Scripture Referenced

Matthew 7:12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Old Testament

God with our first parents in the garden (Genesis 1-2)

Sin as separation from God (Genesis 3)

Pillar of Fire, Cloud – God with and leading his people (Exodus 13, 14)

The ancient tabernacle – the presence of God among the people in the camp (Exodus 26)

Moses’ confidence in the Exodus was only if the presence of God went with the people (Exodus 33:12-16)

Promise of presence – I will be their God, they shall be my people (Ezekiel 37:15-28)

The Temple – where God’s presence dwelled (2 Chronicles 5)

New Testament

Jesus was called Emmanuel – God with us (Matthew 1)

The Word became Flesh – The Son of God dwelling/tabernacling with humanity as one of us (John 1:1-3, 14)

Jesus the New Temple (Mark 11)

The Church as a place of presence (Ephesians 2:11-22, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17)

The Communion Table as a place of presence and fellowship (1 Corinthians 10:14-22, Revelation 3:20)

He is with us in his mission (Matthew 28:18-20)

He will never leave or forsake us (Hebrews 13:4, 5)

The Kingdom of Heaven – The dwelling place of God in man (Revelation 21:3)

Scripture Referenced

Proverbs 16:25; Matthew 7:12-14; Matthew 22:34-40

Book Referenced

Scot McNight, The Story of God Bible Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

- John 14:15

- 1 John 5:3

- Romans 8

- Matthew 7:12-14

- Genesis 12:1-3

- 1 Peter 3:9

- Philippians 2:1-4

- 1 Corinthians 13

- 2 Corinthians 4:17, 18

Book Review Referenced

- Byron Williston, Wilfrid Laurier University, Tobias Hoffmann (ed.), Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present, The Catholic University of America Press, 2008 https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/weakness-of-will-from-plato-to-the-present/

Scripture Referenced

Numbers 13:30-32; Numbers 14:6-9

Joshua 21:43-45

Joshua 1:1-9

Resources Referenced

Hill and Walton, “Joshua” A Survey of the Old Testament, 217

The Gate of the Year a selection from a Poem Called "God Knows" by Minnie Haskins.

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown". And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way". So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

Scripture Referenced

Isaiah 46:8-1

Proverbs 21:31

Romans 8:28

Psalms 103:1-5; 136:1; 144:15

James 1:2-4

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Books Referenced

Grit - The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

"Overwhelmingly, the evidence showed that those who accomplished great things generally combined passion with perseverance."

Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

"Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end.”

Scripture Referenced

[7] You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:7

[29] “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29

Link Referenced

Curiosity is the Wick in the Candle of Learning, online at: https://extension.psu.edu/programs/betterkidcare/parents-families/families-count/curiosity-is-the-wick-in-the-candle-of-learning

Book Referenced

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/0143117467

Movies Referenced

- Free Guy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/

- The Matrix - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

- Wreck it Ralph - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/

Philosophical Concepts

- Berkeley and Idealism - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

- Don Hoffman's Conscious Realism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman

- Pantheism, Panentheism, Theism - https://www.theosophical.org/files/events/MahatmaLetters/About_God.pdf

Scriptures Referenced

- Creation - Genesis 1, 2

- Glitch - Genesis 3

- GameWorld/History - Isaiah 46:8-11

- God enters the game - John 1

- Makes a bunch of NPC's alive - John 3:5-8, Colossians 2:13-15

- Gives us a knowledge of what's true and good and really going on - Ephesians 1:7-12

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

- Matthew 7:24-27

- Psalm 69:1-3, 14-16

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

- Psalm 124 (quoted without reference)

- Psalm 29:10,11

Books Referenced

- For Augustine's reflections on the Summon Bonum see On the Moral Teaching of the Catholic Church, On the Nature of the Good, Book 19, The City of God

- The phrase Beauty and Barbed Wire can be found in John Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World?