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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
489 episodes
Hand in Glove (Romans 8:12–15)
A glove can point, clap, and wave all day long but only when a hand fills it. That’s the picture we keep coming back to as we walk through Romans 8: the Christian life is not powered by grit, personality, or religious hustle. We’re “willing glo...
A New Obsession (Romans 8:5–11)
Your mind is already set on something. The only question is whether it is setting you up for life and peace or quietly training you for death. We start with a hard but clarifying claim from Scripture: there are friends of the world, and there a...
Introducing . . . The Holy Spirit (Romans 8:2–4)
Freedom is one of the most overused words in Christian conversation, and one of the most misunderstood. We open Romans 8:2 and slow down on Paul’s phrase “the Spirit of Life,” because that single title explains why believers can be honest about...
The King's Pardon (Romans 8:1)
A single sentence from Romans 8:1 can feel too good to be true, which is exactly why we slow down and read it like a royal decree: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” We follow Paul’s logic from the reali...
Blessed Are The Bankrupt (Romans 7:24–25)
The most unsettling line in Romans 7 is also one of the most freeing: “O wretched man that I am.” We sit with Paul’s confession and argue that the war within is not proof you are failing at the Christian life, but often proof you are waking up ...
Keeping Poodles out of Portraits (Romans 7:15–24)
A polished religious image can be easier than honest fellowship. We start with a surprising history lesson behind the phrase “putting on the dog,” then connect it to a temptation many Christians know too well: using church culture, spiritual vo...
The Battle Begins (Romans 7:14–17)
The most confusing part of the Christian life can be the most universal: you love God’s law, you want to change, and yet you still find yourself pulled toward sin. We go straight into Romans 7 and face the tension Paul puts on the page, the goo...
The Five-fold Function of Law (Romans 7:7–13)
A simple “No” can light up something in us that we didn’t even know was there. Tell people not to feed the bears, and suddenly the bears look hungry. Put up a “stay off the grass” sign, and the lawn starts calling your name. We use that everyda...
The Master’s Men (Pt. 3) (Luke 6:15b-16)
Some of the most important disciples in the New Testament are the ones we barely notice. We wrap up our walk through Luke 6 by slowing down for the “last four” names on the list, and the result is both comforting and confronting. If you’ve ever...
The Master’s Men Part 2b (Luke 6:14b-15a)
If you have ever looked at your own faith and thought, “I have failed too many times to be useful,” we want to challenge that assumption. The thread running through these disciples is not their polish, their confidence, or their spiritual pedig...
The Master’s Men Part 2a (Luke 6:14b-15a)
Two brothers hear a town reject Jesus and instantly reach for the flames. James and John actually suggest calling down fire from heaven, as if spiritual leadership is best done with threats and force. If that sounds extreme, it’s also uncomfort...
The Master’s Men Part 1 (Luke 6:12-16)
Jesus builds a movement without grabbing the obvious power players. No rabbi to cite chapter and verse on command. No scribe to document the moment. No insider with the right family name. When we trace Luke 6, we’re confronted with a Messiah wh...
Fruit and More Fruit (Romans 7:4–6)
Trying to become more loving, patient, or self-controlled by sheer effort is exhausting, and it usually collapses before you even get out of the driveway. We take a hard look at why that happens by returning to a simple but freeing claim: it is...
The Offspring of Our Union (Romans 7:4)
Darkness has a way of making our deepest desires louder and our best sales pitches weaker. We start the conversation with a blunt claim: without the gospel there is no real light, no solid truth, no lasting life, and no dependable hope, only sp...
The New Marriage (Romans 7:1–4)
Names matter more than we like to admit. We start with a wedding moment where getting the groom’s name wrong freezes the whole room, then we follow that thread straight into the apostle Peter’s claim that salvation comes through one Name: Jesus...
See Jonah Faint (Jonah 4:1–11)
Jonah pulls off what every preacher dreams about: a city turns from violence and idolatry, leaders and citizens repent, and God relents from judgment. Then the prophet storms off angry. That twist is not a footnote, it is the point, because it ...
See Jonah Reap (Jonah 3:4–10)
Confession is trending again, but a lot of it feels like a clever way to stay private, stay vague, and still feel clean. We push back on that hard. Real confession is not anonymous therapy for a guilty conscience and it’s not something you can ...
See Jonah Preach (Jonah 3:1–4)
A lot of Christian content promises quick fixes, but what if the real problem is our diet and what if the only lasting solution is a return to the words of God? We make the case that spiritual reformation and heart-level awakening come through ...
See Jonah Swim (Jonah 1:17—2:9)
Running from God rarely feels dramatic. It feels like momentum: one step, then another, and suddenly you realize everything is going down. Jonah’s story makes that slide visible, from Joppa to the ship to the sea, until the only thing left is d...
See Jonah Sleep (Jonah 1:4-16)
You can say the right words about God and still be running from Him. That’s the uncomfortable tension we sit with as Jonah calmly claims he “fears the Lord” while doing everything possible to avoid the assignment of mercy God gave him. We unpac...
See Jonah Run (Jonah 1:2-3)
God tells Jonah to get up and go preach to Nineveh, and Jonah does what many of us do when obedience feels impossible: he runs. The command is simple and unmistakable, but it’s also unsettling, uncomfortable, and risky. That tension launches a ...
More than a Fish Story (Jonah 1:1)
Jonah gets filed away as a children’s story so easily that we forget how sharp it really is. We dig into the opening of Jonah and notice what the text does not bother to tell us: no origin story, no warm introduction, no details about how the m...
The Cradle is the Grave (Revelation 18:1-24)
Babylon keeps rising in the human imagination for one reason: it promises unity, power, and prosperity without surrender to God. We follow that thread from the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley, where Genesis places the world’s earliest rebellion, ...
A Tale of Two Cities Part 2 (Revelation 17:1-7; 16-17)
History can feel like a pile of unrelated headlines, but Revelation frames it as a storyline with a destination. We follow the thread from Babel’s first push for a unified world system to Revelation 17’s shocking picture of “Mystery Babylon,” a...
