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Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology — 241 episodes

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God Is Still Writing Your Story: 1 & 2 Chronicles

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What God Does with Disappointment: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi

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The God Who Never Gives Up on You: Pre-Exilic Prophets

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Trusting God Through Uncertainty: Daniel

5

When Faith Feels Dry: Ezekiel

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When Life Looks Nothing Like You Planned: Jeremiah & Lamentations

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How to Stop Performing and Start Resting in God: Isaiah

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How to Experience Deeper Intimacy with God: Song of Solomon

9

Finding Wisdom in a Noisy World: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

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How to Forgive Without Ignoring the Pain: Psalms (Pt 2)

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How to Be Honest with God: Psalms

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When Life Doesn’t Make Sense: Job

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Esther

14

When Prophets Rise: 2 Kings

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When Wisdom Wanders: 1 Kings

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The Weight of the Crown: 2 Samuel

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From Tears to Thrones: 1 Samuel

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Loyalty, Friendship, and God’s Provision: Ruth

19

Lethal Tent Pegs and the Lack of a King: Judges

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Faith, Inheritance, and God’s Promises Fulfilled: Joshua

21

Leaving Empire, Learning Kingdom: Deuteronomy

22

What’s So Audacious About Faith: Numbers

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An Invitation You Can’t Refuse: Leviticus

24

Giving Away What You Want to Keep: Exodus Pt. 2

25

Long Labors, Pretty Babies: Exodus Pt. 1 

26

All About Abe: Genesis Pt. 2

27

The Reversal of Ruin: Genesis Pt. 1

28

No Wasted Words: Hiking the Whole Bible in 2026

29

New Year, Same God

30

Back Porch Theology Christmas Tour - Live

31

Christmas MythBusters

32

Identity, Covenant, and God’s Transforming Love

33

The Thread of Redemption: How the Old and New Testaments Point to Jesus

34

A-Maized by God’s Goodness

35

Mountains, Valleys & the Voice of God Part 6

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Mountains, Valleys & the Voice of God Part 5

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Mountains, Valleys & the Voice of God Part 4

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Mountains, Valleys & the Voice of God Part 3

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Mountains, Valleys & the Voice of God Part 2

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Mountains, Valleys & the Voice of God Part 1

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God’s Inconvenient Promises – Finding Healing and Shalom in the Shunammite Woman’s Story

42

Understanding the Nicene Creed: Trinity, Resurrection and Eternal Hope

43

What Happiness & Holiness Have in Common - Spiritual Disciplines Part 4

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The Power of Making Space for Silence & Solitude – Spiritual Disciplines Part 3

45

Removing the Miserable from Fasting - Spiritual Disciplines Part 2

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Why is Table Fellowship Important? - Spiritual Disciplines Part 1

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Best Views From the Porch – Part 2

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Best Views From the Porch – Part 1

49

Less Duty and More Delight – How to Feast on God’s Word with Kristi McLelland

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Feasting on God’s Word with Kristi McLelland

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A Master Class on Biblically Informed Wisdom from a Dream Team of Scholars

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The Theology of Waiting and Wonder with DawnCheré Wilkerson

53

A Biblically-Sound Theology Regarding Female Dignity: Let’s Hear It for the Girls!

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A Fresh Way to Embrace & Communicate the Gospel Story with Dr. Trevin Wax

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An Antidote to Self-Centeredness Disguised as Spirituality with Dr. Trevin Wax

56

Really Smart Chicks With Really Big Bibles

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Finding Treasures in the Dark with Katherine Wolf, Part 2

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Finding Treasures in the Dark with Katherine Wolf

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The Living Hope of Historical Jesus with Dr. Craig Blomberg

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Jesus Shaped Theology

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Natalie Grant and Bernie Herms: A Theology for Delayed Miracles, Part 2

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Natalie Grant and Bernie Herms: A Theology for Delayed Miracles, Part 1

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The Promissory & Protective Nature of God - The Theology of Compassionate Consequences

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The Beauty of Divine Discipline – The Theology of Compassionate Consequences

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A Gracious Warning on Lukewarm Christianity - The Theology of Compassionate Consequences

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How God Himself Says Grace: The Theology of Prayer

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Kari Jobe, Taya Gaukrodger and Hosanna Wong - A Conversation on Being Found

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When the Supernatural Becomes More Natural: The Theology of Prayer

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How Do We Pray: The Theology of Prayer

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Why Do We Pray: The Theology of Prayer

