Teach the Word: Recent Episodes
Dan
This is the first in a four-sermon series on the Letters to the Churches from Revelation Chapters 2 and 3. Here the Book of Revelation is introduced and Jesus' letter to the Ephesian church is covered. This is also the same as the Sunday message at Adirondack Alliance Church on August 4, 2022.
This is the sixth in a series of seven sermons preaching through 1 Peter. It is about living for God, living in light of the day of reckoning, and suffing for the Name of Christ. It is also the same as the Sunday sermon at Adirondack Alliance Church on August 21, 2021.
This is the last sermon in a seven sermon series preaching through 1 Peter. It is about the judgement, church eldership, and pride. It is also the same as the Sunday sermon at Adirondack Alliance Church on August 21, 2022.
This is the fifth sermon in a seven sermon series preaching through 1 Peter. It is about the fear of the Lord and the meaning of the resurrection. It is also the same as the Sunday sermon at Adirondack Alliance Church on August 14, 2022.
This is the fourth in a series of seven sermons preaching through First Peter. It is about workplace and home relationships. It is also the same as the Sunday message at Adirondack Alliance Church on July 31, 2022.
This is the third in a series of seven sermons preaching through 1 Peter. It is the same as the Sunday sermon preached at Adirondack Alliance Church on July 24, 2022.
This is the second sermon in a series on First Peter. It is the same sermon as the Sunday sermon at Adirondack Alliance Church on July 17, 2022.
This is the first sermon in a series of sermons on 1 Peter. This is the same as the Sunday sermon at Adirondack Alliance Church on July 3, 2022.
This is a sermon on prayer based off of Daniel 9:1-18. It is the same message as the Sunday sermon delivered at Adirondack Alliance Church on June 12, 2022.
This is a three part teaching on what the Bible has to say about sex: sex created, sex perverted, sex redeemed.
This is the eighth in a series of devotional teachings on prayer. Solomon's prayer in 1 Kings 8:22-54 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using Solomon's prayer as a model.
This podcast is a teaching from Ephesians 5:14-21 about how to believer can be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 3:14-19 says that God gives us power to know His love so that we may be filled to the fullness of God.
This is the seventh in a series of devotional teachings on prayer. David's prayer in 2 Samuel 7:18-29 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using David's prayer as a model.
This is the sixth in a long series of devotional teachings on prayer. David's prayer in Psalm 142 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using David's prayer as a model.
This is the fifth in a long series of devotional teachings on prayer. David's prayer in Psalm 86 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using David's prayer as a model.
This is the fourth in a long series of devotional teachings on prayer. David's prayer in Psalm 17 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using David's prayer as a model.
This is the third in a long series of devotional teachings on prayer. Psalm 102 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using this Psalm 102 as a model.
This is the second in a long series of devotional teachings on prayer. Habakkuk's prayer in Habakkuk 3 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using Habakkuk's prayer as a model.
This is the first in a long series of devotional teachings on prayer. Moses' prayer in Psalm 90 is read, commented on, and then a prayer is offered up using Moses' prayer as a model.
This episode has three parts: (1) the 10,000-foot view of suffering in the Bible, (2) ten biblical reasons why we might be suffering, and (3) practical questions about how suffering relates to other theological truths like healing and the believer's authority. A lot of this content was contained in three previous episodes: (1) Sickness and Healing (https://anchor.fm/daniel69003/episodes/Sickness-and-Healing-e139nqm), (2) Faith, Suffering, and Healing (https://anchor.fm/daniel69003/episodes/Faith--Suffering--and-Healing-e116d7t), and (3) The Bible's Worldview (https://anchor.fm/daniel69003/episodes/The-Bibles-Worldview-ese7l8).
This episode attempts to lay out a theology of emotions. It looks at how emotions are experienced by both God and created beings and how they can be sinful. Four criteria for evaluating our emotions are proposed: their outcome, object, focus, and trajectory.
This is a devotional from Exodus 20, 1 Samuel 17, and Isaiah 25-26 about the Name of the LORD.
This episode traces the topic of church discipline through the New Testament. It looks at instances of church discipline in Ephesus, Corinth, and Thessalonica, and examines Jesus' and Paul's instructions on the topic from Matthew 18 and Acts 20.
This episode looks at end times events surrounding the return of Jesus Christ. Particular focus is given to the topics of the rapture and the tribulation.
