Podcast Episodes

Sermon | What Do Enemies Deserve? (Matthew 5)

“Love your enemies” sounds beautiful on a coffee mug . . . until you’re the one being insulted, dismissed, or harmed. When outrage feels justified an…

5 months ago

Daily Devo | Jesus the Lawbreaker? (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 12:1–21)

The Pharisees were trying to preserve their nation's Jewish identity in the face of Greek culture and Roman occupation. One of their cultural guardra…

5 months ago

Daily Devo | Crushed by Darkness and Doubt (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 11)

Imprisoned in Herod Antipas' fortress, John the Baptist begins to doubt. He was the one who saw the Spirit of God descend upon Jesus but in the darkn…

5 months, 1 week ago

Daily Devo | The Cost of Discipleship (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 10:24–42)

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus had encouraged his listeners to put God first and trust God for the rest. In this passage, Jesus extends that princ…

5 months, 1 week ago

Daily Devo | Sent With the Spirit (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 10:1–23)

Jesus sends out the twelve disciples on their own but with detailed instructions. Some of those instructions were just for those disciples, and even …

5 months, 1 week ago

Daily Devo | The Gift of Availability (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 9:18-38)

Jesus makes himself available to all kinds of people, both the privileged and the outcast. He embraces all kinds of interruptions, looking for the op…

5 months, 1 week ago

Sermon | When Trying Harder Misses the Point (Matthew 5)

When did faith start feeling like another performance review? Jesus doesn’t say, “Become salt and light.” He says, “You are.” So why do so many of us…

5 months, 1 week ago

Daily Devo | Solid Rock or Sinking Sand? (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 7)

Jesus closes his Sermon on the Mount with a parable about a house built on sand which is washed away by the storm vs. a house built on rock that surv…

5 months, 1 week ago

Daily Devo | Undivided Loyalties (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 6) [corrected]

[An earlier version of this episode was missing the first scripture reading.]

In this section of Jesus' sermon, he turns our attention to spiritual pr…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Daily Devo | Love My Enemies? I Barely Love My Friends! (New Testament in a Year, Matthew 5:1-26) [corrected]

[An earlier version of this podcast was uploaded without the first scripture reading.]

Throughout this section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus conti…

5 months, 2 weeks ago