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OneLife Nashville: Rare but vital conversations about Jesus
Rare but vital conversations about Jesus.
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- OneLife Nashville: Rare but vital conversations about Jesus
#264 | Intro to Isaiah 40–66: Going Deep and Wide
Isaiah 40 marks a major transition in the book of Isaiah. The historical events surrounding Assyria and Hezekiah begin to fade into the background as Isaiah…
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#263 | Waiting for a Better King: How Hezekiah’s Failure Points Us to Jesus
Isaiah 1–39 ends with a king who looked promising—but ultimately failed. Throughout the first half of Isaiah, the question of kingship runs beneath the…
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#262 | Saved from Death: Hezekiah, Jesus, and the Living God
In Isaiah 38:1–8, King Hezekiah receives devastating news: he is going to die. In response, Hezekiah turns his face to the wall and cries out to the Lord—and…
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#261 | A Stone in Zion: Trust, Death, and the Way We Are Saved
In Isaiah 28:14–19, the leaders of Judah face the terrifying prospect of death at the hands of the Assyrian Empire. Rather than trusting the Lord, they boast…
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#260 | When Leaders Won’t Learn: Baby Talk, Immaturity, and Jesus
What does drunkenness, baby talk, and an Egyptian mother goddess have to do with Isaiah 28—and what does any of this have to do with Jesus? In this episode, we…
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#259 | The Messianic Meteor: Impact in Jerusalem and the Coming Kingdom Tsunami
Isaiah’s Apocalypse ends with a remarkable vision: God gathers his scattered people from the ends of the earth, a great trumpet sounds, and those who were lost…
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#258 | When God Says, “Go Inside”: Participating in Our Own Deliverance
In Isaiah 26:19–20, Isaiah looks ahead to a coming day of trouble, a moment when God will arise to judge the earth. But before the judgment comes, God gives…
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#257 | Participating in Resurrection: Isaiah, Paul, and the Call to New Life
In Isaiah 26:19, we encounter one of the Old Testament’s most striking—and debated—visions of resurrection: “Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.”…
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#256 | God’s Victory Over Death: Isaiah and the Hope of Resurrection
Isaiah contains some of the Old Testament’s most powerful visions of judgment, salvation, and the ultimate renewal of creation. In this episode, we begin with…
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#255 | From Bethlehem Comes the Long-Awaited King
The prophet Micah came from the margins, but his message reached all the way to Jerusalem, shaped Israel’s future, and ultimately pointed toward Jesus the…
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#254 | Mountain Peaks and the Millennial Reign of Christ: Seeing the Prophetic Landscape
One of the greatest challenges in reading biblical prophecy is recognizing that the prophets often describe future events like someone viewing a distant…
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#253 | The Messiah's Millennial Kingdom: Hope of the Nations
Isaiah 11 paints one of Scripture's most beautiful pictures of the coming reign of the Messiah. But when we read the entire chapter carefully, an important…
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#252 | Dogs and Cats in Heaven? Animals, Resurrection, and the Messiah's Future World
Isaiah is often remembered for exposing the sin, injustice, and rebellion of God's people. But he also exposes the hopeful future that the Messiah wil bring…
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#251 | The Spirit-Led King and the War of Words
In Isaiah 11:1–5, the prophet introduces a future King unlike any who came before him. Descended from David's family line, this promised ruler would not merely…
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#250 | The Overlooked Messianic Prophecy: The Divine King and Prince of Peace
Isaiah 9:6–7 contains some of the most famous words in the Old Testament: "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." Yet one of the most surprising…
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#249 | Light in the Darkness: Jesus, Trauma, and the Healing of First Wounds
Isaiah 9:1–5 contains one of the most beloved prophecies in Scripture, yet it also raises important questions about how biblical prophecy works. In this…
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#248 | Messianic Prophecies: The Riddle of Partial Fulfillment
It's the OneLife Nashville Podcast's 5 year anniversary! We want to give away a copy of Tim and Tiffany's Discipling Toolkit, Participating in Christ!Be the…
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#247 | How Jesus Breaks the Fear of Death and Gets Us Unstuck
As the Assyrian armies draw near, the people of Judah begin looking for security in all the wrong places. Instead of seeking God, many turn to mediums…
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#246 | Isaiah and Jesus: Sharing in our struggle and story
In Isaiah 8:16–18, the prophet Isaiah stands at a critical moment in Judah's history. Assyria is rising like a flood, judgment is approaching, and most of the…
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#245 | Jesus: The Rock That Shelters and Scandalizes
