Drippings from the Honeycomb

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ The creation account. It’s more than just the first sentence of the Bible. In truth, Genesis 1:1 is a worldview packed into ten words. At its core, it is the declaration to all creation of who God is. It tells humanity that God is all-powerful, sovereign, unrivaled, and the one true God. In order to create all that is, God must be a being...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Are you ready to jump into the book of Genesis and see the truths God has revealed to His people within its pages?  Before we begin this incredible journey, we pause to take a look at the foundations of this incredible book: the truths from which it derives its overwhelming authority. We pause to consider the man that God selected to writ...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Welcome to Season 4 of "Drippings from the Honeycomb." Join us as we go back to the beginning and examine the first eleven chapters of Genesis to help us gain an understanding of the foundation of God's plan for salvation.  Support the show Visit our Merch Store to support the show!

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Throughout the Old and New Testaments, there is a recurring theme that consistently appears whenever humans encounter the Divine: they fell at His feet. This posture of humility showed their humility and worship of God. It showed the incredible disparity between the position of man and the position of God. However, there is a distinct dif...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Let’s be honest: humans love to be comfortable. We strive for comfort by building comfortable homes, comfortable vehicles, and comfortable furniture. We love to come home at the end of the day and trade in our work clothes in favor of comfortable clothes. We like to be comfortable in our jobs, relationships, and community. In fact, we do...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Nothing calms the anxiety and fear of the human heart more than knowing the end of the story. Some of us, and you know who you are, read the end of every book before reading the book from start to finish! However, joking aside, it makes sense that we, as humans, want to know the end of every story. We want to know how it will all turn out...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Do you have hope? Hope is a powerful force. It can give us strength to push through trials, endure suffering, and overcome hardships. Hope can ground us even in the darkest of days. When nothing seems to be as it should be, where is your hope? What is it that you look forward to that keeps you going even when everything seems hopeless?  T...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ What is the evidence of ultimate love? Is it affection? Is it romance? Is it loyalty? Is it commitment?  Something else? The answer can be found in one person. He was the only person to exemplify ultimate love in all of its beauty and radiance. His name is Jesus Christ, and with His life, or perhaps more accurately, His death, He demonstr...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Obedience to God is not easy, specifically because it requires self-sacrifice. However, obedience to God is always worth it. God is good. Please do not misunderstand that statement. God does not just do good things or act in good ways; God is good. We know what good is because of God. Without God, there is no good and nothing good.  Since...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ The truth of the matter is that no one enjoys suffering. Suffering is uncomfortable, inconvenient, painful, and discouraging. In fact, humans take incredible measures to avoid suffering. Humanity will exert effort, spend money, and invoke creativity, going to nearly any length to remove potential suffering from life. However, Jesus and Hi...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Is it possible to be free AND a servant? Is it possible to gain more freedom through deeper service? In humankind's darkened thinking, the answer seems to be, "No!" However, God's ways are not man's ways, and His thoughts are higher than man's thoughts.  The Apostle Peter understood the "freedom paradox,...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ When God raises someone who was dead in their sins to life, He gifts them with a new heart, a living heart! At that moment, the affiliation of the believer's soul is forever changed. As the redeemed sinner begins to walk with God and learn about who God is, this living heart causes the believer to understand that the earth they have...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ The Apostle Peter, like all great pastors and teachers of the Word, took every opportunity to remind his audience what was truly important. Peter understood that the cares of this world often overwhelm and distract believers, causing them to focus on things that are not of eternal value. Peter wanted believers to grow in their faith, to b...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ We live in a crumbling world. Everywhere around us, we are reminded of the decay that started when man first rebelled against God. People and animals age and die, buildings crumble, nations fall, and empires are destroyed. This cursed world is in a constant cycle of ruin, destruction, and decay. Throughout history, humans have tried to cr...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ When someone becomes a Kingdom follower, the power of God raises them from eternal death to eternal life. This supernatural change also carries with it a God-given command for the Kingdom follower to pursue holiness. The apostle Paul would put it like this, “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your bo...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Christianity is not a new religion. In fact, it's not 2,000 years old. The truth is that Christianity is as old as the world itself. It has been the only true faith since the creation of the world. It has had different names, but Christianity's core principles have never changed since its inception, recorded in Genesis 3. Faith...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Peter wrote to churches that were enduring the scourge of persecution. He wasted no time in pointing them back to what was important; the hope that Christ-followers have in the finished work of Jesus Christ, especially His resurrection. Peter wanted the Church to understand that it makes no difference what trials, tribulations, persecutio...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Who was the man believers know as the Apostle Peter? Before we dive into his letters of teaching, reproof, and exhortation to the church, we wanted to pause and learn more about this man who Jesus Christ chose to be the earthly foundation of the Church.  Peter would go on to become the Church's first pastor, a fierce defender of the...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ The book of Ruth details the sovereign work of God in the life of Ruth that brought her from a destitute Gentile widow to the wife of a godly man who would provide for her, love her, and give her a position of honor in the nation of Israel. Through the redemption of Boaz, God also gave Ruth a hope for the future.  Like Ruth, Jesus Christ,...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Boaz, through his wise plan, revealed in an indisputable way that he was the only true redeemer that could redeem Ruth. He didn’t act carelessly or casually in regard to Ruth’s request. Instead, he took her seriously, committing all of his resources to the task of securing her redemption. Jesus showed by His incarnation, life, death, resu...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Ruth was helpless, yet from her position of helplessness, she humbled herself to cry out for help. She did not cry out randomly; instead, she directed her cry towards the only one who could help her situation, Boaz.  Boaz, as a kinsman redeemer to Ruth, was in the position to hear her cry and answer her needs. He had already begun to assu...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Boaz showed Ruth, a widowed gentile, extravagant kindness. Ruth would have been an outcast in early Jewish society, shunned because of her ethnicity, despised for her marriage to a Jewish man, and rejected as an unsuitable marriage partner for any man in Israel. Yet, in spite of all this, Boaz showed her love, compassion, and kindness.  B...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ One of the most amazing parts about the Bible is that, while it was written over hundreds of years by multiple authors, it has one main theme which is Jesus Christ! Every part of Scripture points to the Son of God, the Messiah, the King of Kings, the Savior of the world!  As the calendar approaches the time of year where Christ Followers...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ Were humans made to worship? It seems that throughout history, humankind has displayed a deep need to worship something. In fact, it could be argued that there is a void within the hearts of humans that can only be filled by the act of worship. However, what is the best object of man’s worship? Observing history shows us that, while the r...

Enjoying the Show? Drop us a line! ↓ Support our Podcast! ↓ The agony of the cross that Jesus suffered during His crucifixion is so much more than just the physical pain of death. In fact, while the physical pain was intense, there is evidence to suggest that this was not the primary source of Jesus’s suffering. In the Scriptures, we do not have any record of Jesus crying out in pain, however, the...