Word of Life Church Podcast

We need to recover the word repentance. It’s not a dour word invoking self-hatred. Far from it! Repentance is a word of hope. The philosophy of repentance is that we can change. To repent is to rethink the trajectory of our life, believing we can find...

The Transfiguration on Tabor is the turning point in the gospel story of Jesus. Here Jesus outshines the Law and Prophets represented by Moses and Elijah. Here we learn that Jesus Christ is what God has to say. Here we see the eschatological...

Jesus knows that all forms of spirituality built on legalistic, rule-based religion focused on behavior modification is a dead-end road. It cannot produce life. Inward transformation, a change of the heart and the formation of character, becomes the...

The saga of Israel's exile and return to Jerusalem becomes the backdrop for the prophet Isaiah to speak a timeless word to the people of God - then and now. The prophet reminds us that piety alone will not shed light into the darkness of our...

Blessed are the depressed who mourn and grieve,For they create space to encounter comfort from another. Blessed are the gentle and trusting, who are not grasping and clutching,For God will personally guarantee their share as heaven comes to...

It’s all a gift—all of it. Being, creation, your life, forgiveness, immortality, and the final promise that at the end of all things God will be all in all—it’s all a gift.

All Scripture finds its fulfillment in Christ. If we don’t see a particular text as Christlike, we have not yet interpreted it correctly, and thus we have very little to say about it. Either we find a way to conform the scriptural text to Christ or we...

Christians reading Isaiah in the first decades after the death and resurrection of Jesus interpreted all the promises of Israel’s glorious future as prophecies about Jesus Christ, and Isaiah was an especially rich treasure trove of these prophecies...

The salvation that comes to us from God is both particular and universal—particular in that it comes by the particular person named Jesus, and universal because it is a salvation for the whole world.

We don’t know very much about Joseph, or at least not as much as we would like. We know that though he descended from the royal line of David, he was a humble carpenter plying his trade in an obscure Galilean village. But we never hear any direct...

The fourth Servant Song is the prime example of why the book of Isaiah is often called the “Fifth Gospel.” The first Christians saw the suffering and vindication of Jesus throughout Isaiah 53, and thus these verses appear repeatedly in the Gospels and...

When Isaiah penned his “Rivers In the Desert” poem, Judah was in a bad way—internally Judah was corrupt and externally it was under threat of foreign invasion. But the poet of audacious hope does not despair; instead he proclaims that God will come...

Christian theology calls the foreshadowing  of Genesis 3:15 the protoevangelium—the proto gospel or the first good news. As Adam and Eve are subjected to death and exiled from Eden, there is the foreshadowed hope that someday a man born of woman will...

The claims that Paul makes concerning Christ in his “All Things” theopoetics are absolutely stunning!   Christ is before all things. Christ has first place in all things. All things were created in and through Christ. All things were created for...

Isaiah 12 is a song of salvation for all those who are in need of salvation -- and all the springs of salvation are found in Jesus.