Bible Chapter by Chapter

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter we walk verse by verse through Ephesians Chapter 6 — the final chapter of one of the greatest letters ever written. Paul has spent five chapters telling you who you are. Chosen before the foundation of the world. Adopted. Redeemed. Sealed. Made alive when you were dead. Brought near when you were far off. Seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. An...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter we walk verse by verse through Ephesians Chapter 5 — one of the most misread, most misused, and most misunderstood chapters in all of Paul's writing. There is a passage in this chapter that has been used to keep women silent. To justify control. To enforce submission as a one-way street from wife to husband in a way that has caused genuine harm to ge...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter we walk verse by verse through Ephesians Chapter 4 — the chapter where three chapters of soaring theology land on the ground with one word. Therefore. That word — right at the beginning of Chapter 4 — is the hinge on which the entire letter turns. Everything Paul said in Chapters 1 through 3 is the foundation. Everything he is about to say in Chapters 4...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter we walk verse by verse through Ephesians Chapter 3 — one of the most personally revealing and cosmically expansive chapters Paul ever wrote. He opens it from a prison cell. Chained to a Roman guard. Awaiting trial. And he describes himself not as a prisoner of Rome — not as a victim of political circumstance — but as a prisoner of Christ Jesus. Because i...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter we walk verse by verse through Ephesians Chapter 2 — the chapter that gives us the gospel in its most concentrated, most vivid, most personally confronting form. Paul opens with a diagnosis. And he does not soften it. Dead. Not struggling. Not wounded. Not morally compromised and in need of some improvement. Dead. Following the course of this world. Foll...

What exactly is Bible Chapter by Chapter — and why has almost no one attempted it before? This video answers that question completely. Bible Chapter by Chapter is a daily verse-by-verse walk through the entire Bible — every book, every chapter, in order, without skipping a single one. Every episode includes a full reading of the Scripture text, a deep theological commentary explaining what the pas...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Ephesians Chapter 1 — the opening chapter of one of the most majestic and theologically comprehensive letters Paul ever wrote. After six chapters of urgent, fire-driven defense of the gospel in Galatians — we step into something completely different. Galatians was a courtroom. Ephesians is a cathedral. And it begins not wi...

In this special season finale of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we step back from the individual chapters and look at Paul's Letter to the Galatians as a whole — in a single focused sermon that walks through the entire letter from beginning to end. The agitators had arrived the moment Paul left. They were not preaching a completely different religion. They were adding to the one Paul had preached....

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Galatians Chapter 6 — the final chapter of one of the most urgent, most theologically concentrated letters Paul ever wrote. And he closes it not with thunder — but with something tender. A community that restores gently. That bears one another's burdens. That sows to the Spirit rather than the flesh. And that boasts in...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Galatians Chapter 5 — the chapter where Paul's theology finally meets Monday morning and the freedom of the gospel becomes completely practical. He opens with one of the most quoted and least understood sentences in all of his letters. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Not for better rule-keeping. Not for...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Galatians Chapter 4 — the chapter where Paul's argument becomes tender and his theology becomes personal. He has made the case. Abraham was justified by faith. The law cannot annul the promise. Everyone who belongs to Christ is an heir according to promise. Now he asks the question that the theology demands. So why are...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Galatians Chapter 3 — the chapter where Paul's argument reaches its full theological force and dismantles the case for law-keeping from every possible angle. He opens with a question that cuts straight to the heart. You foolish Galatians — who has bewitched you? Not a gentle correction. Not a carefully managed pastoral...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Galatians Chapter 2 — one of the most personally revealing and theologically explosive chapters Paul ever wrote. Paul goes back to Jerusalem. He lays out his gospel before the pillars of the church — James, Peter, and John. And they add nothing. Not a single requirement. Not a single correction. The right hand of fellowshi...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we open Season 8 with Paul's Letter to the Galatians — and it begins unlike any other letter he ever wrote. No thanksgiving. No warm preamble. No easing into the content. Just — I am astonished. One word. Expressing the disbelief of someone who cannot understand how this happened so quickly. The churches Paul planted in Galatia were deserting the go...

In this special closing sermon for Season 7 of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we step back from the individual chapters of Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians and ask the question the whole letter has been building toward. What do you do with the thing that will not go away? The thorn. The limitation. The weakness you would not have chosen. The prayer you have prayed more than three times that...

Recently a comedian said something that stopped the internet. Not a joke. Not a punchline. Not a carefully crafted bit designed to get a reaction. Just a man — in front of millions of people — saying out loud what most people only say in the dark. That he needed God to save him from himself. And the reason it went viral is not because it was surprising. It is because it was true. Because somewhere...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 13 — the final chapter of one of the most personal, most vulnerable, and most theologically profound letters Paul ever wrote. Paul is coming to Corinth. This will be his third visit. And he will not be lenient with those who have continued in sin without repenting. But before the warning — he gives th...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 12 — the theological summit of the entire letter, and one of the most personally transforming passages Paul ever wrote. Paul had an experience he kept private for fourteen years. Caught up to the third heaven. To paradise. Hearing things not permitted for a human being to speak. An encounter so extrao...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 11 — one of the most remarkable, most uncomfortable, and most honest chapters Paul ever wrote. Paul calls it foolishness. He says so repeatedly. He knows that what he is about to do does not fit his own theology of boasting only in the Lord. But he does it anyway. Because there are false apostles in C...

In this entry episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through Acts Chapter 1 — one of the most transitional, most overlooked, and most misunderstood chapters in the entire New Testament. Most people know the Christmas story. Most people know the Easter story. But there is a moment in between that almost nobody talks about. Forty days after the resurrection — Jesus gathered His...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 10 — the chapter where the tone of the letter shifts dramatically and Paul begins the most personal defense of his ministry he ever wrote. There were people in Corinth saying things about Paul that cut to the heart of his credibility. His letters are weighty and strong — but in person he is unimpressi...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 9 — one of the most quoted and least understood chapters in the entire New Testament. He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. God loves a cheerful giver. You have heard these verses. You have probably heard them used to promise a financial re...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 8 — one of the most theologically rich and practically challenging passages on Christian generosity in all of Scripture. Paul is making a financial appeal. But the way he makes it reveals something profound about the theology that underlies it. He does not begin with need. He does not begin with oblig...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 7 — one of the most tender, most relief-filled, and most personally revealing chapters Paul ever wrote. Paul had sent a letter to the Corinthians that cost him everything to write. He described it as written with many tears — out of great distress and anguish of heart. And then he waited. He left Troa...

In this episode of Bible Chapter by Chapter, we walk verse by verse through 2 Corinthians Chapter 6 — one of the most honest, most personally revealing portraits of faithful ministry in all of Scripture. Paul told us in Chapter 5 that we are ambassadors of reconciliation. Now he shows us what that ambassadorship actually looks like in practice. Not in the comfortable. Not in the ideal. In the actu...