A Place in His Presence: Recent Episodes
Cody Andras
The Lord has used singleness to bring me to this place of deep dependency on Him. That is the story I have lived with Him thus far.
What is yours? I wonder.
Perhaps it is a broken marriage. Perhaps it is the transition to motherhood. Perhaps it is financial need. Perhaps it is a piercing loss. Perhaps it is a diagnosis or a chronic illness or a lifelong struggle with addiction. Perhaps, and this one is sometimes subtle, what has led you to a desperate dependence on the Lord is the acquisition of everything you thought you wanted—and the realization that it will never be enough.
This is what I’ve decided: He really is worth it.
Even our lack can be worth it if it leads to a deeper love.
We long for so many things, but the Creator Himself fashioned longing within the hearts of His children. We are meant to long, but many of our longings are unnamed and unidentified because we long for what we do not yet even fully know exists. We are not satisfied by this world, so we look around for something in it that might placate our wants. But the Lord, in His gracious practicality, names our longings. He tells us what He has promised to do for us. He gives us glimpses of what we are waiting for, and He gives us glimpses of Himself.
In this week's teaching, we will consider what it means that Jesus is working within the heart of His bride to cause us to be more faithful.
This week we consider the Lord's desire to present to Himself a pure and spotless bride--and the power of His Spirit to transform us into that bride that He desires us to be!
Last week, we explored the role of the New Covenant. In this lesson, we consider the role of the Old Covenant and the unending faithfulness of God.
In this lesson Cody discusses the role of covenants in the plans of God and the significance of the New Covenant as a betrothal of believers to our Bridegroom.
In this first lesson of the Bride of Christ, Cody discusses the reality that Jesus is called the Bridegroom and identifies us as His bride.
In this final lesson, we will reflect on the gift of drawing near to the King even as we await His return.
In Lesson 9, we continue in Jesus' Olivet Discourse, considering the weight of our salvation and what Jesus taught about choosing daily to be His disciple.
In this lesson we will consider the Olivet Discourse and what Jesus taught about our preparation for His return.
I had the opportunity to share about Christ as the anchor of our hope. Our God is faithful to do everything that He has promised to do, but we have to know what He has actually promised! In this teaching, we consider Mary Magdalene's encounter with the Risen Lord and what we can learn from her as we walk forward with Jesus.
As we consider the early believers' hope of Christ's coming, we will explore Paul's letters to the church at Thessalonica.
In this lesson, we consider what it means to approach the story of Scripture from a biblical worldview. We also discuss the significance of the cross and the centrality of the Coming Day of the Lord.
In Lesson Five we get to see Jesus through the eyes of hist friend John--the friend that Jesus chose to give the Book of Revelation to.
In Lesson Four we consider what Daniel has to teach us about living with hope as exiles in our day and about the visions of the coming Son of Man that point us to the hope of Christ's return.
In Lesson Three we consider the surety of God's promises to Abraham and how they are the basis for our hope--and the hope of all thee nations.
Lesson Two dives into God's promise to send the Seed--the Deliverer--and what it means that He is one day going to crush Satan.
In Lesson One, we consider the big picture of God's plan and promises to restore His creation to relationship with and fullness in Him.
This is an introduction to a new series titled "A Promised Hope: The Coming King," in which we will seek to secure our hope to the promise we have of Christ's return.
In this lesson we consider Luke 2:41-52 and ways that we might pattern our lives in such a way that we don't miss the presence of the Lord in our midst.
As we consider Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42), we find our invitation to come and rest at Jesus' feet.
Today we discuss positioning ourselves to hear from the Spirit of the Lord as we spend time in the Word of God.
In this week's lesson we discuss Anna's encounter with the Baby Messiah and our own call to live with anticipation of the returning Messiah. (Luke 2:36-38)
As we consider Mary Magdalene's encounter with the Risen Lord at His empty tomb, we will consider the hope we have in the resurrection and the truth that sometimes Jesus is asking us to let go of something as we learn to walk with Him in new ways.
In this episode, we discuss the faith of Jesus' mother Mary displayed as she stood at the foot of His cross.
In this episode, we explore Jesus' encounter with the bleeding woman in Mark 5, and His invitation to her (and to us) to tell Him the whole truth.
We watch the Man of Christ move among the women of the gospels in order that we might more readily recognize and respond to the Spirit of Christ in our midst.
In this lesson, we consider the role of the Spirit in the life of the Church, and the role of the Church in the plans of God.
In this lesson we discuss the Holy Spirit's work of sanctification and our role in cooperating with His work.
In this Lesson we discuss the power of God poured out by His Spirit and the power of God displayed in our own testimonies and stories.
The forgiveness Jesus offers is complete. He invites us to come to Him just as we are--to acknowledge our desperate need of a Savior and to find we are welcomed in His presence.
In this lesson, we explore Jesus' institution of the New Covenant during His last Passover meal with His disciples.
In this lesson we focus on the heart of God as He has revealed it in the humanity of Christ.
Welcome to A Promise Unveiled. Our prayer is that we will see God unveiled and hear His invitation to come unveiled before Him.
In this conclusion, we consider the significance of all that God has promised and the way that He has kept, is keeping and will always keep the Promise He has made!
In this lesson, we consider the return from exile, their hope and disappointment, as well as the significant promises of the New Testament throughout this time, which served as a reminder and an encouragement to the people of what was still to come in the faithful plans of God.
We consider the period of the exile and God's kindness and compassion in His discipline of the Israelites then and of us today.
