The Preaching of the Cross

A weasel can be ten inches long and still pick fights like it owns the woods. A lion can look regal and still be built for silent killing. That contrast drives today’s teaching as we keep studying the God of creation and what the natural world says about His power, purpose, and design. I walk through the weasel family and its members, pointing out the instincts, anatomy, and survival traits that m...

The most powerful forces in your life may be the ones you barely notice. We start with a simple claim rooted in Romans 1: the invisible God makes Himself known through visible creation, so the world around us is not random noise but a witness. Then we zoom in on the human body and the endocrine system, where tiny ductless glands release hormones that “excite” organs into action. Adrenals that stea...

A blind, inch-long joey crawls to a pouch it has never seen, locks onto nourishment it cannot even draw in, and survives without choking. That’s not a cartoon of nature, it’s a real-world design problem with a real-world solution, and it sets the tone for Lesson 14 of our “The God of Creation” series. We start with marsupials and spotlight the kangaroo’s pouch, the mother’s milk delivery, and the...

A whale looks like a fish until you notice what it has to do every few minutes just to live: surface, breathe, and refill an oxygen supply that keeps it from drowning. That single detail opens the door to a bigger question we explore today: what does whale anatomy, behavior, and survival tell us about the God of creation? We read from Genesis, then trace how Scripture’s claim of creatures reproduc...

Life looks simple from a distance, but get close enough and it becomes staggering. We start with a strange, almost forgotten word, protoplasm, the living substance inside cells, and ask a blunt question: if the best minds can’t produce living matter from nonliving chemicals, what does that say about where life comes from? From there, we trace the anatomy of a cell, from nucleus to chromatin to chr...

God doesn’t only show up in rainbows and orchids. We argue He’s present in the places we avoid, the messy corners of life, and even the “garbage can” moments that feel too ugly to matter. Brother James uses a striking chain of stories from creation to challenge the idea that faith is for the uneducated, and to make a simple claim: the universe is crowded with clues that point to the God of creatio...

Fourteen tons of air presses on your body at sea level and you don’t even feel it. That single fact opens a door into a bigger question we can’t ignore: are we living inside a carefully measured system or a lucky accident that somehow holds together? We walk through the atmosphere as a life-support design: pressure that’s stable enough to breathe, gravity that’s strong enough to hold an “ocean of...

If every cell in your body is slowly being replaced, why do you still wake up certain that you are the same “you” who lived ten, twenty, even forty years ago? We start with that uncomfortable question and follow it where it leads: into metabolism, consciousness, and the mystery of memory that keeps your life stitched together even as your physical matter constantly changes. We weigh what biology c...

Your next “miracle” might not be something you see on a stage, it might be your next heartbeat. Brother James takes a hard look at the human body and argues that ordinary physiology points to extraordinary intelligence. From the constant labor of the heart to the mind-bending number of blood cells coursing through you, we zoom in on details most of us never think about and ask the question modern...

A tree can look like it’s dying in autumn while it’s quietly preparing for spring. That single detail opens a much bigger question: are the systems inside the natural world the product of chance, or the fingerprints of an intelligent Creator who planned life down to the smallest scale? Brother James continues his God of Creation series by walking through the overlooked marvels of the plant kingdom...

Trees move water from soil to the topmost leaf without anything like household plumbing, and the deeper you look the stranger it gets. I’m Brother James, and in our God of Creation series we use the plant world as a window into the wisdom, power, and care of the Creator, not as a “song and dance” show, but as clear Bible teaching anchored in what we can observe. We start with the root system and t...

A green leaf is doing more chemistry than most labs, and you’re breathing the results. We follow the plant world from Genesis to everyday life and ask the question that keeps surfacing: can you really look at roots, stems, and photosynthesis and call it an accident? From oceans packed with algae to lichens on rock and plants surviving near snow and ice, the sheer reach and variety of vegetation be...

Water is so common that we forget how strange it is and how perfectly suited it is for life. We start with what you can see with your own eyes: dew that glistens, rain that sings, frost that shines, and the rainbow’s colors riding on tiny drops. Then we ask the harder questions a thoughtful listener can’t avoid. Why does water behave the way it does, and what does that behavior say about the world...

