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Day 7 takes us into the wilderness with Jacob, a man running for his life and clinging to a fragile promise. In Genesis 28, Jacob encounters God in a dream—a ladder stretching from earth to heaven and the assurance that God will be with him, protect him, and bring him home. Jacob responds by building a stone pillar—a “stone of remembrance”—declaring that God will be faithful to the promises spoken over his life.

In this episode, we explore how waiting well means holding onto hope in God’s promises, even when circumstances feel uncertain or frightening. Jacob’s story invites us to remember the places where God has shown up before so we can trust Him with what comes next.

We also look at how Jesus fulfills this story in John 1:51. When Jesus calls Himself the true ladder, He reveals that He is the connection between heaven and earth—the One through whom God’s promises of reconciliation and restoration are brought to completion. Jesus is the fulfillment of the ancient hope that all creation would be brought back to God.

Join us as we reflect on hope, promise, and the God who brings exiles home.

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In Day 6 of our Advent series, we enter one of Scripture’s most emotionally charged moments: Abraham on Mount Moriah with Isaac. This passage in Genesis 22 confronts us with a difficult but essential truth—sometimes waiting well means waiting in the uncomfortable.

Abraham’s journey is filled with love, confusion, and pain. God asks him to offer Isaac, the son of promise, the child on whom the entire future depends. Abraham obeys, and then he waits. He waits through a three-day journey of aching questions. He waits as Isaac asks, “Where is the lamb?” He waits as he builds the altar and lifts the knife. It is waiting that costs him something.

Yet this uncomfortable waiting becomes the place where God reveals His faithfulness. Abraham discovers that he can trust God’s character even when he cannot see God’s plan.

Through this story, Advent directs our eyes to Jesus. Isaac carries the wood up the hill; Jesus carries the cross. God provides a substitute for Isaac; God provides His own Son for us. What Abraham was spared from, God Himself endured. Jesus is the true Lamb of God, the fulfillment of Abraham’s story, and the One who meets us in every painful and uncertain season.

Today's episode includes a symbolic practice: taking a short uphill walk as a reminder that God often shapes us most deeply when the path grows steep. In every uncomfortable step, we are invited to pray, “Lord, I trust You even in the uncomfortable.”

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On Day 5 of our Advent journey, we follow Abraham—the man called to walk into the unknown with nothing but God’s word in his hands. Abraham’s story teaches one of the most important truths about waiting well: When we’re unsure what to do next, we should obey what God has already revealed.

In Genesis 12, God calls Abraham to “go… to the land I will show you.” It’s a command without full details, a direction without a map. Abraham doesn’t know how God will fulfill His promises or when they will come to pass. But he knows enough to take the next step of obedience. And that step becomes the beginning of God’s great redemptive plan.

Years later, in Genesis 15, Abraham is still waiting—older, unsure, and full of honest questions. Yet God doesn't give him a timeline; instead, He gives him something better: reassurance and a renewed promise. God invites Abraham to look at the stars and remember that His promises are bigger and more certain than Abraham’s fears.

This episode explores how God’s people wait—not by demanding clarity about the future, but by faithfully doing what God has already made clear. And in Advent, we see how this promise reaches its fulfillment. The blessing God promised to Abraham—the promise that “all the families of the earth shall be blessed”—comes to us in Jesus Christ, the true Offspring of Abraham who brings salvation to the world.

Today’s practical exercise invites listeners to examine their own lives and identify the clear, simple acts of faithfulness God has already placed before them. Because waiting well is not passive—it’s obedient, hopeful, and grounded in the God who keeps His promises.

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On Day 4 of our Advent journey, we step into the story of Noah—a story that holds together judgment and mercy, devastation and hope, waiting and renewal. After the floodwaters recede, Noah finds himself living in the “in-between”—alive and preserved, yet still confined within the ark. It’s a powerful picture of the seasons when God has brought us through something hard, but the next chapter hasn’t unfolded yet. This is where the practice of waiting well becomes essential.

As Noah sends out the raven and the dove, he learns to look for the small signs of God’s restoring work—a single olive leaf that whispers, “Renewal has begun.” When God finally calls him out of the ark, He establishes a covenant of mercy, marked by the rainbow. It’s not a symbol of humanity’s commitment to God, but God’s gracious promise never to abandon creation or let judgment have the final word.

