God called Aaron to serve beside Moses and later entrusted him with Israel’s priesthood. His life demonstrates that God can accomplish His purposes through an imperfect servant while still taking both holiness and failure seriously.

Episode Aim: To help listeners see Aaron as more than Moses’ brother or the man associated with the golden calf. Scripture presents him as a man specifically called by God, gifted for service, entrusted with sacred responsibility, capable of serious failure, subject to divine discipline, and nevertheless used within God’s purposes for Israel.

Primary Scriptures: Exodus 4:10–16, 27–31; Exodus 28:1–3; Numbers 16:46–48

Supporting Scriptures: Exodus 7:1–2; Exodus 17:8–13; Exodus 24:1–14; Exodus 32:1–6, 21–24; Leviticus 8:1–12; Leviticus 10:1–3; Numbers 12:1–11; Numbers 20:7–12, 22–29; Deuteronomy 9:20

The resurrection is the historical, bodily raising of Jesus Christ from the dead on the third day, demonstrating His victory over sin and death and guaranteeing the future resurrection and eternal life of all who belong to Him.

Episode Aim: To help believers understand that Christianity stands or falls upon the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that because Christ lives, the believer possesses forgiveness, hope, victory over death, and the certainty of future resurrection.

Primary Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:12–22, John 11:25–26

Supporting Scriptures: Matthew 28:1–10, Luke 24:36–43, John 20:24–29, Acts 1:1–3, Acts 2:22–36, Acts 17:30–31, Romans 1:4, Romans 4:24–25, Romans 6:4–11, 1 Corinthians 15:3–8, 35–58, 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, Revelation 1:17–18

The Christian life includes wonderful truths that are already ours in Christ, but Scripture also points believers toward something still to come. We have eternal life now. We belong to God now. Yet we still struggle with sin, suffer, grow weary, and live in mortal bodies. Our present condition is not our final condition.

In this episode of Written and Read, Dr. Robert Crowder and McKenzie Fleming examine the biblical doctrine of glorification. Beginning with the promise of 1 John 3 that “when he shall appear, we shall be like him,” they consider what Scripture says about the future transformation of everyone who belongs to Christ. Philippians 3 points to Christ changing our present bodies, while Romans 8 places present suffering alongside the glory God has promised.

Glorification is not human self-improvement carried to its highest level. It is God's future work in the believer when Christ comes. The presence of sin will finally be gone, our present mortality will give way to the future God has promised, and we will be fitted for eternal life in His presence. Christian hope therefore looks beyond present weakness and suffering toward Christ Himself and the day when we shall see Him as He is.

Primary Scriptures

1 John 3:2–3; Philippians 3:20–21

Secondary/Supporting Scriptures

Romans 8:18–30; 1 Corinthians 15:49–53; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; Revelation 21:1–5