Upwords
"Upwords" with Jeff Stevenson provides weekly teachings verse by verse through books of the Bible.
Episodes
32 episodes
IMAGINE (Daniel 12.1-4)
The way through hard times in the present and to come is to imagine the unfolding of God's great and precious promises.
MAKING WRONGS RIGHT (Exodus 34, 18, 32)
A good and compassionate nation will always embrace true justice as well as forgiveness in making wrongs right.
ORDERED FREEDOM (Exodus 20-24)
Freedom flourishes best in a society where trust prevails and the principles behind freedom are intentionally handed down to the next generation. This sort of trust and influence comes only in a committed relationship with God through Jesus Chr...
EAST OF EDEN (Exodus 15-17, 32)
Freedom will only come when we stop blaming others and surrender to what God has done to win our freedom from sin.
THE FREEDOM RECIPE (Exodus 3.1-8; 19.16-19)
As we are about to celebrate America's 250th birthday, we pause our study of Daniel for a short series I have entitled "The Rebirth of Freedom." These messages are drawn from Os Guinness's book entitled The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's ...
THE FINAL KING (Daniel 11:36-45)
Are you aware that Daniel 11:36-45 describes a coming vicious ruler yet future to us? Do you know how to have hope in the face of his horrors?
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE (Daniel 11:1-35)
It is infuriating that God's people are always feeling caught in the middle of the endless battle of the wicked. Why is this? Stick it out with this challenging but ignored Bible chapter and the paydirt will be rich.
BEHIND THE CURTAIN (Daniel 10:1-21)
If we patiently wade through Daniel's vision, we find a critical but often forgotten method on how to overcome the spiritual forces of darkness and strongholds that keep us bound in our own day. This is war!
COUNTDOWN TO CHRIST (Daniel 9:20-27)
Gabriel gives Daniel an amazingly accurate prediction of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the coming of Christ, and the events thereafter. All of this helps us understand a bit more about the confusing yet hopeful nature of predictive prophecy.
THE EXIT FROM EXILE (Daniel 9:1-19)
If you are exiled and saddened by losses due to past choices you now know are the cause, Daniel's prayer gives the combination needed to unlock the way out.
WHEN EMPIRES COLLIDE (Daniel 8:1-27)
This one is challenging. Stay with it. The payoff is great. God's control of the future does not nullify the importance of our choices.
THE ETERNAL WIN (Daniel 7:15-28)
Ugly beasts will arise and attack God's people, but in Christ we have already won. God's win is final, forever, and never to be contested again.
THE SON OF MAN REIGNS (Daniel 7:1-14)
Prophecy is strange, but yields great riches to those who do not give up on it. Don't look at the monsters; look at your King.
LION MUZZLING FAITH (Daniel. 6:16-28)
Faith ruins your enemy's appetite and shuts his mouth.
THE DIVINE DILEMMA (Dan. 6:1-15)
Darius' dilemma forshadows the tensions between God's justice and love in response to man's sin. Daniel's survival of the lion's den is a foreshadowing of Christ's conquering the grave.
PREACHING AT THE PARTY (Daniel 5:13-31)
If we are partying life away, God will suddenly crash our party.
LOSING YOUR MIND TO REGAIN YOUR SENSE (Daniel 4:19-37)
Sometime we must lose it all to see what is of real value.
A TREE FALLS IN BABYLON (Daniel 4:1-18)
The journey to faith in Yahweh requires His cutting down the "trees" we trust in.
FIREPROOF (Daniel 3:19-30)
Daniel's friends are fireproof, and foreshadow something far greater.
WE WILL NOT BOW (Daniel 3:8-18)
Daniel's three friends challange us to ask ourselves: Are we driven by external pressures or internal principles?
BOW OR BURN (Daniel 3:1-7)
Having the strength to stand up and stand out when the world pressures you to bow and blend in.
THE STONE (Dan. 2:44-45)
What the stone of God crushing the statues of man means to us today.