The Bible Project Daily Podcast

Pastor Jeremy R McCandless
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Why not make Studying the Bible part of the rhythm of your daily life. The Bible Project Daily Podcast is a 10 year plan to study through the entire Bible, both Old and New Testament, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Season one is a short overview of each of the sixty-six books of the Bible. Season two launched our expositional journey through the whole Bible beginning with the book of Genesis. Thereafter each season take a New Testament/Old Testament alternatively until the project is complete. (God willing)  Why not join me on this exciting journey as we study the whole Bible together from Genesis to Revelation.

  1. Bonus Episode: Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate (2002). A Christian Reflection

    11H AGO

    Bonus Episode: Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate (2002). A Christian Reflection

    Send a text This is a between-the-seasons bonus episode. I shall be back again on Monday to launch our new season on the book(s) of Kings. Back in October 2025, I read and studied. The Psychologist and Philosopher Steven Pinker's book 'The Blank Slate. As part of a study group I belong to. This is my reaction to it, first made available as a 'Patreon Only' bonus episode. Title: Beyond the Blank Slate. Episode Notes: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is one of the most influential and controversial books in modern psychology. Pinker dismantles three persistent myths about human nature — the Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine — arguing that our minds are not infinitely malleable, but deeply shaped by evolution and biology. From a Christian perspective, this raises important questions. If his argument about human nature is real, what does that mean for morality, responsibility, and redemption? Can a scientific understanding of human nature coexist with a biblical one? Segments: Steven Pinker and the Modern MindThe Three Myths of Human NatureThe Case for Human NatureA Christian Response to the Moral ImplicationsBeyond the Blank Slate — Grace and the Image of GodScripture references: Genesis 1:26–27 · Romans 3:23 · John 1:3–4 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 Reading List: Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate (Penguin Books, 2002) C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man Alister McGrath, The Open Secret Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    42 min
  2. Bonus Episode: Piers Plowman: A Cry for Truth in a Troubled Age.

    1D AGO

    Bonus Episode: Piers Plowman: A Cry for Truth in a Troubled Age.

    Send a text This is a between-the-seasons bonus epsiode. I shall be back again on Monday to laumch our new season on the book(s) of Kings.Back in April 2025, I read, listening too, and studied. William Langland's Medieval poem "Piers Plowman". As part of a reading group I belong to. This is my reaction,, first made available as a 'Patreon Only' bonus episode   "Piers Plowman", was first published in 1377 and in it Langland asks the eternal question. "How are we truly saved?"  This urgent question was particularly relevant when it was written 700 years ago because England was in the grip of the Black Death. But the question  is still echoing today. Join me as I explore a strange and stirring medieval poem that confronts hypocrisy, grapples with sin, and ultimately points to Christ's radical grace. Langland's riddles aren't just literary; they're spiritual challenges for our time. And asks are we ready to engage? 📖 Get the full devotional insights by reading my substack essay: [https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremymccandless/p/piers-plowman-a-cry-for-truth-in?r=2r7o2c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] Links and Sources: Piers Plowman Electronic Archive A 15th-century Piers Plowman manuscript - National Library of Wales A 15th-century Piers Plowman manuscript – British Library The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive by Lawrence Warner (Cambridge University Press, 2014) Piers Plowman – Wikipedia Audible Audio Book: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Piers-Plowman-Audiobook/1781983240?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    46 min

  3. 2D AGO

    Taking Pride in Appropriate Things. (Galatians 6:11-18)

    Send a text Throughout this letter, Paul has been in a battle — not a personal one, but a doctrinal one. These Jewish legalists have followed him into Galatia, telling these new churches that faith in Christ is not enough, that believers must also keep the Mosaic law — especially circumcision — to be right with God.  Paul has argued passionately, relentlessly even, that justification is by faith alone. Now, as he reaches the end of the letter, he picks up the pen himself and summarizes the entire controversy in a few powerful sentences. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    28 min
  4. Living a Life in the Spirit. (Galatians 6: 1-10)

    3D AGO

    Living a Life in the Spirit. (Galatians 6: 1-10)

    Send a text If you go online and visit a poetry site, you will find 10’s of thousands of poems that attempt to define “love” for us.  You find poems that say things like “Love is gazing upon a pool at night, bathed in shimmering moonbeams, roses in full bloom, etc…” It seems to me that for many people, love is a sort of vague, dreamy, emotional fog.  But Scripture refuses to let love remain wallowing in the swamp of abstraction. If love is going to replace a religious code — as Paul insists it does in Galatians — then we need something far more concrete than moonbeams and roses. However, in these closing chapters of Galatians, Paul has  told us that the entire Christian life is “faith working through love.”   In 5:13, he says, “Through love serve one another.” In 5:22, he says the fruit of the Spirit is love. So, love is the new standard of conduct for the believer. But that raises a crucial question:  What does real love actually look like, and how do we practice it? What does real love do?... Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    32 min
  5. Life in the Spirit. (Galatians 5: 13-26)

