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The Bible Study Podcast
Want to dive deeper into Scripture? Every Thursday, Chris Christensen investigates a passage of Scripture and helps us see how to apply it to our lives.
Episodes
The Bible Study PodcastAT#355 - John 10-11 – Opposition and Death
This is the episode is part 16 in a study on the Gospel of John. In this episode Jesus again is challenged on who he is. The answer is clear enough this time…
The Bible Study Podcast#334 - John 10 - The Good Shepard
This is the episode is part 15 in a study on the Gospel of John. In this episode Jesus starts making analogies about sheep. Jesus declares that he is the Good…
The Bible Study Podcast#333 - John 9 - Blindness and Seeing
This is the episode is part 14 in a study on the gospel of John. Jesus heals a man born blind on the Sabbath and starts a great kerfuffle about sin and healing…
The Bible Study PodcastAT#332 - John 8 - Who is Jesus
This is the episode is part 13 in a study on the gospel of John. In tis episode Jesus and the religious leaders have a run in about each other's parentage…
The Bible Study Podcast#331 - John 8 - Caught in the Act
This is the episode is part 12 in a study on the gospel of John. In this episode the pharisees try and trap Jesus by bringing to him a woman caught in…
The Bible Study Podcast#330 - Reactions to Jesus
This is the episode is part 11 in a study of the gospel of John. In this episode we hear some of the reactions to Jesus by the crowds, disciples, his brothers…
The Bible Study Podcast#329 - Two Reformers
We take a break from our study of John this week to bring you a sermon that I recently preached at my home church for Reformation Sunday called "Two…
The Bible Study Podcast#328 - John 6 - Bread of Life
This episode is part 10 in a study of the gospel of John. In this episode we hear what happens after the feeding of the 5000. The crowds continue to follow…
The Bible Study Podcast#327 - John 6 – Feeding of the 5000
This is the episode is part 9 in a study on the gospel of John. Jesus feeds more than 5000 with 5 loaves and 3 fish. Discover more Christian podcasts at…
The Bible Study Podcast#326 - John 5 - Authority of the Son
This is the episode is part 8 in a study of the gospel of John. After healing a man on the sabbath, the Jewish leaders question the authority of Jesus. Jesus…
The Bible Study Podcast#325 - John 4 - Jesus Heals
This is the episode is part 7 in a study of the gospel of John. In this episode John tells about the first two times, in his gospel, that Jesus heals someone…
The Bible Study Podcast#324 - John 4 – More Samaritans
This is the episode is part 5 in a study of the gospel of John. It looks at what John the Baptist had to say about Jesus and then at Jesus encounter with a…
The Bible Study Podcast#323 - John 3-4 - Woman at the Well
This is the episode is part 5 in a study of the gospel of John. It looks at what John the Baptist had to say about Jesus and then at Jesus encounter with a…
The Bible Study Podcast#322 - John 3 - Born Again
This is the episode is part 4 in a study on the gospel of John. Jesus gets a visit by night from a teacher of the law named Nicodemus and ends up saying some…
The Bible Study Podcast#321 - John 1-2 - Disciples and a Silly Miracle
This is the episode is part 3 in a study of the gospel of John. Jesus calls some more disciples and performs his first recorded miracle turning water into wine…
The Bible Study Podcast#320 - John 1 – John the Baptist
This is the episode is part 2 in a study on on the gospel of John. In this episode we look at John the Baptist as he points the way to Jesus. Discover more…
The Bible Study Podcast#319 - John 1 - The Word Made Flesh
This is the episode is part 1 in a study of a study of the gospel of John. In this opening section John retells the creation story and the story of John the…
The Bible Study Podcast#318 - A Sermon on Abram
A special bible study podcast, this episode is a sermon that was given at my home church Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino, California - The subject of the…
The Bible Study Podcast#317 - Jonah - Jonah 4 - Jonah's Real Problem
This is the episode is part 3 and the final part of the study of Jonah. We finally learn that Jonah did not want to come to Ninevah and preach not because he…
The Bible Study Podcast#316 - Jonah - Jonah 2-3 - Prayer and Repentance
This is the episode is part 2 in a study on Jonah. Jonah gets some time to think and pray inside the fish for 3 days and 3 nights before he repents and calls…
The Bible Study Podcast#315 - Jonah 1 - Jonah Runs Away
