Job: The Accuser's Shortcut
The accuser always offers a shortcut. He tells Eve she can have maturity without waiting, tells Job he can end his suffering by cursing God,...
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The mission of Spoken Gospel is to equip the church to speak the gospel out of every corner of scripture. Co-hosts and close friends, David Bowden and Seth Stewart, sit down every week to ta...
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Job Overview: Conquering the Accuser
In the land of Uz, out in Gentile wilderness, a blameless king-priest tends a pocket of paradise—a flourishing household he rules and interc...
Job Overview: The Literary World of Job
Job is not the only ancient book about a righteous man who suffers for no nameable reason. Cultures across Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt wrote a...
John 12: Donkey and Vine
When Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, he isn't just fulfilling a single prediction from Zechariah. He's taking up a promise made to J...
John 12: Anointed for Burial
Six days before Passover, as all Jerusalem prepares lambs for slaughter, Mary pours out a pound of costly perfume over Jesus' feet at a dinn...
John Overview: Jesus the Bread from Heaven
Three times in John 6, Jesus retells the story of the Exodus: he feeds a hungry crowd near Passover, crosses a stormy sea, and declares hims...
John Overview: Living Water
Water shows up in nearly every chapter of John's Gospel, and it's almost never simple—sometimes death, sometimes life, sometimes the boundar...
John Overview: Water in the Old Testament
Water flows through nearly every chapter of John's Gospel. From Jesus' baptism to the woman at the well, from healing beside a pool to walki...
John Overview: What is a Sign?
The Gospel of John is structured around seven signs that build toward an eighth—the resurrection of Jesus. To understand what John means by...
John 1: In the Beginning Was the Word
John opens his Gospel not with a birth narrative or a genealogy, but with a stunning claim about who Jesus has always been. David and Christ...
Gospel of John Overview: A Unique Eyewitness
John's account of Jesus' life and Gospel has long been noted for its uniqueness compared to the synoptic accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke...
Farewell Seth: What Seven Years in Scripture Taught Us
After nearly seven years of reading through the entire Bible together, Seth Stewart steps away from the Spoken Gospel Podcast to pursue elde...
Acts Overview: The Council of Jerusalem
As the gospel continues to spread among the Gentiles, a dispute arises as to whether non-Jewish converts need to follow Jewish customs like...
Acts Overview: Peter's Passover
As the gospel spreads from Jerusalem to distant lands, the church lives out Jesus' life on earth through patterns of growth, persecution, an...
Acts Overview: The Gospel Goes To Cornelius
What does it mean that Gentiles are made clean? How can the Holy Spirit fill Gentiles supposedly outside of God's Kingdom? David and Christi...
Acts Overview: Saul's Encounter with Jesus
Saul was breathing out threats and murder against the followers of Jesus—until Jesus met him on the road to Damascus. David and Christine ex...
Acts Overview: Stephen, the First Martyr
Stephen was the first person to give his life for Jesus, and his death mirrors the death of Jesus in stunning ways. David and Christine walk...
Acts Overview: Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
A wealthy Ethiopian official journeys to Jerusalem seeking the God of Israel, only to find himself excluded from the very temple he longed t...
Acts Overview: The Gospel Goes to Samaria
When persecution scatters the church beyond Jerusalem, Philip takes the gospel to Samaria—a region synonymous with religious syncretism and...
Acts Overview: The Day of Pentecost
Pentecost wasn't just another Jewish festival—it was God's cosmic reset button for all creation. David, Christine, and Josh walk through the...