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
386 episodes
Adoniram Judson Part 1
A door splinters in Rangoon and chains bite into a young missionary’s ankles, but the story starts years earlier with a valedictorian who traded faith for fashionable doubt—and then spent a sleepless night listening to a dying friend through a ...
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Legacies of Light: Oswald Chambers
What if prayer isn’t about prying blessings from a reluctant heaven, but receiving the Giver himself? We follow Oswald Chambers from a teenage surrender on a country path to a wartime awakening in Cairo, then turn to Luke 11 to rethink how Jesu...
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Legacies of Light: Suzanna Wesley
Fires, riots, and a mother praying under an apron—this is the untidy ground where a spiritual movement took root. We step into the world of Susanna Wesley, a pastor’s daughter who faced poverty, public hostility, and staggering loss, yet stitch...
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Legacies of Light: AW Tozer
A street sermon in Akron. An attic prayer. And a life that wouldn’t make peace with a low view of God. We follow A.W. Tozer’s journey from a teenage conversion to a ministry that challenged the church to recover holiness, embrace lordship, and ...
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Legacies of Light: Amy Carmichael
The story starts with a stubborn five-year-old asking God for blue eyes and ends with a sanctuary where hundreds of children found a new birthday. Between those moments lives a fierce kind of obedience that refused to bow to fashion, caste, or ...
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Legacies of Light: David & Svea Flood
A God who cries at a graveside and prays through sweat and sorrow isn’t distant from our pain—and that truth frames one of the most breathtaking true stories of mission and redemption. We start where many believers secretly live: wondering whet...
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Presentation! (Luke 2:21-38)
What happens after the shepherds go home? We pick up the story in Luke 2 and walk with Mary and Joseph into the temple, where obedience, irony, and revelation collide. Our aim is simple: show how the child who fulfilled Moses’ law also fulfille...
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Incarnation! (Luke 2:1-20)
Headlines shouted about emperors, decrees, and peace from the point of a sword. We turn the camera 1,500 miles away to a dusty road, a tired couple, and a manger that upends everything we assume about power, timing, and hope. By walking through...
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Anticipation! (Luke 1:57-80)
A bleak world. A silent heaven. Then—astonishingly—music. We open on Israel’s long night, four centuries without a prophet, and watch the first rays of dawn spill into ordinary lives: a teenage girl in Nazareth who sings scripture by heart, an ...
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Surrender! (Luke 1:26-56)
A messenger bypasses palaces and arrives in a forgotten town. That’s where the story turns. We walk through Luke 1 with fresh eyes, meeting Mary not as a stained-glass icon but as a poor teenager who receives a staggering promise and answers wi...
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Certainty (Luke 1:21-25)
Start with the claim many never hear in church: Christianity does not ask you to turn off your brain. We walk through Luke’s opening lines to show how a Gentile physician set out to build certainty, not wishful thinking—an orderly account ancho...
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Better Off Than We Thought
What if the name you carry changes everything about how you face fear, loss, and ordinary days? We explore the surprising claim that Christians don’t steal an identity; they receive one—an identity gift in Jesus that opens access to grace, stre...
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Supernatural Joy and Genuine Love
A smear campaign can travel faster than truth, and the first Christians felt it—accused of treason, atheism, immorality, even cannibalism. We open that history not to chase outrage, but to ask a harder question: what profile should the world se...
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A Chain Reaction of Praise
When the day feels like a blizzard—cold, bitter, and disorienting—gratitude can sound unrealistic. We open 1 Peter 1:3–5 and discover why praise becomes our most honest response: mercy meets us, the risen Jesus anchors us, and an unfading inher...
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The Trinity . . . At Work
Start with the headlines if you want, but the deeper story is bigger than outrage. We explore how scattered believers can live with courage and clarity by seeing salvation through the lens of the Trinity: the Father who foreloves and places us,...
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Chosen . . . With Enthusiasm
The ground under our feet is shifting, and pretending otherwise only makes us dizzy. From Russia’s anti‑missionary law to rising pressure in workplaces and schools, we’re watching the culture say out loud what it actually believes—and that clar...
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Introducing an Old Fisherman Part 2
The air smells like smoke and rumor, and the faithful are bracing for a storm. Against that backdrop, we follow Peter’s unvarnished journey—sharp insight, spectacular missteps, a rooster’s indictment, an empty tomb’s quiet proof, and a bold voi...
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Introducing an Old Fisherman Part 1
Fire tore through Rome and a rumor finished the job. As the city smoldered, Nero’s propaganda machine named Christians as arsonists, and what had been scattered suspicion hardened into open hostility. Into that pressure cooker, Peter writes lik...
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