Academy of the Bible with Colby F. Maier

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The Academy of the Bible Podcast exists to help you understand, apply, and live out Scripture in every area of life. Hosted by Colby Maier, this podcast brings together biblical teaching, cultural analysis, and conversations with leading Christian voices to form a deeper, more resilient faith. In a world shaped by distraction, confusion, and shallow spirituality, the goal is not simply more information, but transformation. Each episode explores theology, discipleship, identity, purpose, and the challenges of following Jesus in the modern world, equipping you to think clearly, live faithfully, and engage culture with conviction and wisdom. Whether you are new to the Bible or have been walking with Christ for years, this podcast will help you move beyond surface-level faith into a deeper understanding of God’s Word and its implications for everyday life.

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  1. 3d ago

    Genesis Scholar: I Grew Up Believing the Bible Enslaved Us | Hakeem Bradley

    Hakeem Bradley was raised in Philadelphia to believe the Bible was nothing more than a tool to oppress the black man. Today he is pursuing a PhD in the text he was trained to distrust. In this episode, Hakeem joins Colby F. Maier to trace that journey and to teach the method behind it. Raised in the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, Hakeem recited the Supreme Alphabet and Mathematics daily. He describes a dream he had at seven, and the man he spoke with in it whose face he cannot recall and whose identity he still does not know. He describes his growing discomfort with the doctrines he was given, and his decision at twelve to leave. Years later, a Young Life area director named Phil Zahn walked up to him at a soccer game and invited him in. Hakeem credits him with changing the trajectory of his life. Colby raises the harder question directly. Scripture has been used historically to justify slavery and oppression, so how does Hakeem hold it now? He begins where he says the honest answer has to begin: two things can be true at once. Scripture has been used against people from the lands he comes from, and it is also, in his words, a means of liberation, full stop. He points to those among his own ancestors who chose to follow the way while enslaved, and he will not characterize them as naive. They understood, he says, what the true story was. He is equally candid about nearly leaving the faith in his early twenties, when the theologians, the scholars, and the depictions of the church fathers in front of him all appeared to be European, and he began asking what Africans, Asians, Latinos, and indigenous peoples had contributed. He speaks directly to anyone sitting in that tension now, not as someone who has arrived, but as someone traveling alongside them. The second half of the conversation turns to method. Hakeem walks through Genesis 1 as he teaches it, examining what is absent on the second day, why the seventh day never closes, and how the third day recurs throughout the biblical narrative. He demonstrates how the Epistle of James draws on Cain and Abel to confront the wealthy. And he makes a claim he acknowledges may get him into trouble: that it is impossible to fully understand Jesus apart from the scriptures Jesus said he came to bring to fullness. A conversation for anyone who suspects there is far more in Scripture than they have been able to see. Scripture in this episode: Genesis 1, Genesis 2:1-3, Genesis 4, Genesis 22, Exodus 20, Psalm 8, Psalm 23, Jonah, Amos, Matthew, James 5 Follow Hakeem on Instagram: https://instagram.com/hakeembradley1 Learn about his nonprofit building biblical literacy curriculum for children: https://sacredpatterns.org Go deeper with the Academy of the Bible — courses, lectures, and weekly community around the Word of God: www.academyofthebible.org Follow the show so you don’t miss an episode. New teachings and conversations every week. Hakeem Bradley is pursuing a PhD, and his doctoral work traces the influence of Genesis 1 through 11 in the Epistle of James. His nonprofit, Sacred Patterns, builds biblical literacy curriculum for children, and he writes Roots and Streams on Substack. He previously worked with BibleProject.

