Chapter by chapter, service by service.
Recorded from the life of a working congregation, this podcast moves through books of the Bible chapter by chapter alongside service teaching on unity, faithfulness and passion. Songs, opening prayers and blessings over church members are left in, so listeners hear the room and not just the lesson.
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Four hundred-plus episodes in, this podcast is doing exactly one thing: putting a congregation's teaching and worship where anyone can hear it. The Wednesday Bible study is the spine. It moves through a book in order, one chapter at a time, refusing to jump to the famous passages. Matthew is the current road. Chapter one covered the genealogy and how it fulfilled prophecy. Chapter two moves to Jesus' early life and the things the teacher wants to draw out of it. The teacher is candid about where the difficulty sits. Biblical history is easy enough to follow, he says, but hard to turn into practical application, and that gap is the work of the session rather than something glossed over. The service recordings carry a different weight. Under the banner Living by the Word, messages take a single idea and stay with it for the length of the service. Unity gets treated as a discipline rather than a slogan, with the pointed observation that doing your own thing well is individuality, not unity. Faithfulness in what is least gets read out of Luke 16, with the contrast held up carefully: not faithful versus unfaithful, but faithful versus unjust. Passion gets illustrated with a story about a man who stopped striking the ground too soon. One session drops teaching altogether and becomes a spiritual gifts assessment instead, 135 questions, self-scored, with an advance apology that the wording is not as clean as it could be. Music is not an afterthought here. Recordings often open with a stretch of congregational singing, praise choruses about healing in the name of Jesus or shaking off heavy bands. Prayers are long and unrehearsed, addressed directly rather than performed, and they sometimes turn to bless one member of the congregation. The pastoral posture is stated outright: never frame a message from the negative, coach rather than beat, and send people away knowing that God loves them and their pastor does too. Occasional asides slip in about a marriage of 33 years and a men's fellowship the day before, which locate the teaching in an ordinary week rather than a studio. Production is minimal and the room noise stays. Episodes close with the ministry's own housekeeping, an invitation to share the recording and to consider supporting the work. It suits listeners who want the full shape of a service rather than a polished highlight, and who are willing to sit through the singing to reach the study.
Made for: Christians who want steady, book-by-book Bible teaching and are happy to receive it inside a full service, singing and prayers included. It also suits members and former members of the church who want to keep up with midweek study and service messages remotely.
What sets it apart: Rather than editing down to a polished sermon, the recordings keep the whole service intact, from the opening choruses through the extended prayers to the blessing spoken over an individual member. The teaching itself is deliberately sequential and openly wrestles with turning biblical history into something usable.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A patient sermon on unity as the slow work of bearing with one another.
Unity comes through as patient love in a sermon that moves from prayer into teaching on keeping the bond of peace. The pastor presses a practical point: doing one's own part well can still work against the body if it is done without regard for others.
A direct sermon frames spiritual warfare as the discipline of imprisoning thoughts that should not be lived out.
Faith is treated here as a matter of custody: what gets admitted to the mind, what is held back, and what is allowed to travel into speech or action.
A lively sermon treats small acts of faithfulness as the proving ground for greater trust.
"Finding That One Thing" centers on a clear, practical conviction: faithfulness in small assignments shows what can be trusted with larger ones. Luke 16:10 gives the message its main shape, and the speaker carries that idea into money, romantic commitment, and church service.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Jeff Haygood teaches a sermon titled 'Finding That One Thing,' using the biblical story of Jacob and Rachel from Genesis 29.
Pastor Jeff Hager introduces a message about fighting spiritual battles effectively through God's word.
A church service discussing spiritual gifts and guiding attendees through a self-assessment test.
A prayerful Bible study session focusing on finding strength and encouragement through faith in God during trials.
Pastor Jeff Hager introduces a series on spiritual warfare and invites listeners to join his church in Columbus, Ohio.
Pastor Jeff Hager delivers a sermon about embracing a season of being unstoppable through faith and the word of God.
Pastor Jeff Hager launches a new series 'Fight Like a Believer' focusing on spiritual warfare from 2 Corinthians 10.
Jeff Haygood preaches "Victory is my destiny" from Romans 8:26-31, emphasizing the Spirit's intercession and God's purpose.
A Bible study teaching on Matthew chapter 2, covering the early life of Jesus and its prophetic significance.
A Wednesday Bible study session focusing on Matthew Chapter 1, beginning with worship and praise.
Jeff Haygood says unity is internal, while "uniformity is external," and links it to authority and anointing.
Shara Hutchinson explains why Paul’s storm destroyed the ship but preserved the people aboard.