Spoken Gospel

The mission of Spoken Gospel is to equip the church to speak the gospel out of every corner of scripture. Co-hosts and close friends, David Bowden and Seth Stewart, sit down every week to talk through a Bible passage and see how it points us to Jesus.

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Thursday · 53 min
Job Overview: Conquering the Accuser
David and Christine walk through Job's first two trials and the leash God places on chaos.
August 13 · 1 hr 25 min
Job Overview: The Literary World of Job
David and Christine open a new series on Job.
July 30 · 1 hr 29 min
John 12: Donkey and Vine
David and Christine trace donkeys and vines from Genesis 49 to a strangely well-behaved lion in 1 Kings 13.
July 16 · 1 hr 16 min
John 12: Anointed for Burial
Mary's offering prepares the body of Life himself to carry the aroma of resurrection down into the tomb.
July 2 · 1 hr 30 min
John Overview: Jesus the Bread from Heaven
Three times in John 6, Jesus retells the story of the Exodus: he feeds a hungry crowd near Passover, crosses a stormy sea, and declares himself the true bread from heaven that came down to sustain his people. Beneath the miracle of the loaves and fish lies a web of echoes—the manna in the wilderness, the bread of the presence, and the tree of life in Eden. David and Christine walk through this dense chapter and the good news that Jesus is the true Passover meal, offering his own life so that all who feed on him will be raised up on the last day.
June 18 · 1 hr 18 min
John Overview: Living Water
Water shows up in nearly every chapter of John's Gospel, and it's almost never simple—sometimes death, sometimes life, sometimes the boundary between them. Having spent the last episode tracing the theme of water through the Old Testament, David and Christine return to John to watch all those waves crash together into one story. They walk through Jesus' baptism, the wedding at Cana, the woman at the well, the storm on the sea, and the water that flows from his pierced side, showing how John presents Jesus as the living water who has come to cleanse an unfaithful people and make a dead and thirsty world new.
June 4 · 1 hr 20 min
John Overview: Water in the Old Testament
From Jesus' baptism to the woman at the well, from healing beside a pool to walking on the sea, John uses water imagery to describe Jesus' ministry.
May 21 · 1 hr 29 min
John Overview: What is a Sign?
The Gospel of John is structured around seven signs that build toward an eighth—the resurrection of Jesus.
May 7 · 1 hr 5 min
John 1: In the Beginning Was the Word
David and Christine walk through John's prologue and talk about how the Word of God appears as a visible divine person over 100 times in the Old Testament
April 23 · 1 hr 3 min
Gospel of John Overview: A Unique Eyewitness
John's account of Jesus' life and Gospel has long been noted for its uniqueness compared to the synoptic accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In this episode, David and Christine begin the series on the Gospel of John, exploring who John is as a unique eyewitness, his purpose for writing, and the importance of reading John on his own terms to see Jesus as the God who incarnates and fulfills Scripture's images, themes, and patterns.
April 9 · 1 hr 6 min
Farewell Seth: What Seven Years in Scripture Taught Us
After nearly seven years of reading through the entire Bible together, Seth Stewart steps away from the Spoken Gospel Podcast to pursue eldership and family ministry full time. In this episode, Seth and David reflect on how seeing Jesus on every page of Scripture changed their understanding of who he is, what it really means to read the Bible faithfully, and why no podcast — including this one — can replace the local church.
March 26 · 1 hr 13 min
Acts Overview: The Council of Jerusalem
As the gospel continues to spread among the Gentiles, a dispute arises.
March 12 · 55 min
Acts Overview: Peter's Passover
As the gospel spreads from Jerusalem to distant lands, the church lives out Jesus' life on earth.
February 26 · 1 hr 30 min
Acts Overview: The Gospel Goes To Cornelius
What does it mean that Gentiles are made clean? How can the Holy Spirit fill Gentiles supposedly outside of God's Kingdom?
February 12 · 58 min
Acts Overview: Saul's Encounter with Jesus
Saul was breathing out threats and murder against the followers of Jesus—until Jesus met him on the road to Damascus.
January 29 · 1 hr 19 min
Acts Overview: Stephen, the First Martyr
Stephen was the first person to give his life for Jesus, and his death mirrors the death of Jesus in stunning ways.
January 15 · 1 hr 3 min
Acts Overview: Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
A wealthy Ethiopian official journeys to Jerusalem seeking the God of Israel, only to find himself excluded from the very temple he longed to enter.
Dec 18, 2025 · 59 min
Acts Overview: The Gospel Goes to Samaria
In this episode, David, Christine, and Josh explore how Philip's ministry mirrors Jesus' own work, bringing healing and freedom to a people long excluded from God's family.
Dec 4, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
Acts Overview: The Day of Pentecost
In this episode, David, Christine, and Josh walk through the dramatic events of Acts 2, where the theophanic cloud that once filled the temple now fills God's people.
Nov 20, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
Acts Overview: The Cloud Rider and His Witnesses
What does it mean that Jesus ascended on a cloud and promised to return the same way?

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