  2. Oct 27

    The Lie Behind Your Busy Schedule | Ian Simkins

    Ian Simkins believes most of us aren't simply busy. We're addicted to it, and underneath the addiction is a lie about what makes us valuable. In this episode of the Academy of the Bible Podcast, Colby F. Maier sits down with Ian Simkins, pastor of The Bridge in middle Tennessee and author of Every Table an Altar: Reclaiming Connection in a World of Division, Distraction, and Loneliness. At sixteen Ian was playing in a punk band when his pastor pulled him aside and told him he was preaching the following month. It went badly. A woman in the church found him afterward and said two things — that was really bad, and I believe the Lord has given you a voice, so you better learn how to use it. Years later, a church hired him out of student ministry. A year after that the lead pastor was forcibly removed for moral failures, the congregation spiraled, and the elders discovered they were six months from bankruptcy. They asked a single man in his mid-twenties to take it. He said not really. They asked him to spend a week in prayer and fasting first, and God did a complete reversal in his heart. Ian makes the case that discipleship is slower and messier than most of us are prepared for, and that the church has absorbed an obsession with scalability, output, and return on investment that quietly works against formation. He admits he loves it when someone notices how full his calendar is, and that somewhere along the way he bought the lie that he is only as valuable as what he can accomplish. Along the way: Henri Nouwen's three lies — I am what I have, I am what I do, I am what other people say about me — and why better time management doesn't touch any of them. Dallas Willard's distinction that grace isn't opposed to effort, it's opposed to earning. Why spiritual formation is more crock-pot than microwave. And what we actually lose when we outsource hard work to AI, which isn't the output but the person we would have become. Ian argues that friction is the thing that forms us, which is exactly why we avoid it. He talks about a marriage that isn't precious to him because they never fight, but because they've been to hell and back together. He names the three things he heard over and over when he spent his first six months in a new town just listening — division, distraction, and loneliness — and why tribalism is a parody of belonging while Christian community remains, as Francis Schaeffer put it, the last great apologetic. The episode closes on the one thing he'd say to someone exploring faith for the first time. The truest thing about you is that you're loved. He grew up in church, knew the Bible stories, and it took him well into his twenties to believe it. For anyone who is tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. Scripture and sources in this episode: Matthew 13 (yeast and the mustard seed), Matthew 18 (children and the kingdom), Henri Nouwen, Dallas Willard, Francis Schaeffer Every Table an Altar by Ian Simkins: https://iansimkins.com/every-table-an-altar Go deeper with the Academy of the Bible — courses, lectures, and weekly community around the Word of God: academyofthebible.org Follow the show so you don't miss an episode. New teachings and conversations every week. Colby F. Maier is a pastor, speaker, and founder of the Academy of the Bible, based in Portland, OR.

  3. Oct 20

    Christian Actor: They Warned Me I'd Be Blacklisted | Tracy Campbell

    Tracy Campbell is a Christian actor, writer, and producer who has auditioned for more than a thousand film and television projects and booked fifteen. He also walked away from roles he could have had, including one his own managers warned him would get him blacklisted. He started auditioning in Atlanta at eight years old, signed with an agency that also represented Raven-Symone, Dakota Fanning, and the Massey brothers, and was on Disney Channel's radar as a kid. His mother turned it down. She felt the Lord had told her they were not supposed to take the opportunity, so they didn't. He went to Bible school instead, and booked Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns during his second year. He later worked on House of Payne and had a small role in Mean Girls 2. In this conversation, he and Colby Maier talk about what it actually costs to follow Jesus in Hollywood, and what it protects. IN THIS EPISODE: Why Tracy tells young actors to finish Bible school or a leadership program before going anywhere near the entertainment industry. Without a foundation and what he calls a secret place with the Lord, his warning is blunt. The industry will rip you to shreds, because the whole goal is to hand you an identity they can market and profit from. If you don't know who you are, you will say yes to anything for the sake of clout, fame, or fortune. The difference between being informed and being formed. Tracy describes Bible school as a place where he received a great deal of useful information without yet being changed by it. Spiritual formation started when he began seeking the Lord to know him rather than to know about him. Why Jesus called the disciples to be with him before he sent them anywhere. Colby and Tracy work through Mark 3 and what it means that the first appointment was presence rather than mission, and why reversing that order is how people compromise their calling. Whether Christians should avoid Hollywood altogether. Colby makes the case from the healing of the leper that believers are called to approach rather than withdraw. Subtle versus overt Christian storytelling. Tracy argues both work, and names C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as faith-inspired rather than faith-based storytellers who reached people who would never pick an explicitly Christian film. He also sees a rise in Christian filmmakers and a shift happening in Hollywood. The Fox audition. Tracy was close to a role he did not want to play, and his managers told him that skipping the audition risked getting him blacklisted and shut out from auditioning further. He went, read the part well enough that the producers knew he could act, and made clear he was not right for the character. He has not put himself in that position since. The casting director who changed a script. Auditioning for Meet the Browns, Tracy told her honestly that the role compromised what he was building in his relationship with Jesus. She thanked him for telling the truth and told him never to shy away from it. He booked the part, and they rewrote the scenes so he never had to perform them. Why compromise in the minor always leads to compromise in the major. And the question a pastor once asked from the pulpit. Why do believers watch the very thing that put Jesus on the cross? Colby's answer involves every genre of film already being present in Scripture. SCRIPTURE IN THIS EPISODE: Mark 1, Mark 3, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 6:33, John 17:3, 1 Corinthians 1:9 For Christians working inside industries that do not share their values, and for anyone who has wondered what integrity actually costs. LINKS: Tracy Campbell: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3495109/ Join the Academy of the Bible community and go deeper. Colby and Tracy continue this conversation in a members-only exclusive, and you can watch the full version there: https://academyofthebible.org Colby F. Maier is a pastor and speaker based in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of Academy of the Bible.

