No Wasted Words: Hiking the Whole Bible in 2026

Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode of Back Porch Theology, Allison Allen and Lisa Harper kick off the first episode of 2026 and an exciting new series, No Wasted Words, as we begin walking through the whole Bible together this year. Along the way, we address common misconceptions about Scripture and share our passion for exploring its overarching themes with curiosity, joy, and reverence. Pull up a chair and join us as we step into a new year and a yearlong journey through God’s Word, opening Scripture together with honesty, curiosity, and hopeful expectation.

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0:00.0	He gave us narrative.
0:01.0	Yes.
0:02.0	He gave us stories we could find ourselves and he made so many creative ways for us to come
0:08.2	into a loving relationship with him.
0:10.0	So I hope over this year of no wasted words, I really, really hope there will be people
0:16.4	who almost hear God's singing a much better song than that over them, of them beginning to believe
0:23.0	bigger. He doesn't just see me. He loves who he sees. Yeah.
0:31.7	Access more.
0:35.5	Hey, hey, backport tours. My name is Allison Allen. I'm the 5'12 spiritual wingwoman to Lisa Harper for Back Porch Theology. And y'all, I am so excited about what we're doing in this new year. Like, Lise, driving in from Knoxville yesterday, like I had to set the speed control.
0:52.5	Oh, no. I have been chair dancing since we sat down. I know. I'm so excited. Okay, I had to set the speed control. Oh, no. Right? I've been chair dancing since we set down. I know I'm so excited.
0:56.8	So excited. Okay. We have to announce the name of our new series. All right.
1:01.0	You want to do it in unison? Yeah, you ready? Okay, stereo. No wasted words.
1:06.3	Yes. Webba, give us the sub. H hiking the whole Bible in a year.
1:11.9	We have never done that before.
1:13.5	We probably should qualify no wasted words since we're such windbags.
1:18.0	People will be like, y'all waste a lot of words.
1:20.7	We're like, I know, I know, I know.
1:22.4	But yeah, we're talking about the fact that the Bible, it's not a rulebook, it's not a textbook, it's not a collection of benign morality details. This is life and there's not one word in this divine love story that's wasted. That's wasted. Okay. We're going to dive very deeply in the coming year and we're going to do it in a B.PT way with some humor and warmth and maybe some unusual stories. And obviously, you're walking through the Bible in a year.
1:45.8	We're not going to pick up every single word.
1:48.7	It's going to be set kind of some key passages and some esoteric stories along the way that maybe you haven't seen flannel graft if you grew up in a church that flannel grafts.
1:57.3	Absolutely.
1:58.0	Some stories that you go, oh, wow, now I'm connecting the dots from Old Testament to
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