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Carol Costello Presents: The God Hook

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1 | The False Prophet 35:56

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In this premiere episode of "The God Hook," host Carol Costello introduces the chilling story of Richard Beasley, infamously known as the Ohio Craigslist Killer. In previously unreleased jailhouse recordings, Beasley portrays himself as a devout Christian, concealing his manipulative and predatory behavior. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Beasley's deceitfulness extends beyond the victims he buried in shallow graves. Listen to the preview of a bonus conversation between Carol and Emily available after the episode. Additional info at carolcostellopresents.com . Do you have questions about this series? Submit them for future Q&A episodes . Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see additional videos, photos, and conversations. For early and ad-free episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to the podcast via Supporting Cast or Apple Podcasts. EPISODE CREDITS Host - Carol Costello Co-Host - Emily Pelphrey Producer - Chris Aiola Sound Design & Mixing - Lochlainn Harte Mixing Supervisor - Sean Rule-Hoffman Production Director - Brigid Coyne Executive Producer - Gerardo Orlando Original Music - Timothy Law Snyder SPECIAL THANKS Kevin Huffman Zoe Louisa Lewis GUESTS Doug Oplinger - Former Managing Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal Volkan Topalli - Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology Amir Hussain - Professor of Theological Studies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://evergreenpodcasts.supportingcast.fm…

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Learning about God’s grace from Scripture & Passing that grace on to others.

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Proselytizing in Prison: Letting our faith see the light 22:59

3 days ago22:59

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I once ditched a boring "team building" academic meeting to hang out for a bit with a bunch of jail prisoners. One of them was a man who had been incarcerated for sleeping in the snow on someone's private property. He was planning a Bible study session with the rest of his Christian inmates. In this podcast, we look at Paul, who also proselytized while in prison - and quite successfully. We see what this means when it comes to living not for the things of this world, but for the joy of God's world.…

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We Are All Ants: Carrying holy crumbs 23:06

10 days ago23:06

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Quantum physics tells us that we understand very little about the physical matter that makes up the universe, the way we proceed through time, and the nature of events in the universe. We consider Tony the ant, who lives in an anthill, bringing carrying huge crumbs of unidentifiable organic material back to the anthill. The most important and powerful people who live in this world, who live in the Kingdom of People, are like Tony the Ant when he manages to bring back a piece of pure dark chocolate. It is a blazing success that, in the greater scheme of the universe, is incredibly minor. What truly matters is what we do in the Kingdom of God. We consider what this means, how to accomplish it, and what the Bible says about the way God wants us to live in the anthill.…

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A Good Name and a Good Website Name 22:45

17 days ago22:45

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We look at Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, and at how I managed to get BuzzKing.com as my domain. We see that Proverbs and Ecclesiastes both tell us about the importance of having a good name. They also tell us that it is important that we, as believers, remember that we represent the Church at all times. We need to protect our good name - and the good name of the Church. We also see that there comes a time - at death - when all that we might have obtained by corrupting ourselves in this life disappears, and all that is left is our name.…

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Every Day Is Easter: We can all rise 23:21

24 days ago23:21

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I once sat with a woman in her nineties who was on comfort care. Her adult children could not be there because they were out of the country, so I was with her. She ended up telling me why she had no fear whatsoever of death - and it had to do with Easter. We take a bit of a biblical survey, looking at both the literal version of the Easter story, and at the more personal side of the resurrection story. We see that getting caught up in defending the resurrection from a scientific perspective misses the true gift of Easter to each of us personally.…

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The Skull: Faith and Forgiveness 19:02

26 days ago19:02

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Luke tells us that Jesus died at a place called The Skull, from which we derive the Latin word Calvary. I once saw a skull of a Pueblo Indian. The goal of the display was to show us that the Pueblos ground corn with sandstone, and so when they ate cornmeal, they also chewed on grit, thus wearing down their molars. But to me, the skull reminded me that real people - long dead - once lived in those cave dwellings. Jesus chose his death at The Skull to tell give us the most important advice ever offered humanity, and he backed it up with Old Testament references.…

