The Wake-Up Call

The Wake-Up Call

The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus that transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities. seedbed.com/wakeupcall

Episodes

November 27, 2025 16 mins

Abba Father, thank you for your Son, Jesus, who breathes into us the breath of life—the Holy Spirit.

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In this episode of the Wake Up Call Conversations podcast, host JD Walt engages in a profound discussion with Dr. Ben Witherington III, a renowned New Testament scholar, about the historical and spiritual significance of Advent and Christmas. The conversation delves into the real themes of Advent, contrasting the often commercialized holiday season with the intense and challenging enviro...

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Because they broke ranks with respectable religion and associated themselves with a crucified Messiah, they will live in the eternal respect of the risen Lord (and ours).

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Truth has a side. We find it by listening to his voice. 

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November 24, 2025 20 mins

The Father puts all the freight and weight of his love for the world on his Son. Jesus puts all the freight and weight of the world’s faith on his followers’ love for each other.

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November 23, 2025 17 mins

This is what the disciples of Jesus do. They put down pretense, confess their ignorance, and ask one another questions in order to grow in their faith and understanding.

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I have called you friends. 

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November 21, 2025 19 mins

We will finally see greater things when we learn the ways of greater love.

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What holds you back from pouring your very best into the most menial and ordinary acts?

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In this very first episode of Wake-Up Call Conversations, J. D. Walt speaks with Andrew Forrest, the senior pastor at Asbury Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The discussion centers around Andrew's new book, "Love Goes First," which explores the concept of reaching out to others in an age of anxiety and division. Andrew shares personal stories and insights on how love can be a proactive force, ...

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November 19, 2025 19 mins

To be the seed means to surrender your life to Jesus and all the glorious purposes for which God made you in the first place. 

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Our biggest problem is not sin; it’s our broken ability to trust.

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November 17, 2025 17 mins

I find the more I actually expect to hear from Jesus, the more I hear from him.

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Every broken place in every broken life holds the possibility for the glorious works of God to be put on display.

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November 15, 2025 21 mins

The gospel does not do away with justice and judgment; rather, it crushes condemnation.

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November 14, 2025 22 mins

When Jesus comes into your life he becomes the endless source of eternal life that actually springs up from within you and then flows out of you to others. 

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November 13, 2025 18 mins

We want Jesus to help us more than we want Jesus to have us.

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November 12, 2025 20 mins

Some of the sickest, most disabled, most devastatingly handicapped people I have ever known are some of the deepest wells of living water I have ever seen. 

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November 11, 2025 16 mins

In the eyes of God, there are no deplorables, only wayward sons and daughters.

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November 10, 2025 16 mins

Why do we choose to be admired at the expense of being known?

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