Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, Reed Dent, Elle Grover Fricks, unofficial co-host Zack Dean, and more than a hundred of our lovely podrishioners are celebrating ten years of the BEMA Podcast by looking back and looking forward (and having a little fun) in Boise, Idaho.Watch the Video Version of This Episode (YouTube)Intertextual.BibleSinai Escape on Apple MusicSinai Escape on SpotifyBEMA Merch StoreThe Gospel of Being Human by Marty Solomon and Reed DentSupport The BEMA Podcast

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks are joined by special guest Dieula Previlon, the founder and executive director of ElevateHer International Ministries with a vision to empower women to heal from trauma and thrive. She is a counselor in private practice and an ordained minister. Her professional career in counseling, coaching, pastoring, and international ministry spans more than twenty years.Does God See Me? by Dieula M. Previlon“Sounding An Alarm!” by Rev. Traci Blackmon — My View from Hagar’s PorchElevateHer International MinistriesDieula Previlon’s websiteSpecial Guest: Dieula Previlon.Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent reflect on the most famous wrestling match in the Bible.BEMA 14: Grappling with God, Part 2Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark by James K. A. SmithCenote — WikipediaSupport The BEMA Podcast

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks burrow into three different ways to wrestle.Intertextual.BibleSefaria LibraryBEMA 120: Truth and LightBEMA 502: The Four Pillars — CommunityBEMA 24: Creating a SpaceSupport The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings begin the last leg of the journey through the Four Pillars, examining the commitment to wrestling.The Sin of Certainty by Peter EnnsThe Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow PriorThe Gospel of Being Human by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent“Gulliver’s Travels: Week 13” by Karen Swallow PriorArtemis II — WikipediaPontius Pilate Discovers He’s in the Apostles’ Creed — YouTubeBook Tour DatesAberfeldy [Scottish town] — WikipediaDunkeld Cathedral — WikipediaFire of Notre-Dame — WikipediaCurious by Ian LeslieBig Wheel (tricycle) — WikipediaSupport The BEMA Podcast

Brent Billings and Reed Dent consider how to create the right conditions for discipleship.The Pastor by Eugene H. PetersonThe Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar CaponSupport The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover Fricks nurture the roots of the third pillar, discipleship.Support The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the third of BEMA’s four pillars, being challenged by the historical setting and practice of discipleship.The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred EdersheimNahum M. Sarna — WikipediaShmuel Safrai — WikipediaDavid Flusser — WikipediaQuest for the Historical Jesus — WikipediaAlbert Schweitzer — WikipediaRudolf Bultmann — WikipediaDead Sea Scrolls — WikipediaN. T. Wright — WikipediaE. P. Sanders — WikipediaThe Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington IIISecond Temple Judaism — WikipediaScholasticism — WikipediaSupport The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are wrapping their hands around the pillar of community, guided by Elle Grover Fricks.Sam Goes With Frodo — Scene from The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 film)Father’s Letter — Scene from Little Women (2019 film)“Hallelujah” from Handel’s Messiah — Choir of King’s College, CambridgePalouse Choral Society“How far back in time can you understand English?” by Colin Gorrie — Dead Language SocietyDedicated by Pete DavisSupport The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the pillar of community from the perspective of Reed Dent.“5 Spectacular Japanese Joints” by Emi Shinmura — Fine WoodworkingBEMA 356: Sabbath Practice — Friendship w/ Derrick James Rohr III“Followers, Not Admirers” by Søren Kierkegaard in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and EasterSupport The BEMA Podcast