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.

Well, this is a new episode, first of a four part series that represent a series of

teachings that I did when I was a teaching pastor or a door of hope.

We did a teaching series over just the most common vocabulary words of the Bible and of

Christian faith that are also words that are hardly used in modern Western culture or

if they are used, they're used in ways that are totally different than how they're used

in the Bible.

And so we wanted to both qualify, resurrect or give new meaning to these old terms and

how important they are.

And so this is the first of four.

In this first teaching I explore the biblical word and concept of holiness, of God's holiness,

of people's holiness, the story underneath it all and so on.

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