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God's Word for Life
As a companion to our Word Aflame Adult Level Curriculum, this podcast serves to encourage adult disciples to think deeply about God’s Word, further develop their personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and make a greater commitment to the purpose and plan of God for their lives.
Episodes
- God's Word for Life
Samson's Cry
Send us Fan Mail After Israel kept leaving God to serve idols, God told Israel to cry out to them when they needed help. But an unlikely hero restored the cry…
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Gideon and the Strength of Honesty
Send us Fan Mail God used a cowering Gideon and three Israelite soldiers with trumpets, pitchers, and lanterns to defeat the mighty Midianite army. Pick up…
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God Brings Victory
Send us Fan Mail God used a prophetess named Deborah, a general named Barak, a wife named Jael, a hammer, and a tent peg to free Israel from their cruel…
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Welcome to the Family
Send us Fan Mail Tucked away in the forgotten stories of II Samuel 9, is the grace-filled story of the hard-to-spell, harder-to-pronounce Mephibosheth. Pick up…
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You Must Be Born Again
Send us Fan Mail One late night, a well-known, well-respected rabbi named Nicodemus met with a controversial, yet undeniably remarkable miracle Man named…
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Covered by the Blood
Send us Fan Mail Why is this night different from other nights? Every Passover, the youngest person at the meal asks that probing question. And every Passover…
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Witnesses of the Resurrection
Send us Fan Mail As followers of Jesus, we are blessed to take a look at the One who gave us the gospel and the gospel He gave. Pick up your Bible or phone and…
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Once Lost . . . Now Found
Send us Fan Mail Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and he was a turncoat tax collector. Yet, on the same day he went looking for Jesus, Jesus went looking for…
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For a Season
Send us Fan Mail Jesus told an unforgettable rags-to-riches story and a riches-to-rags story all in one chapter. Pick up your Bible or phone and turn to Luke…
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The Father Is Waiting
Send us Fan Mail One forgiving father, two completely different sons, and a heaping helping of grace for both. Pick up your Bible or phone and turn to Luke 15…
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My Part in the Kingdom of God
Send us Fan Mail One boss, three servants, and eight talents. Those are the ingredients of a powerful parable Jesus told. Pick up your Bible or phone and turn…
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The Two Debtors
Send us Fan Mail The two were a stark contrast: Simon was as holy as any, and she was as unholy as any. Yet, Jesus taught a lesson neither Simon nor the…
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A God of Justice
Send us Fan Mail The indignation in Jesus' eyes matched the outrage in His heart. His house had devolved from a house of prayer to a den of thieves. Pick up…
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Kingdom Principles
Send us Fan Mail Jesus' disciples were arguing with each other like kindergarteners. They wanted to know who was the greatest. Jesus surprised them with His…
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Kingdom Values
Send us Fan Mail The rich young ruler couldn't believe what he just heard. He had kept all the commandments God commanded, but Jesus told him there was just…
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Who Belongs?
Send us Fan Mail In one chapter in Mark, Jesus ministered to children people neglected, a rich young ruler people envied, and a blind beggar people ignored…
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As for Me and My House
Send us Fan Mail Joshua stood before the children of Israel and issued his seminal statement, calling them to choose whom they would worship. Would they…
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Jericho
Send us Fan Mail God gave them an unconventional way to win. Leave the ladders and battering rams home. Just bring the priests, the Ark of the Covenant, and…
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Crossing the Jordan
Send us Fan Mail They stood on the banks of the mighty, muddy, overflowing, flooding Jordan River. God directed them to step into the water and walk into the…
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The Twelve Spies
Send us Fan Mail Twelve spies went on a forty-day recon mission through the Promised Land. But when they came back, only two of them believed God was great…
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Victory through the Spirit
Send us Fan Mail The writers of the Gospels give us a behind-the-scenes look at the seminal moment Jesus won the victory for Him and for us. Pick up your Bible…
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Worshiping with Shepherds and Wise Men
Send us Fan Mail The shepherds left behind their flocks to run to worship Jesus. The wise men brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to worship Jesus…
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Empowered by the Spirit
Send us Fan Mail After God healed used Peter and John to pray for a lame man in Acts 3, that lame man leaped. This miracle helped open the hearts of the…
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Led by the Spirit
Send us Fan Mail Peter and John were used to seeing lame beggars at the Temple gate, but this day, for some reason, their attention was arrested by a familiar…
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The Necessity of the Spirit
Send us Fan Mail Jesus had an off-the-record, late-night conversation with Nicodemus to tell him he must be born again. Nicodemus shrugged his shoulders, and…
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Wisdom's Warning
Send us Fan Mail The young king sat on the throne. What was he to do? Two women claimed the one living baby was their baby. There were no witnesses to back up…
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Wisdom Waits
Send us Fan Mail Time flies, especially when we are having fun. We try to avoid being late by getting to work “in the nick of time.” Sometimes we run out of…
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Wisdom's Works
Send us Fan Mail The novel Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race recounts the…
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Wisdom's Worth
Send us Fan Mail Irish rugby player Brian O’Driscoll is famed for saying, “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit…
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Your Faith Has Made You Whole