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The Theology of ROAR: Judges Part 4

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The Theology of ROAR: Judges Part 3

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The Theology of ROAR: Judges Part 2

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The Theology of ROAR: Judges, Part 1

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When Scars Become Beauty Marks: The Spiritual DNA of BPT

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Jeremy & Adie Camp - The Theology of Worship – Part 6

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Jeremy & Adie Camp - The Theology of Worship – Part 5

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Darlene Zschech - The Theology of Worship - Part 4

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Darlene Zschech - The Theology of Worship - Part 3

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Hope Darst, Tasha Layton, Hillary Scott and Rita Springer – The Theology of Worship - Part 2

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Hope Darst, Tasha Layton, Hillary Scott and Rita Springer – The Theology of Worship - Part 1

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Scotty Smith – Theology of Worship Bonus

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How Dumbing Down Our Phones Can Increase Our Peace, Hope, Joy, and Relational Intimacy

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When The Delay Is Divine

85

The Beautiful Theology In The Birth Narrative

86

Walking With The ONE Who Isn’t Worried About A Thing with Megan Fate Marshman

87

The Joy of Being Human

88

A Four-Wheel-Drive Truck Called Gratitude

89

How To Better Love Those Who Don’t Like Church with Dr. Scot McKnight

90

How to Not Grow Weary in Well Doing with Hal and Doree Donaldson

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The Beautiful Ache of Authentic Faith with Levi and Jennie Lusko

92

Putting The Best Cookies Within Reach

93

An Aussie, a Windbag, and The Wonder of Advent

94

A Surf and Turf of a Sermon

95

The Compassionate Concrete That Paves The Romans Road

96

Reverse Engineering Paul’s Epistle to the Romans

97

A 30,000 Foot View of Romans

98

Recapturing Your First Love

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The Posture of Expectant Hope

100

A Theology That Includes Tears

101

The New Friend We Can’t Stop Smiling About Part Two

102

The New Friend We Can’t Stop Smiling About Part One

103

The Fulcrum of Failure

104

Our House of Faith Has a Super Firm Foundation

105

Life Giving Language for Logophiles

106

Kicking Critical Spirits to the Curb

107

From Codification to Contextualization, Pejorative to Promissory, Rules to Relationship

108

When Spiritual Giants Fall

109

Living Called Instead of Driven

110

Unlearning Inherited But Unbiblical Theology

111

The Biblical Blueprint for Personal Freedom

112

From Dutiful Submission to Glad Surrender

113

The Secure Scaffolding of our Faith

114

Kerygma Summit Scholars Panel

115

The Little Bird Who Changed My Life

116

Modern Day Deborahs

117

How A Life Sentence Became Life Giving

118

A Wise Woman Once Said – Live from Kerygma ‘24

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Embodied Theology – Live from Kerygma ‘24

120

The Thrill of Orthodoxy with Dr. Trevin Wax

121

Don’t Look Back with Christine Caine, Part 2

122

Don’t Look Back with Christine Caine, Part 1

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God’s Word Is The Antithesis of Hate Speech with Dr. Craig Keener: Part 2

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Embodied Devotion with Dr. Craig Keener: Part 1

125

Scratch and Dent Sacrifices

126

Dr. Howard in the Hot Seat, Part 2

127

Dr. Howard in the Hot Seat, Part 1

128

Giving Away The Fear of Not Fitting In

129

Intellectual Humility: Giving Away the Need to Always Have the Right Answer

130

The Epilogue Effect

131

Theological Anthropology of Generosity

132

Generosity Under Fire

133

Hermeneutics and Holy Fire

134

God Never Gives Up On You with Max Lucado: Part 2

135

God Never Gives Up On You with Max Lucado: Part 1

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Can Self-Care and Selfless Coexist?

137

An Open-Handed and Open-Hearted Life

138

Christmas 365

139

How The Light of Christmas Eclipses Gloom Forever

140

Color Us Gobsmacked and Grateful

141

Why Bread and Boaz are Key Characters in the Christmas Story

142

Misfits, Miracles and A Manger

143

The Praxis Of A Well-Place Thank You

144

What’s Your I.Q. (Interruptibility Quotient)?

145

What Does It Mean to Be Shaped Like Jesus?

