Live the Bible with Wayne Stiles

Wayne Stiles

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Plain-spoken Bible teaching for daily faithfulness.

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Live the Bible with Wayne Stiles turns familiar and difficult Scripture passages into plain-spoken Christian guidance. Episodes move from everyday examples into biblical interpretation, then press toward endurance, forgiveness, prayer, hope, and steady obedience.

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About Live the Bible with Wayne Stiles

Live the Bible with Wayne Stiles is a Scripture-centered Christian teaching podcast with a strong practical streak. It treats the Bible as something to be read closely, remembered repeatedly, and carried into ordinary life. The show moves briskly. A typical episode opens with a concrete problem, then turns to a biblical book for direction. Trials become a way to read 1 Peter. Forgiveness becomes a doorway into Philemon. Time management gets reframed through Ephesians. Anxiety about world headlines leads to 2 Thessalonians rather than speculation for its own sake. The teaching style is warm, direct, and classroom-like, with a habit of circling back to the main point until it lands. It can be serious without becoming cold. It can be funny without wandering too far from the passage. Wayne Stiles often uses everyday images, travel moments, familiar prayers, old creeds, and pointed questions to make biblical ideas feel less abstract. The show is especially interested in endurance: staying faithful under unfairness, remembering essential doctrine, refusing spiritual drift, and finding hope when life is rough. It also makes room for interviews, including Brad Gray on the Lord’s Prayer and Joel Miller on books and the Bible’s place among books. Those conversations broaden the format without changing the center of gravity. Scripture remains the anchor. The episodes assume a Christian audience, but they do not require seminary vocabulary to follow along. The appeal is pastoral rather than flashy. It is steady teaching for believers who want help connecting doctrine, hardship, prayer, forgiveness, and daily choices. The result is a practical Bible lesson with a conversational pulse and a clear push toward faithful living.

Made for: Christians who want practical biblical teaching for perseverance, forgiveness, prayer, time, doctrine, and hope. It especially fits listeners who prefer a conversational teacher over detached analysis.

What sets it apart: The show pairs biblical seriousness with everyday analogies, humor, and pastoral application. It regularly turns familiar Christian material, from the Lord’s Prayer to the Nicene Creed, into fresh reminders rather than assuming listeners already have it settled.

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The Bible offers God’s wisdom and genuine hope for our daily lives. On LIVE THE BIBLE, join Dr. Wayne Stiles and discover how to apply the Word of God to your life through the practical teaching and application of the Scriptures. The Bible, its lands, and its culture don't have to be confusing or irrelevant. Whether it's personal discouragement, relief from guilt, finding purpose in life or hope for eternity, you’ll hear words to help you truly live the Bible. www.waynestiles.com/podcast

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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Wayne Stiles turns close biblical teaching into clear, memorable guidance for Christian conduct.

Wayne Stiles starts with familiar pressures such as complaining and perseverance, then carries them into a biblical passage and back toward daily conduct.

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Moses, Mary of Bethany, and a gripe box meet wherever your faith gets practical.

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to trace your complaining from everyday gripes back to where you have placed your hope
a close reading of 1 Peter that treats your urge to quit as a faithfulness problem

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How to Move Forward and Not BackwardApr 7, 2026

Keep the center in view and keep moving forward in faith.

Wayne Stiles returns to 2 Peter with a calm pastoral tone, pressing the simple point that growth depends on remembering what Scripture already says and not letting it fade from view.

How to Keep Going When You’re Ready to QuitMar 31, 2026

A steady 1 Peter message about trials, rejoicing, and keeping going.

Wayne Stiles takes 1 Peter straight at trials, testing, and the urge to quit, and keeps bringing the listener back to the call to rejoice because salvation is certain.

#297 - How to Cure that Complaining SpiritJan 28, 2025

Wayne Stiles uses wilderness grumbling and Moses' doubt to make a clear case for daily trust in the Lord's provision.

