Best Christian Podcasts | Teaching & Encouragement

Storyverse Institute

Storyverse Institute is Derek Mathews' seminary-style library of Bible, theology, ministry, and soul-care courses, plus a podcast and a one-year Institute Cohort, for individuals and churches who want deeper Scripture without a degree. Sample courses are free, the course library is subscription-based, and the next cohort starts in January 2027.

Ambo

A Catholic prayer app for iPhone and iPad that puts the day's Mass readings, audio homilies, the Rosary, a Bible reader, the saints of the day, and confession preparation in one calm place. Free with a generous core; an optional Premium subscription adds reading plans, prayer routines, and app blocking that silences distracting apps while you pray.

The Bible with Nicky and Pippa

A free daily Bible reading plan from Alpha that walks through Scripture in 365 days with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel's commentary, audio, and shorter Express and Youth editions — plus a 30 Days overview and the same plan on YouVersion.

audibible

An English and French audio Bible app with synchronized word highlighting, narrator and translation options, ambient soundscapes, narrated stories, daily podcasts, reading plans, and offline listening. Published by Le Studio 316 (App Store seller Stephane Montlouis-Calixte), with a free tier and subscription-based plans.

Reasonable Faith

The official Reasonable Faith app from Dr. William Lane Craig, with free podcasts, Q&A, debates, articles, and Defenders class teaching for Christians who want to understand and defend the faith.

Ascension App

The Ascension App is a Catholic Bible and Catechism companion from Ascension Press, with the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, daily Mass readings, Rosary, study plans, and the In a Year podcasts. It is free to download, with a premium subscription for the fuller library.

JesusFreakHideout

One of the longest-running Christian music websites, celebrating 30 years online in 2026 — offering in-depth album reviews, artist interviews, indie music coverage, daily news, concert and movie reviews, book reviews, weekly devotionals, listening parties, free compilation albums, and a podcast with 244 episodes exploring topics from music theology to AI-generated art. Founded in 1996 by John DiBiase.

AlephBeta

Aleph Beta is a Jewish Torah media library of animated videos, podcasts, and courses led by Rabbi David Fohrman's close-reading method. A Hoffberger Institute nonprofit, it is subscription-based with a try-for-free path and a scholarship offer, on web, iOS, and Android.

Bible Brief

A free app, podcast, and book from the Bible Literacy Foundation that walks the whole Bible story in ten eras and three levels of depth, with church and small-group launch kits.

Bible365

A free community Bible reading program that guides believers through the entire Bible in one year, with daily readings from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, pastoral teaching from Calvary Chapel, and audio, app, text, website, and podcast options. Readers can join any time, take a two-year pace, and roll missed readings into the next cycle.

Ultimate Intimacy

A Christian marriage and intimacy app by Nick and Amy McKinlay with a customizable bedroom game, 300+ conversation starters, 250+ lovemaking ideas, encrypted couples chat, intimacy calendar, Daily Challenges, a companion book, and hundreds of expert resources — all clean, non-graphic, and Christ-honoring. Close to 1 million downloads; also offers the companion UandI App for daily marriage challenges. Hosts The Ultimate Intimacy Podcast (500+ episodes) and Intimacy & Adventure marriage retreats, next a February 2027 cruise to Cabo, Mexico.

Daily Grace Co

A Bible study app by Jeremy and Kristin Schmucker offering theologically rich digital studies in a newly refreshed, distraction-free reader, with notes and highlights, streaks and reminders, teaching videos, community, blog, and podcasts. Celebrating 10 years with over 50 studies and 3 million+ shipped, with the new Joy of Every Longing Heart Advent study for 2026 and expanded offerings for men, couples, families, and churches.

The Porch

The Porch is the young adult ministry (20s and 30s) of Watermark Community Church in Dallas, TX, founded in 2006 and led by Executive Director Kylen Perry, with Tuesday night gatherings in Dallas and Porch Live gatherings in eight cities across seven states. The Porch app is shutting down; its final September 2026 store update directs users to The Porch on YouTube and at theporch.live, where messages, podcasts, and Awaken, its national young adult conference, continue.

RELEVANT

The leading digital Christian media platform for twenty- and thirtysomethings, with daily articles on faith, culture, justice, and intentional living, plus a weekly podcast now past episode 1,300. Founded in 2000 by Cameron Strang. Reaches about 5 million monthly.

365 Christian Men

A daily podcast sharing short, powerful stories of real Christian men — from the first century to today — inspiring faith, courage, and purposeful living. Founded in 2018 by Blake Mattocks, now expanded to 365 Christian Stories with both men's and women's editions, reaching millions across 100+ countries in multiple languages.

