The Podcast With Marben Bland

By Marben Bland

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Join pastor, multimedia storyteller, and entrepreneur Marben Bland as he talks to interesting people about interesting things on The Podcast.

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The Podcast With Marben Bland episodes:

06.21.2024
Willie Mays Made Baseball Great
Send us a Text Message. In 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball, his actions, courage, and play made baseball better. Setting the stage for Willie Mays who broke in 1951 to make baseball great. ...
06.18.2024
The Length Of Days
Send us a Text Message. The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere will take place on Thursday, June 20th,2024. The summer solstice, the longest day of the year is celebrated by many cultures around the world. From sunrise to sunset...
06.16.2024
Devotional:Three Father’s Day Gifts From Jesus
Send us a Text Message. In John Chapter 13 and 14 Jesus gives us a Father’s Day gift in the form of Godly fatherly instruction as he shows us three ways he cared and loved his disciples. Humility First, Jesus...
06.11.2024
Devotional:Having a faith that is bold, disciplined and pleasing to God
Send us a Text Message. Hebrews 11:1 tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We are called to live out our faith in a bold, discipline manner which is pleasing...
06.08.2024
Devotional: Looking Backward As We Move Forward
Send us a Text Message. It is graduation season, a time where academic achievement are celebrated and moving forward ceremonies are conducted. Family, friends, faculty, and the community gather to honor the graduate. These ceremonies tend to focus...
06.04.2024
Devotional: When A Rock Needs A Rock
Send us a Text Message. I think it is accurate to say that many people consider our forever First Lady Michelle Obama a rock of a person. “When They Go Low, We Go High” is the perfect metaphor...
06.03.2024
Sermon Keeping The Sabbath
Send us a Text Message. As Americans we live life at a grinding clip. Work, family, church, and other duties keep us constantly busy. The Smartphone and other devices with their constant reminders and addictive algorithms draw us into...
06.01.2024
Devotional “Oh Lord I Want To Be In That Number”
Send us a Text Message. Josh Gibson is in that number, Lyman Bostock Sr, is in that number, Cool Papa Bell is in that number too. This week Major League Baseball officially recognized the statistics from the Negro Leagues. ...
05.31.2024
A Christian View Of Donald Trump And The Rule Of Law
Send us a Text Message. Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts in the so-called Manhattan hush money trail. As the New York Times has reported the verdict will reverberate throughout the nation and the world. As...
05.28.2024
Devotional: Keeping The Sabbath
Send us a Text Message. As Americans we live life at a grinding clip. Work, family, church, and other duties keep us constantly busy. The Smartphone and other devices with their constant reminders and addictive algorithms draw us into...
05.27.2024
Sermon: The Triple Blessing
Send us a Text Message. This week at Greater Bethel we will join Christians worldwide in celebrating the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity is God in three persons. God The Father, who we see in Genesis as God creates...
05.25.2024
Devotional: The Godly Rule Of Three
Send us a Text Message. The rule of three is a storytelling principle that suggests people better understand concepts, situations, and ideas in groups of three. The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears uses the rule of three extensively,...
05.21.2024
Devotional: The Triple Blessing
Send us a Text Message. In baseball a triple occurs when a batter hits the ball and reaches third base without an error. Lots of action takes place when a triple is hit the outfielder runs after the ball, the...
05.18.2024
Creating Red-Letter Days
Send us a Text Message. A Red-Letter day is defined as a time of special significance or opportunity. May 17th, 1954, the day when the United States Supreme Court ruled that laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional...
05.14.2024
Devotional: A Roadmap For Godly Living
Send us a Text Message. Use the Google machine and type in the phase “A roadmap for Godly living” there you will find any number of articles, posts, blogs, and videos on the subject. I guess this devotional will...
05.12.2024
God The One Who Sees All Mothers
Send us a Text Message. On this Mother’s Day we recognize, celebrate, and see mothers. We see the care in a mother’s smile, we see the specialness of a mother’s touch, and we see the wonderful ways of a...
05.07.2024
Devotional: Take Great Joy
Send us a Text Message. This week in many places of worship the ascension of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ will be celebrated. The Ascension of the Lord commemorates the fortieth day after the Resurrection when Jesus ascended into...
05.06.2024
Sermon: What have you been up to since the resurrection of Jesus?
Send us a Text Message. It has been almost 40 days since the resurrection of Jesus in a sermon from Acts 1:3-11, Pastor Marben Bland discusses and teaches how the passage calls up to spread the gospel of Jesus. Key...
05.04.2024
Devotional: The Salvation Of Fallen Saints
Send us a Text Message. “…..all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” No truer words have been spoken than these uttered in Romans 3:23 by the Apostle Paul. Knowing the trueness of Paul’s words,...
04.30.2024
Devotional: What have you been up to since the resurrection of Jesus?
Send us a Text Message. As I write this devotional it has been 29 days four hours and 15 minutes since March 31st of 2024, the day that we celebrated Easter. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation...
04.22.2024
Sermon: Keep Sowing Good Seeds
Send us a Text Message. This week the Augusta Conference of The African Methodist Episcopal Church had its Annual Conference. Pastors make a report at the annual conference. As part of our report which is a written document in addition...
04.20.2024
Devotional: A Charge To Keep I Have
Send us a Text Message. Paul in Ephesians 4:12-14 gives Pastors the charge “To equip the saints for the work of ministry, and for building up the body of Christ. In the African Methodist Episcopal Church Pastors receive a...
04.16.2024
Devotional: What To Do When People Reject Jesus?
Send us a Text Message. Did you know people got so upset at Jesus for teaching the Gospel that he was nearly stoned? In John chapter 8 Jesus in teaching in temple attracting a gathering of people including the scribes...
04.15.2024
Sermon: Tear The Roof Off The Sucker
Send us a Text Message. In a teaching from Luke 5:17-26, Pastor Marben Bland tells the story of how great things happen when people of faith work together. For More Great Content Go To Marben Bland.com
04.13.2024
Dawn Staley – God’s Uncommon Favor
