GSMC Bible Study Podcast

Sarah discusses the New Testament lessons assigned for the 26th Sunday After Pentecost: Hebrews 10:11-25 and Mark 13:1-8.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice review. That way you’ll always be among the first...

Sarah examines the Old Testament texts assigned for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday After Pentecost: Daniel 12:1-3 and Psalm 16. Both texts deal with hope in the face of painful or distressing circumstances.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to...

Sarah talks about the New Testament texts assigned for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost: Hebrews 9:24-28 and Mark 12:38-44. While different, both texts in some way challenge our assumptions and ways of looking at the world.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as...

Sarah discusses the Old Testament texts assigned for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost: 1 Kings 17:8-16 and Psalm 146.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice review. That way you’ll always be among the fi...

Sarah talks about the New Testament lessons assigned for All Saints Sunday: Revelation 21:1-6a and John 11:32-44. Both texts focus on God's promises and God's future.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice revi...

Sarah talks about the saints in her life as well as the Old testament texts assigned for All Saints Sunday: Isaiah 25:6-9 and Psalm 24.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice review. That way you’ll always be a...

Sarah discusses the Old Testament texts assigned for the Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost: Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 and Psalm 90:12-17.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice review. That way you’ll always be among...

Sarah looks at the New Testament texts assigned for the Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost: Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 and Mark 10:2-16. As with the Old Testament texts disucssed in the first part of the episode, these tell us a lot about being in relationship with both God and each other.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on i...

Sarah talks about the Old Testament texts assigned for the Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost: Genesis 2:18-24 and Psalm 8. The texts are tied together with references of creation as well as God's relationship to humans and our relationships to each other.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carr...

Sarah discusses the New Testament texts assigned for the Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost: James 5:13-20 and Mark 9:38-50. Both texts deal with community and how being not only a child of God, formed in God's image, but a community formed in God's image should affect our relationships both inside and outside of those communities.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow u...

Sarah talks about the Old Testament texts assigned for the Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-16, 24-29 and Psalm 19:7-14. Numbers has a LOT of complaining, but even more of God's paitence and mercy, while the Psalm is poetry about God's law.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app t...

Sarah talks about the New Testament lessons assigned for the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentcost: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a and Mark 9:30-37. That discussion can most easily be summed up as: relationships and questions.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please...

Sarah talks about the Old Testament texts assigned for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Jeremiah 11:18-20 and Psalm 54. They contain similar themes of lament, prayer, judgment, and trust in God.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to...

Sarah talks about the New Testament lessons assigned for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost: James 3:1-12 and Mark 8:27-38.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice review. That way you’ll always be among the...

Sarah looks at the Old Testament texts assigned for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost: Isaiah 50:4-9a and Psalm 116:1-9. In the Isaiah text she focuses on listening to God, while in the Psalm she shifts to talking about giving thanks for those times when God listens to us and answers prayer.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you ca...

Sarah talks about the New Testament lessons assigned for the sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost: James 2:1-17 and Mark 7:24-37. Both texts ask questions of what it means to be in relationship, what God's love looks like, and what loving God means for loving our neighbors.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on a...

Sarah talks about the Old Testament texts assigned for the 16th Sunday After Pentecost: Isaiah 35:4-7a and Psalm 146. In both texts there are translations that give a slightly different perspective on how we might normally read and understand these verses and what that means for how these words affect our lives as children of God.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow u...

Sarah talks about the New Testament readings assigned for the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost: James 1:17-27 and Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. While there are multiple themes within these texts, she mostly focuses on what it means to live in the world as a child of God. How does that affect our relationships? Where does the law fit in?<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow...

Sarah talks about the Old Testament texts assigned for the 15th Sunday After Pentecost: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 and Psalm 15. Both texts talk about faith, trust, and how we live in relationship with God and with each other.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTu...

Sarah talks about the New Testament lessons assigned for the week of August 12th, the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost: Ephesians 4:25-5:2 and John 6:51-58. In John Jesus refers to himself as the living bread which came down from heaven - a bread that gives us eternal life. The Ephesians text talks about life in community and how being a part of the body of Christ affects how we treat one another.&l...

Sarah discusses the Old Testament lessons assigned for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost: 1 Kings 19:4-8 and Psalm 34:1-8. Both talk about how God comes to us in our deepest moments of despair.<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subsc...

Sarah discusses Hebrews 11 and Luke 12. Both texts are about waiting and having faith and patience during times when we are fearful or uncertain of God’s timing.  We are encouraged to wait actively rather than passively and to remain in engaged in our relationship with God. (Replay)<br /><br /> <br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the s...

Sarah discusses Genesis 15 and Psalm 33.  Both Genesis 15:1-6 and Psalm 33:12-22 deal with patience and waiting. Sarah discusses how being in relationship with God is active, and waiting does not have to, nor should be, passive. (Replay)<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as w...

Sarah discusses Colossians 3 and Luke 12.  Paul encourages the church in Colossae to put away their old habits and instead clothe themselves in the new clothes of Christ.  The Gospel text from Luke tells the parable of a rich man who hoards his possessions only to discover he can’t take them with him when he dies. (Replay)<br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed the show, follow us and su...

Sarah discusses Ecclesiastes 1 & 2 and Psalm 49.  In Ecclesiastes the author declares that all of life is vanity regardless of our efforts.  The Psalm is similar in that the author looks at the efforts of life and ponders their meaning.  Sarah discusses if there is hope in these text and what it might look like. (Replay)<br /><br /> <br /><br />As always, if you enjoyed...