Not the Bee

A humor-based news and commentary site from the creators of The Babylon Bee, featuring real stories so absurd they read like satire — with a built-in social network, multiple podcasts, a dedicated Christianity section, and apps for iOS and Android.

The Chip Ingram App

The official Living on the Edge app from pastor Chip Ingram, offering free daily Bible teaching, radio programs, message notes, devotionals, and group tools so Christians can grow as disciples wherever they listen.

Infinite Dominion

A Christian podcast and Substack by Zack Grafman with long-form conversations about faith, technology, and the future of the Church. Its 11-episode, two-season archive remains online, with the latest episode from December 2025, while he also publishes Make Clive Lewis Weird Again.

The Pour Over

The Pour Over is a free, politically neutral Christian news source that summarizes the biggest stories on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, pairing them with Scripture and an eternal perspective, in a thrice-weekly email newsletter and free iOS and Android apps with an optional premium tier. Related offerings include Decaf for parents, the Saturday TPO Explains deep dive, News Health, Praying the News, and a companion podcast hosted by Joe Kim.

Contagious Disciple Making

Free Contagious Disciple Making app with podcasts, videos, and scripture lists that help Christians start Discovery Bible Studies and multiplying disciple-making groups. Founded by Paul Watson and led by CEO Rebecca Ewing.

Wild at Heart

A free app from John and Stasi Eldredge's Wild at Heart ministry with daily readings, guided prayers, blogs, and two weekly podcasts, plus group events in the app and Fires gatherings and retreats for men and women.

Tabella.app

Free Catholic app uniting parishes, dioceses, and ministry groups with instant communications, automated weekly emails, Mass and event scheduling, donation integrations, a Catholic news feed from sources you follow, a rich library of prayers and Catholic podcasts, and a parish-supporting debit card — all without paywalls.

WORLD News Group

WORLD News Group is a nonprofit evangelical newsroom in Asheville, North Carolina, that reports current events from a biblical worldview through a monthly magazine, daily digital journalism, and podcasts, gathered in a subscriber iOS and Android app. Its God's World News magazines and WORLD Watch video program bring the same approach to children, families, and classrooms.

SermonAudio

SermonAudio is a free library of more than 3.1 million audio and video sermons from conservative Christian churches, with live webcasting, searchable Vault AI transcripts you can now read in Reader Mode, and apps for phones and TV. Churches upload without limits under one broadcaster account and can use Global Sermons, which now carries a preacher's own voice into other languages, and Ask! answers grounded in sermons.

Love Your First Year Premarital Course

An online Christian premarital course by SYMBIS Certified Counselors Britt and Kyler Nixon, featuring 22 video modules, an 85-page workbook, interactive tools, and extensive bonus resources — trusted by over 1,000 couples, supported by a 65-episode podcast, and featured on Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark.

Blinkist

Book summary app with 9,000+ nonfiction titles and podcasts — including 100+ Christianity books from authors like Timothy Keller, C.S. Lewis, and Rick Warren — condensed into 15-minute audio or text "Blinks." Features four tiers (Basic/Premium/Pro/Platinum), AI-powered content summarization via Blinkist Pro, free access through public library partnerships, and live learning sessions via the new Blinkist Platinum tier. As of June 2026, all new Blinks are voiced by professional human narrators — the AI narration experiment has ended.

Sparks Chinese Bible

Sparks (火花) is a web platform for Chinese-speaking Christians, jointly founded by the British and Foreign Bible Society and the United Bible Societies. It offers 60+ Bible translations free with no advertising, original-language tools, a Bible encyclopedia, scholar-led courses, podcasts, daily devotionals, and a Sparks AI study space. The interface is Simplified or Traditional Chinese only.

Encouraging Radio

Free Christian radio app from Positive Alternative Radio that gathers CCM and Southern Gospel stations, podcasts, and local-impact opportunities. PAR is a listener-supported ministry founded in 1985 by the Baker family and led by President and CEO Eddie Baker.

Join the Journey

A free daily Bible reading and discipleship plan from Watermark Community Church, studying Acts in 2026 with guided spiritual practices, a weekly video podcast, a kids edition, and a community reading together under the theme Abiding in Jesus Together.

Babylon Bee

The world's most-visited Christian satire site, delivering daily satirical headlines on religion, politics, and everyday life — with a weekly New York Post feature, a new August 2026 federal suit challenging New Mexico's AI satire disclaimer law, and CEO Seth Dillon's October 2026 Liberty University address warning against radical conspiracism.

Fio: Catholic Music & Podcasts

Fio is a Catholic-exclusive audio streaming platform uniting 1,000+ creators across podcasts, music, and audiobooks in 100+ countries, with industry-leading creator royalties (a penny per stream), a rigorous faith-based vetting process, podcast transcripts, and over 450 hours of new content added weekly.