Send us a Text Message. Coached by the incomparable Dawn Staley, the University of South Carolina Women’s basketball team completed an undefeated season beating the University of Iowa and the sensational Caitlin Clark in the title game of the 2024...
04.09.2024
A Consistent Faith, A Consistent Henry Aaron
Send us a Text Message. This week marks the 50th anniversary, of Henry Aaron hitting home run number 715. Breaking Babe Ruth’s record and becoming baseball’s all-time home run king a record later broken by Barry Bonds. Throughout it...
04.09.2024
Sermon: Made In His Image
Send us a Text Message. It has been said that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”. Well, that is true until someone doesn’t like the imitation. There has been great push back regarding Beyoncé new album Cowboy Carter. With...
04.02.2024
Zenola Hardeman Swain: God’s Librarian
Send us a Text Message. The theologian Ray Pritz reminds us that God has a library. Unlike a normal library, it is not a place where people come to study. It seems to be more of an archive or official...
03.26.2024
The Spellbinding Gospel of Jesus
Send us a Text Message. On Palm Sunday, we celebrated the powerful scene of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a little donkey cheered by the common people tossing their coats in his path. In Luke 19: 45-48, the donkey takes...
03.13.2024
Making The Same Mistakes Over And Over Again
Send us a Text Message. Yolanda Adams in her smash hit song Open My Heart cries out to the Lord saying… “So, show me how to do things your way don't let me make the same mistakes over and over again.” ...
03.12.2024
A Christian View Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion
Send us a Text Message. The Book of Revelation was written to show the servants of the Lord what must soon take place. Revelation 7:9-10 chronicles a great multitude, more than anyone could number. The multitude comprised of every...
02.24.2024
Devotional: Death At The University Of Georgia A Prayer For Comfort, Guidance And Peace
Send us a Text Message. This has been a traumatic week for the University Of Georgia community, as we mourn the death of two young students. The devastating news penetrates the soul of the vibrant campus testing our resolve. ...
02.20.2024
A Tribute To Gloria Johnson When We Are No Longer A Living Creature
Send us a Text Message. Genesis 2:7 tells us that God created man out of the dust of the ground. When God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, the man became a living creature. Yesterday, I learned of...
02.13.2024
Devotional: Its Worship Not Ritual
Send us a Text Message. In The Sermon on the Mount, beginning in Matthew 5, Jesus both reinterprets the old law and offers a new law. In essence the new law is about worship not rituals. As Ash Wednesday...
02.06.2024
Listen To His Son
Send us a Text Message. We find a busy Jesus in Mark Chapter 8, he feed thousands from a few loafs and fishes, he healed a blind man at Bethsaida, Peter, declares him the Messiah, Jesus foretells his death on...
02.03.2024
Fame! The Sermon
Send us a Text Message. What are you doing to spread the fame on Jesus? This is the question asked in a sermon from Mark 1:21-28 entitled, “Fame!” For More Great Content Go To Marben Bland.com
01.20.2024
Tribute: Sister Annie Mildred Hill Making A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord
Send us a Text Message. Psalm 100 tells us to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. For 99 years Sister Annie Mildred Hill made a joyful noise. Keeping God’s promises of Psalm 100. Sister Hill answered the call of...
01.16.2024
The Poison That Is Coming Out Of Iowa
Send us a Text Message. Powered by Evangelical Christians Donald Trump has won the Iowa Caucus. For these Evangelical Christians immigration was the major issue as they supported a candidate who says God’s children at a border are poisoning...
01.15.2024
Devotional: The Liberating Power Of God's Love
Send us a Text Message. There is a paradox on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. While many of us will reserve this day for reflection, celebration, and service. In Iowa the first step in coronation of Donald Trump a...
01.13.2024
Devotional: Faith And Trust
Send us a Text Message. The fundamental goal of the book of Proverbs is to teach the acquisition of wisdom and the avoidance of folly. The acquisition of wisdom and the avoidance of folly is achieved only when we...
01.09.2024
Devotional: Alternative Facts
Send us a Text Message. On Friday, January 20th, 2017, thousands gathered at the capital in Washington, D.C. to witness the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The next day on Saturday,...
01.05.2024
Sermon: God Wants Us To Be Greater In 2024
Send us a Text Message. Sermon Notes: Epiphany is a promise that God is here, whether or not we notice the signs. After Jesus is born, according to Matthew, it is not the local folk to whom God-with-us is first revealed,...
01.02.2024
Devotional: Getting Back To The Business Of Our Faith
Send us a Text Message. Yes, Jesus is the reason for the season however, how often has the season with all of its trappings gotten in the way of our faith? Now that the season is over and if...
01.01.2024
Devotional:God’s Favor, God’s Faith, God’s Vision
Send us a Text Message. On this first day of 2024, Israel is again at war. It is at war with Hamas the terrorist group that staged the October 7th attacks. In which an estimated 1,200 Israelis were killed,...
12.29.2023
In 2024 God Is Calling Us To Be Greater
Send us a Text Message. The Books of Samuel describe the origins of kingship in Israel and recount the reigns of the first two kings, Saul, and David. Under Saul’s rule God empowered Israel to become a powerful nation with...
12.26.2023
Sermon: Go Tell It On A Mountain
Send us a Text Message. The Time For Watching And Waiting Is Over When I was young the night before Christmas was a time of watching, waiting, and wondering. Watching to see when Santa will come, waiting endlessly for Christmas...
12.26.2023
Christmas Is Over! So Now What Do We Do About Jesus?
Send us a Text Message. Christmas is over. The wrapping paper, the boxes and some presents are garbage bound. Christmas trees are coming down, carols are not being sung, and the after Christmas sales rush is on. Yes, Christmas...
12.26.2023
Christmas Is About Relationships
Send us a Text Message. Merry Christmas! This day of festive trees, wonderful presents, and outstanding parties is the culmination of the Advent season. Where in this post pandemic world many of us for the first time in...
12.23.2023
Devotional: Let Us Go At The Pace Of The Lord
Send us a Text Message. The U.S. Department of Transportation forecasts that more Americans that ever will be driving or flying far away from home over Christmas. Airports and highways will be packed and while the speed limit...
12.20.2023
Devotional: Your Christmas Call To Action
Send us a Text Message. When I was young the night before Christmas was a time of watching, waiting, and wondering. Watching to see when Santa will come, waiting endlessly for Christmas morning to come, and wondering what in the...

