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The TakeAway
The Takeaway is a verse-by-verse teaching podcast devoted to helping believers see the glory of God revealed through His Word.
Each episode walks carefully through Scripture—unpacking the command that confronts us, the revelation that exposes us, the grace that rescues us, and the glory that transforms us.
Episodes
The TakeAwayJohn 14:8–11 If Jesus Is God, Who Was He Praying To?
Send us Fan Mail “Show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Philip’s request sounds reasonable until Jesus answers with a sentence that rearranges…
The TakeAwayJohn 14:1-7 How Do I Know Where God Wants Me to Go?
Send us Fan Mail You can feel sincere and still feel stuck: “I want to follow God, but I just need Him to tell me where to go.” We’ve both heard that line a…
The TakeAwayJohn 13:36–14:4 What Are We Offering Jesus?
Send us Fan Mail Peter’s vow is the kind of line we secretly want to believe about ourselves: “I will lay down my life for you.” It sounds brave, faithful, and…
The TakeAwayJohn 13:31-35 How Does God Make Himself Known?
Send us Fan Mail Most of us say we want God to make himself known, but what we often mean is: “Do it on my terms, in a way I can’t question.” Pastor Harry…
The TakeAwayJohn 13:21–30 What I Am Doing You Do Not Understand
Send us Fan Mail Something about the hardest seasons of faith is how disorienting they feel: you’re genuinely sure God led you here, but you can’t see what…
The TakeAwayJohn 13:1-21 Why Did Jesus Wash His Disciples’ Feet?
Send us Fan Mail A towel and a basin don’t look like power until you watch Jesus pick them up. Pastor Harry Behrens walks through John 13 on the night before…
The TakeAwayJohn 12:44-50 Has God Shown Enough?
Send us Fan Mail You can spend your whole life telling yourself, “If God would just give me one undeniable sign, I’d believe.” John 12 tells a harder story…
The TakeAwayJohn 12:37-43 When God Hardens Hearts
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever read “God hardened their hearts” and felt your stomach drop, you’re not alone. We sit in the tension of John 12:37–43 where the…
The TakeAwayJohn 12:34–36 If God Chooses Us, Do We Still Need to Respond?
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “If God already chose who He will save, then my choice doesn’t really matter,” you’re not alone and…
The TakeAwayJohn 12:20-33 What Did Jesus Mean by ‘I Will Draw All People’?
Send us Fan Mail “I will draw all people to myself” sounds simple until you try to define “all.” That’s where we start, with John 12:32 and the question many…
The TakeAwayJohn 12:12-19 Why Can't I See What God Is Doing?
Send us Fan Mail You can be standing in the middle of God’s work and still have no idea what He is doing. That’s not a character flaw, and John 12 proves it…
The TakeAwayJohn 11:55-12:11 Why do you come to Jesus?
Send us Fan Mail Why do you come to Jesus? Not the church answer. Not the answer you were taught to say. The real one that shows up in your life once the…
The TakeAwayJohn 11:38-54 If God Is Love, Why Does He Allow Suffering? Part 3: The Resurrection
Send us Fan Mail A dead man walks out of a tomb, and the most startling detail is that Jesus is still visibly grieving while he does it. We sit in John…
The TakeAwayJohn 11:17-37 If God Is Love, Why Does He Allow Suffering? Part 2: The Grief
Send us Fan Mail Grief doesn’t wait for a convenient time, and neither do the questions it brings. When tragedy hits, we instinctively ask: If God is love, why…
The TakeAwayJohn 11:1-16 If God Is Love, Why Does He Allow Suffering? Part 1: The Delay
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever prayed for God to step in and felt the silence stretch on, John 11 can feel almost unbearable. Jesus hears that Lazarus, His…
The TakeAwayJohn 10:23–42 Can You Lose Your Salvation?
Send us Fan Mail What do you do when your faith feels real, but your track record makes you wonder if God will eventually let go? We sit with one of the most…
The TakeAwayJohn 10:22 The God Who Works in Silence
Send us Fan Mail Silence can feel like the cruelest answer. You pray, you wait, you try to stay faithful, and heaven feels quiet while real life gets louder…
The TakeAwayJohn 10:11-21 Why Does God Love You?
Send us Fan Mail The most dangerous assumptions are the ones we never name, and few are more common than this: God loves me because there is something in me…
The TakeAwayJohn 10:7-10 What Did Jesus Mean by "I Am the Door"?
