School of Ministry Resources Podcast

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast where we walk through James 4:7–10 (in this remastered episode), unpacking the ten imperative commands that call listeners to examine their faith, repent of pride and worldliness, and receive God’s abundant grace. The episode contrasts proud professors with humble possessors of faith, explains the steps of submission and repentance, and encourages both see...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast where we examine 1 Chronicles 12:32 and Matthew 16 to teach how to discern the times.  This message contrasts the Pharisees' legalism and the Sadducees' modernism, and pointing to the sign of Jonah as the essential message of Christ’s death and resurrection. The episode urges spiritual discernment, practical application of Scripture, and a call to live by...

Welcome to part 2 as we explore Psalms 22–24, (in this reworked message), showing Christ’s work from sacrifice to intercession to coronation. We see Psalm 23 as the Good Shepherd who provides, restores, and protects, and Psalm 24 as the triumphant King of glory. This episode highlights God’s daily care, new life through Christ, and the promise of eternal fellowship for His children, while inviting...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast where we walk listeners through Psalms 22–24 as a single unit, showing in this first part, how Psalm 22 prophetically describes Christ’s suffering, crucifixion, and ultimate victory. The episode highlights themes of abandonment, scorn, solitude, spiritual assault, bodily suffering, and the shift from prayer to praise at the resurrection. The lesson connect...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast where we explore Psalm 131.  Consider how David teaches how humility and childlike trust, accompanied with surrender of our lives will help overcome pride, unhealthy ambition, and attitudes of our heart. The episode encourages believers to hope in the Lord, grow in spiritual maturity, and trust God’s timing and purposes.

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast, where we now examine James chapter 4, verse 1-6, which shows how worldly desires—lust, envy and pride—fuel internal battles, church conflicts, and separation from God. James explains that friendship with the world leads to turmoil both within the person and among believers. The episode urges listeners to examine their hearts, repent, ask God with humble m...

Welcome to the School of Ministry episode (remastered), on the life of Thomas, often mislabeled "Doubting Thomas," showing him instead as a deeply loyal, grieving disciple. From John's Gospel,  chapters 10–20, the episode retells the raising of Lazarus, Thomas’s despair at Christ’s death, his honest demand for proof, and his moving confession, "My Lord and my God." The message emphasizes Jesus’s p...

Welcome to the School of Ministry Podcast where, in this remastered message, we walk through Revelation chapters 5 and 6, explaining the Lamb taking the sealed scroll, the significance of the seven-year timeline from Daniel, and how the opening seals lead into the judgments of the four horsemen. The episode emphasizes God’s power and control amid war, famine, pestilence, martyrdom, and the great e...

This message takes us through Exodus 34:1–10, exploring God’s self-revelation—"The Lord, the Lord God"—as merciful, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in goodness and truth, and forgiving sin. The episode explains how forgiveness is offered by God to the repentant, how generational consequences follow ongoing sin, and how Jesus confirms God’s mercy; it closes with an invitation to repent and trust...

In this remastered message we examine James 3:13–18, contrasting earthly, self-seeking wisdom—marked by envy and confusion—with wisdom from above, which is pure, peaceable, gentle, merciful, and fruitful. The episode emphasizes that true wisdom is proven by conduct, attitudes of meekness and humility, and a life transformed by Christ, urging listeners to let their lives demonstrate the proof of ne...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast. This episode explores Luke’s life and work—his role as a beloved physician, a careful historian, and the traveling companion of Paul—and explains why Luke is recognized as the author of both the Gospel of Luke and Acts. In this message, it emphasizes Luke’s commitment to accurate research and his theological focus of God's provision of salvation for all p...

Welcome to School of Ministry Podcast, where in this episode we explore the last chapter of the Book of Jonah.  Throughout the book, we find God extending His great care and mercy, but when His prophet is told to go to Nineveh, he does not want God to be merciful to these Assyrians.  Jonah has such extreme hatred and prejudice toward these people that he would rather die than see God be merciful t...

Welcome to this remastered episode from the School of Ministry.  In this message we walk through John 2, examining Jesus’ dramatic cleansing of the temple and we ask whether this public act is a miracle, a judgment, or both. The Apostle contrasts Jesus’ holy anger against corrupt, commercialized worship with the compassion shown in other miracles, and explains how this event reveals Christ’s autho...