CP Sermons

A modern, feature-rich WordPress sermon management plugin with a persistent app-like player, SermonAudio integration (including WP-CLI), transcript support, podcast feed generation, and built-in analytics. Currently at v1.7.0. Built by Tanner Moushey of Church Plugins.

Faith Driven Entrepreneur

Faith Driven Entrepreneur is a free ministry platform for Christ-following founders, hosted by Faith Driven Movements and co-founded by Henry Kaestner and Justin Forman. It offers an eight-week Foundation Course in small groups, a weekly podcast, church tools, a conference, coaching, and a companion app on iOS and Android.

The Christian Post

One of the largest pan-denominational Christian news outlets, publishing breaking news, op-eds, podcasts, and video content daily since 2004. Led by Executive Editor Dr. Richard Land and CEO Dr. Christopher Chou, with multiple Evangelical Press Association awards in 2025 and 2026, reaching 5M+ monthly views across its family of nine Christian media brands. Website actively updated; mobile apps have not been updated since October 2021 and draw recent crash reports — the website is the most reliable way to read CP today. Federal investigation into affiliated Olivet University closed without charges (Sept 2025); civil case continues.

Ligonier Ministries

Free Reformed teaching app, now called Grow, that puts thousands of Ligonier Ministries resources on iOS and Android: podcasts, video series, articles, devotionals, conference messages, and in-app Bible reading from R.C. Sproul and the Ligonier teaching fellows. All of Sproul's 170+ teaching series stream free, and Ministry Partners also unlock the Ask Ligonier intelligent assistant, Reformation Study Bible notes, and the full teaching series library.

AccessMore

Free, curated Christian podcast platform from K-LOVE, Inc. (formerly Educational Media Foundation), launched in 2020 as AccessMore and rebranded to K-LOVE Podcasts in September 2026. Featured voices include Max Lucado, Lisa Harper, Levi and Jennie Lusko, Tauren Wells, and Point of Grace.

Christianity Today

The flagship evangelical media ministry founded by Billy Graham in 1956, now in its 70th anniversary year (2026). Reaches 40M people annually with news, theology, and 11+ podcasts (The Bulletin, The Russell Moore Show, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea). The CT mobile app (iOS and Android, launched May 2026) added comments, reactions, and a Daily Devotional in summer 2026 updates. Led by President & CEO Nicole Massie Martin and Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky, with Russell Moore as Editor-at-Large. The One Kingdom Campaign has raised $28.3M of its $32M goal (as of June 2026) to fund Global, Next Gen, and Big Tent initiatives.

Spoken Gospel

A 100% free nonprofit Bible study app that completed its seven-year mission to cover every book of the Bible. Offers 800+ short films, chapter-by-chapter devotionals, and a popular podcast — all showing how Scripture points to Jesus. 150M+ views worldwide. Now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), and French.

Stand to Reason

Free Stand to Reason app from Greg Koukl's apologetics ministry, with weekly podcasts, articles, Solid Ground, and mentoring letters so Christians can defend classical Christianity with clarity and grace. Stand to Reason University adds free interactive courses, and Alan Shlemon serves as president-elect while Koukl remains president.

Every Man Ministries

Every Man Ministries: Founded by Kenny Luck in 2000, now Lead Pastor at Mariners Church Trabuco Canyon. EMM offers a streaming video library with 11 group curriculums, weekly Vimeo livestream teaching (12,000+ men), a podcast with nearly 600 episodes, and iOS/Android streaming apps — equipping men for spiritual maturity and godly leadership. Distributed through Pray.com, RightNow Media, Roku, and God Behind Bars.

Godcaster: Radio & Podcasts

A free Christian audio app that unifies radio stations, livestreams, and on-demand podcasts in one listener experience, while giving churches and broadcasters a branded digital station on Podcasting 2.0, now including the Godcaster Radio Network for a branded 24/7 Christian music station. Built with Adam Curry, Dave Jones, Gordon Marcy, and Paul Bailey around local Christian media rather than a third-party algorithm.

Axis

Axis is a donor-funded 501(c)(3) Christian ministry, co-founded in 2007 by David Eaton and Jeremiah Callihan, that equips parents, grandparents, and ministry leaders to have gospel-centered conversations with their teens. Its free toolkit includes the weekly Culture Translator email, Parent Guides, Conversation Kits, podcasts, and videos, offered open-access since its 2023 move to a donation-based model.

First15

First15 is a free daily devotional from Denison Ministries that guides you through 15 minutes of Scripture, reflection, guided prayer, worship, and a call to action so you can start the day with God. Founded by Craig Denison in 2014, it also offers a searchable Guided Prayers tab, original worship, and a Spanish-language companion, Primeros15.

