The Boundless Bible
The Boundless Bible is a podcast dedicated to discussing the many layers and perspectives the Bible offers to those interested in deepening their views and understanding.
Hosted by three friends from very different walks of life and life experiences, who've come together through curiosity of, and respect for, the living Word.
Our hosts are:
- DAVID SHAPIRO -- was born an Orthodox Jew, later an atheist, ex-military and MMA fighter, David heeded the call to Jesus and is now an ordained Pastor, specializing in Apologetics.
- JAVIER MARQUEZ -- Originally from Brooklyn, moved to LA to be an actor, and deeply found the Lord which led him to work in the church, lead Bible studies and grow his faith.
- JASON HOLLOWAY -- grew up in the church, left in college, and spent the next 2 decades immersed in learning world religion, spirituality, science, and mythology, recently returning to the Faith with renewed insight and perspective.
After a year of weekly discussions, we came to find that sharing and debating their different perspectives had become an exciting way to introduce new ideas to old thinking, grow their understanding, and strengthen their faith.
We are aware that there are many people out there who feel their questions haven't been answered, whose curiosity has been tamped down, or who just generally feel their community doesn't allow open dialogue, and our goal is to give those people a place to listen, ask questions, and engage with their curiosity to find a deeper and more robust connection to their faith.
The Boundless Bible
QUICK Qs: What is the First Clip in Your Spiritual Highlight Reel?
David, Javi, and Jason share their most meaningful faith moments in an intimate discussion about spiritual turning points. Each host reveals personal stories that mark significant milestones in their relationship with God.
• Javi describes being baptized alongside his wife as a powerful shared commitment to their faith journey
• David recounts finding a Bible with his late mother's name (Doreen) in a memory box, creating an unexpected divine connection
• Jason reflects on three serious accidents in his twenties where God protected him before he was a believer
• The hosts discuss how God remains present even when we don't recognize or acknowledge Him
• Conversation highlights how faith moments often become clearer and more meaningful in retrospect
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Welcome to the Boundless Bible. My name is David Shapiro, hey, I'm Javi Marquez and I'm Jason Holloway.
Jason:Quick questions with David. Wow, that's me. There we go. All right, guys, question time, let's do it.
David:All right, if you had a faith highlight reel, what moment would play first?
Jason:This is such an interesting question. Yeah, let me go first as the visual guy as the video guy, as the video guy, let's do it All right, av it up.
Javi:When I think about that, I think about the first clip that's coming into mind. It's me getting baptized with my wife.
Jason:No, way with my wife no way, yeah.
Javi:So we, you guys, did it together. Yeah, we did it together, I did not know that.
David:Yeah, yeah.
Javi:That's amazing, yeah, yeah. So we got a chance to kind of um come to faith together and just kind of give our life to Christ together, and we did the baptism together and it was amazing, we, we. It was just so great this journey together.
Javi:I'm not and I'm yeah to be honest, I'm one of the I don't want to say I'm one of the few, but to have somebody like my wife to be on this journey with me and we've started from the beginning on this journey is kind of it's been kind of great, um, yeah, and we got the best thing that's. That was to be the first thing, just getting celebrated people. Uh, we, we had dinner after. It was amazing, it was, it was just this is.
Javi:We didn't turn back that's the best thing about it. We just love it. That's awesome. Yeah, you have pictures. Maybe I gotta see. I probably got a video. I think you probably got a video literally see your highlight reel go for it.
David:uh, for me, my faith highlight reel would have to be I, um, when I graduated from seminary, um, I got a really beautiful Bible for my wife she gave me as a gift, just gorgeous. And I remember I started getting into collecting Bibles and I started collecting older Bibles and ones from the 1800s and as I was going through an old box, I saw a Bible in it.
David:I'm going why is there a Bible in here? And it wasn't something from a Jewish temple, it was just a regular Bible. And when I looked at it it had my mom's name on it, really, and yes, but not her. Her name was Doreen D-O-R-E-E-N, and this was Doreen, but the same middle name and same last name. What? And yeah, and I don don't.
David:I still have no idea if that was hers because she had passed, so I'm not sure if that was her box that you're talking about this was a memory box that I had that was filled with old memories, but I don't know if that was her bible or somebody else that. I have no idea how it got in there, but it was just that moment of again my, she had already passed by then.
Javi:She, she had already passed. That's why.
David:She accepted Jesus Christ right before her death. This was something that was a big, stirring moment in my faith, where I still wasn't a believer but then to find an old Bible that I'm collecting with her almost name on it, that is crazy. It was just one of those faith moments where I'm going all right, god like this is Well played. Yeah, this, this is good.
Jason:So that was, that was a faith moment. Yeah, you know, it's funny because when you ask the question a minute ago, obviously you want to think of the big ones, right, when you walked out for your baptism, down the altar call, or you know the moment that God touched you on the shoulder and said this is for you. And I've told all those stories, right. But, like, what actually hit me was the times when I wasn't a Christian, and specifically my twenties. You know, I I actually got in two really, but three actually, 19, 20 and 20 something else I got in really bad accidents that I should have been destroyed. I mean, they were all terrible, terrible accidents.
Jason:And I remember, after the shock had worn off and I wasn't a Christian anymore, thinking, okay, I don't know, god was present with me. He was telling me like and I didn't want to accept it because that's what I was at that time I'm like, no, this can't be. But I remember having these conversations with God as a non-Christian saying why did you save me? Why did you let me stay here? Everybody else, every Christian, would tell me like, oh, there's something bigger that you're meant to do, and I don't know it and I'll never know it.
Jason:I'm getting choked up right now, like and I didn't know it and I didn't believe it at that time and it was really intense to be sitting there having a conversation with God as a non-believer and being so in my own hole that I couldn't even see it at the moment. And now I look back and I'm like it was right there. It was literally like that footprints poem, like even when there was one set of footprints, it was not just you, that was me and like that was it. Like he was literally like holding me in his arms and like walking me through these stupid things that I had gotten myself into. And and I'm still sitting there talking about me, me, me, me, me, and. But I was having these conversations and it's really beautiful to look back in retrospect and think how clearly he was there, even when I wasn't there for him. Yeah, yeah, and that's a wild thing.
Javi:And that's the thing.
Jason:Love. I mean, that's nothing but love Like that's truly intensely, furiously true love.
Javi:So yeah, that's mine, that's awesome.
Jason:This was a good one. Yeah, fun times, guys, all right.
Javi:All right, see ya Later, guys. Bye.
