The Marben Bland Podcast

Send us Fan Mail After more than two decades as Mayor of Dublin, Georgia   Phil Best has stepped down.  Interim Mayor Julie Driger has announced that she will not run for election in November.   City Councilman Jerry Davis and Attorney Joshua Kight are running to lead the city.    In an interview conducted at Paula’s Fried Chicken candidate Joshua Kight joins The Podcast to discuss his vision for...

Send us Fan Mail In a world where we share everything from selfies to pictures of our food the question must be asked, are you sharing Jesus?   In a sermon recorded live at New Bethel, Pastor Marben explores the call of Jesus for us to share the Gospel in a sermon from Matthew 28:16-20, entitled Go Tell It.  For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com 

Send us Fan Mail God made us to share, and we have used our brainpower to figure out ways to do it.    The printing press was invented to share our written ideas on paper.  We use language, facial expressions, and our bodies to share thoughts, actions, and emotions.  Computers, the smartphone, the internet, and social media have given us the ability to share instantaneously almost anything to near...

Send us Fan Mail Charles E. Richardson is the formal Editorial Page Editor for The Telegraph and Macon.com. Today he joins the Podcast for a discussion of the events and issues in the news today.   For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com 

Send us Fan Mail “…. A truly abundant life is not measured in possessions, or money, or status.  An abundant life is measured in faith and faith can’t be with us when we run with the weight of sin in our lives.”  In a sermon recorded live at New Bethel, Pastor Marben explores the example that Jesus has set as we run the race of our lives in a sermon from Hebrews 12:1-2 entitled Running With Jesus....

Send us Fan Mail You know sometimes it is difficult to understand a passage of scripture.  Words and phrasing get in the way making it almost impossible to get meaning from the Word of God.  Then there are passages like Hebrews 12:1 and 2 the text describes our lives like a race whose running is being watched by a great cloud of witnesses both heavenly and earthly.  We are called to do three thing...

Send us Fan Mail In a sermon recorded live at New Bethel Pastor, Marben in a teaching from James explorers   how we can live knowing what God wants. For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com 

Send us Fan Mail We recall the life of Muhammad Ali in Ken Burns film airing on PBS Ali was clear about his identity calling himself the greatest, and he was in both in and out of the ring.   Jesus asks two questions about his identity first who do people say that the Son of Man is?   In response, the disciples said some identified Jesus as John the Baptist, or Elijah, or Jeremiah.   The second qu...

Send us Fan Mail In our 2021 world, there seems to be a passcode for everything. Login to anything from your phone to your bank account and there will be a passcode.  God does not require a passcode to access him.  As the book of James tells us you only need to draw near to God and God will draw near to you.   You are invited to draw near to God at New Bethel tomorrow as we look at a teaching from...

Send us Fan Mail In a world with floods, fires, violence, viruses, suffering, and death have you ever asked what does God want?     Submit yourselves to God is the answer given in James 4:7, which begs the question what is submitting to God?   James answers that we submit ourselves by not being bitter envois or selfish.  We submit ourselves by not being boastful, but with humility.  We submit ours...

Send us Fan Mail You know there has been a lot of talk about laws in the news these days.   There is talk about laws mandating either the vaccine or masks.  There is talk about the voting law passed in Georgia.  And regardless of where you stand on the abortion issue, there is talk about the Texas abortion law.   Laws created by man are imperfect and filled with unintended consequences and yes law...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that the skin is the body’s largest organ?  The skin, hair, and nails provide a protective covering against germs helping us in maintaining a healthy immune system.   Demonologist, Dr.  Amy McMichael, MD, Professor, and Chair of Department of Dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center joins, Dr. Veita Bland, MD to discuss ways to keep our skin, hair, and nails...

Send us Fan Mail Twenty years ago today, I was in my office in Pittsburg.  I was to board a plane later that day but, in the meantime, I had a business meeting scheduled with a man from Chicago.  Before he arrived, we learned of what happened in New York.    Our offices were not far from the airport, and as we got additional word of what was happening we decided to tell the nearly 500 people in th...

