Rediscovering Faith

Send us your questions and reflections! During this season of Advent, we will be looking to learn how to wait well. To do so, we will consider texts through the Old and New Testaments that all give some type of picture or foreshadowing of Jesus. As we do so, we will be considering how to live patiently. Join us as we wait this Advent for our celebration of the Christmas season!

Send us your questions and reflections! On this Psalm Friday, we explore Psalm 37. David doesn't pull punches on what it means to wait effectively while God is in the business of bringing about justice. 

Send us your questions and reflections! Today, we are looking at the prophecy of Amos once again to consider how Jesus is echoing the word of the Lord given through the prophets of Israel's history. While previously we considered how the judgment oracles of Amos were indicative of the judgment that Jesus is pronouncing on the nations in Matthew 25, we are now exploring how the promised restor...

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we continue thinking through the Old Testament roots of Jesus's teaching of the Sheep and the Goats. The prophet Amos provides a number of judgment oracles against the nations that surrounded Israel and Judah and many of them focus on those nations treatment of God's people.  However, Amos also delivers an oracle of ju...

Send us your questions and reflections! On today's episode, we explore the deep Old Testament background of Jesus's teaching on the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25. Specifically, we see that Jesus's promise of judgment on the nations based upon how they are treating the Church is rooted deeply in the oracles against Babylon in Jeremiah 51.  Jeremiah, a prophet that lived in the la...

Send us your questions and reflections! Join us as we take a deep dive on the story of the sheep and the goats. While this story is commonly misinterpreted, there is significant truth to be explored as we consider the following ideas and questions: 1. Jesus demonstrates that he is unified with his brothers and sisters. 2. Who are the brothers and the sisters of Jesus? 3. Why is it important to con...

Send us your questions and reflections! What does it really mean to be “ready” for Jesus’ return? In this final episode of our Parable of the Talents series, we turn to Psalm 15 — a powerful picture of the life that dwells intimately with God. David asks the question every disciple should be asking: “Lord, who may dwell in Your sacred tent?  Who may live on Your holy mountain?” The answer isn’t ab...

Send us your questions and reflections! What does Jesus consider a successful life? In a world that chases bigger, faster, better — Jesus invites us into something far deeper: faithfulness . In this episode of Rediscovering Faith , we continue exploring the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25. Two servants step forward with results that look impressive… but Jesus doesn’t celebrate the number. He...

Send us your questions and reflections! The third servant in the Parable of the Talents refuses to take part in the master’s exploitative way of doing business — and he pays the price for it. But his refusal reveals something essential about discipleship: Faithfulness is not about success. It is about Christ-likeness. Jesus is not calling His disciples to produce results at any cost. He is calling...

Send us your questions and reflections! When Jesus tells the Parable of the Talents, He is preparing His disciples — and us — for life while we wait for His return. He is answering the question: How should we live until the end of the age? His answer might surprise us. The third servant isn’t condemned because he’s bad with money — or because he didn’t work hard enough. He’s condemned because he r...

Send us your questions and reflections! In the Parable of the Talents, Jesus isn’t giving a lesson in business performance. He isn’t calling us to hustle harder or maximize productivity. He’s calling us to reflect Him while we wait for His return. The first two servants take what the master gives them and do business the way he would do business — because that’s what servants do. They reflect the...

Send us your questions and reflections! Podcast Series: Rediscovering Faith In this final episode of the first week of our Stay Awake series, we turn to Psalm 90 — an ancient prayer that brings the deepest truth of Jesus’ teaching into sharp focus: Life is short. God is eternal. Wisdom is living in light of that reality. Moses writes these words: “Teach us to number our days,  that we may gain a h...

Send us your questions and reflections! We return once more to the Parable of the Ten Virgins — and today Jesus invites us into the heart of what separates the wise from the foolish. Five bridesmaids were wise. Five were foolish. Same group. Same purpose. Same waiting. But only half entered the feast. So what made the difference? Find out in today's episode.

Send us your questions and reflections! In this episode we continue our journey through the Parable of the Ten Virgins in Matthew 25 — and today we discover one of the most personal and challenging truths Jesus gives us: 👉 Faith can be shared in encouragement — but not transferred in salvation. 👉 Readiness is personal. In the story, five virgins arrive with enough oil. Five arrive unprepared and...

Send us your questions and reflections! Readiness is not optional and not automatic. Jesus is unmistakably clear — being prepared for His return isn’t something we can leave for later or assume will happen on its own. We can be close to the things of God… and still spiritually unprepared. Not rejecting Him. Not running from Him. Just unaware. Distracted. Asleep. In this episode, we look closely at...

Send us your questions and reflections! In this opening episode of our new series, Stay Awake , we step into the powerful words Jesus shared from the Mount of Olives in Matthew 24–25 — a message given to prepare His followers for His return. The disciples looked at the temple and imagined power, positions, and a kingdom they could manage. But Jesus redirected their gaze from impressive structures...

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we look at an image that consistently comes up in the Old Testament - the divine courtroom. We look at God's use of the courtroom as an image of judgment. This is not judgment to destroy but judgment to help us be all that we are created to be!

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we take a look at Jesus confronting his disciples and how Jesus will confront us today.

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we take a look at God's loving confrontation in the life of King David. Through hearing a parable, we will be asked to see how God just might be calling us to admit our own failure to be all that God has designed us to be.

Send us your questions and reflections! In today’s episode of Rediscovering Faith , we explore the powerful story of Cain and Abel from Genesis 4:6-16, a passage that reveals profound insights into God's love, grace, and confrontation. On the surface, it may seem like a story of anger, jealousy, and violence, but when we look deeper, we see God's passionate pursuit of Cain’s heart—even i...

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we consider the love of God as requiring confrontation. In so doing, God is moving us to be all that he created us to be. However, it requires us to come face to face with the God of confrontation.

Send us your questions and reflections! Join us as we dive into sections of Psalm 103 to wrap up our conversation on God as a God of Embrace!

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we find the God of Embrace in a very unusual location - the destruction of Jericho. Join us as we contemplate the life and legacy of Rahab, the Jericho prostitute and we consider how our faithfulness and God's embrace will write us into His on going story of love for the world.

Send us your questions and reflections! Join us we discuss God's embrace of Hagar in Genesis 21 and discuss how God embraces us in similar ways today.

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we consider one of the most well-known stories of God's embrace - the parable of the prodigal son.