5 Christian Podcasts To Listen To In 2024
BY MOVIEGUIDE® CONTRIBUTOR
If you enjoy listening to faith-based content, you’ve got to check out this curated list of Christian podcasts. Whether you want a deeper upstanding of scripture or to strengthen your relationship with Christ, these are the top Christian podcasts to listen to in 2024.
THE BIBLE RECAP
Tara Leigh Cobble is the woman behind “The Bible Recap Podcast,” which launched in 2019 and currently has over 300 million downloads.
Bio: “In about 8 minutes a day, we’ll give you a summary and highlight reel of that day’s Bible reading from our 1-year chronological plan (free on the Bible app), and you can start anytime—it’s always a good time to read the Bible!”
Cobble, a Christian since childhood, revealed to WFAA that a pastor changed how she reads scripture.
“I was reading scripture like it was a pharmacy — like, ‘Let me go to it to get what I need,” Cobble said “And I would get frustrated when God did something different than I think I would have done, or that I think is right. And so [my friend] really challenged me: [He said], ‘This is not a book about you. It’s for you, but it’s not about you. It’s about God.'”
This one comment shifted her perspective.
“It awakened this real love, this person that I knew and believed in, but mostly knew secondhand,” she said. “I started to have this firsthand relationship with him. And it changed everything, and I want that for so many people — because so many people exist in sort of this dry, frustrating, boring, distant secondhand relationship with God.”
THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Fr. Mike Schmitz and Jeff Cavins walk listeners through the entire Bible over 365 episodes on “The Bible in a Year” podcast.
Bio: “Unlike any other Bible podcast, Ascension’s Bible in a Year podcast follows a reading plan inspired by The Great Adventure Bible Timeline, a ground-breaking approach to understanding salvation history developed by renowned Catholic Bible scholar Jeff Cavins. For each period in the timeline, Jeff will join Fr. Mike for a special episode that will help you understand the context of each reading.”
Schmitz discussed the three tools he uses to help listeners not be intimidated by the task of reading all the books of the Bible during an interview with EWTN Nightly News anchor Tracy Sabol.
“Those three things — just press play, you have a map, and you have a guide — I think that was a really good mixture of ingredients to help people who really desired to hear God’s word to be able to actually follow through all 365 days.”
THAT SOUNDS FUN WITH ANNIE F. DOWNS
Annie F, Downs is the host of the podcast “That Sounds Fun With Annie Downs,” which launched in 2014.
Bio: “Christian author and speaker Annie F. Downs shares with you some of her favorite things: new books, faith conversations, restaurants, travel stories, musicians not to miss, interviews with friends. Pretty much, if it sounds fun to Annie, you’re gonna hear about it.”
Downs feels her imperfect life is what makes her appealing to fans.
“You don’t end up 42 and unmarried without kids in the South as a Christian woman. That’s just abnormal,” she told the Wall Street Journal. “When your life doesn’t produce the blessings that you thought everyone got, you really get to decide what is true about God.”
THE HOLY POST
Bio: “Join VEGGIETALES and What’s in the Bible? creator Phil Vischer and co-host Skye Jethani (author, speaker, pastor) for a fast-paced and often funny conversation about pop culture, media, theology, and the fun, fun, fun of living a thoughtful Christian life in an increasingly post-Christian culture.”
When asked what inspired him to start a podcast and what the biggest challenge to building an audience was, Vischer said this during an interview with Thimblerig’s Ark.
“I was having these interesting conversations in my head (I’m an introvert), and sometimes at Q&A sessions with college kids after speaking. I thought I should share those conversations with more people. As for building an audience, we haven’t really done anything. As a result, our audience isn’t terribly huge! But it’s still fun.”
HEARING JESUS
Rachel Groll is the host of the “Hearing Jesus Podcast.”
Bio: “Missionary, author, pastor, and life coach. And I have been there. I too was doubting God’s voice in my own life. I too felt insecure about the things I thought God might be calling me to do. I wanted to make a difference in the world and be obedient to what God was calling me to do, but I wasn’t quite sure how to figure out what exactly that was. I kept telling myself that I was wasting time trying to figure it out or waiting for Him to show me. Or that I wasn’t qualified to do the things I thought He might be telling me to do.”
“The answer for me was found in the pages of the Bible, as I learned how to understand what it was actually saying. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to step confidently into the calling God has for you, then join me as we dig deep into God’s word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life,” Groll said on her website.
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