5AM Theology
Sometimes, you do your best thinking in the wee hours of the morning! Sit in on our morning chats about select passages of Scripture from our daily chronological Bible reading!
Episodes
158 episodes
Episode 157 - The End - Revelation 14:9 - 11
We have come to the end of 2025, and the end of our podcast, 5AM Theology; so it is very fitting that our weekly reading has us in the book of Revelation. Recently, Kirk Cameron has questioned whether unbelievers will suffer for all eternity, o...
Episode 156 - Living in the Light - 1 John 1:5 - 7
Who doesn't love Christmas lights?! They way they shine and twinkle in the darkness is almost magical! As bright and as beautiful as they are, they are just a shallow comparison to the One True Light who shines through the darkness! How can we ...
Episode 155 - Organize the Church! Titus 1
So many people shrug off church membership, or even having to go to a formal church. They believe there is no need to join a church, or that just meeting with others together and discussing the Bible constitutes holding church. Others balk at d...
Episode 154 - Why Paul had to be an Apostle to the Gentiles - Acts 22
Paul was a Jew amongst Jews, a Pharisee amongst Pharisees. Why then would Jesus send him to be an Apostle to the Gentiles? As a highly education Jew, wouldn't it have made more sense to make him an Apostle to the Jews? As with most things, Jesu...
Episode 153 - Greetings! Romans 16
The Apostle Paul gets a bad rap sometimes, especially from women. But Paul loved the Church and Paul loved people! Romans 16 is an easy chapter for us to ignore because it just seems like an endless list of greetings to a bunch of people with r...
Episode 152 - The Most Crucial Truth in Christianity - 1Cor 15:1 - 6
There are several essential truths in Scripture; Truths that you need to believe to call yourself a Christian. But there is no Truth that is more essential in all of Scripture than the Truth that Jesus resurrected from the dead. Jesus’ resurrec...
Episode 151 - If You Don't Work, You Don't Eat - 2 Thessalonians 3:10 - 16
With all of the talk of completely revamping SNAP and making everyone reapply due to widespread fraud and corruption, Paul's words in 2Thessalonians 3:6, "If you don't work, you don't eat," have become a hot topic. What exactly did Paul mean by...
Episode 150 - Did the Apostles Doubt After the Resurrection? Matthew 28:16 - 20
Sometimes, even when we get to passages in the Bible that are so familiar, we can almost recite them word for word, BAM! Something jumps out that we've never noticed before or never thought about. We got to one of those passages this week...
Episode 149 - The Verdict is In, and You've Been Found Guilty - John 16:8 - 11
Jesus said at the end of His earthly life, He would send the Holy Spirit, who, "will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgement." Who is the world Jesus is speaking about? What does it mean that the Holy Spirit convicts th...
Episode 148 - Jesus was a Patriot! - Luke 19:41 - 44
We don't usually think of Jesus as a patriot. After all, as the Sovereign God, He owns every nation on the entire earth! But as fully Man, and as a Jew, Jesus loved Israel, especially the city of Jerusalem, which was supposed to be a holy city ...
Episode 147 - Lock Your Doors and Grab Your Weapons! Luke 12:35 - 48
If you knew someone was going to break into your house tonight, what would you do to prepare for it? The chances that the burglar would be successful breaking into your home if you are prepared for it go down dramatically! It's the same with th...
Episode 146 - Who is Your Real Family? John 7:1 - 9
While Jesus walked the earth, His siblings, even though they had heard Him teach and seen Him perform miracles, did not believe He was the Messiah. In fact, most in Jesus' hometown didn't believe it, either. Why is that? And what does this tell...
Episode 145 - To Be Seen or Not Seen, That is the Question! Matthew 5:15 - 6:4
In Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, He says both, "Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven," AND, "When you give to the needy, do not let your l...
Episode 144 - Finding Everyday Encouragement in the Miraculous - Luke 1:36 - 44
The story of the birth of Jesus, as well as the birth of John the Baptist, are miraculous indeed! But, we can find treasures of encouragement from both stories that will inspire us in our everyday life!
Episode 143 - Oh, God, Remember Me - Nehemiah 13
Since God is Omniscient and never forgets anything, why did Nehemiah feel it necessary to ask God to rememeber him 6 times in the book of Nehemiah? Why did the other Biblical writers ask God to remember them for a total of 235 times?!
Episode 142 - Whose Work Are You About? Haggai 1
When Haggai went to Jerusalem, the Temple was still in ruins, even though 17 years earlier, God told the returning Israelites to get it rebuilt. They claimed it wasn't the right time to rebuild; but it seemed the right time to them to rebuild t...
Episode 141 - Persistent Perseverance
When we get to Daniel 9, we see that even after 70 years in exile in Babylon, the Israelites were still sinning and needed Daniel to intercede with God on their behalf. Many years in exile had taken a toll on them. It's the same for us. We are ...
Episode 140 - Afterall, Tomorrow is a New Day! Lamentations 3:21 - 26
We need to take our sin seriously and be continually repenting of it; BUT we need to make sure that we don't forget that because of what Jesus did for us, EVERY one of our sins are forgiven by God. Instead of getting what we deserve for our sin...
Episode 139 - Was Jeremiah Crazy?? - Jeremiah 32:6 - 15
In the midst of the land of Judah being attacked and overthrown by Babylon, God tells Jeremiah to buy a plot of that land!! This seems crazy, but is it? What's God purpose behind it?
Episode 138 - How Will You Fare in the Fire? Ezekiel 22:1 - 22
The Bible is not a book of separate narratives and stories. Instead, it is a collection of narratives that tell ONE story - the story of God's redemption of His people. In the book of Ezekiel, God tells the Judahites that He will throw them int...
Episode 137 - An Unlikely Moral Example - Jeremiah 35
You would think if God was going to give His people an example of what obedience looks like, He would choose someone from within the family of God, but in Jeremiah 35, God held up the Rechabite tribe who weren't even a part of Israel, as the mo...
Episode 136 - Jars of Clay - To Smash or Not to Smash? Jeremiah 19:1 - 15
Clay and jars of clay is a reoccurring theme in Scripture. Clay jars are used to represent our human bodies, or more specifically, our very frail human bodies that are completely dependent upon the Sovereign Hand of God who formed us. Whether G...
Episode 135 - Legacy - 2Kings 21: 1- 9
Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." But what happens when you do exactly that, and your child walks away from the Lord. And in contrast, how do some really solid C...
Episode 134 - Cheeseburger in Paradise? - Isaiah 25:6 - 8
Have you ever wondered what we'll eat in heaven? Revelation tells us there is no killing or death in heaven, so that would mean, no meat. Yet Isaiah foreshadows our feast in heaven telling us we will eat choice food flavored with marrow (or mea...
Episode 133 - Meditating on God's Enduring Love - Psalm 136
Psalm 136 is a hymn celebrating one of the greatest reasons there is to thank God: His love for us. And this love is not just any love; it’s a love that “endures forever” as the Psalmist tells us 26 times! The Psalm is meant to help us...
