Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 15 gives us arguably the most popular parables of Jesus, delivered back to back and to ...
Dec 15, 2021•11 min•Ep. 146
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. In Luke 14, Jesus again puts the Pharisees on blast, lays them out bare as hypocrites. He te...
Dec 14, 2021•12 min•Ep. 145
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. In Luke 13 Jesus teaches about repentance and entering the kingdom of God. This is the VERSE...
Dec 13, 2021•13 min•Ep. 144
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 12 continues what we have seen in the past two chapters at least more intently is Jesus...
Dec 12, 2021•15 min•Ep. 143
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Prayer never has been and never will be a formula for how to get rich, famous, and powerful ...
Dec 11, 2021•14 min•Ep. 142
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 10 covers two massive topics. 1. Jesus sends out missionaries to towns he would be trav...
Dec 10, 2021•13 min•Ep. 141
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. In Luke 9 we essentially see the preparation of the twelve disciples for ministry through mu...
Dec 09, 2021•14 min•Ep. 140
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. In Luke 8, we read about what Jesus did for women, more of his teachings, the famous calming...
Dec 08, 2021•15 min•Ep. 139
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 6 shows us so much that we can learn from Jesus including the importance of prayer in c...
Dec 07, 2021•14 min•Ep. 138
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 6 shows us so much that we can learn from Jesus including the importance of prayer in c...
Dec 06, 2021•13 min•Ep. 137
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 5 shows us what it looks like to come to Jesus as two different men from two different ...
Dec 05, 2021•13 min•Ep. 136
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. In Luke 4 we read about the start of Jesus’ ministry which includes his temptation by the de...
Dec 04, 2021•17 min•Ep. 135
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. A majority of Luke 3 is dedicated to arguably one of the most compelling characters in the G...
Dec 03, 2021•12 min•Ep. 134
Every day leading up to Christmas we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are twenty-four days leading up to Christmas and twenty-four Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us is that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. Luke 2 is perhaps the most read and most famous chapter in the Bible, there’s a lot here tha...
Dec 02, 2021•17 min•Ep. 133
We are about to do something super cool between now and Christmas. Every day we will be reading, studying, and reflecting on a chapter of the Gospel of Luke. There are 24 days leading up to Christmas and 24 Chapters in Luke. We are going to enter the celebration of the birth of Jesus with a full context of his life and ministry. My hope and prayer for each of us, that we fully experience a closeness to Jesus like never before. In Luke 1 we enter into the narrative of the life of Jesus with some ...
Dec 01, 2021•13 min•Ep. 212
It is all but guaranteed that someone at some point is not going to be happy with you. Someone will talk about you behind your back saying things that are untrue or unfair. I’m sure those memories are flooding back to you now or maybe you’re in the middle of that. What do you do in those circumstances? What do you do when life is not fair? What do you turn to? Who do you turn to vent to? There’s a model for this in today’s verses. David in the Bible experiences injustice and unfairness and we’ll...
Nov 30, 2021•12 min•Ep. 131
We wrap up our study in John 13. It’s not something that has been a deep study but there is enough here that will be split into three episodes. I encourage you if you haven’t to go back and listen to the first two parts to do that. We are diving into a passage in the book of John that documents Jesus washing the feet of the disciples at The Last Supper. We will read the same passage in these next few episodes but we will have a different reflection in each one. Today we are looking at really the...
Nov 29, 2021•10 min•Ep. 130
We continue our study in John 13. It’s not something that takes a deep study but there is enough here that will be split into three episodes. I encourage you, if you haven’t to go back and listen to the first part. We are diving into a passage in the book of John that documents Jesus washing the feet of the disciples at The Last Supper. We will read the same passage in these next few episodes but we will have a different reflection in each one. Today we are looking at the significance of Peter’s...
Nov 24, 2021•13 min•Ep. 129
There is a simple beauty in today’s verses. It’s not something that takes a deep study but there is enough here that will be split into three episodes. We are diving into a passage in the book of John that documents Jesus washing the feet of the disciples at The Last Supper. We will read the same passage in these next three episodes but we will have a different reflection in each one. This is the VERSED podcast; a daily pursuit to become more perceptive to what the Bible says. If you would like ...
Nov 23, 2021•12 min•Ep. 128
Today's verses were submitted by VERSED listener, Heather. It concerns one of the most frequent questions about God's character and that is God's wrath. Wrath is hard to justify and I have to admit it I felt the same way until I began studying the Bible more than reading it. We return to the book of Romans today - written by Paul. Paul has expressed his willingness to come and preach the gospel in Rome to teach the Christians there and to receive encouragement from them. Since most of his origin...
