Parables of Jesus: Threshold Moments

Fairy Tales Overthought: Sleeping Beauty

Questions or Comments? Send us a text! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132526/fan_mail/new] We originally released this episode on our YouTube channel, but are making it available on our podcast during our break. 🎙️In this episode, we step into the darker, original version of Sleeping Beauty. 👸Together, we uncover how the King and Queen’s attempt to protect their daughter from a curse leads instead to a kingdom frozen in stasis—safe, but barren and lifeless. 🧊 We explore the symbolic weight of numbers, the danger of exclusion, and what this story reveals about overprotection, both in personal life and in society at large. Sleeping Beauty is more than a bedtime story. It’s a meditation on growth, change, and the cost of refusing what is new. ✨ ----------------------------- Watch the video version 📺 : Sleeping Beauty [https://youtu.be/_5BzyCG6BAw] ----------------------------- Visit our website: Navigating An Ancient Faith [https://navigatinganancientfaith.com/] Sign up for our Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/185622d4efc1/sign-up-for-our-newsletter] Email us at info@navigatinganancientfaith.com Visit our Fanlist page [https://fanlist.com/navigatinganancientfaith] for questions, comments, or to support the show. Discuss on our Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/navigatinganancientfaith/]

The Minor Prophets: Zechariah

Questions or Comments? Send us a text! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132526/fan_mail/new] In this final episode of our Minor Prophets series, we explore the strange and powerful visions of Zechariah, a prophet speaking to a people who have physically returned home but remain spiritually displaced. ✨ Through symbols of cleansing, restoration, and renewal, Zechariah reveals that rebuilding a culture begins long before stones are laid and walls are raised. 🏛️ We explore why external change rarely produces lasting transformation, why true renewal begins within, and how Zechariah's message still speaks to cultures, communities, and individuals trying to rebuild after failure. 🙏 As we conclude our Minor Prophets series, we discover a recurring pattern found throughout these ancient books: before restoration can transform the world around us, it must first transform the world within us. 🎙️ ----------------------------- Visit our website: Navigating An Ancient Faith [https://navigatinganancientfaith.com/] Sign up for our Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/185622d4efc1/sign-up-for-our-newsletter] Email us at info@navigatinganancientfaith.com Visit our Fanlist page [https://fanlist.com/navigatinganancientfaith] for questions, comments, or to support the show. Discuss on our Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/navigatinganancientfaith/]

The Minor Prophets: Habakkuk

Questions or Comments? Send us a text! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132526/fan_mail/new] In this episode, we continue our Minor Prophets series with the book of Habakkuk, a unique prophecy that takes the form of a conversation between the prophet and God. 📖 Set in the years before Babylon’s conquest of Judah, Habakkuk wrestles with a question that still resonates today: Why does God seem silent in the face of injustice? We explore Habakkuk’s struggle with violence, corruption, and the rise of Babylon, along with God’s surprising response that evil ultimately carries the seeds of its own destruction. Along the way, we reflect on the meaning of “the righteous will live by faithfulness” and Habakkuk’s remarkable journey from questioning to trust. 🌿 Even in the midst of uncertainty and loss, the prophet discovers a deeper reason for hope and joy. ✨ ----------------------------- Visit our website: Navigating An Ancient Faith [https://navigatinganancientfaith.com/] Sign up for our Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/185622d4efc1/sign-up-for-our-newsletter] Email us at info@navigatinganancientfaith.com Visit our Fanlist page [https://fanlist.com/navigatinganancientfaith] for questions, comments, or to support the show. Discuss on our Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/navigatinganancientfaith/]

The Minor Prophets: Micah

Questions or Comments? Send us a text! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132526/fan_mail/new] In this episode, we continue our Minor Prophets series with the book of Micah, exploring how corruption and injustice slowly unravel a society from within. 📖 Set against the backdrop of Assyria’s rise and the coming exile, Micah confronts the political and spiritual failures of Judah’s leaders, exposing exploitation, false security, and the devastating cost of systemic corruption. 🏛️ Along the way, we unpack Micah’s vivid courtroom and apocalyptic imagery, his warning that Jerusalem itself would fall, and his powerful vision of restoration—where swords become plowshares and a ruler will arise from Bethlehem. ✨ We also reflect on Micah’s enduring call to “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.” 🎙️ ----------------------------- Visit our website: Navigating An Ancient Faith [https://navigatinganancientfaith.com/] Sign up for our Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/185622d4efc1/sign-up-for-our-newsletter] Email us at info@navigatinganancientfaith.com Visit our Fanlist page [https://fanlist.com/navigatinganancientfaith] for questions, comments, or to support the show. Discuss on our Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/navigatinganancientfaith/]

The Minor Prophets: Hosea

Questions or Comments? Send us a text! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132526/fan_mail/new] In this episode, we continue our Minor Prophets series with the book of Hosea, exploring a recurring biblical pattern—God brings order, people distort it, prophets call for repentance, and when ignored, collapse and renewal follow. 📖 We place Hosea in the final days of the Northern Kingdom and unpack his striking story: a commanded marriage to Gomer that becomes a living parable of covenant unfaithfulness. Through the symbolic names of his children and his costly act of redemption, we see both the depth of human brokenness and the persistence of God’s grace. 💔✨ Along the way, we reflect on exile as a form of reset and God’s refusal to abandon His people, ending with Hosea’s call to return. We also preview our next stop—Micah. 🎙️ ----------------------------- Watch 📺: Sleeping Beauty [https://youtu.be/_5BzyCG6BAw?si=eFwuPrroQU_mTkbu] ----------------------------- Visit our website: Navigating An Ancient Faith [https://navigatinganancientfaith.com/] Sign up for our Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/185622d4efc1/sign-up-for-our-newsletter] Email us at info@navigatinganancientfaith.com Visit our Fanlist page [https://fanlist.com/navigatinganancientfaith] for questions, comments, or to support the show. Discuss on our Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/navigatinganancientfaith/]