Episode Archive
314 episodes of 2 Minute Disciple | Daily Devotional Podcast since the first episode, which aired on November 30th, 2021.
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Episode 106: Acts Chapter 16
Episode | March 16th, 2022 | Season 1 | 6 mins 30 secs
audio bible, daily bible, spiritual formation, spirituality
In the book of Acts, we have seen two ways that God has moved his people and grown the church. First, he has moved them to new fields through visions and we see that in this chapter, a vision of a man from Macedonia. This vision changes the map for Paul and Silas’ missionary journey, which takes them to Philippi. In Philippi, the circumstances bring growth to the church. Paul and Silas are in jail when they are released and the jailer is saved along with his whole household. There is a church established in Philippi and they move on.
This pattern makes me ponder God’s movements in my life. Take some time today to consider how God is moving you to where he wants you. -
Episode 105: Acts Chapter 15
Episode | March 15th, 2022 | Season 1 | 6 mins 41 secs
audio bible, daily bible, spiritual formation, spirituality
This chapter contains the most important moment for these Jesus followers. There was a divide in their ranks over what to do with new believers who are not Jewish. There was a movement that wanted new believers to convert to Judaism before becoming a Jesus follower. The leaders of the church decided that it was not necessary to become a Jew first. These are the requirements that they passed on to new believers: Be careful to not get involved in activities connected with idols, to guard the morality of sex and marriage, to not serve food offensive to Jewish Christians—blood, for instance.’ This is basic wisdom from Moses, preached and honored for centuries now in city after city as we have met and kept the Sabbath” (Acts 15:20-21 MSG).
Those non-Jewish believers were thrilled with the news.
The Christian life tends to be this big list of do’s and don’ts, but this chapter teaches us to keep it simple. -
Episode 104: Acts Chapter 14
Episode | March 13th, 2022 | Season 1 | 4 mins 37 secs
audio bible, daily bible, jesus, self improvement, spiritual formation, spirituality
Paul and Barnabas were mistaken for gods when they healed a man. Check out how it turned out for them.
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Episode 103: Acts Chapter 13
Episode | March 12th, 2022 | Season 1 | 8 mins 51 secs
audio bible, daily bible, discipleship, jealousy, jesus, spiritual journey, spirituality
The theme of the Book of Acts is clearly that the disciples of Jesus would be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth. God is moving his people in this direction and we keep seeing this resistance to the message going forward. However, each time, God pushes the message past this resistance. This chapter is no different, because when Sergius Paulus wants to hear the message there is resistance. Again when the people of Antioch Pisidia hear the message and respond positively, we see strong resistance. However, every resistance is met with God moving his message forward and more people joining his movement.
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Episode 102: Acts Chapter 12
Episode | March 11th, 2022 | Season 1 | 4 mins 35 secs
audio bible, church growth, daily bible, prayer, spirituality
I love verse 5 in this chapter, "But while Peter was in prison, the church prayed very earnestly for him." I love this because of two things that happened. First, Peter was released from prison by the angel and he went to where the prayer meeting was happening. When he arrived at the door, they couldn’t believe that he was really there because they were praying for him to get out of prison. I love that God answers prayer and sometimes we miss it.
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Episode 101: Acts Chapter 11
Episode | March 10th, 2022 | Season 1 | 5 mins 25 secs
antioch, audio bible, barriers, christians, daily bible, holy spirit, spiritual journey, witness
It's funny how the church today is not that different from the first church. We see the church not wanting to break barriers, but God moving them to break barriers. We also see the way that God is uses the church to take care of one another. We see the church in action in this episode for bad and good.
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Episode 100: Acts Chapter 10
Episode | March 9th, 2022 | Season 1 | 6 mins 25 secs
100 episodes, eat, food, gentiles, holy spirit, pour out, sheet, unclean
100 Episodes! We are still on our journey through the Gospels. Thank you for showing up with me and reading the Gospels together.
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Episode 99: Acts Chapter 9
Episode | March 8th, 2022 | Season 1 | 7 mins 12 secs
audio bible, basket, blinded, daily bible, mistrust, persecute, preach, resurrection, scales, transformation
Saul goes from #1 enemy of Christ and his Church to the #1 preacher of the Gospel. Check out the transformation in today's episode.
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Episode 98: Acts Chapter 8
Episode | March 7th, 2022 | Season 1 | 5 mins 45 secs
baptized, jesus christ, persecution, scattered, wizard
God moved the church out of it's comfort zone and into the zone that he wanted them. Is he doing that today?
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Episode 97: Acts Chapter 7
Episode | March 6th, 2022 | Season 1 | 8 mins 43 secs
audio bible, daily bible, history, preached, stoned
After a great sermon, Stephen got stoned...by an angry mob. More about this story in today's episode.
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Episode 96: Acts Chapter 6
Episode | March 5th, 2022 | Season 1 | 3 mins 12 secs
angel, audio bible, daily bible, energy, food, grace, lies, prayer, short, spiritual journey, widows
Think stirring up trouble on twitter is a new thing? Check out this chapter.
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Episode 95: Acts Chapter 5
Episode | March 4th, 2022 | Season 1 | 6 mins 23 secs
audio bible, daily bible, disgrace, healing, jail, jail break, lie, shadow, spirituality, truth, whipped
How would you respond to seeing someone fall down dead for lying to God? That story and more in this episode.
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Episode 94: Acts Chapter 4
Episode | March 3rd, 2022 | Season 1 | 6 mins 50 secs
audio bible, daily bible, holy spirit, spirituality, witness
Have you ever prayed with a group and had the room shake? Check out a time when that happened.
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Episode 93: Acts Chapter 3
Episode | March 2nd, 2022 | Season 1 | 5 mins 36 secs
audience, audio bible, beggar, daily bible, healing, jesus, proclaim
When you have an audience, what do you talk about? Peter noticed that he had an audience and proclaimed Jesus to them.
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Episode 92: Acts Chapter 2
Episode | March 1st, 2022 | Season 1 | 6 mins 54 secs
audio bible, baptism, commitment, daily bible, different languages, fire, prayer, unity
Jesus promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come and in Acts 2, we see the Spirit come and the church is born.
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Episode 91: Acts Chapter 1
Episode | February 28th, 2022 | Season 1 | 5 mins 18 secs
acts, audio bible, daily bible, disciples, jesus, judas, lots, witnesses
Jesus' ministry continued through his disciples and went from Jerusalem to the ends of the world. We are now following Jesus' ministry through his disciples.