Gsmc Biblestudy Podcast

Sarah discusses the New Testament texts assigned for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 and Mark 1:29-39. Both talk about how we live and interact with the communities around us in ways that express God's love.<br /><br />If you enjoyed the show, follow us and subscribe: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. <br /><br />Advertise with us: <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/advertise-with-us" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/advertise-with-us</a>.html <br /><br />Website: <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a><br /><br />ITunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gsmc-bible-study-podcast/id1123845501" rel="noopener">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gsmc-bible-study-podcast/id1123845501</a><br />

Sarah discusses the first 2 of the 4 texts assigned for the week of February 4th, the Fifth Sunday After Epiphany.  First, in Isaiah 40:21-31, the prophet tells those who have been exiled that God will give them strength and will not let them falter, despite their having very good reasons to doubt and question. Psalm 147:1-11, 20c is almost a response to the questions raised in the Isaiah text, giving many reasons why God is to be praised, showing how God is present in the universe as well as present to us, in every aspect of our lives.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

The 2nd of our January replays of the Friends of Faith on Fridays series.  As an update to the original description, Pastor Emerson finished her sabbatical, but is continuing her work with mindfulness.<br /><br />In this second installment of the new segment, Friends on Faith on Fridays, Sarah interviews Pastor Christine Emerson.  Pastor Emerson is the Associate Pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and is currently doing a three month sabbatical studying centering prayer, meditation, and mindfulness.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

A special New Year's replay of the first-ever Friends on Faith on Fridays with my dear friend Katie Osweiler, who is now living in Belgium and continuing to work toward her ordination.<br /><br />The first of a new segment, Friends on Faith on Friday (FoFoF).  Sarah interviews her friend, Vicar Katie Osweiler who is in the process of becoming a pastor in the Lutheran Church (ELCA).  The two discuss faith, seminary, doubts, hopes, and many other topics and how her faith affects Vicar Katie's daily life.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah discusses the 4 texts assigned for the 1st Sunday of the Christmas season: Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Psalm 148, Galatians 4:4-7, and Luke 2:22-40.  Each of these texts reveals God in some way.  During the season of Advent we eagerly await the birth of Christ, the coming of the Messiah.  During the seaon of Christmas we begin to see how God is revealed through Jesus's birth and what his birth means for not only the people of Israel but the people of all times and places.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

In this edition of Friends on Faith on Fridays Sarah speaks with Angela Breidenbach, an author of Historical, Christian Fiction.  The two know each other from Sarah's first congregation in Missoula, MT, and she recently interviewed Angela about her Montana Beginnings series for the GSMC Book Review Podcast.  During that interview Sarah realized that Angela would also be a great guest for the Friends on Faith on Fridays series because of how she speaks of her faith and incorporated that faith into her everyday life, her writing, and her podcasts.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

