Verse-by-verse teaching for obedient faith.
Manna With Brad Hannink is an expository Bible study built from lessons at Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield, California. Its teaching moves slowly through Scripture, pairing historical context with pointed application for Christian faith, family life, prayer, speech, humility, and perseverance.
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Manna With Brad Hannink is a substantial expository Bible study series drawn from the life of a local church class in Bakersfield, California. Its center of gravity is Scripture, read closely and applied directly. Recent episodes spend extended time in Colossians and Exodus, with lessons on Paul’s prison letters, the church at Colossae, Moses at Sinai, the Ten Commandments, and the covenant failure around the golden calf. The teaching moves deliberately. A passage is named, the historical setting is reviewed, and the lesson builds toward a principle that can be carried into ordinary Christian life. It is not a quick devotional format. The show favors sustained explanation, repeated emphasis, and careful moral application. A lesson on godly friends becomes a study of Mark, Paul, Barnabas, Peter, failure, restoration, and useful ministry. A lesson on prayer becomes a call to persistence, watchfulness, gratitude, bold speech, and a life that makes faith visible. Domestic passages in Colossians are treated as commands with consequences, including warnings against harshness, abuse, anger, and the misuse of authority. The tone is warm but firm. Brad Hannink can be conversational, humorous, and blunt, yet the main posture is pastoral instruction rather than casual chat. He often turns from ancient context to present-day behavior in a single sweep. The show’s recurring phrase of action matters: knowing is meant to become doing. Listeners hear familiar Christian themes, but not as slogans floating above the text. Peace, humility, obedience, truthfulness, mission, marriage, parenting, and friendship are all tied back to specific passages. The result feels like sitting inside a patient Sunday class where the teacher expects open Bibles, careful attention, and practical response. It is especially suited to Christians who prefer verse-by-verse teaching over topical commentary. It also fits listeners who appreciate historical background without academic distance. The show’s distinct strength is its insistence that doctrine should land somewhere concrete: in speech, prayer, relationships, work, family, worship, and endurance after failure.
Made for: For Christians who want traditional, Scripture-centered teaching with historical context and direct application. It especially suits listeners who prefer slow, detailed Bible lessons over conversational religious commentary.
What sets it apart: The show combines local-church intimacy with a long-form expository pace, letting a few verses carry doctrine, history, illustration, and practical exhortation. Its recurring force is simple: Scripture is studied so it can be obeyed.
Listen each week as the Manna class learns and grows together through their in-depth study of God's Word. This comprehensive, expository series is taught by Brad Hannink, a gifted and talented communicator of the Bread of Life.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brad Hannink connects close biblical teaching to concrete questions of prayer, relationships, responsibility, and daily conduct.
Manna With Brad Hannink takes a passage-by-passage route through books including Exodus, Colossians, and John, with Brad Hannink supplying historical context before moving toward present-day application.
Moses faces far too many sheep disputes for one judge; Brad Hannink brings it home to you.
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A closing Colossians lesson finds hope in friends who help failure become faithful service.
Manna's lesson on Colossians 4 treats Paul's closing greetings as more than a list of names, turning them into a reflection on Christian friendship and the people who help faith endure.
A grounded study of how prayer, conduct, and speech turn Christian conviction toward mission.
Prayer becomes the center of mission here, not a private warm-up before action. The episode works through Colossians 4:2-6 with a clear line from Paul's imprisonment to the habits of believers who pray with persistence, alertness, and gratitude.
A direct Colossians 3 review of obedience, discipline, and authority that should guide rather than crush.
Colossians 3 is treated here as a sober lesson on authority at home, with children's obedience and parental restraint held together rather than pulled apart.
A traditional marriage lesson that makes submission voluntary, subject to obedience to God and beyond a husband's right to demand.
Brad Hanick treats marriage as a test case for Christian submission while working through two verses in Colossians 3. He places a wife's submission to her husband under her prior allegiance to Christ and says it must be freely given, respectful and never demanded.
A pastoral Colossians lesson on peace, humility, God's word, and practical obedience.
Brad Hanick presents peace as the fruit of filling the mind with God's word and bringing the will under it. In his reading of Colossians 3:12-17, Christ's sufficiency leads into humility, obedience, and a life aimed at God's glory.
Exodus 18 becomes a grounded lesson in receiving wise counsel before responsibility hardens into exhaustion.
Jethro's question gives this Exodus 18 episode its hook: why is Moses sitting alone as judge over a vast people while his wife and sons have been out of view for a year?
A patient John 17 lesson makes spiritual union vivid through vines, family resemblance, and marriage.
This single-episode review frames John 17 as a careful study of spiritual union, following Jesus' love for disciples unsettled by his physical departure and turning that anxiety toward enduring intimacy with God.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A Bible study lesson on the Ten Commandments from Exodus, emphasizing God's moral will and character.
Brad Hannink teaches John 17:20-26, focusing on Jesus' prayer for future believers.
Brad Hannink teaches Exodus 18, focusing on Moses' father-in-law Jethro.
Brad Hannink teaches a Bible lesson on the Tenth Commandment against coveting, emphasizing contentment with God's provision.
Brad Hannink begins a new expository series on the book of Colossians, emphasizing the gospel's impact on thanksgiving, love, and hope.
Onesimus left Colossae as a slave and returns as “our faithful and beloved brother.”
Brad Hannink reads Colossians 4:2-6 at Manna Bible Lessons Podcast and frames the passage around mission-motivated prayer, open doors, and gracious speech.
Brad Hannink teaches Colossians 3:20-4:1 from Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield, starting with children obeying parents “in all things” and ending with employers treating workers with “justice and fairness.” He links Ephesians 6:1-9, Proverbs 22:15, and Joshua 24:15 to argue that obedience, discipline, and household leadership all sit under Christ.
Brad Hannink's "God's Model Marriage" works through Colossians 3.18-19, Ephesians 5, and Genesis 3.16 to argue that Christian homes follow God's order, not cultural confusion.
Manna With Brad Hannink, “Christ’s Peace” in Colossians 3, moves from false teaching in Rome to Paul’s commands to “put on” compassion, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Brad Hannink teaches an expository Bible lesson on Exodus 33, reviewing Israel's covenant with God and their sin with the golden calf.