Wawasee Bible Podcast

What are you still holding back from God? His mercy invites us to give him our whole lives, let him renew our minds, and use our gifts to serve others. That love reaches beyond our church family to those who are far from God—even to people who are hard to love.

Where can we find lasting security in an uncertain world? Through Jesus’ resurrection, God gives us living hope, an unfading inheritance, and his protecting power. His promise is to carry us through suffering into his presence, giving us courage to stand for Christ today.

How do we trust God when life doesn’t make sense? Discover the depth of his wisdom, kindness, and grace—and how recognizing his gifts leads us to humility, gratitude, and a life that gives him glory.

God has not rejected Israel or his promises to Abraham. A remnant remains by grace, and Israel’s unbelief allows Gentiles to share in these promises through faith. This calls for humility, not arrogance. Israel’s hardening is temporary, and God can graft them in again. Salvation rests on God’s mercy, not human performance, for both Jew and Gentile. The good news is that God's mercy in Jesus Christ...

How can people believe if they haven't heard? Everyone who calls on Jesus’s name will be saved, but before they can believe they have to hear about Jesus, and God uses us to tell them. As followers of Jesus, we are sent to love others and share the Gospel in our everyday lives. You don't need perfect words and you’re certainly not sent to win arguments—just a willingness to love and speak up when...

You can be passionate about God and still miss him. In Romans 9:30–10:13, Paul explains how his own people, who had the Scriptures and worked harder than anyone at pleasing God, stumbled over Jesus, while people who weren't even looking for God found him. Their problem wasn't a lack of effort; it was trying to reach God on their own. The good news is that God has already come near to us in Jesus....

Is God unjust when he shows mercy to some and not to others? None of us deserves his mercy, and his choice rests on his goodness rather than our effort, background, or worth. Moses and Pharaoh show that God is free to show mercy and he is just in judgment, even as we remain responsible for our response to Christ. These can be hard things! But always remember that we can bring our hard questions to...

Even though we know that God’s promises never fail, sometimes life can make it feel like they have. In Romans 9:1-13 we find Paul full of sorrow and grieving over his family, friends, and people being far from God and without faith in Christ. God had given every advantage to them people, including promise upon promise, yet they still rejected Jesus. But it wasn’t God’s word or promises that had fa...

God calls every believer to serve him and carry the good news to others, even when we feel inadequate. Moses offered excuse after excuse—Who am I? What will I say? What if they do not believe me? I am not a good speaker. Please send someone else!—yet God answered every objection and still used him powerfully. The same is true for us: God does not call us because we are naturally sufficient, but he...

At Wawasee Bible, Your Pathway is to (1) be ENCOURAGED in your faith, (2) get EQUIPPED for your calling, (3) ENGAGE at Wawasee, and (4) EXTEND the Gospel wherever you live, work, learn, and play. This week Bob Blahnik from Evangelism Shift joins us as we look at Jesus's model of extending the Gospel in John 4:1-42. We're sent to love people and invite them to follow Jesus with us. That involves in...

At Wawasee Bible, Your Pathway is to (1) be ENCOURAGED in your faith, (2) get EQUIPPED for your calling, (3) ENGAGE at Wawasee, and (4) EXTEND the Gospel wherever you live, work, learn, and play. This week we look at what it means to get equipped for your calling through opportunities like Handcrafted Calling, Aim, Life2Life, and more. Next, we see how to engage at Wawasee in a group or on a minis...

At Wawasee Bible, Your Pathway is to (1) be ENCOURAGED in your faith, (2) get EQUIPPED for your calling, (3) ENGAGE at Wawasee, and (4) EXTEND the Gospel wherever you live, work, learn, and play. This week Pastor Josh briefly explains each part of that pathway before unpacking why gathering regularly is so important. Hebrews 10:24-25 says it’s so that we would stir one another up to love and good...

We wrap up our Grateful series by looking at three evidences of a grateful life from Colossians 3 and Habakkuk 3. Gratitude isn't just a feeling tied to good circumstances — it's a heart posture that returns thanks to God no matter what. That posture shows up in three ways: it lets Christ's peace rule our hearts, lets his word shape our walk, and lets his strength sustain us — even when everything...