In Isaiah 8, the prophet describes a striking paradox. The same God who becomes a sanctuary and refuge for Isaiah becomes a stone of stumbling, a rock of…
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#244 | Taking Refuge in the Lord: Intimacy in Lonely Places
In this episode, we explore a most personal and intimate moment in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah 8:11-18. Unlike many prophetic passages that focus primarily on…
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#243 | God With Us: Faithful in the Midst of Judgment
In this episode, we explore Isaiah 8:1–11 and the looming invasion of Judah by Assyria during the reign of Ahaz. We examine the prophetic role of Isaiah and…
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#242 | The Virgin and God With Us: Isaiah 7:14 and the Mystery of Immanuel
What did Isaiah really mean when he spoke of a “young woman” bearing a son called Immanuel? And why does Matthew quote Isaiah 7:14 as a prophecy of the virgin…
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#241 | A Tale of Two Kings: Ahaz, Jesus, and the Son of God
What happens when a king refuses to be fathered by God? In this episode, we step into the historical world of Isaiah 7 by tracing the story through the…
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#240 | Isaiah, Jesus, and Problems: Trusting God When Pressure Mounts
What do you do when the pressure is real, the threats are mounting, and every option feels like a compromise? In this episode, we step into the political and…
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#239 | “How Long?” — Isaiah, Jesus, and the Fire of Purification
In this episode, we step into the tension of Isaiah’s encounter with God in the Book of Isaiah, specifically his question in Isaiah 6:11: “How long?” This…
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#238 | Isaiah, Parables, and Judgment: When Hearing Becomes Hardening
In this episode, we step into the commissioning moment of Isaiah 6:8–10 and wrestle with one of the most provocative dynamics in prophetic ministry: judicial…
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#237 | Isaiah’s Vision: How the Lord's presence exposes and heals
In this episode, we step into the awe-filled moment of Isaiah’s temple vision in Isaiah 6:4–7. Everything changes as Isaiah comes face-to-face with the…
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#236 | Isaiah’s Vision of YHWH: Jesus in the Old Testament?
In this episode, we explore one of the most theologically significant moments in Scripture, Isaiah’s vision of the Lord in Isaiah 6:1–8, which is set within a…
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#235 | Isaiah 59: Rethinking What Really Separates Us from God
In this episode, we take a careful look at Isaiah 59:1–8—a passage often used to support the idea that God withdraws from us when we sin. But is that really…
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#234 | Isaiah, Sin, Sickness, and Healing: A Prophetic Diagnosis and a Divine Cure
Isaiah opens his prophetic book not with abstract theology, but with a devastating diagnosis. In Isaiah 1, the relationship between God and Judah is framed as…
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#233 | Intro to Isaiah: The Salvation of YHWH and Yeshua
In this introductory episode to our Isaiah series, we explore how Isaiah functions as a microcosm of the biblical story itself. The book of Isaiah has long…
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#232 | Amos, Jesus, and the Future of Israel: What James Really Meant in Acts 15
In this episode, we explore one of the most debated prophetic texts in the New Testament: Amos 9:11–12 and its citation by James in Acts 15:12–17. At first…
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#231 | Amos, Jesus, and the Nations: “Return to Me” and the Heart of God’s Mission
Before we step into the fire of Amos’s oracles, we step back into the story. From the beginning, God’s vision has always been the advancement and maturation of…
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#230 | Hosea, Jesus, and Resurrection: Why Death Could Never Have the Last Word
In this episode, we dig into Hosea 13:14 and its surprising afterlife in 1 Corinthians 15:54–57, where Paul turns an ancient oracle into a triumphant…
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#229 | Hosea and Jesus: The Son Who Learned to Mature
In this episode, we slow down and sit with one of the most tender—and haunting—passages in the prophets: Hosea 11:1–4, and its surprising reappearance in…
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#228 | Hosea, Jesus, and Healing from Our Sins: Chisels, Doctors, and Covenant Love
In this episode, we step into the vivid and surprisingly medical world of Hosea 6:1–6, where Israel’s unfaithfulness is not treated primarily as a legal…
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#227 | Hosea, Israel, and Jesus: When Unfaithfulness Isn’t the End of the Story
The book of Hosea is one of the most emotionally intense and theologically rich prophetic books in the Old Testament—and its opening chapters give us a lens…
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#226 | Jesus, Jonah, and Seeking Signs: Adultery, Emptiness, and the Demand for Proof
In Gospel of Matthew 12:38–39, Jesus responds to the religious leaders’ demand for proof with a sharp rebuke: “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a…
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#225 | Jonah, Jesus, and the Nations: Avoiding or Intensifying Judgment
In this episode, we step back and read Matthew 12:38–42 within its much larger narrative context—stretching from Matthew 11:1 through 12:45—where Jesus is not…