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast

Free monthly leadership podcast by Life.Church pastor Craig Groeschel, delivering practical coaching in 30-minute episodes with downloadable leader guides. Approaching 200 episodes since 2016; recently featured its first-ever live recording with John Maxwell.

StreamYard

Browser-based live streaming and recording studio trusted by 12M+ creators, popular with churches for its volunteer-friendly interface, multistreaming, podcast recording, AI-powered clips, teleprompter, and Scenes for pre-planned broadcasts. Freemium, with individual and Business plans; the latest changes are a new lower-cost Essential individual tier and a rebuilt video-quality pipeline now live for everyone.

Edifi Podcasts

A curated Christian podcast app by The Christian Post with 20,000+ shows and millions of episodes — sermons, devotionals, Bible studies, and more — available on iOS, Android, web, and smart devices.

Revive Our Hearts podcast

A free Revive Our Hearts app and podcast family from Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth's women's ministry, with daily Bible teaching and companion programs. The ministry marked twenty-five years in 2026, and its Wonder of the Word journey teaches through the whole Bible over two years starting in January 2027.

Free Christian eBook Reader

Free Christian eBook Reader is the free, ad-free Android app for FreeChristianEBooks.org, the non-commercial Cornerstone ministry library of Christian living and Bible-study titles. It needs no account, and the ministry is adding audio books, podcast discussions, and explainer videos alongside the e-books, plus Hindi, Nepali, and Telugu translations.

Charisma Magazine News

Charisma News delivers 24/7 breaking Christian news from a Spirit-filled, charismatic perspective. Founded in 1975 by Stephen Strang, it's part of Charisma Media's multimedia platform — now past its 50th anniversary — reaching millions of readers monthly through articles, podcasts, videos, and a free mobile app on iOS and Android.

Malachi Daily

A free weekly Scripture memorization newsletter using a brain-science-backed fill-in-the-blank method, reaching 130,000+ Jesus followers in the ESV, with deep teaching in the original languages, a companion podcast, an interactive web app, and a pay-what-you-want course. The team also built Within, a companion iPhone app for interactive verse memorization with games and audio devotionals. Now led full-time by co-founder Kieran Lenahan with a growing team.

Bible Memory Community

A free online community where over 3,000 believers encourage each other and stay accountable in memorizing Scripture, with weekly challenges, small groups by life stage, the Memorize What Matters podcast, and founder Josh Summers' bestselling book of the same name. An optional Patron tier adds all courses, Barnabas Group accountability, and Scripture Sync replays, and the 6-week Memory Accelerator Program runs a few times a year.

Change The Map

A prayer movement and Mighty Networks app that helps Christians pray specifically for the Buddhist world through weekly Prayer Moments, worker updates, a podcast, and a vision of 50,000 regular intercessors. Founded in 2013 by Assemblies of God missionary Mark Durene.

Passion Equip

Passion Equip is the free digital discipleship platform from the Passion Movement (led by Louie Giglio), featuring Classroom — a structured theology curriculum taught by seminary-trained teachers, including a Biblical Finances course — alongside rotating online Bible studies, daily devotionals, worship content, talks, and a podcast network of eight shows, all designed to help believers grow daily.

Patristic Nectar

A free Orthodox Christian listening app from Patristic Nectar Publications, the non-profit ministry founded by Fr. Josiah Trenham: theological lectures, Synaxarion readings, Scripture, catechism, and The Arena podcast, with the full lecture catalog free. Both mobile apps were updated in June 2026.

her.BIBLE Women's Audio Bible

A free Cru audio Bible that plays Scripture in ethnically diverse women's voices, with verse highlighting and saving, playback speed control, a growing Spanish edition, language-coaching resources, and the her STORY podcast.

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

One of the world's most downloaded leadership podcasts (37M+ downloads, 830+ numbered episodes), hosted by former pastor Carey Nieuwhof. Features conversations with top church and business leaders on leadership, culture, personal growth, and navigating ministry in a changing world. Part of The Art of Leadership Network. Carey's book AI and the Future Church, released September 15, 2026, is a pastoral playbook for leading the church through the AI era.

Heroic Men

A free Catholic streaming and brotherhood-building platform for men, offering curated podcasts, video series, audiobooks, a quarterly magazine, a searchable map of 2,000+ local men's groups, a 31-day Renew Men challenge, and a certification program for parish leaders — powered by the Catholic Men's Leadership Alliance with papal recognition from Pope Leo XIV. Following its June 2026 Convocation at the University of Dallas, the movement launched the Million Man Pledge, calling one million men to commit by 2033, the 2,000th anniversary of the Resurrection.