Nov 18, 2021•9 min•Ep. 127
In order to have salvation, there must be a need for it. Saved? Saved from what? Why? Isaiah prophesied to a nation that had turned a deaf ear to the Lord. Instead of serving Him with humility and offering love to their neighbors, the nation of Judah offered meaningless sacrifices in God’s temple at Jerusalem and committed injustices throughout the nation. The people of Judah turned their backs on God and alienated themselves from Him, which created the need for Isaiah’s pronouncements of judgme...
Nov 17, 2021•13 min•Ep. 126
Loneliness has a significant effect on our health, diabetes, anxiety, depression, addictions, suicide. It also seems like loneliness is the perfect soil for sin to flourish. If I were Satan, that would certainly be my goal - to get people lonely and isolated. Naturally, our hearts are prone to wander, to harden, and to sin. The allurements of the world never stop lying to us and calling us away from the living God. Our sinful nature wants cheap substitutes for the real rest God offers in Christ,...
Nov 15, 2021•12 min•Ep. 125
Today’s verses are the response to a question from a friend of mine. She sent me a text that said this, “Biblical question for you” I said, “Go for it.” She asks, “In Exodus 32, God declares he is going to murder all the Israelites down the mountain that are worshipping idols. Moses then pleaded with him & reminded him about his promises with Abraham, Issac and Jacob. Had God forgotten those promises? What made God change his mind?” “Give me time to study it?” I replied. “Absolutely.” She re...
Nov 10, 2021•14 min•Ep. 124
Do you ever get tired of sinning? Like you try your best but you get caught in this vulnerability and fall back in the trap of chasing your own happiness at whatever the cost right there at that moment. You may even recognize that you are wrong but you beat yourself up for continuing in your sin. You are weary and HATE yourself for it. Sometimes I get mad that I even HAVE to ask for forgiveness in the first place. I think you’ll find some encouragement in today’s verses. This is the VERSED podca...
Nov 09, 2021•15 min•Ep. 123
We have to do what this Psalm says; humble ourselves, repent of our sins, pray, give thanks. When we do that, out of the abundance of God's love, He will hear us. But, that takes a move from us. This is the VERSED podcast; a daily pursuit to become more perceptive to what the Bible says. If you would like to dive deeper into certain verses in the Bible, have a verse you would like to submit to have included in a future episode, have questions about the Bible that you would like answered in a bon...
Nov 05, 2021•8 min•Ep. 122
Psalm 32 is a maskil of David. Maskil is a teaching psalm - it means to teach or to instruct. It was written after David’s great sin with Bathsheba. If you don't know what that is, we will dive into that briefly. Psalm 32 pairs with Psalm 51. 51, is David’s prayer for remorse and forgiveness, and mercy. 32, is after he is assured of his forgiveness and he wants to instruct others. This is the VERSED podcast; a daily pursuit to become more perceptive to what the Bible says. If you would like to d...
Nov 03, 2021•11 min•Ep. 121
You won't see "SUBMIT AND GOD WILL GET THE GLORY" on coffee mugs, clothing, or on your Christian Girl-Boss Daily Planner. Instead, we see "BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS!" In today's popular verse, we study and read the full context of Joshua 1:9 where God is promising Joshua and you, courage and strength but that does not come without submitting to his ways. This is the VERSED podcast; a daily pursuit to become more perceptive to what the Bible says. If you would like to dive deeper into certain vers...
Nov 01, 2021•9 min•Ep. 120
Maybe you have heard people speak about God or specifically the “Old Testament God” as a "cosmic abuser". A vengeful, wrathful, murderer. Maybe you believe that yourself. I do have empathy for that point of view because at first glance it may appear that way, especially if we do what is often easy to do and filter the Bible through our own lens, insert ourselves into the narrative, instead of reading the Bible fully and contextually. It’s only when I began to do that that my eyes were opened and...
Oct 28, 2021•11 min•Ep. 119
The devil cannot make you sin. But what he will do is study your game film. He knows your tendencies like the back of his hand. He knows your distinctive weaknesses. He knows how to appeal to your evil desires so that you’ll be drawn away into sin. Sin that leads to death and separation from God. When we sin, we break that fellowship with God. Today we are reading from the book of James and answering the questions of how to remain strong when we are under trial. This is the VERSED podcast; a dai...
Oct 26, 2021•10 min•Ep. 118
Have you ever wondered what the Bible means when it says do not love “the world?” or the things in the world? Today’s verse gives us an incredibly clear answer to what those things are and what they are not. If you would like to dive deeper into this, or other verses in the Bible, if you have a verse you would like to submit to have included in a future episode if have questions about the Bible that you would like answered in a bonus episode, or simply want to connect with me... text VERSED to 8...
Oct 25, 2021•14 min•Ep. 117