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#224 | When the Nations Repent—and When They Don’t: Jesus, Jonah, and Judgment
In this episode, we explore one of Jesus’ most unsettling comparisons: the repentance of Nineveh in the days of Jonah—and the refusal of Jesus’ own generation…
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#223 | Introducing Jonah the Prophet: The Backstory Behind Jesus’ Sign
The story of Jonah is often remembered as a children’s tale about a runaway prophet and a great fish. But when we slow down and read Jonah within the larger…
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#222 | Jesus, Joel, and the Puzzle of Prophecy: From Revelation to Community
In Acts 2, Peter stands up on the day of Pentecost and boldly declares that what the crowd is witnessing is the fulfillment of Joel 2:28–32. But a closer look…
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#221 | Jesus, Joel, and the Spirit: Prophecy as Revelation for a New Community
When we hear the prophecy that God will “pour out His Spirit,” we often rush straight to prophecy—predictions, words, or inspired speech. But in Joel’s vision…
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#220 | When Jesus Pours Out the Spirit: From Joel to Pentecost
In this episode, we explore the promise in Joel that God would “pour out” His Spirit on all flesh (Joel 2:28–29) and explore how radically relational this…
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#219 | The Coming Day of the Lord: Joel, Jesus, and Judgment
In this episode, we delve into one of the most intriguing, yet potentially perplexing, themes in the Bible - the Day of the Lord. We and explore how this idea…
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#218 | Joash, Jesus, and the Days of Joel: When Kings Rebuild and a Prophet Calls for Repentance
In this episode we enter the conflicting world of 2 Kings 11:1–21, where political ambition, idolatry, and God’s faithfulness shape the future of Judah. Our…
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#217 | Elisha, the Cleansing of Naaman and Jesus’ Prophetic Pattern
This episode explores the surprising connection between Elisha’s healing of Naaman the Syrian (2 Kings 5:1–19) and Jesus’ bold sermon in Nazareth (Luke…
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#216 | When Jesus Leaves—and the Spirit Comes: Elijah, Elisha, and the Power to Carry On
In this episode, we explore one of the most dramatic transitions of spiritual leadership in the Scriptures—Elijah’s departure and Elisha’s commissioning in 2…
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#215 | Put On the Mantle, Put On Christ: Elijah, Elisha, and the Way of Jesus
In this episode, we explore the curious encounter between Elijah and Elisha in 1 Kings 19:19–21, a moment that reshapes how we understand prophetic succession…
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#214 | When Prophets Lose Perspective: How Jesus Perfects the Path Elijah Strayed From
In this episode, we step into one of the most vulnerable moments in the life of Elijah—the prophet fleeing for his life from Jezebel in 1 Kings 19:1–18. It’s a…
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#213 | The Prophet Who Entered Our Pain: Elijah, Jesus, and the Widow’s Son
In this episode, we explore the story at the beginning of Elijah’s ministry where he raises the widow’s son from the dead in 1 Kings 17:17–24. This moment…
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#212 | Formed by the Word: Elijah’s Prophetic Training Begins
In this episode, we explore the beginning of Elijah’s prophetic journey in 1 Kings 17:3–13. God leads Elijah through strange commands—first to be fed by…
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#211 | Elijah the Sojourner: A Prophet from the Edge
In this episode, we explore the mysterious origins of Elijah the Tishbite from 1 Kings 17:1, where the prophet first appears without introduction—“Elijah the…
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#210 | Ahab, Jezebel, and the Woman at the Well: God's Patience in Enemy Territory
In this episode, we explore the chilling rise of King Ahab as recorded in 1 Kings 16:29–34, where he is introduced as the most wicked king in Israel's history…
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#209 | Prophets Silenced, Prophets Heard: Omri vs. Jesus
In this episode, we trace the dark and deadly road that leads to the rise of King Omri in Israel. The northern kingdom had already seen a rapid succession of…
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#208 | Trusting the Lord: Asa’s Fall and the Faithful King
In this episode, we explore the tragic decline of King Asa’s reign as recorded in 2 Chronicles 16. Once a faithful king who turned to the Lord in the face of…
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#207 | Seeking the Lord: Asa’s Revival and the Greater King
In this episode, we journey into the reign of King Asa as recorded in 2 Chronicles 15:1–19, where we find a remarkable story of spiritual transformation—both…
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#206 | Abijam’s Short Reign and the Eternal Throne
In this episode, we examine the short yet tragic reign of Abijam in 1 Kings 15:1–8, exploring how God's enduring faithfulness to the Davidic Covenant shapes…
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#205 | Rehoboam and the Redemptive Wrath of God
In this episode, we explore the often-misunderstood theme of God’s wrath by diving into the story of Rehoboam in 2 Chronicles 12:1–12. After three years of…