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Palm Sunday, to a Kid of Cement and Steel: The donkey as a symbol of peace and royalty 23:02

4 weeks ago23:02

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We look at the two times in my life that I have encountered donkeys, once as a boy on the edge of town, and once in Santorini, Greece. These incidents remind me of the two biblical qualities of donkeys, and why this makes the donkey the perfect animal for Jesus to ride into Jerusalem. We also look at why Jesus was not the savior that many people in Jerusalem were hoping for, and this reinforces why he was indeed on a donkey. We look, as well, at the Old Testament prediction of a king on a donkey...…

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3D Animation: Was Joseph an autistic genius? 24:01

5 weeks ago24:01

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I taught 3D modeling and animation at my university. I had a student who apparently was on the autism spectrum, and one day I knocked his notebook computer off his desk onto the floor - and he did not react. We look at a figure from the Old Testament, one of the fathers of the Israelite people, Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers. There is a theory that he was also on the spectrum. We look at what we can learn about faith, forgiveness, and achieving all we can as we strive to serve God and God's people.…

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The Meeting Place: Riding on three tires and a rim 23:01

6 weeks ago23:01

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We look at the construction of the Tabernacle in Exodus - and at a man whom I once drove behind as he bounced along on three wheels and a broken rim. His determination to make his journey, to get to his meeting place, reminds us of where God is truly located, where God lives. We also see that although history has assumed that the Israelites and Jews thought that they had to be in the Temple to be with God, their beliefs were not so different than ours, or of that man throwing up sparks as he drove down Venice Boulevard.…

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The Sylmar Earthquake: Fish all over the floor 25:11

7 weeks ago25:11

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When I was 15, there was an Earthquake that did a lot of damage in Southern California. A fish store that I frequented had all its aquariums land on the cement floor. It was a huge failure, a loss for the owner. We talk about one of the biggest failures in the Bible, Peter denying Jesus after Jesus had wanted him to serve as the rock upon which he would build his church. Peter did rise up, however, and do just that. He overcame his failure. But he was also executed, we believe, for his trouble. We talk about letting God take our failures and turn them into successes - and about letting God decide just what sort of success we will achieve.…

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Making it to Spain: The Pickpocket 22:40

8 weeks ago22:40

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We look at the long-standing mystery of whether Paul the evangelist ever made it all the way to Spain - and we look at Buzz making it to Spain, but hardly behaving the way Jesus would have. We consider the historical data that supports the theory that Paul spread the Word in Spain. We look at what Paul had to say about forgiveness in Romans, the letter to the church he wanted to visit on his way to Spain...…

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Only one rudder, only one sail 25:20

9 weeks ago25:20

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We look at Noah's ark - the story that is eerily similar to older, polytheistic flood stories. We consider the act of God destroying all of humanity, due to its total corruption, but showing enough mercy to allow a remnant to survive. We look at a natural disaster, a much smaller flood, that happened in Colorado, and how such natural phenomena remind us of our vulnerability, our dependency on God. We note that in the flood story, the Ark is engineered by God to very specific details: height, length, width, the number of decks, and what it is to be made out of. But nowhere does God provide what would seemingly be very critical information when making a boat that humans are going to occupy. Why was this information left out?…

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Voyage au centre de la Terre 22:05

10 weeks ago22:05

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My mother identified strongly as French. Thus, when my best friend's mother lent me Voyage to the Center of the Earth to read, she immediately took me to get the real version: the original French. We look at the story of these adventurers and their naivety. We also look at Proverbs, Chapter 2, and a speech to a son by a father, who is trying to teach the son about the importance of gaining wisdom and living the way God wants us to. We see the hidden relationship, as detailed by my friend's mother, between Voyage au centre de la Terre and Proverbs.…

