24 Minute Bible - A Simple Journey to Understand the Bible

Episode #13: The Civil War of Israel Any  war is deeply tragic but especially so when the war is a Civil War pitting brother against brother and dividing a nation. Israel had experienced a unified Kingdom under its first three kings— Saul, David and Solomon.  That unity was now over, however, as Israel splits into two separate countries. The 10 tribes of the north would be called the&nbs...

Episode #12: We Three Kings of Israel After the time of the Judges, the people demanded a king.  So it was a king they got. The first three kings — Saul, David and Solomon— led a ‘United States of Israel’. That is, all 12 tribes were unified and the ‘nation’ of Israel was created. For 120 years Israel would experience a United ‘kingdom’. In this episode we seek to understand Israel under the...

EPISODE #11– Samuel the King Maker The children of Israel had experienced a number of ‘up’s and downs’ while settling into life in the Promised Land. The leadership of the Judges was not going well.  Maybe the answer was to become like ‘everyone else’. The nations around Israel all had Kings. ‘Ah, there’s the answer!  We want a King too!’ The books of 1st and 2nd Samuel detail the transi...

Episode #10: The Beauty of Ruth The book of Ruth is ‘beautiful’ on many levels. In it, we see the Hebrew Bible’s focus and honoring of women. In it, we see that one’s ‘country of origin’ does not matter to God as much as the ‘attitude of our heart’. And in it, we can ‘connect dots’ as God places a seemingly insignificant widowed Moabite women in the center of His will. Ruth will become the great g...

EPISODE #9– The Judges of Israel The Book of Judges is an interesting and insight record of the timeframe before Israel had Kings. Interesting because of the flawed and sometimes odd people God raised up to lead the people in this newly conquered Promised land... and insightful in the similarities to today’s world and our propensity toward ‘doing what is right in our own eyes’! Enjoy the journey i...

Episode #8: Joshua and the Land The Promises God made to Abraham are ALMOST fulfilled. From Abraham’s ‘loins’ has come a mighty people— the million plus nation known as Israel.  Then God provides for this might Nation an amazing set of ‘laws’ to live by (Exodus thru Deuteronomy). In this Episode, God fulfills His Promise of a LAND to call their own, as Joshua leads the people into the PROMISE...

In this episode of The 24 Minute Bible,  we look at the incredible impact of Moses the Lawgiver as he listens to God and writes down the commandments, rules and regulations for this new nation known as Israel. The books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy may be seen as dry and boring to some— indeed they can be— but these new precepts provide the basis for a government for Israel.&...

Moses sits at the very center of Western society. He is the man God used to form a New Nation— the nation of Israel.  In this Episode (#6) of the 24 Minute Bible podcast, we piece together the life of Moses, the timing of God and the events that forged a small tribe into a mighty Nation. Enjoy the journey as we learn about the foundational role Moses has in fulfilling God’s Promise to Abraham...

EPISODE #5– Abraham and His Kids Every family has a ‘beginning’— a Matriarch or Patriarch from which the biological lineage can be traced.  Jesus’ family was no exception.  God chose a man and his kids as the human gene pool through which a Messiah would come. That man was ABRAHAM. In this episode we begin the 2000 year Biblical journey from the ‘calling of Abraham’ to the ‘Coming of the...

Episode #4– Noah and the Flood (Genesis 6-11): There have been historic change points... transitions in the history of the world. But none so amazing and far-reaching as the Flood Of Noah. Considering the Flood as an historical event, this episode contrasts the cataclysmic changes BEFORE and AFTER the Flood. Lifespans, dinosaurs, ice caps, fossil fuels, continental drift, carbon dating and many ot...

Episode #3: Adam and Humanity What if most of what we learn from textbooks and museums about ‘early mankind’—  Neanderthals discovering fire, Lucy, cave men, dinosaurs and ‘prehistoric earth’— what if those pictures and descriptions were entirely wrong? In today’s episode we look at the BIBLICAL description of the first 1600 years of mankind’s existence  (Genesis 3-5) on Planet Earth. Fr...

Every journey has to have a starting point . Genesis 1 and 2 provides the setting for this amazing Universe, our introduction to God... and to Life as we know it on Planet Earth. In this episode we will examine contrasting theories of HOW the universe came into existence— and how the Bible record of ‘Creation week’ holds together and makes genuine, scientific sense. Hope you enjoy this 24 Minute B...

Welcome to the 24 Minute Bible Podcast with Pastor Mark Minor. Today's Podcast is an introduction to this 'Simple Journey to Understand the Bible.' In this episode, we examine WHAT the Bible claims - it's own testimony, if you will - about it's ORIGIN and POWER. We also look at WHY the Bible stands alone as a UNIQUE and AUTHORITATIVE testimony of God among all other religious books of the World.