Word & the Wild

This week... David's chickens come home to roost as family drama and political intrigue have him on the run in the wilderness, just like old times. But, all is not lost. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come back new and improved for January 2027 as the One Big Story Project. 👉 Find out more and join the 2027 wait...

We are here in WEEK 17... This week... Why we are seeing double as we move through the story this week and what Saul's tragic end show us about what God really wants from us as people. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come back new and improved for January 2027 as the One Big Story Project. 👉 Find out more and joi...

David solves Saul's "giant" problem... and then creates a "giant problem" for Saul. Why David and Saul's relationship blows up and what that means for us. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come back new and improved for January 2027 as the One Big Story Project. 👉 Find out more and join the 2027 waitlist at onebigs...

The Wild West chaos of Judges blurs into the background as we zoom in to follow the lives of a string of people who move the plot forward in a major way. Ruth, Hannah, Samuel, David and more are on the horizon this week. Here's how to get a handle on this part of the story. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come bac...

We are out here in the wild west. It's a time when the Israelites live on the frontier, on the dangerous borderland between prosperity and disaster. In these dark times, God calls in a series of lone rangers to rescue his people... the Judges. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come back new and improved for January...

We are here in WEEK 13... This week... We follow along with Joshua and the Israelites as they step into the Promised Land and move to clear out Canaan where some unfinished business puts their future at risk. It's a life and death struggle and the threats are closer than they think. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To...

It's not deja vu....it's Deuteronomy. Here in WEEK 12, Moses and the Israelites' wilderness wanderings come to an end and come with a warning: God wants his people to remember what they would rather forget. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come back new and improved for January 2027 as the One Big Story Project. 👉...

We are here in WEEK TEN... Moses and the Israelites have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as they turned their backs on the Promised Land. So, hello wilderness... Because a house divided against itself cannot stand... and God won't stand for it, either. But there's more to the wilderness than punishment. God's preparing his people for their future. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as On...

This is WEEK NINE in our one year Bible adventure.  We're watching the Bible unfold in story order as we read it for ourselves but not by  ourselves. We're about to cross the 60 day reading mark and leave Leviticus in the dust as we gear up to break camp and follow Moses and the Israelites away from Mt. Sinai through the wilderness to the border of the Promised Land. Will God's people reach their...

This is Word and the Wild...a one year Bible adventure with friends. My name is Owen. I'm your host and your guide, and together we are on a 12 month journey as a podcast plus community...where we read the Bible for ourselves, but not by ourselves. This is WEEK EIGHT... we are picking our way through the desert and having fun doing it. If you haven't already, now's a great time to subscribe to thi...

This week in our one year Bible adventure with friends.... What does all this stuff about the commandments and the tabernacle in the desert mean to me? As Moses and the Israelites are hard at work putting together that Tabernacle in the wilderness to create a space to meet with God... and God embeds some dramatic tension deep into our story... and we wrap our minds around why we should care at all...

This is WEEK SIX on our one-year Bible adventure... We have crossed over the one-month mark...as we are crossing the desert with Moses and the Israelites. It's all about Exodus this week. In Exodus, God gets personal. We learn his name. We see his heart. We get a peak into his motivations. And... when we push in for that close up, the image we see is intimidating, to say the least. *** Word + the...

Welcome to Word & the Wild WEEK FIVE. This week... Job shows us something amazing about God no thanks to his friends... and God makes good on a promise that's a long time coming. As we move from the story of Job to the legendary tale known as the Exodus, we see some things in common between the two stories and what they say about God's heart. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Stor...

It's week FOUR in our one-year Bible reading adventure. This week we pause in the Bible story timeline to step into a mini-series featuring Job. In the book of Job, a dark element inters the story as we learn something new about God – he has an enemy. And that enemy calls into question some of what we have seen so far about the Creator God.  *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story ***...

In week THREE of our one-year Bible adventure, the nomads known as Abraham's family find a safe harbor... for now. And, a man named Job gives us a peek behind the curtain of why sometimes good people endure hard things in the messy middle outside of Eden. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break for 2026. Why? To come back new and improved...

It's week two on our one year Bible adventure. Ahead for us this week on the trail ... we've got pits, prisons, and prostitutes. Not necessarily in that order. 😇 We take a look back at the ups and downs of the so-called "heroes" of faith we have met so far. What do their episodes show us about God? *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 as One Big Story *** The Word + the Wild community is on break...

We're at the beginning of our one-year Bible adventure together... and so it makes sense that we're starting "in the beginning" of the Bible itself. As we jump in this week, our reading and conversation takes us to the very edge of reality. Seriously. Use this week's episode to kick-start your daily reading for the pages marked January 1 – January 7 in your chrono Bible. *** Word + the Wild is bac...

I imagine us circled up around the campfire. We're dreaming about what we're going to see. Feeling a little bit intimidated by what we might encounter. And, we're swapping ideas about what  to put into our backpacks before we head out into the wonderful wild woods of God's Word. Let's talk about some essentials to have in your bag as we prepare to get started. *** Word + the Wild is back in 2027 a...

Today, we are just about ready to hit the trail on this one-year Bible adventure. As we get set to go, I just want to offer up a few essential tips and tricks to help us all get the most out of our adventure together. We hit the trail soon. Now's a great time to invite a friend to join the fun. Word in the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewardi...