Unfolding Words
Unfolding Words is a weekly Bible Study-focused podcast. You will hear biblical truth taught in context and with the text's background in mind to gain a fuller understanding--all in 30 minutes or less. This unfolding helps you to see just how beautiful the Bible is. The result: light for your Christian walk and life for your soul. The podcast name is based on Psalm 119:130: "The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple." | New episodes every Monday.
Episodes
118 episodes
Is Your Life Marked By the Presence of God?
God has already promised He would dwell among His people. His presence is the best promise and it reassures us.If we grieve the Holy Spirit and shut the door on the promise of His presence, then we miss out on His presence and the ...
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Episode 116
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When Good is Bad and Bad is Good
There are so many voices telling us how to live. What’s right. What’s wrong. And much of it opposed what the Bible mandates as right or wrong. They are trying to take gender off of birth certificates. Isaiah 5:20-21Woe ...
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Episode 115
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Understanding Jesus as the Word of God
John opens his book proclaiming and persuading people about the truth of who Jesus is. The opening verses clearly state that Jesus is God and highlight his unique relationship with God the Father.Reach Out and ChatJoin the co...
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Episode 114
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You Were Made For Rest
God has built rest into our biological makeup. We have to sleep. We have to stop and rest our bodies and minds.God modeled rest for us during creation. God rested after He created the world implying that His creative work is comple...
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Season 3
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Episode 113
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Are You Offering Strange Fire to God?
On the first day of the job, newly-installed priest Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, failed to obey the proper practice God had commanded. What they did is referred to as “strange fire” on the altar. What does this mean for us today?R...
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Season 3
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Episode 112
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When the Tables Turned: What We Can Learn From Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple
Many times when people reference Jesus cleansing the temple in John 2, they reference Jesus’ anger. But there is so much more going on—mainly the reason behind Jesus’ anger. And the story is not just a historical account, but a call f...
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Season 3
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Episode 111
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Facing Your Golden Calf..and Why the Old Testament Story Still Matters
It's so easy to read the story of the golden calf in the Old Testament and think the Israelites were so ridiculous for worshipping a statue. Given the culture of that time, it made perfect sense to them. Looking at the story in context and in t...
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Season 3
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Episode 110
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Debunking the "I Love Jesus, But I Don't Do Church" Theology
There's a dangerous theology creeping up in Christianity where people proclaim that they love Jesus without the church. You can’t love Jesus and hate the church.According to Scripture, the church is the bride of Christ . When we...
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Episode 109
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The Importance of "One Another"
It can be easy to think that your walk with God is personal. But as a Christian every thing we do affects other people. In this episode, I share five commands related to the phrase "one another" and how we can incorporate this important topic i...
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Season 2
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Episode 108
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107: A Thirst Trap of a Different Kind
Living water in jars of clay—that’s essentially what wells are when mentioned in the Bible. Jesus is the living water that flows out of believers who are walking wells in this earth. The stone that Jacob rolled off of the mouth of the well fore...
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106: Is Your God Too Safe? REPLAY
God promised the children of Israel a land flowing with milk and honey as they wandered in the wilderness for decades. And just as they were on the cusp of crossing over into it, a group rose up and asked to stay in nearby cities east of the Jo...
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105: God Has Not Forgotten You in Your Waiting
Most of us are waiting for something from God. And most of us think waiting sucks.But it’s in the wait that we learn from God and about God. This microwave society makes waiting seem unnecessary . But waiting provides lessons that we can...
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104: When Your Walls of Jericho Come Tumbling Down
As the people of Jericho were shut in, it describes not only a physical defense, but it also represents a resistance to the plans of God.Comfort can create a place that you don’t want to leave. A place that closes you off to the new that...
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103: Psalms of Ascent - Unity in a Selfie Culture
The word "unity" conjures up images of a utopian world. In a perfect world, unity would reign among nations, people groups, marriages, and in relationships. Sadly, the world we live in is a broken world full of broken relationships. Since the f...
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102: Psalms of Ascent - When the Lord Changes Circumstances for the Better
What an exciting moment in Israel's history the return to Jerusalem after exile must have been. The Israelite nation endured seventy long years in captivity, and then in the blink of an eye, God turned things around. They could hardly believe i...
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101: Psalms of Ascent - How Are You To Go?
As servants of Jesus, we are all on a pilgrimage. The idea of pilgrimage paints the picture of traveling upon a path that is marked out and set before us to make an upward journey. This is not about blazing our own trails to God, but about walk...
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100: How God Opens the Eyes of Your Heart
We must learn to open God’s book—the Bible. God has spoken so our aim is to try to understand what God has said. The more we study the Word, the more freely the light comes. “The unfolding of your words gives light” means that God’s Word gives ...
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099: When God Says Go, Don't Say No
God uses humble and simple saints for the purpose of advancing His kingdom through His appointed plans.Reach Out and ChatJoin the conversation on social media by chatting about the show with the hashtag: #unfoldingwords
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Season 2
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098: You Are God's Treasured Possession + Hiatus Announcement
God didn't just save you from sin. He saved you for Himself.Reach Out and ChatJoin the conversation on social media by chatting about the show with the hashtag: #unfoldingwordsAlso, leave a comment on
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097: Right In Your Own Eyes
The book of Judges tells us everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Right is the same word for judge—to make straight. Every single person determined what “right” was. This led to anarchy.This is a dangerous, lawless time marked by ...
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096: Where Is God's Justice When Bad Things Happen?
Ahmaud Arbery was murdered by two men who followed him in a pick-up truck. They were not arrested for two months. The first thing we do when witness a gross injustice like this is look to God and ask: why aren’t you doing anything God? A lot of...
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095: Freedom in Christ - Can We Do Whatever We Want?
Freedom in Christ can be a tricky thing if looked at a through the wrong lens. Jesus Christ died to offer us freedom from sin. But how much freedom do we have? Are there boundaries to our liberty? Or can we just do whatever makes us happy?<...
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094: Divine Deception?: How Women in the Bible Use Trickery To Trip Up the Enemy
Notice that deception is always used against a person who is acting as an enemy of God—seemingly getting in the way of God’s plan. Most of the women who used deception in the Bible either worked to protect the lineage of God’s chose...
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093: Finding Peace When Fear Reigns
The times we are living in now with COVID-19, being quarantined and so many deaths and unknowns, fear is a constant. It’s similar to what the disciples faced after Jesus' death. With Jesus gone, they faced unknowns and fear—locked behind doors....
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092: REPLAY - How Jesus Transformed the Empty Tomb Into The Most Holy Place--And How He Does the Same For You
The Day of Atonement was the only time during the year when the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies in the innermost chamber of the Temple (or Tabernacle) to make atonement for the sins of all Israel. On this day, the high priest would r...
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