  4. Oct 13

    Biohacking Expert: You Can't Be Healthy Without God | Dylan Gemelli

    Can you be spiritually alive and physically falling apart? Dylan Gemelli spent years at the top of the fitness, nutrition, and biohacking world and says none of it produced real health until God was at the center. In this conversation he and Colby Maier take apart one of the most common assumptions in Christian life, that the body and the soul are separate things. Dylan Gemelli is a prominent figure in the fitness and biohacking industry, known as the wellness revolutionary, the aging optimizer, and the mind-body connector. His expertise spans fitness, nutrition, cellular health, neuroscience, peptides, hormone optimization, and anti-aging, and his podcast reached number one in Health and Fitness in October 2025. He also spent years successful, wealthy, and miserable. He describes going to bed every night feeling off and being unable to explain why, surrounded by everything he thought he wanted. What changed was not a protocol, a supplement, or a new training split. It was putting God first, reading the entire New Testament in six months, and walking away from work he now believes was part of the problem. IN THIS EPISODE: Dylan explains why he does not believe you can align mind and body without God in the middle. His framework is a tree, with spirituality at the root and mental and physical health as branches that depend on it. He can run every blood panel, prescribe every diet, and teach every trick, and without meaning and purpose underneath it, none of that produces wholeness. He makes the case for gratitude as the first pillar of physical health, calling it vitamin G, the one you cannot buy or eat. Colby connects that to Paul's instruction in Philippians 4 to be anxious for nothing and to pray with thanksgiving, and to the neuroscience of why gratitude and anxiety struggle to occupy the same space at once. Together they work through 1 Corinthians 6 and the body as a temple, what it means to have been purchased at a price, and why stewarding the body is an act of worship rather than vanity. Dylan then walks through the practical pillars. Morning light exposure sits at the very top of his list, followed by daily movement and food quality, and he admits that staying consistent with diet is the single hardest habit for most people to keep. He explains sarcopenia, argues that lean muscle matters more as you age and is even more important for women than men, and recommends breathing or prayer to calm an overactive sympathetic nervous system. He also gives an honest audit of the trends. Where intermittent fasting genuinely helps and what happens in the autophagy and mitophagy window. Why he believes cold plunges are unnecessary, despite the current enthusiasm for them. What actually breaks a fast. And how senescent cells, oxidative stress, and free radicals relate to the development of disease. The conversation turns to sleep and rest as more than recovery. The best window runs roughly ten at night to two in the morning, and inconsistency wrecks circadian rhythm along with testosterone, focus, and the ability to build muscle or lose fat. From there Colby traces the Sabbath through Scripture. Genesis 2 and the seventh day, Exodus 20 and the commandment given at Sinai, and Mark 2, where Jesus says the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. Rest arrives as a gift to receive rather than a rule to keep, and Dylan admits on air that he is the worst at it. Near the end, Dylan talks about accountability and the mirror, and why he believes you have to be able to tell yourself the truth out loud before you can be honest with God. He closes with two words. SCRIPTURE IN THIS EPISODE: 1 Corinthians 6, Philippians 4, Genesis 2, Exodus 20, Mark 2, Matthew 4 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Apollo wearable for vagus nerve stimulation. Tonim, including neuro and modus. Timeline and urolithin A for mitophagy. Wonderfield and NMN as an NAD precursor. This conversation is for Christians who have tried the diets, the routines, and the supplements and still feel like something is missing, and for anyone who suspects their body has more to do with their faith than they have been told. LINKS: The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: https://dylangemelli.com Go deeper: https://academyofthebible.org Colby F. Maier is a pastor and speaker based in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of Academy of the Bible.

