Latest Riverlife Podcast Episodes
Motherhood Podcast Series: Hunger in the Hustle
Going Deeper - February 14, 2023 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlongside this podcast series, there is encouraging content on the Riverlife Women Instagram and Facebook pages. Connect with us online and add your voice into the conversation. Let’s spur each other on! Facebook: Riverlife Women Brisbane Instagram: Riverlife Women (@riverlife_women) Big t...
Motherhood Podcast Series: Rest in the Relentlessness
Going Deeper - January 31, 2023 20:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlongside this podcast series, there is encouraging content on the Riverlife Women Instagram and Facebook pages. Connect with us online and add your voice to the conversation. Let’s spur each other on! Facebook: Riverlife Women Brisbane Instagram: Riverlife Women (@riverlife_women) Big tha...
Motherhood Podcast Series: The Heart of It
Going Deeper - January 24, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlongside this podcast series, there is encouraging content on the Riverlife Women Instagram and Facebook pages. Connect with us online and add your voice into the conversation. Let’s spur each other on! Facebook: Riverlife Women Brisbane Instagram: Riverlife Women (@riverlife_women) Big t...
2022: That's a Wrap (feat. Tim Whittle)
Bible Streams - December 30, 2022 20:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs we wind down at the end of yet another year of Bible Streams, join our producer, Tim, as he sits down with Jo, Alex, and Chris to talk about all the highlights from 2022 (with a little bit of fun along the way) and to look ahead to 2023. As is now a yearly tradition with Riverlife Podcasts, t...
Special Source #3: Jo Leutton - ‘Come, Holy Spirit’: Lonnie Frisbee’s Prayer and the Origins of the Vineyard Movement.
Bible Streams - October 10, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe conclude our intermittent series featuring conversations with our Bible Streams hosts about their fields of research and the dissertations they have written on the subjects. Last up is Jo Leutton (MDiv. Malyon Theological College), with his project: “‘Come, Holy Spirit’: Lonnie Frisbee’s Pra...
Love Perfected #5: John's Letters - 3 John
Bible Streams - September 26, 2022 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJohn's letters have been a source of encouragement and challenge to the church since the formation of the New Testament. But when we think of John's writings, we often overlook the very short 2 and 3 John. In our series, we'll take a closer look at these three letters, and explore the connection...
Love Perfected #4: John's Letters - 2 John
Bible Streams - September 12, 2022 20:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating2 John - short and punchy - still reserves clear teaching and clear instruction in how we stay strong in our love and clear in our theology. Jesus is Lord. He came in the flesh, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Don't even let them in your house! Or should you? John's letters have been a...
Love Perfected #3: John's Letters - 1 John (Part 2)
Bible Streams - August 08, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe integrated and 'braided' nature of John's writing and thoughts are both encouraging, pastoral, and sometimes hard to follow. As Alex, Chris and Jo finish their look at 1 John, they help pace through the key understandings that John is trying to communicate. John's letters have been a source...
Love Perfected #2: John's Letters - 1 John (Part 1)
Bible Streams - July 25, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Chris and Jo take a look at 1 John. They discuss introductory concerns and look at the text of chapters 1 and 2. What's all this talk of love? Why the issues with sin and darkness? And who are these antichrists? John's letters have been a source of encouragement and challenge t...
Love Perfected #1: John's Letters - An Introduction
Bible Streams - July 11, 2022 20:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJohn's letters have been a source of encouragement and challenge to the church since the formation of the New Testament. But when we think of John's writings, we often overlook the very short 2 and 3 John. In our series, we'll take a closer look at these three letters, and explore the connection...
Special Source #2: Alex Walker - Ezekiel's Temple as the Perfect Tabernacle
Bible Streams - June 27, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe continue our intermittent series featuring conversations with our Bible Streams hosts about their fields of research and the dissertations they have written on the subjects. Next up is Alex Walker (BA (Hons)[UQ]), with his project: "Ezekiel’s Temple as the Perfect Tabernacle: A Study of Divi...
Singing The Seasons - The Megillot: Q&A
Bible Streams - June 13, 2022 20:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Megillot is a beautiful and challenging collection of books that are connected by a number of things, including that they are all books read at significant Jewish Festivals. As we finish off our series looking at these books, we take listener questions and wrap up our walk through the books ...
Singing The Seasons - The Megillot: Ecclesiastes
Bible Streams - May 30, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs we come to the last episode of our series on the Megillot, these five short books that a grouped together as 'the Scroll' in the Hebrew Bible, we find Ecclesiastes. Seemingly easy to read, like Proverbs, with memorable sections and familiar themes, it is in fact hard to discern what we should...
Singing The Seasons - The Megillot: Lamentations
Bible Streams - May 16, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLamentations is not one of the more popular books in the biblical canon. In fact, its five densely populated poems are some of the hardest reading in scripture, not in terms of understanding, but in the state of despair and grief we hear poured out. Ther is a brief shining moment at the centre o...
Singing The Seasons - The Megillot: Ruth
Bible Streams - May 02, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLove, loss, high drama and a penultimate moment that will leave you on the edge of your seat, the little book of Ruth delivers more than just an epic story in miniature. It's a tale loaded with technical insight into the ancient Hebraic practice of law, community, custom and generational legacy....
