{"podcast":{"title":"Immerse: Bible Reading Experience - NLT Daily Bible In A Year","slug":"immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192","podcast_index_feed_id":6723192,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/immerse-bible-reading-experience-daily-bible-in-a-year","website_url":"http://immersebible.com/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TQ_8Gu9FQ7HfPLbxyuIn7rLV7KwQ6kaYRKkCntohyfg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ3ODIzLzE3MDI3/NTMzNzYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Tyndale House Publishers","episode_count":706,"summary":"Take a breath, find your place, and read deeply. Discover the joy of reading God’s word with the Immerse New Living Translation (NLT) Bible. This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T08:21:04.184358+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192"},"episode":{"title":"Immerse Beginnings Day 128 Year 3 Daily Bible Reading","slug":"immerse-beginnings-day-128-year-3-daily-bible-reading","published_at":"2026-05-08T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192/immerse-beginnings-day-128-year-3-daily-bible-reading","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/055b2757","audio_url":"https://2.gum.fm/op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/055b2757/105159fa.mp3","summary":"Love Your Neighbor as Yourself The prohibition against eating blood carries a reason that goes deeper than ritual: ‘The life of the body is in its blood.’ Blood is sacred because life is sacred, and life belongs to God alone. The sexual morality laws that follow draw a boundary around the family—protecting it from the distortions that plagued the cultures surrounding Israel. These are not arbitrary rules; they are the architecture of a society where the vulnerable are shielded and the powerful are restrained. But the heart of today’s reading is the holiness code of Leviticus 19—a chapter so luminous it could stand on its own as a summary of everything God wants from His people. Leave the edges of your field unharvested for the poor. Do not steal. Do not lie. Pay your workers on time. Do not insult the deaf or trip the blind. Do not twist justice. Do not nurse hatred. And then, buried like a diamond in the middle of practical legislation, comes the command that Jesus would one day call the second greatest: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.’ The phrase ‘I am the Lord’ punctuates nearly every instruction—a constant reminder that these ethical demands are not suggestions from a philosopher but commands from the God who rescued them from Egypt. 00:00 Centralized Sacrifice 01:00 The Prohibition Against Blood 03:00 Forbidden Sexual Relations 07:00 The Land’s Judgment 08:00 Be Holy as I Am Holy 09:00 Leave the Edges for the Poor 10:00 Do Not Steal or Lie 11:00 Love Your Neighbor as Yourself 12:00 Respect the Elderly and the Foreigner 13:00 Honest Scales and Measures Buy Immerse Beginnings today! 4 Questions to get your conversations started: 1. What stood out to you this week? 2. Was there anything confusing or troubling? 3. Did anything make you think differentl…","meta_description":"Love Your Neighbor as Yourself The prohibition against eating blood carries a reason that goes deeper than ritual: ‘The life of the body is in its blood.’…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":807,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192/episodes/immerse-beginnings-day-128-year-3-daily-bible-reading/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192/immerse-beginnings-day-128-year-3-daily-bible-reading.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}