SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:28-35 SHOW NOTES: We invite you to subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . Jesus joins two people walking on the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus . Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He shared all the things in Scripture concerning himself. They listened and had to be caught up in wonder and amazement as this stranger shared from the Holy Scriptures. They urged Him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spe...
May 01, 2024•19 min•Season 17Ep. 2
SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:13-27 SHOW NOTES: We invite you to subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . Today, we begin a new series of lessons – Treasure in the Word . What do we treasure? How do we define the word, treasure? The Psalmist reminds us, “The law of the Lord is perfect … more to be desired than gold, even much fine gold … sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb” (Ps. 19:7-10). The Apostle Paul writes these words, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching ...
Apr 24, 2024•19 min•Season 17Ep. 1
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 5:7-14 SHOW NOTES : We invite you to subscribe to our ministry website – Discover God's Truth . Peter wrote this letter to believers, both Jews and Gentiles, throughout the known world to exhort and declare the true grace of God . He encourages everyone to stand firm in it. Peter also warns readers to “Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Peter had first-hand experience with the devil (see Luke 22:31-34) . Resis...
Apr 17, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 16
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 5:1-6 (ESV) SHOW NOTES: We’d love for you to subscribe to our ministry website – Discover God's Truth . First Peter is a letter written to “God’s elect,” scattered in “Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.” In his final chapter, Peter instructs the elders who are called to “shepherd the flock of God.” The pastoral leaders are to feed, lead, guide, guard, and provide for the believers in their local flock. Each of these elders serves the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ ...
Apr 10, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 15
SCRIPTURE : 1 Peter 4:12-19 SHOW NOTES: Please subscribe and join us at our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . Peter addresses his audience as “Beloved, dear friends.” He shares difficult truth with them about the suffering of Christians. We often view testing and persecution as strange and abnormal. Is God against us? We are surprised when we face times of suffering, and quickly become discouraged. But Peter warns us to expect difficult times, persecution, and suffering. Jesus spoke ...
Apr 03, 2024•19 min•Season 16Ep. 14
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 4:1-11 SHOW NOTES: We invite you to visit and subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . On Good Friday, we remember Jesus’ death on the cross . He told His disciples that this time of suffering was ahead, and Jesus had to go to Jerusalem. However, suffering is not a concept we want to embrace or accept in this life. "Since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude." 1 Peter 4:1 Suffering has different faces in each of our live...
Mar 27, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 12
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 3:15-22 SHOW NOTES: We invite you to explore the resources offered at our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth – including Pocket Truth, the complete podcast library of Walk with God, and Embrace Truth devotionals. The Bible is filled with wisdom and insight to guide our daily walks with God. Each week, we open the pages of Scripture and share the Good News of Jesus Christ . In chapter one, Peter shares this promise given in Isaiah 40:8, “The word of our God stands fore...
Mar 20, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 11
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 3:8-14 SHOW NOTES: God’s Word is our daily source of strength and encouragement. Walk with God is part of our new ministry, Discover God’s Truth. We invite you to subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . In this lesson, Peter summarizes his teaching from earlier verses in the letter. "Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble." – 1 Peter 3:8 What does that look like? What do we observe in others? Wh...
Mar 13, 2024•19 min•Season 16Ep. 10
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 3:1-7 SHOW NOTES : We invite you to visit and subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . In our current study, Peter writes to encourage believers to show honor and respect to those in authority over us . This includes submitting to the emperor, government officials, and even servants to their masters. Jesus lived this example and submitted to the will of His Heavenly Father. “Likewise , wives, be subject to your own husbands …” (1 Peter 3:1). This order wa...
Mar 06, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 9
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 2:18-25 SHOW NOTES: Walt and I appreciate the ministry of The Awakening Worldwide . Three years ago, our weekly podcast, Walk with God, began, and there are now listeners in 60 countries. The Lord continues to bless this outreach, and it exists to encourage and strengthen believers with God’s Word. We invite you to visit and subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . Peter encourages his readers to “live as people who are free … living as servants of God.” ...
Feb 28, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 8
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 2:9-17 SHOW NOTES: The purpose of Discover God’s Truth is to encourage and strengthen believers with God’s Word. We invite you to subscribe to our new ministry website – Discover God's Truth . Peter addresses his audience as “Beloved," my dear friends . We are bound together in Christ’s love. Each of us is called to do good deeds so His name will be glorified. And Peter continues this theme in verse 10, where he alludes to the Old Testament prophet Hosea. Once, you were not a ...