What's The Podcast With Marben Bland about?

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The Podcast With Marben Bland episodes:

Willie Mays Made Baseball Great

The Length Of Days

Devotional:Three Father’s Day Gifts From Jesus

Devotional:Having a faith that is bold, disciplined and pleasing to God

Devotional: Looking Backward As We Move Forward

Devotional: When A Rock Needs A Rock

Sermon Keeping The Sabbath

Devotional “Oh Lord I Want To Be In That Number”

A Christian View Of Donald Trump And The Rule Of Law

Devotional: Keeping The Sabbath

Sermon: The Triple Blessing

Devotional: The Godly Rule Of Three

Devotional: The Triple Blessing

Creating Red-Letter Days

Devotional: A Roadmap For Godly Living

God The One Who Sees All Mothers

Devotional: Take Great Joy

Sermon: What have you been up to since the resurrection of Jesus?

Devotional: The Salvation Of Fallen Saints

Devotional: What have you been up to since the resurrection of Jesus?

Sermon: Keep Sowing Good Seeds

Devotional: A Charge To Keep I Have

Devotional: What To Do When People Reject Jesus?

Sermon: Tear The Roof Off The Sucker

Dawn Staley – God’s Uncommon Favor

A Consistent Faith, A Consistent Henry Aaron

Sermon: Made In His Image

Zenola Hardeman Swain: God’s Librarian

The Spellbinding Gospel of Jesus

Making The Same Mistakes Over And Over Again

A Christian View Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

Devotional: Death At The University Of Georgia A Prayer For Comfort, Guidance And Peace

A Tribute To Gloria Johnson When We Are No Longer A Living Creature

Devotional: Its Worship Not Ritual

Listen To His Son

Fame! The Sermon

Tribute: Sister Annie Mildred Hill Making A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord

The Poison That Is Coming Out Of Iowa

Devotional: The Liberating Power Of God's Love

Devotional: Faith And Trust

Devotional: Alternative Facts

Sermon: God Wants Us To Be Greater In 2024

Devotional: Getting Back To The Business Of Our Faith

Devotional:God’s Favor, God’s Faith, God’s Vision

In 2024 God Is Calling Us To Be Greater

Sermon: Go Tell It On A Mountain

Christmas Is Over! So Now What Do We Do About Jesus?

Christmas Is About Relationships

Devotional: Let Us Go At The Pace Of The Lord

Devotional: Your Christmas Call To Action