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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study
Connect with God in the time it takes you to drive to work or empty the dishwasher. Every episode focuses on one Bible passage, explains it, and applies it to your life. Co-hosted by Keith Simon, Tanya Willmeth, Jensen Holt McNair, Patrick Miller, and Jeff Parrett.
Episodes
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyGeorge Floyd, Race, Protest and the Bible | Keith and Patrick
Racial justice is not a political issue, it’s a gospel issue. Despite the Bible’s clear call for racial unity, equality and justice, many white Christians…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyAre We Living a Good Life? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 19.11-27
What does it mean to live a good life? Some people think it's accomplishing a lot or experiencing a lot. But that's not what Jesus says. Learn how to live a…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat Does It Take to Become a Christian? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 18.18-30 and Luke 19.1-9
Is identifying as a Christian enough to actually be a Christian? Who can be a Christian? How do you become a Christian? Hear how Jesus answers in…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyAddiction Recovery and Jesus: Warren Mayer's Story
https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/warren-mayer/ (Warren Mayer) battled alcoholism and addiction for 20 years. Now, he is sober and helps others through…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy You May Not Really Be Following Jesus | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 18.9-14
Sometimes we think we're following Jesus, but we're really not. That's how the Pharisees were. See if you're faith is like theirs as…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Deal With Sin? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 17.1-4
Sin isn't just a personal problem. It impacts and involves other people too. Hear how Jesus says to handle sin in…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyCOVID Killed Busyness ... How Can We Keep It Dead? | Keith and Patrick
COVID-19 is the Marie Condo of BUSY schedules. It's wiped our activity schedules clean and given us time back for the small things that make life full. Time…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWho is Worthy? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 16.19-31
How generous are you? It's not just about how much you give, but why and who you give to. Learn what makes us generous from Keith as he reads through…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Respond to God's Gifts | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 15.11-32
Have you ever heard that nothing is free? Even gifts come with expectations—and there's a good reason for that. Understand the value of gifts from…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Lead Your Business (and Yourself) Through COVID-19: Interview with Brent Beshore
https://www.permanentequity.com/brent-beshore (Brent Beshore), founder and CEO of https://www.permanentequity.com/ (Permanent Equity), joins…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyIs Jesus Worth It? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 14.25-35
Before you answer that, think about it carefully. That's what Jesus wants. He doesn't want a quick answer. Listen to…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat the Christian Life is About | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 14.1-14
Being a Christian isn't just about what you believe but also how you live your beliefs. See what Jesus meant as…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyIs the Rapture Real? | Keith and Patrick
Is Jesus going to return to snatch his people up to heaven before the great tribulation? Or does this idea require us to read the Bible the way conspiracy…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy We Worry and How to Respond | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 12.22-34
Are you plagued with anxiety? A lot of people are. Listen to how Jesus responds to anxiety in…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyIs Greed Your God? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 12.13-21
It's taboo to talk about money, but that was one of the topics Jesus brought up the most. Listen to why it's so important as…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyCan the Church Survive COVID-19?
Church is more than a building. It's a people. So is social distancing a church-ending threat? Or is COVID-19 offering the church fresh opportunities for…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyAre We Hypocrites? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 12.1
The term "hypocrisy" gets misused a lot. Are you sure you know what it means? Find out as https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Keith) delves…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow Should We Pray? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 11.1-4
Did you learn how to pray from your parents, pastors, or Sunday school teachers? Learn how to pray from Jesus as…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow COVID-19 Unveils Secular Salvation Myths
Most secular people don't think of themselves as religious, but COVID-19 is pulling back the curtain. Religious language and themes are making their way into…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow Exclusive is Christianity? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 10.25-37
Is Christianity for everyone? Hear how Jesus addresses that question inhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A25-37&version=NIV (…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyThe Biggest Threat to Our Faith | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 10.38-41
The early Christians faced death. We face another kind of threat that's very different but just as damaging. Discover what it is as…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy Jesus Had to Die | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 9
"The way to life is death. The way to glory is service. Or, as he puts it in Luke 9.48, 'It is the one who is least among you who is greatest.' Jesus lived…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Say 'Enough' to More Stuff | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 9.12-17
"How would our lives change if we stopped putting our trust in wealth and possessions to keep us safe? I know my life would probably change tremendously." Does…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyIt Doesn't Feel Like Easter | Keith and Patrick
Everyone is saying it doesn't feel like Easter. But maybe this is showing that we've made Easter about the wrong things? How can we make it feel like Easter?…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Answer Jesus's Calling | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 9.23-24
"A lot of us have been taught to think of a Christian as one who has prayed a prayer, confessed their sin, asked Jesus to be in their heart. That kind of…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Wait on God | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 8.41-56
"What happens when those losses aren't things that God retrieves and recovers but simply become lifelong setbacks, lifelong hurts?" Like we discussed in a…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study7 Ways to Maximize Your Work From Home | Keith and Patrick
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat to Believe In | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 8.26-39
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Quarantine Without Getting a Divorce, Killing Your Kids, or Kicking Out Your Roommate
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy People Walk Away From Jesus | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 8.1-15
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat Does Saving the Environment Have to Do With Salvation?