This episode looks at several New Testament analogies for the Church and discusses what each analogy teaches us about the Church: (1) the bride of Christ analogy, (2) two different body of Christ analogies, (3) two different household of God analogies, (4) the temple of God analogy, (5) the flock of Christ analogy, and (6) the garden of the Lord analogy.
This episode is the second of three in a series about the church. It is a tour of the book of Acts, looking at those things that are descriptive of the church then: (1) corporate prayer, (2) corporate fasting, (3) preaching and teaching the Word, (4) growth in breadth and depth, (5) fellowship, (6) fear of God, (7) unity, (8) persecution, (9) rest, (10) inter-church relationships, (11) sending missionaries, (12) following up with missionaries, (13) elder authority, (14) decisions on disputed matters, (15) protection against wolves.
This episode defines the the church descriptively, looks at two meanings senses for that word, and examines the similarities and differences between the Jewish synagogue system and the churches of Jesus Christ.
This podcast is a continual of yesterday's devotional from Proverbs 31. It is a second devotional on work and wealth. This one is based on Ecclesiastes 4-5.
This is a New Year's devotional based on the Eshet Hayyel Poem at the end of Proverbs (31:10-31). It talks about work and wealth and the proper motives of working for wealth: (1) to be a blessing to the needy, (2) to be prepared for the future, and (3) to be an influence in the land.
This episode examines Christmas as the pivot point of the biblical narrative. It looks at what leads up to Christmas tracing the theme of the seed through Scripture, and it looks at what follows Christmas tracing the theme of the kingdom through Scripture.
This is a chronological reading of the Christmas story. It weaves together most of Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2.
This episode is a follow-up on the last teaching I released (The Voices in Our Heads). It fleshes out the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness from Romans 1:18-32, 12:9-13:1, 13:11-14, Galatians 5:19-23, Ephesians 4:17-5:20, and Colossians 3:1-17. The intent is to give practical Scriptural ways to discern the origin of the voices in our heads based on their content.
This episode examines the voices in the thought space of our heads. Psalm 16:7, James 1:20-27, 2 Corinthians 11:12-15, Job 33:14-30, and Isaiah 50:4-6 are all looked at in that order. The phenomenon of God intruding into the man's thoughts, how hearing God's voice in one's thoughts could go wrong, and the importance of the written Scriptures are all discussed.
This episode talks a little bit about the salvation that is in Jesus Christ using Judges 6:1-16 as a springboard.
This episode continues last week's teaching on the role of the Holy Spirit. It focuses on the believer's responsibility in interacting with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit's use of the Word of God is focused on. The metaphors of a weapon, a tool, growing seeds, and washing are all examined.
This episode introduces the topic of the Holy Spirit. Topics discussed include (1) how the Spirit convicts unbelieving hearts, (2) how He is the believer’s Teacher, (3) how He lives in believers, (4) how he fills them with Himself, (5) how He empowers their witness for Christ, (6) how He gifts them spiritually, (7) how He provides assurance of their salvation, (8) how He intercedes for them according to God’s will, (9) how He is actively renewing them internally, and (10) how He enables them to bear fruit externally.
This episode looks at the topic of church health from the perspective of stewardship in 1 Corinthians 3:5-4:5. Some metrics for measuring church health are proposed and the pitfall of pride is discussed.
This quick share looks at the challenge to discern the speech of a fool from Proverbs 14:7 together with the challenge to extend grace to the one who misspeaks from Ecclesiastes 7:21-22.
This is a quick share from Galatians 3:27-28 about how in the church our identity is not based on race, socioeconomic class, or gender, but on Christ alone.
This episode is a teaching taken from an excerpt of Eliphaz the Temanite's dialogue with Job in Job 5:17-27. The teaching is about how God's painful correction includes soothing healing and about how God's loving blessing does not always occur when people think it should.
This episode is a devotional about how to respond to troubled times in the world. It is taken from the situation in Isaiah 7-9. Isaiah 7:4, 7:9, and 8:12 are highlighted in particular.
This devotional from the life of David in 1 Samuel 17 provides encouragement to exercise putting our trust in God.
This is a devotional from Psalm 139:147-148 and 127:1-2 about what to rise up early or stay awake late for.
This is a devotional from Psalm 37:6-9 about how God both protects us and instructs us.
This devotional looks at how God is loving and caring in Psalm 104:10-18 and at how that means we need not worry in Matthew 6:25-34.
This episode revisits the topic of following your heart and looks at how Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 encourages it in one sense.
