by Shannon Popkin | Sep 6, 2023 | Faith, Genesis, God, Gospel, Podcast - Torah, Podcast 5, Rescue, Salvation, Sin, Witness
Does God care how I live? If He’s even real, could He make my life better? This story of Noah has all the answers to these questions and more. It’s not an easy story to take in, but it’s an important story and—unlike the people going about their...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 7, 2022 | Enemy, Faith, God, Hardship, Hope, Podcast - Torah, Podcast 4, Popular Podcast Episodes, Suffering, True Story of the Beginning
Knowing your origin story matters. Understanding Eden’s grand potential (Genesis 1-s), helps you understand the colossal fall in Genesis 3, and helps shape your understanding of the world and where you’ve come from, and where the story is headed. Think...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 18, 2021 | Beliefs, Church, Faith, Gospel, Podcast, Salvation
How can you stir up curiosity in someone who thinks the story of Jesus is irrelevant to their lives—especially at Christmas time? We’re welcoming Darin and Joy Stevens, who live in the UK, where it’s not that people are against God; they just don’t...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 24, 2021 | Faith, Gospel, Podcast, Salvation, Sin
Have you been born again? Do you know what this metaphor even means—and why Jesus used it to confront a Bible teacher named Nicodemus? And what about the metaphor of wind or the imagery of the snake on the pole? And why didn’t Jesus just use plain English… or...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 29, 2016 | Control Girl, Faith
“Betrothal” in Bible times was different than “engagement” today. It began with our equivalent of signing the marriage contract. So the couple was legally married during their (approximately) year long engagement, and then there was the...
by Shannon Popkin | Feb 26, 2015 | Faith, Uncategorized
I picked up my phone and looked at the picture in the text, first. It was my cousin’s piano, which she wanted to sell. Then I read her brief text. She said, “What do you think on the price? The pictures are attached.” I looked back at the piano,...