Seeking Pearls
Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like a hidden pearl, which, upon finding it, becomes dearer to the finder than anything he or she has ever found. God’s Word is just like that, full of hidden treasures and truths that are more precious than this world has to offer. Join us in this podcast as we study Scripture and seek pearls together.
Episodes
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
The First Journey: Part Two
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Illness, persecution, division, even death...nothing can stop Paul's fervor for the gospel of Jesus Christ. On the second half of his first missionary journey, Paul is stoned to death, miraculously healed, and then gets up and goes right back into the city that just tried (successfully?) to kill him. Why? Because Jesus is worth it. Jesus is worth it all.
Monday Jun 26, 2023
The First Journey
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
The first missionary journey for the Apostle Paul and Barnabas has set sail, and there will be no shortage of drama! Preaching to a governor, releasing a man from a demon, illness, controversy, suffering, arduous mountain trails, sleepless nights and a possible shipwreck...
But, far more important than all of that, through it all, lives are saved for the sake of Christ. The gospel is proclaimed, and hope is restored in lives and lands.
Join us for the first installment of the first journey!
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Be a Barnabas
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
In the fourth episode of our series on the Apostle Paul, we zoom in on a key encourager in his life: Barnabas.
Barnabas takes a risk on Saul when everyone else is still scared of him. Barnabas encourages him, remembers him, seeks him out, and mobilizes him for ministry.
What would it look like for you and I to be a Barnabas?
Monday Jun 12, 2023
The Hidden Years
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
In this third episode of our series on the Apostle Paul, we look into the hidden years. After his conversion and before his first missionary journey is a period of about 14 years. We don't have very many details in the pages of Scripture, but what we do have gives us intriguing insight into the years in which he sought the Lord Jesus and learned personally, directly from Him.
Let us wait on the Lord like Paul did. Let us seek to know Jesus personally, intimately, in the ways that Paul did, as well as so many other men and women from the Bible.
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
From Darkness to Light
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
In this second episode of Paul: His Letters, His Journeys, His Jesus, we take a deep dive into his conversion experience. What happened that day, two thousand years ago, on the long, hot road into Damascus?
When Jesus met Paul that day, it changed the world. Paul's obedience, Ananias' courage, and above all else Jesus' grace...it all flipped the world around in an irreversible way.
Join me on the road to Damascus as Saul is taken out of darkness and into the light.
Monday May 29, 2023
Paul, Before Christ (Episode One)
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
Who was Saul of Tarsus? Join me this summer as I journey with the Apostle Paul through his conversion to Christ, his silent years of learning from Jesus, his travels, his sufferings, and ultimately getting to know his Jesus.
In this first episode of Paul: His Journeys, His Letters, His Jesus, we will look at Paul BC - Paul before Christ. Who was he before Jesus met him on the road to Damascus and flipped his world (and the whole world) upside down?
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Colossians Episode 7: Fearless
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
In the last chapter of his letter to the Colossians, Paul beseeches them to pray. He asks them to pray for one another, to be watchful and thankful in prayer, and to pray for him. For his safety, we might ask? No. He wants them to pray that while he is in prison, they would pray that he would share the Gospel clearly and fearlessly.
They do and he does.
May we live fearlessly too for the sake of the Gospel. May we wrestle in prayer like Paul and Epaphras did, and may the results of that prayer be radical disciples of Jesus who live fearlessly for Him.
Amen and Amen.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Colossians Episode 6: Live Like Christ!
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
In the second half of the third chapter of Colossians, Paul instructs the people of Colossae on how to live like Jesus. They've learned about the cross of Christ, they've received a detailed theology on who Jesus is, they've been instructed to get rid of all leftover sin habits entangling them. Now...live like this. This is how we do it.
Saturday Feb 25, 2023
Colossians Episode 5: Set Your Heart!
Saturday Feb 25, 2023
Saturday Feb 25, 2023
In chapter 3 of Colossians Paul teaches what it means to belong to Christ. He alone is true life. He alone is the place on which we should set our hearts and minds. The life that is truly life is found in Him alone, and as believers we have full access to that life. Therefore, let us let go of the sin habits that cling to us and that we so tightly cling to. Let's set our minds on Christ and grow in His image.
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
What Does the Cross have to do with Circumcision
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Paul gets into the deep details of the Cross in this section of Colossians. What does it mean that we have been circumcised in Christ? What is circumcision of the heart? When was I baptized into the death of Christ? When was the charge against me cancelled? And who are the authorities that Jesus put to shame through His death on the cross? And most of all, what does this all have to do with my freedom in Christ???
Everything! Paul dives in deep...let's dive in also.
Seeking Pearls
In Matthew 13:45-46 Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of God is like a hidden pearl, which, upon finding it, becomes the greatest treasure of our lives.
Indeed it is. And His Word is overflowing with these beautiful, perfect pearls of the Kingdom...truths that take our breath away and set our hearts free.
This podcast is a Bible study podcast in which we study God's Word together, looking for, finding, and celebrating with each peal that comes our way.
Study with me, friend.
Let's seek pearls.