Best BEMA Discipleship Podcasts (2025)

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452: Qohelet Gets Out of Bed 1:27:11

2d ago1:27:11

1:27:11

Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks launch an exploration of one of the least understood books of Tanakh (Ecclesiastes). BEMA 320: The Forgotten Women — Sages and Wise Women The Wind Rises (2013 film) — JustWatch Support The BEMA PodcastBy BEMA Discipleship

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451: Ashlee Eiland — Say Good 41:23

10d ago41:23

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Ashlee Eiland, author of Say Good, and someone who seeks to join in God’s redemptive work on Earth. Ashlee is the head of school at Living Stones Academy, and formerly served as co-lead pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in western Michigan. Ashlee and her family live in Grand Rapids. Say Good by Ashlee …

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450: Talmudic Matthew — The 7 1:16:36

17d ago1:16:36

1:16:36

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé truly cap off this series by taking a second gander at the Lord’s Prayer. One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp BEMA 286: John — The Test of Bread Why Is Shavuot Celebrated — Aleph Beta Support The BEMA PodcastBy BEMA Discipleship

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449: Talmudic Matthew — The Seven 1:06:56

24d ago1:06:56

1:06:56

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé close out this series by taking a gander at the Lord’s Prayer. BEMA 97: Done in Secret BEMA 332: Andrew DeCort — Flourishing on the Edge of Faith Textus Receptus — Wikipedia Codex Sinaiticus — Wikipedia Codex Vaticanus — Wikipedia Alexandrian Text-Type — Wikipedia Byzantine Text-Type — Wikipedia “A…

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448: Talmudic Matthew — Secret 46:38

1M ago46:38

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Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks step into their prayer closets and shut the door on the babbling pagans. BEMA 97: Done in Secret Lares — Wikipedia Bornless Ritual — Wikipedia Support The BEMA PodcastBy BEMA Discipleship

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447: Talmudic Matthew — Wages 49:00

1M ago49:00

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Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks take a spin with Jesus’s concept of rewards or wages. Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity by Gregg E. Gardner BEMA 97: Done in Secret De Re Publica, De Legibus by Cicero — Internet Archive Pietas — Wikipedia Virtus — Wikipedia Politics by Aristotle — Internet Archive Politics (Aristotle) — Wikipedi…

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446: Talmudic Matthew — Children 50:22

2M ago50:22

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Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover Fricks take a crack at what it means to be children of God. “What’s Wrong with Winsomeness?” by Russell Moore — Christianity Today The Greatest Prayer by John Dominic Crossan BEMA 80: Silent Years — Pharisees BEMA 102: Son of Man Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes by E. Randolph Richards and …

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445: Talmudic Matthew — Enemies 1:02:21

2M ago1:02:21

1:02:21

Brent Billings and Reed Dent team up with Elle Grover Fricks to excavate some ancient ideas about enemies. BEMA 96: But I Say Unto You Jesus and Nonviolence by Walter Wink The Peaceable Kingdom by Stanley Hauerwas Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman 1QS 1 (Community Rule) with Matthew 5:43 — Intertextual Bible BEMA 358: Sabbath Practice — Prayer G…

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444: Karen Stiller — Holiness Here 38:06

2M ago38:06

38:06

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Karen Stiller, author of Holiness Here and the author and editor of many other books, magazines, essays, and more. Holiness Here by Karen Stiller Review of Holiness Here — Marty Solomon, Goodreads Review of Holiness Here — Brent Billings, Goodreads Meadow Lake Progress — Wikipedia Books b…

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443: Talmudic Matthew — Oaths 38:55

2M ago38:55

38:55

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks investigate Jesus’s teaching on oaths. “Greek Oath-Rituals” by Irene Berti — OpenEdition Books “The Greek Oath in the Roman World” by Serena Connolly — Oxford Academic “Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond: Authority and Interpretation” by Moshe Blidstein — De Gruyter “The Kinyradai of Paphos” …

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442: Talmudic Matthew — Marriage 38:40

2M ago38:40

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings join Elle Grover Fricks to contextualize Jesus’s teaching on divorce in its Jewish and Roman landscape. Support The BEMA PodcastBy BEMA Discipleship

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441: Talmudic Matthew — Thymos 46:35

3M ago46:35

46:35

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé take a closer look at Jesus’s teachings on desire. BEMA 273: John — Pericope of an Honor Contest Support The BEMA PodcastBy BEMA Discipleship

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440: Talmudic Matthew — Reconciliation 57:03

3M ago57:03

57:03

Brent Billings joins Elle Grover Fricks to reconsider the topic of reconciliation through a Talmudic lens, featuring Reed Dent. BEMA 36: The Redemption Cycle “Dining in Heaven” by Robin M. Jensen — Biblical Archaeology Society Library Support The BEMA PodcastBy BEMA Discipleship

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452: Qohelet Gets Out of Bed 1:27:11

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451: Ashlee Eiland — Say Good 41:23

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450: Talmudic Matthew — The 7 1:16:36

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449: Talmudic Matthew — The Seven 1:06:56

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448: Talmudic Matthew — Secret 46:38

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447: Talmudic Matthew — Wages 49:00

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446: Talmudic Matthew — Children 50:22

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445: Talmudic Matthew — Enemies 1:02:21

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444: Karen Stiller — Holiness Here 38:06

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443: Talmudic Matthew — Oaths 38:55

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442: Talmudic Matthew — Marriage 38:40

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441: Talmudic Matthew — Thymos 46:35

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440: Talmudic Matthew — Reconciliation 57:03