After the presents have been opened, the food has been enjoyed, the parties are over, and the lights are turned off, what are we to do with Advent? In today's episode, we meet two people whose lives exemplify how we must go forward.

In this fifth episode of our Advent series, we finally arrive at Jesus's arrival! But what exactly does Jesus's arrival mean for this world? Please join me in this discussion about how the birth of Jesus signals a big change for how the world functions. And Merry Christmas!

After Mary receives the angel's message, she gets herself to the hill country. Why? Because God's hope requires participation. In this fourth episode of our Advent series we examine how one family participated in God's hope, and we explore how we may also participate in the hope God is bringing to the world.

In this third episode of our Advent series, we finally focus in and clarify the specific shape and substance of the hope God was ushering into the world. We begin with God's angel appearing to a young woman and revealing to her the special role she would play in the unfolding of God's salvation.

In this second episode of our Advent series, we examine one particular character whose life was heavy with hopelessness, until one day when hope showed up. Perhaps his story amidst this Advent season can help you and your hardened heart to hope again.

While the season of Advent is shaped by a story of hope, it is set in a world deeply familiar with hopelessness. In today's episode, we look back at how that hopelessness took shape in the land of Israel, and set the scene for what God was about to do next. This episode is the first in a special Advent series that will run through December.

Desiring to give Jesus the last word in this "Trusting God" series, today's episode explores an incident where Jesus continues the path of trust Moses started by teaching his disciples how they can move forward with a confident faith that overcomes and transforms.

In this third episode of the "Trusting God" series, Israel leaves the salvation event behind them and moves into the wilderness where multiple moments of testing reveal their capacity for trusting God. Understanding their struggle helps provide insight into our own frequent struggles to trust God. And where there's a trustworthy God, there's a way to trust.

When we look at the entire salvation event from the moment God hears Israel's cries in Egypt to the moment when Israel is delivered through the Red Sea, how do all these events fit into a framework that demonstrates God's trustworthiness?

On today's episode I will discuss seven markers from this event that demonstrates how God is trustworthy.

In order to see why God is trustworthy, first we need to experience that trustworthiness in action. We need an event that demonstrates God's trustworthiness. That event will be the focus of this episode.

*The podcast name was changed after recording.