This is a devotional from Ecclesiastes 7, verses 10 and 14. The thrust of the episode is assurance that the world is not spinning out of control. Rather, God is superintending everything.
This is a devotional challenge from two parallel passages, Ephesians 5:18-20 and Colossians 3:16-17. May the attitude of our hearts be a sweet song of thanksgiving.
This episode looks at four applications of the laying on of hands: (1) for blessing, (2) for receiving the Holy Spirit or spiritual gifts, (3) for ordination or empowering for ministry, and (4) for healing. The connection between prayer and the laying on of hands is also highlighted.
This devotional is a challenge from Mark 8:27-30 and John 20:24-29: (1) a challenge to focus on who we say that Jesus is, not what others say, and (2) a challenge to consider what are actions in daily life say about who we consider Jesus to be.
This episode shares comfort and hope from the Scriptures touching the guilt, regret, and depression that is experienced after the death of a loved one.
This is a devotional from Psalm 139:16 about how God has ordained every day of one's life, from the day of his birth to the day of his death. The challenge is for us to find rest in the sovereignty of God and quiet our doubts and what ifs.
This episode looks at what the Scriptures say about death. The following topics are examined: the doctrine of the resurrection, where one goes before the resurrection immediately upon death, and communication with the dead.
This episode continues the discussion of the believer being in Christ. Several more ways that the New Testament talks about our union with Christ are discussed, and the impact this truth has on our daily lives is examined.
This devotional is taken from the Passover celebration recorded in 2 Chronicles 30:18-22.
This episode looks at the idea of being "in Christ" by examining six metaphors that the Bible gives to help believers understand the reality of their union with Christ: the marriage relationship, the human body, a stone building, family relationships, a tree, and root systems. Also included is a cautionary teaching on how union with Christ does not mean that the believer possesses deity by virtue of his being in Christ.
This quick share from Colossians 3:16 looks at how teaching is both a spiritual gift and a command for all believers to do just like evangelism.
This episode (a) looks at the biblical solution to anxiety, (b) breaks that solution down into practical steps, (c) looks at Paul going through those steps in Philippians 4, and (d) looks at how each of those steps needs to be taken collectively in the church as well as individually in private.
This episode simply prays Psalm 18:1-36 as a prayer of protect for Afghani believers. Pronouns and verb tenses are played around with, but the content of the Psalm as it originally applied to King David is preserved and applied to Afghani believers.
This video looks at (1) the definition of repentance and the Hebrew and Greek words used for it, (2) seven ways in which the Bible depicts repentance, and (3) how repentance is a part of the Christian life from salvation up till death.
This quick share from Revelation 2:2 looks at how apostles may have been viewed in the first century and is a charge to test the authority individuals claim to hold in the church today.
This episode looks more at what the Bible has to say about the specific gifts of apostles, prophets, and tongues. Particular attention is given to how these gifts have been understood in ways that uphold the sufficiency of Scripture as an authority for life and practice.
This devotional from the Epistle of Jude is a charge to contend for the faith in the face of dreamers who reject the authority of the apostles.
This episode looks at the topic of the cessation of certain spiritual gifts. A brief overview of the history of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches and how these three main branches of Christianity approach authority is examined as part of this question.
This devotional from Revelation 3:18-20 looks at how God's love is expressed in discipline.
This episode looks at eight lists of spiritual gifts (one in Romans 12, three in 1 Corinthians 12, two in 1 Corinthians 13, one in Ephesians 4, and one in 1 Peter 4). Several other passages that reference spiritual gifts in general are also consulted.
This devotional from Ezekiel 27:8-9 is a challenge to respect elders in our churches, to let them lead, and to let them fix problems that arise.
This episode looks at the topic of justification. An effort it made to look at the subject through several of the lenses that the New Testament looks at it through.
This episode continues the discussion of faith from last week. Focus is given to the theological meaning sense of faith that the story of the Bible develops: throwing oneself into a relationship of total dependence on God alone for everything. How the Bible requires that faith from us for both salvation and living the Christian life is discussed.
This short devotional episode from Revelation 1:5 addresses who Christ is, who we are, and anxiety about global events.
This devotional episode is based on one verse in 1 John 3:9. John 1, Matthew 18, and Genesis 3:15 are all referenced as well. God is growing things in our hearts. We have a responsibility to tend to the soil.
This episode looks at Christ substituting for us when he made atonement for our sins on the cross. The atonement vocabulary itself, the backdrop of the Old Testament sacrificial system, and the ideological consequences of removing the vicarious atonement doctrine from the Gospel message are all looked at.
