Preaching the Word
The "First Principle" podcasts which are numbered # are a great tool for believers to go over the essentials of the Christian Faith. The "Mysteries of God's Word" podcasts are an indepth study of Scripture. The other podcasts are sermons that have been given, some verse by verse and others topical. It is my passion to be true to God and His Word. To preach in such a way that people can easily see the LORD as our Creator and as our Redeemer. To understand that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever even as we live in a world that is continually changing. Salvation is and has always been through faith alone in the Messiah alone. His name is Jesus the Christ; there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Episodes
Freedom is one of the most overused words in modern life, so when Jesus says, “The truth will set you free,” we slow down and ask what He actually means. Working through John 8:31–47, we track the difference between surface-level belief and real Christian discipleship, where a disciple abides in Jesus’ word, stands in His teaching, and grows steady in the message of salvation and forgiveness....
A single sentence from Jesus can sound comforting until you hear it in context: “I am the light of the world.” We’re in John 8 on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, when giant lamps lit Jerusalem in memory of the pillar of fire that led Israel through the wilderness. Then Jesus takes that image and applies it to Himself, leaving almost no room for a “nice teacher” interpretation....
A crowded feast. A paused water ritual. Public prayers for rain. Then Jesus stands up in the temple and shouts an invitation that still cuts through the noise: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.” We slow down in John 7:37-52 and let the moment be as dramatic as it really is, because the timing is the point. When the city is thinking about wilderness provision and the need for water, Jesus ...
A murder plot is already circulating in Jerusalem and somehow Jesus is still teaching in public. That contradiction sparks the question we lean into today: if the religious authorities think He’s a fraud, why can’t they stop Him and what does that reveal about who He is?
We’re in John 7:25-36 at the Feast of Booths, where the the thoughts of the crowd are split. Some wonder if the leaders qu...
Pressure can come from every direction at once: leaders who want you silenced, crowds who want you to perform, and even family members who think faith should always be loud and public. John 7 drops us right into that tension as Jesus stays in Galilee because the religious authorities are plotting his death, then faces a pointed challenge from his own brothers right as the Feast of Booths approaches. We talk through ...
A crowd follows Jesus because they want bread for today, and Jesus answers with a claim that detonates the room: “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” From the synagogue in Capernaum, we work through John 6:41–71 and watch the moment shift from curiosity to confrontation. The religious leaders grumble because they understand what Jesus is implying, and they try to flatten His words with a fa...
You can chase Jesus for the right reasons and still end up asking the wrong questions. After the feeding of the five thousand, the crowd jumps into boats from Tiberias and heads to Capernaum looking for Him and Jesus immediately exposes what’s driving them: they want more bread, not the Messiah. That moment in John 6 feels uncomfortably modern, because it names the temptation to treat God like a vending machin...
A boy shows up with five barley loaves and two fish, and suddenly we’re staring at one of the clearest pictures of who Jesus is and what we keep getting wrong about Him. We open John 6 with the crowds pressing in, drawn by healings and signs, while Jesus leads His disciples up the mountain during Passover season when everyone is thinking about Moses, the Exodus, and God’s provision in the wilderness.
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Jesus doesn’t dodge hard questions in John 5, and neither do we in this podcast. After the healing at Bethesda triggers conflict, Jesus steps into His first open debate with Jerusalem’s religious leadership and explains why His judgment is just: He acts in complete unity with the Father, seeking the Father’s will rather than His own. That single claim forces a decision about Jesus’ authority,...
They tried to kill Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, but the real flashpoint was what He said next: God is His Father, and His work is the Father’s work. We open John 5:18–29 and follow Jesus into His first public debate with the rabbinical Jews, where He doesn’t soften the claim, He explains it. When Jesus says the Son does only what He sees the Father doing, we talk about what that reveals about ...
A man lies helpless for thirty-eight years, surrounded by a crowd of suffering, and the moment Jesus notices him the story gets uncomfortably personal: “Do you want to be healed?” We trace John 5 from the streets of Jerusalem to the Pool of Bethesda, the “house of mercy,” including the fascinating historical and archaeological details that anchor this passage in a real place near the Sheep Ga...
A desperate father walks miles with one thought in his head: if Jesus doesn’t act, my child will die. We open John 4:46-54 and sit with the royal official’s fear, humility, and bold pleading as he begs Jesus to come down to Capernaum. The setting matters too, because Jesus is back in Cana, the place of the water-to-wine miracle, and the question hangs in the air: are we coming to Christ for a sign, or fo...
Something happens in John 4 that still feels disruptive today: Jesus crosses a hard social line, speaks openly with a Samaritan woman, and turns one private conversation into a public turning point. We pick up right after Jesus identifies himself as the Messiah, when the disciples return and can barely process what they’re seeing. Their silence says a lot, and it sets the stage for why this moment matters for ...
A single sentence changes everything: Jesus, tired and thirsty, asks a Samaritan woman for a drink. That moment at Jacob’s well in John 4 is more than a Bible story we’ve heard before. It’s a collision between ancient hostility, personal shame, and a Savior who refuses to avoid the people everyone else avoids.
We trace the opening movements of the chapter as Jesus leaves Judea for Galilee wh...
Crowds shifting, disciples anxious, and a prophet who refuses to compete. John 3:22–36 gives us one of the most human ministry moments in the New Testament: people start leaving John the Baptist and heading to Jesus for baptism, and it looks like a leadership crisis waiting to happen. Instead, John answers with calm conviction and a line that still confronts our pride: “He must increase, but I must decre...
John 3:16 is printed on signs and memorized by kids, but it can still slip past our hearts. We slow down and take the verse apart word by word, starting with the shock of God’s agape love, a love that acts, values, and stays faithful even when the world is in open rebellion. That single line, “God so loved,” isn’t sentiment. It is God setting his heart on what he made, giving it value because...
A respected Bible expert slips into the night to talk with Jesus and discovers that knowledge, influence, and religious effort still leave him empty. We start at the end of John 2 where crowds believe because of signs, then slow down to ask what kind of “belief” Jesus actually recognizes. The text says Jesus knows what is in man, and that truth turns Nicodemus’s visit into more than a late-night Q&...
A crowded temple. A booming religious marketplace. A court that should have welcomed outsiders, now packed with money changers and animal sellers taking advantage of worshipers. We walk through John 2:13-22 and watch Jesus cleanse the temple with unmistakable purpose, exposing what happens when worship becomes a transaction and when access to God gets treated like something you can buy.
Along the way, we unpa...
A wedding celebration is supposed to be pure joy, but at Cana the feast hits a nightmare scenario: the wine runs out. We slow down the story in John 2:1–11 and let the details do their work, from the “third day” timeline in the Gospel of John to the real social cost a shortage would bring to a groom’s family. When you understand first-century Jewish wedding customs, you feel the tension in th...
Jesus’ first words to new followers are not a sales pitch. They’re a question: “What are you seeking?” We open John 1 and slow down at the moment John the Baptist points to Jesus and says, “Behold the Lamb of God.” Two disciples leave their first teacher and start walking behind Christ, and that simple act becomes a picture of Christian discipleship: shifting allegiance, getting c...
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