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The Chaos Ladder is a podcast by Steve Flowers that explores how the Bible is not a gaping pit waiting to swallow us but a ladder for us to climb. Episode 10 — Working out our own summary of the Bible can help us better understand how isolated verses fit into the Bible. We don’t begin by copying someone else’s summary but by asking big-picture questions like, “How does this verse fit into the author’s purpose?” We won’t know the answers a lot of the time. But if we stay aware there is a bigger picture and work to find those answers as we can, it’ll help keep us centered and eventually give us a better understanding of the Bible as a whole. An example summary of the Bible is included. https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e10-Seeing-the-forest.mp3 [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e10-Seeing-the-forest.mp3]TCL e10 – Seeing the forest – essay transcript [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e10-Seeing-the-forest-essay-transcript.pdf] The post The Chaos Ladder: Seeing The Forest – Episode 10 [https://storiesfromavillage.org/the-chaos-ladder-seeing-the-forest-episode-10/] appeared first on Stories From A Village [https://storiesfromavillage.org].

The Chaos Ladder is a podcast by Steve Flowers that explores how the Bible is not a gaping pit waiting to swallow us but a ladder for us to climb. Episode 9 (Part 3 of answering “What makes the Bible inspired?”) — The first two answers (ancient believers’ reframing of scripture and Jesus as the greatest revelation of God) are traits of the Bible that create a trajectory which Christians are to further. Scripture has been reframed by Christianity over its history. We reframe scripture today when we look at it through the lens of Jesus in a new or different way to change the focus or perspective of what scripture has to say in light of our own experiences of God. This continues the trajectory created by the Bible’s own reinterpretations and Jesus’ re-centering of scripture to more fully reveal who God is and what God desires. https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e09-When-inspiration-is-fully-unleashed.mp3 [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e09-When-inspiration-is-fully-unleashed.mp3]TCL e09 – When inspiration is fully unleashed – essay transcript [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e09-When-inspiration-is-fully-unleashed-essay-transcript.pdf] The post The Chaos Ladder: When Inspiration is Fully Unleashed – Episode 9 [https://storiesfromavillage.org/1390-2/] appeared first on Stories From A Village [https://storiesfromavillage.org].

The Chaos Ladder is a podcast by Steve Flowers that explores how the Bible is not a gaping pit waiting to swallow us but a ladder for us to climb. Episode 8 (Part 2 of answering “What makes the Bible inspired?”) — We can find God being revealed throughout the books of both the Old and New Testaments but the greatest revelation of God is in the person of Jesus. This means that where Jesus reinterprets scripture, He is not only reframing it, as is done by other biblical writers, but He is re-centering it to reflect how God was meant to be revealed in scripture (i.e., who God is and what God desires). https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e08-The-greatest-revelation-of-God.mp3 [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e08-The-greatest-revelation-of-God.mp3]TCL e08 – The greatest revelation of God – essay transcript [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e08-The-greatest-revelation-of-God-essay-transcript.pdf] The post The Chaos Ladder: The Greatest Revelation of God – Episode 8 [https://storiesfromavillage.org/the-chaos-ladder-the-greatest-revelation-of-god-episode-8/] appeared first on Stories From A Village [https://storiesfromavillage.org].

The Chaos Ladder is a podcast by Steve Flowers that explores how the Bible is not a gaping pit waiting to swallow us but a ladder for us to climb. Episode 7 (Part 1 of answering “What makes the Bible inspired?”) — The ancient biblical writers and people in the Bible often reframed their understanding of God after finding themselves between two stories— the first one being the stories of how God was promised by those who came before them and second one being the very different way God was experienced in their own lives. This caused them to reassess how they viewed God and then express that in their reinterpretation of scripture. https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e07-Walking-in-the-company-of-those-who-came-before-us.mp3 [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e07-Walking-in-the-company-of-those-who-came-before-us.mp3]TCL e07 – Walking in the company of those who came before us – essay transcript [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/TCL-e07-Walking-in-the-company-of-those-who-came-before-us-essay-transcript.pdf] The post The Chaos Ladder: Walking In The Company of Those Who Came Before Us – Episode 7 [https://storiesfromavillage.org/1378-2/] appeared first on Stories From A Village [https://storiesfromavillage.org].

The Chaos Ladder is a podcast by Steve Flowers that explores how the Bible is not a gaping pit waiting to swallow us but a ladder for us to climb. Episode 6 — An introduction and background on the Bible being inspired is shared, but that belief is complicated. So biblical inspiration is compared to a bank robbery to provide the shocking twist we might need to help rethink the nature of an inspired Bible. https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCL-e06-And-then-God-said-Everybody-down-on-the-floor-Now.mp3 [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCL-e06-And-then-God-said-Everybody-down-on-the-floor-Now.mp3]TCL e06 – And then God said Everybody down on the floor Now – essay transcript [https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.202/ovs.a9d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCL-e06-And-then-God-said-Everybody-down-on-the-floor-Now-essay-transcript.pdf] The post The Chaos Ladder: And Then God said, “Everybody down on the floor! Now!” – Episode 6 [https://storiesfromavillage.org/the-chaos-ladder-and-then-god-said-everybody-down-on-the-floor-now-episode-6/] appeared first on Stories From A Village [https://storiesfromavillage.org].