Bible Wisdom Today
The Bible was written long ago, in a foreign language, within an alien culture, using unfamiliar literary styles. This verse-by-verse Bible study confronts those challenges to discover God’s wisdom for life today. Your teacher, Stan Watkins, has always founded his personal faith on the Bible, leading him to complete a Bible degree and enter Christian ministry, ultimately going with his wife and family to Europe for 6 years. There he served in the areas of Bible teaching and music. Since returning to the states, he has supported his local church as he has had opportunity, but now he would like a more regular outlet for teaching God’s word. He has been married to his wife, Mary, since 1990 and has three adult children. In addition to this podcast, he maintains an active piano teaching studio.
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Since Bible Wisdom Today features a series of episodes moving methodically through a book of the Bible, you might want to begin with the introduction to one of our recent series.
Recent Episodes
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Oct. 5, 2026
Unshakable: When Grief Meets Promise | Genesis 23
What do you do when the worst day of your life collides with the grandest promises of God? In this episode, we step into the quiet vacuum of a devastating loss and sit in the mourning tent with Abraham. After losing Sarah—his partner in a decades-long adventure of faith—Abraham faces a defining moment. He is a wealthy but landless nomad, grieving the only woman in Scripture whose exact lifespan is immortalized on the page. Yet, what he does next at the local city gate writes a new script on h...
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Sept. 21, 2026
God, Our Provider: Abraham, Isaac, and the Test of Faith | Genesis 22
Have you ever asked God, “Why did this happen to me?” What would you do if God asked you to surrender the very thing you had waited years to receive? The story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22:1–19, is one of the most challenging and powerful passages in the Bible. Why would God test Abraham in such a shocking way? Genesis 22 brings Abraham to the greatest test of his faith—and forces us to wrestle with one of the Bible’s most difficult questions: Can we really trust God to have...
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Sept. 7, 2026
The Remaking of a Failure: The Spiritual Curriculum of a Patient God | Genesis 20-21
Have you ever failed God? Has your lapse in judgment completely disqualified you in God’s eyes? If you’ve ever looked at your own spiritual track record and thought that you must surely have exhausted God’s patience, you are not alone. In this episode, you will discover a profound sense of relief, as you watch Abraham, our legendary patriarch, step into God’s spiritual classroom as a self-focused schemer and finally graduate as a mature, faithful follower. He is living proof that God ro...
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Aug. 24, 2026
Is God Always Fair? | Genesis 18-19
Have you ever looked at the world around you—or even at your own life—and quietly wondered, “Is God always fair?” When we read ancient biblical stories about entire cities being wiped out by fire and brimstone, or when we face unexpected, undeserved heartbreaks in our own lives, it is easy to feel like justice is blind, harsh, or completely random. Our story today, one of the most terrifying tales of divine judgment in the Bible, was written to answer that very question. “Is God always fair?” I
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Aug. 10, 2026
Marked at the Middle: When God reorders your identity and guarantees your future | Genesis 17
Where is the most important point in a story? In the beginning? At the climax? During the resolution? In ancient literature, the most important point was often in the very center. Ancient writers frequently used a skillful writing technique called chiastic structure. In this form, the second half of the story mirrored the first half, but in reverse order. Each half of the story converged on that all-important central point. In this episode, we come to Genesis 17, the dramatic epicenter of Abra
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July 27, 2026
The Weight of Waiting for God | Genesis 15-16
Why does God seem to move so slowly? You pray, you trust, and you continue waiting—but the answer never seems to come. In those long seasons of silence, it's easy to wonder, has God forgotten me? Should I just take matters into my own hands? Today we explore Genesis 15–16, where Abram and Sarai model two very different responses to God's delay. Abram brings his questions honestly to God and discovers that God is not threatened by sincere doubt. Instead, He strengthens Abram's faith through powe
Recent Blog Posts
Sept. 18, 2026
Comparison Chart of Genesis 21 and 22
The author of Genesis is a master craftsman. He introduces comparisons in places where we would not expect them, such as comparing the story of Hagar in the desert and Abraham on Mount Moriah. At first, these seem like totally different stories, but…
Sept. 18, 2026
The Four-panel Structure of Abraham's Offering of Isaac
The author of Genesis was a great literary craftsman. A modern reader might not immediately see this because we expect literature to be written like our own culture. Genesis, in fact all the Bible, is written with a different idea of what makes goo…
July 30, 2026
Literary Structure of the Abraham Story
One of the most common ways of structuring a narrative for the author of Genesis was to use a chiastic structure. We saw this earlier in the story of the flood. As a reminder, in a chiastic structure, the author creates parallel points arranged in…
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Stan Watkins