The Biltmore Church Podcast

What do you do when you keep praying and nothing seems to change? This week on the Biltmore Church Podcast, Pastor Bruce Frank joins us as we continue through the life of Elijah in 1 Kings 18. Elijah prayed for rain, sent his servant to look, and heard the same answer again and again: nothing. So what does his story teach us about our own prayer lives? We talk about how to know which promises in S...

1 King 18:41-46 esv 41 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.” 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. 43 And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.”...

What really has your heart? This week on the Biltmore Church Podcast, Pastor Bruce Frank joins us as we continue through the life of Elijah in 1 Kings 18. The showdown on Mount Carmel forces Israel to confront a question we still have to wrestle with: Are we fully trusting God, or are we trying to hold on to Him while looking somewhere else for security, satisfaction, and control? We talk about ho...

1 King 18:20-4020 So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word. 22 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet...

Does your faith shape every part of your life, or is it easy to keep it in certain boxes? This week on the Biltmore Church Podcast, Pastor Bruce Frank and Michelle Myers join us as we continue our series through the life of Elijah in 1 Kings 18. We talk about what it looks like to live an open and courageous faith in everyday life. How do you know when it’s time to speak up about what you believe?...

1 Kings 18:1-191 After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.” 2 So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, 4 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah too...

Welcome to Season 9 of the Biltmore Church Podcast! To start this season, we’re following along with our teaching series through the life of Elijah. This week on the Biltmore Church Podcast, we’re joined by Pastor Andrew Hopper of Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition to preaching at Biltmore this past Sunday, Andrew is an adoptive dad and the author of Chosen: Building Your...

1 Kings 17:17–24 (ESV): 17 After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!” 19 And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her arms and ca...

Welcome to Season 9 of the Biltmore Church Podcast! To start this season, we’re following along with our teaching series through the life of Elijah. This week, Clayton King joins us as we continue our series through the life of Elijah. Picking up from 1 Kings 17, we talk about “cruise control Christianity” - how easy it is to become spiritually comfortable without even realizing it. What are the w...

1 Kings 17: 8-168 Then the word of the Lord came to him, 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” 11 And as...

Welcome to Season 9 of the Biltmore Church Podcast! To start this season, we’re following along with our teaching series through the life of Elijah. This week, Pastor Bruce Frank is here to talk about courage, conviction, and the role discomfort can play in forming our faith. In this conversation, we talk about how our pursuit of comfort can get in the way of living with conviction, what it means...

1 King 17:1-717 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have co...

Acts 2:22-42 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— 23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because i...

1 Timothy 6:11-16 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jes...

1 Timothy 6:3-103 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are...

1 Timothy 6:1-2Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these...

1 Timothy 5:17-25 17  Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.  18  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”  19  Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.  20  As for those who persist in sin...

1 Timothy 5:1-161 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. 3 Honor widows who are truly widows. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight...

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The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children...

1 Timothy 2:8–15 (ESV): 8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. 11 Let a woman learn quietly w...

1 Timothy 1:18-2:718 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 19 holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, 20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. 2 First of...

1 Timothy 1:8-17 8Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever el...

1 Timothy 1:1-71 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, 2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 4 nor to devote themselves to myths...

JUDE 17-25 17  But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.  18  They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”  19  It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.  20  But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,  21  keep you...