God's Word for Life
As a companion to our Word Aflame Adult Level Curriculum, this podcast serves to encourage adult disciples to think deeply about God’s Word, further develop their personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and make a greater commitment to the purpose and plan of God for their lives.
Episodes
321 episodes
The Day of Pentecost
The day finally dawned. But it wasn't just the Day of Pentecost for that particular year. It was the day God had waited nearly four thousand years to pour out His Spirit upon humanity and enter into a new covenant with us. Pick up your Bible or...
Jesus' Great Commission
As Jesus ascended, He promised His followers that they would receive power to be witnesses unto Him in Jerusalem, Judea, even Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Jesus was establishing an unchanging principle: Disciples make disciples. And th...
Jesus' Resurrection
The Roman soldiers stood guard, guarding the tomb that was sealed with the indomitable Roman seal. They were ready to keep the disciples from trying to break in and steal Jesus' body from the tomb. They could not have conceived that they would ...
The Cross
The Jews who cried "crucify Him" and the Romans who heard that cry and crucified Him did not know that Jesus was dying, not for His crimes, but for ours. And these crimes were crimes against God, not just against humanity. Pick up your Bible or...
Jesus in the Garden
Jesus was surrounded by twelve disciples most of His ministry. But this night, one of them walked away from Him, He walked away from eight of them, took three of them further, and then fell on His face and prayed. On that night, Jesus warred fo...
The Lord's Supper
Jesus brought His sometimes faithless, sometimes faithful followers to a second-story room for the Passover meal. Four thousand years of human history have been building toward this night: This night, Jesus would introduce the new covenant He w...
The Triumphal Entry
Jesus came but not like everyone expected. He rode into Jerusalem in a one-float parade, on a colt that had never been ridden. People came from all corners of the world, plucked palm branches, doffed coats and cloaks, and worshiped Jesus as the...
Raising Lazarus
Lazarus was sick. Jesus healed the sick. It was the perfect situation. Mary and Martha would pray for Jesus to come to the house, Jesus would come to the house, and Lazarus would be playing pickleball by the afternoon. But that's not what happe...
The Lost Sheep, Coin, and Son
An unlikely crowd gathered together around Jesus: self-righteous Pharisees and publicans and sinners. They all waited to hear Jesus' words, and Jesus shared three parables of a lost sheep, coin, and son. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn t...
Peter's Confession and Denial
After seeing Jesus work wonders and walk on water, Simon Peter boldly declared, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." But days later, he denied he ever met Jesus, even though he walked with Him for three years—once on water. Pick up ...
Disciples Called and Sent
After Jesus had sent out the Twelve to work wonders, Jesus sent out another group of seventy—mostly unnamed to work wonders in His name. They were surprised and overjoyed that Jesus worked the same wonders through them He had worked Himself. Pi...
The Miracles of Mark 4 and 5
In just two chapters, Jesus demonstrated authority over nature, the devil, disease, and death itself. And for Jesus, it was just another day at the office. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Mark 5 to hear the story.This episode i...
Jesus Forgave Sins
Four friends shocked everyone, except Jesus, when they began ripping apart a roof to get their friend in front of Jesus. But Jesus' response was even more surprising. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Mark 2 to hear the story.Thi...
The Woman at the Well
What was He doing talking to her? She's a Samaritan. She's a Samaritan woman. She's that Samaritan woman. He's a Jew. He's a Jewish man. He's a Jewish holy man. He's that Jewish holy man. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn...
A Conversation with Nicodemus
Jesus and Nicodemus met late one night to talk through the Word of God. Nicodemus opened up the conversation with a sincere compliment, and Jesus responded by rocking him back on his heels. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to John 3 to he...
Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
After Jesus' popularity grew all around the region, He climbed a mountain, took a seat, and began to teach. His powerful message is recorded in three chapters in Matthew's gospel. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Matthew 5 to hear the ...
Jesus in the Wilderness
After a forty-day fast, Satan attacked Jesus in the wilderness. But Jesus was ready and fended off his temptations with the Word of God. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Luke 4 to hear the story.This episode is based on the God'...
The Incarnation
After four thousand years of waiting and watching and praying and hoping, God showed Himself faithful yet again. God Himself came in the life-changing, history-changing, date-dividing event called the Incarnation. Pick up your Bible or device, ...
John the Baptist
After walking through the breadth of the Old Testament, we have crossed over four hundred silent years into the New Testament. To break the silence, a camel-hair-wearing, locust-and-wild-honey-eating John the Baptist marched out of the wilderne...
Mordecai and Esther
The Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible's sixty-six books that does not mention God one time, but His fingerprints are everywhere. This book teaches that God is still working, even when He seems absent or silent. Pick up your Bible or ...
Daniel and His Friends
Daniel and his friends had been loaded up and carted off to captivity in Babylon, hundreds of miles away from Jerusalem. But when they faced tests to turn their backs on God, they remained faithful and found God stands with those who stand for ...
The Prophet Ezekiel
Judah had been overrun, defeated, chained, and marched over five hundred miles away to Babylon. Just when Judah wondered if God would ever hear them again, the glory of God surprisingly showed up right there in Babylon to give Ezekiel a message...
The Prophet Elijah
Israel had run a long way in the wrong way and appeared to be far gone, but into that melee of pagan practices stepped the prophet Elijah. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to I Kings 18 to hear the story.This episode is based on th...