The Bible Journey Daily Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The Bible Project Daily Podcast is a daily, in-depth, encouraging, and uplifting study through the entire Bible,  chapter by chapter, verse by verse.  Today's Episode: How to Be Stupid. (1 Kings 11: 1-43) It is one thing to have knowledge, but it's another thing entirely to have wisdom.  I think we should all work at gaining wisdom, but obtaining wisdom isn't the be...

Send us Fan Mail If you want to increase your level of knowledge, there are plenty of things you can do. You can read a book, you can study, or you can listen to podcasts and watch videos. There are endless ways to gather information these days. But wisdom is different.  Wisdom is not the same as knowledge.  So how do you gain wisdom?  There are many answers to that question, but tucked away in 1...

Send us Fan Mail It really does appear that God exceptionally blesses some people. When you look through Scripture, you see it again and again. But perhaps no one illustrates this more vividly than Solomon. His life is marked by extraordinary blessings—wisdom, wealth, influence, peace, and the privilege of building the temple itself. So, the question naturally arises: Why did God bless Solomon, an...

Send us Fan Mail Three thousand years ago, a very wise man prayed a prayer. Not just any prayer—the longest recorded prayer in the entire Bible. And we still have it. Preserved word-for-word and spoken by a man that scripture says was the wisest on earth.  Solomon also prayed this prayer on one of the most significant days in Israel’s history: the dedication of the temple. And because of when he p...

Send us Fan Mail What Does It Really Mean to Honour God?  If I asked that question to a congregation on a Sunday morning, I suspect the answers would come quickly—and the list would be long. Some would say we can do that with worship. Others would say prayer. Some might mention giving, serving, witnessing, or obedience.... And all of those are good and biblical answers.  But Solomon honoured the L...

Send us Fan Mail There are seasons in life when we become so busy—even with good things—that we can stop listening. Modern life makes it easy. Work piles up. Responsibilities multiply. The to‑do list is growing faster than we can cross things off. And before we realise it, the noise of life has drowned out the voice of the Lord. And—perhaps most surprisingly—it can happen in ministry as well. You...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we’re turning to 1 Kings chapters 4 and 5.   These chapters don’t just tell us that Solomon was wise—they show us what wisdom looks like in action. They give us a picture of how God’s gift of wisdom shaped a kingdom, organised a nation, built relationships, and prepared the way for one of the greatest projects in biblical history.  The writer of Kings, probably Jeremiah, st...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine—just imagine—that God Himself came to you and said, “Ask Me for anything you want… and I will give it to you.”   Your first reaction might be, “Well, that’s not how God works.” And of course, you’d be right. But there is one moment in the Old Testament where God does actually do that for someone. God comes to a man and says, “Ask for whatever you want Me to give you.” And...

Send us Fan Mail Today we begin a new chapter—literally and figuratively—as we step into 1 Kings chapter 2. And this episode, I’ve made the title a question that I believe every one of us should ask ourselves, whether we think of ourselves as leaders or not: “Who Put You in Charge?”  Now, you may not be the president of a company. You may not manage a team or sit in a boardroom. But almost all of...

Send us Fan Mail Life has a way of surprising us, doesn’t it?  And nowhere is that more true than in our spiritual lives. We look at people and situations and think, “Ah, that’s the person God is going to use.” And then—He doesn’t. Meanwhile, someone we would never have chosen, someone we might have overlooked entirely, becomes the very person God raises up.  So, how does God make His choices? And...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome, friends, to a brand‑new season of The Bible Project Daily Podcast.   This new season marks the beginning of a fresh adventure. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be exploring the Old Testament books of 1 and 2 Kings, as I have set it out it seems the two books will take us around 50 episodes, teaching that I’ve drawn from my earlier sermons and bible studies these last decades,...

Send us Fan Mail This is a between-the-seasons bonus episode. I shall be back again on Monday to launch our new season on the book(s) of Kings. Back in October 2025, I read and studied. The Psychologist and Philosopher Steven Pinker's book 'The Blank Slate. As part of a study group I belong to. This is my reaction to it, first made available as a 'Patreon Only' bonus episode. T...

