Feasting on Truth

Hebrews 1 offers us one of the most power-packed pictures of Jesus: He is the exact imprint of the glory of God, how God speaks, Creator, Way Maker, seated at the right hand of God and so much more. The work is done. He has become our Way Maker. This podcast is a companion to the Feasting on Truth Women’s Bible study. For more information, go to feastingontruth.com/waymaker . For more information...

Christmas is finally here! This Advent, Feasting On Truth is going through the book of Hebrews with the focus on Jesus as the Way Maker. This introductory episode not only gives the why behind this study, but also important background and context information before studying. Jesus' coming wasn’t so my life would be easy and trouble free, but rather to be the Way Maker between us and God. This podc...

This podcast wraps up the Stories from the Wilderness Bible study. Erin Warren teaches through Joshua 3-5 as the Israelites cross the Jordan River and step into the land God promised to give them. They do so with trust and find God continues to go before them. But none of this was for them. The miracles, the provision, the journey: it was all for God to show them His character. It was so that they...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches through Joshua 1-2. Moses has died and the Israelites are on the edge of the Promised Land. God calls Joshua up and tells him that the time has come for him to lead the people over the Jordan River and into the land God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God gives Joshua a charge to be strong and courageous and to remember and obey His Word, but He doesn't...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches through Deuteronomy 31, 32, & 34. Moses and the Israelites have reached the doorstep of the Promised Land. For forty years, they wandered, but now they are preparing to enter the land promised to their forefathers. But because of his sin, Moses will not be the one leading them. In these chapters, Moses is giving his final instructions. He establishes and es...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches Numbers 20-21. Still grumbling over the lack of water, God gives Moses and Aaron specific instructions on how to bring water from a rock at Meribah. Perhaps in frustration, perhaps in a moment of weakness, Moses makes a grave mistake and takes glory for himself instead giving glory to God. And like the generation before who died in the wilderness, Moses and Aar...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches through Numbers 13-14. I wish they were happy chapters with a happy ending and a pretty little bow. But these chapters are sad. Moses sends 12 spies into the Promised Land. When they return, ten give a mixed report: the land is good, but the people are too strong. And on the doorstep of the Promised Land, the people lock eyes on their enemy instead of their God...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches through Exodus 33-34 & Numbers 9.  After breaking the covenant, the people of Israel mourn the consequences of their sin: God will no longer go with them. But Moses, intercedes on behalf of the people. These passages may be the most important in all Scripture when it comes to God's character because this is where God reveals His Name and His character w...

In this podcast, Erin H. Warren teaches through Exodus 19. 20, & 32. As Moses and the people near Mt. Sinai, God tells them He is going to come down. He gives them a command to consecrate themselves and boundaries for their protection. Yahweh comes to make a covenant with His people and gives them ten words that will define their relationship. But the people are afraid and pull back in fear. B...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches through Exodus 16-17 (The Manna, Water from the Rock, Defeat of the Amalekites). The miraculous bread from heaven was not only provision to fill their empty stomachs, but a picture that points us to the True Bread that would one day come from Heaven, not for our earthly sustainment, but our eternal satisfaction. This passage also establishes the Sabbath, a day...

In this podcast, Erin Warren teaches on Exodus 14-15. In Exodus 14, the Israelites experience one of the greatest and most well-known miracles in all of the Bible: the crossing of the Red Sea. While we love to make this a story of miraculous rescue and use it to show how God miraculously can also rescue us from the seemingly "no way out" circumstances, we must continue to remember this i...

In this video, Erin Warren teaches on Exodus 12 and 13 (The Passover, the Exodus, the Pillar of Cloud, and the Pillar of Fire). After nine consecutive plagues and nine negative answers from Pharaoh, God gives one final act of judgement in the plague of the death of the firstborn. But, God would provide a way for His people, the people of Israel, to escape the plague. The way becomes a feast of rem...

The Wilderness. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines wilderness as an empty or pathless area or region . The wilderness is uncharted territory. It is the place where we feel lost, not knowing where to go because there is not a path to follow. But, as we will see throughout this study: it was not uncharted territory for the Great I AM, the Creator of the World. He often leads by way of wandering, not...

