed as backward primitivism, in fact scripture reveals the need to continually write new psalms. After going to war and defeating their enemies, Deborah and Barak model the proper response: a victory psalm commemorating God’s help. But what is the pattern of such a psalm? Does it look like contemporary Christian music? Old hymns? Or something else? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 42m 16s | ||||||
| 5/10/25 |  Judges 4, part 3: Yael, deceiver and piercer of the serpent | Yael, the lady of a house in league with the Canaanite king, defies her husband by deceiving and slaying Sisera, the principal of the Canaanite army. What should we make of Yael’s treatment of Sisera? Is she a liar and a murderer? Or is she indeed blessed among women? And if so, what is the implication for women in the church, and spiritual warfare? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 47m 34s | ||||||
| 5/3/25 |  Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 4 | Jesus distilled his wisdom about worry into seven simple arguments in his Sermon on the Mount. We can follow these arguments to reason our way out of anxiety, and into mental fortitude. His fourth argument is against the futility of worry: that we cannot make ourselves grow in any way by it; rather the opposite. When we worry, we could be doing literally anything else of value, and the outcome would be better. We should therefore give our anxiety to the One who can do something about our problems. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 28m 25s | ||||||
| 4/26/25 |  How are we to let go of rage and forgive our enemies? | Scripture tells us we are to participate in Christ by forgiving our enemies — sacrificing ourselves and our anger, knowing that ultimately God is the one sacrificing us for the sake of shaping us into his image. Yet the New Testament doesn’t give much practical instruction in how. This is because the Psalms already do. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 36m 29s | ||||||
| 4/19/25 |  What does it mean to forgive our enemies? | Contrary to popular belief, we can and must forgive even those who wrong us unrepentantly. Repentance is not a necessary precondition for forgiveness — but, in fact, forgiveness is a necessary precondition for repentance. The doctrine of the cross helps us to understand how and why — and the scriptural distinction between forgiveness and reconciliation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 48m 44s | ||||||
| 4/12/25 |  Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 3 | Jesus distilled his wisdom about worry into seven simple arguments in his Sermon on the Mount. We can follow these arguments to reason our way out of anxiety, and into mental fortitude. His third argument is that God provides food for all creatures through various means — even birds who don’t have to work for it. Since we are of superior worth, we should trust that God will provide our food also, through the means he has ordained for man: work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 32m 53s | ||||||
| 4/5/25 |  Judges 4, part 2: the faith of Baraq | After 20 years, a new generation has been raised up by Deborah to war against evil—led by Baraq, the lightning-man, to fight the lightning-god Ba’al. While modern readers haughtily interpret Baraq as a man of defective faith, he has the trust in God (along with the confidence of 10,000 peasants) to engage a humanly suicidal strategy to defeat 90,000 Canaanite soldiers, consuming them as fire from heaven on the mountain of Tabor. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 41m 56s | ||||||
| 3/29/25 |  Judges 4, part 1: Deborah, mother of the savior | Because Israel has failed to represent God’s father-rule into the world, its own fathers are unable to rule. For as long as it takes to raise a child for battle, they are thus without a savior — and a married woman under authority must judge them. Yet through grace, this curse turns to a blessing, as Deborah the holy mother raises up a spiritual son as a warrior-savior. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 37m 30s | ||||||
| 3/22/25 |  Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 2 | Jesus distilled his wisdom about worry into seven simple arguments in his Sermon on the Mount. We can follow these arguments to reason our way out of anxiety, and into mental fortitude. His second argument is that rightly ordering our concerns in a proper hierarchy is foundational to cultivating peace about the future: placing the lesser things beneath the greater, and taking care to how they fit together in our lives. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 35m 20s | ||||||
| 3/15/25 |  Judges 3, part 4: Shamgar, the anti-Ehud | Shamgar and Ehud are a study in contrasts: Ehud is Hebrew, Shamgar is Canaanite; Ehud smote a people of the land, Shamgar a people of the sea; Ehud struck one head, Shamgar 600 bodies; Ehud used a weapon for intimate and personal assassination, Shamgar a tool for impersonal killing at arm’s length. There is a clear picture here of the progression of the power and peace of the gospel from Israel to the nations, from Jesus to the Church, from reformer to evangelist, and from warrior to worker. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 42m 10s | ||||||
| 3/8/25 |  Judges 3, part 3: Ehud in the church age? | What is the relationship between the story of Ehud and Eglon…and the story of the church? What enduring principles does this story exemplify, and how do they inform the way Christians should live today? Should we expect God to still raise up men like Ehud — men of daring and deceit? What would they look like, and how would they act? To answer this question, we must understand how the symbols of Israel’s history are visible words which have a “future tense” — which must now be translated into the “perfect” tense of the church age. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 39m 55s | ||||||
| 3/1/25 |  Jesus’ arguments against anxiety, part 1 | Worry is fundamental to the human experience, and our worldly cares and concerns often unsettle us. Jesus, the man with perfect mental health, knew what it took to deal with anxiety—and he distilled this wisdom in seven simple arguments against anxiety in his Sermon on the Mount. We can follow these arguments to reason our way out of anxiety, and into mental fortitude. The first is that anxiety oppresses those who are mastered by earthly concerns; therefore, we must submit ourselves to the inevitable loss of earthly things in the providence of God. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 35m 51s | ||||||
| 2/22/25 |  Judges 3, part 2: Ehud’s sacrifice of Eglon | Whereas the story of Othniel frustrated us with its lack of detail, now the story of Ehud frustrates us with its details. What are we to make of the scatological humor, deceit, and assassination in this first “real” story of one of Israel’s saviors—a type of Christ? From the left-handed “son of the right hand” to the fattened Eglon (“calf”), every element of this narrative reveals through physical history the patterns of spiritual warfare we ourselves are engaged in. In fact, the text uses so many strange words to tell its story that you cannot help but notice: it is as much sacramental as martial. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 46m 30s | ||||||
| 2/15/25 |  Psalm 95, part 2: covenantal election and apostate sheep | Who are God’s sheep, and how does he feed them? And what is different about the pastures of God, compared to the world’s? While all those baptized into the Church are called to respond to the food of God’s word, not all are eternally elect. Some will harden their hearts — yet are still exhorted as sheep. This can only be understood through the doctrine of covenantal election. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 28m 03s | ||||||
| 2/8/25 |  Judges 3, part 1: Othniel as the paradigm of all the judges | In the book of Judges, why is the first story of an actual judge so short on details? Because it is crafted to teach us how to read the more detailed and difficult stories that are to come. It establishes a clear paradigm for interpreting these—lest we imagine the judges as crazed vigalante superheroes. It also establishes what is at sake—the victory of Aram over Israel, the world over the church, Babel over Jerusalem, a wicked giant over Christ. Finally, it establishes the manner in which God ensures this will not happen—by raising up saviors anointed by his Spirit, and appointed by his people. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redwoodchurch.substack.com | 39m 14s | ||||||
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