Simple Discipleship - UNFILTERED

Class resumes as Bro. Ernie continues this study into The Book of ACTS.  Get your Bibles, Notebooks and highlighters ready!   The gospel doesn’t drift into a city quietly. It lands, it divides the room, and it forces a decision and Acts 14 shows that clash in full color. Around the table, we keep our “simple presentation” moving through Acts 14:1–13, starting in Iconium where Paul and Barnabas pre...

We didn't intend on discussing 9/11, but it just happened...candid, raw stories of where we each were...what we felt and how we feel today.  Have we forgotten? 9/11 is one of those dates that instantly rewires your memory, and we start there by going around the table and telling the truth about where we were, what we saw, and what we felt. Shock, grief, and fear hit fast, but so does somethin...

Bro. Ernie continues taking us on this journey into The Book of ACTS.  Today we finish up Chapter 13...hold on tight!  Get your Bible, your highlighter and your notepad! Let's go!!! Almost the whole city shows up to hear Paul preach and that’s when the pushback gets loud. We’re in Acts 13:42–52, watching a wildfire moment of spiritual hunger turn into open contradiction, blasphemy, and persec...

Bro. Ernie takes a deep dive with us as we finish up the The Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3. Get your Bibles, notebooks and highlighters ready!    John 3 is familiar, but the details can still stop you in your tracks if you slow down long enough to listen. We sit around the table and follow Jesus’ words to Nicodemus with fresh eyes, starting with the “born again” phrase and building a vivid picture...

Bro. Ernie continues taking us on this journey through The Book of ACTS.  Get your Bibles, notebooks and highlighters ready! If you’ve ever wondered why one preacher says “just believe” while the Book of Acts keeps repeating repentance, baptism, and receiving the Holy Ghost, we’re putting that question under a bright light. Around the table, we work through Acts with a simple but demanding tool: c...

Listen as we gather "Around the Table" with Bro. Ernie Perez and Sis. Anne, Sis. Audia and myself as we dig a little deeper into the writings of Luke. Luke doesn’t open with hype he opens with receipts. We slow down in Luke 1:1-4 and ask why a New Testament writer would emphasize eyewitnesses, an “orderly account,” and the word certainty. If your faith has ever felt shaky under pressure,...

Join us in class as Bro. Ernie continues to take us on this journey into The Book of ACTS!  Get your Bibles, your Notebooks and Pens ready!!! Paul ends a synagogue sermon with a line that should stop all of us cold: “Behold, ye despisers… and perish.” Why would a Spirit-led preacher warn religious people like that? We sit around the table and walk slowly through Acts 13, especially Paul’s claim th...

Join us around the table today as we go a little further into ACTS 13 with Bro. Ernie...unapologetically.   David’s name gets used as a shortcut for greatness, but Scripture refuses to airbrush his story. We start with Acts 13 and the line that stops a lot of readers cold: God promises “the sure mercies of David” and ties that promise directly to Jesus’ resurrection. So what are those mercies, and...

Join us for this truly "around the table" discussion.  We talk true repentance...and encounters that last a lifetime.   Some faith questions can be answered with study, but some can only be answered with a moment you can’t unlive. Around the table, we go straight into the tension between Christian apologetics and personal encounter, and why the “defense of the faith” feels hollow when it...

Bro. Ernie continues the journey into The Book of ACTS - get your Bible, your notebook and your highlighters ready!!! Belief is easy to say, but hard to live and Acts 13 forces the question: if faith never produces repentance, what did we actually believe? Around the table, we continue our simple discipleship Bible study through Acts 13 (part two), tracking Paul’s sermon in the synagogue at Pisidi...

Join us around the table as we continue this journey into the Book of ACTS.  Bro. Ernie continue into Chapter 13 a little deeper.  Get ready! The resurrection isn’t a vague spiritual idea. It’s a claim with witnesses, prophecies, and consequences. We pick back up in Acts 13:31-41 and follow Paul’s logic as he preaches Jesus risen from the dead, seen by many, and proven through the Scriptures the f...

Bro. Ernie leads the class through a deep dive into what John is saying about being born again!  Get your Bible, your notebook and let's go! You can read John 3 a hundred times and still miss how practical Jesus is being with Nicodemus. We slow the conversation down and take Jesus at His word: “born again” is not presented as a slogan or a quick moment, but as a real birth process that starts...

