Person
Tim Mackie
Preached and taught
Praying Through Our Fears
83% Amen6 ratings
This really opened something up for me in appreciating the psalms. David names fears that we can find analogues to and shows us how to hand them over to God.
Tim Mackie teaches on the Psalms as the language of prayer, focusing on how to pray through fears. The session includes a downloadable prayer book resource.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 1: What the Bible actually means when God says "Good"
100% Amen5 ratings
A fascinating and thought-provoking exploration of the Creation narrative and what it reveals about the Trinity and the nature of goodness.
The opening session of a 2024 teaching day on Genesis 1–3, in which Tim Mackie of BibleProject asks why God placed the tree of the knowledge of good and bad in Eden. He traces the Hebrew idea of “good” (tov) and the theme of human desire through Scripture as a picture of maturity.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 2: Why God withheld the tree (and what that teaches us about desire)
60% Amen5 ratings
Another excellent Mackie exploration/discussion, this time of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as well as the relationship between wisdom and God's word.
Tim Mackie continues his teaching on Genesis 1–3, asking why “knowing good and bad” was withheld from humans made in God's image. He contrasts receiving wisdom as a gift with seizing it on our own terms, and follows that pattern through the rest of Scripture.
Meditations on Genesis - Session 3: How Jesus becomes the human we were meant to be
100% Amen5 ratings
Another fascinating exploration of Creation vis-a-vis Jesus' baptism, temptation in the wilderness, and Sermon on the Mount.
In the final session on Genesis 1–3, Tim Mackie draws together the themes of desire, wisdom, and maturity, and shows how the New Testament presents Jesus as the faithful human who grows into wisdom rather than grasping at it.
Praying Through Doubt
100% Amen5 ratings
Tim Mackie opened up Psalm 73 for me with an excellent bit on "deconstructing doubt".
Tim Mackie teaches on Psalm 73, exploring how to pray through doubt and wrestle with questions of faith.
Praying Through Our Pain
80% Amen5 ratings
An excellent and entertaining exploration of Psalm 22, though surprisingly with no mention of the prophetic component. This talk really clarified the nature of prayer in general and praying through pain specifically.
Tim Mackie teaches on the Psalms as a language of prayer, specifically addressing how to pray through pain. The talk explores the structure and purpose of the Psalms as a model for expressing sorrow and struggle in prayer.
