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LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 8:1-7) - Bildad, A Cold Man - Part 4 of 4
Ever been pummeled by life and tempted to ask, “What did I do wrong?” We walk through Job’s raw questions, Bildad’s sharp-edged counsel, and the unsettling truth that God can feel distant even while he remains utterly sovereign. The conversatio...
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Episode 764
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31:46
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 8:1-7) - Bildad, A Cold Man - Part 3 of 4
Ever had someone tell you a “true” thing that left you bleeding? We dig into the moment Bildad lectures Job and ask why words that are technically correct can still be spiritually harmful. Our focus is not on watering down doctrine but on eleva...
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Episode 763
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31:50
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 8:1-7) - Bildad, A Cold Man - Part 2 of 4
What happens when a friend shows up with sharp doctrine and a dull heart? We step into the tension between justice and mercy through Bildad’s confrontation with Job, exploring why a black-and-white read of suffering can do real damage. Rather t...
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Episode 762
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31:51
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 8:1-7) - Bildad, A Cold Man - Part 1 of 4
The room goes quiet when someone says, “God offered Job to Satan.” That single claim frames our journey through Job 8, where Bildad arrives with blunt certainty and a theology that sounds tidy but lands like a stone. We trace Job’s plea from ch...
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Episode 761
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31:50
LIVE DISCUSSION: (JOB 7:16-12) - Job's Gospel (Part 4 of 4)
A righteous man begs, “Why do you not pardon my transgression?” and the room goes quiet. We open Job 7 and follow his cry through Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 to a hill outside Jerusalem, where the greater innocent suffers and the questions finally m...
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Season 2025
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Episode 760
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38:59
LIVE DISCUSSION: (JOB 7:16-12) - Job's Gospel (Part 2 of 4)
What if the hardest truth about judgment actually makes grace more beautiful? We wrestle with the unsettling language of reprobation, God’s command to “let them alone,” and the claim that when divine judgment falls, it is just, final, and not o...
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Episode 758
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39:01
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 7:10-15) Night Terrors of Job - (Part 4 of 4)
When faith is tested past the breaking point, do we cling to ideas about God or to God Himself? Our conversation walks with Job through days without comfort and nights without rest, and we ask the questions most of us are afraid to say out loud...
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Season 2025
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Episode 756
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33:29
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 7:10-15) Night Terrors of Job - (Part 3 of 4)
What if the reason you can’t find peace isn’t a missing habit but a misplaced trust? We open Proverbs, Psalm 91, and Job to explore why the wicked lose sleep, why believers can rest, and how Job dares to direct his anguish to God rather than to...
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Episode 755
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33:33
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 7:10-15) Night Terrors of Job - (Part 2 of 4)
What if God doesn’t see you the way you see yourself? We start with Job’s piercing question—“Am I like the sea?”—and follow the thread through Scripture where the sea symbolizes chaos, power, and unrest. From there, we confront a rising claim i...
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Season 2025
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Episode 754
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33:33
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 7:10-15) Night Terrors of Job - (Part 1 of 4)
What if your bank balance and your bad week are equally poor guides to your standing with God? Walking line by line through Job 7:10–12, we face the starkness of death, the urgency of present mercy, and the surprising faith inside honest lament...
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Season 2025
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Episode 753
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33:35
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Rev 3:16) "The Lukewarm Christian" (Part 4 of 4)
Comfort can feel like blessing until Jesus calls it poverty. We take a hard look at the church in Laodicea from Revelation 3 and the modern habits that mirror it—equating status with favor, growth with health, and noise with worship. Together w...
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Season 2025
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Episode 752
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38:25
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Rev 3:16) "The Lukewarm Christian" (Part 3 of 4)
A hard warning can be a great mercy. We take a sober walk through Christ’s words to the church of Laodicea and ask why lukewarm faith is so easy to adopt and so hard to detect. The picture of being “spit out” is graphic, but it clarifies what’s...
