About Rabbit Holes & Meditations - Understanding the Bible
Tired of preachy, judgmental sermons? Rabbit Holes & Meditations is a Bible study podcast that trades performance for honest Christian conversation. We walk through Jesus’ words chronologically (this season), chase down the “rabbit holes” most people avoid, and let Scripture interpret Scripture.
This show is for intentionally curious Christians who want depth without the drama. Sometimes we’ll spend 30 minutes on two verses—because careful reading matters. You’ll get biblical references, cross-references, deep dives, and real-life application around faith, fear, forgiveness, judgment, prayer, and hope—without being told what to think.
We follow a strict “Bible interprets the Bible” approach we call the Berean Bible Study Filter, designed to keep teaching grounded and unencumbered by third-party commentary. Bring your questions—nothing is off the table. Come curious, leave grounded.
In Luke chapter 4, the devil takes Jesus up high, shows Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and says, “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me.”
Jesus refuses the offer. But notice what He doesn’t do. He doesn’t say, “That isn’t yours.”
So how did this world end up in the enemy’s hands? And how does Jesus get it back?
The answer starts somewhere you might not expect: a real estate deal in the book of Jeremiah.
Jerusalem is under siege. The Babylonian army is at the walls. Jeremiah is a prisoner. And God tells him to go buy a field. He weighs out seventeen shekels of silver for land the enemy is about to take, seals the deed, and puts it in a clay jar to last many days.
Why would God tell a prophet to buy land he’ll never live on?
Because in Israel the land belonged to God, and when it was lost, a kinsman had the right to buy it back. That one ancient law, the law of the kinsman redeemer, runs from Eden to the cross to the throne room of Revelation 5, where heaven asks, “Who is worthy to open the book?”
Today we’re going to walk that thread step by step: who owned the world, who lost it, who has the right to redeem it, what it cost, and why the Redeemer had to be both our brother and God Himself.
Grab your Bible. Let’s go buy a field.
Josh Howerton’s Original Discussion That Inspired This Deepdive:
https://youtu.be/JA3cGvdKof0?si=pc_VATx7buaZkP7v
Article: The Kinsman Redeemer (For Bible Study)
https://50b.us/TheKinsmanRedeemer
Episode link:
https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-kinsman-redeemer/
15 Oct 2026
Why Tarriest Thou?
Baptism, the Command, and the Heart
“It’s just an outward expression of faith.” Many Christians describe baptism that way, and they usually mean it’s optional. Others go the opposite direction and treat the water as if it saves on its own.
Scripture rejects both views.
In this episode we look at what the text actually says about baptism. We start with the meaning of the word, then the command Jesus gave, and the fact that he was baptized himself and called it fulfilling all righteousness. From there we follow the apostles, who baptized converts the same day and sometimes the same hour. We trace the practice back to the washing of Israel’s priests before they could draw near to God. And we cover the warnings: Simon was baptized and had no part in the gospel, Judas was washed and still not clean, and Israel passed through the sea and fell in the wilderness.
We also take up the strongest objections head on: grace and works, Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians 1, and the thief on the cross. Then we come to Cornelius. He is often cited as proof that baptism isn’t necessary, but his case turns out to be one of the strongest arguments for it. He had already received the Spirit, and Peter still commanded him to be baptized.
If you believe and haven’t been baptized, the question Ananias put to Saul still applies: Why are you waiting?
Notes: Why Tarriests Thou?
Episode Link:
https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/why-tarriest-thou/
15 Oct 2026
The Bath, The Feet, and the Basin
I apologize in advance if sometimes this podcast seems to veer off a present trajectory but every time I do I deep dive, something sticks that makes me want to go deeper. My friends accuse me of being a walking hyperlink... guilty as charged : )
This came up in our last podcast, so I decided to return here and sit on this passage.
Most of us read straight past it. In the upper room, between Peter’s protest and Jesus’ lesson on service, there is one sentence: “He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.” (John 13:10)
That verse contains two washings. One is a bath that never needs to be repeated. The other is a washing of the feet that we need again and again. It also contains a warning: one man at that table had his feet washed by the Son of God and still was not clean.
In this episode we work through John 13 verse by verse. We follow the Greek words John chose, trace the pattern back to the priests’ laver in Exodus, and ask why it was the feet. The disciples had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. No one picked up the basin until the greatest in the room did. Peter and Judas both failed Jesus that night. What separated them was not the size of the failure but whether they came back to the basin.
We are clean. We will get our feet dirty. Come back to the basin, and then pick it up for someone else.
Notes: The Bath, The Feet and the Basin
Episode Link:
https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-bath-the-feet-and-the-basin/
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