The Bible Provocateur
BibleProvocateur is a podcast that refuses to let Scripture be tamed, sentimentalized, or softened for modern comfort. Here, the Bible is allowed to confront, unsettle, and provoke—just as it always has. Drawing deeply from Reformed theology, church history, and careful exegesis, this podcast presses hard questions about grace, law, repentance, faith, judgment, and the sovereignty of God.
Each episode engages Scripture with historical depth and theological honesty, interacting with Reformers, Puritans, and classic commentators while challenging popular assumptions in contemporary Christianity. This is not reactionary outrage or shallow controversy—it’s principled provocation, aimed at exposing error, sharpening doctrine, and calling the church back to a robust, God-centered faith.
If you’re tired of devotional fluff, allergic to theological clichés, and convinced the Bible still has the authority to offend before it comforts, BibleProvocateur is for you. Come ready to think carefully, repent deeply, and worship a God who refuses to be domesticated.
Episodes
1803 episodes
"Times Are Not Hidden From The Almighty" (Job 24:1-12), Part 5/5
Evil can look confident, organized, and untouchable and that’s exactly why Job 24 hits so hard. We sit with the tension of God’s silence, the pain of watching injustice, and the honest question underneath it all: what does faithful trust look l...
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Season 2026
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Episode 269
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35:48
"Times Are Not Hidden From The Almighty" (Job 24:1-12), Part 4/5
If a Christian believes God is sovereign and the elect will be saved, does that change how we should respond to war, injustice, and mass suffering, or does it make our responsibility even heavier?We start by putting guardrails on the co...
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Season 2026
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Episode 268
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35:52
"Times Are Not Hidden From The Almighty" (Job 24:1-12), Part 3/5
Christians quoting Scripture while defending cruelty is one of the most disorienting sights of our time, and it raises a question we can’t dodge: are we following Jesus or protecting a tribe? We unpack a painful moment where speaking against ha...
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Season 2026
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Episode 267
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35:52
"Times Are Not Hidden From The Almighty" (Job 24:1-12), Part 2/5
Cutting off a Christian friend over an election sounds normal now, and that should scare us. We talk plainly about how political loyalty can become spiritual idolatry, how it distracts us from Christ, and why the church loses its witness when w...
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Season 2026
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Episode 266
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35:52
"Times Are Not Hidden From The Almighty" (Job 24:1-12), Part 1/5
God sees the calendar, so why does justice feel late? We pick up our walk through the Book of Job by stepping into Job 24, where Job voices a question that still burns in every era: if nothing is hidden from the Almighty, why do the “days” of j...
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Season 2026
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Episode 265
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35:45
LIVE DISCUSSION: Testimony of Venessa Martin (Part 4/4)
A single Bible detail can expose a bigger problem: are we chasing spiritual excitement, or are we actually being taught by God through Scripture? We sit down with Sister Vanessa for a raw, thoughtful Christian testimony that traces her path fro...
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Season 2026
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Episode 264
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33:36
LIVE DISCUSSION: Testimony of Venessa Martin (Part 3/4)
A single line in Scripture can change when you suddenly see it echoed somewhere else, and that “wait, how did I miss that?” moment sets the tone for this conversation. We sit with Vanessa as she shares a deeply personal Christian testimony and ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 263
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33:38
LIVE DISCUSSION: Testimony of Venessa Martin (Part 2/4)
She says something most people are afraid to admit: she never really doubted God existed. Even in seasons of sin and confusion, she still prayed at night, convinced there was a Father listening. What changed over time was not God’s reality, but...
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Season 2026
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Episode 262
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33:38
LIVE DISCUSSION: Testimony of Venessa Martin (Part 1/4)
Some stories are polished. This one is honest, shaky, and brave. Vanessa Martin walks us through a Christian testimony that starts with childhood church memories and terrifying dreams of Satan chasing her, then moves into the confusing gap many...
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Season 2026
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Episode 261
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25:00
"God Performs the Thing That is Appointed for Me" (Job 23:8-17), Part 4/4
Job says God “performs the things that are appointed” for him, and we treat that statement like it actually means something for real life. We walk through why people try to limit hard passages, why “everyone is a Greek scholar” online, and why ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 260
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39:52
"God Performs the Thing That is Appointed for Me" (Job 23:8-17), Part 3/4
Some Christians can’t stop measuring faith by forbidden objects and approved habits: no Easter eggs, no Christmas trees, no movies, no music, no anything. We go straight at that mindset and ask a better question: are we following the conviction...
