Way of the Bible

#068 This is our fourth of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Greatest Victory EVER! | Matthew to Acts. We’ll be overviewing the book of John, our fourth book in the New Testament today.  I’ve entitled this episode, Jesus in His Own Words. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke focus on signs, sayings, and parables of Jesus in his Galilean ministry. John focuses on long discourses of Jesu...

#067 Interspersed throughout the gospels Jesus teaches Hard Lessons in both plain talk and parables. I refer to them as Hard because when anyone, believer or not, hears or reads them they get real convicted and defensive. We try to re-couch his words to be less biting and less demanding of obedience. The theme of this overview of Luke is specifically set to look predominately at some of the Hard L...

#066. This is our second of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Greatest Victory EVER! | Matthew to Acts. We’re just beginning our foray into the New Testament having overviewed the book of Matthew on our last episode. On this episode we’re going to overview the book of Mark.  The book of Mark is the shortest and most concise of the gospels speaking more of Jesus’ actions than his teaching...

#065 Matthew’s first record of Jesus referring to himself as the Son of Man is Matt. 8:20. The religious leaders of Israel in that day (Priests, Rabbis, scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, etc.) were intimately familiar with the significance of this term from Old Testament prophetic books.  It would be surprising if the scribe who heard Jesus use this term would not have immediately told other religiou...

#064 This is our final of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Major and Minor Prophets | Isaiah to Malachi. On this episode we’re going to take A Walk on the Beach with DrZ and discuss what we’ve discovered from Genesis through the Major and Minor Prophets that encourage believers in 2022. This walk on the beach completes our eighth mini-series of eight episodes each and completes our over...

#063 Join me [DrZ] for an engaging conversation with Boyd Bailey on the topic of wisdom. Boyd is the president of the Georgia chapter of the National Christian Foundation and the founder of Wisdom Hunters, a ministry whose daily devotional emails help more than 100,000 readers connect with Christ. Over the past thirty years I’ve read, studied, and heard a lot about wisdom. I can say without hesita...

#062 This is our sixth of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Major and Minor Prophets | Isaiah to Malachi. On this episode we’re going to look at the last six books of the minor prophets, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.  Covering six books on one episode is going to require just brief touches of huge nuggets of prophetic text in each book. Hopefully you will be...

#061  Welcome to Episode #061 of Way of the Bible podcast. This is our fifth of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Major and Minor Prophets | Isaiah to Malachi. On this episode we’re going to look at the first six books of the minor prophets, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah. These prophets prophesied to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Southern Kingdom of Judah, and severa...

#060  Join DrZ as he provides an overview of the book of Daniel that has served as the framework for all prophetic studies of the last days, the Day of the LORD, the Time of the End. These studies and prophetic proclamations concerning passages in the book of Daniel have been going on for millennia.  We happen to be living 2000+ years after the birth of Jesus Christ and have seen a lot of global h...

#059 The book of Ezekiel is one of the most revealing prophetic books in terms of visions behind the veil, events in Israel leading up to the great tribulation, and the mountain top temple to be inhabited by Jesus during his millennial reign on earth. Three times Ezekiel is sees the glory of the LORD and reveals much about the majesty of God. Ezekiel was called by the LORD and sent to reveal to th...

#058 Join DrZ as he provides an overview of the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations. Jeremiah is a followup to God warning Israel through Isaiah that destruction was coming from Babylon if the people did not repent of their idolatry and return back and follow God's commands. The people refused in Isaiah's day and Manasseh, King Hezekiah's son, took apostasy in Judah to a level beyond...

#057 The book of Isaiah is perhaps the most significant book in the entire Bible. It presents in one book the entire plan of God for salvation and entrance into the eternal state. Join DrZ as he explores Isaiah and discover why it is such an important book both for Jews and Christians.

#056 Join DrZ for A Walk on the Beach as he discusses how to consider the Fear of the LORD in your walk today. And if it's worth sharing with a neighbor!!

#055 On this our seventh of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Fear of the LORD | Job thru Song of Songs, DrZ has a topical conversation with Pastor Pete Kennedy to get his take on the Fear of the LORD. Fearing God is not something  we hear much about in church and Pastor Pete provides us his insight on the significance of this missing message. When something is repeated in Scripture it t...

#054 This is our sixth of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Fear of the LORD | Job thru Song of Songs. On this episode we explore King Solomon’s third of three books found in the Wisdom literature; Song of Songs. Solomon is noted in 1 Kings 4:32 to have written 1,005 songs of which the scriptures only record one.  The title of this one song, Song of Songs, suggests it is the most highly...

#053 Discover on this episode the answer to the meaningless of life for the atheist and nihilist found in the book of Ecclesiastes. Life without God is truly vanity, a chasing after the wind. Discover what God desires for what many consider toil - you may be surprised by what the text reveals. Everything in Ecclesiastes terminates in the End of the Matter found in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 - The end o...

#052 On this episode DrZ presents an overview of the book of Proverbs written by Solomon as the primer text to take his sons from childhood to adulthood. Solomon reveals the foundation of life should be the fear of the LORD upon which wisdom and understanding take their stand.  Good and evil are real and their is a judgment coming where all will stand before God and have to give an account of what...

#051 Welcome to Episode #051 of Way of the Bible podcast. This is our third of eight episodes in our mini-series entitled, Fear of the LORD | Job thru Song of Songs. This episode, All About Jesus, is the second of two parts on the book of Psalms. On this second part we’ll discover the Psalms are all about Jesus from first to last. Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. We begin b...

#050 On this episode DrZ introduces the book of Psalms and addresses several topics of the storyline of the Bible we're following in Psalms.

#049 On this episode DrZ explores what many have noted as the masterpiece of literary poetic work in the Bible or elsewhere in literature, the book of Job. While most don’t recognize the literary significance of this ancient book what they hear or think about Job is a misnomer – “Why do bad things happen to good people at the hands of a mean and vengeful God?” This could not be further than the tr...

#048 Join DrZ on a walk on the beach as he describes how the mini-series on Israel's conquest of the land, their abandonment of God, and the consequences from God compare to where we find ourselves today in 2022 as believers. This is a MUST LISTEN episode if you are wondering what the Bible is all about! ShowNotes: https://47d800ed-2293-49f4-b1f4-6964b8bcb082.filesusr.com/ugd/ec4c20_dfe8e2fd2...

#047 My annual Bible reading begins with Genesis and ends in Revelation every year. Every year I’d get to the end of Esther and ponder how to reconcile what I’d read in the Pentateuch versus what I’d read from Joshua to Esther. These two groupings didn’t seem to go together. Not until just this year, doing this podcast, did I realize the disconnect I’d been seeing. To understand the conquest of th...

#046 Join DrZ as he provides a return from captivity overview of the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In these books the repentant prayers of Ezra and Nehemiah are powerful reminders for us today to recall the past, repent of our waywardness, and return whole heartedly to Jesus our first love. DrZ also discusses the book of Esther and the plight of the Jewish people set apart from their promised land....

#045 This episode deals with the books of 1 & 2 Chronicles and is a companion episode to #044 which addressed 1 & 2 Kings. Both episodes, #044 and #045, deal with HUGE leadership and faith issues found in the kings of Israel to either take their people into prosperity and joy or conflict, devastation, horror. Kings deals with the bad endings of people with bad kings. Chronicles deals with...

#044 God does what He says. God warned the people of Israel through the prophet Moses that if they abandoned God and worship other gods they would be severely disciplined.  Join DrZ as he explores what happens in Israel after the death of king David. Beginning with Solomon who had a great start, the downward spiral to utter corruption beyond repair begins. God sends prophets to the people to warn...