This is the episode is part 1 in a study on Jonah the reluctant prophet. Besides finding no mention of a whale we some other differences from the version you…
The Bible Study Podcast#314 - Marriage – Seeing Value, Building Value
This is the episode is part 5 in a study on marriage. We look at some versus from Proverbs about the wife of the writer and then reflect on what we are…
The Bible Study Podcast#313 - Marriage - Unequally Yoked
This is the episode is part 4 in a study on marriage. In this episode we look at the issue of whether Christians should marry non-Christians. We look at some…
The Bible Study Podcast#312 - Marriage - Sacrificial Love
This is the episode is part 2 in a study on marriage. We will look at some of the examples of marriage in the bible and then at some versus to Paul that call…
The Bible Study Podcast#311 - Marriage - Paul on Marriage
This is the episode is part 2 in a study on marriage. We will look at two different sections in the book of 1 Corinthians. One is read at many Christian…
The Bible Study Podcast#310 - Marriage - Created by God
This is the episode is part 1 in a study on marriage. We look at the verses in Genesis 2 where God creates marriage, in the creation of eve. We will also look…
The Bible Study Podcast#309 False Teachers and Money – 1 Timothy 6
This is the episode is part 7 and the final part of a study on 1 Timothy. This episode looks at false teachers and the love of money Discover more Christian…
The Bible Study Podcast#308 - Widows, Elders and Family - 1 Timothy 5
This is the episode is part 6 in a study of the book of 2 Timothy. Paul gives Timothy specific advise for how he should treat those in the church... like…
The Bible Study Podcast#307 - Good and Bad Teaching - 1 Tim 4
This is the episode is part 5 in a study on 1 Timothy. Paul talks to Timothy about two kinds of teaching. One type of teaching he says was "taught by daemons"…
The Bible Study Podcast#306 - Leadership and Maturity – 1 Timothy 3
This is the episode is part 4 in a study on the book of 1 Timothy.Paul gives us character traits that he is looking for in people who would become church…
The Bible Study Podcast#305 - 1 Timothy 2 - Of Worship and Women
This is the episode is part 3 in a study on the book of 1 Timothy. We find Paul talking about prayer and worship which is the most important part of this…
The Bible Study Podcast#303 - Paul, A Sinner – 1 Tim 1:12
This is the episode is part 2 in a study on 1 Timothy. In this part of Paul's letter he reflects on his faith journey as he went from someone violently…
The Bible Study Podcast#303 - Introduction - 1 Tim 1
This is the episode is part 1 in a study on the book of 1 Timothy. Timothy is a younger man and a "spiritual" son to Paul who writes him this letter. Discover…
The Bible Study Podcast#302 - Philemon - Paul Asks A Favor
This is a one episode study of the book of Philemon. In this very personal letter Paul asks a favor for a dear brother named Philemon on behalf of a runaway…
The Bible Study Podcast#301 - Colossians 4 - Final Instructions and Greetings
This is the episode is part 7 and the final episode in a study on the book of Colossians. Paul wraps up this letter with encouragement for the believers to…
The Bible Study Podcast#300! - Colossians 3:12-25 Rules for Holy Living
This is the episode is part 6 in a study of the book of Colossians. Paul has established that our old self died with Christ and that we have been raised new…
The Bible Study Podcast#299 - Colossians 2:16-3:11 - Old Rules and new Selves
This is the episode is part 5 in a study of the book of Colossians. In this episode we look at a life that has died with Christ as Paul encourages us to leave…
The Bible Study Podcast#298 - Colossian 2:6-15 - Spiritual Fullness in Christ
This is the episode is part 4 of study of Paul's letter to the Colossians. In this episode Paul starts to talk about how we should live as Christians. The…
The Bible Study Podcast#297 - Colossians 1:24-2:5 - Paul’s Labor for the Church
This is the episode is part 3 in a study of the book of Colossians. We look at what Paul has to say about hmself and his labor for the church. What are Paul's…
The Bible Study Podcast#296 - Colossians 1:15-23 - Supremacy of Jesus
This is the episode is part 2 in a study of the book of Colossians. In this part we look at the second section of the letter where Paul looks at the special…
The Bible Study Podcast#295 - Colossians 1:14 - Introductions and Prayers
This is the episode is part 1 in a study on the book of Colossians. Paul introduces himself and then talks about what he is praying for when he thinks of the…
The Bible Study Podcast#294 - Faith - Then What?