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow Did Jesus Empower Women?
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyShould Christians Stay In or Get Out and Serve?
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWho's the Sinner?
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat the Living Can Learn From the Dying: Seeing Through the Eyes of a Dying Man, John Drage
Want to join our 4-week Zoom Bible Study, "Are we living in the end times?" https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/zoom-online-bible-studies (Sign-up today). We…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat Makes Faith Revolutionary?
"Faith is always risky. And the centurion gets it. And he takes on the risk willingly. Giving his allegiance, pledging his allegiance to Jesus could mean…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Deal With the Storms of Life
"What I want you to see is the storms were not responsible for the house collapsing." No matter what stage of life you're in right now, you know that life…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow should Christians respond to Coronavirus
"How we respond to Coronavirus will tell the world something about Jesus." Throughout history, Christians have responded to pandemics like these with tangible…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyI Pledge Allegiance to King Jesus: An Interview with Matthew Bates
What do you think of when you hear “allegiance”? The Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag…)? Pledging your allegiance is dedicating your life to something. It’s…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyThe Most Important Question: Who Do You Follow? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 6.39-40
"So the most important question you can ask is this, and you have to know this answer. And if you don't know it, you're in trouble." Some people seem to be…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat Does a Christian Look Like? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 6
"I do good to someone, knowing they will do good to me. I will lend to someone, knowing that they will pay me back in some way. There's nothing wrong with…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Break and Make Life Changing Habits
"Your habits end up shaping what kind of person you become. And they're small little choices that happen over and over and over throughout your life." You…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyRemembering the Sabbath | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 6.6-11
"And here's what's crazy. Jesus treating the Sabbath as a day for blessing and giving life and freeing people, that led the Pharisees and teachers to want to…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat Keeps People From Following Jesus | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 5.27-32
"And so Jesus has come for all people, to call all people to repent and to believe in him, but only some people hear that as good news because only some people…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyCan Evolution and Genesis Be Friends? A Guest Interview With Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass
"I was putting my confidence and trust in the wrong sorts of things. For a long time, I would put my trust in human arguments against evolution. But that's not…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyTimeout! Learning When and How to Take a Timeout | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 5.15-16
"God became a human. That means that God took on our human limitations." There just aren't enough hours in the day! How many times have you thought that?…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudySurprise! What Happens When You Encounter the Glory of God | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 5.1-11
"At that moment, Peter got a glimpse of who Jesus is. Whenever we see Jesus in all of his glory and beauty, whenever we get an accurate understanding of who he…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Beat Digital Distraction and Live Purposefully | Keith & Patrick
"Phillip Morris just wanted your lungs. The app store wants your soul." -Bill Maher Technology helps us go faster and get more done. But could speed and…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy the Gospel was Treason | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 4.43
"Now you might begin to see why the message of the good news of the Kingdom [of God] could be dangerous, even subversive. It could even be treasonous." Do you…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy is God Saving the Wrong People? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 4.14-30
"If Osama becomes a Christian, that's no greater miracle than if you or I become a Christian." Jesus said to love our enemies, but what about genocidal…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Be Free | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 4.14-30
"In the modern era, we tend to think about freedom as freedom to do what I want or to be what I want. Freedom means a complete lack of strictures and…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Fight Temptation | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 4.1-13
"Now when we are led into seasons of temptation, I can't tell you exactly what God's up to... But it gives me great comfort to know that God is in this, that…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyUPDATED Kobe Bryant: 5 Lessons After the Tragedy | Keith and Patrick
Our apologies - we posted an older recording on this topic. This is the updated recording. "Real relationships, real community, is always costly. Now it's…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyJesus’s Secret Identity | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 3.21-38
"The god-man-emperor, Augustus, demonstrated his divinity by acts of power and violence. Luke didn't want his audience to think Jesus was that kind of king."…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat Repentance Really Is | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 3.1-14
"We have a tendency to minimize our sins. We have a tendency to be more sorry that we got caught than grieved over our sins." Ever heard the phrase "easier…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhat's More Important Than Family? | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 2:41-52
"They had to put family second in order to put Jesus first. And here we see that even Jesus had to do this. He had to put His parents second so that He could…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Find Your Place in God’s Story | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 2.21-40
"The last act is about to begin: God is about to console Israel. God is about to rescue them from exile. God is about to draw the Gentiles into His own family…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy Winning Looks Like Losing | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 2:1-3
"Oftentimes, it looks as if the kingdom of God is being defeated by the kingdom of Caesar, by the kingdom of this world, by the kingdom of whatever power is…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyWhy God Chooses the Humble | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 1:46-55
"Our culture is fixated on being great, but Mary says, 'God fixes the world through the lowly.' Our culture calls the thoughts of the proud and the powerful…
Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible StudyHow to Give Your Life to God When It Feels Impossible | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 1:28-38
"Three times [Jesus] goes and prays and asks God to take this cup of judgment away from Him. And yet, every time he prays, 'not my will but Your will be done…