Singing The Seasons - The Megillot: Song of Songs
Bible Streams - April 18, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSeductive and suggestive, or pure and pious? No other book in the Bible has garnered so much attention about its subject matter and its appropriateness for God's covenant people to read in worship as the Song of Songs! Is it too much, or is it a healthy depiction of human sexuality and relations...
Singing The Seasons - The Megillot: Esther
Bible Streams - April 04, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is a small collection of books that sit nestled toward the back of the Hebrew Bible. In the Ketuvim, the Writings, wedged between the three large poetic books of Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the post-exilic writings (Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles), are the Five Megillot - the Five ...
Singing the Seasons: An Introduction to the Megillot
Bible Streams - March 21, 2022 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is a small collection of books that sit nestled toward the back of the Hebrew Bible. In the Ketuvim, the Writings, wedged between the three large poetic books of Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the post-exilic writings (Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles), are the Five Megillot - the Five ...
Koinonia: A conversation on Philemon, Slavery and Identity in Christ
Bible Streams - February 21, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPhilemon is just 25 verses but is full of insight and practical application for living like Jesus in a messy and complicated world. How do we treat people who are more or less powerful than us? How do we find reconciliation when we've been wronged? How should we approach systemic injustice? All ...
Special Source #1: Chris Knott - Romans 13:1-7 and Secular Authority
Bible Streams - February 07, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe start a new (and intermittent) series, featuring conversations with our Bible Streams hosts about their fields of research and the dissertations they have written on the subjects. First up is Chris Knott (MDiv[ACT]), with his project: "The implications of Romans 13:1-7 for Christians partici...
Remnant Restored? Conversations in Ezra-Nehemiah #6: Q&A
Bible Streams - January 24, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Ezra-Nehemiah text is a complex series of writings, memoirs and reflections. It presents the reader with lots of questions - and you've sent us yours! On our first ever Q&A episode, we answer listener questions around a bunch of themes and issues raised in this fascinating text! Resources/L...
Remnant Restored? Conversations in Ezra-Nehemiah #5: Dr Gary Schnittjer
Bible Streams - January 10, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOld Testament scholar and expert on Ezra-Nehemiah Dr Gary Schnittjer joins Jo, Alex and Chris to talk about the challenges and themes of this often-overlooked text. Gary teaches Old Testament and biblical Hebrew in the School of Divinity at Cairn University in Philadelphia, and recently released...
2021: That's a Wrap (feat. Tim Whittle)
Bible Streams - December 31, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhile content has been limited this year, there has still been a lot to talk about in 2021 across the three podcasts across the Riverlife network. We've heard from some incredible guests and discussed a range of topics across theology, scripture, justice, and community! Join our producer, Tim, a...
2021: That's a Wrap (feat. Tim Whittle)
Going Deeper - December 31, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhile content has been limited this year, there has still been a lot to talk about in 2021 across the three podcasts across the Riverlife network. We've heard from some incredible guests and discussed a range of topics across theology, scripture, justice, and community! Join our producer, Tim, a...
Remnant Restored? Conversations in Ezra-Nehemiah #4: Nehemiah
Bible Streams - December 28, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEzra and Nehemiah present the readers with an interesting situation: what happened when God sticks to the promise He made to His people, but it doesn't turn out like the people thought it would? God faithfully restores the remnant of his covenant people after the Exile, yet these two parts of th...
Remnant Restored? Conversations in Ezra-Nehemiah #3: Ezra
Bible Streams - December 13, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEzra and Nehemiah present the readers with an interesting situation: what happened when God sticks to the promise He made to His people, but it doesn't turn out like the people thought it would? God faithfully restores the remnant of his covenant people after the Exile, yet these two parts of th...
Remnant Restored? Conversations in Ezra-Nehemiah #2: Zerubabbel
Bible Streams - November 29, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEzra and Nehemiah present the readers with an interesting situation: what happened when God sticks to the promise He made to His people, but it doesn't turn out like the people thought it would? God faithfully restores the remnant of his covenant people after the Exile, yet these two parts of th...
Remnant Restored? Conversations in Ezra-Nehemiah #1: Introductory Things
Bible Streams - November 15, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEzra and Nehemiah present the readers with an interesting situation: what happened when God sticks to the promise He made to His people, but it doesn't turn out like the people thought it would? God faithfully restores the remnant of his covenant people after the Exile, yet these two parts of th...
Jesus Stories 6: The Gospel of John
Bible Streams - October 18, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Fourth Gospel presents the transcendent, glorious and incarnate God presented in Jesus Christ. John's love of symbols, numbers, patterns and allusions makes for engaging reading and layers of meaning and revelation for those with a heart to seek God in its pages. John lifts up Jesus as the n...
Bonus Episode: Talking Justice Event
Going Deeper - September 15, 2021 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHave you ever thought about the differences between biblical justice and secular theories of social justice? How are believers to actually take part in efforts against injustice in our society, nation and world? How can we maintain a clear witness when working ‘with’ others engaged in the justic...