A storm is brewing—and the prophets tear our flimsy tent wide open. Owen takes us to the tropics in a modern parable, where we wake up to the warnings of Amos, Isaiah, and Micah. Yes, judgment is coming. So is a child. These are desperate days for the people of Israel, and we feel the same hurricane-force winds today. But, this storm won’t end the story. Even here, in the gathering dark, a light begins to shine. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere a...
Jun 26, 2025•21 min•Season 2Ep. 26
When leadership breaks down, God doesn’t stay silent. He sends prophets—brash, untamed carriers of his voice and values. This week, we pan across the Bible’s epic landscape all the way back to the Garden to ask: What is leadership meant to be? What does it mean when the prophets arrive on the scene? From Eden to Elijah, Isaiah, and Jonah, we trace the deeper purpose behind these chaotic characters. It’s not about theatrics. It’s about hope. And it’s about what you can pray for now. Because God s...
Jun 19, 2025•17 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week kicks off a whole new season in our Bible adventure—a time of civil war, crumbling kingdoms, and rapid-fire rulers. The story moves fast, but if you listen closely, you’ll hear a rhythm underneath. It’s a heartbeat. God’s heartbeat—paired with a pounding question: Do you love me? As the nation of Israel splits in two, we meet a gallery of leaders whose legacies rise or fall on what they love most. Forget battlefield wins and golden palaces. When it comes to the leadership scorecard, Go...
Jun 11, 2025•14 min•Season 2Ep. 24
A man who knew it all, did it all, and had it all makes a painful discovery—there’s one essential question he forgot to ask to get want he wants most of all. And now it’s too late. This week, we walk through Ecclesiastes—his haunting, hard-won reflections on the meaning of life. And old king Solomon sends us a warning: What if the satisfaction you’re chasing is on the path you've ignored? Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewardin...
Jun 05, 2025•25 min•Season 2Ep. 23
It feels good to pluck a hidden gem off the rack and take it home. Reading Proverbs can feel like that. This week, Owen shows you how to crack a proverb—those zippy, two-line poems that hide the secrets of successful living in plain sight. Jump in, discover the beauty others miss... and, take home something you can't live without. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you ...
May 29, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Solomon’s name means peace...but his life says otherwise. This week, we follow the wisest man on earth as he builds a big kingdom, prays bold prayers, and still can’t quiet the ache inside. It’s a haunting look at how a life of success without satisfaction. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or rec...
May 21, 2025•13 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Ever hit a Psalm in the Bible and secretly thought, “Skip it”? For years, that was me. Too emotional. Too vague. Too hard to get something out of. Then something changed—and I fell in love. This week, we explore some of David’s psalms. I’ll tell you my story—and share four simple steps to take Psalms from “must skip” to “can’t miss.” Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where y...
May 07, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 20
This week, David's personal choices set off a chain reaction that spins out of control and sends him on the run. As consequences mount, he rediscovers a love that outlasts his mistakes. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’s Word. With support from a we...
Apr 30, 2025•13 min•Season 2Ep. 19
The tragic miss that turned Saul into "Saul".... and why it's easier to make the same mistake than you think. Plus, how seeing double this week and what that's a good thing. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’s Word. With support from a weekly podcast...
Apr 23, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 18
David solves Saul's "giant" problem... and then creates a "giant problem" for Saul. Why David and Saul's relationship blows up and what that means for us Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’s Word. With support from a weekly podcast and an online commu...
Apr 16, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 17
The Wild West chaos of Judges blurs into the background as we zoom in to follow the lives of a string of people who move the plot forward in a major way. Ruth, Hannah, Samuel, David and more are on the horizon this week. Here's how to get a handle on this part of the story. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a ...
Apr 09, 2025•20 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Welcome to the Wild West known as Judges. This week, our journey takes us to a time when the Israelites live on the frontier. It's a dangerous borderland where life and peace hang in the balance. In these dark times, God calls in a series of vigilantes to rescue his people with their own brand of cowboy justice. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover ...
Apr 01, 2025•16 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Joshua and the Israelites as step into the Promised Land and move to clear out Canaan. It's a life and death struggle – and the threats are closer than they think. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’s Word. With support from a weekly podcast and an on...
Mar 25, 2025•21 min•Season 2Ep. 14
It's not deja vu....it's Deuteronomy. Here in WEEK 12, Moses and the Israelites' wilderness wanderings come to an end... and come with a warning: God wants his people to remember what they would rather forget. Memory is essential to their survival. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s ...
Mar 18, 2025•16 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Moses and the Israelites snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they turned their backs on the Promised Land and circle back to the wilderness. But there's more to the wilderness than punishment. God's preparing his people for their future. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a gui...
Mar 04, 2025•17 min•Season 2Ep. 12
We gear up to break camp and follow Moses and the Israelites away from Mt. Sinai. The wilderness awaits.Will God's people reach their destination and fulfill their destiny? Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’s Word. With support from a weekly podcast ...