About every 6 months or so we get the grand-girls together...Presley (10), Olivia (6) and Sophia (5) - this was recorded around America's 250th Celebration. Yes, the monkeys are let loose - be forewarned that they are not professionals and often get too close to the mic...but, this a moment etched in history.  Enjoy! Freedom is easy to celebrate until you slow down and ask a child what it act...

Bro. Ernie continues this journey deep into The Book of ACTS - hang on!  Get your Bible, your notebook and your highlighter...let's go!!!! God doesn’t always whisper. Sometimes He speaks with enough clarity that the only real question left is whether we’ll obey. We sit down as a table family again after a summer break, share travel stories, and talk about those “Jesus never goes on vacation”...

Bro. Ernie continues this deep dive into The Gospel of St. John - hold on tight!  Get your Bibles, your notebooks and your highlighters ready! Jesus doesn’t tiptoe around the big questions, and neither do we. From the moment He steps into the temple at Passover to the late-night meeting with Nicodemus, the Gospel of John shows a Messiah who confronts false worship, reads the heart, and calls peopl...

Bro. Ernie continues this journey with us into The Book of ACTS.  Grab your Bibles, your highlighters and your notebook and let's go!!! Peter is free, the church is praying, and somehow the hardest part is believing the answer standing outside the gate. We keep our study in Acts 12:13–25 simple and honest, because the details are where conviction lives. Rhoda hears Peter’s voice at Mary’s hou...

We continue our journey into The Gospel of St. John with with Bro. Ernie.  Such a powerful book!  Get your Bible, your notebooks and let's go!!! Tables get flipped in John 2, but the real shock isn’t the noise. It’s what Jesus is protecting. We walk through the cleansing of the temple at Passover and ask the uncomfortable questions: when does “helping people worship” turn into profiting off w...

The journey continues!  Bro. Ernie takes us deeper into The Book of ACTS - get your notebooks and pens ready! Chains, guards, locked gates, and a king who wants blood. Acts 12 doesn’t read like a quiet devotional, it reads like a pressure test for what we really believe about Jesus, suffering, and prayer. We gather around the table on a rainy Monday in Texas and talk plainly about trials: Christia...

Bro. Ernie continues this journey into one of my favorite books, The Book of John...get your pens, highlighters and notebooks ready! A wedding is about to turn into a disaster, and Jesus fixes it without stealing the spotlight. We walk through the Gospel of John chapter 2 with our Simple Discipleship Unfiltered table crew, slowing down the story of Cana until you can feel the pressure in the room:...

Bro. Ernie continues his deep dive into the Book of St. John - get your notebooks and pens ready! Tables flip, coins scatter, and an entire temple marketplace goes silent, because Jesus refuses to let worship be sold. We open the King James Bible to the Gospel of John 2:13-25 and follow the story of Passover in Jerusalem where merchants, money changers, and religious routine collide with the autho...

Continue on this journey with us as Bro. Ernie breaks down ACTS Ch. 11, Part 2 - get your notebooks and pens ready! The turning point in Acts isn’t a miracle or a prison break, it’s a sentence: “God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.” That realization reshapes everything, and we walk through Acts 11:19-30 to see how the early church moves from a mostly Jewish mission into a widenin...

Thank you for joining us on this journey with Bro. Ernie deeper into the Book of ACTS - Get your notebooks ready! The moment the early church admits “God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life,” everything changes. We sit around the table and walk through Acts 11:18-30, watching the gospel move from a familiar circle into a widening world, and we slow down long enough to ask what that m...

Bro, Ernie continues taking us deeper into The Book of ACTS in Chapter 11.  Grab your notebooks, your pen and your Word...let's go! Peter gets called on the carpet for one simple thing: he ate with Gentiles. That sounds small until you realize it threatened an entire worldview built on separation, tradition, and who gets counted as “clean.” We sit down in Acts 11:1–17 and track how the early...

Your past can be messy and your calling can still be real . We’re joined by nationally known etiquette, soft skills, and customer service expert Joy Weaver , and her story starts far from TV studios and corporate boardrooms. Joy shares how losing her mother at birth, growing up in rural West Texas, and navigating a divided spiritual life set the stage for a moment of surrender that changed everyth...

“Receiving Christ” is one of the most repeated phrases in church culture and it might be one of the most misunderstood. We slow down in John 1:12-18 and ask a direct question: what does it actually mean to receive Jesus in a biblical sense, not just as a moment of emotion or a public gesture? From Jesus’ first message of “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” to the apostles’ response in A...