October 31, 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg.  Sarah talks first about this historic event and what led Luther to write those theses.  She then looks at the texts assigned for this Sunday, known as Reformation Sunday: Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 46, Romans 3:19-28, and John 8:31-36.  All of these texts speak in some way of the promises and presence of God and how we can depend upon both.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah talks about the texts assigned for September 10, 2017, the 14th Sunday after Pentecost: Ezekiel 33:7-11, Exodus12:1-14, Psalm 119:33-40, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20.  She looks at how the gospel reading talks about community and how we live in community when we disagree with others or are hurt by the actions of others.  Jesus gives advice for this and reminds us that where 2 or 3 are gathered in his name he is present among them.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah looks at the assigned texts for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost: Jeremiah 15:15-21, Exodus 3:1-15, Psalm 26:1-8, Romans 12:9-21, Matthew 5:1-12.  The Gospel text is actually not the one assigned for that Sunday, but is Jesus' Sermon on the Mount where he gives many descriptions of those who are blessed and why.  What do you think of when you hear the word blessed?  How have you been blessed in your life?  Do Jesus's descriptions of the blessed resonate or put you off?  <br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah talks about the texts assigned for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, August 27, 2017: Isaiah 51:1-6, Exodus 1:8--2:10, Psalm 138:1-8, Romans 12:1-8, Matthew 16:13-20.  Each of these texts, in various ways, talks about God's love for us, and the lengths to which God has gone, and continues to go, to be in relationship with us.  God is with us no matter where life and the world takes us, good, bad, and everything in between.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah talks about the lectionary texts assigned for the week of August 20, 2017, the 11th Sunday after Pentecost: Isaiah 56:1, 6-8, Genesis 45:1-15, Psalm 67:1-7, Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32, and Matthew 15:[10-20] 21-28.  These texts speak a lot about mercy, inclusion, and the power of persistence.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah reads the assigned texts for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost: 1 Kings 19:9-18, Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28, Psalm 85:8-13, Romans 10:5-15, and Matthew 14:22-33.  She speaks some about the texts themselves but focuses more on the events that have happened over the past few days in Charlottesville, VA.  Where is God in all of this?  What is our response as faithful Christians when we see hate in the world? Ast trite as it may sound, what would Jesus do?<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah reads and talks about the assigned texts for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost:  Isaiah 55:1-5, Genesis 32:22-31, Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21, Romans 9:1-5, and Matthew 14:13-21.  The gospel tells the story of Jesus feeding a crowd of more than 5,000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.  This is extraordinary enough, but the example of Jesus reminds us of something else as well about God's love and the kingdom of heaven.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah looks at the texts assigned for the week of July 23, 2017, the 7th Sunday after Pentecost: Isaiah 44:6-8, Psalm 86:11-17, Romans 8:12-25, Matthew 13:24-30, 36-40.  She talks about how the texts describe our relationship with God and how we have all been adopted into the family of God.  We are all children of God, joint heirs with Christ to God's kingdom.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah talks with her friend Katy Grindberg in this latest interview for the Friends on Faith on Fridays series.  Pastor Grindberg is the Assistant to the Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  The 2 discuss faith, favorite bible passages, doubt, and hope.  Katy and Sarah know each other from their time at Pacific Lutheran Theological seminary where they were roommates for a year.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah talks about the New Testament texts assigned for the week of June 25, 2017, the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost.  In Romans 6:1b:-11 Paul talks about the abundance of grace we have been given through Christ.  We are given the promises of not only Christ's resurrection but also his death because when we are baptized into a death like his we die to sin.  In Matthew 10:24-39 Jesus has some difficult words for his followers, including us.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah looks at the Old Testament texts assigned for June 25, 2017, the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost: Jeremiah 20:7-13, Genesis 21:8-21, Psalm 69: 7-10, [11-15], 16-18.  These are all 3 difficult texts with Jeremiah and the Psalm looking at suffering in the face of being faithful and Genesis telling the story of Hagar and Ishmael being banished to the desert by Sarah.  Where is God during these times?<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah looks at the New Testament texts assigned for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, June 18, 2017.  In Romans 5:1-8, Paul talks about how we have been justified through faith and the saving work of Jesus Christ.  He also talks about hope and how our hope is rooted in this same work and the promises of God.  In Matthew 9:35-10:8 [9-23] Jesus sends his disciples out to do the work he himself has been doing: preaching, teaching, and healing.  He gives them instructions for how they are to do this and how they should respond to people who do not accept them.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

Sarah talks about the Old Testament texts assigned for June 18, 2017, the Second Sunday After Pentecost.  Those texts are Exodus 19:2-8a, Genesis 18:1-15 [21:1-7] (an alternate text assigned for the week), and Psalm 100.  The texts each talk about God's love for creation, but in very different ways.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>

In this second installment of the new segment, Friends on Faith on Friday, Sarah interviews Pastor Christine Emerson.  Pastor Emerson is the Associate Pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and is currently doing a three month sabbatical studying centering prayer, meditation, and mindfulness.<br /><br />Follow the GSMC Bible Study Podcast at <a href="http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html" rel="noopener">http://www.gsmcpodcast.com/bible-study.html</a>