Discover the Word Podcast

Have there been times where all you wanted was some guidance from a friend to help figure life out? Thankfully, God cares about you so much that gives direction on what it means to be a child of God! Join us on this week’s episode of Discover the Word as we continue to journey through our study and see the loving guidance He gives helps us to live more on purpose for Him.   WAYS TO LISTEN & SU...

It’s easy to make assumptions that aren’t always right, including in our faith. Even when we get it wrong, God is there to correct our focus back towards His truth. Continue along with Discover the Word as we dig into the reassurance we can find in Christ when we learn about the promises and knowledge that only He can give.   WAYS TO LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE: 📱On our website: https://www.discoverth...

God created us for community, but dealing with one another isn’t always easy. In any relationship, there will be times of cooperation, conflict, shared work, and much more. However, our relationships still must always reflect back to Christ. Join us in Discover the Word as we study Galatians 2 and see how our identity within the body of Christ defines our conduct in all relationships.   WAYS TO LI...

Have you ever received a note from a friend, and it completely turned around your day?  Paul writes each of his letters with the purpose of encouraging, teaching, or correcting others to pursue after Christ in all things. Join us on Discover the Word as we dive deep into a piece of mail—Paul’s letter to the Galatians—and see what we can discover together from this sometimes personal, often combati...

“Can we talk?” How do you feel when someone asks you that question? Well, this week, the Discover the Word group will use the Lord’s Prayer as a model to explore the subject of prayer in Scripture. By recognizing the difficulties inherent in cultivating a consistent prayer life, and examining the aspects of the model prayer Jesus laid out, we will encourage each other to persevere in prayer. Becau...

Many Christians today imagine the apostle Paul sitting down at a desk one afternoon in a quiet room all by himself and writing a letter to one of the first-century churches he started on one of his missionary journeys. A letter we now have included in our New Testament. And when he finished writing that letter, he signed it, sealed it, and put it in the mail. That is the way we write letters, or t...

Many Christians today imagine the apostle Paul sitting down at a desk one afternoon in a quiet room all by himself and writing a letter to one of the first-century churches he started on one of his missionary journeys. A letter we now have included in our New Testament. And when he finished writing that letter, he signed it, sealed it, and put it in the mail. That is the way we write letters, or t...

This week on Discover the Word, the group will consider the idea of Sabbath, and whether it still applies to us New Testament people who are under the New Covenant. We'll explore the intention and heart behind Sabbath, going all the way back to Creation and the first mention in Genesis chapter 2. We'll note it's inclusion in the giving of the Law. And we'll notice all the confusion Jesus seemed to...

Ever feel like the Bible leaves you with more questions than answers? Join us on Discover the Word this week as we wrestle with John 5:1–15, Jesus’ healing of the paralytic man at the pool of Bethesda. Together, we’ll examine what it means to be confused by Scripture and how asking questions can lead us closer to God.   WAYS TO LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE: 📱On our website: https://www.discovertheword....

Believe it or not, there are some things the Bible encourages you to keep a secret. Join us on Discover the Word as we dive into what God says about secrets and how understanding His perspective on them can deepen our relationship with Him.   WAYS TO LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE: 📱On our website: https://www.discovertheword.org 🎧Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3x2Swlq 🎧Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3mk8...

No one’s life is squeaky clean. Even if you don’t outwardly show it, you’ve probably gone through some ugly, painful stuff, if you’re not going through it right now. Don’t let yourself be defined by your experiences, but rather how you use the truths of God’s Word to respond to them. Join us on Discover the Word as we dive into Psalm 130 to learn how to respond to those deep and dark pains of life...

Most people have a somewhat strange love/hate relationship with food. At times it is a wonderful gift from God. But whether it's through dieting, food addiction, food allergies or the simple act of labeling good versus bad things to eat--things can quickly go awry. In this two week series of conversations, the Discover the Word group welcomes author Margaret Feinberg to the table to tell us about...