Send us Fan Mail “I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved.” John 10:9 might be the most familiar line many of us have heard used to prove that…
The TakeAwayJohn 10:1-6 The Shepherd Calls His Own
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever felt quietly confident because you’re near Christian community or quietly anxious because you’re not sure you “measure up,”…
The TakeAwayJohn 9:35–41 Why God Saves - The Purpose of Salvation
Send us Fan Mail Salvation is bigger than rescue from guilt. It has a destination. Walking through John 9:35-41, we watch the story of the man born blind reach…
The TakeAwayJohn 9:24-34 Praise Under Pressure
Send us Fan Mail A man with no credentials walks into a room full of experts and refuses to edit a single line of his story. John 9:24–34 captures the moment…
The TakeAwayJohn 9:8-23 How God Works to Produce Praise
Send us Fan Mail The moment suffering hits, the human heart reaches for a courtroom: Who did this, and who’s to blame? I start in John 9 with that exact…
The TakeAwayJohn 9:1-7 - We Are All Born Blind
Send us Fan Mail You can be given a clear direction and still feel lost when there’s no visible destination. That’s the pressure point we sit in as we open…
The TakeAwayYou Cannot Climb To A Holy God
Send us Fan Mail Holiness can sound like a church word until you feel what Scripture is actually asking: how can unclean people live near a God who is entirely…
The TakeAwayJohn 8:48–59 Before Abraham Was, I Am
Send us Fan Mail Stones in their hands. A single sentence on Jesus’ lips. And a question none of us can dodge: what do we do when the truth goes far enough…
The TakeAwayJohn 8:31–47 The Truth That Sets You Free
Send us Fan Mail “The truth will set you free” might be the most quoted line in John 8, but Jesus doesn’t leave freedom up to our imagination. I’m Pastor Harry…
The TakeAwayJohn 8:21-30 The Belief That Doesn't Save
Send us Fan Mail You can spend a lifetime around Jesus and still keep Him at arm’s length. That’s the unsettling tension in John 8:21-30, where Jesus moves…
The TakeAwayJohn 8:12-20 I Am the Light Of The World
Send us Fan Mail He says it out loud in the brightest place in Jerusalem: “I am the light of the world.” And instead of worship, he gets cross-examined. We’re…
The TakeAwayJohn 8:1-11 Let Him Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Stone
Send us Fan Mail A room full of certainty can still be a room full of blindness. Pastor Harry Barrens walks us into the temple courtyard of John 7:53 to 8:11…
The TakeAwayJohn 7:40-52 Who Really Decides What You Believe?
Send us Fan Mail What happens when truth collides with our safest assumptions? We walk through John 7:40–52 and watch the room shift: a stirred crowd, officers…
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Why Did God Save at All? | Easter Message
Send us Fan Mail Easter is easy to summarize and strangely hard to see. We all know the lines: Jesus died, Jesus rose, sins are forgiven. But I want to slow…
The TakeAwayJohm 7:37-39 If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink
Send us Fan Mail A crowded temple, songs still ringing, and a golden pitcher just poured out—then a voice rises above the feast: “If anyone thirsts, let him…
The TakeAwayJohn 7:32-36 Why Some People Seek Jesus — But Never Find Him
Send us Fan Mail Some words refuse to soften. “You will seek me and you will not find me; where I am, you cannot come.” We walk through John 7:32–36 to uncover…
The TakeAwayJohn 7:25-31 Could Jesus Really Be the Christ?
Send us Fan Mail The crowd thinks they have Jesus figured out: they know His hometown, His family, His visible story. But as we walk through John 7:25–31, that…
The TakeAwayJohn 7:19-24 Why Religious People Protect Control
Send us Fan Mail Accusation stings most when you were trying to help. We open John 7:19–24 and watch Jesus aim past the noise to the heart, exposing how…
The TakeAwayJohn 7:10-18 Your Authority To Speak Begins Where God Has Already Revealed Himself To You
Send us Fan Mail What if the confidence you’ve been waiting for isn’t the qualification you need? We open John 7:10–18 and follow Jesus as he steps into public…
The TakeAwayJohn 7:1-9 Why God Doesn’t Move on Our Terms
Send us Fan Mail What if the holiest thing God does for you today is refuse to be hurried? We step into John 7 at the Feast of Booths, where a celebration of…
The TakeAwayA New Exodus: How John 6 Fulfills God’s Long Desire To Form A People
Send us Fan Mail Start with Exodus 32 and a hard question: did Moses change God’s mind, or did God reveal a deeper desire that waits for fulfillment in Jesus?…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:52-71 Abide Or Walk Away
Send us Fan Mail Hard words are only unbearable when they threaten what we refuse to release. Today we follow John 6:52–71 into the heart of that tension…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:41-51 Grumbling At The Bread Of Life
Send us Fan Mail A calm crowd turns restless the moment Jesus claims He came down from heaven. We follow that pivot in John 6:41–51 and unpack why the issue…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:38–40 The Fathers Work in Salvation - Part 2
Send us Fan Mail What if salvation doesn’t begin with your search for God, but with God’s purpose for you? We walk through John 6:38–40 to show how Jesus…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:35–37 The Fathers Work in Salvation - Part 1
Send us Fan Mail What if the hunger that keeps you up at night isn’t about food, success, or certainty, but about a source you cannot generate? Pastor Harry…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:22–34 How does Grace work?
