The Bible Lab

In this week's episode, Pastors Ryan and Jake take a deep dive into the book of Job in order to explore this honest examination of human suffering and wrestling with God. How do we make sense of the bad things that happen in life? Why is life full of pain and hardship? Join us as we learn together about the deep insights and Gospel treasures hidden within this book of ancient Biblical wisdom.

In Revelation 13 we see a startling development relating to the dragon's activity in the world: he has friends! In fact, this chapter introduces us to an unholy anti-trinity of villains; the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. These three team up against the church using deception, violence, and temptation. How does the Church face down such fearsome beasts and what hope does John's letter g...

In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake examine the incredible story that begins in Revelation 12 - the saga of the woman and the dragon. This story tells, in a series of symbols and pictures, a story of God's conquering church fighting against the forces of darkness that are at work in the world. Understanding this vision is key to understanding what is happening in our world today and the role of...

In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake take a look at one of Revelation's more complicated chapters. In it, we read about God's two witnesses, a couple mysterious, fire-breathing prophets that are described with all sorts or Biblical metaphors. Who are they? What do they have to do with us? Take a listen and find out!

It's been a while! Catch up with us as we talk through some of the big issues in Revelation chapters 9 and 10. In this passage, Ryan and Jake focus on understanding the trumpet judgments, and what to do when we find there are "Jericho-like" obstacles in our own journey.

In the book of Revelation, Heaven is described as a place of music and worship. In chapter 4, God is worshipped as creator of all things. In chapter 5, John tells us that a new song begins. It's the song of Jesus, the Lamb, and celebrates the story of His saving sacrifice. Join in as Ryan and Jake discuss Revelation 5:8-15 and how the new song of heaven shows us what worship looks like in our chur...

After the letters to the churches in the first few chapters of Revelation, Jesus shows the Apostle John a vision of the heavenly throne room, including a vivid description of God seated upon His throne. This picture of the heavenly realms is telling us all sorts of important things about the Lord, but what exactly is it saying? In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake examine Revelation 4:1-11

New Year's celebrations often bring about thoughts of change. We deeply desire to better ourselves and improve, but often find ourselves battling against the same old temptations or frustrations. Where does real change come from? In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake discuss Galatians 2:15-21 and how Jesus empowers us to be sanctified by giving us victory, access, resources, and motivation that le...

The coming of Jesus includes a gospel announcement of peace in Luke 2:8-14. Yet, this peace is different than anything we can create for ourselves. Where does peace come from and how can we have it? In this week's episode, Pastors Ryan and Jake talk about the peace of Jesus that we celebrate during Advent.

In this week's episode Pastors Ryan and Jake discuss how the story of Elizabeth in Luke 1:39-45 teaches us about the Joy of Jesus

The stories that surround the Christmas story in Luke 1-2 are stories of ordinary people swept up in an overwhelming story. Why did God choose them? Only He knows, but the text suggests to us that each of the characters we read about was a person who demonstrated true faith. They weren't the most gifted, significant, or important, but God involved them in His work because their hearts were full of...

As we head into the advent season, Pastors Ryan and Jake take an in-depth look at the story of Simeon in Luke 1 and how it helps illustrate to us the hope of Jesus. The first week of Advent remembers that Jesus' coming was the announcement of a powerful hope for humanity. Hope that the curse of Adam would be broken and that we could walk in freedom from the power of darkness. Check out this week's...

Out of all the letters in the first couple chapters of Revelation, Jesus saves His harshest feedback for the church in a city called Laodicea. The problem is their faith has gotten lukewarm. Even more than some of the important issues that were happening in other churches, Jesus singles out this as perhaps the greatest spiritual threat to the Church. In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake unpack ho...

The book of Revelation is scary and complicated, isn't it? Not so fast! John introduces this book as a revelation given by God to SHOW His servants. It's not meant to hide or confuse! It's a thrilling saga of Jesus' victory over the cosmic forces of evil, and if we will take a step back to understand its big picture imagery we'll find that it's not scary at all, but rather an electrifying source o...

Discipleship is a word that gets used a lot, almost to a fault. What is it? How can it be possible both to be a disciple and to do discipleship? In this week's episode, we examine Jesus' call to discipleship in Matthew 16:24-26 and learn about Jesus' call for us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him.

One of the most genius parts of God's design for the Church is that the Holy Spirit gives every believer the power to create beautiful things for King Jesus. For generations, Christians were creators of art, music, architecture, and many of the things that shaped the direction of western civilization. What happened? A theological shift that began to convince believers that the return of Jesus was...

When can we expect Jesus to return? According to Jesus Himself, that's a great question. In Matthew 24, Jesus shares the shocking answer that not even He Himself knows. What He does share is that it will be a lot like the days of Noah. In this episode, Ryan and Jake break down the best ways that we can prepare for that day, whenever it may be.

At first glance, the text of Matthew 24 looks like it would make a great end-of-the-world movie. But beneath the cosmic-sounding language is are important messages to His people, if we have ears to hear it. In this episode, Ryan and Jake break down this important passage and tell us why we can take Jesus' promises to the bank.

Jesus was never shy about confrontation, and no one was the target of His confronting criticism more than the religious establishment. While many might take his words to be "anti-religion," they're anything but. Jesus doesn't reject ALL religion, just DEAD religion. In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake discuss how Jesus' warnings (woes) to the religious leaders should cause us to take a long look...

One of the most controversial texts in the Old Testament prophetic books is the 70 weeks passage in Daniel 9. What is God saying, and what does the timeline mean? In this episode, Ryan and Jake explore how we can make sense of this passage with a high view of Jesus at the center!

A time, times, and half a time. How do we understand some of the predictions of the future that Daniel's vision reveals? How do we navigate the uncertainty of the future when it may involve suffering? Jesus gives us a hope and a joy that outshines suffering and alleviates our future fears. In this week's episode, Ryan and Jake discuss a confident approach to understanding suffering and God's call...

It's the end of the world... or is it? Christians have varying ideas about what the Scriptures teach when it comes to eschatology (last things). It can be confusing to navigate to the point that many Christians throw up their hands in frustration. Nonetheless, what we believe about the end matters, because it changes how we approach the present! Join in as we start to explore Daniel 7 and other "a...

Joy is a Biblical command. We're called to it. It's a Christian duty, and one of the ways that followers really are called to be lights in the world. Because of Jesus, we can paint with different colors in a world that's full of black and grays. What does it mean to rejoice always? How do we do that when we constantly struggle to feel joyful? This week, Ryan and Jake talk about joy in Jesus and mu...

We have a hard time letting go of the past. Even as Christians, we hang onto past failures and mistakes. It impacts our ability to move into the future that Jesus has won for us. But Jesus never intended for us to stay stuck in the things of the past. In this week's episode, Jake and Ryan explore Philippians 3:12-4:1 and discuss how being gripped by grace frees us to let go of the past and reach f...

In this week's episode Athletes In Action missionary Everett Schroeder joins the podcast to talk about Philippians 2:12-18 and understanding the work that God does in the life of the believer through Christ. To put it simply, God does a work FOR us, and does a work IN us, so that He can do a work THROUGH us. Join in on the discussion as we discuss why each of these Gospel truths really is good new...