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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.
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The Bible Study PodcastGalatians (Acts 10) - Gentiles for Jesus
This is the episode is part 1 in a study of the book of Galatians. This episode looks at some of the back story for Galatians at when Peter learns that you…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 13 – Nehemiah’s Final Reforms
This is the episode is part 13 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah goes back to the king of Persia... and everything goes to hell. So he comes back…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 12 – Dedication of the Wall
This is the episode is part 12 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. The wall is dedicated with songs of praise and thanksgiving in a parade of leaders and…
The Bible Study PodcastSermon on Isaiah 1:10-18 and Luke 19:1-10 - Sin
A sermon from Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino on sin. I preached on Isaiah 1:10-18 and Luke 19:1-10 which were, sort of, the lessons for the day. Discover…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 11 – New Residents of Jerusalem
This is the episode is part 11 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. Now that the wall is completed the people resettle the city of Jerusalem. Discover more…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 10 – The Agreement of the People
This is the episode is part 10 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. Now that the temple and wall are completed, the people make an agreement with God to renew…
The Bible Study PodcastA sermon on Luke 18:1-8 and 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5
A sermon from my church Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino, CA. I was asked to preach on the first Sunday after our pastor left. I preached on Luke 18:1-8 and…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 9 – The Israelites Confess Their Sins
This is the episode is part 9 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. In this episode, the whole assembly of Israel hears the word of the Lord again and confesses…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 8 – Ezra Reads the Law
This is the episode is part 8 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. Now that the great work of building the law is done the people hold a celebration where Ezra…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 7 – List of the Exiles
This is the episode is part 7 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah starts to wrap up his work by appointing some leaders and by counting all of the…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 6 – Further Opposition
This is the episode is part 6 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. As the wall is close to completion there is further opposition including plans to kill…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 5 – Nehemiah Helps the Poor
This is the episode is part 5 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. The story takes a break from talking about the work on the wall to talk about how the rich…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 4 – Opposition
This is the episode is part 4 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. The work on rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem has started to make progress when they get…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 3 – Builders of the Wall
This is the episode is part 3 of a study of the book on Nehemiah. Nehemiah lists the people who build which parts of the wall and along the way we learn some…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 1 – Nehemiah in Jerusalem
This is the episode is part 2 of a study of the book on Nehemiah. Nehemiah gets permission from the King to come to Jerusalem. He inspects the walls in secret…
The Bible Study PodcastNehemiah 1 – Nehemiah’s Prayer
This is the episode is part 1 in a study of the book of Nehemiah. In this episode, Nehemiah becomes aware of the problems in Jerusalem and before he acts he…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 10 – The People’s Confession of Sin
This is the episode is part 10 in a study of the book of Ezra. The people respond to the accusations that they have broken the law of God by marrying foreign…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 9 – Ezra's Prayer
This is the episode is part 9 in a study of the book of Ezra. Ezra prays for the people when he returns from exile only to learn that the people of Israel are…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 8 – The Return to Jerusalem
This is the episode is part 8 in a study of the book of Ezra. We get a list of the family heads who come with Ezra from Jerusalem and how they prepare for this…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 7 – Ezra Comes to Jerusalem
This is the episode is part 7 in a study of the book of Ezra. 7 chapters in to the book that bears his name Ezra finally joins the story as he comes to…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 6 – Decree of Darius
This is the episode is part 6 in a study of the book of Ezra. The people of Judah and the governor receive a reply from Darius II that the temple should be…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 5 – Second Letter
This is the episode is part 5 in a study of the book of Ezra. Time has passed and a new governor sends a second letter to a new Emporer asking about the work…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 4 – Opposition
This is the episode is part 4 in a study of the book of Ezra. The work on the temple stops when it is opposed by others who don't want o see it completed…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 3 – Foundations
This is the episode is part 3 in a study of the book of Ezra. The returnees start building the temple. Before they lay the foundations, there restore the altar…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 2 – The Returnees
This is the episode is part 2 in a study of the book of Ezra. Chapter 2 is not my favorite chapter of the book as it is a list of names. But what else can we…
The Bible Study PodcastEzra 1 – The Exile Ends
This is the episode is part 1 in a study of the book of Ezra. In this episode, King Cyrus of Persia ends the exile of the Jews and tells them to go home and…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 16 – Easter
This is the episode is part 21 and the final part in a study of the gospel of Mark. This episode covers Marks account of Easter through the ascension of Jesus…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 15 – Jesus Dies
This is the episode is part 20 in a study of the gospel of Mark. Jesus is crucified on Golgotha outside of Jerusalem. He hangs on a cross for 6 hours and then…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 15 – Trial Before Pilate
This is the episode is part 19 in a study of the gospel of Mark. In this episode, Jesus is tried before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. Jesus is not found…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 14 – Gethsemane
