Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well in this episode we're coming near the end of the series exploring the letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament.

In this teaching, which I did a number of years ago when I was a pastor at Doer of Hope Church,

and we're going to camp out on one of the most well-known chapters from the letter to the Hebrews chapter 11,

which is all about, it's a retelling of the first three quarters of your Bible, the Old Testament story,

highlighting all of the key characters who had moments of bold and courageous faith.

It's often called the faith chapter.

And it's one of the few chapters that explicitly has as its main theme, the issue of faith and trust in God.

Obviously faith has entered into modern English at least in the modern west.

This is kind of a big umbrella category to describe religious faith in general.

Just faith, do you have some kind of faith or do you have faith?

There's so many deep misunderstandings and distorted ways of thinking about what the word faith means and what it means to have faith.

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