This promise leads us straight to the New Testament. In Luke 3, Jesus steps into the waters of the Jordan, and the Holy Spirit descends on Him like a dove. The Father speaks words of delight and affirmation. The echoes of Noah’s story are unmistakable: water becomes a place of new creation, the dove becomes a sign of peace, and God declares the beginning of something entirely new. Jesus emerges as the true bringer of renewal—greater than Noah, the One who doesn’t just survive judgment but overcomes it for us.

This episode invites listeners to recognize their own “ark moments,” the spaces where they are waiting for clarity, healing, or new beginnings. A practical exercise encourages them to look for their own “olive leaf”—a small but meaningful sign that God is already at work.

Advent reminds us that renewal is not only promised; it’s already dawning. In Jesus—the beloved Son—we meet the One who brings new creation to our world and to our waiting.

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On Day 3 of our Advent journey, we step into one of the most pivotal moments in Scripture—the aftermath of the fall. Humanity has sinned, brokenness has flooded the world, and fear and shame now cling to the human heart. Yet into this moment of darkness, God speaks the very first promise of redemption.

In Genesis 3:14–15, often called the Protoevangelium—the “first gospel”—God declares that an offspring of the woman will one day crush the serpent’s head. It is a stunning word of hope spoken into the ruins of rebellion. And it points unmistakably to Jesus Christ, the One who defeats the powers of sin, temptation, and death through His life, death, and resurrection.

This episode invites listeners to consider what it means to wait well for God’s redeeming work, even when life feels fractured or uncertain. We reflect on how God moves toward sinners with grace, how His promises arrive long before their fulfillment, and how Advent teaches us to trust that redemption is already unfolding—even when we can’t yet see the outcome.

A practical spiritual exercise guides listeners to identify the “serpents” they face—areas of fear, struggle, or temptation—and then to anchor those places in God’s promises. Waiting well means naming the darkness honestly while clinging even more tightly to the hope God has spoken over us.

In Jesus, the promised serpent-crusher, we discover that redemption is not only coming—it has already begun. Advent invites us to rest in that hope as we wait for the full restoration God has promised.

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In today’s Advent episode, we explore what it means to wait well when life feels dark, unformed, or uncertain. Long before the first Christmas, Scripture opens with a scene of deep darkness—yet God is present, hovering over the waters, preparing creation for light. John’s Gospel echoes this beginning and reveals the stunning truth: the Word who brought light into the world is Jesus, the Light that darkness cannot overcome.

This episode invites listeners to reflect on God’s quiet, unseen work in their own seasons of waiting. We look at how the Spirit’s gentle “hovering” in Genesis mirrors the way God moves toward us today, shaping new creation long before we can see it. And we discover how silence becomes a spiritual discipline that helps us trust God’s timing and listen for the voice of the Word.

Practical guidance includes a simple three-minute exercise in stillness—an opportunity to sit before God, breathe, listen, and allow Christ’s light to speak into places of fear, confusion, or longing.

Advent reminds us that God often begins His greatest work in the dark. Before creation, before Bethlehem, before light breaks through—God is already present. And in Jesus, the Light of the world, we find the One who continues to shine in every darkness we face.

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During this season of Advent, we will be looking to learn how to wait well. To do so, we will consider texts through the Old and New Testaments that all give some type of picture or foreshadowing of Jesus.

As we do so, we will be considering how to live patiently. Join us as we wait this Advent for our celebration of the Christmas season!

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On this Psalm Friday, we explore Psalm 37. David doesn't pull punches on what it means to wait effectively while God is in the business of bringing about justice. 

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Today, we are looking at the prophecy of Amos once again to consider how Jesus is echoing the word of the Lord given through the prophets of Israel's history.

While previously we considered how the judgment oracles of Amos were indicative of the judgment that Jesus is pronouncing on the nations in Matthew 25, we are now exploring how the promised restoration of Amos 9 is pointing us towards the final restoration of God's people mentioned in Matthew. 

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Today on Rediscovering Faith, we continue thinking through the Old Testament roots of Jesus's teaching of the Sheep and the Goats. The prophet Amos provides a number of judgment oracles against the nations that surrounded Israel and Judah and many of them focus on those nations treatment of God's people. 

However, Amos also delivers an oracle of judgment against the people of Judah. How are they going to be judged?