Words From the Brothers

As we enter the final week of Lent, Mike Shaughnessy brings together Palm Sunday, the conclusion of Romans, and the Passion narrative in Matthew. At the heart of these readings is a powerful truth: everything that unfolds in Christ has been foretold in the Scriptures. From Paul’s reflections in Romans 15–16 on the unity of Jews and Gentiles, to Matthew’s account of Christ’s suffering and death, we...

In the fifth week of Lent, Nico Angleys leads us through Romans 11:13–14:12, a powerful section that moves from God’s mysterious plan of mercy to the practical shape of Christian discipleship. Using the image of the olive tree, Paul reminds Gentile believers that we have been graciously grafted into God’s covenant story. This invitation calls us to humility, gratitude, and deeper unity with God’s...

In the fourth week of Lent, Raoul Roncal guides us through John 9 and Romans 8-11 in a powerful reflection on sight, security, sovereignty, and salvation. Beginning with the healing of the man born blind, we are invited to examine our own spiritual vision—will we admit our blindness and allow Christ, the Light of the World, to heal us? As the week unfolds, Romans reminds us where true security is ...

As we reach the halfway point of Lent, Daniel Dunkl invites us to pause and reflect. Whether the season has been fruitful, difficult, or distracted, it is not too late to make space for God. Lent is not meaningful because of itself, but because it creates room for the One who is ultimate meaning. Journeying through Romans 6–8 and John 4, we explore Paul’s powerful teaching on slavery and freedom,...

Words From the Brothers: Transfigured in Hope – Lent Week Two In this second week of Lent, Luis Arce reflects on the Transfiguration of Christ in Matthew 17 and the call not only to behold Christ’s glory, but to be transformed by it. Just as Jesus was transfigured before his disciples, Scripture tells us that we too are being transformed “from one degree of glory to another” as we gaze upon the Lo...

Join Peter Legaspi and the Words From the Brothers as we journey through the first full week of Lent. Inspired by Joel, James, Matthew, and Romans, this episode explores the interior work of the season: returning to God with all our hearts, disciplining disordered desires, and embracing humility, patience, and faithful love. From Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness to practical guidance for livin...

In this episode of  Words From the Brothers , we enter the Lenten journey with the prophetic call from Joel: “Return to me with all your heart.” Reflecting on Scripture from Joel and the opening chapters of James, this meditation invites us to focus not on external observances alone, but on the interior work of conversion—rendering our hearts rather than our garments. Through themes of humility, c...

In this episode of  Words From the Brothers , we sit down with Rabbi Dr. Mark Kinzer—Messianic Jewish theologian and founding voice behind the Lord’s Day celebration—to trace the rich history behind a practice that has shaped thousands of Christian households. Drawing from Jewish Sabbath tradition, early community life, and decades of lived experience, Rabbi Kinzer reflects on faith, identity, joy...

At our 2025 Christmas Retreat, our brother Dan Keating takes up an unexpected challenge: finding Christmas in the Gospel of Mark. Though Mark offers no nativity story, Dan shows how this Gospel still powerfully reveals the coming of the Son of God. https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0ee73823-4bb6-4675-998c-f4ff23f6b1f7.mp3

In this final Advent episode, Kenneth Carandang reflects on the Incarnation and the watchful hope found in Matthew 1 and the closing chapters of Mark. As Christmas draws near, we are invited to trust God’s promises, love as He loves, and actively wait with faith, vigilance, and joyful hope for Christ’s coming. The entire list of this year’s readings can be found at Advent 2025 Readings &...

In this week’s Advent reflection, Andy Pettman guides us through the Gospel passages that reveal who Jesus is through his works, his glory, and his call to trust. Join him as he unpacks moments from Matthew and Mark that invite us to deeper faith in the midst of earthly struggle. The entire list of this year’s readings can be found at Advent 2025 Readings & Podcast . https://episodes.cap...

In our second Advent episode, Brian LaLonde leads us into the meaning of “Maranatha” through the miracles of Mark—freedom from darkness, healing in a moment, mastery over creation. Let us ponder the many ways Christ comes to meet us. The entire list of this year’s readings can be found at Advent 2025 Readings & Podcast . https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/751d834b-4e56-4f10-9123-2db48...

In this first Advent episode, our Lebanese brother Paul Codouni invites us to enter the season by staying awake to God’s presence. Drawing from the Sunday readings and the opening chapters of the Gospel of Mark, he reflects on what it means to be ready for the Lord, to guard time for silence and solitude, and to let Scripture shape our daily walk with Him. The entire list of this year’s read...

Our brother John Yocum shares with us a Easter reflection about bodily resurrection as part of our salvation in Jesus Christ. https://podcast.servantsoftheword.org/2025/Easter+Talk-2025.mp4

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 4:1-13. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 9:1-28. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the ta...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 4:14-5:10. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who i...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 12:18-29. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 12:1-7. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 10:19-39. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 10:1-18. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offere...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother Abyong Calo provides commentary on Heb 8:1-13. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy pla...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother Abyong Calo provides commentary on Heb 7:11-28. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest...

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother Abyong Calo provides commentary on Heb 7:1-10. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth...

    For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother Abyong Calo provides commentary on Heb 6:9-20. Listen below, download here , or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app. Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things-things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work an...