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The Wisdom Journey
Stephen Davey shares practical and relevant lessons through the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, in just 10-minute each weekday. Want to understand the Bible and its implications? Subscribe and learn to know God, think biblically and live wisely.
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457 episodes
The Silent Years: From Malachi to Matthew
Four hundred years sit between Malachi and Matthew, and that “blank page” is anything but empty. We walk through the intertestamental period to see how Israel’s world changes while God’s written revelation goes quiet and why that matters when J...
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Final Prophecies and the Future of the Family
Everything rises and falls on leadership and Malachi refuses to let Israel dodge that reality. We follow God’s case against a nation whose spiritual guides went corrupt and whose worship turned into a dull routine. What’s striking is where the ...
The Danger of Religious Rituals
Habit can look a lot like holiness, at least from the outside. We step into the Book of Malachi at a moment when the temple is rebuilt, worship services are running on schedule, and yet God says the quiet part out loud: your heart can drift whi...
A Prophecy of Peace on Planet Earth
War keeps repeating because the human heart keeps repeating, and that’s why the promise of peace can sound like a myth. We start with a blunt observation about history’s constant conflict, then follow Zechariah’s prophecy to a specific claim: l...
Choosing the Right Shepherd
Nothing is certain except the past? Zechariah would disagree and so would we. When God is the author of history, the future can be just as sure as what already happened, even when tomorrow’s details stay hidden. That’s the lens we bring to Zech...
Trusting in the Wrong Traditions
Some church fights are almost predictable: touch a tradition and sparks fly, but challenge shaky teaching and the room goes quiet. We start there, then let Zechariah 7 confront the deeper issue behind religious habits, spiritual routines, and e...
Night Visions of Future Glory
Four visions that feel like they belong in a dream, yet they land with surprising clarity. We start with Zechariah’s golden lampstand, seven lamps burning, and two olive trees feeding a constant stream of oil. It’s a striking Bible prophecy ima...
Prophecies of the Coming Messiah (Zechariah 1–3)
Prophecy can feel distant until you hear it spoken into real discouragement. We turn to the book of Zechariah, one of the richest Old Testament books for messianic prophecy, and we place it back in its gritty moment: exiles have returned from B...
Walking and Working by Faith (Haggai 1–2)
Neglected worship rarely starts as open rebellion. More often, it looks like a busy schedule, a comfortable home, and a quiet decision to delay what God told us to do. As we open the Book of Haggai, we watch that exact drift happen in post-exil...
The Bad News and Good News of God’s Word (Zephaniah 1–3)
Bad news is easy to ignore until it shows up at your door, and Zephaniah refuses to let us stay comfortable. We open with a simple truth about human nature: we want good news, not warnings. Then we step into this three-chapter prophetic book an...
While We Wait, God Is at Work (Habakkuk 1–3)
Evil looks loud, justice looks delayed, and God can feel quiet. That tension is exactly where Habakkuk lives, and it’s why his short prophecy still feels like a mirror for modern faith. We take on a popular Christian myth head-on: trusting Jesu...
Nineveh Learns The Hard Way
Revival stories can inspire us, but they can also unsettle us. We start with the First Great Awakening in early American history, where preaching helped spark widespread repentance, new churches, and visible change, then we face the haunting re...
Peace on Earth at Last (Micah 3–7)
Most of us love the idea of changing the world. Micah presses the uncomfortable question we’d rather avoid: what if the real crisis is that we won’t change ourselves? We walk through Micah 1–2 with an eye on the historical setting, the spiritua...
Getting Ready for Change (Micah 1–2)
Most of us love the idea of change until it points at us. We open Micah with a blunt truth: nations can swing through power struggles, religious noise, and constant upheaval while the human heart stays locked in the same direction. Micah steps ...
The Fainting Spells of a Prodigal Prophet (Jonah 4)
Jonah could have ended as a hero story: one sermon, one brutal city, mass repentance, and a prophet instantly remembered as the greatest evangelist of his day. But Jonah chapter 4 refuses to let us build a celebrity out of a messenger. Right af...
The Prodigal’s Second Chance (Jonah 3:1-10)
Jonah’s fish story isn’t the climax. The turning point is what happens after failure, after fear, and after a prophet tries to walk away from his calling. We open Jonah chapter 3 and sit with one of the most hope-filled lines in Scripture: “the...
The Prodigal Prophet Comes Home (Jonah 1:17–2:10)
Jonah disappears with a single gulp, and suddenly the story isn’t happening on stormy waves anymore. It’s happening in the dark, cramped place where excuses die and honesty finally starts. We dig into Jonah 2 and the moment so many people mock ...
Chasing Runaways (Jonah 1:4-16)
A prophet boards a ship to escape God, then falls asleep while everyone else fights for their lives. We walk through Jonah 1 and watch the story turn on a brutal irony: pagan sailors pray, row, and risk everything to save the very man who refus...
Watch Jonah Run (Jonah 1:1-3)
Everybody can finish the phrase “Jonah and the whale.” Hardly anyone finishes the thought. We dig into why the Book of Jonah is far more than a fish story and why its opening scene is designed to spotlight God’s sovereignty over creation and ov...
The Shortest Old Testament Book (Obadiah)
Edom thought it had the perfect defense: mountain strongholds, a city carved into stone, and the confidence that no one could touch it. Obadiah answers that kind of pride with a single line that still lands hard today: God knows how to bring th...
The Justice and Mercy of God (Amos 7–9)
Mercy and justice sound like opposites, but Amos refuses to let us split God into the parts we prefer. We follow the final chapters of the Book of Amos as God gives the prophet five vivid visions, each one pressing the same hard question: what ...
Wasting Prosperity (Amos 3–6)
A $314 million lottery ticket sounds like a dream until you watch what it can do to a human soul. We start with a true-to-life cautionary story of sudden wealth followed by chaos: wasted money, ruined relationships, addiction, legal trouble, an...
From Fig Picker to Fearless Prophet (Amos 1–2)
A Shakespeare line about “greatness thrust upon them” turns out to be the perfect doorway into Amos. He is not polished, powerful, or credentialed. He is a shepherd from Tekoa and a fig picker, yet God makes him fearless, clear, and impossible ...
Keeping Your Eyes on the Road Ahead (Joel 2:28–3:21)
The rearview mirror is tiny compared to the windshield, and that’s not an accident, it’s a metaphor for how we’re meant to live. We start with a story about choosing eyesight over memory, then take that wisdom straight into Scripture: God does ...