The Bible Provocateur
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1369 episodes
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 4 of 4)
Ever wonder why some people face crushing seasons with surprising peace? We walk through the book of Job to confront a difficult, liberating truth: God remains sovereign over every moment, including the ones that break your heart. Rather than d...
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Season 2025
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Episode 637
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31:04
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 3 of 4)
What if Jesus’ words in John 8:44 are not a riddle but a revelation of origin—“from the beginning”—that reorders how we see evil, truth, and the purpose of suffering? We take a slow walk through the text and trace how “abode not in the truth” i...
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Season 2025
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Episode 636
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31:06
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 2 of 4)
What if the most unsettling line in Job is also the most comforting—that even Satan acknowledges the hedge God sets around His people? We open the text and follow the thread: God preserves, God orders, and God limits. The result is not a cold s...
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Episode 635
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31:06
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of Job 1:6 (Part 1of 4)
A story that begins in heaven will change how you face pain on earth. We open Job 1:6–12 and step into the heavenly courtroom where the “sons of God” present themselves and Satan appears among them. Before Job loses anything, the scene establis...
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Episode 634
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31:05
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of JOB 1:1-5 (Part 4 of 4)
Start where the party ends and the prayers begin. We open Job 1:5 and find a father rising at dawn to intercede for each child by name, not to police their behavior but to tend the deeper place—the heart. That single verse becomes a doorway int...
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Season 2025
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Episode 633
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33:20
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of JOB 1:1-5 (Part 3 of 4)
Pain can feel pointless until you learn to read it. We open the book of Job and find a surprising claim: affliction isn’t payback, it’s a forge. From the first lines, Job’s power and wealth never owned him; his strength came from a heart set on...
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Episode 632
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33:22
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of JOB 1:1-5 (Part 2 of 4)
What if your decisions in public places are preaching a message you never intended? We explore the unsettling and liberating idea that holiness includes avoiding not just sin, but even the appearance of it—because our lives are read long before...
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Episode 631
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33:21
LIVE DISCUSSION: Exposition of JOB 1:1-5 (Part 1 of 4)
A quiet dawn, a faithful father, and a question that won’t let go: what kind of life stands when the storm hits? We open Job with 1:1–5 and trace a portrait that’s both ordinary and profound—a man outside Israel, in the land of Uz, described as...
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Season 2025
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Episode 630
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33:21
LIVE DISCUSSION: Introduction to Job (Part 4 of 4)
What if the most misunderstood book about pain is actually a guide to hope? We dive into Job with fresh eyes, tracing clear lines to Jesus: a righteous sufferer who intercedes, endures mockery, and trusts the Father when the why remains hidden....
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Episode 629
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31:32
LIVE DISCUSSION: Introduction to Job (Part 3 of 4)
What if the hardest moments in life aren’t payback but preparation? We open Job and 2 Corinthians 1 to reframe suffering as God’s tool for refinement, not retribution. Rather than chasing explanations, we pursue encounter: the God who never exp...
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Episode 628
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31:33
LIVE DISCUSSION: Introduction to Job (Part 2 of 4)
What if your hardest days are not detours but the very road God uses to shape you? We open the book of Job to confront a widespread myth: that prosperity is the signature of faith and suffering signals failure. Through scripture, lived experien...
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Episode 627
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31:33
LIVE DISCUSSION: Introduction to Job (Part 1 of 4)
What if your deepest losses weren’t proof of failure, but invitations to trust the God who governs even the limits of your pain? We open a new verse-by-verse journey through Job and strip away the clichés to see what this ancient story actually...
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Episode 626
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31:32
LIVE DISCUSSION: Jesus the Reconciler (Part 2 of 2)
Redemption isn’t an option on the menu; it’s a purchase made at full price with Christ’s blood. We walk through why the cross doesn’t merely open a door but actually secures salvation for those God calls, and how the resurrection confirms the d...
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Season 2025
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Episode 625
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25:26
LIVE DISCUSSION: Jesus the Reconciler (Part 1 of 2)
What if Easter isn’t a seasonal ritual but a verdict handed down from the cross and confirmed by an empty tomb? We open the door to a bigger, bolder view of the resurrection—one that breaks routine, shatters trivial faith, and restores holy awe...
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Season 2025
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Episode 624
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25:29
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Passion of Christ (Part 3 of 3)
A murderer walks free while the innocent King is nailed to a cross. That jarring contrast between Barabbas and Jesus is more than a moment in history—it’s a lens on how power, religion, and politics still trade truth for convenience. We follow ...
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Episode 623
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27:42
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Passion of Christ (Part 2 of 3)
Power can know the truth and still pass the buck. We follow the path from Pilate’s political sidestep to Herod’s hunger for spectacle and watch how Jesus meets curiosity and malice with a charged, unsettling silence. Along the way, religious le...
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Episode 622
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27:43
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Passion of Christ (Part 1 of 3)
Power rarely admits it feels threatened; it changes the charge. We walk through Luke 23 and show how a claim of divinity became a case of treason, and why the title “Son of God” meant far more than a poetic honor. The religious council could no...
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Episode 621
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27:43
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Frustrated Will (Part 2 of 2)
What if the clearest sign of living faith isn’t comfort, but fruit? We explore how Jesus’ own yardstick for judgment—feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger, visiting the sick, and mourning with the broken—reframes every part of daily life. ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 620
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28:35
LIVE DISCUSSION: The Frustrated Will (Part 1 of 2)
Start with a hard question: if free will could bring us to God, why did Jesus have to die? We press into that tension with a candid look at desire, nature, and the limits of human choice—then trace how grace changes the heart from the roots up....
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Episode 619
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28:37
LIVE DISCUSSION: Knowing the Terror of the Lord (Part 3 of 3)
What if the most dangerous lie is the one that tells you there’s still time later? We tackle the claim head-on: there is no purgatory. That isn’t a scare line; it’s a biblical conviction that reframes urgency, clarity, and the way we carry the ...
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Episode 618
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30:21
LIVE DISCUSSION: Knowing the Terror of the Lord (Part 2 of 3)
What if your destiny is set the moment you die—and there are no second chances? We wrestle with that claim through Revelation 22:11 and John 8, laying out a sober, hope-filled case that your eternal state is fixed by how you respond to Christ n...
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Season 2025
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Episode 617
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30:22
LIVE DISCUSSION: Knowing the Terror of the Lord (Part 1 of 3)
What if the afterlife offers no do-overs and no quiet hallway where sins slowly burn away? We take a hard look at the doctrine of purgatory and test it against Scripture, focusing on the intermediate state, the language of hell and the grave, a...
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Season 2025
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Episode 616
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30:22
LIVE DISCUSSION: Rich Man, Beggar, And Forever (Part 2 of 2)
A wealthy man dies, opens his eyes in torment, and still tries to give orders. That single detail from the rich man and Lazarus sets the tone for a searching conversation about the afterlife, the permanence of our choices, and the terrifying po...
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Episode 615
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30:30
LIVE DISCUSSION: Rich Man, Beggar, And Forever (Part 1 of 2)
Ever wonder what the very first moments after death actually reveal about a life? We walk through Jesus’ account of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16 and slow down at every decisive turn: the sumptuous ease of a man who had everything, the so...
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Episode 614
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30:31
LIVE DISCUSSION: Determining the Signs of the Times (Part 2 of 2)
What if the deepest blessing isn’t proximity to power or spectacle, but quiet fidelity to God’s word? We walk through Luke 11, where a woman praises Mary and Jesus redirects the moment: “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 613
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32:47