Today we have chapters 26 and 27 of Ashes Before the Throne.

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Two more chapters of Ashes Before the Throne.

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Two chapters of Ashes Before the Throne today.

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Treat for you today - three chapters of Ashes Before the Throne.

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He sold his brother for silver. She made him tell the truth in public. And somehow, she's the righteous one.Episode 3 of The Guest List — a 22-part walk through the family tree at the start of Matthew's Gospel, one name at a time.Judah enters the story with an idea beside a pit. Joseph doesn't have to die, he says. They can make money instead. Twenty pieces of silver. A bloodied coat. Two words sent to a grieving father: "Identify this, please." Years later, those same two words come back to him from the woman he abandoned.Genesis 38 has a reputation for being the chapter people skip. Tamar is usually remembered as a scandal. But read carefully, and the scandal isn't Tamar. It's Judah. A widow trapped by a broken promise. A system that protects the powerful and quietly crushes everyone underneath. A carefully laid plan. A death sentence. A seal, a cord and a staff. Then one sentence that changes everything:"She is more righteous than I."Three threads run through every episode of this series: grace (who gets let in, and on what terms), power (who has it, and what it costs the people underneath), and providence (the hidden hand that almost never announces itself).🧱 Next time: Rahab. A fortified city. Two spies. A scarlet cord hanging from a window. And another woman nobody expected to appear in the Messiah's family tree.📖 The series comes out of the book The Family Nobody Would Have Chosen — the long version, name by name:Buy the book in print on Amazon: https://shorturl.at/BcFmHTo buy in eBook or PDF: https://bit.ly/4pN1jms💬 One question to carry out: where might God be at work in something that doesn't look like piety? Tell me in the comments — I read them.Subscribe for a new guest every week.#Bible #BibleStudy #Genesis #Judah #Tamar #Matthew1 #BibleTeaching #Christianity #OldTestament #Genealogy #TheGuestList #Grace #Providence

Today we have the audio version of a Youtube video I created looking at the US church between 1936 - 2036.

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Two chapters of Ashes Before the Throne today - Chapters 17 and 18. Enjoy!

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In this bonus episode we combine three chapters of Ashes Before the Throne into a single episode.

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He's the man who stole his brother's blessing by wearing a goat costume. And somehow, that's not the strangest thing that happens to him.Episode 2 of The Guest List — a 22-part walk through the family tree at the start of Matthew's Gospel, one name at a time.Jacob is remembered as the father of Israel. Genesis introduces him as a heel-grabber. A prophecy before birth. A bowl of lentil stew that changes history. A blind father feeling the wrong arms in the dark. A blessing stolen by deception. Twenty years running from the consequences. A ladder reaching into heaven. A wedding night where the trickster becomes the tricked. Then one long night beside the Jabbok, wrestling until dawn, where the con man finally tells the truth about his own name.Three threads run through every episode of this series: grace (who gets let in, and on what terms), power (who has it, and what it costs the people underneath), and providence (the hidden hand that almost never announces itself).🕳️ Next time: Judah. One brother has an idea beside a pit, and the family somehow gets even messier.📖 The series comes out of the book The Family Nobody Would Have Chosen — the long version, name by name:In print on Amazon: https://shorturl.at/BcFmHTo buy in eBook or pdf: https://bit.ly/4pN1jms💬 One question to carry out: what have you inherited that you didn't choose? Tell me in the comments — I read them.Subscribe for a new guest every week.#Bible #BibleStudy #Genesis #Jacob #Israel #Matthew1 #BibleTeaching #Christianity #OldTestament #Genealogy #TheGuestList #Grace #Providence

In this emotionally gripping segment, we follow Thomas as he navigates the harsh realities of a freezing London afternoon, clinging to a fading sense of survival. Seeking brief refuge in a greasy spoon near Tottenham Court Road, he confronts his failing health before collapsing on the steps of a Victorian church near Covent Garden.

Just as the first snow of the "Beast from the East" begins to fall, an unexpected encounter occurs. Grace, his daughter—having discarded her clinical, "Ice Queen" persona—finds him. What follows is a powerful, raw confrontation between a father consumed by guilt and cynicism, and a daughter offering unconditional forgiveness and a path home.

• The Struggle for Survival: Thomas’s desperate attempt to stoke the embers of his failing body in a bleak London café.

• The Legal Terminator vs. Grace: Thomas attempts to use his old, lethal cynicism to push Grace away, but his defenses are dismantled by her vulnerability.

• A Daughter’s Grace: Grace's transformation from a detached professional to a daughter offering a warm bed, antibiotics, and total forgiveness for the past.

• The Unfinished Ledger: The breakdown of Thomas’s belief that life is merely a series of equations and balanced variables that can never be righted.

• A Glimmer of Regret: For the first time, Thomas’s isolation stops feeling like an inevitable sentence and begins to feel like a deeply regretted choice.

"I used to think the world was a ledger. A series of equations and balanced variables. But I was wrong. I was so blind, and now I just want you to come home." — Grace

"You’re not saving me, Grace. You’re just a terrified girl trying to balance a ledger that can’t be balanced." — Thomas

"You aren’t the monster you’ve convinced yourself you are. You’re just a man who forgot he was loved." — Grace

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