TRUE Word, Faith for LIFE! with Dr. Shawn

Why Does Sin Always Cost More? What if sin doesn’t just break rules, but quietly drains your peace, your family, your future, and your ability to hear God clearly? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 27 and shows how deception, fear, favoritism, and appetite never stay private. They always cost more than they promised...

DAY 25: Are You Forcing What God Promised? What if your problem isn’t that God hasn’t spoken, but that fear has convinced you to force what He already promised? What if God’s promise is real, but your fear is still trying to force the outcome? Genesis 27 is one of the most uncomfortable family scenes in the Bible. Isaac is blind. Rebekah is scheming. Jacob is pretending. Esau is about to be displa...

ARE YOU LIVING BY COVENANT OR IMPULSE? What if your problem isn’t that you don’t believe God, but that fear still gets your mouth, appetite still gets your choices, opposition still gets your emotions, and compromise still gets your excuses? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 25:1 to Genesis 26:3...

Are biblical miracles ancient fairytales, or has the modern world been trained to sneer before it studies? In this special Saturday Morning LIVE event, Dr. Shawn M. Greener confronts primitive bias, modern skepticism, Ancient Near Eastern context, divine sovereignty, historical testimony, and the resurrection of Yeshua. This episode shows why biblical miracles are not random magic tricks, but purp...

DAY 24: small choice.   BIG PAIN! What are you calling small that God is calling serious? Genesis 26:34 to 35 shows Esau making a decision that looks personal, quiet, and ordinary, but it brings bitterness into the home of Isaac and Rebekah. In Day 24 of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener explains why small compromises create generational pain, why covenant...

What if opposition isn’t proof God left you, but proof the blessing became visible?  In Day 23 of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener teaches Genesis 26:12 to 25, where Isaac obeys God, sows in famine, receives a hundredfold harvest, and immediately faces envy, hostility, and blocked wells. This episode connects the Ancient Near Eastern world of wells, water...

Why do we repeat what broke us? Genesis 26 shows Isaac, the son of promise, repeating Abraham’s fear driven failure. He carries covenant blessing, but under pressure, fear still gets into his mouth. In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 26:1 to 11 and shows how famine, fear, family patterns, and compromise still speak d...

Why would God choose Jacob when Esau looked like the obvious heir? Genesis 25 isn’t just ancient family drama. It’s a mirror. It exposes how easily we trade tomorrow for whatever we’re hungry for today. In Day 21 of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 25:19 to 34, where Rebekah’s barrenness, Isaac’s prayer, the twins struggling in the w...

Why doesn’t the Bible rush past Abraham’s ending? Genesis 25:1 to 18 slows down to show something most people miss. God chooses Isaac for the covenant line, yet still blesses Ishmael. That tension reveals the true character of God. In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener unpacks the closing of Abraham’s life through Ancient Near Eastern context, covenant inheritance, and generational identity. This...

Is your faith evidence or just words? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener brings Genesis 21 through 24 together in one powerful message on visible covenant faithfulness. This episode asks a direct question: if your life were put on trial, would there be enough evidence to convict you as someone who truly belong...

DAY 19: WHY DOES ISAAC’S FUTURE DEPEND ON THIS MISSION? Why would Genesis spend one of its longest chapters on finding Isaac a wife? Because this is not romance first. It is covenant stewardship. It is a battle over the future of the promise. In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener takes you through Genesis 24 and shows why this mission matter...

WHY BUY A GRAVE? Why would Abraham buy a grave in a land God already promised him? Genesis 23 looks like a chapter about death, loss, and legal detail. It is actually one of the strongest pictures of faith in the Abraham story. In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener shows how Abraham’s grief over Sarah, his purchase of the cave of Machpelah, and his willingness to pay full price reveal a faith that...

Day 17: Why Would God Test Abraham Like This? Genesis 22 is one of the most unsettling chapters in the Bible. God asks Abraham to surrender the very son He promised. So what is this chapter really about? Is it cruelty? Is it a test of blind obedience? Or is something far deeper happening on Mount Moriah? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener...

Day 16: Why Did God Send Hagar Away? Why does fulfilled promise still feel painful?  Genesis 21 gives us one of the most emotionally layered moments in Abraham’s story. Isaac is born, laughter fills the tent, and yet Hagar and Ishmael are sent into the wilderness. So what is God doing here? And what does this chapter say to people living with both gratitude and grief at the same time? In this epis...

THE INESCAPABLE CONVERSATION If your life went on trial today, would there be enough evidence to prove you belong to Yeshua? In this powerful episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener confronts one of the hardest questions a follower of The Way can face. Not, “Do you claim Jesus?” but, “Does your real life show allegiance to Him?” This message cuts through labels, appearances, shame, and religious noise to ex...

Why do we break what God is building? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener brings Genesis 16 through 21 together and shows how pressure exposes fear, compromise, wounded laughter, old patterns, and the human heart. From Hagar in the wilderness, to Abraham and Sarah’s name change, to Sarah’s laughter, to Sodom’s...

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Why would Abraham repeat the same fear-driven compromise after everything God had already promised? In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener teaches Genesis 20 and shows how old fear can bring back old patterns, even in the lives of people who truly know God. This passage is honest, humbling, and deeply hopeful. It shows that fear often disguises itself as wisdom, that half-truths used to manipulate...

ARE WE SODOM?! Why did God judge Sodom? Was it really about one sin, or had the city become something far darker? In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener takes listeners into Genesis 19 and shows that Sodom was a culture marked by violent corruption, predatory power, humiliation, social cruelty, and open rebellion against God. With Ancient Near Eastern context, Hebraic insight, and strong modern app...

What WAS YOUR Name? Why did God change Abram’s name to Abraham? Why did Sarai become Sarah? And why did God do it before the promise was visible? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener teaches Genesis 17 with sharp biblical clarity, Hebraic worldview, Ancient Near Eastern context, and real life application. This is not a small detail in Abrah...

DAY 12: Why Did Abraham Laugh and Intercede? Why do people laugh at the very promise they once begged God to fulfill? Why do believers hear God’s Word, yet still struggle to believe He’ll actually do what He said? In this gripping episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener takes listeners into Genesis 18 and uncovers one of the most searching chapters in...

Day 11: Why Did Abram Take Hagar? Why does a promise from God turn into pressure so fast? Why do people who truly hear God still make decisions that create pain, jealousy, and fracture everything around them? And if we’re honest, why do we do the same thing? Genesis 16 isn’t just about Abram, Sarai, and Hagar. It’s about what happens when waiting becomes unbearable and we start trying to help God...

WHY DID GOD ANSWER BABEL WITH COVENANT? Are Babel, Abraham, Egypt, Melchizedek, and covenant really one story? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 11 through 15 and shows how these passages fit together as one powerful movement in the Bible. Babel exposes human pride and self made security. Abraham’s calling reveals God’s answer to scattered reb...

Day 10: Has God Forgotten You? Genesis 15 Explained Has God forgotten you while you wait? Why did God cut a covenant with Abram in Genesis 15, and why does that matter so much when life feels delayed, uncertain, or fragile? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through one of the most dramatic covenant scenes in the entire Bible. Abram...

This priest shouldn’t be here!! Why does Melchizedek suddenly appear in Genesis 14, and why does Abram honor him so quickly? In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener explains why Melchizedek is not a random detail, but a major theological signpost. He shows up before Levi, before Sinai, and before the priestly system most readers expect, and that is exactly why this passage matters. Through biblical...