The Experience Community Church Podcast

This week's article starts a new series on spiritual disciplines. We're starting with a look at meditation and prayer, and discuss how meditation should look different for Christians. You can read the full article...

In this article, we give an introduction to Obadiah, a prophet who penned a very small book, and didn't even have a message for Israel, like most biblical prophets. Learn which people Obadiah had a message for, and why...

The story of Hosea is unique among biblical prophets. Imagine being called to forgive what seems unforgivable. Today's article helps teach us about godly love, and shows how the Old Testament always points to Jesus. You...

Any book titled "Lamentations," which is the title of the book of the Bible we are covering today, sounds like it's something designed to make you depressed. But we hope that today's article will help you understand...

The book of Isaiah is densely packed. In fact, it is even sometimes called "the Bible in miniature" because it contains all of the themes present across the whole Bible. A book so chock full of stuff can be difficult to...

The prophetic books of the Old Testament can sometimes be the most confusing and hardest to get anything out of! If you have felt that before, hopefully this article will help you begin to understand better how to read...

Did you know the Bible contains love poetry? You can find it in the Song of Songs, which is the book we cover in this article. Learn some of the ways it helps us understand how God thinks about us, along with the...

The book of Job can be a slog to get through, and the point of it seems self-evident at first glance. But today's article helps us to stop and take a second look, and see that there might be something we're missing. You...

Futile. Meaningless. Vanity. These are all words that might come to mind for anyone who knows anything about the book of Ecclesiastes. But our article today helps us understand the true meaning that this book wants us...

There are five books in the Old Testament that are often characterized as wisdom literature, and today's article helps us understand what that means, and what those books have to teach us. You can read the full article...

Nehemiah is not the most famous book of the Old Testament, but it contains some important lessons for us as followers of God. You can read the full article, including Scripture references, at our website...

As we continue exploring the Old Testament, we look at 1 and 2 Chronicles and try to figure out how lists of names can be valuable to our spiritual development. You can read the full article, including Scripture...

The history books in the Old Testament cover roughly 900 years of Israel's history. That sounds daunting, but these books read less like a dusty old textbook and more like an epic saga. Today's article helps us get our...

The book of Numbers is full of...you guessed it, numbers. But there are also some stories interspersed, and today's article looks closely at one of them to see how it ties in with one of the Bible's overarching themes...

The book of Leviticus is full of priests and law. How are those things relevant to us today? Today's Experience Commentary article helps us understand why this book still has value thousands of years later. You can read...