There are two things we can be grateful for as Americans. First, that God (in his sovereignty) placed us here. And second, that here is not home. We've been sent here by God to seek the good and welfare of this place so that others might know God's goodness in Jesus Christ personally. But while we've been sent here, here is not home. As followers of Jesus our citizenship is in Heaven, and from the...

Gratitude fades when God’s people forget the Lord, not because they lose information, but because they stop keeping his goodness at the center of their lives. Deuteronomy 8 calls God’s people to remember how he humbled them, provided for them, disciplined them, blessed them, and warned them against pride. Remembering the Lord forms grateful people who can trust him in the wilderness, bless him in...

We start a new short series exploring what it means and how to be grateful. God commands us to be thankful, and the gratitude Scripture commands is not a feeling, but a posture. It's a choice we make. But choosing it is often hard. Gratitude is hard because it requires obedience before it's felt, we miss God's nearness, and we focus on our circumstances.

As we wrap our series through the Nicene Creed called "What Christians Believe," we look at what baptism is. Baptism isn't something we trust in for salvation, it's a picture of what we trust in. It's a picture of the gospel and God's cleansing work in our lives that is all by his grace and mercy. God's grace and mercy—not our merit—washes and renews us through his Spirit and gives us eternal life...

We believe in one holy Church. God's Church consists of every believer in Jesus throughout all of history. And because God is three-in-one, he's made his Church one and given us unity in Jesus Christ. Our responsibility is to maintain it. Unity isn't uniformity, it's unity of heart where it's all about Jesus, and it's not about me. Our temptation is often to make it about our own preferences. But...

This week we look at who the Spirit is and what he does. In a sentence, the Spirit always and continually glorifies the Son in all that he does. Jesus told his disciples that it was better for him to leave so that the Spirit (the Helper) would come to help them: indwelling, guiding, illuminating, convicting, and empowering God's people. The Spirit sent from the Father and Son convicts and guides a...

For us and for our salvation, Jesus came down and became human. The creator and ruler of the universe condescended to add full and complete humanity to his full and eternal deity. We tend not to think as much about Jesus’s humanity as we do his deity, yet Jesus was fully human in every way. Because of this he is our failthful and merciful high priest who is able to sympathize and empathize with us...

Jesus is fully and eternally God in every way. He’s not merely like God or close to God, he is of the exact essence as the Father—one substance with him. The New Testament book of Hebrews opens by presenting Jesus as the radiance of the glory of God, not a mere reflection, but the source of glory as he himself is fully God. In this way the Son reveals the Father perfectly, purifies sin completely,...

A key phrase of the Nicene Creed is that Jesus is "begotten, not made." Jesus is not a created being, a lesser god, or a spiritual middleman between us and the Father. He is eternally God—begotten, not made—and he took on true humanity without ceasing to be fully divine. Because Jesus is fully God, he can truly reveal the Father; because he became fully human, he can truly represent us; and becaus...

The gospel is not something the church invented — it is a deposit entrusted to us, with the expectation that we will receive it personally, guard it actively, and pass it on faithfully. This was Paul's charge to Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:20–21. The Nicene Creed, born out of the Arian controversy at the Council of Nicaea (325), is one of the church's great historical examples of receiving, guarding, a...

Jesus is a sure and steadfast anchor who holds you steady in life’s storms (Hebrews 6:19-20). In Romans 8:31–39, Paul stacks up a series of rhetorical questions to drive home a settled assurance: God has proved he is for his people by not sparing his own Son. Even when real opposition comes, and even when the accuser brings true charges, the verdict for those in Christ is already in: you're free a...

Even when life is full of beauty, there’s a deep ache that tells you something isn’t the way it’s supposed to be—an ache that shows up in suffering, loss, and the way both our bodies and the world itself seem to “groan.” That brokenness can be traced back to sin entering the world through Adam and Eve, bringing fear, shame, futility, and death into human experience and even into creation itself. B...