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Wisdom for the Heart
Stephen Davey will help you learn to know what the Bible says, understand what it means, and apply it to your life as he teaches verse-by-verse through books of the Bible. Stephen is the president of Wisdom International, which provides radio broadcasts, digital content, and print resources designed to make disciples of all nations and edify followers of Jesus Christ.
Episodes
454 episodes
Acting All Spiritual Without Being Spiritual At All
Some religious systems train you to look holy while feeling empty. We sit with Luke 5:33–39 and watch Jesus collide with a spirituality built on resumes, rules, and gloomy public displays. The Pharisees can’t stand that His disciples eat, drink...
The Trouble with Matthew
Jesus doesn’t tiptoe around messy people. He walks straight into Levi’s workplace, looks a tax collector with a gangster-level reputation in the eyes, and says two words that change everything: “Follow me.” What happens next is more than a conv...
Without a Prayer
The crowd is packed, the religious experts are taking notes, and a paralyzed man can’t get anywhere near Jesus unless his friends carry him. When the front door won’t work, they do the unthinkable: they climb onto the roof, tear through the til...
Untouchable!
A man “full of leprosy” breaks every rule to get close to Jesus and that choice could cost him his life. The crowd expects rejection, distance, and disgust. Instead, we see a moment where hopelessness falls at the feet of hope and a single ques...
The Crushing of the Serpent Begins (Luke 4:31-44)
A synagogue service turns into a collision between light and darkness when Jesus teaches with a kind of authority nobody can ignore. We slow down in Luke 4:31–43 and trace three clear demonstrations of who Jesus is: authority in His speaking, a...
Responding to Rejection (Luke 4:14-30)
They invited Jesus to preach because he was famous. They tried to kill him because he told the truth. We open Luke 4 and follow Jesus back to Nazareth for what becomes his first sermon at home and his last one there, a moment that exposes how q...
Dealing with the Devil (Luke 4:1-13)
Temptation doesn’t just show up, it studies you. We walk through Luke 4 and watch Satan aim three carefully chosen attacks at Jesus in the wilderness: meet a real need in a wrong way, grab the crown without the cross, and twist Scripture to mak...
Happy Are the Harassed (Matthew 5:9-17)
Happiness sells best when it sounds easy: stay comfortable, avoid conflict, keep your private life hidden, and everything will work out. Then Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount and says something that feels almost upside down. He calls the ble...
Whose Slave are You? (Romans 6:15-19)
Freedom is one of the most abused words in modern life, and Romans 6 refuses to let us keep it vague. We say we want independence, but Paul pushes a sharper claim: everyone is already serving a master. The only real question is whether we are e...
Governed by Grace (Romans 6:14)
A list of rules can feel like relief. You can measure yourself, compare yourself, and quiet the anxiety of not knowing where you stand. But that same checklist can quietly hollow out the Christian life, replacing prayerful wisdom with box-ticki...
Sacred Beyond Sunday (Romans 6:12-14)
Sin doesn’t just break rules, it tries to reclaim a throne. We start with a forgotten identity shift: Scripture calls believers royalty, headed toward a future crown with Christ, which raises a hard question for today. If that future is real, w...
Know...Consider...Present (Romans 6:6-13)
The most surprising command Paul gives after pages of doctrine isn’t “try harder” it’s “think.” We dig into Romans 6 and follow the thread that connects belief to behavior, because you can’t live right until you think right. If you’ve ever felt...
You Were There! (Romans 6:3-5)
Grace can sound dangerous if you misunderstand it. If the “worst of sinners” can be saved and if we don’t earn salvation by good works, a haunting question follows: what would be so bad about sin if it only gives God more room to show grace? We...
Transformed! (Romans 6:1-2)
Grace can be twisted into a cover story, and it usually sounds spiritual. Someone sins, gets caught, and then demands comfort without confession, repair, or change. We start there with a gut level moment: a man admits serious sin and then brist...
Triumphant! (Romans 5:18-21)
Death has a way of haunting every plan we make, and we’re remarkably creative at pretending we can keep it at arm’s length. We start with a strange American story that makes the point in concrete and lumber: Sarah Winchester spends decades buil...
Terminal! (Romans 5:12-17)
One out of one dies, yet most of us spend our lives trying not to think about it. We start with the uncomfortable honesty that sits under every funeral, every fear of aging, and every late night worry: death is universal because sin is universa...
When Holiness Becomes Obvious (1 Peter 2:11-12)
Holiness is not a personality type, and it is not a private hobby for the overly serious. Peter calls it warfare. When 1 Peter warns Christians to abstain from fleshly lusts, it is admitting something we all feel but rarely say out loud: the ba...
