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Advertising Creative Director Chas Bayfield takes you on a road trip through the Bible, leaving one significant item of baggage at home- religion. He tells the story from Genesis to Revelation and explains how this more than any other book has impacted western culture. Wholly Buyable is a podcast for people who might never normally pick up a Bible but who feel they should perhaps know a little more about it than they currently do. After all, the Bible is a book for everyone, not just believers. Listeners will be taken through action sequences worthy of a 21st century TV drama. They will be seduced by erotic poetry and bombarded with hallucinatory visions. Fill your boots with betrayal, brutality, beauty and, believe it or not, comedy. This isn’t your average Bible podcast; no one will be told what to believe but everyone who joins in the journey will hopefully feel that they know the world’s best-selling book a little better.
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159: A Little Bird (Ecclesiastes 9-12)
In a book that rarely veers away from blank negativity and abject realism, the Teacher in Ecclesiastes gives readers yet another reality check:
The fast don’t always win the race nor are the strong guaranteed to prevail in battle.
The wise don’t always have enough to eat, the brilliant aren’t always rich and everyone is subject to the vagaries of time and chance.
We simply make the most of the cards we are dealt and find joy where we can.
(It'll come as no surprise that Ecclesiastes is one of the least quoted Old Testament books in the New Testament.)