Word of Life Church Podcast

The Trinity is not a mathematical problem to be solved but a mystery to be explored. Who is this God who is a holy community of persons? We’re invited to explore this mystery from the moment of our baptism. Jesus said we are to make disciples...

The three thousand slain by the sword of the Law at Sinai, were raised from the dead and added back to the congregation at Pentecost! The three thousand people who were baptized into the New Covenant on the day of Pentecost and became the first...

Though Jesus, the Church, the Bible, and Christianity are obviously related and interconnected in some essential ways, they are far from the same thing; and when we confuse the critical distinctions between these four realities, we run into serious...

The Holy Trinity is a sanctuary of perfect love where there is never any fear, discord, or sorrow. It is from this sanctuary that the the Holy Spirit is sent as the Paraclete—the one who comes alongside to help us.

It seems as though we’re all born a long way from home. Perhaps it doesn’t feel this way in the innocence of childhood, but as we move into adulthood we begin to feel like strangers in a strange land, and we have to find where we belong, where we can...

About twenty years before Jesus began his ministry there was a series of militant charismatic leaders who rose up claiming to be the Jewish Messiah—that is they claimed to be the King of the Jews sent by God to liberate Israel from Roman domination...

John the Evangelist originally concluded his Gospel with chapter twenty. But sometime later, perhaps to affirm the leadership of Peter and to dispel a rumor about himself, John wrote and additional chapter -- a chapter that can be described as a...

When the Twelve Apostles had either betrayed, denied, or forsaken Jesus, four faithful women kept vigil at Jesus’ crucifixion and stood near his cross—these four women were his mother, his aunt, Mary Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. And the woman who is...

Gethsemane means oil pressure and it's in Gethsemane that we see the anointed Christ under enormous pressure. On the Sea of Galilee Jesus calmed the storm; but in Gethsemane the storm is within the Son of God.

Everything about Jesus’ Triumphal Entry is the opposite of Pilate’s military parade. Pilate rides a warhorse while Jesus rides a donkey—a donkey’s colt. Pilate’s soldiers are armed with swords; Jesus’ disciples are armed with palm branches...

The story of Lazarus gives a picture of the great hope of salvation - that humanity would be set free from the dominion of Sin and Death. Will we join Martha in confessing, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one...

Work is good. Jesus himself said, "We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work." Work appears in the creation narrative before sin enters the story. God makes man and woman in his image and...

While God will always remain greater than our capacity to contain him - as we grow, so does our ability to perceive just how large the love of God is. This uncontainable love of God is revealed in a bold and unpredictable way at a well with a woman...

WANTED: JESUS CHRIST Alias: The Messiah, The Son of God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Prince of Peace, etc. Notorious leader of an underground liberation movement. Wanted for the following charges: Practicing medicine, winemaking, and food...

On the first Sunday in Lent the lectionary takes us to the wilderness temptation of Christ. As Jesus prayed and fasted forty days in preparation to launch his ministry—a ministry that would announce and enact the arrival of the kingdom of God— he was...