Send us Fan Mail Hungry for change but exhausted by striving? We open John 6:22–34 and walk with the crowd who chased Jesus for another meal while missing the…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:16–21 Jesus Walks on Water
Send us Fan Mail Bread filled a hillside, but the real turning point happens on black water where oars bite wind and fear tastes like salt. We pick up in John…
The TakeAwayJohn 6:1-15 The Remnant Jesus Forms
Send us Fan Mail Hunger can hide the heart. We step into John 6:1–15 and watch a familiar story open like a doorway: a hillside crowd, five loaves, two fish…
The TakeAwayJohn 5:30–47 The Courtroom Of The Son
Send us Fan Mail Step into the scene where the religious leaders thought they were trying Jesus, and watch as he takes the judge’s seat and calls five…
The TakeAwayJohn 5:19–29 The Authority of the Son
Send us Fan Mail What if the miracle was only the opening act—and the real shock was what Jesus said next? We walk through John 5 as Jesus moves from healing…
The TakeAwayJohn 5:1-18 Rise and Walk
Send us Fan Mail What if the very words of Jesus don’t just tell you what to do, but give you the power to do it? We step into John 5 and the crowded…
The TakeAwayJohn 4:43-54 Faith Beyond Sight
Send us Fan Mail When the cheers of Samaria fade, Galilee greets Jesus with polite admiration and cold hearts—and that tension exposes a deeper question: what…
The TakeAwayJohn 4:27–42 Living Water, The Harvest
Send us Fan Mail A single conversation at a well turns into a townwide awakening—without a strategy meeting, a platform, or a polished script. We follow the…
The TakeAwayJohn 4:1-26 The Living Water
Send us Fan Mail A midday encounter at Jacob’s well becomes a masterclass in how God rescues hearts. We walk through John 4 with Pastor Harry Behrens to…
The TakeAwayTalk Show: The Glory Behind His Love
Send us Fan Mail What if the problem isn’t that we talk about God’s love too much—but that we talk about it without His glory? We dig into how a well-meaning…
The TakeAwayJohn 3:22–36 What If Success Is Surrender?
Send us Fan Mail What if the greatest joy in ministry is learning to step aside? We walk through John 3:22–36 and watch John the Baptist face the moment many…
The TakeAwayJohn 3:1–21 Born From Above
Send us Fan Mail What if your most sincere efforts could never open the door to God—and that’s the best news you’ll ever hear? We sit with Jesus and Nicodemus…
The TakeAwayJohn 2:13–25 When Jesus Cleans House
Send us Fan Mail The coins scatter, the animals bolt, and all at once the temple grows quiet enough to hear what really matters. We walk through John 2:13–25…
The TakeAwayJohn 2:1–11 Water into Wine
Send us Fan Mail The story of Jesus turning water into wine reveals so much more than a simple miracle. When we look deeper at the wedding at Cana, we discover…
The TakeAway“The Fingerprint of God: John’s New Creation Week”
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever noticed the remarkable pattern hidden within the opening chapters of John's Gospel? Like an intricate tapestry, John weaves…
The TakeAwayJohn 1:43–51 Revealed and Recognized Part 2
Send us Fan Mail The ancient scriptures didn't just predict Jesus—they revealed him. When Philip encountered Christ and immediately sought Nathanael, he framed…
The TakeAwayJohn 1:29–42 Revealed and Recognized Part 1
Send us Fan Mail What are you truly seeking? This question—the first words Jesus speaks in John's gospel—cuts straight to the heart of our faith journey and…