100: Weeping and Whooping (Ezra 1-4)

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Episode 100!
I need to say that again.
Episode 100!
Almost two years into the journey and we're still only 15 books into the 66 book epic that is the Bible.
Still, why rush. You see a lot more from a slower bus.
You join us at the start of the Book of Ezra, an exiled Jew who has returned to Jerusalem to rebuild its temple, a project that is not without its obstacles.
Fun fact: Ezra probably also wrote the Books of Kings and Chronicles.
Chapters covered: Ezra 1-4
Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff
Thanks to:
The NIV Zondervan Study Bible edited by D A Carson, Zondervan, 2017

The Holy Bible Thompson Chain Reference Edition edited by Frank Charles Thompson, Hodder and Stoughton, 1986

The NIV Study Bible edited by Kenneth Barker, Zondervan, 1984

Life Application Study Bible edited by Dr Bruce B Barton, Kingsway, 2011

Holy Bible NIV Version edited by Biblica, Hodder and Stoughton, 2011

The New Compact Bible Dictionary by T Alton Bryant, Zondervan, 1987

Unlocking the Bible by David Pawson, Collins, 2007

The Lion Handbook to the Bible by David Alexander, Lion Hudson, 2009

The New Bible Dictionary by J D Douglas, Tyndale House, 1982

The Compact Bible Dictionary by Ronald Youngblood, Nelson, 2004

The Bible Application Handbook by J I Packer and Derek Williams, Eagle, 2001

The Bible From Scratch by Simon Jenkins, Lion Hudson, 2009

The World Jesus Knew by Anne Punton, Monarch, 2001

I Never Knew That About Scotland by Christopher Winn, Ebury, 2007

Trivia For the Toilet by Gavin Webster, Barnes and Noble, 2006

Biblegateway.org

Gotquestions.org

Quora.com

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Livescience.com

Interestingliterature.com

Biblicalarchaeology.org

Answersingenesis.org

I am also hugely grateful for the pearls of wisdom shared by various speakers at events that I have attended and whose wisdom has helped me enormously, to the organisers of New Wine and Greenbelt Festival where I have been able to listen in and to wise and godly friends who have explained things in a language which I can understand. Thank you to:

R T Kendall, former pastor at Westminster Chapel

Dr Jamie Davies, tutor in New Testament, Trinity College, Bristol

Rev Stephen MacLean, pastor at Cricklewood Baptist Church

Mike Yaconelli (1942-2003), former pastor of Grace Community Church, Yreka CA

Steve Chalke, minister of Oasis Church, Waterloo

Nicky Gumbel, founder of the Alpha Course

Canon J John, founder of the Philo Trust

John Grant, former moderator at the London Baptist Association

Tony and Brenda Lenthall, missionaries and friends.

John Peters, Vicar of St Mary’s Bryanston Square

Tony Campolo, pastor and writer.

Shane Claiborne, Christian Activist

Sandy Millar, former vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton

Peter Owen Jones, vicar, writer and broadcaster

Stuart Burgess, former Methodist chaplain to Birmingham University

Rico Tice, Associate minister at All Souls Langham Place

Damon and Sharron, missionaries

John Griffiths, advertising strategist and Bible fanatic

Jon Leach, strategist and atheist

Keith Van der Shaw, minister of Bay Church, Blackman Bay, Tasmania.

Dan Hedley, minister of Snug Church, Tasmania

The men in Andy Bosveld’s shed.

And all my non-Christian friends and colleagues whose doubts have helped me shape the content and style of this podcast