Welcome to the School of Ministry Podcast where we examine James 3:5–12, as he uses vivid imagery of fire to show how the tongue—though small—can defile the whole person, spread destruction through gossip and slander, and be influenced by the old nature and the devil. In this remastered episode, we trace Biblical parallels and historical examples to highlight the danger and reach of sinful speech....

Welcome to the School of Ministry Podcast, where this remastered study in James chapter 3, explains how the tongue reveals the heart, why teachers face stricter judgment, and how controlling speech demonstrates true, living faith. Using images like the bit in a horse's mouth and a ship's rudder, the episode shows both the destructive and constructive power of words. Practical takeaways include pre...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast with this remastered episode, we explore Jesus' teaching about the sparrow to show God's care for the hurting and lonely ones. Using passages from Matthew, Luke, and Psalms, we learn how God notices even the 'odd sparrow' — the marginal, forgotten, and hurting — and our Kind, Gracious God, invites all to anchor their souls in Christ, to find comfort in His...

This episode studies John 21, where the risen Jesus appears at the Sea of Galilee, provides a miraculous catch of 153 fish, and lovingly restores Peter by asking him three times, "Do you love me?" It explores Jesus' restoration and commissioning of Peter to "feed my sheep," the call to deny self and follow Christ, and the practical implications for discipleship and ministry today.

Welcome, in today's message we walk through John 13, 17–19 to show Jesus’ sovereign control from the Last Supper to the cross, portraying Him as both high priest and sacrificial Lamb and showing how prophecy and truth were fulfilled. The episode challenges listeners to consider who guides their lives and points them to the joy, protection, and victory found in Christ’s finished work.

Welcome to the School of Ministry.  In this episode we explore the Bible story of Naaman, a Syrian commander healed of leprosy after a captive Israelite girl points him to Elisha. Naaman’s journey from pride and anger to humble obedience—dipping seven times in the Jordan—reveals God’s power and grace. The episode highlights faith over ceremony, the prophet’s refusal of gifts, and Naaman’s struggle...

Welcome to the School of Ministry Podcast where we examine James' instruction that true faith is alive and visible: it produces works as evidence, not to earn salvation but to demonstrate it. Using Abraham and Rahab as examples, the episode explains how genuine belief is shown by obedience and a transformed life, calling listeners to be doers of the Word and allowing Christ to be seen within the C...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast, where today's lesson focuses on the establishment of the First Church of Europe as recounted in Acts 16. Join us as we explore the journey of Paul, Silas, and Timothy, who were guided by a vision, known as the 'Macedonian Call' with God's intervening to spread the Good News of Christ in Europe. Witness how a diverse group of believers—including a wealthy...

Welcome to the School of Ministry podcast, where we journey through the Bible's profound teachings. In this episode, Jesus explains in Luke 16, the compelling narrative of the rich man and Lazarus. This remastered message recounts the story which reveals a stark contrast between eternal life and eternal death (separated from God).  We see the comfort and torment, highlighting the eternal consequen...

Welcome to School of Ministry Podcast.  In this episode we examine James 2:14-20.  This remastered message picks up with James teaching that faith produces action.  He is clear that we are not saved through our good works, but that our good works follow our coming to faith in Jesus Christ.   James also expands on showing partiality, which he spoke of before, and how our new life in Christ should h...

Welcome to the School of Ministry Podcast.  This episode from Luke 16:14-18 follows the parable of Jesus and the Unjust Steward, and goes before the Rich Man in Hell.  These verses are wedged between two important lessons of Jesus, and, we find here, the message is poignant and truly 'cuts to the heart.'  Jesus saw the heart of those religious and pious people, but their hearts were actually far f...

Welcome to the School of Ministry Podcast where we delve into Luke 16, with Jesus giving the parable of the unjust steward.  He gives His disciples lessons in being wise in this world and keeping above reproach.  By teaching of this shrewd man, as His example, Jesus, the Master Teacher helps us understand our position as a child of God.   As we understand that God is the owner of all we have, and...