Bill Vanderbush

The incarnation didn’t end at the manger. Every single step Jesus took on this earth was redemptive. Every temptation He faced in the wilderness, every tear He shed at Lazarus’ tomb, every time He reached out and touched a leper, He was living the perfect human life we never could. Where Adam rebelled, Jesus obeyed. Where we hid, He revealed. Where we said no to the Father, He said yes all the way...

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men, is not just a slogan to be confined to December. It is the most radical display of angelic intervention documented in Scripture. Apart from Christ Himself it is the single greatest announcement of God‘s intention and heart as a Father over humanity through Jesus. In Short, it is the gospel.

Every one of us has been given three powerful servants. You can ignore them but you can't get rid of them entirely. They were never meant to be our masters. They were meant to minister to you and serve you. Yet in many Christian lives they have staged a rebellion and now sit on the throne that belongs to Christ alone. In this podcast you'll learn three key areas of life that we all must learn to g...

God spends all of history chasing us with the balloon of grace and the styrofoam baseball bat of a vindicating judgment. If you really grab ahold of the grace of God, you'll discover that he really ruins all of our religious trauma with joy. And so he refuses to let our fear define him anywhere else than in our own twisted imaginations.

David’s life, worship, and tabernacle all point to Jesus—the greater David who brings the Ark (God’s presence) into human hearts through His cross, opening Zion’s eternal glory to all who trust Him.

The greatest mystery of the gospel isn’t just that Jesus died for you. It’s that He lives in you. You’re not running after a God who's avoiding you. He’s made His home in you. Paul’s not pointing to a distant heaven. He’s revealing that heaven’s reality is already inside you because of the cross. This is why Paul’s so important today. He shows us that union with God isn’t a future hope. Iit’s your...

The incarnation is the time and place in all of eternity where God and man meet, and find union in Christ. Jesus reveals God as Father, and unveils the truth of not only who God is, but the truth of who we are as his sons and daughters. So the revelation of God as Father unveils our identity. If you don't see God as Father, you'll never truly know your identity. So now, when we come to God, do we...

In the Christic Covenant God's relationship with humanity shifts from law-based performance to grace-based intimacy. This covenant emphasizes that our identity and worth are not earned but freely given through faith in Jesus Christ. We are not striving to be noticed or accepted by God. Instead, we live in reconciled rest in the reality that God already sees us fully, knows us intimately, loves us...

In Christ, we're not distant admirers but intimate participants. "In Him we live and move and have our being." Our faithlessness doesn't sever this bond because He cannot deny Himself, and if you're in Christ, you're part of that unbreakable Self. This is grace unbound. It transforms doubt into assurance, brokenness into wholeness. No matter the chaos around or within, His faithfulness sustains, H...

Don't settle for a wonderless faith. The new covenant invites you into complete, perpetual awe, gazing at a father who is wildly for you. So dive in, rest deep, and watch wonders unfold from His finished work.

Meditate on this word, vicarious. It's a living proxy, a stand-in whose actions ripple eternally. Adam embodied humanity vicariously, not by vote or consent, but by divine design. His choice resulted in a "free gift" of sin imputed to us all, unasked, unearned (Romans 5:12-19). Did anyone poll you? Invite you to inherit Adam's sin? No. yet here we stand, heirs to the fall. But oh, the counterpoint...

There are a lot of people who know Jesus as Savior and Lord, and perhaps know the concept of God and Father, but the practice that they have put on display is something other than the likeness of the image. The image that they have may be a concept that was given to them by a man-made religious system that does really what I'm doing here today, and that is to tell you about who God is. Lessons abo...

Jesus Christ came to confront our perspectives with truth, not through a thundering voice from the heavens but as God in the flesh, living among us. He didn’t rely solely on miracles to validate His message; often, He told those He healed to keep silent about it. Why? Because He valued communication through words, inviting people into discourse. As John 1 declares, He is the Word made flesh, stepp...

A throwback to the Reckless Grace Podcast from 2017-18. "It was a dark and stormy night. No, really, really it was. It was the year 1990. There was a blackout on the island of Oahu, and Traci and I had just come from a church service where something had happened that we still laugh about to this day. During the worship service that morning, a woman stood to her feet and began speaking with the wor...

In typology, the way Old Testament figures shadow New Covenant realities, Mordecai isn’t just a historical guy figure. He’s a picture of deeper truths. Some see him as a type of Christ, others as the Holy Spirit, or even the mature believer. I believe the Holy Spirit wants us to see all three, woven together, because the New Covenant is Trinitarian. Father plans, Son accomplishes, Spirit applies.

Spiritual codependency isn’t some quirky personality glitch. It's a soul-sucking vampire that drains the joy right out of your faith in Jesus. But Jesus revealed that God is a good Father who is neither abusive, insecure, moody, or schizophrenic. To break a negative mindset about God and to rest in the finished work of the Cross is to flop down at the party table and heave a sigh of relief, trusti...

It doesn't matter if you know or think you're included, if you don't know what you're included in. If you think you're just included in a club, a business, a timeshare, a brand, an ideology, or a particular branch of Christianity, then you're missing the point. This is about being bled into union with Christ. It's not about you making God your father. It's about coming to an understanding of what...

The apostles adopted this term for themselves as followers of Christ. They weren't forced or controlled. They chose it because Jesus had redeemed them and reconciled them by His faith and grace. Being a bondservant of Christ means alignment with the heart of God. Your will aligns with His, your life is free from the slavemaster of sin, and your devotion is driven by gratitude and love.

Redeeming the Harlot and the Prophet by Bill Vanderbush

The cross didn't just happen because of sin. It happened to fully cover all freewill offerings, peace offerings, thank offerings, gifts, and fulfillment of vows we will ever need to offer. It encompasses all our worship and efforts, serving as the singular moment that once and for all addresses every sense of obligation to please God.

Chata’ (sin in Hebrew) primarily means “to miss the mark,” but in contexts like Proverbs 19:2, Hosea 4:7, and Proverbs 8:36, it carries undertones of losing one’s way, glory, or soul, which can be interpreted as losing identity or forgetting who we are as God’s image-bearers. In a New Covenant perspective, chata’ reflects a failure to live in the truth of our union with Christ, but His redemptive...

Jesus reveals in John 14:20, "In that day, you will know that I am in the Father, you are in me, and I am in you." This is the heart of the Gospel. Through the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, there is no separation between us and God. Created in His image, we misused our freedom and became a mess, blind to our Father's love. We even killed Jesus, our Creator. Yet, God raised Him...

God doesn't stand far away when you and I go through pain. This is important to know. He meets you in the valley of the shadow of death to reveal that death is nothing but a shadow. He's not far off. I preach a message of union, no distance, no separation between us and God. And this goes for suffering as well. He's right there. And He's not simply observing. He suffers with us. Can I tell you thi...

Freedom in Christ is not a flag we wave or a law we keep, but a love that invades and rewrites your story. It’s the wild, reckless grace that Jesus Christ won for you. You’re not just free from—you’re free to. To love, to live, to be fully, gloriously everything you were created to be, wrapped in the Father’s embrace and delight.

The Tale of the Fractured Table by Bill Vanderbush