Bible in a Year (The Story) Podcast
Bible in a Year (The Story) podcast features Professor Rachel Bodell, a marketing storyteller who teaches marketing, innovation, and leadership at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA University). She will not only read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation in one year, but she will share all the resources that have helped her to understand the Bible as one unfolding connected story along the way through short commentaries and reflections from biblical scholars, most of which read original biblical languages like Hebrew and Greek (e.g., Dr. Tim Mackie, N.T. Wright, Dr. Carmen Imes, Dr. Jeannine Hanger, Dr. James Petitfils, Kristi Mclelland, Dr. John Walton, Dr. Michael Heiser, and Dr. Lucy, Peppiatt) By 2024, we hope to additionally offer special episodes from the renowned Bible scholars themselves that will help you understand the context of hard-to-understand stories within the meta-narrative of the Bible. We want to help you not only listen but hear what God is saying through the Bible every year and grow in your understanding, practice, and re-telling of the story to others as you learn more about how all the pieces of the Bible fit together to tell the GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD with a God that is inviting us to participate in the story as it is unfolding today! Each episode is about 15 minutes and includes two to three scripture readings and a short commentary and reflection with suggested biblical scholar sources (e.g. The Bible Project and Premiere Insights) for this is our prayer ”that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and praise of God” (Phil 1:9-11). Some passages of the Bible and commentary reflections contain adult themes that may not be suitable for younger children - parental discretion is advised. Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Listen on:
Episodes
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
This is the weekend review and reflection challenge. We'll be back on Monday! If you need to catch up, the weekend gives you the chance to do that. Remember, you can start whenever, pause whenever, but never stop listening (or reading) the Bible!
Reflection challenge question: What is one or two things you learned this week from listening to the Bible that you can put into practice in your life today?
Don’t forget, you can subscribe to our show wherever you are podcasting to get notifications to remind you on Monday that the show has been posted! Subscribing, rating, reviewing and sharing our show also helps to organically grow our channel and make it easier for people to find us! Thanks for listening and we look forward to being back with you next week.
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 16, Micah 1-43, and Psalm 139. This is a story that captures and summarized 500 years of rebellion. God is removing His protection. Yet, God is still promising to Shepard the remnant, those willing to repent, and Shema. The Bible Project describes the Jewish word Shema to mean we allow the words of God in Scripture to sink in, providing us with understanding, and generating a response that turns into action. God will Shepard His people through exile, through the storm, walking through the valley of the shadow of death (not avoiding it) and He will restore them to God's special place with a close physical relationship to Him as we read about the New Jerusalem and the temple with His presence.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 15, Jonah 1-4, and Psalm 138. In the first part of the story, we continue to read the tale of the Northern Kingdoms drifting from faithfulness with leader after leader failing, like the first, and being the cause of Israel's downfall. We also read this incredible story by the prophet Jonah of God's mercy and pursuit of a powerful mercenary people the Assyrian empire in Nineveh. Jonah was angry and didn't want to bring this message because he knew God was slow to anger and abounded in love. The Ninevites repented, urgently called on the Lord, and turned from their evil ways and violence. In this story, we are reminded of how great God's love, mercy, and grace extend. This is a story about God. It also a story where God reminds Jonah, and us, that we are not in control and we were not deserving of the gift of live and the blessings we do have, God is the giver of life and blessing. We are reminded that the purpose of the blessing is to bless others, show mercy, take the risk, put God on display, and answer God's call on our lives when He asks us to bless someone or be a brand ambassador in a specific way.
Resources:
Kristi, McClelland (Nov., 2014). "Jonah" : Intro to Israel & The Middle Eastern Lens. Williamson College. (4 minutes) YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Z07J98LLQ&list=PLdBrFArPKtZ6muu9qCFP4Tm6sa57qUwgg&index=3
Tim Mackie (Aug., 2017). 1. Running From Your Life - Amazing Jonah (49:34 minutes). Bible Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah1RRqQg2fM
Free Online Bible Study Course on Jonah, Bible Project: https://bibleproject.com/classroom/overview/jonah/
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 13-14, Amos 8-9, Psalm 124.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 11-12, Amos 4-7, Psalm 122.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 10, Amos 1-3, Psalm 110.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
This is the weekend review and reflection challenge. We'll be back on Monday! If you need to catch up, the weekend gives you the chance to do that. Remember, you can start whenever, pause whenever, but never stop listening (or reading) the Bible!
Reflection challenge question: What is one or two things you learned this week from listening to the Bible that you can put into practice in your life today?
Don’t forget, you can subscribe to our show wherever you are podcasting to get notifications to remind you on Monday that the show has been posted! Subscribing, rating, reviewing and sharing our show also helps to organically grow our channel and make it easier for people to find us! Thanks for listening and we look forward to being back with you next week.
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 9, Hosea 11-14, Psalm 109.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 8, Hosea 18-10, and Psalm 108. It's a story of the continued drift of the Northern Kingdom and God's faithfulness through Elisha to people like the woman who used her blessings to bless the prophet, Elisha. We also read about a God of mercy who allows His people to be idolatrous, although it stirs His jealousy and anger. Their drift leads to the inevitable serious consequences of loving things in creation and not the Creator. The suffering stirs God's compassion and He is like a faithful spouse to an adulterous one, pursuing, rescuing, and restoring. Our job? Remember the story, respond to God with a heart of Shema in a right-relationship and guard our hearts against false narratives, empire stories, and things that lead us into the anti-story. For God, idolatry is personal, like adulatory. His response is jealousy and anger, but it's also compassion, He knows that giving our love away to other lovers leads to suffering and death. He doesn't want to see us oppressed or suffering, it stirs His mercy and a glimmer of hope is given. He will redeem. He will restore. He will bring us home.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Today we read 2 Kings 6-7, and Hosea 4-7, and Psalm 103.
In this story we read 2 Kings 6-7, Hosea 4-7, and Psalm 103. In this story we read about how God responds to a besieged city like our besieged heart and our cry for help, what’s particularly notable is God’s grace and mercy despite the evidence of a repentant heart that wants to seek the Lord in this story. We also read about the difference between knowing God through a personal transformative relationship and knowing of God.
Credits
Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.