Elisha’s Riddle Pod-cast

Wine in the House of Prayer. Nick and Dylan talk about prayer that’s easier, sweeter, and built on God’s joy instead of heavy rituals and striving. They talk about resting in the fact that we already please the Father, Augustine’s take on evil as a negation instead of a power, and the serpent’s head crushed at the cross. Along the way there’s communion wine from Shiloh, a Jubilee celebration, and the story of a man who spent 28 years walking around the world.

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Judgment Starts in the House of the Lord. Nick and Dylan talk about what God’s judgment is really for: ripping away false security so we can rest in the Father’s love, not as punishment but as healing. They look at the exposures that have hit major ministries in recent years and what it says about the foundation they were built on, why our worth has never been tied to our gifts, and a few fun tangents along the way, including the latest on the search for Noah’s Ark and the ancient wine jars of Georgia.

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Revelation from Mr. Rock. Nick and Dylan look at what it means that we died with Christ, starting with why Jesus set the bar so high in the Sermon on the Mount. They talk about 1 Peter, where “suffered in the flesh” means died, a line from Methodist theologian Adam Clarke about not crowning death as our savior, and building faith on Scripture instead of experience. Then they land on the rock the church is built on, and why it’s tied to the cross.

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Concubines, Sex Trafficking, and the Gospel. Nick and Dylan take on one of the hardest questions skeptics ask about the Bible: what do we do with concubines, captive women, and the mess of the Old Testament? They look at how God stepped into an ancient world that gave women no rights, what the law actually required in the case of captive women, and why the Torah gave regulations, not endorsements. Then they follow it to Jesus, who served and empowered women and paid the redemption price for every human being with his own blood.

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The Elisha's Riddle Podcast is a prophetic conversation unraveling the Riddle of Christ in all things. Support Elisha's Riddle and join our online community by subscribing to our free monthly magazine at

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The Ongoing Reformation. Nick and Dylan look at the church as a tree that’s been growing for 2,000 years, starting with a Tolkien quote about preferring the full oak to the seed. They talk about one vine with many branches, Nick’s story of growing up Protestant with a Catholic grandpa who just wanted everyone to get along, all the good the church has done in hidden places, and why the truth of what Christ has done and the experience of the Spirit were never meant to be split.

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Happy Feet to the Sons of Ishmael. Nick and Dylan talk about how God sees the Muslim world, not as an enemy to fear but as sons and daughters he wants to come home to. They dig into fatherlessness as a root behind so much crime and even terrorism, trace where the word "Jew" actually comes from, and ask AI a few pointed questions along the way, including whether the Quran teaches God as Father and whether a Christian can enjoy Harry Potter.

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Becoming Who You Already Are (with C.D. Baker). Nick sits down with author C.D. Baker to talk about a 12-year-old's answer to a question about Jesus' character arc, "he became who he already was," and what that means for all of us. They also get into what it actually looks like to be human, a church that told a depressed husband he wasn't really a Christian, a book pulled from shelves for having "too much grace," and Jesus' own fear of the cross in Gethsemane.

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Laughter Over Terror: 9/11 and the Future of the Church. Nick and Dylan mark 25 years since 9/11 with a message about joy outlasting fear. They pull from Monsters Inc. and Harry Potter to talk about laughter as a weapon against fear, look at how the disciples in Acts kept getting filled with joy even after persecution, and trace the surprising growth of the church in Iran in the decades since that day.

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Hard Sayings of Scripture: Romans 7. Nick and Dylan use the Wile E. Coyote cartoons to unpack one of Paul's hardest chapters, the guy who knows exactly what he wants to do and keeps doing the opposite anyway. They talk about the law as an X-ray that exposes the problem without fixing it, and ask the same question Paul asks: who's going to rescue him from this? It lands in Romans 6, free from sin, not just free to sin.

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Hard Sayings of Scripture: Claiming to be Without Sin? Nick and Dylan tackle the tension in 1 John between "if you're living in Jesus, you won't keep on sinning" and the reality that Christians still sin. They talk through the cross as an exchange, not a payment to satisfy an angry Father, how confession fits into a finished-work identity, and why they'd argue it's actually the law that gives sin a license, not grace. It's a look at how to hold "you're a new creation" and "you still sin sometimes" together without losing either one.

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