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Episode 2: God’s Promise to Abraham

What happens when God makes a promise… and then asks you to wait?

In this episode of God’s Promises, we turn to the story of Abraham and the promise of Isaac — a promise that took decades to fulfill.  God spoke clearly, repeated His word, and never changed His mind — even when time passed, faith wavered, and human impatience complicated the process.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why God’s promises are not canceled by time or delay
• How Abraham and Sarah rushed the promise instead of waiting
• Why God allowed the fulfillment to become humanly impossible
• What it means to trust God’s word when nothing seems to be changing

If you’re waiting on something God has spoken… this episode is for you.

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What happens after the storm has passed?

In this first episode of our new series, God’s Promises, we begin where Scripture begins again — not with excitement or certainty, but with mercy.  After the floodwaters recede, Noah steps into a quiet, broken world. And it’s there — after judgment, after loss, after survival — that God makes one of His most foundational promises.

The rainbow covenant is not a promise that storms will never come again. It’s a promise of restraint. A declaration that God will not abandon His creation, even knowing humanity is still broken. It’s a promise God makes not because people improved — but because He chose mercy.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why God’s promises often come after the storm, not before it
• What the rainbow really represents in Scripture
• How God binds Himself to faithfulness, even when the world isn’t fixed
• Why this promise still matters as we step into a new season

We’ll also leave you with practical challenges for the week — simple ways to recognize God’s mercy, practice restraint, and trust Him in the quiet spaces between what was and what’s next.

If you’re standing on the other side of something hard.  If you’re grateful to have made it through, but unsure what comes next…This promise is for you.

Take your shoes off.  You’re standing on holy ground.

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We’ve walked through miracles of healing, restoration, provision, and resurrection but every miracle we’ve studied traces back to one holy moment: the birth of Jesus.

In this final episode of Shoes Off, Ray and Isaac look at the manger to reflect on the miracle behind all miracles.  This is not a work Jesus performed, it is a miracle God performed for the world.  The infinite stepped into the finite.  Eternity entered time.  The Word became flesh.

Jesus wasn’t just away in a manger — He was THE way in the manger.

"The Way In A Manager" is an original song written by Ray Slavens.

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This week on Shoes Off, we step into one of the most known miracles in Scripture — the healing of the woman with the issue of blood.  For twelve long years, she suffered physically, financially, socially, and spiritually.  She tried everything, spent everything, and instead of getting better… she grew worse.

But desperation led her to Jesus and faith pushed her through the crowd.

In this episode, Ray and Isaac (with guest Rylan) unpack the incredible moment when she reached out from behind Jesus, touched the hem of His garment, and was instantly healed. 

This miracle reminds us that Jesus meets us in our desperation, honors even trembling faith, removes shame, restores identity, and calls us His own.

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This week on Shoes Off, we step into the miracle where Jesus stops a funeral procession and raises a widow’s only son from the dead.

Two crowds meet at the city gate of Nain: one carrying death… and One carrying life.  And when Jesus sees the grieving mother, everything changes.

In this episode, we explore:

• The significance of Jesus seeing the widow before she ever spoke
• How compassion, not request, initiated resurrection
• Why touching the funeral bier reveals His authority over death
• The beauty of the phrase: “He gave him back to his mother”
• How this miracle foreshadows the resurrection of Christ

What looked like the end… became the beginning of a miracle.

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Faith didn’t wait for an open door — it made one.

In this week’s episode of Shoes Off, we step into a crowded house in Capernaum where four determined friends tear through a roof just to get their paralyzed friend to Jesus. What unfolds is one of the most vivid demonstrations of bold faith, deep community, divine authority, and life-changing transformation in the Gospels.

Jesus doesn’t start with what the man wants.  He starts with what the man needs. Before healing the body, He heals the heart. Before restoring strength, He restores identity. And when the man finally stands, Jesus tells him to take up his bed  and walk home carrying a testimony the whole town could see.

Because when Jesus moves, you never leave the same way you came in!

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In one of Jesus’ most familiar miracles, a small boy’s simple lunch of just five loaves and two fish becomes a supernatural abundance.  More than 5,000 people are fed, and twelve baskets overflow with leftovers.  But underneath the miracle is a powerful truth for every believer:  Jesus doesn’t ask for what we don’t have — only what we do have.  And when we surrender our “not-enough” into His hands, He transforms it into more than enough.

In this episode of Shoes Off, Ray, Isaac, and our special guest Chris Murray explore the deeper meaning behind this miracle, not just as a moment of provision, but as a lesson in surrender, obedience, and trust.  Chris brings practical insight, real-life perspective, and thoughtful encouragement as we unpack what it means to offer God the small things in our lives and watch Him multiply them.

If Jesus could use five loaves and two fish… how much more can He do with what you already have?

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In one of Jesus’ often forgotten miracles, a simple question about the temple tax becomes a profound lesson in humility and obedience.  When confronted about paying a tax He did not owe, Jesus chooses peace over pride.  Not because He must, but because He loves.

Then He sends Peter to catch a fish with a coin in its mouth.  It's a picture that provision that follows obedience.

In this episode of Shoes Off, we explore:

• Why Jesus paid a tax He didn’t owe
• How humility can speak louder than being right
• What this miracle reveals about obedience before provision
• How God’s care is precise, personal, and perfectly timed

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In Luke 14:1–6, Jesus is invited to dine at the home of a powerful Pharisee on the Sabbath but it’s not a friendly invitation.  It’s a setup.  A man suffering from dropsy is placed before Him, and all eyes are watching.

When Jesus asks, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”, the room falls silent.
He’s not questioning the Law.  He’s confronting how man’s tradition has buried God’s truth.

In this episode of Shoes Off, we explore how Jesus turned a moment of scrutiny into a moment of mercy.  Through His actions, He reminds us that the Sabbath was never about restriction, it was about restoration.

“The Sabbath isn’t about control. It’s about compassion. When mercy moves, God’s truth is revealed.”

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As Jesus traveled along the border between Galilee and Samaria, ten lepers cried out for mercy, and He healed them all.  But only one turned back.

In this episode of Shoes Off, Ray and Isaac step into Luke 17:11–19 and discover that this miracle isn’t just about healing.  Why did only one return to give thanks?  

Join us as we explore:

• The Jewish law requiring priests to declare lepers clean (Leviticus 13–14)
• The faith it took to walk in obedience before seeing the miracle
• The power of gratitude that turns healing into worship
• And the surprising truth that sometimes, the outsider sees grace most clearly

This story challenges us to live like the one who came back...to notice, to return, and to give thanks.

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