HELLO BIBLE Podcast with Richard and Michelle. HelloBible is a place where we can meet scripture all over again for the first time, revisiting the stories you may have heard but never understood. Let’s learn the stories you missed in church and dig into the ones you thought you knew while relating it all to life, marriage, ministry, and scripture.
HelloBible with Richard and Michelle
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HELLO BIBLE Podcast with Richard and Michelle. HelloBible is a place where we can meet scripture all over again for the first time, revisiting the stories you may have heard but never understood. Let’s learn the stories you missed in church and dig into the ones you thought you knew while relating it all to life, marriage, ministry, and scripture.
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October 18, 2025
Spooky Scary Bible?! KPop Demon Hunters and Hallowed E'een
<p>Spooky season is here! Since it is time for (Holy) Ghost Stories, we’re having casual talk about Demon Hunters (the K-Pop kind) and a little about weather Christian should celebrate Halloween (the Hallowed-Evening, anyone?) </p><p><br></p><p>We’re having fun talking about Christian moms and other cultural topics this October. </p><p><br></p><p>Regarding Halloween and Samhain (pronounced sow-een), the earliest written sources date around the 9th century onward, which All Saint’s Day has early Christian roots from the 2nd Century forward, until it fairly landed on it’s October-November date in the 700’s. There is much talk about pre-christian celebration of the Samhain festival, but it is based off speculation of oral-tradion recorded much later at a date, which is why we figure that the practically universally celebrated turning-of-the-season festivals celebrated by most cultures is simply something we have to consider. </p><p><br></p><p>That Christians would celebrate at this time is not co-opting a pagan holiday, it is simply a time of year where celebrating and remembrance happens, and Christian’s have culture and celebrations as well! So, let’s celebrate! Honor God and remember the faithful heroes of the past. Eat food and have friends over! </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Side note - the audio exported strangely this time around, so we apologize for that as we hammer out our technical stuff! Captions are provided in our video versions of this episode.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>READ FURTHER:</strong></p><ul><li>“All Saints Day,” Cross, F. L., and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, eds. 2005. In The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed. rev. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.</li><li>“Samhain,” Hillary Smith, World History Encyclopedia</li><li>Langgärtner, Georg. 1999–2003. “All Saints’ Day.” In The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI; Leiden, Netherlands: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Brill.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>BIBLE READING SUGGESTIONS:</strong></p><ul><li>Colossians 2:16-17 - Paul’s thought on the freedoms to celebrate</li><li>Romans 14 on matters of conscience and integrity</li><li>1 Corinthians 10 on freedoms, idolatry, and glorifying God</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
August 10, 2025
One Size DOES NOT Fit All - Making Unique Spiritual Connections
<p><strong>Tired of hearing: “Go to church, read your bible, and pray” when you express feeling distant from God? It can feel like a one-size-fits-all to your unique place in life… </strong>This episode might be a good dive into a new way of looking at connecting with god through Gary Thomas’ “Sacred Pathways.”</p><p><br></p><p>Similar to how we can understand the way people work and relate through personality assessments like Enneagram and Myers-Briggs or Love Language tests, Thomas presents a great framework that may help many of us reconnect with God in a way that is both biblical and fits our personal spiritual temperaments.</p><p><br></p><p>**COMMENT YOUR SACRED PATHWAY TEMPERAMENT IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!**</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s talk all things personality and spirituality today on Hello Bible!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>“Good spiritual directors understand that people have different spiritual temperaments, that what feeds one doesn’t feed all. Giving the same spiritual prescription to every struggling Christian is no less irresponsible than a doctor prescribing penicillin to every patient.” - Gary Thomas</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>TAKE A SACRED PATHWAY ASSESSMENT </strong><a href="https://groupleaders.org/curriculum-feed/spiritual-pathways-activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>HERE</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>READ FURTHER: All About Personality!</strong></p><p>- Sacred Pathways - Gary Thomas (Highlighted book!)</p><p>- Celebration of Discipline - Richard Foster</p><p>- Five Love Languages Series - Gary Chapman</p><p>- The Road Back to You - Ian Cron*</p><p>- Discover Your God-Given Gifts -Dn & Katie Fortune</p><p>- StrengthsQuest (StrengthFinder Assessment) - Donald Clifton, et al.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>BIBLE READING:</strong></p><p>- 1 Corinthians 12:14-20 - One Body, Many Parts</p><p>- Romans 12:4–8 - The “Motivational Gifts”</p><p>- 1 Corinthians 12:4–11 - The “Gifts of the Spirit”</p><p>- Ephesians 4:11-14 - The “Gifts/Offices of the Church”</p><p><br></p><p>- - - - - - - - </p><p>*We totally understand that there are varied views on the Enneagram, so choose wisely. It’s included here because the framework has been helpful to Michelle and myself, even though there is a debate on its origins and place within Christian life. We find that the general thoughts and categories are useful, similar to other personality assessments like MBTI, Big 5, DiSC, etc. and are seen as tools, supplemental to understanding ourselves. We would totally agree that Scripture is designed to be central in our understanding personal identity and not any personality assessment.</p>
July 4, 2025
Heaven - A Nice Place to Visit, But I Wouldn't Want To Live There!
<p>What is Heaven like? Do we stay there, is it the place we are supposed to go to after we die? </p><p><br></p><p>The Bible's story may actually tell us a different answer than we assume... That's right, "Heaven" as we imagine it from the cartoons of our childhood, may not be where our "forever home" is. </p><p><br></p><p>Scripture points us to a New Heaven and New Earth, where our forever is much more of an Eden on Earth 2.0 - a physical place of fullness that we get to adventure in and enjoy for eternity with God's presence. Embracing a totally and solely spiritual afterlife apart from a material restoration is a platonic (even gnostic) belief that rejects the physical world as irredeemably corrupted. </p><p><br></p><p>From the first page of the Bible, we see God create a beautiful, pure, physical world created for embodied, physical humans. And the place that God started is where He wants our Human Family to continue on in our forever!</p><p><br></p><p>"When Paul says that his desire is ‘to depart and be with Christ, which is far better’, he is indeed thinking of a blissful life with his Lord immediately after death, but this is only the prelude to the resurrection itself.... the early Christians hold firmly to a two-step belief about the future: first, death and whatever lies immediately beyond; second, a new bodily existence in a newly remade world." </p><p>-N.T. Wright from "Surprised by Hope"</p><p><br></p><p>Let's dive in and talk about what things may be like after our life here is done.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Scripture to Read:</p><ul><li>Ezekiel 37:27 </li><li>Isaiah 65:17; 66:22</li><li>Romans 8:19-23</li><li>2 Peter 3:10-13</li><li>Revelation 21-22</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Additional Reading: (<a href="https://www.logos.com/partner-fundamentals-offer?utm_source=Richard+Villanueva&utm_medium=partner&ClickID=07_210302283_6da264dd-3061-402e-9098-0a98a9fd873c" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Study using Logos Bible Software!</a>)</p><ul><li>C.S. Lewis, "The Great Divorce"</li><li>N.T. Wright, "Surprised by Hope"</li><li>Dr. Kenneth Gentry, "The new Creation," Tabletalk Magazine, March 2004: The New Heavens and the New Earth. 2004.</li><li>P. S. Johnston. “Heaven.” In New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2000.</li></ul>
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