Rabbit Holes & Meditations - Christian Bible Study

He asked a question he already knew the answer to.

A man who studied the law for a living stood up in a crowd and asked Jesus what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus sent him back to the book he had spent his life inside. And the man answered perfectly — love God with everything, love your neighbour as yourself. Word for word. Nothing missing.

Jesus told him he was right, and to go do it.

That should have been the en...

You think it was about the ones the tower fell on.

It was never about them. It was about you — the one still standing.

Jesus is not preaching to a crowd of seekers here. Someone in the crowd hands Him the news: Pilate has butchered Galileans at the altar, their blood mixed with their sacrifices. And underneath the report is the oldest comfort in the world — they must have had it coming. They were worse. We’re fine...

You think watching means waiting. It doesn't.

Picture the servant most people imagine when Jesus says watch. Standing at a window. Scanning the dark. Nervous. Counting signs. Guessing the hour. That servant has already misread the command.

And Jesus is not talking to the crowd here. He is talking to His disciples — men who already call Him Lord, who have already left their nets, who already believe. This is not an altar call....

Jesus warns a crowd about covetousness. Then He tells a story where nothing is coveted.

Read it again. No neighbor’s field. No brother’s portion. Nothing stolen. Nothing envied. The rich man deals entirely in what is lawfully his — my fruits, my barns, my goods. If covetousness means wanting what belongs to another man, this parable misses its own point.

It doesn’t. You’ve been carrying the wrong defin...

You have prayed your whole life. You still might not know how.

The men who followed Jesus prayed constantly. Shema at dawn and dark. The eighteen benedictions, three times a day, every day, from childhood. They had more prayer in a week than most of us have in a year. And they watched Him pray, and said: teach us. We do not know how to do that.

Sit with that. The most prayerful men alive asked a carpenter to teach them to pray.

Bec...

You think the Parable of the Dragnet is a threat. Look at who heard it.

Matthew 13. Jesus sends the multitude away. He goes into the house. The crowd is gone. Only the disciples are left — men who dropped their nets, left the tax booth, walked away from everything. And it is to them, privately, that Jesus tells His last parable of the day. A net swept through the sea. Every kind gathered. Drawn to shore when full. The good in...

I don't get rattled much by what's going on in the world, but the production of this podcast has stirred some anxiousness deep in my soul. Not because of what Revelation says, but because of the plausibility of what we're presenting.

Everybody watching the field of AI has no doubt crossed paths with Yampolskiy. We watched an interview with him and then asked a simple question. Can we extrapolate what Yampolskiy is saying and overla...

You’ve heard this parable your whole life. Two verses. A merchant, a pearl, a sale. Simple — until you notice where Jesus said it, and to whom.

Not to the crowds. Matthew is explicit: Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him (Matthew 13:36). The Pearl of Great Price was never public teaching. It was spoken behind a closed door, to twelve men who had already sold everyt...

One verse. That is the whole parable. And almost everyone reads it as a sales pitch — Jesus persuading seekers to consider the kingdom. Read the chapter again. The crowds were already gone.

Matthew 13:44 was spoken inside a house, after Jesus sent the multitude away. The only people in the room were disciples — men who had already left boats, nets, tax tables, and family businesses to follow Him. This is not an altar ca...

You have been told this parable is about corruption. Look again.

One sentence. That is all Jesus gave them. The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened (Matthew 13:33). No story. No explanation. He explained the Sower. He explained the Tares. This one He left in silence — and the silence was the point.

He was speaking to the multitude. Ordinary ...

For three thousand years the prophets mocked the idols of the nations with a single taunt: "They have mouths, but they speak not... there is no breath at all in the midst of it" (Psalm 115:5; Habakkuk 2:19). Every idol in history was silent. Then Revelation 13 describes the day the silence ends — an image made by human hands, given breath, that speaks, deceive...

A seed you could lose in the crease of your palm. A tree so large the birds of the air move into its branches. And a quiet, centuries-long argument over what those birds are doing there.

Jesus told the Parable of the Mustard Seed to the crowds, and three Gospels carry it. He explained the Sower. He explained the Wheat and the Tares figure by figure, in private, at His disciples’ request. This one He never explained at all. He...

Jesus explained this parable Himself. Symbol by symbol. And His explanation dismantles the chart on your church wall.

The crowd got a story: a man sowed good seed in his field, and while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. The disciples got more. They came to Him privately, in the house, and asked. And He answered with a key no other parable receives. The sower is the Son of man. The field i...

I won't lie, this gets heavy. I almost didn't publish this episode but decided that this podcast, as much as it is about Christianity and biblical truth, is also about a journey... mine obviously. So I hope it's provocative and mind-bending. For me, going through this was convicting. When I created the article (in the notes), I decided not to push that personal experience into the background. I think it's important to see a real pe...

There is a verse that makes people close their Bibles.

Jesus, explaining why He teaches in parables: that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them (Mark 4:12).

Read it plainly. It sounds like He tells stories so people won't understand. So they won't repent. So they won't be forgiven. It sounds like conceal...

“He knoweth not how.”

That is what Jesus says about the man at the center of this parable. A farmer. He plants the seed. He brings in the harvest. And everything that matters in between — the growing — happens without him. By a power he cannot see. Cannot explain. Cannot control.

Read that again. The man does not know how.

Jesus said this to a crowd that wanted a kingdom they could watch arrive — by fo...