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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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
July 13, 2026
How to Live a Worthy Life | Psalm 90
What does it take to live a life that truly matters? In this special release, we examine this question as we take a metaphorical mountain climb through Psalm 90, a remarkable ancient prayer of Moses. As we reach the summit of our journey we confront the cold, hard truth: life is brief, and then we die. The Journey doesn’t end at the summit, however, On the way down the mountain we discover that God’s endless nature and our fleeting days is the exact wisdom we need to live a deeply meaningful,...
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June 29, 2026
How to Make a Wise Crisis Decision | Genesis 13-14
Some decisions are truly life-altering. A high-stakes choice made under severe threat, intense pressure, and high uncertainty. How do we face such a crisis decision? In our episode, today, Abram and Lot, billionaires within the context of their ancient world, face just such a choice. Their massive herds of livestock were pushing the land to its absolute breaking point. They had to split up their operation in order to survive. Lot chose life in the fertile plain of the Jordan, prioritizing econo
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June 15, 2026
Abraham's Baby Faith / Genesis 11-12
Abraham was always a flawless giant of faith, wasn’t he? The biblical reality is far more shocking. Abraham’s story begins, not with heroic faith in one creator God, but with pagan beliefs within a culture of moon worship, a barren marriage, fear, failure, and a future that seemed impossible. Yet God’s plan for Abraham never depended on Abraham’s worthiness—it depended entirely on God’s grace. In this episode we explore the remarkably messy beginning of Abraham’s journey, God’s astonishing pro
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June 1, 2026
Revisiting Babel | Genesis 10-11
What if the problem of the Tower of Babel was never really about architecture? In this episode we explore how this story in Genesis 11, along with the preceding ethnography in chapter 10, work together to demonstrate both the unity and rebellion of humanity. Far from being ancient filler, these chapters reveal the roots of human disunity as well as our united attempt to build life apart from God. We can understand the self-sufficient ambition of those ancient architects who wished to make a n...
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May 18, 2026
After the Flood: New World, Same Heart Problem | Genesis 9
What if the new beginning after the flood wasn’t as new as it seemed? In Genesis 9, Noah and his family step out into a cleansed world—but not with a cleansed heart. In this episode, we explore how God responds to persistent human sin with both blessing and restraint. You’ll discover how Noah functions as a kind of second Adam, how God’s covenant with humanity provides stability in a broken world, how the rainbow is a sign of peace, and what the disturbing story of Noah’s drunken nakedness and
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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…
June 1, 2026
The Creation and Recreation of the World
Summary Chart of Genesis 1-11 Creation Destruction - Flood Recreation 1:1 darkness was over the deep, 1:2 God blessed [the animals]: be fru…
April 27, 2026
Literary Structure of the Flood Story | Genesis 6-9
Different types of literature demand different structures. We write novels differently than blog posts, and short stories differently from e-mail messages. The literary culture of the Bible was no different, except that the literary forms come from …
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