In this episode, I welcome back my friend Yoel ben Yisrael to talk about something he calls kingdom literacy, understanding what the kingdom of heaven actually is instead of just knowing verses about it. We dig into Matthew 4:17, the verse that anchors his whole ministry, and unpack what it means to live as a [...]
In this episode, I sit down with Pastor Stephen Ongo, a 41-year ministry veteran who lost his wife Susan suddenly in 2011 and spent eight months in grief so heavy it was pulling him toward hopelessness. Then God gave him a dream that changed everything. Through Isaiah 53:4, "Surely he took up our pain and [...]
What happens when a character an author built to represent Christ gets reshaped into something the author never intended? In this episode, I walk through why C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia the way he did, how he slipped past the "watchful dragons" of childhood religious instruction, and the deliberate gospel imagery woven through [...]
In this fifth episode of Read It Again, I take on one of the most quoted lines in the Bible: "Judge not, lest ye be judged." It gets used to shut down conversations before they start, but Jesus didn't stop at verse one. In Matthew 7:1-5, he goes on to talk about specks, planks, and [...]
In this episode, I sit down with Cameron Garner, a traveling minister and revivalist who has spent more than 13 years equipping ordinary believers to walk in the full reality of who they are in Christ. Cameron unpacks what it actually means to be kingdom-minded, why most believers never move from knowing their identity in [...]
Have you ever convinced yourself that you are just not a creative person? In this episode, I sit down with Rick Sorenson, author of Art: The Church's Response, to talk about one of the most underappreciated truths in the Christian life: creativity is not a gift reserved for the talented few. It is part of [...]
In episode 4 of Read It Again, I look at Revelation 3:20, the verse behind that famous painting of Jesus knocking at a garden door. For over a century that image has shaped how we read this verse, Jesus patiently waiting outside a heart that has never let him in. But the actual text was [...]
What does it mean to build your life on God's Word? In this episode, I sit down with pastor and author Jacoby Jordan, a former atheist and touring punk musician who came to faith on a pastor's driveway in LA in 2011, to explore the sufficiency of Scripture. Jacoby shares how the Bible's authenticity, its [...]
In episode 3 of Read It Again, I look at Romans 8:28, the verse we reach for at hospital bedsides and gravesides. God works all things for good, we say, and we usually fill in what good means with our own hopes for how the circumstance resolves. But Paul defines the word himself, one verse [...]
In episode 2 of Read It Again, I take on Philippians 4:13, the verse on the sneaker, the eye black, the tattoo. It shows up everywhere strength is being claimed for a win, but Paul wrote it chained to a guard in a Roman prison, not knowing if he would live or die. I trace [...]
Listen To My PodcastJason McConnell2024-12-20T09:20:18-07:00