This is quick share is a devotional from Deuteronomy 12:32-13:5. It looks at the topic of a closed canon of Scripture together with the topic of prophets and dream dreamers. The challenge is issued to (a) consider the possibility of a role for prophets and dream dreamers under a closed canon and to (b) consider the Scriptural canon authoritative over the prophets and dream dreamers.
This episode is about the topic of sickness and healing, primarily from from James 5. Various reason for sickness are looked at and the topic of healing is examined.
This is a quick share episode from 2 Peter 1:16-2:3. The devotional touches on the prophecy of Scripture and how that prophetic word was confirmed and briefly looks at topic of the false prophets of old and the false teachers of today.
This episode looks at questions about Jewishness in the New Testament. The following topics are examined: the permanence of the covenants with Israel versus their ability to be broken, the continuation of the Law versus its annulment, and the practice of Judaism versus ceasing to practice it. Passages from the Torah, the Prophets, the teachings of Jesus, the Acts of the Apostles, the writings of Paul, the letter to the Hebrews, and the book of James are all examined.
This quick share episode tells the story of the death of the prophet Balaam as originally recorded in Numbers 31:8. The ministry of Balaam in Numbers 22-25 is reviewed, and his sin is discussed as highlighted in Numbers 31:16, 2 Peter 2:14-16, Jude 11, and Revelation 2:14. The devotional challenge is given for us to not follow in the way of the error of the prophet Balaam.
This episode looks at the what Scripture has to say about the dual natures of Jesus Christ (both God and man) and it examines why the dual natures of Jesus Christ matter.
This is a devotional encouragement based on Lamentations 2:9-14. The challenge is to listen to the Law of the Lord and not to walk in our own ways.
This episode looks at Scriptures talking about what people consist of. Scriptural evidence for cohesionist, dichotomist, trichotomist, and polytomist views of man are all examined.
This devotional episode is from James 1 and it is about the blessings in temptation. Particular focus is given to Verse 2 and Verse 12.
This devotional episode is about how to appropriately speak against people from Jeremiah 40:13-16.
Starting in Mark 11 with Jesus' teaching on faith after the fig tree incident, this episode takes a glace at the question of God's will versus human selfishness in the application of that faith teaching of Jesus (John 5, 1 Corinthians 13). The question of God's will in suffering versus health, prosperity, and happiness is brought up (James 1, 1 Peter 1), and the primary passage on physical healing is looked at (James 5).
This is episode is a devotional based off of Colossians 4:6 and Acts 5:19-21 about speaking words of grace that give life to the hearers.
This topical episode looks at three activities of the devil in the world today and how the believer can respond to them. The three activities discussed are (1) tempting people away from God by influencing the worldly culture around them and inflaming the sinful passions within them, (2) afflicting people with disease, economic hardship, or mental distress, and (2) directly influencing people via demon-possession.
This episode is a devotional based off of parts of Solomon's prayer in 1 Kings 8, verses 38-40 and 56-58 in particular. It highlights the disease of our own hearts and how God alone can cure it.
This topical episode attempts to teach some of what the Bible has to say about divorce and remarriage.
This episode is a devotional from 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 about living as an essential oil diffuser, giving off the fragrance of Christ to those around us, and how that will elicit one of two reactions.
This a topical episode is about the effects of sin on our inner man and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ reverses those effects.
This episode is a devotional from 1 Kings 7 intended to challenge our understanding of what it means to serve the Lord.
This topical episode looks at the goodness of God toward all humans (even ones who hate and curse Him) in three main areas: the provision for needs, the restraining of evil, and the giving of talents and insights.
This episode is a devotional from Jeremiah 22:13-17 intended to challenge our understanding of what it means to know the Lord.
This topical episode examines (1) Jesus' claim that He is Truth, (2) the nature of general and special revelation, and (3) the way in which the Bible frames misunderstanding the Truth. Jesus claim to be the Truth is examined in light of (a) the reality that He is the Word of God and (b) the Hebrew understanding that the Word of God is both a written text and an active agent in creation. General and special revelation are examined primarily through the lens of Psalm 19 and Romans 1. The Bible's framing of misunderstanding is built of of John 8:43-47.
This is a quick share episode from 1 Timothy 1. Focus is given to the purpose for which Paul left Timothy in Ephesus: to correct those who were using the Law wrongly. The two extremes when it comes to interacting with the law, legalism and antinomianism are also discussed briefly.