This is the episode is part 18 in an study of the gospel of Mark. Mak takes us to the morning of Good Friday. Jesus prays, is betrayed, is arrested, and is…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 14 – The Last Supper
This is the episode is part 17 in an study of the gospel of Mark. Jesus is anointed at Bethany and then he and the disciples celebrate passover, in a meal we…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 12 – The Widow's Mite
This is the episode is part 15 in a study on the gospel of Mark. Jesus teaches in the temple. He has a good discussion with a religious leader about which…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 12 - Jesus Tested
This is the episode is part 14 in a study on the gospel of Mark. Jesus spares with the religious leaders during Holy Week. The pharisees try and get him in…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 11 – Palm Sunday
This is the episode is part 13 in a study on the gospel of Mark. Jesus enters into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and drives the money changers out of the temple…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 13 – End Times
This is the episode is part 16 in an study of the gospel of Mark. In this episode Jesus talks about the destruction of the temple and about the end times…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 10 – An Audacious Request
This is the episode is part 12 in a study on the gospel of Mark. Jesus predicts his own death. John and James ask for something that they don't understand and…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 10 – Jesus on Divorce, Kids and Riches
This is the episode is part 11 in a study on the gospel of Mark. In this episode we hear Jesus teachings on Divorce and on children. We also see him interact…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 9 – The Transfiguration
This is the episode is part 10 in a study on the gospel of Mark. Jesus takes Peter, James and John to the top of a mountan where they get a glimpse of his…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 8 – Jesus Feeds 4000
This the episode is part 9 in a study on the gospel of Mark. In this episode Jesus feeds 4000 and predicts his own death. The disciples are still a bit slow on…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 7 – About Your Heart
This is the episode is part 8 in a study on the gospel of Mark. In this episode Jesus is challenged about what defiles in an argument with the Pharisees. He…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 6 – Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
This is the episode is part 7 in a study on the gospel of Mark. In this episode Jesus feeds the 5,000 and then walks on water on what was supposed to be a day…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 6 – Parables of Jesus
This is the episode is part 6 in a study of the gospel of Mark. Jesus is not well received in his hometown, where they think they already know who he is. We…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 5 – Parables of Jesus
This is the episode is part 5 in a study of the gospel of Mark. In this episode we see Jesus drive out a legion of demons. We also see him heal a 12 year old…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 4 – Parables of Jesus
This is the episode is part 4 in a study of the gospel of Mark. We see some of Jesus' teaching in this chapter and the parables he uses to teach. The disciples…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 3 - Jesus Appoints the Twelve
This is the episode is part 3 in a study of the gospel of Mark. In this chapter the pharisees already decide that Jesus must die, as they disagree over the…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 2 - Jesus and the Sabbath
This is the episode is part 2 in a study of the gospel of Mark. Jesus starts to collide with the Pharisees about the sabbath, who to eat with and fasting…
The Bible Study PodcastMark 1 – John the Baptist
This is the episode is part 1 in a study of the gospel of Mark. We cover when Mark wrote the gospel and two who and the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Discover…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 25 – Last King
This is the episode is part 78 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. This episode wraps up the study of the kings as we have the last king of Judah is…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 24 – Babylon
This is the episode is part 77 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. Things start to wrap up as this chapter starts the beginning of the Babylonian…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 23 – Josiah Renews the Covenant
This is the episode is part 76 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. Josiah renews the covenant and then goes all around the country tearing down and…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 22 – Josiah the Reformer
This is the episode is part 74 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. When Josiah is king they found something unexpected in the temple... the book of…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 21 – Manasseh King of Judah
This is the episode is part 74 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. In this episode the son born in the extra time that God gave Hezekiah turns out…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 20 – Hezekiah’s Illness
This is the episode is part 73 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. In this episode good King Hezekiah gets sick and asks for more time from God and…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 19 – Sennacherib’s Fall
This is the episode is part 72 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. In this episode King Hezekiah get the good news that God will fight for Judah and…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 18 – Hezekiah King of Judah
This is the episode is part 71 in a study of the kings of (Israel and) Judah. Hezekiah becomes king of Judah, a King who is faithful to God. Discover more…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 17 – Last King of Israel
This is the episode is part 70 in a study of the kings of Israel and Judah. After generations of warnings to change their ways, Israel is taken off into…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 16 – King Ahaz
This is the episode is part 69 in a study of the kings of Israel and Judah. After a number of good kings we get King Ahaz in Judah who does not worship God. He…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 15 – 7 Kings
This is the episode is part 68 in a study of the kings of Israel and Judah. This episode rushes through 7 different kings, 2 from Judah and 5 from Israel…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 14 – Amaziah and Jeroboam II
This is the episode is part 67 in a study of the kings of Israel and Judah. We get the young King Amaziah in Judah. Amaziah learns that just because he wins…
The Bible Study Podcast2 Kings 13 – Jehoahaz and Jehoash
This is the episode is part 66 in a study of the kings of Israel and Judah. We get two more kings in Israel who are pretty much like the kings before them. At…