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 going to keep exploring the Gospel according to Matthew.

These were a number of teachings that I gave years ago when I was a pastor at Door of Hope Church.

And in this teaching we're going to explore a story from Matthew chapter 11.

It's kind of a puzzling story where John the Baptist who is Jesus relative, he played a really

key role in Jesus' life earlier on.

Now John the Baptist, he's in prison and he's expressing serious doubts about who Jesus is in his identity.

It's a fascinating story that gives us a window in a couple things.

One about the kinds of expectations that Jewish people had about the coming Messiah or deliverer figure.

And what was Jesus not doing that John thought he was going to do that made him have these doubts.

But John's experience of doubt in regard to Jesus also opens up a really personal and pastoral set of issues about what happens and how do we process through circumstances where Jesus doesn't do what we expected him to do in our own stories in our own lives.

How do you process that? How do you push through to the other side?

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