Wayne Stiles takes a familiar warning about complaining and turns it into a plain lesson about trust and provision. He moves from the wilderness grumbling to Moses' uneasy response when God promises meat for a large people, then lands on the sharp question of whether the Lord's…

#025 - She Did What She Could - And So Can YouNov 12, 2019

A concise call to judge costly devotion the way Jesus does.

Wayne Stiles presents Mary of Bethany as a quiet example of devotion, and the episode keeps the contrast sharp: what others dismiss as waste, Jesus calls a good deed.

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Episodes

#385 - Hope for your Burdened Body

#384 - How to Have a Kosher Walk with God

#383 - Michael Rydelnik Interview - How Should Christians Think about Israel?

#382 - How to Steer Your Strange Firebird

#381 - God Longs to Be With You

#380 - 3 Ways to Devote Your Life to God

#379 - How to Give God Your Best

#378 - How to Enjoy Peace With God

#377 - What to Do with the Rest of Your Life

#376 - How Can You Know God Accepts You

#375 - Unwrapping One of God’s Greatest Gifts to You

#374 - How God is Guiding Your Life

#373 - When God Disappoints You—Where Can You Go?

#372 - God Can Work Through You

#371 - How God’s Grace Helps on Mondays

#370 - God’s Desire for Women and Men, Young and Old

#369 - Secrets of an Inspiring Life

#368 - Where We Begin Again with God

#367 - Your Walk with God is Worth Fighting For

#366 - 5 Good Lessons from a Bad Example

#365 - All You Need Is Love—And Truth

#364 - Resolving that Tension You Feel

#363 - What You've Been Waiting For

#362 - One Perspective that Changes Everything

#361 - Why Surrendering to God is Hard

#360 - Refinement: The House, the Prison, the Palace

Dreams, Pit Stops, and Providence

How to Move Forward and Not Backward

How to Keep Going When You’re Ready to Quit

#356 - How to Actually Live the Bible

#355 - Are You Sure You're Secure

#354 - When Forgiving Seems Impossible

#353 - What God's Grace Can Do For You Every Day

#352 - How to Finish Well

#351 - Contentment and How to Find It

#350 - Are the Headlines End-Times

#349 - The Lord's Prayer An Interview with Brad Gray

#348 - Encouragement to Keep Going and Keep Growing

#347 - The Best Way to See Yourself

#346 - Why it Takes Others So Long to Change

#345 - Making the Most of Your Time—and Why

#344 - Fearlessly Facing the Fabulous Future God Has Planned for You

#343 - Our Christmas Surprise God’s Way Up is Down

#342 - What Are You Planting

#120 - How to Change the Past that Will Be

#341 - Sharing the Comfort of Pain

#340 - Finding Love in a World of Hurt

#339 - Four Questions Only You Can Answer

#338 - Why God Seems So Inefficient In Your Life

#337 - The Bible as a Book - Interview with Joel Miller

#336 - Why Your Waiting Will be Worth It

#182 - Dying with Unfulfilled Dreams

#181 - How to Best Plan for Yesterday

#172 - Our Great God in Our Lousy Family

#171 - When Your Dreams Turn into Nightmares

#176 - When Surrendering to God is Hard

#175 - Your Toughest Tests Aren’t Trials

#174 - When God Leads You in Circles

#177 - When Others Have it Better than You

#173 - Don’t Take Temptation Lying Down

#066 - Waiting on God with Joseph

#178 - One Perspective that Changes Everything for You

#179 - God’s Comfort When You’re Afraid to Follow

#180 - When God Makes Zero Sense

#335 - How to Better Understand God — and Yourself

#334 - What Did You Expect from God?

#333 - Judge Not – What Did Jesus Mean?

#332 - The Danger of a Full Calendar and an Empty Heart

#331 - Why We Do All We Do

#330 - How to Keep First Things First

#329 - No Shame On You