Red Letter Episodes

Jesus gives a sharp rebuke to the local cities surrounding his ministry. Not just rebukes but Woe's. This is serious! In Matthew 11 he says to Capernaum (the town of his headquarters) - Mat 11:23-24 And you, Capernaum, will y...

What is the fruit of faith? Check Luke 7:36-50. What seems like an awkward moment at the home of Simon the Pharisee becomes a beautiful depiction of how one responds to the forgiveness of sin. Notes to The Awkward Dinner Part...

I did my Bible Study last night with our small church group and got some great feedback that helped me think about this in a more broadly applicable, and maybe less confrontational framework. We live in a world of constant ch...

We continue on our Red-Letter journey today and we encounter a Centurion who seeks Jesus to heal his servant-slave. Let's first understand how upside down this is. Romans did not bow to Jews... let alone Roman commanders. Yet...

We follow up from yesterday's podcast and try to see how compromise works. Ultimately, we are trying to understand how Christians end up compromising with the very things that go against their religion. This is not a left vs ...

We wander of the Red-letter trail today. I was asked to host a Bible study about persecution in America, or the lack thereof. When we talk about persecution in America, most people shrug and say, “We don’t have any real perse...

Don’t Miss Your Ticket to Eternity Imagine this: by some miracle, you were told tomorrow’s winning lottery numbers. You write them down. You know they’re right. But then you decide not to bother buying a ticket. The next day ...

Jesus closes his sermon on the mount with a warning about false prophets. 2000 years later, in the information age, I'm not sure we'd recognize the warning even if the wolf was looking at you straight in the face and said "Ba...

Matthew 7:13–14 (ESV) “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those...

As we continue our Red-Letter Bible journey, we arrive at Matthew 7:7-12 and Luke 11:9-13. It is so easy to just gloss over this and because of this, our prayers become either very superficial or sometimes even scripted. And ...

They all but created a day online for today! It was Rapture Day! And then it wasn't. If you’ve followed this podcast from its inception, you’ve heard maybe 10 different podcasts about Rapture. Different theories, different ti...

I think we live in a culture of judges... doing so without considering their own inward issues first. Jesus isn't telling you not to judge... which is how Matthew 7:1 is used: Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.” ...

We live in a stress filled world. The two keywords in that sentence are "stress" and "world". Imagine your life if you could stop worrying so much about what tomorrow brings? In today's culture that sounds like a tall order. ...

This is convicting for a lot of Americans... but it doesn't have to be. God doesn't deny you your wealth. The question isn't about your money but what is it that you're relying on? Notes to Heavenly Retirement https://www.rab...

We're still following Jesus in our Red-Letter journey and Jesus is telling a crowd of followers: warning about hypocrisy, fearing God, confessing Christ and relying on the Holy Spirit and this guy speaks up and suggests to Je...

I've listened to testimony after testimony. Many seem to start the same way. Some sort of abuse, trauma, evil in one's past. And often that is where the focus is. Is that to justify the sin? Very often it appears that way. We...

In our modern culture, it seems that we are rediscovering the physical benefits of fasting. Unfortunately, how we look in the mirror can take more precedence in our daily lives than how we look spiritually. Yes, there are phy...

We've seen this in every church - mumbling through the Lord's Prayer. Recited, forgetting it's reverence. Today, we hear from that persistent kid in the room - pestering the teacher (interesting that they referred to Jesus as...

When you give a large sum of money to someone or some charity, how does that make you feel? Good right? But ask yourself why? Do you want some credit for giving generously? Do you want to be recognized? Are you doing it so th...

We are outside the sequence of the Red-Letter Bible Study here, but I wanted to address this. If you get some of your religious content from social media (especially YouTube), then I'm sure you've caught the rapture buzz. The...

You just bought a big red truck. You loved it. It was new, it was different and nobody else had one! You hop in, drive down the road and all of a sudden, there are big red trucks everywhere! Same model even! Ever had that hap...

The Sermon on the Mount was a rollercoaster ride for me. Taken in isolation, Jesus sets an incredibly high standard. I can't possibly achieve what Jesus is suggesting here! It's convicting. I had to sit with the idea that "I'...

I know! I made that word up!!! But it fits! We are on the tail end of the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes in our Red-Letter Bible Study. It occurred to me how foreign the message in Matthew 5:38-42 was and that led me ...

Today, we landed on Matthew 5:33-37. Have you ever lied? Have you ever not done something you said you were going to do? Have you ever sworn to God only not to fulfill the promise you were making. I'm guessing you can't even ...