  5. Oct 6

    Why Hurry Is the Enemy of Your Walk With Jesus

    If the enemy can't destroy you, he will rush you. In this episode of the Academy of the Bible Podcast, Colby F. Maier works through why hurry is a spiritual problem and not just a scheduling one, and why God forms you before he sends you. It starts in Mark 3. Jesus goes up a mountain, calls the twelve he wanted, and appoints them, but notice the order. He appointed them that they might be with him, and then that he might send them out to preach and heal. The first appointment was not production. It was presence. Their authority came from having been with him. A.W. Tozer named the danger: we become so engrossed with the work of the Lord that we neglect the Lord of the work. Many of us are chasing the assignment we believe God gave us while skipping the relationship that was supposed to supply it. Then Luke 2, where Jesus is twelve years old in the temple, listening to the teachers and asking questions. When his parents find him he says he had to be about his Father's business. He wasn't preaching. He wasn't healing. He was learning. That was the business. Jesus spent thirty years in obscurity before three in public, and the silence of those years is the argument. Colby also shares what it cost him to ignore this. At twenty-two, fresh out of university and saying yes to everything, he hit a wall — two and a half years of anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. Waking at 3am for weeks. His words: it was survival, not thriving. He talks openly about it because he'd rather you learn from it than repeat it. The logic of the kingdom is foundation before elevation. Depth before display. The Chinese bamboo tree shows nothing above the soil for four years, then grows up to eighty feet in six weeks, because of what happened underground while nobody was watching. "If you step into your purpose first without being formed, you will allow the assignment to crush you." The pace of God is three miles per hour. Slow enough to stop. Slow enough to listen. Slow enough to notice the person in front of you. Topics: Christian burnout, hurry sickness, spiritual formation, rest and renewal, abiding in Christ, discipleship, calling and purpose, Mark 3, Luke 2 Scripture in this episode: Mark 3:13-15, Luke 2:41-52, Ecclesiastes, John 15 Try The Good Word app — a faithful AI companion and live Bible study tools from trusted Christian voices: getthegoodword.com Go deeper with the Academy of the Bible — courses, lectures, and weekly community around the Word of God: academyofthebible.org If this episode helped you, leaving a rating or review genuinely helps other people find the show. Follow so you don't miss an episode. New teachings and conversations every week. Colby F. Maier is a pastor and speaker based in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of Academy of the Bible.

  6. Sep 29

    Your AI Companion May Be Hurting Your Relationships

    Your AI companion always agrees with you. In this episode of the Academy of the Bible Podcast, Colby F. Maier asks what AI companionship is doing to Christian community, identity, and the friendships that actually form us. A 2025 Common Sense Media survey found that 72% of American teenagers had used an AI companion, and about half used one regularly. One in three said they had talked through something serious with an AI instead of a real person. In 2026, a Stanford team published a study finding that AI models affirm people's actions about 49% more often than other humans do — even when those people described doing something wrong. After a single conversation with an agreeable AI about a real conflict, people felt more certain they were right. They were less willing to apologize and less willing to repair the relationship. And they preferred that AI. They trusted it more and wanted to come back. This is not an argument against artificial intelligence. Colby is clear that technology is agnostic — not malevolent, not benevolent — and that AI has a real place in Christian discipleship. The concern is what happens when personalization removes every trace of friction. The thesis: we do not discover who we are alone or on our own terms. Christian identity is given by God and formed among God's people, people we did not choose, cannot control, cannot prompt, and are not free to replace. Along the way: Jean-Paul Sartre's claim that without God there is no given human nature, Ludwig Feuerbach's argument that God is a projection of human desire, Karl Barth on the otherness of God and why we know him only through his own self-disclosed revelation, Plutarch on how to tell a flatterer from a friend, Dietrich Bonhoeffer on how loving your dream of community destroys the community itself, and why a multigenerational church will form you in ways a curated one never can. "The goodness of God is that he meets us on our level. But the grace of God is that he does not allow us to stay there." Topics: AI and Christianity, artificial intelligence and faith, AI companions, Christian community, biblical identity, spiritual formation, church community, discipleship Scripture in this episode: Colossians 3:3-4, Colossians 3:10, Isaiah 44:16, Isaiah 55:8, Psalm 50:21, 2 Timothy 4:3, Ephesians 4:15, Proverbs 27:6 Try The Good Word app — a faithful AI companion and live Bible study tools from trusted Christian voices: getthegoodword.com Go deeper with the Academy of the Bible — courses, lectures, and weekly community around the Word of God: academyofthebible.org If this episode helped you, leaving a rating or review genuinely helps other people find the show. Follow so you don't miss an episode. New teachings and conversations every week. Colby F. Maier is a pastor and speaker based in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of Academy of the Bible.

