Character in Context

Nov 15 2024 100 ep. 38 mins 32

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Welcome to Character in Context with Tyler Dawn Rosenquist, where we explore Scripture in its original historical context and talk about how God is communicating His expectations to us as His image-bearers—Because, after all, if all this information doesn’t bring us closer to God’s character, it’s just useless brain candy...

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Episode 194: The Akeida—Genesis 22 for Grownups

Nov 15 2024 29 mins

There is so much context here! But what stands out in Genesis 22 more than anything are the conflicting emotions and turmoil. Tired of platitudes and pat answers to the hard questions? Me too. There is a lot going on here that too many people don’t even want to acknowledge. This is a text tailor made to be wrestled with and we aren’t given any easy answers to important question

Episode 193: Sukkot and the Great Wilderness Reset

Oct 08 2024 19 mins

Although what we see today in Jerusalem is more like tabernacling for a week in some pretty elaborate, luxurious, and comfortable “temporary dwellings,” the original command to observe the festival of Sukkot was a memorial to those difficult wilderness years when diligently following the cloud and fire and gathering the daily manna was a mater of life and death. How does this r

Episode 192: Yom Kippur and the Great Cosmic Community Reset

Oct 08 2024 14 mins

Yom Kippur, apart from being the holiest day of the year, was also the happiest. There’s just something about setting things right with God that is incredibly satisfying. Yes there was fasting and somber reflection because it isn’t joyous to have to watch the High Priest clean up the defilement of the community through blood cleansing, and it wouldn’t have been appropriate to

Episode 191: Tishri 1 and the Great Cosmic Kingship Reset

Sep 30 2024 14 mins

Chag Sameach! Happy Rosh Hashanah/Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets! This is a series I did for an online conference back when I was younger and thinner and not hacking up a lung. Just kidding, my lungs are right where they belong but they aren’t happy about it. Since I am under the weather this year in a big way (I shouldn’t hug and kiss sick people but that’s why I get everythin

Episode 190: Gen 21 for the grownups, part 1

Aug 19 2024 29 mins

I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am that I can teach this chapter without having to go into gory details about sexual nonsense and, as such, anyone can listen to this Context for Kids supplemental teaching on the first portion of Gen 21, which covers the birth of Isaac and the exile of Ishmael and Hagar. Things won’t get awkward again until Gen 29, thankfully—at lea

Episode 189: Genesis 20 --Abraham's Sister? A Headache of a Chapter

Jun 17 2024 26 mins

I am about to begin teaching the kids about Genesis 20 and 21 over on Context for Kids and so it is time to explore the disturbing implications of what is said in Genesis 20 back to what wasn't said in Genesis 12 when Pharaoh took Sarai.Transcript: https://theancientbridge.com/2024/06/episode-189-genesis-20-abrahams-sister-a-headache-of-a-chapter/YouTube: https://youtu.be/CD1jhyK8s

Episode 188: Stuff I Can’t Teach Kids about Sodom and Gomorrah

Apr 11 2024 28 mins

Ugh. When I started my Context for Kids radio show, I was just dreading this series. Genesis 19—really the only chapter in the Bible I would want to teach even less is Judges 19. But, I can’t skip it over, right? I will be teaching the kids Genesis 19 interpretation by using the prophets and how they viewed and spoke about Sodom—as an unhospitable and oppressively wicked soci

Episode 187: Hospitality or not? Rahab, Yael, Abigail, and Lydia in Context

Mar 01 2024 19 mins

Now that we’ve covered the ancient rules for hospitality, I want to talk about the commonly misunderstood accounts of Rahab, Yael and Abigail. And we’ll also talk about how the world had changed by the time of the apostles with a quick look at Lydia.Transcript: https://theancientbridge.com/2024/03/episode-187-hospitality-or-not-rahab-yael-abigail-and-lydia-in-context/YouTube: h

Episode 186: Hospitality, Family, and Travel in the Days of Sodom

Feb 22 2024 27 mins

Genesis chapters 18 and 19 read as very shallow morality tales without an intimate understanding of the social dynamics going on in the arena of hospitality expectations. This is the first of two teachings describing the established parameters and rituals associated with dealing with strangers to a community and the who, what, when, where and why’s of offering sustenance and lodg

Episode 185: Are we Modeling Good Fruit or Folly?

Jan 24 2024 32 mins

This is a companion and more intensive lesson for adults based upon my current series on Context for Kids on "being like Jesus." Transcript: https://theancientbridge.com/2024/01/episode-185-are-we-modeling-good-fruit-or-folly/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/qh8SjoSnwiA