This is the episode is part 9 and the final part of an episode on faith. In this episode we look at the possibility that faith is not the end of a journey but…
The Bible Study Podcast#293 - Faith - Our Faith
This is the episode is part 8 in a study on faith. This episode challenges a western "my faith" look at the topic of faith by looking at versus that put our…
The Bible Study Podcast#292 - Faith - When Faith Fails
This is the episode is part 7 in an study on faith. In this episode we look at an incident where Jesus and then Peter walks on water. But Peter after good…
The Bible Study Podcast#291 - Faith - Faith and Healing
This is the episode is part 5 in a study on faith. This episode looks at faith and healing. We look at a number of the stories in the gospels where Jesus says…
The Bible Study Podcast#290 - Faith - Gaining Faith
This is the episode is part 4 in a study on faith. This isode looks at the faith of David, at his struggles, at how his faith grew and at how our faith can…
The Bible Study Podcast#289 - Faith - Losing Faith
This is the episode is part 3 in a study on faith. This episode looks at the moments we lose faith through the experience of the prophet Elijah. After his…
The Bible Study Podcast#288 - Faith - Faith and Deeds
This is the episode is part 3 in a study on faith. We look at what the book of James has to say about the difference between faith and belief and how how faith…
The Bible Study Podcast#287 - Faith - Faith full and Faithful
This is the episode is part 2 in a study of Faith. We will look in this episode at our our call to walk, like Noah and Abraham, faithfully with God. We will…
The Bible Study Podcast#286 - Faith - A Cloud of Witnesses
This is the episode is part 1 in a series on faith. We look at Hebrews 11 in this episode with its definition of faith and its list of the faithful witnesses…
The Bible Study Podcast#285 - Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks
This is the episode is a stand alone episode on giving thanks just in time for the Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S. What does the bible tell us about being…
The Bible Study Podcast#284 - The Story of Two Widows – Sermon
This is the episode is a sermon that I gave at Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino about two stories, one from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament…
The Bible Study Podcast#283 - Fundamentals of Christianity – Be Like Jesus
This is the episode is part 7 and the final part of a study on the fundamentals of Christianity. We sum up Christianity in this episode fairly simple as "be…
The Bible Study Podcast#282 - Fundamentals of Christianity – Graceful People
This is the episode is part 6 in a study on the fundamentals of Christianity. This episode looks at not being judgemental people but instead our calling to be…
The Bible Study Podcast#279 - Fundamentals of Christianity – Loved
This is the episode is part 5 in a study on the fundamentals of Christianity. In this episode we will look at Grace. We are the receivers of God's Grace. We…
The Bible Study Podcast#280 Fundamentals of Christianity – Called to Love
This is the episode is part 4 in a study on the fundamentals of Christianity. As we have been loved by God we are called both to love one another and we are…
The Bible Study Podcast#279 - Fundamentals of Christianity – Loved
This is the episode is part 3 in a study of the fundamentals of Christianity. This episode looks at the messages in the bible that talk about God's love for…
The Bible Study Podcast#278 - Fundamentals of Christianity – Forgiving
This is the episode is part 2 in a study of the fundamentals of Christianity. In the last episode we looked at the forgiveness that God has given us. In this…
The Bible Study Podcast#277 - Fundamentals of Christianity - Forgiveness
This is the episode is part 1 in a study of the Fundamentals of Christianity. Who gets to decide what are the fundamentals of Christianity? I say the bible…
The Bible Study Podcast#276 - Kingdom of God - Second Birth
This is the episode is the final part in a study on the kingdom of God. We look at the only verse in John that mentions the Kingdom of God which is the…