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Season 2026
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Episode 259
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39:52
"God Performs the Thing That is Appointed for Me" (Job 23:8-17), Part 2/4
What actually dies when you’re born again? That question drives a deep, Scripture-heavy conversation on regeneration, human nature, and why the Christian life can feel like both freedom and warfare at the same time. We challenge the instinct to...
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Season 2026
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Episode 258
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39:52
"God Performs the Thing That is Appointed for Me" (Job 23:8-17), Part 1/4
God can feel closest when life is calm and impossibly far when life starts breaking. We open Job 23 at the exact point where Job says what many believers are afraid to admit: he looks forward, backward, left, and right, and still cannot perceiv...
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Season 2026
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Episode 257
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38:44
LIVE: "Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion!" Part 4/4
If Jesus came to launch an earthly throne and got rejected, what does that imply about the cross? We walk straight into that question and show why the “rejected kingdom” storyline of dispensationalism doesn’t just feel shaky, it changes the sha...
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Season 2026
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Episode 256
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37:46
LIVE: "Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion!" Part 3/4
If you’ve ever heard a pastor casually say “God told me,” tie Ezekiel to 1948, or insist a Third Temple must be rebuilt for prophecy to move forward, we’re going to slow down and ask a hard question: where is that actually in the text? We start...
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Season 2026
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Episode 255
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37:48
LIVE: "Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion!" Part 2/4
A lot of end-times teaching sounds harmless until you follow its logic all the way to the cross. We dig into dispensationalism and its core claim that Jesus arrived to set up a political kingdom, got rejected, and then introduced a “church age”...
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Season 2026
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Episode 254
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37:48
LIVE: "Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion!" Part 1/4
If you’ve ever been told that a literal 1,000-year kingdom on earth is simply “what the Bible says,” we want you to slow down and look at the assumptions underneath that claim. We start with one detail all four Gospels record: the sign above Je...
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Season 2026
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Episode 253
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36:49
LIVE: "I Would Order My Cause Before Him" (Job 22:26-23:4), Part 5/5
One phrase from Hebrews 1:3 can change how you see reality: Christ “upholds all things by the word of his power.” We take our time with it, asking what the “word” is and why scripture chooses that wording. The answer pushes past vague spiritual...
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Season 2026
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Episode 252
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LIVE: "I Would Order My Cause Before Him" (Job 22:26-23:4), Part 4/5
Not one drop of Christ’s blood is wasted and if you really believe that, it changes how you breathe. We lean into a doctrine many Christians crave but rarely hear stated without apology: assurance of salvation is not a personality trait, it’s t...
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Season 2026
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Episode 251
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39:35
LIVE: "I Would Order My Cause Before Him" (Job 22:26-23:4), Part 3/5
Someone throws a threat and a challenge: “I’m going to destroy you.” We don’t answer with panic, we answer with doctrine, because the real fight is never about personalities. It’s about whether God is sovereign, whether salvation has one way, a...
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Season 2026
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Episode 251
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39:35
LIVE: "I Would Order My Cause Before Him" (Job 22:26-23:4), Part 2/5
Silence can feel like rejection, especially when you’re hurting, praying, and doing your best to hold it together. We sit with Job 23 and name what a lot of Christians are afraid to say out loud: sometimes we act like God has gone missing. Then...
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Season 2026
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Episode 250
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39:35
LIVE: "I Would Order My Cause Before Him" (Job 22:26-23:4), Part 1/5
Eliphaz sounds confident, spiritual, and even biblical, but his message lands like a trap: repent, and God will make you rich, safe, and successful. We slow down in Job 22 to examine what’s really being offered, why it resembles the prosperity ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 249
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38:52
LIVE: "God, Depart From Us!" (Job 22:10-24), Part 5/5
God’s silence can feel like the worst kind of answer. When you’re doing your best to be faithful and the storm keeps pounding, it’s easy to start demanding explanations, or to assume you’ve failed, or to let other people’s “Bible certainty” cru...
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Season 2026
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Episode 248
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30:52
LIVE: "God, Depart From Us!" (Job 22:10-24), Part 4/5
Job’s friends promised a simple formula: get right with God, then the pain stops and the blessings return. But what happens when the blessings return and the formula is still wrong? That tension drives our conversation as we dig into Job, suffe...
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Season 2026
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Episode 247
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32:59
LIVE: "God, Depart From Us!" (Job 22:10-24), Part 3/5
Watching someone fall apart can trigger a dangerous reflex: we explain their pain by accusing their heart. That’s exactly what happens as we dig into Job 22, where Eliphaz describes wicked people whose houses are filled with good things and the...
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Season 2026
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Episode 246
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32:59