Daily Bible with Hunter and Heather

By Hunter Barnes

Discover the Bible Anew with "Daily Bible with Hunter & Heather"—Your Daily Companion for Spiritual Growth

Embark on a transformative year-long journey through the Bible with Hunter and Heather B... more

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Number 1: Daily Radio Bible - January 5th, 22
January 05, 202225min
Number 2: Daily Radio Bible - January 6th, 22
He is so much better than we think. God comes to Abraham. And he tells him that he's going to make him the father of many nations, that all the people of the world will be blessed through him, and that he was going to give him the land of Canaan. And all of this, so it seemed to Abraham, was just too good to be true. Abraham couldn't get his head around a God, who could actually do all this. So Abraham and Sarah conceived of something much more possible, something within reason...a surrogate son. Something they together, could try and make possible with their own efforts. We often do that, we struggle to think of God as big enough, and good enough to do what our hearts long for, or what he says he will do. So we often will interject with a scaled down version of what we think is possible, and we try to push these scaled down versions of goodness and love down the road, because, well, that's the best we can hope for, or even imagine. But God is so much better than we dare to think. Jesus is proof of that. He is so much better than many theologians and pastors have dared to preach. Luke describes the sermon that Jesus is preaching. And in this sermon, Jesus is commanding his followers to be much better than they've ever dared to be. Love your enemies, he says, do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you do to others, as you would have them do to you. Do this, he says, and you will truly be acting as children of God. Do this, and you will be acting the way God acts. In fact, Jesus ends this part of his message by saying, God is kind, even to those who are unthankful and wicked. God, the Father is compassionate, did you catch that? God is kind to the unthankful and the wicked, He is compassionate, that is who he is. And yet, so often, we scale that version of God down with an endless host of qualifications. He's good, if you do this, he's good. If you behave this way, he's good only to these people. But Jesus today in his sermon, is inviting us to imagine God as better than anything we have dared to believe. Far too often we have painted the face of God with a brush of our own anxieties and fears. And that picture of God is so much smaller, so less kind, and loving, than anything that Jesus has revealed to us. What Jesus shows us of the Father is so much better. So let us hear how good God is today. Let's dare to begin to imagine here at the beginning of 2022, that he is indeed better than we thought. When we begin to do that, we will begin to behave in ways that are far better than we ever thought we could. We will love our enemies, we will do unto others, as we would have them do unto us. And that's the prayer that I have for my own soul. That's the prayer that I have for my family for my wife, my daughters, my son. And that's the prayer that I have for you. May it be so.
January 06, 202228min
Number 3: Daily Radio Bible - January 2nd, 2022
January 01, 202225min
Number 4: Daily Radio Bible - January 14th, 22
A Place at the Table Genesis 34 - 36 and Luke 14 Have you noticed that? Jesus noticed that. Our arrogance and pride will inevitably put us at the head of the table. That’s what this Pharisee and these teachings in Luke 14, point out. And inevitably, when we make this life our project, we miss out on the party. That’s what it seems to tells us here in this parable of the banquet. There’s nothing wrong with having land, or oxen, or a wife. These are not bad things. But when they become ultimate things, they blind us to the gift that God is offering us. They become idols. They fool us into thinking that this life is really about us. That we are the main character in our movie – that this life is our project, our story. We imagine that we sit at the head of the table, in our own movie. Our spouse, our parents, our children – they are supporting characters. That’s why we can find that we love them more than God. We can begin to think that maybe it’s all about us. This posture in life will lead to a rude awakening some day. That’s why Jesus says we have to hate all of it, in comparison to our love for God. We have to hate our life, spouse, parents children, if we love them more than Him. Jesus says, “For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” (Luke 14:11). Those that choose to humble themselves, are going to be invited to a place of honor at the party, because they’ve chosen to see reality for what it is. It’s not about us, it’s about what Jesus has done for people like us. We are those people who were out in the alleys, who had no idea that God’s eye was on them – pursuing them, inviting them to be a part of His life, his story, his party. A Messenger came and has invited us to the Banquet. Unbelievable! Humble yourself and acknowledge and welcome your proper place in the story of God. Your place in the story is of one who has been brought in from the highways and byways, the hedges and alleys. God came after you there, and has invited you to a party that you have no right to be part of. The decision to humble yourself and accept this invitation, blesses not just you, but your family, as well. They are not here to be supporting characters in your story, but in His. They’ve been invited to his banquet, too, not yours. And there, all will find life. Come, find your place at God’s table.
January 13, 202228min
Number 5: Daily Radio Bible - January 13th, 22
Emptied Out to be Filled Up Genesis 31- 33 and Luke 13 Do you have a walking stick? Do you have a mustard seed? We’re told that Jacob left home and had nothing but a walking stick. And God returned him with so much more. Jesus tells us that the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest seed that you plant in the garden, but when it is planted it becomes the largest of all the plants. A walking stick and a mustard seed are both symbols of a walk of faith. They remind us that God delights in demonstrating his grandeur through things that are small and in showing his strength through things that are weak. We also learned that this life of faith will resemble a wrestling match. You’ll wrestle with your flesh, your past, and the uncertainty of the future. You’ll have hidden gods in your tent that your earthly father can’t see, but your heavenly father can. And you’ll have to give them up in the end. This life of faith is a wrestling match, primarily with God. And all who wrestle with God will be marked in that match. They’ll come away with a constant reminder - a sign - that walking with God is a walk of faith, not a walk in the flesh. We can put no confidence in our flesh. We’ll have a hitch in our step for the rest of our earthly lives, reminding us that a walk with God is a walk of faith. We will wrestle until we rest - until dawn comes and he touches our hip. We will wrestle until we see that it’s not me, it’s Christ in me. That’s the only way we can face the impossible journey that is ahead of us. That’s the only way that Jacob could face his brother, Esau. That’s the only way to cross the Jabbok river. Jabbok literally means, to empty, to pour out. And Jacob, in order to cross that river and move forward into the destiny that God called him to, had to empty himself. Walking by faith will do that. God will help us to do that, just like he helped Jacob. At this point, everything Jacob has, his possessions, his wife, and his children, are all on the other side,. Here he is, all alone, waiting to cross the river - with nothing. There’s nothing behind him and no seeming future before him. He’s all alone. At that point, when he seemingly reaches the end of himself, the wrestling becomes the fiercest. He wrestles through the night until he can’t wrestle anymore. By the time dawn comes, he is spent and ready to surrender. He emptied himself. Only then could he cross that river, moving forward into God’s destiny for him. He won by losing. By emptying himself, he saw that it was not him, but God in him, God for him. It is only then that he received his new name. He was no longer Jacob - but Israel, because he wrestled with God and won. I imagine Jacob faced that new day by faith. He crossed that river, having emptied himself, ready to face his fate, the destiny that God had for him. He is seemingly ready to believe that God can do the impossible, that he can soften the heart of his brother, Esau, and give him a future, back home where he belonged. It is only when we empty ourselves, when we win by losing, that we receive what God has for us. Do you have a stick or a mustard seed? Have you been wrestling with God? Have you emptied yourself? There is a future ahead for you. God has a destiny and a promise for you to live out if you’ll trust him. Empty yourself and walk with him by faith. Let him lead you across the Jabbok river, with a new life and anew name. My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Gal 2:20 NLT)
January 13, 202231min