This topical episode exams what Scripture says about its own subject matter. Particularly attention is paid to how Scripture is sufficient for living aright before God. A challenge is issued from Psalm 119:128 for the believer to allow Scripture to be authoritative in whatever it says concerning any arena.
This is a devotional from Jeremiah 10, focusing on 10:2-3 and 10:23-24, about how deities direct people, contrasting God Almighty with the gods of the nations.
This topical episode looks at (1) the change process of sanctification in the believer's life in general, (2) points out how Scripture portrays it as (i) a done deal in the past, (ii) an ongoing process currently, and (iii) a future event, and finally examines (3) two tensions in the church's understanding of sanctification: (i) slow incremental change versus instantaneous total transformation and (ii) continued struggle with sin versus reaching sinless perfection.
This topical episode looks at how the Bible instructs believers to interact with the government.
This is quick share episode is a devotional from Leviticus 8:31-9:6 illustrating interaction with a passage by asking questions and letting God answer through the passage itself. This passage is just a snippet of the consecration ceremony for Aaron and his sons as priests found in Leviticus 8-10.
This topical episode looks at passages about Satan's overall role of opposing the plans and purposes of God by (1) tempting people away from them, (2) verbally opposing people before the throne of God, (3) originating and propagating lies, (4) seeking to destroy people, (5) opposing Christ and His Gospel, and (6) operating a rogue kingdom. It points out the fact that (1) Satan is defeated in an already accomplished, but not yet fully realized way, and that (2) even in his rebellion, he is still subject to and accomplishing the purposes of God.
This quick share episode is a devotional from 2 Samuel 13 warning about the dangerous and unfruitful end of following our hearts and challenging us to follow the safe and fruitful path of the Lord.
This episode is a devotional based on Isaiah 8:10-20 about fearing God and not worrying about the schemes of men.
This episode is a devotional on Romans 15:1-13 examining the theme of hope woven through the passage and Paul's two prayers for the Romans, but not touching on his instructions to the Romans, nor the reasons he gives for those instructions.
This episode is a devotional from Ecclesiastes 3:9-22 encouraging us to choose joy knowing that God is in control in the midst of corruption, evil, and the hardships of life.
This episode examines each text mentioning the gift of languages: Mark 16, Acts 2, 10, and 19, and 1 Corinthians 12-14. Paul's four regulations of the use of the gift are examined: (1) only in love for building others up, (2) only accompanied by interpretation, (3) only one speaker at a time, and (4) only three speakers maximum in a gathering. Also included are some speculations as to why these regulations are given and three proposals for understanding why Paul's instructions are different from what can be observed in Acts when the gift is used.
This episode (a) touches on God's loving nature, (b) goes into depth on His (1) anger, (2) mercy, (3) holiness, (4) power, and (5) knowledge, and (c) alludes to His presence.
This bonus episode takes the passages from the previous episode On Gender and reorganizes them around the four topics (1) women teaching, (2) male headship, (3) female submission, (4) child rearing, and (5) household management. A few additional Scriptures are also consulted.
This episode starts off with the Bible's overall approach to gender and then introduces Scriptures that lay out instructions for males and females in the church and the home.
This episode teaches on how the Bible (1) affirms that there is one and only one true God, (2) simultaneously affirms the deity of three persons, and (4) maintains that those persons are distinct from one another.
This episode brings forward Scriptures that address how the Bible intends its readers to think in the realm of (1) Metaphysics, (2) Axiology, and (3) Epistemology and their subdomains. The video does not go in depth into any of these areas. In each, it just gives a few thoughts about how the Bible might have its readers think.
This episode is a teaching on (1) the Bible's position about new revelation being added to Scripture and (2) about how the Bible regulates the use of prophecy in the church. Four biblical tests for prophecy are examined: (1) accuracy, (2) results, (3) peer review, and (4) orthodoxy.
This episode is a teaching that examines the two topics: (a) what does the Bible say about what it is composed of and (b) what does the Bible say about it's own authority.
This is synthesis of thoughts from Daniel 10: 12-13 and 10:20-11:1, Ephesians 6:10-20, and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 with some cautionary notes from Colossians 2:15-19 and Hebrews 1.
This episode looks at (1) basic issues relating to divine guidance like the closed canon, (2) stresses the pre-eminence of the Written Word in guidance, and (3) examines four other undisputed ways the believer is guided by the Lord.