Feb 21, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 7
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 2:1-8 SHOW NOTES: Our new ministry, Discover God’s Truth, is available to strengthen and encourage you in God’s Word. You are invited to subscribe to the website – Discover God's Truth . As we read and study the book of First Peter, this word comes to mind: “Rich. This book is so rich – verse by verse.” Peter is addressing the topic of our salvation and deliverance from sin. Our lives should be changed, and this is God’s work of sanctification in you and me. Peter continues wi...
Feb 14, 2024•19 min•Season 16Ep. 6
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:17-25 SHOW NOTES: This weekly podcast – Walk with God – is now part of our new ministry, Discover God’s Truth. Are you on a quest to discover the truth about God? Do you desire a closer walk with the Lord? We invite you to subscribe to our website – www.discovergodstruth.org . Let's embark on this spiritual journey together! Peter has these powerful words for his audience. We are chosen, and we are called to be holy. In verses 14 and 15, “do not be conformed to the passions ...
Feb 07, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 5
SPECIAL NOTE: Walt and Brenda have been unexpectedly called back to San Antonio, Texas, to lead funeral services for their dear close friend from their former ministry. We're pleased to present this REPLAY from Brenda's first series, which originally aired in early 2021 during Advent: SCRIPTURE: Psalm 23 SHOW NOTES: The LORD is my Shepherd. He leads, restores, and guides the sheep. The Good Shepherd knows His sheep and the sheep know His voice. The agricultural imagery in this Psalm provides gre...
Jan 31, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 4
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:10-16 SHOW NOTES: Walk with God is part of our new ministry, Discover God’s Truth . The website is www.discovergodstruth.org and we invite you to subscribe today. Are you facing trials, hardships, troubles, and struggles? The One we follow, the One we are to model our lives after, was mocked, rejected, scorned, and suffered terribly. The true source of strength for each new day is our personal trust in the Lord. “Though you have not seen him, you love him … you believe in hi...
Jan 24, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 3
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:3-9 SHOW NOTES : This weekly podcast – Walk with God – is now part of our new ministry, Discover God’s Truth. You are invited to visit and subscribe to the new website – discovergodstruth.org . We trust these resources will encourage you in your walk with God. What brings you joy? What gives you hope in life? In today’s passage, Peter wants to direct our eyes and focus toward the one true source of joy and hope. This letter was written in a time filled with trouble and perse...
Jan 17, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 2
SCRIPTURE : 1 Peter 1:1-2 SHOW NOTES : This weekly podcast – Walk with God – is now part of our new ministry, Discover God’s Truth. You are invited to visit and subscribe to the website – Discover God's Truth . We trust you will be encouraged in your walk with God . Do you remember reading about Peter (one of Jesus’ first disciples) in the 4 Gospels? It seems like he speaks out of turn, flounders in the Sea of Galilee, or totally misses the point of Jesus’ teaching . Yet by the time he authored ...
Jan 10, 2024•18 min•Season 16Ep. 1
SCRIPTURE: Luke 2:21-38 SHOW NOTES: Bethlehem’s Story includes Mary and Joseph as the angel revealed God’s plan for their lives . This couple walked in obedience and journeyed from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Jesus was born in an animal stable, angels announced his birth, and the shepherds came to see him lying in a manger. Weeks later, this young couple and their infant son arrive at the temple in Jerusalem, where they meet two righteous people who have waited expectantly for God to fulfill His prom...
Jan 03, 2024•18 min•Season 15Ep. 5
SCRIPTURE: Luke 2:8-20 SHOW NOTES: In Luke's Gospel, this marks the third time an angel appears to key individuals in the Bethlehem story . In chapter one, Gabriel visits Zacharias in Jerusalem, and then he speaks with Mary in Nazareth. Both times, the angel says, “Do not be afraid.” It is normal to experience fear in the presence of an angel (one of God’s powerful spiritual beings). Now, an angel comes to shepherds in the fields surrounding Bethlehem and announces the birth of a child. “For tod...
Dec 27, 2023•19 min•Season 15Ep. 4
SCRIPTURE: Luke 2:6-7 / Matthew 2:1-12 / Philippians 2:5-11 SHOW NOTES: Today's lesson will contrast the earthly king (Herod) and the Rightful King (Jesus). The ruling king in Jerusalem, Herod the Great, knew how to build palaces, and he had many of them . Herod is the king of luxury. He was a wicked ruler. Herod is a king of war. “When Herod saw that the magi had tricked him, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem … from two years old and under, ac...
