Spoken Gospel

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.

Episodes

1 Corinthians 8-10: Understanding Christian Liberty

April 24, 2025 • 65 mins
In this episode of the Spoken Gospel podcast, David and Seth explore the complex issue of food sacrificed to idols in 1 Corinthians 8-10. They unpack the historical context of Corinth as a pagan Greek city and how new Christian converts struggled with questions about eating meat offered to idols.
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Bible Engagement and Reclaim Today: A Conversation with Daniel Day

April 10, 2025 • 51 mins
In this episode of the Spoken Gospel Podcast, host David Bowden sits down with Daniel Day from Our Daily Bread Ministries to discuss Bible engagement and the Reclaim Today initiative.
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Mark Sermon: Cursing the Fig Tree

March 27, 2025 • 46 mins
In this podcast episode, David Bowden delves into Mark 11:12-25, exploring the interconnected stories of Jesus cursing the fig tree, cleansing the temple, and teaching about faith and prayer. David unpacks the rich symbolism and theological significance behind these events, demonstrating how they relate to God's larger plan for redemption and the role of the temple throughout biblical history.
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Mark Sermon: Jesus' Teaching on Divorce

March 13, 2025 • 50 mins
In this podcast episode, David Bowden explores Jesus' teaching on divorce from Mark 10:1-12. David examines the passage within the broader narrative of Mark's gospel and the overarching story of Scripture. He unpacks how Jesus' response to the Pharisees reveals profound truths about God's design for marriage and His relationship with His people.
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Mark Sermon: The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith

February 27, 2025 • 42 mins
In this podcast episode, we dive deep into Mark 7:24-30, exploring the challenging story of Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman. This passage has often confused and even offended readers, but when understood in its proper context, it reveals a beautiful picture of Jesus' ministry to outcasts and foreigners.
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Proverbs Overview: Meet Pete the Simple

February 13, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode, David and Seth explore the cast of characters that fill the book of Proverbs, from the Fool and the Wicked to the Wise and the Righteous. Through the journey of "Pete the Simple" - the malleable youth open to instruction - they show how these characters serve as warnings and examples on the path to wisdom, ultimately pointing to Jesus as the perfect model to follow.
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Proverbs Overview: Fear of the Lord

February 7, 2025 • 53 mins
In this podcast episode, Seth and David explore what it means to "fear the Lord" in the quest for wisdom. Starting in Genesis, they track the theme of wisdom and folly throughout the biblical story - from Adam and Eve's fateful choice in Eden to Jesus' perfect example of godly wisdom. Though the world saw the cross as foolishness, Jesus' humble obedience revealed God's true wisdom and opened the way back to paradise.
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Proverbs Overview: Living Wisely in God's World

January 16, 2025 • 53 mins
God made the world to reflect his wisdom. As people observe God’s wise ordering of the universe they compile proverbs, short sayings meant to be contemplated and applied to everyday life. Every culture has proverbs, so it’s no surpise we should find a book full of them in our Bibles. But what is wisdom as the Bible sees it? How do we live well in the world God made? David and Seth explore the genre of Proverbs and how we encounter ...
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Song of Songs Overview: The Song and Jesus

December 5, 2024 • 52 mins
Seth and David ask why a song about the honeymoon night is in our Bibles and try to tell the story of the Hebrew people and Jesus as the story of a marriage.
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Song of Songs Overview: The Honeymoon Night

November 21, 2024 • 54 mins
Seth and David go deep into the five main poetic movements in the Song of Songs. 
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Song of Songs Overview

November 7, 2024 • 38 mins
Get ready to hear about the greatest of all songs, the Song of Songs, or as it's also known, the Song of Solomon. Seth and David talk about the interconnected poems of the Song and the unique contribution it makes to the Bible's story. 
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2 Corinthians: The Unveiled Face

October 24, 2024 • 75 mins
Seth and David do a deep dive into one of their favorite verses in the Bible.
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2 Corinthians Overview: What is an Apostle?

October 11, 2024 • 69 mins
A group of "super-apostles" have invaded the church in Corinth. In this episode, Seth and David talk about what exactly an apostle is and why Paul spends so much of this letter defending his ministry. 
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Special: Learning to Be Loved - Chapter 9, Bible

September 26, 2024 • 32 mins
In this podcast episode, Spoken Gospel Executive Director David Bowden shares about his latest book, Learning to Be Loved. This episode also includes a free audio version of Chapter 9: Bible, where you'll learn how the Bible is a place to encounter Jesus and be transformed.
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Isaiah Overview: The Servant's Songs

September 12, 2024 • 64 mins
There are four songs in Isaiah attributed to God's Servant. Seth and David walk though each one and show how they anticipate the coming of Jesus and restoration of God's people.
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Isaiah Overview: Immanuel

August 29, 2024 • 52 mins
Every Christmas, Christians worldwide hear Isaiah's prophecies about a child called "Immanuel." Seth and David talk about one of the best-known prophecies in Scripture and how it prepares us for the birth of Jesus. 
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Isaiah Overview: The Servant

August 15, 2024 • 55 mins
One of Isaiah's most famous prophecies talks about a "suffering servant." But that idea is found all the way back in the book of Genesis. Seth and David trace the theme of servants throughout the Bible and talk about servants in the book of Isaiah.
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Isaiah Overview

August 1, 2024 • 36 mins
Isaiah is one of the most important books for both the Old and New Testaments. In this intro episode, Seth and David talk about what prophecy is and why Isaiah is so important to the Biblical story. 
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1 Corinthians Overview: A Wrong View of the Body

July 18, 2024 • 48 mins
Underneath almost every command Paul gives the Corinthian church is a summons to remember that Jesus is coming back soon. Jesus' second coming and the resurrection of all people are the motivation for almost everything he calls his church to do. Seth and David talk about bodies, Jesus' resurrection, and why resurrection bodies were so important to Paul.
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1 Corinthians Overview: "New" Corinth, Freaky Friday, and Church Surgery

July 4, 2024 • 45 mins
The church in Corinth had a lot of problems and most of them had something to do with Corinthian’s posture towards their culture and their understanding of the resurrection. Seth and David introduce the book of Corinthians, talk about the strange way the ancient philosophy of Dualism pops up in modern culture, and how Corinthians is really good news for really broken churches.
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