Latest Ahri Podcast Episodes
Genesis 37-39:: Joseph + Judah – Two Brothers & Their Intersecting Stories of Brokenness
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsToday on OOBT, we start our studies with Joseph being sold into slavery and THEN in the very next chapter we read about his brother Judah, and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, to THEN end our time together back with Joseph… but this time… in prison. What seems like a break in the narrative actually b...
Genesis 34-36: Jacob + God’s Steadfast Love & Faithfulness
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 15, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsOk, friends, let's just start with this... there’s some really hard stuff found in Genesis 34-36. This one actually comes with a trigger warning as the subject of rape, abuse, and murder are all dealt with in Dinah’s story, as found in Genesis 34. However, as God often does, there is so mu...
Genesis 31 - 33 :: Jacob - Wrestling With God + Others
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 01, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWrestling. This one word seems to sum up almost everything happening in today’s OOBT episode. Wrestling between Jacob and Laban as Jacob leaves to return to Canaan. Literal wrestling between God and Jacob. (Yes… this really happens!!) Jacob wrestling with his identity and is then given a n...
Genesis 28-30 :: Leah & Rachel - The Tale of Comparison + Competition
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - February 15, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsToday’s episode opens with a 500-mile journey (on the run) to Haran. A stairway from heaven. God’s reminder of promises He made to Abraham and Isaac (and now to Jacob). The cheater is cheated. The deceiver is deceived. And then throw in a whole lot of striving, comparison, hurt, jealousy, resent...
Genesis 25-27 :: Lies and Deceit - The Story of Two Brothers
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - February 01, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDeceit. Manipulation. Cheating. Favoritism. Fear. Doubt. Hatred. Danger. Now that’s quite a list, isn’t it?? Today our study resumes in Genesis with the death of Abraham and then lands us right back in the story of Isaac + Rebekah + their twin sons. And every single word on that list...
Called to Go in 2023
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - January 18, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome back OOBTers to a New Year + New Episode of the Podcast! As we are a little over one year into M’s obedience to God’s call for her to be a Bible Study Podcast Host, listen in as she not only encourages herself to keep on in the God-sized mission God gave her in OOBT, but also encou...
The Awe + Wonder of Our Savior's Birth ::
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - December 21, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMerry Merry Merriest of Christmases to each of you! Be sure to join M on today’s episode of OOBT as she leans in to consider the real lives of the people involved in the Christmas story. In all honesty, her prayer has been and continues to be that God will give us all a new sense of ...
Advent - God With Us While We Wait
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - December 07, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome back, friends! Be sure to listen in to today’s episode as we dive right on into M’s most favorite time of the year = Advent + Christmas. With that in mind, did you know that Advent actually has two meanings? He has come + He is coming. The first Advent of Jesus as the baby in the m...
Thankful for God With Us + My Dad
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - November 23, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHey there OOBTers! Before we get started today, please know that this episode is coming to you from a place of deep heartbreak, loss, and grief mixed with a whole lot of thankfulness and gratitude. “Both/And.” Hard and Good. Joy and Pain. Truthfully, on this side of heaven, we seem to alwa...
Genesis 21-24
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - November 09, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsLET’S BEGIN THIS EPISODE BY CELEBRATING OOBT’s ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON NOVEMBER 3rd!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Eek! Can you believe it?! M is so over the top thrilled to reach this one-year milestone by the grace of God + alongside each one of you. Annddd she is EVEN MORE excited to see where our studies c...
Genesis 16-20
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - October 26, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn today’s extended episode, M continues our study of Abraham’s story together. M admits she struggles to stay within the allotted time frame for episodes as she finds so many things that she feels she must share. Guilty as charged! LOL! With this in mind, our reading begins with Sarai tak...
Genesis-12-15
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - October 12, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello, again, OOBTers! Join M as she takes us back to the beginning… well, the beginning book of the Bible anyway! Following our completion of the book of Job, we are heading back to Genesis. Specifically, we are diving back in at chapter 12 with a promise of God to Abram (who will lat...
Extended BONUS - Threads to Pull
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - September 28, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome back OOBTers! M is VERY excited to share today’s BONUS + EXTENDED episode with you! You may or may not have noticed yet, but this one pulling some threads from the book of Job is 1 HOUR & 15+ MINUTES of content - now that’s definitely BONUS + EXTENDED, right?! M has a variety of...
Job 38-42
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - September 14, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsGod shows up in a very real way on today’s episode of OOBT!! The God who speaks… Eek! We have waited so very long for this moment!! Join M as she shares what she discovered in studying the last F I V E chapters of the book of Job. Yep. You read that right - we are wrapping up our first ful...