Dec 20, 2023•20 min•Season 15Ep. 3
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 1:18-24 / Luke 1: 26-38, 2:1-5 SHOW NOTES: Bethlehem’s story continues, and we read, “The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary” (Luke 1:26-27) . The angel tells Mary God has chosen her, and she will give birth to a son. “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:31-32). Also, the angel visits Joseph and commands...
Dec 13, 2023•20 min•Season 15Ep. 2
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 49:8-12 / 1 Samuel 17:12 / Micah 5:2 SHOW NOTES: Welcome to this Advent season . Over the next five weeks, we will look more closely at a tiny town in Israel, chosen by the Lord to play an essential part in His sovereign plan. Today, we ask this question, “Why Bethlehem?” The passages we will discuss today go back almost 2,000 years before the first Christmas took place. This town was small and insignificant, yet it was God’s choice. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too...
Dec 06, 2023•19 min•Season 15Ep. 1
SCRIPTURE: Esther 9:20 – 10:3 SHOW NOTES: Mordecai sent letters to the Jews instructing them to have days of feasting and gladness on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar. They were to send gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor. Their sorrow was turned to gladness and mourning to a holiday! Queen Esther also wrote a letter in words of peace and truth and the command to observe Purim was written in the official royal records for future generations to follow. Fasting and feasting...
Nov 29, 2023•20 min•Season 14Ep. 12
SCRIPTURE: Esther 9:1-19 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther is filled with many twists and turns – people in positions of power, and others who are wicked and evil. Where is God? Has He forgotten the Jewish people spread through the 127 provinces of the Persian kingdom? “On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned, and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.” Haman’s edict had given others the legal authority to kill the Jews and tak...
Nov 22, 2023•21 min•Season 14Ep. 11
SCRIPTURE: Esther 8:1-17 SHOW NOTES: Following Haman’s death, the king gave Queen Esther the house of Haman. Mordecai is given the authority and signet ring Haman used to issue the decree of death to the Jews. A major role reversal has occurred between Haman and Mordecai. But the story is not over. Haman’s royal decree had been written and declared throughout the entire kingdom calling for the destruction of the Jewish people. Queen Esther pleaded with the king to avert the evil plan of Haman an...
Nov 15, 2023•21 min•Season 14Ep. 10
SCRIPTURE: Esther 6:14 – 7:10 SHOW NOTES: Do we wait for the Lord or are we prone to run ahead, devising our own plans to “fix” the problem? As we reach this point in the story of Esther, she could have revealed her request either in the throne room or at the first feast with the king and Haman. While she entertained them at this first feast, Esther extended yet another invitation for a second feast. Once again, King Ahasuerus asks Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted yo...
Nov 08, 2023•19 min•Season 14Ep. 9
SCRIPTURE: Esther 6:1-13 / 1 Chronicles 29:11-13 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther is complicated – filled with twists and turns, intrigue, plays for power in the palace including assassination plots! One night King Ahasuerus is unable to sleep and he calls for his attendants to read the court history book to him – it’s a day-to-day journal. The king learns Mordecai uncovered a plot by two eunuchs to murder him. He’s troubled and asks, “Was this man ever honored?” When the king learns that Haman is...
Nov 01, 2023•20 min•Season 14Ep. 8
SCRIPTURE: Esther 5:1-14 SHOW NOTES: Queen Esther has appealed to her uncle, Mordecai. “Gather all the Jews in Susa and fast with me for three days and three nights. Then, I will go to the king, and if I perish, I perish.” What happened during those three days of fasting? Remember there was great fear – weeping, mourning, and lamenting when the Jews learned of the king’s decree. While prayer is not specifically mentioned, when people fast, they typically turn their focus and time toward God. The...
Oct 25, 2023•20 min•Season 14Ep. 7
SCRIPTURE: Esther 4:1-17 SHOW NOTES: As you turn the page to chapter four in the book of Esther, you quickly recognize a pivotal point in this story . Haman has initiated a plan to exact his revenge – not just on Mordecai but a plan that will bring destruction to every Jew in the empire. Mordecai learns of the decree that has been written, signed, and sent to every province and his immediate reaction is to tear his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourn with a loud and bitter cry. In fact, there wa...
Oct 18, 2023•20 min•Season 14Ep. 6
SCRIPTURE: Esther 3:7-15 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther draws the reader into a real-life story filled with drama and intrigue . While the name of God is never specifically mentioned, we believe God was setting the stage and preparing to protect and provide for His people. Now in chapter three, King Ahasuerus appoints a man named Haman to the second highest position in the kingdom . This man is filled with pride, and he desires power. When Mordecai, a Jew, will not bow to him or honor him, Haman...
Oct 11, 2023•22 min•Season 14Ep. 5