  7. Sep 22

    Why a Christian Rapper Left Music to Become a Pastor

    Christian hip-hop artist Braille spent his first ten years as a believer without anyone teaching him the Bible. Once someone finally did, it set him on a path out of full-time music and into pastoring a local church. He read Scripture like a fortune cookie, flipping around for something that seemed relevant. He didn't know what an Ephesus was. When someone started teaching him the Bible in context, it changed what he wanted to do with his life. In this conversation, the hip-hop artist from Beautiful Eulogy and Humble Beast Records shares why he stepped away from music to pastor Saving Grace Church in Milwaukie, Oregon. Not because music was wrong, and not because every Christian artist should do the same. Because he knew what it was like to wander without discipleship, and he wanted to give what he'd received. We talk about inspiration versus formation, why most growth in Christ happens in ordinary faithfulness nobody applauds, why he spent up to fourteen hours writing a verse you hear in forty seconds, what Paul's suffering teaches about ministry, and what he'd say to anyone chasing a platform in the name of God. "Most of the things that are so extraordinary about the Christian life are not very photogenic." If this conversation resonated, go back to Episode 1: Why Knowing the Bible Isn't Changing You. Scriptures in this episode: Matthew 5:14–16, 2 Corinthians 1:3–4, 2 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 12–13, Ephesians 1, Ephesians 5:25, Philippians 2:5–8 Connect with Braille on Instagram: @bryanbraille Saving Grace Church, Milwaukie, Oregon: https://www.savinggracechurch.com Go deeper with the Academy of the Bible — expert led courses, lectures, and weekly community around the Word of God: https://academyofthebible.org Follow the show so you don't miss an episode. New teachings and conversations every week. Colby F. Maier is a pastor, speaker, and founder of the Academy of the Bible, based in Portland, Oregon.

  8. Sep 15

    New Testament Expert: What the Bible Really Says About Women Pastors | Dr. Preston Sprinkle

    Preston Sprinkle spent three years studying what the Bible says about women in leadership before he would say what he thought. He was raised in circles where women could not teach, preach, or pastor, and it made sense to him. Then he kept meeting people he deeply respected — people who loved Scripture and loved Jesus — who read the same verses and came to a different conclusion. So he admitted he didn't know what he believed, and started over. "I never want to give a thin answer to a thick question. I want the strength of my passion to match the depth of my study." In this conversation we cover the two camps and the variations inside them, what leadership actually looked like in the first-century house church, the Greco-Roman background on women's status and agency, Romans 16 and the ten women Paul names in his ministry, a deep dive into Phoebe, Priscilla, and Junia, and the three hardest passages — 1 Corinthians 11, 1 Corinthians 14, and 1 Timothy 2. Preston also shares his own story: an athlete who hated reading until he became a Christian at 19 and developed an overnight hunger for Scripture, and the moment studying in Israel in 1999 that set him on the path to scholarship. The episode does not tell you what to believe. What Preston asks for is curiosity about positions you disagree with, and convictions rooted in the text rather than inherited. Preston's new book: From Genesis to Junia: An Honest Search for What the Bible Really Says About Women in Leadership https://www.prestonsprinkle.com/from-genesis-to-junia Dr. Preston Sprinkle (PhD, Aberdeen) is a biblical scholar, speaker, podcaster, and New York Times bestselling author. He serves as president of the Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender. Go deeper: https://academyofthebible.org Colby F. Maier is a pastor, speaker and the founder of Academy of the Bible, based in Portland, Oregon.