We discuss the Davidic covenant and the relationship of the 5 major covenants of the Old Testament.
This week we will see God's faithfulness to fulfill His promise to give the Land of Israel to the nation of Israel.
In this lesson, we discuss the role of the Old Covenant and the Law in the progression of God's promise to redeem His people.
In this lesson, we consider the significance of God's deliverance of the Israelites after He "remembers" His covenant with Abraham.
In this week's audio lesson, we'll consider the incredible commitment of God in His covenant with Abraham and how that covenant leads us to the cross of Christ.
Looking at Genesis 4-11, we consider God’s faithfulness to preserve His promise in spite of man’s unfaithfulness.
In this first lesson of A Promise Kept, we consider what God's original intent for His creation was, man's choice to go astray, and God's merciful promise to draw us back.
Ours is a Father who is relentless in His pursuit of His daughters' wholeness. He wants hearts wholly devoted to Him. He also wants those hearts to be truly whole.
In Ruth chapter 4, we watch Boaz move to redeem Ruth. In this lesson, we take a pause from Ruth’s story to consider our own redemption at the hand of Christ.
Rest. We think of it as mindless. Something to do when everything else is done. But rest (that position of vulnerable trust in another to do the working) is foundational in our relationship with the God who has, thus far, proven Himself so trustworthy.
This week we talked about the relief that we so often find as we return from our wandering. Ironically, it’s not always in the form of the answers we thought we needed.
This week we discussed the wanderer's return trip. And much to the wanderer's relief, though we thought we'd left Him, the Father had never left us.
A recording of Cody Andras's teaching on Lesson 1 of the book of Ruth. About our propensity to wander and God's faithfulness to draw us back. (Oct. 9, 2018)
A recording of Cody Andras's Introductory teaching of Ruth. We set up the background of why we do Bible study and the historical context of the book of Ruth.
Celebration doesn't sound like a discipline, but it is! God gave us this one life, and He called us to actually live it and to enjoy it, and to find our joy in Him in the midst of all our days.
In this lesson, we consider the woman with the alabaster jar (Luke 7), who pours out her treasure on the feet of Christ, and the bentover woman (Luke 13), whom the Lord sees and calls to Himself in the synagogue. In each episode, we find an invitation to worship, to bring our time and our resources and our very lives, to the feet of Jesus. We approach to find Him worthy, and when we do, we worship in response.
We made it to the lesson on fasting. We all knew it had to be coming! This week, we will hear Jesus' invitation to fast--not to prove anything or to earn anything but in order to intentionally empty our hands to reach more quickly for His.
This week we are talking about confession. We will look at the heart of Jesus as we see it in His encounters with the bleeding woman and with the woman at the well. We will consider His invitation not only to confess our sins but also to confess our doubts and our hurts and our hesitations--to "tell Him the whole truth" (Mark 5:33).
This week, we are talking about the gift and discipline of engaging with and living in the kind of community that God intends. We will look into the lives and friendships of Mary and Elizabeth and of Mary and Martha and consider the way that the Lord met them in the midst of their community.
This week we consider our invitation to solitude--not just during seasons when we find ourselves alone, but during every season. We are invited into an intimate relationship with the Lord, invited, as Mary the Mother of Jesus did, to ponder and to treasure moments and monuments with Him. We are invited to run to Him first and to position ourselves to encounter more intimately a God who invites us into a very personal relationship with Him.
We will continue this week to seek to better recognize the Spirit of Christ among us as we study the women of the gospels who encountered the man of Christ and watch how He moved among them. We will also consider the role of the discipline of rest and how we might incorporate it into our lives as we position ourselves to encounter our Lord.
This week we discuss the stories of Anna and Mary the Mother of Jesus in Luke 2, considering how we can position ourselves to recognize Jesus in our daily lives.
We will open the Scriptures together to peer into the lives of these ancient women. I invite you to come and chase them into the presence of God. We will watch the Man of Christ move among them that we might better recognize His Spirit as He moves among us.
In this final lesson, we will discuss the promised, triumphant return of Christ. Until then, we wait empowered by His Spirit, confident in our hope that what we long for is assured. We come with bold humility into the Presence of the One who has done all that was necessary to draw us to Himself.
In this lesson, we will explore the first coming of Christ--from His humble birth in a manger to His establishing the New Covenant by His death and resurrection. We will consider how, although it was the most unexpected of ways, this was the moment and Seed and the redemption that God had been promising from the moment mankind realized their need for a Savior.
A brief overview of the entire Old Testament and a more in-depth look at the hand of God in the time of the Israelites' exile through the end of the Old Testament time.
In this lesson, we consider the role of our faith in light of God's unfailing faithfulness to us. While there's nothing we can do to nullify His faithfulness, our faithfulness really does matter to Him!
We will consider the role of the Old Covenant and the gift of the Law, which taught God's people how to live with a holy God in their midst and ultimately points us to cry out for freedom, which was granted by the sacrifice of the perfect Lamb of God--His very Son.
This week we'll study God's everlasting covenant to Abraham and consider God's perfect faithfulness even (or perhaps especially) in the face of man's imperfect faith.
This week we look at the events of Genesis 4-11 and consider their place in the overarching story of Scripture.
In this lesson, we will explore the first and last events of God's revealed plans: Creation and the New Creation. We will travel from Eden to the New Heaven and the New Earth and find surer footing in the faith and hope that we profess.
In this lesson, we begin to explore the eternal plan of God as it has been revealed to us in Scripture--His eternal plan to draw us to Himself.