The Bible For Busy People

For everything there is a season and a time for every activity under heaven. Today, one beautiful season ends, and on Monday a new beautiful season begins as my dear friend Jenn Schultz will be studying God's word with you. You're going to make a brand new friend and I promise you're going to love her. I want to take a moment and just say thank you for creating a space in your life to meet with Go...

We are so excited to introduce you to Jenn Schultz, our new Bible for Busy People host, beginning this coming Monday, February 3rd. Erica sits down to chat with Jenn so you can get to know her even more. Feel free to drop your questions for Jenn in the comments below! Show Notes: https://bit.ly/40BGnmc 

I'm not sure what challenges you're facing today, but there’s one thing I can assure you: God is with you. Those four powerful words are what I want to leave with you as I conclude my time here on the Bible for Busy People. This coming Monday, my wonderful friend Jenn Schultz will take over the Bible for Busy People and guide you through the study of God's Word, and I couldn't be more thrilled for...

For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster. To give you a future and a hope. In case you haven't heard, I'll be your host through the end of this week, at which point I'm handing the baton off to my dear friend, Jen Schultz, will begin hosting this podcast. It's going to be a new era. You'll have a new friend to study the Bible with! But for tod...

Sometimes I'm just not strong enough, and I feel like that's when the Lord wants us to remember that when we're at our weakest in life, He says, "Lean on me. Be strong in me." The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of His understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. So often that's me. D...

This is going to be a very special week here. I'm Erica, your host for the next few days until my dear friend Jenn Schultz takes over the helm of this beautiful ship and leads you into 2025 through God's Word. It has been such an honor to study the Bible with you. Each day this week I would love to leave you with some parting words, and today I invite you to join me in the Old Testament in the boo...

There was a place in New York where I grew up called The Pond, and you were really brave if you did the high dive there...I was never brave enough to do it though. To me, it was so terrifying climbing up the ladder and then looking down into the water, but that's okay because those types of high dives are not always worth it in life. When you take a spiritual high dive though, when you take the pl...

We're talking about taking the plunge here at the beginning of a new year, trusting the Lord when He gives you a new plan, a new route for your life. Have you ever been rerouted by your GPS and you're like, am I really going to trust this GPS? So often we do... So let's commit to trusting the Lord more in 2025 to take the plunge when He asks us to take it.  Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3Wu1jdL -----...

Taking the plunge is really another way of saying take a leap of faith. Today's Bible story is just rife with plungers. We're going to start with Abraham, probably one of the most faithful people who ever lived on this planet. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3WlN4HO ---------------- We’d love to encourage you to spend even more time in the Word. Find all the past episodes of The Bible for Busy People a...

It takes guts to make a new friend, but I'm going to challenge you to take the plunge here at the beginning of 2025! The first new friend I want you to meet is my dear friend Jen Schultz. She is going to bless your socks off as the NEW host for the Bible for Busy People at the beginning of February. She is one of those instant friends you click with fast and I can hardly wait for you to meet her....

I did something crazy to kick off 2025... My husband and I decided to join a thousand of our neighbors and jump into Puget Sound for the Polar Plunge on New Year's Day. I thought this is the perfect way to begin a brand new year symbolically too, and take the spiritual plunge and go deeper in my faith. Let's do that together today! Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4jkAG4D ---------------- We’d love to e...

Today we are talking about what it's like to be fully spiritually alive in 25, and today we are going to study Andrew. We don't hear that name very much, but he was one of Jesus's faithful followers. He was Simon Peter's brother, and I think he gets lost in Simon Peter's shadow, but he played a significant role in bringing his brother Simon Peter to Jesus. Let's find out more. Show Notes: https://...

You and I are studying what it looks like to be fully alive spiritually in 2025. We can be strong and we can be courageous because we know we're not alone. We don't have to be afraid or discouraged because God is fighting for us. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4hb7N9o ---------------- We’d love to encourage you to spend even more time in the Word. Find all the past episodes of The Bible for Busy Peopl...

