Episode 52: Solomon: Crowned with Wisdom, Crushed by Idols (Threads series, part 19)
Identifying disbelief as a core flaw, Pastor Mark Cress provides an overview of the start-well, end-bad third king of Israel, challenging listeners against spiritual compromise.
12 May 2025
Episode 51: David: Imperfect But in Pursuit (Threads series, part 18)
How was David a man's after God's own heart (1 Sam. 13:14, Acts 13:22)? Pastor Mark Cress details aspects of David's walk with God, even amid his sin and failures. Do our lives reveal the same root embrace of the supremacy of God?
5 May 2025
Episode 50: Jonathan: Biblical Friendship (Friending for Dummies) (Threads series, part 17)
Flaky friendships abound in contemporary culture. The friendship of Jonathan and David, by contrast, models what friendship ought to be. Pastor Mark Cress examines its features to provide a biblical model for being a friend.
29 Apr 2025
Episode 49: Saul: Looks Like a King, Thinks Like a Slave (Threads series, part 16)
Pastor Mark Cress unfolds the selfishness, jealousy, and desperate wandering of King Saul into the occult, and challenges listeners to turn to God and flee whatever in our lives runs on the same doomed track.
20 Apr 2025
Episode 48: Barabbas: I Am He and He Is Me (Threads series, part 15)
One was guilty and released, one was innocent and sacrificed. Which one are we? In this message from Easter, Pastor Mark Cress helps us grasp our sin, Christ's obedience, and the marvel of freedom through substitute.
15 Apr 2025
Episode 47: Samuel: A Life Set Apart for God (Threads series, part 14)
Pastor Mark Cress digs into the life of Samuel and invites us to relate the themes of his life as a challenge for our lives. Are we dedicated to God?
7 Apr 2025
Episode 46: Samson: Four Simple Steps to Ruining You Life (Threads series, part 13)
Samson's choices are a study in self-ruin and turning from God's community to a community that is NOT God's provision. Pastor Mark applies the lessons of Samson's life to help us see the many deceptions of sin.
31 Mar 2025
Episode 45: Gideon: When God Uses the Weak to Do the Mighty (Threads series, part 12)
Lessons from the account of Gideon --- who experienced great military victory through God with just 300 men, then made a gold item (ephod) that became a snare to Israel --- are applied by Pastor Mark Cress.
23 Mar 2025
Episode 44: Deborah: The Original Mom Boss (Threads series, part 11)
Pastor Mark Cress notes a couple of the ways that the figure of Deborah is mis-used in the history of Christianity, then goes through the biblical account of how Deborah, and another woman, Jael, was used of God and received glory that typically went to a man.
17 Mar 2025
Episode 43: Ruth: The Original Hallmark Story (Threads series, part 10)
In part 10 of the Threads series, Pastor Mark Cress unfolds the love-plot and redemptive-plot of the Book of Ruth, the great-grandmother of the ultimate Redeemer, Jesus.
9 Mar 2025
Episode 42: Rahab: Salvation's Scarlet Cord (Threads series, part 9)
Pastor Mark Cress exclaims there is hope! Within God's saga of providing salvation in Jesus, is the account of a Gentile sinner who showed belief and spared herself and her family in the process.
3 Mar 2025
Episode 41: Joshua: The Lord Is Salvation! (Threads series, part 8)
Pastor Brad Cooper distills major themes of the book of Joshua, especially the absolute necessity of trusting in God --- the God Who can make the sun stand still, if He so chooses (Joshua 10:13).
24 Feb 2025
Episode 40: Moses: God's Hand in Every Step (Threads series, part 7)
Ever wonder why the 10 plagues were what they were? Do you relate to Moses' belief that he was not qualified on many levels to do what God wanted him to do? Pastor Mark Cress highlights what a purposeful God Yahweh is, and how His call and ways are sufficient when we may feel so insufficient.
17 Feb 2025
Episode 39: Joseph: When the Pit is Part of the Plan (Threads series, part 6)
How do we deal with the pits in our lives? The story of Joseph shows us that these can actually be part of God's plan, for the achieving of His macro-plan.
10 Feb 2025
Episode 38: The Hidden Cost of Blessing (Jacob) (Threads series, part 5)
Family dynamics, falsehood, consequences, blessing, missed blessing, encountering God . . . Pastor Mark Cress delves the saga of Jacob to point us to lives of honest faith, not scheming.
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