Send us Fan Mail "If I could just touch the hem of His garment. That’s it. If I could just touch the hem of His garment.” A little hope stirred in her and…
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In Every Nation
Send us Fan Mail For 2,000 years, a covenant relationship with God appeared to only be available to God's covenant people, the Jews. But in Acts 10, God kicked…
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Go Home to Your Friends
Send us Fan Mail It wasn't a fair fight. Nearly 5,000 devils versus one Almighty God in flesh. And the devils knew they were outmatched. Pick up your Bible or…
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Calming the Storm
Send us Fan Mail It was a pretty full day. By the time dusk was dawning, Jesus was back on the shore with the multitudes. He asked His disciples to take Him…
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A House Divided
Send us Fan Mail Jesus' enemies thought He was a blasphemer; Jesus' family thought He was crazy; Jesus' followers didn't really know what to think, but the…
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Filled with God's Glory
Send us Fan Mail God used spiritual leaders, skilled workers, faithful people, and sacrificial givers to build the Tabernacle as a place for God to dwell and…
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The Ten Commandments
Send us Fan Mail The first great commandment to which Jesus referred was from the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4–5. The second is from a more obscure passage in…
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Leaving Slavery
Send us Fan Mail God promised Moses he would help lead God's people out of Egypt, and God rained down ten plagues on Egypt, each one an attack on Egypt's gods…
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Slaves Can Be Delivered
Send us Fan Mail God kept His hand on Moses as Moses' mother sent him sailing down the dangerous Nile River in a basket. Pharaoh was trying to take him out…
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God's Word and My Heart
Send us Fan Mail Imagine this scenario. A king has entrusted a remarkably valuable, irreplaceable jewel to you. And he has commissioned you to carry it through…
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Building on God's Word
Send us Fan Mail Shaphan ran to read the Word of God which had been lost to King Josiah. When King Josiah heard he and the nation in his charge were blatantly…
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Restoring Worship
Send us Fan Mail Cyrus was sitting in his royal palace as he thought, I must do something. I must build a Temple for Yahweh, the God of the Jews. Pick up your…
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Unmoved by God's Word
Send us Fan Mail Josiah got it right. Jehoiakim got it wrong. Josiah obeyed the Word of God; Jehoiakim threw it in a fire. Pick up your Bible or phone and turn…
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Our Burden Bearer
Send us Fan Mail Psalm 55 comes from the heart and hand of King David. He wrote it when David's own son Absalom betrayed him and tried to kill him or David's…
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Our Refuge and Strength
Send us Fan Mail Hezekiah's dear old dad had died, and Hezekiah took the reins of the kingdom and began to reign. Although he reigned in righteousness, the…
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Bless the Lord at All Times
Send us Fan Mail David had lived years of good times, and David had lived years of tough times. But David picked up a pen, penned the thirty-fourth psalm, and…
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Strength in Suffering
Send us Fan Mail Some have called the presence of suffering the greatest challenge to the Christian faith. If God is our Father, and He can do anything about…
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Love Your Neighbor
Send us Fan Mail A lawyer tried to trip up Jesus by asking Him a simple question, but Jesus would not be tripped up. He was ready with a reply. That reply gave…
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Water from the Well
Send us Fan Mail She came to the well at high noon to draw water. Everyone else was inside where it was cool rather than outside where it was hot. But she went…
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The Hands of Jesus
Send us Fan Mail He had to yell out "Unclean, unclean!" when he came to town. He lived a lonely life with other lonely lepers. People ran from him, but one…
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Looking for the Overlooked
Send us Fan Mail One day, some excited parents brought their even more excited children to hear the words of this wonder worker named Jesus. But Jesus' dream…
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Handwriting on the Heart
Send us Fan Mail Over seven hundred years before God poured out His Spirit, He promised His outpouring through the prophet Jeremiah. And He kept His promise…
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The Power of the Holy Ghost
Send us Fan Mail This had never happened before. Nobody had been filled with the precious gift of the Holy Spirit, but on that Day, they were filled with the…
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Born of Water
Send us Fan Mail Bill Drost was about to tread into the dangerous terrible of the even more dangerous El Terrible. But he and one of El Terrible's former…
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The Call to Repentance
Send us Fan Mail Bill Drost continued preaching the gospel to the people hungry to hear the Word of God in Colombia, South America. And Bill shared with them…
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Dead or Alive
Send us Fan Mail Thanks to Adam's sin, we are sentenced to separation from God. But thanks to Jesus Christ, we can choose to come to Jesus in faith and be…
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Beauty from the Broken
Send us Fan Mail After watching Joseph betrayed, sold, enslaved, lied on, imprisoned, and forgotten, we finally see Joseph promoted. This promotion set Joseph…
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God Knows the Way
Send us Fan Mail We come close to the end of Joseph's roller coaster story as God promotes Joseph from the prison to the palace. Pick up your Bible or phone…
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The Promise of Resurrection
Send us Fan Mail The empty tomb in Jerusalem gives everyone everywhere hope every day. Pick up your Bible or phone and turn to John 2 to hear the story. For…
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The Lord Is With You
Send us Fan Mail Things have gone from bad to worse for our coat-of-many-colors-clad friend. Pick up your Bible or phone and turn to Genesis 39 to hear the…
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Believing Without Understanding
Send us Fan Mail When you mix Jacob's toxic favoritism with Joesph's brothers' toxic hatred, it made a deadly cocktail that nearly cost Joseph his life…