Jonah 3-4
Although Jonah obeys God and preaches His message, Jonah is upset that God showed mercy and compassion to Nineveh.
Dec 15, 2020•54 min
Issues In Perspective
With Dr. Jim Eckman
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Jonah 2:1-10
From the belly of the "great fish," Jonah confesses his rebellion, repents and worships His God.
Dec 11, 2020•48 min
Jonah Intro-1:17
Commanded by the LORD to go to Nineveh in ruthless Assyria, Jonah goes in the opposite direction, openly defying His God.
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 23 min
John 21:1-25
The resurrected Jesus continues to serve as He makes breakfast for 7 of the disciples and restores Peter with the three-fold, piercing question, "Do you love me?"
Nov 24, 2020•42 min
John 20:1-31
The resurrection of Jesus is followed by several appearances of the risen Lord to various women and to His disciples, validating His literal, bodily resurrection.
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 2 min
John 19:1-42
John testifies to the final trial before Pilate, the crucifixion and burial of Jesus.
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr
John 18:1-40
Jesus' arrest and trial before Annas and Caiaphas are followed by the trial before Pilate, who cannot find any reason to convict Jesus.
Nov 10, 2020•59 min
John 17:1-26
As our high priest, Jesus prays that His Father will be glorified by His sacrifice, that the Father will keep His disciples from the evil one, and that His church will manifest a unity, a unity evident among the members of the godhead.
Oct 28, 2020•57 min
John 16:1-33
Jesus teaches that the Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment and that He teaches and guides in all truth.
Oct 23, 2020•59 min
John 15:1-17
Using the analogy of a vine and the branches, Jesus challenges us to "abide in Him," a dependency on HIm that has four intended results and four key characteristics.
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr
John 14:15-31
Jesus introduces the facets of the New Covenant Community--prayer, the Holy Spirit, the new circle of love in Christ and Christ's peace.
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 2 min
John 14:1-14
As the way, the truth and the life, Jesus reveals the Father and the Holy Spirit whom He will send.
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min
John 13:1-31
In washing His disciples' feet, Jesus exhibited limitless love, servanthood and, symbolically, the washing away of sin.
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min
John 12:27-50
As the Father speaks for the third time to His Son, Jesus then interprets His Father's words for the people and offers a theology of unbelief to explain why so many are rejecting Him as the Messiah.
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min
John 12:1-26
In the context of Mary anointing Jesus' head and feet and the Pharisees seeking to kill both Jesus and Lazarus, Jesus enters Jerusalem on a young donkey in a triumphal manner with the crowds waving palm branches and exclaiming Psalm 118, thereby fulfilling Zechariah 9:9.
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 2 min
John 10:41-11:44
Jesus explains that "I and the Father are one," and to Martha, "I am the resurrection and the life."
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min
John 10:1-30
Jesus declares Himself to be the Door of the sheepfold and the Good Shepherd, providing salvation for His sheep and giving them eternal life.
Aug 27, 2020•29 min
John 9:1-41
Jesus' giving sight on the Sabbath to a man blind from birth raises questions among His disciples, cause division among the Pharisees, and leads to the former blind man confessing Him as the Son of Man.
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr 6 min
John 7:14-52
As Jesus teaches in the Temple, using figures of speech to move people from the temporal and physical to the eternal and spiritual, some believe, some reject Him and some wait to see what happens.
Aug 07, 2020•56 min
John 6:22-59
Jesus' strategy is to move people from dwelling on the physical and temporal to understanding their spiritual and eternal need; therefore, He is the" bread of life".
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min
John 5:29-6:21
As Jesus offers six proofs of His deity, He also feeds the 5,000 and walks on water--further proofs of His deity.
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 6 min
John 5:1-29
As the Pharisees chastise Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, He explains His relationship with the heavenly Father as one of equality, interdependence and mutual honor.
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min
John 4:1-54
Jesus challenges the worldviews of a Samaritan woman and His disciples by changing their focus from the physical and temporal to the spiritual and eternal.
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min
John 3:16-36
Jesus, the Son of God, did not come into the world to condemn the world, but to offer it salvation.
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min
John 2:18-3:15
Jesus is not interested in superficial faith (2:23-25) but in a faith energized by the Holy Spirit (3:1-15).
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 2 min
John 1:35-2:12
Jesus calls some of His disciples, with John stressing His various titles (e.g., Messiah, Son of God, Son of Man) and His first recorded miracle ("sign") is at a wedding in Cana.
Jun 10, 2020•51 min
John 1:5-34
John details Jesus as the Incarnate God who reveals grace and truth, who is the only unique Son of the Father, and who is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min
John Intro-1:5
John’s thesis is that Jesus is the Godman and therefore introduces Him in the preface as the eternal “Word.”
May 20, 2020•41 min
Pslam 7-8
In both of these Psalms, King David appeals to God as the righteous Judge to defend him (Psalm 7) and, in light of God’s majestic power exhibited in creation, he marvels that God is even interested in him (Psalm 8).
May 15, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Psalm 6
David experiences the gracious, chastening hand of His God, is restored to a relationship with God, and thereby seeks to bring glory to Him.
May 05, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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