Discover the Word Podcast
Discover the Word is a weekly, Bible-study podcast that invites you to join a team of hosts — and maybe a special guest or two — in breaking down passages of Scripture to discover fresh perspective and practical application.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 228
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
28. UnAshamed | Discover the Word Podcast | Presented by Our Daily Bread Ministries
Shame and honor formed some of the biggest issues in the cultural context of the Bible. So, we shouldn’t be surprised to find that language popping up in the Scriptures.
This week on Discover the Wo…
27. What is Worship? | Discover the Word Podcast | Presented by Our Daily Bread Ministries
What comes to your mind when you hear the word "worship?" Worship is a word we throw around a lot, but it's actually a pretty abstract idea. It's difficult to get our minds around what it is. That's …
26. The Jesus Storybook Bible | Discover the Word Podcast | Presented by Our Daily Bread Ministries
This week on Discover the Word, get to know best-selling children's author Sally Lloyd-Jones. Discover how in her book The Jesus Storybook Bible, she helps us understand that it takes the whole Bible…
25. UnLonely | Discover the Word Podcast | Presented by Our Daily Bread Ministries
Oh, how lonely we are in this world! At some point in our lives, and often throughout our lives, we struggle with the set apart, isolated, rejected and unwanted feeling that is loneliness. What can w…
24. Finding Our Identity in Christ | Discover the Word Podcast | Presented by Our Daily Bread Ministries
One of the more abstract concepts in the life of faith is that through salvation our identity is now in Christ. Yet when we talk of our identity in Christ, we’re referring to an actual reality—just n…
23. Wild Beasts | Discover the Word
God created the wild beasts as an important part of His very good creation. But when humans took things into their own hands and the world was broken by their fall, the wild beasts became something t…
22. The Gospels as Stories | Discover the Word
Dr. Jeannine K. Brown, a popular writer, teacher, and expert on the Gospels, joins the Discover the Word group to show us how reading the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time, may miss the point th…
21. God in Three Persons | Discover the Word
Think about the hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy,” which calls God’s people to worship and communion with the God who is both accessible and mysterious. The first verse ends with these words: “God in three Per…
20. Six Who Made a Difference | Discover the Word
Do our choices really make a difference? Yes! When we carefully—and creatively—invest our love for God, He can do great things through us. Our choices, stacked one upon another like dominoes in a row…
19. God With Us | Week 2 | Discover the Word
Few promises of the Bible offer more reassurance than when God says “I will never leave or forsake you.” Who among us doesn’t want to believe that God is still with us—now? Yes, we see evidence of Go…
18. God With Us | Week 1 | Discover the Word
Few promises of the Bible offer more reassurance than when God says “I will never leave or forsake you.” Who among us doesn’t want to believe that God is still with us—now? Yes, we see evidence of Go…
17. What Does the Bible Say About Justice? | Discover the Word
Justice. What comes to mind when you see or hear that word? We've heard a lot about justice recently, and have so many thoughts, ideas, images, assumptions, and expectations of what justice is and ho…
16. Reading Hope with the Black Church | Discover the Word
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. A key element in the fight …
15. The Gospel in the Mountains | Week 2 | Discover the Word
In the Bible, there seems to be a love-hate relationship with mountains. It was in the mountains that Israel established “high places” where false gods were worshipped. Yet, it is nonetheless surpris…
14. The Gospel in the Mountains | Week 1 | Discover the Word
How do you view mountains? Do you see them as majestic? Intimidating? Beautiful? Dangerous?
No matter how we might view them, numerous significant biblical events happened on mountains. What are som…
13. When We Pray Like Jesus | Week 2 | Discover the Word
Most of us find prayer baffling. Sometimes even unsatisfying. At the heart of our struggle is a kind of tug-of-war between what we want and what God wants. We have certain “prayer problems.” In one o…
12. When We Pray Like Jesus | Week 1 | Discover the Word
Most of us find prayer baffling. Sometimes even unsatisfying. At the heart of our struggle is a kind of tug-of-war between what we want and what God wants. We have certain “prayer problems.” In one o…
11. Wait for It... | Discover the Word
Let’s be real. Modern culture is not a patient culture. We don’t like to wait for anything, and we’ve come up with just about every shortcut we can think of to get things done or in our possession mo…
10. When Crisis Strikes | Discover the Word
A crisis has been defined as any event that is going to lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community, or whole society. One teacher described a crisis more pe…
9. The Impact of Place | Week 4 | Discover the Word
In this series on Discover the Word, the group explores the importance of "where" with our Bible geography expert Dr. Jack Beck. Jack is convinced that location almost always shapes our understanding…