146

Alert and Anxious Are NOT Emotional Cousins – Continuing Our Candid Conversation About Current Events

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Why Did God “Choose” Israel? – A Candid Conversation about Current Events

148

A Special Prayer For Israel

149

Awake My Soul and Sing with Brooke Ligertwood, Part 2

150

Awake My Soul and Sing with Brooke Ligertwood, Part 1

151

Suffering and the Formation of Hope

152

Emotional Wholeness and Spiritual Maturity

153

Lessons In The Lunchroom

154

Prioritizing Play

155

The Rebar of Spiritual Maturity

156

How Do We Know When God Says Go

157

If God Is Perfectly Good Then Why Did ________ Happen? E.J. Gaines, Part 2.

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If God is Perfectly Good Then Why Did ________ Happen? E.J. Gaines, Part 1.

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If God is Perfectly Good Then Why Did ________ Happen? Hillary Scott, Part 2.

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If God is Perfectly Good Then Why Did ________ Happen? Hillary Scott, Part 1.

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If God is Perfectly Good Then Why Did ________ Happen? Kyle Hebert, Part 2.

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If God is Perfectly Good Then Why Did ________ Happen? Kyle Hebert, Part 1.

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Controversies, Conundrums, and Redemptive Biblical Constructs

164

The Spiritual Oxymoron of Rest and Rebellion

165

Infinitely Better Than All the Rest

166

The Closeness of King Jesus

167

Revelation for the Rest of Us

168

A Chain-Breaking Kind of Bath

169

A Safe Place to Exhale

170

If You Snooze, They Lose

171

Orthodoxy Versus Op-Ed

172

Anxiety Doesn’t Set the Agenda Anymore

173

How Corny’s Conversion Rocked the World

174

Wonder on the Water

175

Bearing Chains Because

176

When Jailers Become Jesus Freaks

177

Our Ongoing Need to Be ReGospeled

178

From Murder to Mission

179

What’s Mine is Yours

180

When Following Him is Your Only Option

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Jesus is THE KING of all kings

182

Jesus Was a Captivating Storyteller

183

Our One and Only Atonement

184

What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World

185

He Has Always Been Our Only Hope

186

A Well-Documented Life

187

The Whole Enchilada

188

When God Goes to School

189

Happy Anniversary, Baby!

190

More Solution Than Resolution

191

The Best Belated Christmas Gift Ever

192

The Sacred Sound of Silent Nights

193

Recovering the WONDER of Christmas

194

Tucked Away Treasures

195

The Unlikely Ambassadors of Advent

196

The Thanksgiving Stretch

197

Cup Your Ears and You’ll Hear the Cheers

198

Editing the Scary Out of Eschatology

199

Recovering Discarded Dreams

200

God’s Habit of Picking the Last, First

201

Clouds, Fire, Angels, and a Fantastic Fourth Man

202

Beggars at God’s Banquet Table

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Pride Always Goes Before an Epic Fail/Fall!

204

Is Happiness the Absence of Sadness?

205

The Beautiful Fruit Within Biblical Boundaries

206

When God’s People Lose Their Groove

207

The Lyrics of Our Lives

208

The Great Name Exchange

209

Boxing With God

210

Personal Not Perfunctory

211

Majoring on the Minors

212

The Reign of Grace

213

How Jesus Amens What God Says About Women

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What God Says About Women

215

A Tale of Two Rooms

216

The Supernatural Security That Comes With So

217

The Sophomore Class of the Hall of Faith

218

The Trinity Isn’t Like the Beatles, Huh Mom?

219

A Compassionate Compulsion

220

Uphill Glory

221

An Ode to Essential Oils

222

Miracles Happen on Empty

223

Who’s Trending In Heaven

224

The Underrated Beauty of a Basement

225

Long Words, Leaky Minds and the Unconditional Love of God

226

Steady As The Rock of Ages

227

The Galvanizing Grace of Gratitude

228

Ripped Hearts and Raised Hands

229

A Little Girl, A Big Wall and God’s Extravagant Grace

230

Exposing the Myth of a Milquetoast Messiah

231

What’s Wasabi Got to Do With It?

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How a Benedict Arnold in His Birthday Suit Became a Biblical Hero

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A Different Kind of Love Story

234

Loving More People, More

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Minding the Gap Between Faithfulness and Faking It

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Who's Got Your Back

237

You Have to Peel Off Your Spiritual Spanx If You Want to Be Held By Jesus

238

We Will See God Blurry Until We Get Better At Saying “I’m Sorry"

239

Having a High View of Scripture and a Low View of Yourself Is Biblically Indefensible

240

God’s Unmerited Favor Often Tilts Toward The Unlikely and Unqualified

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Introduction to Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology