Thrive: Deeper

About Thrive: Deeper

An ongoing conversation with Dr Matthew Jacoby, author of the Thrive Bible reading guides, Senior Pastor, and leader of the Psalmist band Sons of Korah. Join us as we go deeper into the Bible, discussing the passages as we read them together with Thrive. www.thrivetoday.tv

Publisher

Thrive Today

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jul 2018

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

262 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Thrive Deeper: Acts 18-22

   Across Acts 18–22:29, Luke portrays the risen Jesus as sovereign over cities, spirits, idols, death, the church, hostile crowds, and imperial procedures. God advances the mission through coworkers such as Priscilla, Aquila, Apollos, Silas, and Timothy, showing that gospel ministry is collaborative as well as apostolic. The Spirit empowers witness but does not spare witnesses from suffering. The word corrects incomplete understanding, creates a holy and generous people, challenges profitable falsehoods, reconciles diverse believers, and presses beyond ethnic boundaries. Paul’s path shows that Christian faithfulness is missionary, teachable, pastoral, public, peaceable, and costly. Even opposition and arrest become occasions through which God sustains and extends the witness to Jesus.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Thrive Deeper: Acts 15-17

   In Acts 15–17, the early church faces a defining question: must Gentile believers adopt Jewish law in order to belong to the people of God? From the Jerusalem Council to the beginning of Paul’s second missionary journey, these chapters show a community learning to discern the Spirit’s leading, protect the heart of the gospel, and remain united across deep cultural differences. As Paul, Silas and Timothy carry that message into Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea and Athens, the good news meets very different responses—faith and hospitality, opposition and imprisonment, careful searching and philosophical debate. This episode follows the gospel across new borders and asks what faithful witness looks like when the message of Jesus enters unfamiliar places, challenges settled assumptions, and creates a new kind of community.

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Thrive Deeper: Acts 9-14

   Acts 9–14 captures the church’s transformation from a small, persecuted movement into a bold, Spirit‑driven mission stretching across cultures and continents. Saul’s encounter with the risen Jesus turns an enemy into an apostle, Peter’s ministry reveals that God welcomes Gentiles without barrier, and the church in Antioch becomes a diverse, generous base for global mission. Paul and Barnabas’ first journey then shows the gospel’s disruptive power—bringing healing, confrontation, joy, and opposition—as they proclaim Jesus from Cyprus to the cities of Galatia, strengthening new believers and entrusting emerging communities to God’s grace.

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