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A torque wrench is like giving: Gaining Leverage 25:21

11 weeks ago25:21

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When I was a boy, my father ran a car shop with a buddy of his I called Uncle John. One day Uncle John taught me about torque wrenches and - more importantly - leverage. We talk in this episode about the reasons that a Christian gives, and the constrains on our practice of giving. We also talk about why giving is very much like the leverage we get from a torque wrench with a very long handle.…

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Pursued by God and a Turkish Carpet Salesman 23:02

12 weeks ago23:02

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Wendy and I were once in Istanbul. We were pursued aggressively by a Turkish carpet salesman who was desperate to make a sale, given their terrible economy. We look at Psalm 23, traditionally used at funerals and memorial services by Christians. But this Psalm is not about saying goodbye to a loved one. We look at what Psalm 23 is truly about - and why it reminds us of this relentless carpet salesman.…

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From the Old to the New Testament: From Fact to Fiction? 25:15

13 weeks ago25:15

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I once had dinner with Sony Bono. I did not write about this dinner contemporaneously and am only now talking about it more than forty years after this occurred. So, I might have some of the details wrong. The Bible is also not a contemporaneous document. There were also some reasons for the authors to twist or exaggerate parts of the story - they were telling us about faith, not about the literal details of ancient history. So what do we make of this? How does this impact our understanding of the Bible and our belief in God?…

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Dead Corneas: Pouring down a blessing 22:27

14 weeks ago22:27

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I have had both my corneas replaced with transplants. My left eye was repaired successfully with one graft, but my right eye proved very problematic. We look at the Israelites returning from exile in Babylon, only to find their farmlands in very poor shape and one oppressor (the Babylonians) replaced with another (the Persians). Malachi tells the People of God that they must be patient, that they must put their full trust in God. I had to live with only one eye working for some time. The Israelites had to live in far greater doubt...…

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A dead man and only goodness in the City of God 22:33

15 weeks ago22:33

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When I was a grad student at USC years ago, I came across a man lying on his back. He appeared to have been killed with a shotgun blast to his chest. We look at the mistake this man made in his life, how he did not learn the lesson of Augustine and of Solomon, and that is to make sure that what we create in life is only good. This leads us to understand why there appears to be a paradox that a good God would somehow create evil.…

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The Bible and numerology: no safety in numbers 25:12

16 weeks ago25:12

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We look at the heavy duty use of numerical symbolism in the Old and New Testaments. We examine specific numbers and what they meant. Then we address the bigger question: why the preoccupation with numbers? What about our preoccupation with things like mathematics, art, and literature? What about our preoccupation with video games and social media? What of this is good? What did God intend? Where do we find safety?…

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Earning privilege: A wall of boxes 24:10

17 weeks ago24:10

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When I was a young guy working in San Francisco as a computer programmer at an insurance company, I decided to do something a bit unethical to help my mother's claims get paid. I made a one character programmer error, though, that would later make me realize that God had been speaking to me. We look at 1st Peter and Romans, and we talk about what it means to truly strive toward perfection, to be like God as much as possible in this life. We also see that society today has even lower standards of morality than when I was a young man.…

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The New and Improved Testament 23:03

18 weeks ago23:03

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When I was in college, I had a friend with a schizophrenic mother. She thought that God had commissioned her to write a sort of new New Testament, or what we cruelly called the "New and Improved Testament". We look at the story of Adam and Eve - and why it is both a clear allegory and a sort of very literal story. We look at why my friend's mother never had to learn the lesson that Adam and Eve failed so badly at learning...…

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A minor car accident and a serpent 22:15

19 weeks ago22:15

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Some years ago, a sixteen year-old from Kansas accidentally slid on the ice and slightly damaged my parked car in Boulder. I had a terrible interaction with his father who angrily blamed his son for being careless. Then some weeks later I got a call from this farmer father... We look at a few Bible passages that tell us about just how a believer should behave. We also look at the issue of how we interpret the Bible. ----more----…