Send us Fan Mail This is a between-the-seasons bonus epsiode. I shall be back again on Monday to laumch our new season on the book(s) of Kings. Back in April 2025, I read, listening too, and studied. William Langland's Medieval poem "Piers Plowman". As part of a reading group I belong to. This is my reaction,, first made available as a 'Patreon Only' bonus episode   "...

Send us Fan Mail Throughout this letter, Paul has been in a battle — not a personal one, but a doctrinal one. These Jewish legalists have followed him into Galatia, telling these new churches that faith in Christ is not enough, that believers must also keep the Mosaic law — especially circumcision — to be right with God.  Paul has argued passionately, relentlessly even, that justification is by fa...

Send us Fan Mail If you go online and visit a poetry site, you will find 10’s of thousands of poems that attempt to define “love” for us.  You find poems that say things like “Love is gazing upon a pool at night, bathed in shimmering moonbeams, roses in full bloom, etc…” It seems to me that for many people, love is a sort of vague, dreamy, emotional fog.  But Scripture refuses to let love remain w...

Send us Fan Mail I once spoke with a woman who had spent years in a church a full of rules and regulations. When she finally moved to a church that simply taught Scripture without adding man‑made religious rules, she told me she felt something surprising:   FEAR! Those rules, she said, had given her a sense of security. When they were gone, she felt exposed.  I also remember a teenage girl I once...

Send us Fan Mail  For four chapters, he has been laying down argument after argument, Scripture after Scripture, illustration after illustration, pleading with them not to return to the bondage of the law....  But now the question he asks becomes:  If we’re not going back to the law, then what kind of life do we live now? Beginning in chapter 5 — and running through the rest of the letter — he fin...

Send us Fan Mail It seems that in the Apostle Paul’s day, some Jews, particularly a contingent based out of Jerusalem, followed him from newly established church to church and told the people there that in order to be truly acceptable to God, you also had to keep the Jewish religious rituals, called ‘The Law’.  Now, in truth, a version of the same message still circulates today. But those who know...

Send us Fan Mail When you read Paul’s letters, you quickly discover that he often writes a bit like a lawyer. Romans and Galatians especially feel like carefully constructed legal briefs—tight logic, precise argumentation, point building upon point.  He’s persuading, reasoning, dismantling objections, and presenting the gospel with razor‑sharp clarity. And then today—right in the middle of all tha...

Send us Fan Mail Most Christians are quite comfortable saying, “We’re not under the civic law, and we’re not under the ceremonial law.” But when it comes to the moral law, many hesitate. We instinctively want to hold on to the Ten Commandments.  So, let me ask the question plainly: Are Christians under the Mosaic Law in any way?  That question has created controversy for centuries. In fact, in the...

Send us Fan Mail If you read the book of Galatians, about the time you get to the middle of it, you may think, considering what Paul has just said, why did God give the law in the first place? Because when Paul talks about the law, he talks about it in such a way as to almost put it down.   At times, it can almost seem like a tirade against the law. Not only can the law not save you if you're...

Send us Fan Mail If you read the book of Galatians, about the time you get to the middle of it, you may think, considering what Paul has just said, that it is a very logical question.   Paul begins to talk about the law, but he does so in a way that almost puts it down. And after you hear that, you can't help but wonder, well, then why did God give the law?  He continues his seeming tirade ag...

Send us Fan Mail There’s an old saying: “He who has an argument is always at the mercy of the one who has had an experience.” And that’s true. When Christ has changed your life, someone else’s argument doesn’t carry much weight. It’s perfectly valid to appeal to your experience—up to a point. But there’s also a weakness in relying on experience alone.   Experience can be misunderstood. It can be m...

Send us Fan Mail There are moments in the Christian life when we suddenly realise we’ve drifted—subtly, quietly—back into trying to earn what God has already given us.  We may start well in the Spirit, but somewhere along the way, the old habits of self‑effort creep back in. And if that has happened to you, then Paul’s words in Galatians 3 should hit us like a wake‑up call: In today’s episode, we’...

Send us Fan Mail To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | In the latter part of Galatians chapter 2, beginning at verse 11 and continuing through the end of the chapter, Paul recounts a significant second encounter with the Apostle Peter in Antioch.  During Peter’s visit, he initially ate with Gentile Christians, recognizin...