God's Word for Life
As a companion to our Word Aflame Adult Level Curriculum, this podcast serves to encourage adult disciples to think deeply about God’s Word, further develop their personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and make a greater commitment to the purpose and plan of God for their lives.
Episodes
338 episodes
HIs Church Is Marching On
The first miracle in the first church followed hot on the heels of Acts 2. The crowd could not believe it, but they could not deny it either. After Peter and John prayed in the name of Jesus Christ, they all watched a lame man leap. Explain tha...
We Are the Church
Jesus first found four frustrated fishermen and worked a wonder in their lives. He waited until He had filled their boats with nets full of fish before He called them to leave it all behind to follow Him. Starting with those four fishermen, Jes...
Water in the Desert
God lifted a preacher from a city-wide revival to a dusty desert because one hungry heart needed to hear the gospel. God loves the world, and He also loves the one. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 8 to hear all about it.Th...
The Good News
Just as Jesus was ascending, He left His followers with a commission to go and teach all nations. Share the gospel—the good news—with all who would hear it. That same first-century commission is our twenty-first-century commission: Go and teach...
Some Salt, a City, and a Lamp
In the opening of Jesus' landmark Sermon on the Mount, He called all who follow Him to live as salt, a city on a hill, and a lamp. These metaphors illustrate how we are called to point people to Jesus through the lives we live and the words we ...
I Am a Disciple
As Jesus gathered an audience on the plain, He called them to live their lives for Him: to follow Him. Two thousand years later, though much of our world has changed, Jesus' call to us remains the same: Follow Me. Pick up your Bible or device, ...
The Covenant Fulfilled
Fifty-two weeks ago, we embarked on a beautiful journey with our heels in the Garden of Eden. Today, we finish our journey with our toes in the crystal river flowing through the heart of the New Jerusalem. God will right every wrong and bring j...
The Throne Room
Although the apostle John was exiled on a prison island, presumably to die, God called him up to view the throne room. There John saw one throne and one sitting on the throne. No matter the chaos battering the earth, John realized Jesus Christ ...
The Armor of God
Although today may seem to be a routine day full of work, errands, and maybe some frozen custard, we are ever in a spiritual war. To ensure we are ready to war, we must be full of the Spirit so we are suited up with the whole armor of God. Pick...
The Fruit of the Spirit
There's a major difference between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit. One of them separates us from God and others; the other draws us closer to God and others. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Galatians 5 to hear all ...
Paul's Testimony
Paul had been arrested and stood trial for his faith—possibly, even his life. As the Jews' lawyer leveled the capital charges against him, Paul defended himself by sharing his testimony. His testimony in a public trial even led to an altar call...
Reminders from Ephesians
Paul was saying goodbye. The leaders from his beloved church in Ephesus met him, wept over him, and hugged him. Paul shared some final face-to-face words with them before boarding a ship bound for Jerusalem. Pick up your Bible or device, and tu...
Paul and Silas in Philippi
It was all going according to Paul's plan . . . until it wasn't. God gave Paul a vision of a man in Macedonia calling for help, but when Paul arrived in Macedonia, he didn't find a man; he found a worshiping woman. Then a demon-possessed girl. ...
The Council in Jerusalem
God's church was growing and picking up steam, but by the time they arrived in Acts 15, Jewish and Gentile Christians could not get along. The Jews were preaching that the Gentiles needed to keep the Jewish law first; the Gentiles were preachin...
The Gentile Revival
Only God could have put these two men together: a Roman centurion hungry to know God and a Jewish Christian preacher willing to preach the gospel. From that unlikely encounter, God opened wide the door to the rest of the world to know and follo...
Paul's New Birth Experience
His is one of the most dramatic testimonies in the history of the New Testament church. Saul went from being the chief persecutor against Christians to being a chief preacher for Christians. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 9 to h...
Revival in Samaria
The church in Jerusalem was growing by the day, but persecution drove the Spirit-filled Jesus followers out of the city and into the surrounding countrysides. As they fled Jerusalem, they spread the gospel everywhere they went, even into Samari...
The Day of Pentecost
The day finally dawned. But it wasn't just the Day of Pentecost for that particular year. It was the day God had waited nearly four thousand years to pour out His Spirit upon humanity and enter into a new covenant with us. Pick up your Bible or...
Jesus' Great Commission
As Jesus ascended, He promised His followers that they would receive power to be witnesses unto Him in Jerusalem, Judea, even Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Jesus was establishing an unchanging principle: Disciples make disciples. And th...
Jesus' Resurrection
The Roman soldiers stood guard, guarding the tomb that was sealed with the indomitable Roman seal. They were ready to keep the disciples from trying to break in and steal Jesus' body from the tomb. They could not have conceived that they would ...
The Cross
The Jews who cried "crucify Him" and the Romans who heard that cry and crucified Him did not know that Jesus was dying, not for His crimes, but for ours. And these crimes were crimes against God, not just against humanity. Pick up your Bible or...
Jesus in the Garden
Jesus was surrounded by twelve disciples most of His ministry. But this night, one of them walked away from Him, He walked away from eight of them, took three of them further, and then fell on His face and prayed. On that night, Jesus warred fo...
The Lord's Supper
Jesus brought His sometimes faithless, sometimes faithful followers to a second-story room for the Passover meal. Four thousand years of human history have been building toward this night: This night, Jesus would introduce the new covenant He w...