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Season 2025
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Episode 751
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38:30
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Rev 3:16) "The Lukewarm Christian" (Part 2 of 4)
Start with the hard question most avoid: if Scripture promises everlasting life, what does it mean when it warns of everlasting condemnation? We walk straight into the tension, tracing how the Bible frames death not as a stopped heartbeat, but ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 750
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38:28
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Rev 3:16) "The Lukewarm Christian" (Part 1 of 4)
A single word from Revelation 3 lands like a thunderclap: lukewarm. We step into Laodicea’s world and into our own, asking what Jesus means when He says He will “vomit” the uncommitted out of His mouth. From there, we follow the line from spiri...
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Season 2025
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Episode 749
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38:27
LIVE DISCUSSION: Job 7:3-9 - An Appealing Death - Part 4 of 4
When life starts moving faster than your footing, it’s easy to say, “My life is wind.” We open the Book of Job to sit with that ache without flinching, and we find something surprising: lament that is honest, faith that refuses to flatter, and ...
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Episode 748
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32:36
LIVE DISCUSSION: Job 7:3-9 - An Appealing Death - Part 3 of 4
What if the story of Job is not a moral about grit but a roadmap for grace? We dive into Job’s raw language—worms, cracked skin, and the weaver’s shuttle—to uncover a richer truth about sanctification: God starts the relationship and God keeps ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 747
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32:40
LIVE DISCUSSION: Job 7:3-9 - An Appealing Death - Part 2 of 4
What are we actually saved from? We open that hard door and walk straight through it—into the gravity of sin, the reality of God’s justice, and the radiant mercy that only makes sense when the cross stands at the center. Rather than trimming th...
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Episode 746
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32:40
LIVE DISCUSSION: Job 7:3-9 - An Appealing Death - Part 1 of 4
Sorrow can feel like it stretches time, but Job’s voice teaches us how to speak honestly about pain without losing our grip on God. We open Job 7 and trace the strange pairing of lament and faith: months of futility, wearisome nights, and the s...
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Episode 745
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32:39
LIVE DISCUSSION: Kirk Cameron Denies Endless Punishment (Part 4 of 4)
Eternity is either the most sobering truth you’ll ever face or the most convenient myth to ignore. We walk straight into that tension and ask hard questions about annihilationism, the meaning of “everlasting,” and why the Bible ties divine love...
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Season 2025
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Episode 744
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36:30
LIVE DISCUSSION: Kirk Cameron Denies Endless Punishment (Part 3 of 4)
What if softening judgment drains the cross of its power? We take aim at a growing trend: the instinct to escape—through pre‑trib rapture hopes or annihilationism that promises sin ends in sleep. Our argument is simple and sobering: if condemna...
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Episode 743
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36:31
LIVE DISCUSSION: Kirk Cameron Denies Endless Punishment (Part 2 of 4)
What happens to the gospel when eternal judgment gets edited out? We tackle that question head-on after a prominent voice claims hell isn’t eternal. We don’t chase controversy for its own sake; we chase clarity. The stakes are spiritual and pra...
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Episode 742
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36:31
LIVE DISCUSSION: Kirk Cameron Denies Endless Punishment (Part 1 of 4)
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Episode 741
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36:31
The Dead Remember: Rich Man, Lazarus (Luke 16)
A single word—remember—turns the parable of the rich man and Lazarus into a mirror we cannot ignore. We walk through Luke 16 with clear eyes, tracing the rich man’s comfort, Lazarus’s suffering, and the great reversal that follows death. What e...
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Season 2025
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Episode 740
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45:48
LIVE DISCUSSION: JOB 7:1,2 - Man's Appointed Time (PART 3 of 3)
Start with the wrong picture of God and suffering will feel like proof that you’ve been abandoned. Start with God’s holiness and sovereignty, and the same suffering can become a place where joy takes root. We gather around the book of Job to as...
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Season 2025
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Episode 739
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37:47
LIVE DISCUSSION: JOB 7:1,2 - Man's Appointed Time (PART 2 of 3)
What happens when faith collides with months of pain and the comforts that once felt secure fall away? We dive into Job’s raw honesty, the gravity of God’s sovereignty, and the messy, necessary practice of lament that doesn’t abandon trust. Alo...
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Season 2025
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Episode 738
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37:48