A beehive hums with more than motion, it hums with order. We start with honey bees and the shockingly coordinated life of the hive: specialized roles, perfect timing, and honeycomb architecture so efficient it makes you wonder where the “know-how” comes from. Then we follow a bigger question that sits underneath all of it: when thousands of creatures behave like one body toward one end, are we rea...

A honey bee can turn honey into wax, build a heat-resistant vault for “liquid gold,” and run a nursery that feeds larvae hundreds of times a day. That kind of precision forces a question we cannot dodge: does a world this coordinated really come from nothing and no one? We walk through the hive like a tour of living engineering, from pollen and propolis to the exacting process of beeswax productio...

A honey bee is not just a bug with wings, it’s a flying bundle of precision tools. When you look closely at its antennae built for smell, its built-in “cleaning gate,” its pollen basket and packing spur, and the chemistry that turns watery nectar into honey, you’re forced into a question many people try to avoid: does this kind of interlocking function come from chance, or from a mind that designe...

Heaven opening in Scripture isn’t a vague symbol or a mood. It’s a pattern God uses to reveal something specific about Jesus Christ, and once you see it, the Bible’s storyline snaps into focus. We keep moving through the “opened heaven” moments and slow down long enough to ask the real question: when heaven opens, who stands at the center of the scene? We start with Revelation 19, where the coming...

Heaven opens, and a man dies praying to Jesus. Then heaven opens again, and a reluctant apostle finally lets the gospel cross a line his prejudice had drawn. We follow those two scenes straight through Acts 7 and Acts 10, because they expose what we really believe about prayer, salvation, and the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. We start with Stephen’s martyrdom and his direct prayers to the Lo...

A man is on trial for telling the truth about Jesus and the courtroom turns into an execution. But the most shocking part of Stephen’s story is not the stones, it’s where he looks while they fly: “Behold, I see the heavens opened.” We follow the Bible text in Acts 7 and trace how Stephen, “full of the Holy Ghost,” is steadied by a vision that lifts him above fear and rage.  We talk about what it m...

Heaven doesn’t “open” in Scripture for small talk. When God pulls back the curtain, He moves history forward and He confronts the human heart. I’m Brother James, and this broadcast follows our series on the times in the Bible when heaven is opened, landing on one of the most life changing scenes in Acts 10: Peter on the housetop, the great sheet lowered from heaven, and the command that shatters o...

A funeral has a way of stripping the noise away. I start with that kind of moment and a simple, weighty truth: Jesus Christ is not a Savior for one group, one color, or one nation. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and that reality puts a responsibility on every believer to speak clearly about salvation while there’s still time. No one wants to look into a casket and reali...

Heaven opens over the Jordan, the Spirit descends like a dove, and a voice from above declares, “This is my beloved Son.” That single scene raises a question most people skip too quickly: why would a sinless Jesus insist on being baptized at all? We slow down and follow the text, because the answer leads straight to the gospel, the cross, and our access to God.  We begin a new teaching series on t...

Every day is a holy day, or it’s nothing at all. That’s where we start, and it’s where Daniel Smith’s life keeps taking us back again and again. He isn’t presented as a super-saint with rare gifts, but as a man who simply belongs to Jesus Christ, and proves what God can do with a believer who stops holding back. We walk through Smith’s journey from a shy boy under strong preaching and missionary s...

We trace the life of C.J. Baker, a Chicago entrepreneur who met Jesus, built a thriving tent and awning business, and turned profits into preaching, rescue work, and global missions. His partnership with evangelist Donald Ross shows how Scripture-led ministry can thrive outside rigid structures. • secular work funding gospel outreach • the Chicago fire sparking enterprise and service • conversion...

What if the reason assurance feels out of reach is because the sacrifice you trust requires a do-over? We walk through Hebrews 9:28 and 10:1–14 to draw a bright line between rituals that never finish and the cross that already has. The law offered shadows—holy rhythms that taught and pointed—but those repeated sacrifices could not make anyone perfect. Then Jesus steps in with a prepared body to do...