Context-rich Bible teaching with room to wrestle.
The BEMA Podcast is a substantial biblical teaching series built around Scripture, history, and careful rereading. Recent episodes move from Hosea and the Lord’s Prayer to Passover, the four pillars of BEMA, and searching conversations about vice, virtue, love, and wrath.
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The BEMA Podcast is a Christian biblical teaching series shaped by extended study, contextual reading, and open-ended conversation. Its recent episodes show a program still revisiting its foundations after hundreds of installments. The show does not treat Scripture as a quick reference tool. It asks what happens when the Bible is approached as the text, with history, genre, community, and lived discipleship all pressing on the reading. That gives the conversations a distinctive texture. They can be funny, loose, and self-aware one moment, then deeply reflective the next. Marty Solomon and Brent Billings appear in the show’s introductions, with Brent Billings identifying himself as co-host. Recent episodes bring in Elle Grover-Frix, Reed Dent, Dr. David Rudolph, Brad Gray, and Brad Nelson for focused conversations on BEMA’s four pillars, Passover, the Lord’s Prayer, and the moral imagination of Christian life. The show is especially interested in how beliefs become practices. In Hosea, repentance is not left as a private feeling; it has to bear fruit. In the vice and virtue material, anger, love, fear, mercy, and self-knowledge are treated as spiritual realities that shape a community. In the four pillars episodes, the Bible itself becomes a subject of reflection, with spiral dynamics, Aquinas, Hellenism, and familiar church language entering the conversation without becoming the whole point. The result is not a fast devotional format. It is slower and more cumulative. Listeners are expected to remember earlier sessions, follow threads across episodes, and sit with complexity. The tone remains accessible because the speakers keep joking, questioning themselves, and naming their own uncertainty. Still, the show asks for attention. It is a strong fit for Christians, Bible-study regulars, and spiritually curious listeners who want more than a polished takeaway. Its strongest moments come when familiar passages regain their strangeness and ethical force.
Made for: For Christians, Bible-study regulars, and spiritually curious listeners who want patient, contextual teaching rather than quick devotional summaries. It especially suits people comfortable with long arcs, theological vocabulary, and reflective conversation.
What sets it apart: The show pairs a large serialized body of biblical teaching with candid, conversational rereading of familiar passages. Its edge is the combination of ancient context, moral formation, humor, and a willingness to question common interpretations without flattening the text.
The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible and the Text itself, as well as surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them through the lens of historical context.The main body of work is contained in Seasons 1–5, and we encourage you to start with episode 0 (or even -1) and continue in order through episode 204. Beyond that, we explore new topics, revisit old topics, and dive deeper into practical ways of living out the things we have learned together.BEMA Discipleship is a ministry of Impact Campus Ministries.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A reflective close that keeps 1 Corinthians 13 vivid, grounded, and a little awed.
The episode closes Baymaw with love at the center, letting 1 Corinthians 13 carry the weight after the talk has already moved through marriage, meat sacrificed to idols, and spiritual gifts.
A Hosea study presses the question of whether repentance is becoming visible in how people turn toward God and live.
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue through Hosea 6 and 7 with a pointed question: what should repentance look like after confession has been spoken?
A close look at Kohelet's name and Amal as toil marked by trouble and irritation.
Kohelet Gets Out of Bed spends its time with one of the least understood books of Tanakh, and it makes the path to Ecclesiastes feel clear enough without losing the oddness of the subject. Josh Bossay and L.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode explores the capital vice of sloth, distinguishing it from laziness and discussing its impact on life and work through quotes and personal reflections.
The hosts discuss wrath and anger, using a humorous story about performing a revenge-themed song at a campus ministry event to explore the appeal and morality of revenge.
This episode explores Jesus's concept of rewards or wages in Matthew through a deep dive into biblical passages, Jewish literature, and Greco-Roman cultural insights.
This bonus episode analyzes Season 5, Episode 7 of The Chosen, focusing on character development and thematic connections, particularly between Z and Judas.
This episode explores what it means to be children of God through examining the Sermon on the Mount, focusing on identity, values, and responding to oppression with love and burden-bearing.
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings continue their study of Hosea, focusing on chapters 6 and 7.
The BEMA Podcast launches a series on the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), led by Josh Bossay with L.
The BEMA Podcast’s Marty Solomon and Brent Billings introduce wrestling as the fourth pillar, asking what parts of faith should be re-examined.
The BEMA Podcast episode “507: The Four Pillars — Discipleship as a Forge” features Reed Dent describing discipleship as a slow work shaped through friendship, conversation, and spiritual practice.
The BEMA Podcast episode with Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover-Frix defines discipleship through Latin discipulus, Hebrew talmid, and the teaching root lamed.
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the BEMA Podcast's third pillar, discipleship, through Second Temple Judaism and historical-Jesus scholarship.
Episode 504 of The BEMA Podcast opens its "Four Pillars" series with community, starting from a dozen loneliness-epidemic headlines, including a World Health Organization piece.
Reed, director of Campus Christian Fellowship (CCF), describes community through a Japanese woodworking joint, where interlocking pieces form a strong whole without glue or screws.
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the second of Bema's four pillars, community, using Bema's 'definition of success' statement about developing 'intimacy with God' in Christian community.
This episode explores the concept of spiral dynamics as a framework for understanding worldviews and value systems, with a focus on its application to interpreting holy texts.
This episode marks the 500th milestone of the Baymo podcast, featuring an interview with Dr.
The hosts introduce a series on the four pillars, focusing on the pillar of text (the Bible), with personal reflections and a discussion on its significance.
The hosts introduce a new 12-part series on the four pillars of Baymaw, discussing its origin from audience suggestions and their plans for Session 10.
This episode features an interview with Brad Gray and Brad Nelson from Walking the Text, discussing their backgrounds as pastors and their shared experiences in theology and biblical studies, with a focus on the Lord's Prayer.
The BEMA Podcast closes the 14-part vice-and-virtue series with Reed Dent and Marty Solomon reading 1 Corinthians 13, Isaiah 54:10, and a Tim Keller wedding passage.