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Christmas Eve: When was Miguel born? 16:18

20 weeks ago16:18

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I had a friend when I was a kid. His name was Miguel and he was adopted off the streets of Tijuana. No one knew when he was born. The same is true of Jesus, in truth. We look at the evidence that suggests that Jesus was born on some other day than Dec. 25 - and we look at why we don't care about this...…

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David and Goliath, and four chalkboards of math 24:00

20 weeks ago24:00

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When I was getting my Ph.D. in Computer Science, I had to take an oral exam where I was told to prove a mathematical theorem. It was not the most natural task for me. We look at the story of David and Goliath - and how a determined, faithful man was able to do something that must have surprised many of those around him. We consider how putting full trust in God can enable us to do things we might otherwise not be able to do - and how it can empower us to find the life that God truly wants us to live.…

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An Advent Message: Singing for the Birth of a Child 9:02

21 weeks ago9:02

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We begin by looking at the somewhat scary birth of my wife Wendy's and mine first child. Then, this advent, we look at the birth of Jesus. In this podcast message, we consider Mary's song, from the Gospel of Luke, which praises God for the birth of Jesus and prophesies the important role that Jesus will play in humanity.…

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A boy named Susie 22:15

22 weeks ago22:15

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We look at the story of Ruth and how a young woman gives up any chance of a better life by moving back with her Jewish mother-in-law to Israel, a land that will hold her, Ruth, as a pagan and as inferior. God rewards Ruth, however, for her love and courage. We also look at my father's love of dogs, and a story about an apricot poodle that was left wandering after its owner died by herself in her house.…

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Listening to the Still, Small Voice 23:19

23 weeks ago23:19

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We look at Nazareth, both modern and ancient. We consider why it was almost certainly a holy place. We consider Jesus growing up in this tiny, backwater town - and how it must have influenced him. We consider the prophesy of the Messiah from Nazareth, the savior who would help us listen to that "still, small voice" of God, as described to us in Hebrew Scripture.…

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The Dangers of Herbivores 23:05

24 weeks ago23:05

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When I was a boy, I picked citrus with Mexican migrant workers. The men always looked after the boys. I tell a few stories of their unearned protection, their unearned grace. We look at the transition from the Old to the New Covenants, the suzerain contracts that God has made with his people. We look at the movement from having a sense of debt to God to earning God's acceptance only through faith. We also look at what this means in our everyday lives.…

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Jerusalem: A Walk with God 24:02

25 weeks ago24:02

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We look at the city and history of Jerusalem, from its ancient beginnings, several millennia ago, to the time of Christ, to now. We consider the people who pilgrimaged there from all over the Roman Empire, so that they could visit God's city, and visit the home of God, the Temple. We consider what this means to us today and to the nature and to future of our faith.…

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Fig Trees and Pumpkin Vines 22:27

26 weeks ago22:27

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I was quite the kid gardener as a boy. Once, I planted pumpkin seeds - a lot of them - in my parents' front yard. It did not turn out well. We look at the story of the withered fig tree, the money changers at the Temple, and the power of prayer. We see what it has in common with the pumpkin seeds. We see that Mark and Matthew tell different versions of the fig tree/money changers/prayer story - and we consider what this means.…

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The New Gnostics 22:26

27 weeks ago22:26

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I was once at the hospital, with an elderly man who was holding the hand of his dying wife. He had been the founder of an electronics firm that made advanced computer components. He said that computers were the most dangerous invention ever. He expressed, in a more aggressive fashion, that our modern addiction to digital information, in the form of videos, web pages, social media, texts, etc., and our belief that Google can truly enlighten us, is leading us to a new age of Gnosticism. We consider the history of Gnosticism, and what we need today to regain our natural, pure relationship with the true source of spiritual knowledge.…

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