Todd's World

There are no ‘ifs’ with God. When it feels like the struggle has been going on as long as we can remember, Jesus still cares, and prayer is our most powerful weapon.

RFK Jr. suspends his campaign and joins Donald Trump’s Avengers. More disaffected former democrats are on the way. Kamala and the entirety of the DNC convention was a carnival lies and gaslighting. Election season is heating up!

Peter, James & John witness Jesus’ transfiguration, and the human desire to institutionalize the divine rears its ugly head. We want to fundraise and build buildings and grow church corp, but in the end, it’s all about Jesus. Only Jesus. 

Are the wheels already coming off the Kamala campaign of unfettered joy and happiness? Kamala is a Marxist communist. The Left is telling us exactly what they’re going to do - no policy details until after Kamala has hope-and-changed her way to a win. The less the public knows about Kamala, the better. 

Jesus reveals himself as the long awaited Messiah. An ordeal of suffering, a cross, waits for Jesus and for all those who follow him.

Elon Musk interviews President Trump, and together they lay out a vision for Making America Great Again. And we talk about the Rise and Fall of Kamala.

Why isn’t Kamala Harris president right now? The question every American should be asking.

The religious and political elite of Jesus’ day hated him. He warned his disciples not to get caught up in pride and hypocrisy like the Pharisees. God wants us to step out and obey before we have what we need, before we’re ready, before all our ducks are in a row. Step out in faith and watch God work.

Why isn’t Kamala Harris president right now? If the Democrats are completely sold on Kamala as their nominee, why hasn’t she taken over the reins from vegetable Joe?

The religious leaders of his day missed the signs that Jesus was the promised Messiah because God didn’t fit into the boxes they had made for him. How often do we make the same mistake.

Democrats & media are propping up Kamala only to discard her before the DNC convention to make way for the next savior of the Left.

What does it take to stop us? When we are asking God for a miracle, and it feels like he ignores us, do we turn away at the first sign of defeat, or do we keep pestering him in faith? When it came to a miracle for her daughter, a Canaanite woman wouldn’t take no for an answer from Jesus.

Jesus vs. the Pharisees. It's not what goes into a person that pollutes their life, but what comes out.

When Jesus calls us to feed a crowd or push out onto a windy sea, he always enables us to do whatever it is he’s called us to do, and though our faith may falter, Jesus will be there to encourage and enable us.

Jesus expects us to do the impossible . . . through faith, a lesson he taught the disciples while they fed dinner to over 5,000 people in the middle of nowhere with almost nothing.

What do we do when God disappoints us, when Jesus doesn’t do what we expected him to do? John the Baptist’s own dark night of the soul saw him watching from a prison cell just as the Messiah’s ministry was finally taking off.

We venture into a discussion about money and ministry on this episode of BWJ. Are wealthy megachurch pastors like Joel Olsteen or Steven Furtick following the Biblical pattern for ministry laid out by Jesus as they accumulate millions of dollars in the name of our Lord or do they have their reward already here on earth? There are no easy answers.

Jesus goes back home to Nazareth, but he couldn’t do many miracles there. Those who know him best couldn’t get past their own familiarity with “Mary’s boy.” Are those of us today most familiar with Jesus much different?

Jesus has taken too long. Jarius’ twelve year-old daughter had died waiting. Standing in the middle of the street, tears pouring down his face as he hears the news of his daughter, Jesus says to Jarius, “Don’t listen to them. Just trust me.” A crisis of faith.

A chronic disease healed by touching Jesus’ robe. What risk of faith is God calling us to? Are we desperate for an encounter with Jesus.

Todd, Carrie & Trevor explore the demoniac Legion's encounter with Jesus

Going back into the vault, we are rereleasing a retelling of the story about the demon-possessed man living among the tombs. Come back tomorrow for the latest BWJ where Carrie, Trevor & I explore this story in Mark 5.

Trevor joins Todd and Carrie to talk about the storms of life. God sends, endures and calms storms, and sometimes he finds time to nap in between. 

It's the small seeds we plant in our lives every day and forget about almost as quickly as we've planted them that God uses to grow His Kingdom in our worlds.

Jesus told stories to create readiness, to nudge his listeners into understanding. But the stories, the seeds, fell onto different types of soil. Mark ch 4: The Parable of the Sower.