    4D AGO

    Life in the Spirit. (Galatians 5: 13-26)

    Send a text I once spoke with a woman who had spent years in a church a full of rules and regulations. When she finally moved to a church that simply taught Scripture without adding man‑made religious rules, she told me she felt something surprising:   FEAR! Those rules, she said, had given her a sense of security. When they were gone, she felt exposed.  I also remember a teenage girl I once met at a youth club who reacted the opposite way.   When I told her we are not under the law, she said, “Great — that means I can lie to my mother, I can go out and party, and tell her I’m here at the youth club.”   And that’s the problem. Whenever Christians hear that we’re justified by faith apart from any legalistic requirements, some people panic. “Won’t that give me a license to sin? And some say great, that gives me a license that means I can do whatever I want?” So, if we are not under the Mosaic law, what guides our conduct? That is exactly what Paul answers for us today in the second half of Galatians 5….. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    33 min
  6. Freedom in Christ. (Galatians 5: 1-12)

    MAR 6

    Freedom in Christ. (Galatians 5: 1-12)

    Send a text  For four chapters, he has been laying down argument after argument, Scripture after Scripture, illustration after illustration, pleading with them not to return to the bondage of the law....  But now the question he asks becomes:  If we’re not going back to the law, then what kind of life do we live now? Beginning in chapter 5 — and running through the rest of the letter — he finally explains it in detail.   This is the start of the practical section of Galatians. This is where Paul tells us what to put in place of the law. This is where he shows us how to live as people who have been set free…. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    25 min

  7. MAR 5

    What Do You Choose - Slavery or Freedom. (Galatians 4: 21–31)

    Send a text It seems that in the Apostle Paul’s day, some Jews, particularly a contingent based out of Jerusalem, followed him from newly established church to church and told the people there that in order to be truly acceptable to God, you also had to keep the Jewish religious rituals, called ‘The Law’.  Now, in truth, a version of the same message still circulates today. But those who know the Lord, and who study His Word, understand that it says something very different. We know that being forgiven and being declared righteous before God is by faith alone, aside from any religious obligations that people try to put on you.  And yet… the Mosaic law is still there; we can still see it in the Old Testament. And its very presence raises a question that has troubled believers for centuries: And that’s not an unimportant question. If you’ve ever studied the Bible seriously, you know it’s a real issue. However, God gave us one book in the New Testament whose main purpose is to answer that question in detail and address every possible implication that arises out of that fact: The book of Galatians…. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

    32 min
  8. Paul's Concern for People. (Galatians 4: 12-20)

    MAR 4

    Paul's Concern for People. (Galatians 4: 12-20)

    Send a text When you read Paul’s letters, you quickly discover that he often writes a bit like a lawyer. Romans and Galatians especially feel like carefully constructed legal briefs—tight logic, precise argumentation, point building upon point.  He’s persuading, reasoning, dismantling objections, and presenting the gospel with razor‑sharp clarity. And then today—right in the middle of all that logic—We see Paul’s humanity breaks through. Up to this point, Paul has been arguing with relentless clarity that justification is by faith alone—something different from keeping to religious rules and rituals, even something separate from the reasonable aspiration to keep the Ten Commandments. Seeing faith as being the way by which we receive forgiveness, not rule-keeping.   Now, whenever you say something like that publicly, people get nervous; they did then, and some still do today. Some will say, “If you take rules away, what will restrain people? What will guide them? Won’t they be free to do whatever they want?”  Well, Paul will answer that fully in chapter 5. But before he gets there, he pauses. He steps out of the courtroom for a moment, and he speaks from the heart.  In Galatians 4:12–20, Paul makes a deeply personal plea. He reminds the Galatians of their past love for him, and he expresses his present concern for them. It’s one of the most emotional sections in the entire letter.  Let’s walk through it together…. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

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Why not make Studying the Bible part of the rhythm of your daily life. The Bible Project Daily Podcast is a 10 year plan to study through the entire Bible, both Old and New Testament, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Season one is a short overview of each of the sixty-six books of the Bible. Season two launched our expositional journey through the whole Bible beginning with the book of Genesis. Thereafter each season take a New Testament/Old Testament alternatively until the project is complete. (God willing)  Why not join me on this exciting journey as we study the whole Bible together from Genesis to Revelation.

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    Pastor Jeremy R McCandless
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
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