The wilderness. It is a place that feels hard, empty, lifeless and pathless, and it often leaves us with questions about who God is. But while we see a place that is worthless, confusing, and chaotic, God sees a place to display His power. Time and time again throughout Scripture, God takes the worthless, seemingly wasteful, confusing, chaotic, and empty places and uses them as a backdrop to prove...

Psalm 119:153-176 (Resh, Sin & Shin, Taw) continues to builds on previous stanzas. We have seen a growth of passion and depth of maturity develop throughout the Psalm, and it brings us to the final (and somewhat unexpected) end this week. But through it all, the Psalmist continues to show how knowing God’s Word (and knowing it is true and eternal) brings life even when faced with affliction. K...

In Psalm 119:129-152 (Pe, Tsadhe, & Qoph), we see a maturing, a life that is steadily step by step, day by day, following after God. He continues to see God’s Word as guide, a light that gives understanding and exposes our sin. He has a right view of God, and our view of His character shapes our response to His Word. Finally, he prays. But at the end of it, it's about the nearness of God and a...

In Psalm 119:105-128 (Nun, Samekh, Ayin), we see the Psalmist (most likely David) point again and again to His steadfast pursuit of God’s Word - to know it, to understand it, to seek the One who wrote it. He knows the benefit of a life that does not walk away from the Word. Even when his timeline doesn’t match God’s, it is His reverence and awe and Holy fear that keeps him following God. He holds...

In Psalm 119:81-104 (Kaph, Lamedh, & Mem), the psalmist reaches his most desperate point. The plea for his life, for justice, and for saving mark the middle point of this poem. Yet, he still clings to God’s Word. As we move into the second half, the script flips and we see an incredible picture of Creator God, the One who established this earth and keeps it in motion and holds it together. And...

In Psalm 119:57-80 (Heth, Teth, and Yodh), we see a common theme: I’m not enough without God. And He can be trusted, even when we are smeared with lies or walking through affliction. We often ask “Why is this happening?” Or “Why do bad things happen to good people?” But God uses suffering. Suffering leads us to God, and there are some lessons about God we can only learn in the fertile soil of suff...

In this week’s study of Psalm 119, we read through He, Waw, and Zayin. We see an incredible prayer that points us to what God can do in our lives when we humbly approach His Word and ask for God to show us more His character. No matter what affliction, trial, hardship, darkness we are facing, He is there: the God of ALL comfort, the God of Truth, the One who steadfastly loves us. Studying through...

Our first full week of study was an incredible one. We start with a young man, eager and ready to learn but move toward a man who is desperate for God to reveal Himself while he is in the midst of hard circumstances. This week really challenged me in how I respond to God and the cries of my own heart when faced with trials. God’s Word brings life and so much more, and our gracious God is faithful...

Psalm 119 tells us that the unfolding of His Word gives light (v. 130) and by it, we have life (v. 93). Light & Life. In this first session, Erin Warren shares the context and background for Psalm 119 and walks through the first stanza (verses 1-8) as an example of how this study works. We often think of the Law of the Old Testament as obsolete, but obedience of His Word matters. Because Jesus...

We did it! We made it through the entire Gospel of John. Chapter 21 is widely considered an epilogue to this book. John has cultivated these stories to lead us to belief. But what now? What do we do once we know Jesus is Messiah and Son of God? We can often over interpret this passage, but the call Jesus gives us here is really quite simple. This podcast is a companion teaching to the Feasting on...

HE IS RISEN! In chapter 20, John brings to the pinnacle of the story: death did not win. The grave is defeated and we no longer fear. Jesus is alive! And with this seventh and final sign, He forever proves that He is who He says He is. He is the Christ, the Son of God and believing in Him brings life. As word spreads of the empty tomb, doubts and confusion rise. But Jesus tenderly and deliberately...

John 19 is one I wish somedays I could skip. I want to jump right to the Resurrection and the light and the joy of that Sunday morning. It’s hard right from verse one to read in detail what our Jesus suffered. But as Matthew Henry says, " It is good for every one with faith, to behold Christ Jesus in his sufferings. Behold him, and love him; be still looking unto Jesus.” As Jesus hangs on that cro...