Send us Fan Mail In a teaching from Matthew 18:20, delivered on September 5th, 2021, for Homecoming at Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Pastor Marben pays tribute to retiring Pastor Gloria Wicker as he preaches about how God wants to be in us as two or three of us gather in this pandemic-driven homecoming.   For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com 

Send us Fan Mail New Bethel’s Homecoming Revival will be on Monday, September 6th, and Tuesday, September 7th.   You can catch the revival live on our Facebook page @ NBC Dublin starting at 7:00 PM ET each night.  Sermons from the revival will be feathered on The Podcast and on our website www.nbcdublin.com.  Today, the Reverend Michael Ephraim, Sr. pastor of “The Cathedral of the South." The...

Send us Fan Mail James 1:27 calls us to an impossible call of faith.  A call requiring us to live undefiled before God and unspotted from the world.  Operating alone would be an impossible call but with God living up to this impossible call is possible.   Enjoy this full 40-minute service of music and Word from The New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in East Dublin, Georgia.  For More Gr...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we mourn the loss of 13 American Soldiers and an estimated 60 Afghan citizens killed as they attempted to answer the impossible call to freedom by leaving Afghanistan.   James 1:27 calls us to an impossible call of freedom.  A call requiring us to live undefiled before God and unspotted from the world.  Operating alone would be an impossible call but with God living up to t...

Send us Fan Mail It seems living to 100 and beyond is done with great regularity in Clinton the small Central Georgia community where I grew up.  I can count at least three centenarians who have reached the milestone in the last twenty years.   Mary Emma Lawson, my next-door neighbor is the latest.   Mrs. Lawson moved to Chicago, married, and had a son Mark.  When her husband died, she returned to...

Send us Fan Mail The CDC reports that the Delta variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19. It is 40-80% more transmissible than the original strain.  This means one case of Delta-variant COVID-19 can cause five to eight additional people to get infected if they are not vaccinated. Dr. Cynthia Snider, MD,  MPH the medical director of infection prevention at Cone Health in Greensboro, NC, discu...

Send us Fan Mail In a sermon recorded live at New Bethel, Pastor Marben examines the fundamental question raised in Joshua 24:15, where do you and your household stand with the Lord? For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com 

Send us Fan Mail After 40 years in the wilderness, the Israelites are at the threshold of entering the promised land.   God's original plan for Israel was to take their Promised Land in days , not decades. But it took Israel 40 years to be ready.     Joshua gathers the Israelites reminding them of the miracles by which the Lord gave birth to Israel. In God’s call of Abraham and Sarah. In God’...

Send us Fan Mail The Reverend Levornia Franklin is the pastor of the historic Steward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Macon, Georgia.  In an interview recorded live at the Sixth Episcopal District Leadership Congress in Augusta, Georgia Reverend Franklin joins The Podcast to talk about his faith journey, pastoring in the pandemic, and playing tuba in his high school marching...

Send us Fan Mail Images of desperate Afghans clinging to departing U.S. military planes underscored America’s messy failure after 20 years of war.   Let’s be honest messy situations are part of the human condition, and despite all our attempts to avoid them we are living with some messy situation in our lives.   But there is hope Proverbs 24:16 tells us that the righteous falls seven times and ris...

Send us Fan Mail Taking care of our eyes is important.  Regular eye health exams will show signs of eye disease or conditions that can affect not only your vision but your overall health.   Doctor of ophthalmology Roy Whitaker, MD joins Dr. Veita Bland, MD to talk about Glaucoma and healthy eye health.   For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com 

Send us Fan Mail Genesis 3 tells the story of not only the successful temptation of Eve and Adam, but of the aftermath. In a sermon recorded live at New Bethel, Pastor Marben explores how God wants us to deal with the aftermath of temptation, by telling us about his temptation with a Seersucker Suit.   For More Great Content Go To  Marben Bland.com