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 this is episode three of a five part teaching series that we're doing on the ideas of resurrection and new creation in the New Testament and the teaching of Jesus and the Apostles.

In this teaching we're going to dive into one of the most exhilarating and beautiful chapters in all of the Apostle Paul's writings in Romans chapter eight.

And what we're going to watch him do is retell the story from Genesis all the way to the end for to revelation with the imagery of the Exodus story from the Old Testament book of Exodus.

It's all about a story of people groaning in slavery, finding liberation through the deliverer that God raises up and then going into freedom in the promised land.

And that basic storyline provides the template for the whole Bible, but also it gives us a way of thinking about the hope of resurrection.

And that's what we're going to watch Paul unpack.

So there you go. This is an amazing chapter in section of the New Testament.

It's worth many, many cups of tea and many hours of pondering and meditation.

So let's start. Let's dive in and see what happens.

The Bible, especially the first three quarters of the Bible that Christians call the Old Testament, has an amazing, amazing set of resources, helping us learn how to process our anxiety and our grief and confusion.

There's a handful of books in particular. There's one whole book of the Bible dedicated to teaching God's people how to grieve, it's called the book of lamentations.

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