The New Testament, half an hour at a time.
A verse-by-verse walk through the New Testament, taken thirty minutes at a time. The hosts read a passage aloud, sort out the history behind it, and land every stretch on what it says about Christ's work.
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This is a straight read-through of the New Testament, done thirty minutes at a time, in order, without skipping the hard parts. Each episode picks up at the verse where the last one stopped. The hosts read the passage aloud first, in plain language, before doing anything else with it. Then they slow down on whatever the text raises, whether that is a legal procedure, a piece of Roman politics, or a theological knot. The recent arc has been the closing chapters of Acts, and it shows the format at its best. Paul refuses to be talked out of going to Jerusalem, and the hosts sit with how painful that is for the people around him. He is struck in the mouth before the high priest and fires back about a whitewashed wall, which sparks a genuine disagreement on air about whether Paul was being petty or making a point about who the real high priest is. The craftsmen start a riot over their trade, and a city official calms the crowd for reasons that have nothing to do with mercy and everything to do with not attracting Rome's attention. Historical context does real work here rather than serving as decoration. The pressure on early Christians to say Caesar is Lord gets connected to what came later, including the account of Polycarp being urged simply to say the words and mean nothing by them. The talk is fast, overlapping, and full of affirming interjections, small corrections, and the occasional aside about dozing off in a long prayer meeting. Jokes arrive and then get out of the way. Nobody performs reverence for its own sake, and nobody treats the text as a puzzle to be solved and set aside. The tone shifts as the passage warrants, amused at Paul's temper, grave about martyrdom, before settling back into steady explanation. Every stretch ends up somewhere doctrinal rather than trailing off into trivia. The show is produced through the 1517 Podcast Network, and episodes typically open with a plug for free courses and regional events, including a course from Chad Bird on how to read and interpret the Bible. Those intros are short and self-aware about being intros. With more than four hundred episodes behind it, the archive amounts to a long guided walk through the New Testament that a listener can join anywhere or start from the beginning. Episodes end abruptly, on the clock, with a note about where the next one picks up. For anyone who has tried and stalled at reading the New Testament alone, the appeal is the company and the pace.
Made for: Christians who want serious, sustained Bible study without academic formality, and anyone who has stalled reading the New Testament alone and would rather have knowledgeable company. It fits listeners who like historical context and doctrinal argument delivered in ordinary speech.
What sets it apart: Rather than topical devotionals or standalone sermons, it commits to reading the New Testament straight through in fixed half-hour sittings, so the argument builds across hundreds of episodes. The panel format means disagreements about a verse actually play out on air instead of being smoothed over.
Pastors Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen work their way through the New Testament 30 minutes at a time showing you Christ's work of redemption on every page.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close reading, historical context, and lively disagreement make Acts' theology and political world easier to follow.
Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen read Acts as an argument in motion, following the text passage by passage while keeping Paul's preaching, arrests, trials, and journeys connected.
Paul's custody tour comes with courtroom detail and a wink, if you like your Scripture argued aloud.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk study of Paul's custody tour, pressure to conform, and the confession he refuses to abandon.
Paul's custody tour gives the episode a firm center, as his appeals before people in power keep becoming occasions for witness. The conversation draws out the strain behind forced declarations of loyalty and sets that beside the church's refusal to give up its confession.
Paul's defense turns a muddled case into a clear argument about resurrection, conscience, and public accusation.
Paul's trial comes into focus through a careful defense: he worships the God of his fathers, trusts the law and prophets, brings alms and offerings, enters the temple purified, and is found without crowd or tumult.
A brisk, text-centered look at Paul's reply, the Sanhedrin's irony, and providence moving him toward Rome.
Paul's hearing before the high priest and the Sanhedrin plays as a close study of conviction under pressure. The episode follows the force of his "whitewashed wall" reply after being struck, then sits with the irony of leaders charged with honoring God's law while linked to the…
A brisk Bible-study discussion where Artemis, Roman peace, and an exorcist's humiliation show the gospel's disruptive force.
The episode frames the uproar in Ephesus as a measure of what the gospel unsettles. Jewish itinerant exorcists try to use Paul's language and are violently exposed by a man possessed by an evil spirit, while Demetrius and the craftsmen turn anxiety over Artemis into a public…
A brisk Acts 19 discussion on baptism, synagogue resistance, and the gospel's public reach.
Acts 19 follows Paul back to Ephesus and keeps the focus on what happens when Christian teaching is pressed out of the synagogue and into wider public view.
A brisk historical guide to Acts, showing how Jewish divisions and Roman power sharpen the gospel's resistance.
Before Acts turns toward gospel expansion and the growth of the church, this episode usefully sets the political and religious pressure around the story.
Paul’s sermon sets warning beside forgiveness, grounding release from sin in the risen Christ alone.
Acts 13 is treated as a turning point where Paul’s mission gathers speed and his preaching leaves little room for neutrality. The episode follows the move from Paphos to Perga, John Mark’s departure, and Paul’s sermon, with its clear claim that the risen Christ brings…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Why was the New Testament written in Greek when the first Christians were mostly Jewish?
Paul tells a synagogue crowd they killed God's promised savior, Jesus.
A Bible study podcast episode finishing Paul's letter to Titus, focusing on submission to authorities and avoiding political idolatry.
An introduction to a podcast series on the Book of Acts, featuring guest Bob Hiller, with promotional content for the 1517 network.
A Bible study podcast episode covering Acts 11:1-12:11, focusing on Peter's defense of baptizing Gentiles and the spread of the gospel.
A Bible study podcast episode discussing Titus chapter 3, focusing on how Christians should interact with others and the convicting nature of Paul's instructions.
In Ephesians 3:1–13, Paul identifies the mystery as Gentiles becoming fellow heirs through the gospel.
Acts 25:23-26:32 puts Paul in front of Agrippa, Bernice, Festus, military tribunes, and 'prominent men of the city' after Festus admits he has no definite charge to send to Caesar.
Acts 23:31-25:22 follows Paul from Antipatris to Caesarea as Felix, Festus, and Agrippa each inherit his case.
Acts 22:17-23:30 turns on Paul calling himself a Roman citizen, shutting down a planned flogging, and later getting transferred under 470 soldiers to Felix in Caesarea.
A Bible study podcast episode covering Acts 21:15-22:16, focusing on Paul's determination to go to Jerusalem despite warnings.
A Bible study podcast episode covering Acts 20:13-21:14, focusing on Paul's journey and teachings.
Hosts Eric and Dan walk through Acts 19:21–20:12 on the 30 Minutes in the New Testament podcast, a 1517 Podcast Network production.
Acts 19:1-20 follows Paul in Ephesus, where 12 disciples receive baptism in "the name of the Lord Jesus" and then speak in tongues and prophesy after Paul lays hands on them.
An Old Testament scholar discusses the first-century context of the Book of Acts to ground listeners in its setting.