Knox Presbyterian Church Podcast

The Long Story Short Class: Resurrection

1st Corinthians is Dr. David Bruner's absolute favorite book of the bible. He uses Paul's letter to an early church to explain how belief in not one, but two crucial resurrections is at the very core of what it means to be a Christian.

Long Story Short: Resurrection

On Good Friday, Jesus Christ was crucified on a Roman cross. It seemed as if evil and sin and death had won. But Jesus' resurrection from the dead shows us that life and hope and God's love prevails. Death has been defeated and sin no longer has power. Jesus is alive!
Ezekiel 37:1-28
Matthew 28:1-10

The Long Story Short Class: Incarnation

On to the New Testament! We begin this week by establishing the context to which Jesus is born into, as well as why at the turn to the New Testament, the original writings change from Hebrew to Greek. Dr. David Bruner then guides us through the introductions to each of the 4 gospels before diving head-first into one of the deepest and most challenging chapters of the whole bible, John 1.

Long Story Short: Incarnation

God's pursuit of His people is relentless and neverending. To the end that God Himself become incarnate - God became one of us to reach all of us. Jesus knew in the depth of His soul who He was and what He came to do. The question He poses to us is, do we? Who do we say that Jesus is?
Matthew 3:13-17
Matthew 16:13-20

The Long Story Short Class: Comeback

This week, we close on the Old Testament of the bible. Dr. David Bruner gives us a look at the events following the Babylonian exile. While the Hebrew people may have had high-hopes for the rebuilding of the temple and their home city, the prolonged anti-climax of the following years is really a setup for better things to come.

Long Story Short: Comeback

After the people of Israel continued to reject God's advances through the prophets, God allowed the people to be taken from the Promised Land and exiled to foreign countries. But God provided a way for their return, as God's pursuit of His people is relentless and neverending.
2 Chronicles 36:22-23
Ezra 1:1-4; 3:8-11; 6:22

The Long Story Short Class: Warning

For better or worse, prophets both false and God-chosen alike had a huge impact on the history of God's people. We begin this week by looking at the time between the split of the kingdoms all the way through the conquering of the southern kingdom as well as get a reminder that this area of the bible is not completely chronological and more about different perspectives. Then, using Jeremiah as an example, Dr. David Bruner shows us how God used prophets to both try and guide and advise the Hebrew people and kings alike, and how complacency may have been the ultimate unraveling of the line of kings in Jerusalem.

Long Story Short: Warning

We usually think of a prophet as one who predicts future events – a foreteller. But a prophet's primary job was to hear the word of God and then proclaim it to His people. They're not so much foretellers as they are FORTH-tellers of God’s word. The prophets spoke in strange and shocking idioms in order to fulfill an almost impossible task. They were to proclaim the Word of the Lord to a people who had grown dull in their hearing. So the message of the prophets is intended to startle us, to wake us up, to help us to shrug off spiritual complacency and return again to God's will.
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Jeremiah 25:1-7
Ezekiel 26:22-28

The Long Story Short Class: Kingdom

The history of God's people and kings is a tumultuous one. Dr. David Bruner kicks us off by walking us through the time between Joshua and the installation of Israel's first king, Saul. We then dive into detail on David and Jereboam and how these two early kings are used as a benchmark for all the rest of the kings to come.

Long Story Short: Kingdom

Forgetting that God had set them apart to be distinct from all other nations, the people of Israel asked for a king so that they could be like all the other nations. Knowing that this would not turn out well, God still granted their request. Saul was appointed king, followed by David and then Solomon; all of whom sought to reign in faithfulness to God while making many, many errors, some of them life-or-death.
Mark 10:35-45
1 Samuel 8:1-22