Burning Hearts with Rachel Herbeck

An important yet overlooked sign of resurrected life is persecution. Today, we examine Peter’s preaching under the persecution of the high priests, and we see great courage as he is emboldened by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the centrality and exclusivity of Jesus for salvation.

Through God’s work in Peter and John, the people are astonished and amazed. Today, we see that God wants to use each and every one of us to bring people to faith. We see that Peter uses the miracle as an opportunity to again preach the name of Jesus.

Today, we see Peter and John perform their first miracle: healing a lame man. Through their witness, we see that resurrected life means walking in confidence in the power God has given us, not just for our own lives, but to touch and heal the lives of others.

In today’s show, we see that one of the signs of resurrected life is preaching and proclamation of the Gospel that is fruitful. We see through Peter’s ministry that, when Jesus is alive in us, our witness moves people to respond.

This week, we discuss the readings that we had the week following Easter. The Church immediately takes us into Acts 2, where we read about Pentecost. We see as we begin today that the Church is trying to instruct us on what it means to live life after Jesus rises from the dead.

When the bones lives, they become a vast army, living, moving, and multiplying. Today, we discuss how the Holy Spirit makes us alive, moves us, and makes us multiply for the Kingdom.

Today, we take a look at salvation history and see how the Holy Spirit, the agent of creation, created Adam and now recreates and renews the earth through the mission of Jesus.

In the passage we discuss today, we see how the dry bones had flesh, joints, and skin come upon them, but they still were not living. We need the Spirit of God to really become alive again! 

In today’s episode, we talk about the need to speak the truth about who God is and who we are to ourselves. We see that God wants to give us fresh faith to believe what He calls us to prophesy.

This week, we take some time to unpack the passage of the Valley of the Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37. We examine the dryness of our own lives and see how far Israel was from God.

Paul makes this prayer from prison under the rule of Caesar. In today’s episode, we examine the cultural context in which Paul was preaching and how powerful it was to proclaim Jesus as Lord.

We have received the same power that raised Jesus from the dead: the power of the Holy Spirit. Today, we discuss how this power transforms us into the image of Christ.

Along with a new hope, we have been given a new inheritance as children of God. Today, we dive into what belongs to Jesus through his sonship, and therefore what belongs to us through grace.

As we walk as new creations, Jesus has given us a new hope through his life, death, and resurrection. We talk today about walking in the hope of the resurrection.

This week, we begin a discussion on Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians and for us in Ephesians 1. We see in today’s episode how Paul’s heart for us is that we would know Jesus truly and deeply through the power of the Holy Spirit.

On our final episode this week, we see how the Devil tempts us to despair and indifference with lies against hope, and we learn how to fight those lies. 

The Enemy often lures us into believing lies that cause us to doubt God. Today, we battle lies against faith and choose to proclaim the truth.  

When we believe lies about who God is, we begin to believe lies about who we are. On today's episode, we identify lies about our identities and proclaim the truth.

On today’s episode, we dive into the lies that the Devil tells us about who God is and we proclaim the truth about His character. 

This week, we begin a series discussing the tactics of the Devil and how we use our authority as children of God to fight his lies. 

Jesus not only proclaims that He is the life but shows resurrection power as He raises Lazarus from the dead. We discuss Lazarus’ resurrection from the dead and the impact it has on our faith.

On today’s episode, we take up Jesus’ shocking revelation, “I am the resurrection and the life.” We talk about how we grapple with this amazing truth.

Jesus makes his way to see Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary. We see in this episode how Jesus approaches the grief of the ones He loves.

As Jesus hears the news of his friend’s Lazarus illness, He makes the puzzling decision to wait two days to see him. In today’s episode, we discuss why Jesus would put off his visit.

As we begin Holy Week, we examine John 11 where Jesus moves closer and closer to the fulfillment of His mission here on earth.