God's Word for Life

Send us Fan Mail God graciously bestows spiritual gifts on His great church for His glory and our good. Although some may have misused or even abused those gifts, Paul wrote to the church in Corinth to teach them proper use. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to I Corinthians 12 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 2026, Adult Lesson Guide entitled...

Send us Fan Mail One day one man shuffled out of the shadows to risk it all. Everyone gasped as this leper approached Jesus, but Jesus did not shrink back. He reached out and touched the leper—someone no one dared touch for years—and restored his health and humanity. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Mark 1 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 2...

Send us Fan Mail Felix. Festus. Herod Agrippa. These were two governors and one king who sat at the bench and listened to the evidence against Paul during a long, drawn-out trial. But rather than complain or curse God, Paul took the opportunity to share his testimony with Felix, Festus, and Herod Agrippa. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 26 to hear all about it. This episode is based...

Send us Fan Mail Like a to-do list, Jesus called His followers to preach the gospel in Jerusalem (where they were), Judea (the region where they were), Samaria (what?!), and to the ends of the earth (clearly Jesus loves everyone, not just those like us). Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 1 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 2026, Adult Le...

Send us Fan Mail The first miracle in the first church followed hot on the heels of Acts 2. The crowd could not believe it, but they could not deny it either. After Peter and John prayed in the name of Jesus Christ, they all watched a lame man leap. Explain that. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 4 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 2026,...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus first found four frustrated fishermen and worked a wonder in their lives. He waited until He had filled their boats with nets full of fish before He called them to leave it all behind to follow Him. Starting with those four fishermen, Jesus built His church that continues to grow today. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Matthew 16 to hear all about it. This episode i...

Send us Fan Mail God lifted a preacher from a city-wide revival to a dusty desert because one hungry heart needed to hear the gospel. God loves the world, and He also loves the one. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 8 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 2026, Adult Lesson Guide entitled "Water in the Desert" (September 27, 2026)....

Send us Fan Mail Just as Jesus was ascending, He left His followers with a commission to go and teach all nations. Share the gospel—the good news—with all who would hear it. That same first-century commission is our twenty-first-century commission: Go and teach. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Matthew 28 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 20...

Send us Fan Mail In the opening of Jesus' landmark Sermon on the Mount, He called all who follow Him to live as salt, a city on a hill, and a lamp. These metaphors illustrate how we are called to point people to Jesus through the lives we live and the words we share. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Matthew 5 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life...

Send us Fan Mail As Jesus gathered an audience on the plain, He called them to live their lives for Him: to follow Him. Two thousand years later, though much of our world has changed, Jesus' call to us remains the same: Follow Me. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Luke 6 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Fall 2026, Adult Lesson Guide entitled...

Send us Fan Mail Fifty-two weeks ago, we embarked on a beautiful journey with our heels in the Garden of Eden. Today, we finish our journey with our toes in the crystal river flowing through the heart of the New Jerusalem. God will right every wrong and bring justice to every injustice. God will restore creation to better than Eden as He fulfills HIs covenant. Pick up your Bible or device, and tur...

Send us Fan Mail Although the apostle John was exiled on a prison island, presumably to die, God called him up to view the throne room. There John saw one throne and one sitting on the throne. No matter the chaos battering the earth, John realized Jesus Christ still reigns on His throne and is still in control. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Revelation 5 to hear all about it. This episo...

Send us Fan Mail Although today may seem to be a routine day full of work, errands, and maybe some frozen custard, we are ever in a spiritual war. To ensure we are ready to war, we must be full of the Spirit so we are suited up with the whole armor of God. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Ephesians 6 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Summer 2026,...

Send us Fan Mail There's a major difference between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit. One of them separates us from God and others; the other draws us closer to God and others. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Galatians 5 to hear all about it. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Summer 2026, Adult Lesson Guide entitled, "The Fruit of the Spir...

Send us Fan Mail Paul had been arrested and stood trial for his faith—possibly, even his life. As the Jews' lawyer leveled the capital charges against him, Paul defended himself by sharing his testimony. His testimony in a public trial even led to an altar call. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 26 to hear the story. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Summer 2...

Send us Fan Mail Paul was saying goodbye. The leaders from his beloved church in Ephesus met him, wept over him, and hugged him. Paul shared some final face-to-face words with them before boarding a ship bound for Jerusalem. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 20 to hear the story. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Summer 2026, Adult Lesson Guide entitled, "Rem...

Send us Fan Mail It was all going according to Paul's plan . . . until it wasn't. God gave Paul a vision of a man in Macedonia calling for help, but when Paul arrived in Macedonia, he didn't find a man; he found a worshiping woman. Then a demon-possessed girl. Then a prison cell for doing right. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 16 to hear the story. This episode is bas...

Send us Fan Mail God's church was growing and picking up steam, but by the time they arrived in Acts 15, Jewish and Gentile Christians could not get along. The Jews were preaching that the Gentiles needed to keep the Jewish law first; the Gentiles were preaching the gospel was enough. Would the church splinter into a Jewish Christian church and Gentile Christian church, or would they listen t...

Send us Fan Mail Only God could have put these two men together: a Roman centurion hungry to know God and a Jewish Christian preacher willing to preach the gospel. From that unlikely encounter, God opened wide the door to the rest of the world to know and follow Him. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 10 to hear the story. Find an Apostolic church that preaches this glorious gospel and...

Send us Fan Mail His is one of the most dramatic testimonies in the history of the New Testament church. Saul went from being the chief persecutor against Christians to being a chief preacher for Christians. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 9 to hear the story. Find an Apostolic church that preaches this glorious gospel and our response at UPCI.org This episode is produced by the Pen...

Send us Fan Mail The church in Jerusalem was growing by the day, but persecution drove the Spirit-filled Jesus followers out of the city and into the surrounding countrysides. As they fled Jerusalem, they spread the gospel everywhere they went, even into Samaria. And God showed up in Samaria just as He showed up in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 8...

Send us Fan Mail The day finally dawned. But it wasn't just the Day of Pentecost for that particular year. It was the day God had waited nearly four thousand years to pour out His Spirit upon humanity and enter into a new covenant with us. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 2 to hear the story. Find an Apostolic church that preaches this glorious gospel and our response at UPCI.or...

Send us Fan Mail As Jesus ascended, He promised His followers that they would receive power to be witnesses unto Him in Jerusalem, Judea, even Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Jesus was establishing an unchanging principle: Disciples make disciples. And the Spirit gives us the power to make disciples. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Acts 1 to hear the story. This episode is based on...

Send us Fan Mail The Roman soldiers stood guard, guarding the tomb that was sealed with the indomitable Roman seal. They were ready to keep the disciples from trying to break in and steal Jesus' body from the tomb. They could not have conceived that they would need a guard inside the tomb. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Matthew 28 to hear the story. This episode is based on the God...

Send us Fan Mail The Jews who cried "crucify Him" and the Romans who heard that cry and crucified Him did not know that Jesus was dying, not for His crimes, but for ours. And these crimes were crimes against God, not just against humanity. Pick up your Bible or device, and turn to Matthew 27 to hear the story. This episode is based on the God's Word for Life, Spring 2026, Adult Less...