  9. Sep 15

    The Devil Knows More Bible Than You

    You can know the Bible and still miss Jesus. The demons prove it. In this episode of the Academy of the Bible Podcast, Colby F. Maier picks up where Episode 1 left off. If the problem was never a lack of information, then what actually turns knowledge into transformation? His answer starts in history. Two cultural movements taught the modern world, and the church with it, how to think about change. The Enlightenment said information would change us. Romanticism said experience would change us. The church inherited both, and neither one has produced transformed lives. Jesus offered a different way. He never said "know about me." He said "follow me." In the first century, following a rabbi meant apprenticeship: ordering your whole life around a master until you became like him. Through John 5:39 and James 2:19, Colby shows that even the demons have more knowledge than any of us, and it has saved none of it. The devil has information. Information does not save. This episode traces the path from information to embodiment to transformation, and lands on the gospel itself: not advice about the afterlife, but the announcement that Jesus lived the life you could not live and died the death you deserved to die. The goal was never to be a fan who knows the statistics. It is to become a follower who walks as He walked. Scripture in this episode: John 5:39, James 2:19, Matthew 4:19 Chapters: 0:00 Christianity is not just about believing the right things 8:23 Becoming the kind of person who can live in God's kingdom 13:48 If demons know who Jesus is, why do we think knowledge saves us? 14:45 "Follow me" means more than believing what He said 16:11 Information leads to embodiment leads to transformation 16:29 The Enlightenment and Romanticism: how we got here 24:30 People know doctrine but aren't transformed 27:51 The deeper work of the Holy Spirit 30:24 The whole point of truth is to point to Jesus 31:34 Does your life reflect what you proclaim? 34:30 The gap between knowing and living 39:40 Dallas Willard: will Christians become disciples? 42:54 Truth was never meant to be merely believed 45:45 Jesus never separates truth from practice 49:15 The gospel is an announcement about reality 52:30 Where this journey goes next Go deeper with the Academy of the Bible - courses, lectures, and weekly community around the Word of God: www.academyofthebible.org Follow the show so you don't miss an episode - new teachings and conversations every week.

  10. Sep 15

    Why Knowing the Bible Isn't Changing You

    You can know the Bible and still not be changed by it. In this first episode of the Academy of the Bible Podcast, Colby F. Maier makes the case that the modern church doesn't suffer from a lack of information — it suffers from a lack of spiritual formation. There are people with PhDs in theology who know Scripture inside and out, and whose lives remain untransformed. Knowledge alone cannot make us new. Colby works through James 1:22 and the warning against being hearers of the word only, then the parable of the wise and foolish builders in Matthew 7 — where both men heard the same teaching, both built, and both faced the same storm. The only difference was that one applied what he heard. Along the way: what Dallas Willard meant by the renovation of the heart, why Timothy Keller called the gospel the A to Z rather than the ABCs of the Christian life, and a question worth sitting with: you are already being discipled, so by whom, and by what? The episode closes on union with Christ, and why the gap between hearing truth and living it is closed by the Holy Spirit rather than by more content. This podcast is for Christians tired of a faith that feels abstract, shallow, and disconnected from everyday life, and for anyone who wants to apply Scripture to their marriage, parenting, work, money, anxiety, and calling. Transformation, not information. Go deeper: https://academyofthebible.org Colby Maier is a pastor and speaker based in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of Academy of the Bible.

  11. Aug 24

    Welcome to Academy of the Bible

    What if you could learn from some of the world’s leading Bible scholars, theologians, pastors, and Christian thinkers without going to seminary? Welcome to Academy of the Bible with Colby Maier, a podcast created to help everyday Christians understand the Bible, think deeply about their faith, and follow Jesus more faithfully in the modern world. Each episode brings you biblical teaching and conversations exploring Scripture, theology, apologetics, church history, spiritual formation, culture, and some of the biggest questions facing Christians today. Because following Jesus involves more than knowing what Christians believe. It means learning why we believe it, how the story of Scripture fits together, and what it looks like to faithfully live within that story. Whether you’ve studied the Bible for decades or you’re just beginning to ask deeper questions, you’re invited to pull up a chair. Follow Academy of the Bible now so you don’t miss the first episode. Learn more at academyofthebible.org.

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The Academy of the Bible Podcast exists to help you understand, apply, and live out Scripture in every area of life. Hosted by Colby Maier, this podcast brings together biblical teaching, cultural analysis, and conversations with leading Christian voices to form a deeper, more resilient faith. In a world shaped by distraction, confusion, and shallow spirituality, the goal is not simply more information, but transformation. Each episode explores theology, discipleship, identity, purpose, and the challenges of following Jesus in the modern world, equipping you to think clearly, live faithfully, and engage culture with conviction and wisdom. Whether you are new to the Bible or have been walking with Christ for years, this podcast will help you move beyond surface-level faith into a deeper understanding of God’s Word and its implications for everyday life.

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