For the Jewish people, the temple was the place where God dwelt. From the Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting in the wilderness to Soloman’s great Temple, and later the Temple is Jesus’s day, worship centered around the Temple. But when Jesus came all that changed.

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Idols. Not just carved images from wood or stone. The idols commanding the worship of many Christians in the United States today are promoted by well-known Christian leaders.

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We can live in a “free” country, amass great wealth, and emphasize our personal rights without ever experiencing the freedom God offers us in Christ. True freedom is internal. Like the oxygen in our blood, it is woven into the very fabric of our being.

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Life. Three words in the New Testament describe the various dimensions of life experienced by people in our world. How would you describe your life? Listen to find out what Jesus has to say about the best life.

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The word “Babylon” appearing approximately three hundred times in our Bibles, and finding its ultimate meaning in the book of Revelation, is a word we would do well to understand in our day when so many Christians are choosing the way of the Beast over the way of the Lamb. In this episode, Dan seeks to open our eyes to the seductive nature of Babylon in the church today.

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Beginning in the book of Beginnings, the book of Genesis, the roots and history of the word “Babylon” evolve into a dramatic symbol for the dehumanizing and broken world in which we live. In this two-part podcast, Dan traces the origin and fall of Babylon, as he warns followers of Jesus to “come out of her, my people.”

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Who could have ever imagined that a word like “multicolored” would be such a vital and integral part of the New Testament? But it is. In this episode, Dan explains why and how that is.

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Like episode two’s word, repentance, the word for today’s episode, confession, is a word for which the meaning has been drastically reduced in much of the church today. In this episode, we look at the larger concept of confession and its powerful effect on our growing self-awareness as followers of Jesus.

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We tend to associate the word “repentance” with sin. While this is not exactly wrong, it does a disservice to the message of Jesus as he calls us to see our lives and world from the perspective of God’s kingdom. As followers of Jesus, we are called to a lifelong process of repentance.

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We often refer to the Bible as “The Word of God.” The Old Testament writers spoke of Scripture in this way. But when Jesus entered our world, God’s Word took on a new meaning. Jesus is the Word of God. In this episode, we examine the powerful impact God’s Word, Jesus, had upon both Jews and Greeks in the first century.

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