Job 32-37
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - August 31, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsToday’s OOBT episode finds us meeting friend #4, Elihu, who, up until this point, has remained silent. He begins his speech by claiming God had “advanced his wisdom way beyond his years”… well friends, you’ll just have to listen in to find out if he was right about that! Truthfully tho...
Job 29-31
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - August 17, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHave you ever found yourself whispering or even yelling these words out loud? Oh, friends, M has too. Why God? Listen to today’s episode as we find Job heartbroken as he remembers how good his life had been. We would have understood if this was Job’s tipping point, right?! BUT Job still ...
Job 25-28
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - August 03, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsLife. Loss. Loneliness. Suffering. Heartaches. All of these things confuse us and can lead us into dark places as we question over and over the things we can’t understand. Like Job, sufferings in our lives often leave us desperately searching for answers. Searching for wisdom. Searching fo...
Job 22-24
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - July 20, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsPLEASE NOTE:: Today’s episode comes with a trigger warning as M speaks candidly of her experiences with miscarriage and depression. Hey friends! This one is a definite switch in OOBT’s typical content + format as M spends time openly sharing about a shattering Job season in her own life… a...
Job 18-21
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - July 06, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAs M opens today’s episode, there is really nothing left to say at this point except, “Oh, Job.” How our hearts continue to break for him. In the loss. The grief. The physical pain. The accusations of the “miserable comforters” he is struggling to call friends still. How many of us have been o...
Job 15-17
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - June 22, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings86,400 seconds. The length of a day. Have you ever thought about that? Let that number sink in for a minute, OOBT friends, and then be sure to join M as she helps us consider the many ways God can (and often does) use the heartbreak and pain of walking through one more TODAY in the midst o...
Job 11-14
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - June 08, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsRidicule. Scorn. Reproach. Contempt. Criticism. Just saying those words makes our hearts heavy for Job. In today’s episode, we hear from Job’s third friend, Zophar, who lashes out at him in anger, saying that Job deserved more punishment, not less. Ouch. Have you ever been devastated by th...
OOBT Job 11-14
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - June 08, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsRidicule. Scorn. Reproach. Contempt. Criticism. Just saying those words makes our hearts heavy for Job. In today’s episode, we hear from Job’s third friend, Zophar, who lashes out at him in anger, saying that Job deserved more punishment, not less. Ouch. Have you ever been devastated by th...
Job 8-10
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - May 25, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn today’s episode, M continues our study of Job’s story together. Our reading starts with Job having to endure the bad advice, harsh words, and untrue accusations from the second of his three friends, Bildad. We then return to the courtroom so to speak as we did in the heavenly courtroom scenes...
Job 5-7
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - May 11, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome back, OOBTers! In today’s episode, M picks up where we left off last time…in the middle of a conversation between Job and one of his friends, Eliphaz. Oh, how devastated and hurt Job must have been by the barrage of words Eliphaz is attacking him with. Unexplainable and unimaginabl...
Job 2 - 4
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - April 27, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsToday on OOBT, join M as she once again returns to our study in the book of Job. Together we see Job had no sooner finished saying, “The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord” after losing his 10 children and all his possessions, when Satan, the Accuser, once more ...
Holy Week + Easter
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - April 13, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsJoin M as she pauses our study in the book of Job to take a deep dive into all things related to Holy Week … just in time for Easter! As M discussed during our Advent studies, God is in the business of revealing new things constantly through His Word, and we just must have our hearts ready to ...
Job 1
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 30, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn today’s OOBT episode, join M as she transitions us from Genesis to the 18th book of the Bible in our chronological Bible reading plan – Yep - You heard that right - #18! Anyway, Job chapter 1 lands us about 400 years post-flood, and we meet a man named (you guessed it) Job. Initially, J...
Genesis 9 -11
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDid you know that the word for rainbow in the promise God made to Noah actually refers to a bow in some other Bible translations? As in a warrior’s bow. God hung up His bow in the sky and promised to never again destroy the earth by flood. Pretty interesting perspective, right?! Or did you kno...
Episode 10 Genesis 9 -11
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDid you know that the word for rainbow in the promise God made to Noah actually refers to a bow in some other Bible translations? As in a warrior’s bow. God hung up His bow in the sky and promised to never again destroy the earth by flood. Pretty interesting perspective, right?! Or did you kno...
Genesis 6 - 8
Open Our Bibles Together with MFahring - March 02, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMaybe you’ve heard the verse from the book of Genesis that says Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him. But have you ever taken a closer look to see precisely what God commanded him to do? Join M as she does just that and discovers along the way Noah’s everything + exactly = 100+...
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