Most people have a somewhat strange love/hate relationship with food. At times it is a wonderful gift from God. But whether it's through dieting, food addiction, food allergies or the simple act of labeling good versus bad things to eat--things can quickly go awry. In this two week series of conversations, the Discover the Word group welcomes author Margaret Feinberg to the table to tell us about...

1 John is written by an old wise man, sharing who he knows God to be. His wisdom is directly tied to knowing Jesus personally—he heard him, saw him, followed him around, and laid his head on his chest. His conclusions? God is a generous and caring Father who pours out extravagant love on his children, and desires nothing more than for them to love each other as much as he loves them. Let’s explore...

1 John is written by an old wise man, sharing who he knows God to be. His wisdom is directly tied to knowing Jesus personally—he heard him, saw him, followed him around, and laid his head on his chest. His conclusions? God is a generous and caring Father who pours out extravagant love on his children, and desires nothing more than for them to love each other as much as he loves them. Let’s explore...

In part two of a visit with Bible geographer Dr. Jack Beck, we set out to take A Walking Tour of the Gospels. In this week’s conversation, we will look at five stories from Luke that are linked with Jesus’s final walk to Jerusalem. As we walk through those passages together, Jack helps us explore the ways in which geography and ancient culture shape the stories we read about Jesus.   WAYS TO LISTE...

Our friend Dr. Jack Beck is back at the table with the Discover the Word group for more conversations that will help make the geography of the Bible meaningful. Each day, he will walk us through a different region of the Holy Land to help us see how that region looked and lived differently than others. And then he'll take us to passages that tell the stories that region produced. We'll visit Samar...

What do you enjoy about your family of origin? Ever seen dysfunction? Sometimes it can seem like everyone else’s family is picture perfect while ours is struggling, but the reality is that we all have some level of dysfunction. In these conversations, the group explores how God works in the most dysfunctional family situations to draw us close to himself and make us whole people. We’re going to lo...

For thousands of years, believers have stewed over various “roles” women might occupy in the home, in our world and in the work of the church. Theological positions swing along a continuum with “women can occupy only certain roles” on one end to “women can occupy any role” on the other end. What might we learn about the roles women might occupy from looking at how Jesus included them in His work?...

Why did Jesus come into the world? Would it surprise you to find out that he actually told us why he came? I mean he literally said the words, several times, “I have come to…” This week, Daniel leads Mart and Elisa and Bill in exploring 5 different spots where Jesus said that phrase, “I have come to…”. Would you like to know why Jesus came? That's what you'll discover with the Discover the Word gr...

How do you define faith? And what might great faith look like? To see arguably the greatest expression of faith in the Bible, we consider this week the “thief on the cross” and his expression of faith in Jesus—one dying man on a cross trusting in another dying Man on a cross for a future. We’ll see this week what makes that such great faith.   WAYS TO LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE: 📱On our website: http...

One of the debated areas of biblical theology has to do with what we could call “atonement theory.” In other words, how did Jesus’ death on the cross accomplish our salvation. This is not a debate about “if” his death accomplished it, but “how.” That’s all well and good, but our intent this Easter season is to focus on the fact of our forgiveness being made possible on the cross—not the way that f...

What do you think of when you hear the words, "You need to grow up?" What does it mean to be a "grown-up?" In our culture a big part of maturity is independence. An essential part of adult life is independence. That's why it's very confusing to our minds that in Christ, growing up is growing into complete and utter dependence on God. As believers growing doesn't make us need God less. In fact as w...

What was your relationship like with your mom? Positive? Negative? We talk a lot about God being Our Father… you know, the one in Heaven who has a hallowed name. But there are a few places in the Bible where God is described in motherly terms, so the group thought it might be fun to explore some of those places together. And as we do, maybe keep this question in mind: how does God being like a mot...

We humans march along a timeline of life. Birth. Middle. Death. We make plans and measure our progress along the line of life. But what if our timeline of life is a false perspective? What if life is measured not by days, months, or years or even by minutes and hours? What if our entire lifetime is really an existence beyond time? The Bible offers a rich understanding of time, translated through v...