Feb 27, 2025•14 min•Season 2Ep. 11
This is WEEK EIGHT... we are picking our way through the desert and having fun doing it. If you haven't already, now's a great time to subscribe to this podcast wherever you like to listen... And like the Word & the Wild facebook page. This week... Moses and the Israelites are out there in the desert getting all the particulars of what it takes to maintain a relationship with the God who rescued them from Egypt... and we're looking for an oasis or two to pull us through it all. Word & th...
Feb 19, 2025•26 min•Season 2Ep. 10
God gets close and shows us that he's complicated. But there's a beauty in the complexity that most people miss. As Moses and the Israelites are hard at work putting together that Tabernacle in the wilderness to create a space to meet with God... and God embeds some dramatic tension deep into our story... and we wrap our minds around why we should care at all. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journe...
Feb 11, 2025•30 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This is WEEK SIX on our one-year Bible adventure... We have crossed over the one-month mark...as we are crossing the desert with Moses and the Israelites. It's all about Exodus this week. In Exodus, God gets personal. We learn his name. We see his heart. We get a peak into his motivations. And... when we push in for that close up, the image we see is intimidating, to say the least. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and ...
Feb 07, 2025•20 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week God shows up, finally. First, he shows up for Job. Then, God shows up for a people who have felt forgotten... with a surprising delivery. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’s Word. With support from a weekly podcast and an online community o...
Jan 28, 2025•26 min•Season 2Ep. 7
It's week FOUR in our one-year Bible reading adventure. This week we pause in the Bible story timeline to step into a mini-series featuring Job. In the book of Job, a dark element inters the story as we learn something new about God – he has an enemy. And that enemy calls into question some of what we have seen so far about the Creator God. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible ...
Jan 22, 2025•24 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In week THREE of our one-year Bible adventure, the nomads known as Abraham's family find a safe harbor... for now. And, a man named Job gives us a peek behind the curtain of why sometimes good people endure hard things in the messy middle outside of Eden. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap...
Jan 14, 2025•13 min•Season 2Ep. 5
If you've been expecting to meet squeaky-clean and holy-pristine heroes of faith on our adventure, then you've already been disappointed. It's week two on our one year Bible adventure. We take a look back at the ups and downs of the so-called "heroes" of faith we have met so far. What do their episodes show us about God? Ahead for us this week on the trail ... we've got pits, prisons, and prostitutes. Not necessarily in that order. 😇 Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friend...
Jan 06, 2025•23 min•Season 2Ep. 4
We're at the beginning of our one-year Bible adventure together... and so it makes sense that we're starting "in the beginning" of the Bible itself. As we jump in this week, our reading and conversation takes us to the very edge of reality. Seriously. Use this week's episode to kick-start your daily reading for WEEK 1. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from...
Jan 02, 2025•29 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Here, at the start of our one-year Bible adventure, I imagine us circled up around the campfire. We're dreaming about what we're going to see. And, feeling a little bit intimidated by what we might encounter. We're swapping ideas about what to put into our backpacks before we head out into the wonderful wild woods of God's Word. Let's talk about some essentials to have in your bag as we prepare to get started. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and...
Jan 01, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Word & the Wild. It's a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Read the Bible with us in 2025! It's a fun, rewarding, and doable journey when you take it one day at a time and enjoy the story with a community of friends. We are just about ready to hit the trail on this one-year Bible adventure. As we get set to go, I just want to offer up a few essential tips and tricks to help us all get the most out of our adventure together. We hit the trail soon. Now's a great time to invite a...
Dec 31, 2024•12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
What's happening in the book of Acts? Peter, Paul, and Philip and a cast of thousands cross borders and boundaries as the Holy Spirit uses persecution and problems to prod the young church forward in Jesus' mission. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a guide by your side through God’...
Nov 26, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 37
And this week is all about endings. We zoom in on Jesus' thumbnail sketch of what it will look like at the end of the world. He gives us signs and signals to look out for in the world, the church, the Middle East, the sky... and in our own hearts. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and understand it. It’s not a devotional or recap. It’s a...
Oct 31, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Courage, commitment... and a suspicious number of coincidences. We look at Esther, Ezra, and Nehemiah for inspiration as the Jewish people who have returned to the promised land face the tough task of rebuilding their homes, their city, and their culture. Meanwhile, God is building something, too. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and un...
Sep 18, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 35
The Exile is behind us. The Jewish people are on their way back to rebuild. It's almost like we've got a new Exodus – a new start for God's people in the Promised Land. The stakes could not be higher and God's plans could not be clearer. Plus, we find some amazing leadership lessons along the way. Word & the Wild is a one-year Bible adventure with friends. Join from anywhere and enjoy a fun, rewarding, and doable 12-month journey through the Bible where you read it from cover to cover and un...
Sep 10, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 34
