Central Christian Podcast

Jonah 2025 Jonah 1:1 NIV   1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai:     Jonah 1:2-3 NIV   2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to fl...

Advent Love 2025   Mark 12:26-27 ESV   26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? 27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong."       Mark 12:28-31 ESV   28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disput...

Advent Joy 2025 Central Christian Church 24 hours ago 2 min read   Luke 10:17 ESV   17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"       Luke 10:20 ESV   20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."     Luke 2:10 ESV   And the angel said to them, "Fear not, fo...

Advent Peace 2025       Luke 2:1-7 ESV   In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he w...

Advent HOPE 2025   John 8:12 ESV   12…Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."     Genesis 3:15 ESV   I will put enmity between you and the woman,   and between your offspring and her offspring;   he shall bruise your head,   and you shall bruise his heel."       Genesis 12:7 ESV   7 Then the Lord app...

Matthew 21:1-22 John 12:16 Zechariah 9:9-10 Jeremiah 17:9 Psalm 8:1-2 Matthew 23:5 Matthew 6:1 John 15:5-8

Matthew Week 118     2 Corinthians 4:5 ESV   5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.       Matthew 20:29-34 ESV   29 And as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him. 30 And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, "Lord, have mercy...

Matthew 117 Matthew 20:20 ESV   20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.       Matthew 20:21 ESV   21 And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom."       Matthew 20:22-23 ESV   22 Jesus answered, "...

Matthew 116   1 Peter 2:23-24 ESV   23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.       Romans 12:17-21 ESV   17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thou...

Matthew Week 115   Matthew 19:30 ESV   30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.       Matthew 20:1-2 ESV   "For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.       Deuteronomy 24:15 ESV   15 You shall give him his wages...

Matthew 114 Central Christian Church 2 days ago 2 min read Updated:  21 hours ago   Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV   8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.       Matthew 6:24 ESV   24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to th...

Matthew Week 112   Psalm 127:3-5 NIV   Children are a heritage from the Lord,   offspring a reward from him.   4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior   are children born in one's youth.   5 Blessed is the man   whose quiver is full of them.   They will not be put to shame   when they contend with their opponents in court.       "I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged...

Matthew Week 111   Genesis 2:18 NASB   18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."       Merriam Webster: one that helps; especially: a relatively unskilled worker who assists a skilled worker usually by manual labor.   Ex. The carpenter measured the wall while one of his helpers brought in the tools.       Psalm 10:14 CSB   But y...

Matthew Week 110           Matthew 19:1b ESV ...entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.…             Matthew 19:3 ESV   3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"       Deuteronomy 24:1a ESV   "When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he wr...

Matthew Week 109   Matthew 19:1-2 ESV   Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.       Proverbs 27:6, 17 NIV   Wounds from a friend can be trusted,   but an enemy multiplies kisses.       As iron sharpens iron,   so one person sharpens another.       Psalm 141:5...

Matthew Week 108 Central Christian Church 23 hours ago 3 min read   1 Corinthians 5:9-13 CSB   9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.10 I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.11 But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or siste...

Matthew Week 107 Central Christian Church 1 day ago 2 min read   Matthew 18:15-17 ESV   15 "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to...

Matthew Week 10   Matthew 18:10 ESV   10 "See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.       Hebrews 10:14 ESV   For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.                     Luke 19:10 ESV   10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.    ...

Matthew Week 105 Matthew 18:7-9 ESV   7 "Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! 8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes...

Matthew 104   Matthew 18:1 ESV   At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"       Matthew 17:22 ESV   22 As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, 23 and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day." And they were greatly distressed.       Mark 9:33-34...

Matthew Week 103   Matthew 17:24 ESV   24 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the tax?"       Exodus 30:16 ESV   16 You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the Lord, so as to...

Matthew Week 101   Matthew 17:10-13 ESV   10 And the disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?" 11 He answered, "Elijah does come, and he will restore all things. 12 But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands." 13 Then the disciple...

Matthew Week 100   Matthew 17:5 ESV   5 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him."       Matthew 17:6-8 ESV   6 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. 7 But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Rise, and have no fear." 8 And when th...