Hey everybody, I'm Tim Mackie, 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 20 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 all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

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

I'm really excited about sharing because I, when Tyler asked me to share, he didn't tell me what to talk about.

And I really wanted to experiment and grow in the practice of learning to listen to God.

And so I'm not trying to sound pious. What I'm telling you is that I'm like a baby Christian in many ways,

which is I just put before God for a long season of months.

So just like, what should I say?

Like, there's a lot of things that I could say

that I think are interesting, but like, is there something

I'm supposed to say?

And if so, could you let me know what that is?

And so I think all after I won't talk about the long process

of how I got there, but I think, and maybe more importantly, that I think I feel, like what I want to share is something that I'm supposed to say, and it's not something I would have thought to say at the beginning of a process like that.

So what I feel like I'm supposed to say is something about a three-word phrase that we use constantly in the life and culture and liturgy of our church community.

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