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.

All right, well in this episode we're continuing in this long-ish series called I Am Who I Am.

We're exploring the multi-faceted portrait of God throughout the Scriptures.

We're right in the heart of a series of teachings.

I did these a number of years ago.

We're exploring the portrait of the Spirit of God's Spirit from cover to cover throughout

the pages of Scripture.

It's not just that it's one of the most hard to understand portraits of God in the Bible.

For some people it's not, but for many people it is.

I found that to be true at least personally.

And in the lives of many other followers of Jesus that I meet, if you weren't raised

in a tradition that really emphasized and gave you habits and tools to learn how to engage

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