Back Road Disciples
A Texas based bible study and Christian living podcast to teach everyday people about the Word. We break it down, give you the context, the background, the words and all the tools you need to get the most from your study time! Email us at backroaddisciple@gmail.com
Episodes
In this episode we read John 20 in its first-century context. We cover Jewish burial customs and the rock-cut tombs of Jerusalem, what "resurrection" meant to Jewish and Greek audiences, and why the first witnesses being women matters. We compare the Gospel accounts to see who was at the tomb and look at the timeline from Friday's burial to the following Sunday.
We also look at John's literary choices and word selection: three diffe...
John 19 presents one of the most dramatic shifts in biblical history. While earthly rulers thought they were crushing a threat to Rome, God was crowning the King of the Universe. In this verse-by-verse breakdown, we pull back the curtain on the Graeco-Roman worldview, Jewish high politics, and OT prophetic fulfillments.
Of course we have some trivia and another fantastic church approved joke of the week for you!
The tension is high as Jesus steps over the blood soaked ground in the Kidron Valley, knowing soon a mob will be there to take him prisoner. Peter let's his anger fly before fulfilling the denial prophesy, John appears to be a very connected guy as he is allowed into the inner circle of a highly illegal pre-trial hearing, and we learn of Annas, the mob boss of the 1st century.
Of course we have a fantastic joke of the week and great...
John 17 is one of the most intimate moments in the Gospels — Jesus, hours from the cross, praying not for Himself but for His disciples and for every believer who would come after them. In this episode we walk through the three movements of His High Priestly Prayer, unpack what it means to be 'sent into the world' without being 'of' it, and look at why Jesus prays so earnestly for unity. A short chapter, but one of the most m...
On Passover night in Jerusalem, hours before His arrest, Jesus delivers some of His most unsettling warnings and radical promises to a group of terrified disciples. In this episode, we step into the 1st-century context of John 16 to understand how the disciples would have heard these staggering words in real time. We break down the devastating social reality of excommunication (aposynagōgos), why future persecutors believed executi...
Jesus is still at the table with the disciples, or possibly walking toward the garden, hours before the cross, and he reaches for an image every single person listening would've instantly recognized — the vine. It wasn't a random metaphor. For centuries, Israel was the vine in scripture, and usually in a sad story — a vine that kept producing sour grapes no matter how much God tended it. So when Jesus says "I am the tru...
Jesus just watched Judas walk out into the night. Peter's about to be told he'll deny him three times. And in the middle of all that heartbreak, Jesus starts talking about rooms being prepared, a way, a truth, a life. In this episode, Luke and Nathan dig into the culture behind John 14 — ancient Jewish betrothal customs, what "many mansions" actually meant to a first-century bride and groom, why "ask in my name" isn't a blank...
Jesus washes his disciples' feet, takes on the lowest servant's task the night before his death, and shows them what love "to the end" actually looks like. He identifies his betrayer at the table, feels the full weight of it even though he knew it was coming, and gives the Twelve a new command: love one another as I have loved you. Along the way — the honor-culture shock of the foot washing, how the devil worked on Judas in t...
A woman is dragged before Jesus, caught in adultery, and used as bait in a legal trap designed to destroy him no matter how he answers. In this episode, we dig into why this passage is bracketed in most Bibles, what the religious leaders were really after, how adultery was actually handled under Jewish law in Jesus's day, and the strange discontinued ritual from Numbers 5 that this scene echoes. We land on the moment that defines t...
Six days before Passover, Mary empties a year's wages on Jesus' feet, a crowd waves palm branches and shouts 'save now,' and a group of Greek seekers finally gets the answer: 'the hour has come.' We dig into the honor culture behind the Bethany dinner, why nard and reclining posture actually mattered, and what the palms and 'Hosanna' were really asking for.
Of course we have trivia and a fantastic joke of the week and find out that ...
Jesus arrives in Bethany four days after his friend's death — too late, everyone assumes. In this episode of Back Road Disciples, we unpack the burial customs, mourning rituals, and cultural expectations that shaped how the first readers understood this scene, including a surprising twist in the Greek behind "Jesus wept." Plus: how a modern medical term traces its name straight back to this story, another joke of the week and...
When Jesus declared "I am the Good Shepherd" in John 10, modern ears hear a sweet, peaceful metaphor. But to the 1st-century Jewish crowd standing in the temple courts, his words were a massive cultural shockwave and a direct political challenge to the religious establishment of the day.
In this episode of Back Road Disciples, we throw back the curtain on the rugged, high-stakes culture of ancient Judean sheepherding to discover wha...
What if you lived your whole life in darkness, begging on the street for change and then one day a man came by and opened up your eyes? That's exactly what happened to the subject of this audio podcast and unlike the man who picked up his matt and walked, this guy was ready to battle the leaders when they came to question him about it.
Nathan and Luke are back with another bible study in John and break down chapter 9 verse by verse....
We have reached the final scene of our little journey with Jesus through his teachings at the Festival of Tabernacles and what a tremendous ending it has!
Did we have a great joke of the week? Maybe not...but you be the judge of that and let us know.
Luke finally gets over his stage fright and somehow also ends up underneath it and Nathan continues to be a rockstar.
All this and more on this weeks audio bible study podcast!
Another great week on our Bible study podcast! We get to explore the Feast of The Tabernacles, and once you get a better understanding of it, you'll understand this passage better than ever before.
A fantastic joke of the week as usual and we find out about Luke taking to the pulpit for a Sunday morning sermon.
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This episode gets real quick! Nathan and Luke talk about some of the hard times that we face in life and how to get through them with faith.
We cover the rest of the bread of life discussion and watch how confused the Jews and disciples become over the language He used.
We have a (possibly repeated) joke of the week and some good discussions about those who have had a crisis of faith in the past.
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This week we cover two of the most well known miracles of the Bible, walking on water and feeding the 5000. We uncover some things that we had never heard about before in these stories as usual and hope you do as well.
Of course we have a joke of the week and review the Seek The City event that Nathan played in over the weekend.
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Sometimes life gets real. We share our struggles with y'all, hoping it resonates and helps someone out there that is feeling the same way. We present this will pure love to our people.
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There are many lessons in this week's pod covering John 5 but I think one of the biggest one is DON'T BE SNITCHIN'!!!
We start to really feel the tension rise as Jesus keeps on making these Jewish leaders real, real mad. As always a fantastic joke of the week and Nathan keeps being a rockstar while Luke keeps being exceptionally boring.
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This week we learn all about Jesus' second miraculous sign in John's gospel and find out he don't have to be anywhere close to save you!
Plus the best joke of the week to date (some say) and I fought a fly.
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