Episode 2.70 Every New Year feels like standing at the edge of something new. Fresh starts. New resolutions. Another chance. But Scripture reminds us that real change rarely comes through dramatic leaps—it comes through faith...
The Crisis That Gave Birth to Modern Philosophy Episode 2.69 Before René Descartes ever said “I think, therefore I am,” Western thought was already in crisis. For nearly two thousand years, Aristotle’s philosophical system sh...
Episode 2.68 This Christmas Day episode presents a dramatic reading of the biblical nativity—told entirely through Scripture. Drawing from Luke 2:1–20, Matthew 1:18–2:12, and John 1:1–18, the story of Christ’s coming is heard...
Episode 2.67 What does it actually mean to say that God became man? In this episode of Take 2 Theology, the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity is explored—who became incarnate, what changed, and what did not. The...
Episode 2.66 Michael and Zach sit down with Tim Bryant, founder and president of the Lowcountry Biblical Counseling Center, for a wide-ranging conversation on what truly distinguishes biblical counseling from both secular app...
Episode 2.65 Every December, churches sing Joy to the World as if it were written for the manger. But historically—and theologically—that’s not quite true. In this episode, Michael and Zach explore the surprising origins of o...
Episode 2.64 This final episode brings the whole adoption series together by reviewing the Father’s plan, the Son’s costly redemption, and the Spirit’s sealing work—then turning the spotlight onto what Scripture says adoption...
Episode 2.63 This episode explores the biblical theme of naming—from Adam in Genesis to Jesus in Revelation—and shows how naming reveals authority, identity, mission, and destiny. Michael and Zach trace how Scripture uses nam...
Episode 2.62 Week 4 turns to the Holy Spirit and shows how He makes our adoption real, experiential, and secure. Building on the Father’s eternal plan (Ephesians 1) and the Son’s costly redemption (Galatians 4), Michael and Z...
Episode 2.61 You’ve probably heard that all the apostles were martyred—except John. But how much of that is actually true? Capping off their series on Paul, Michael and Zach take a historical look at the final days of the apo...
Episode 2.60 Psalm 92 stands alone in the Psalter — “A Song for the Sabbath.” It’s a perfectly balanced, chiastic psalm that blends praise, wisdom, and victory, with a single line shining at its center: “The LORD is on high f...
Episode 2.59 Almost everyone feels grateful—but not everyone practices thanksgiving. In this episode, Zach and Michael unpack a distinction Scripture makes far more clearly than we often realize: gratitude is an inward postur...
Episode 2.58 Adoption is not sentimental — it’s sacrificial. In this week’s episode, Zach and Michael turn from the Father’s loving plan to the Son’s redeeming work, showing that our adoption came at a staggering cost: the bl...
Episode 2.57 The letters are shorter now. The tone is quieter. The man who once turned the world upside down writes from a cell, preparing to hand the mission to others. In this final chapter of Paul’s story, Zach and Michael...
Episode 2.56 Before the world began, the Father had already decided to make us His own. In this week’s episode, Zach and Michael trace the doctrine of adoption back to its eternal source—God’s loving plan “before the foundati...
Episode 2.55 From a rented house in Rome, chained yet unbroken, Paul writes letters that overflow with gratitude and joy. In this episode, Zach and Michael explore how the apostle’s identity has shifted—from fiery defender to...
Episode 2.54 Adoption isn’t a side note to salvation—it’s the summit of it. In this opening week, Zach and Michael explore what Scripture means when it calls believers “sons of God.” Drawing from Ephesians 1, Romans 8, and Ga...
Episode 2.53 Paul’s life was a contradiction — beaten yet joyful, weak yet unstoppable. By the mid-50s A.D., he had endured rejection, imprisonment, and exhaustion. Yet his writings from this period reveal a man who found gra...
Episode 2.52 Two short books. One urgent message. Jude and 2 Peter sound like echoes of each other—warning about false teachers, moral corruption, and a church tempted to drift. But behind their similarities lies a sharp, Spi...
Episode 2.51 Before the shipwrecks and prison letters, Paul was a man under suspicion. Not one of the Twelve. A former persecutor now claiming divine authority. In his earliest writings—Galatians and 1 Thessalonians—Paul defe...
Episode 2.50 Who Said It? The Quotation Debate in James 2:18–19 What if a single pair of quotation marks changed how you understand faith and works? In this episode of Take 2 Theology, Zach and Michael unpack one of the most ...
Episode 2.49 Joy in chains. Unity through humility. Strength through surrender. In this second part of Chains and the Gospel, Zach and Michael dive deep into the book of Philippians—Paul’s most personal and joy-filled letter,...
Episode 2.48 Is the very idea of God enough to prove that God exists? In this episode, Zach and Michael unpack one of the most famous—and most misunderstood—arguments in philosophy: the Ontological Argument. From Anselm’s “th...
Episode 2.47 What would you write if you were chained to a Roman guard for your faith? Complaints? Regrets? Paul wrote joy. In this episode, Zach and Michael explore the first half of Paul’s Prison Epistles—Ephesians and Colo...