Living well means doing these things like praying, reading the Bible, being kind... all while trusting in God's guidance and grace throughout life's challenges. And that's what we're going to talk about today. Trusting God's will for your life and mine, throughout life's challenges, and remembering He knows the plans He has for you and for me. They're to give you a future and a hope. We're clingin...

We are right in the middle of a brand new series called Alive in 25. As I mentioned last time, I was googling these words: live-well-Bible, and AI popped out a paragraph that was scarily on point. Let's continue to dissect it together because I believe God wants us to live fully alive in 25! Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4hbZKJn ---------------- We’d love to encourage you to spend even more time in t...

I googled these five words: how-to-live-well-Bible, and I was really surprised at what AI popped out in a paragraph, and that's what we're going to talk about it this week. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4h4iNFg  ---------------- We’d love to encourage you to spend even more time in the Word. Find all the past episodes of The Bible for Busy People at Purposely.com  You can find video versions of these...

If you're a fan of the movie The Lion King, I know you're going to remember the scene when Rafiki says to Simba, "Remember who you are." The key to thriving, flourishing, and succeeding is staying so close to God and knowing that you are His... trusting Him, leaning into Him when afraid or uncertain, believing He's got a plan, even when He doesn't share the map. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3ZYXtKE...

We are studying four faithful men this week, Daniel and his friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, because they are Costco samples for us on how to thrive in a world that isn't easy to navigate. Their unwavering faith and divine protection encourages us to trust in God's presence during our own trials. This is so good - Let's go! Show Notes: https://bit.ly/41XXRM0 ---------------- We’d love to e...

Daniel and his friends were facing the scariest moment of their lives, but they knew who to turn to. The same God who was faithful to Daniel and his friends, is faithful to you too. Seek Him out. Seek the Lord for His wisdom and guidance. Okay, let's dig into Daniel chapter 2 now. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4j1XPZC ---------------- We’d love to encourage you to spend even more time in the Word. Fi...

You can tell when a plant is thriving, right? Its leaves are green and shiny, its soil is rich. There are no marks on it. You can tell when people are thriving too... they have a healthy relationship with God and they aren't unsettled by uncertainty. In this episode, we're exploring the story of Daniel and his friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3W1T2xn ------------...

We're kicking off a brand new series this week called Thrive in 25! Maybe for you, the word of 2024 was "survive". Well, we’re going to flip that this year and aim for something better! Together, we will explore what it means to thrive as individuals and as believers in Jesus in today's world. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3PlO0rN ---------------- We’d love to encourage you to spend even more time in...

I feel like if we all were together in person, we should each have a glow stick, and we’d break it and put our bracelets and our necklaces on and we would celebrate all of the mercy and grace and love that we’ve been reading about this week together. God is full of grace and mercy and love and forgiveness. Whatever you need, he’s able to provide that for you. The Psalms are here for us to pray tog...

Today, we’re going to hear from a man who prayed from inside the belly of a whale. What would that be like? And we’re going to talk about a city that turned around, away from their evil deeds, and turned back to God. That’s what repentance is. It’s turning away from the stuff that hurts us, and toward the one who heals us. So, join me now in the Book of Jonah. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4iDdYnY --...

This week we're studying the glow stick people in the Bible. We call them "glow stick people" because you have to break a glow stick before it can shine, and it's so often how God works in our lives. He is not unkind. He uses every bad thing that happens to us to make us more like Him, to draw us closer to himself. There is beauty in the brokenness when we consider that God shines through the crac...

This podcast is powered by Seattle's Union Gospel Mission. For more information, go to ugm.org What are your hopes for the new year? We're celebrating God's faithfulness in 2024 and looking ahead to the hope He has for us in 2025. Today is a good day to continue to choose oohs and ahs over blues and blahs. Let's get started! Show Notes: https://bit.ly/49QF9I9 ---------------- We’d love to encourag...