Episodes

What If God Was Working in the Dark? Genesis 37 through Genesis 41 What if the part of your life that makes no sense is not the place where God disappeared? The betrayal. The exposure. The temptation. The false accusation. The prison. The delay. Joseph couldn’t interpret the darkness while he was i…

What if? Genesis 41 What if the delay wasn’t wasted? Joseph spent years hidden, betrayed, falsely accused, imprisoned, and forgotten. Then everything changed in ONE day. But the wisdom didn’t begin in Pharaoh’s palace. It was formed in the pit, the house, the temptation, the accusation, the prison,…

Day 43 What If You’re Forgotten? Genesis 40 What do you do when you helped someone else move forward, but they left you behind? You served. You showed up. You told the truth. You did the right thing. And still, your name wasn’t spoken. Genesis 40 takes us into Joseph’s prison, where he is still wai…

Can You Stay Faithful Alone? Genesis 39 Who are you when nobody is watching? Not the church version of you. Not the public version. Not the polished version. The real you. Genesis 39 goes straight into the hidden room: the place where loneliness, pressure, desire, and “nobody will know” all start t…

Day 41. What If Your Sin Finds You? Genesis 38 What if the part of your life you tried to keep hidden finally stepped into the light? Genesis 38 is uncomfortable for a reason. Judah, Tamar, hidden sin, public exposure, and covenant mercy all collide in one of the most overlooked chapters in Genesis…

Day 40 When Your Own Family Wounds You Genesis 37 What do you do when the deepest wound came from people who should have loved you? Genesis 37 is not just Joseph and a colorful coat. It is betrayal, jealousy, family fracture, and the painful beginning of a story God was still writing. Question for …

You obeyed. You prayed. You kept walking. So why does it still hurt? Genesis 32 through 36 shows Jacob facing fear, family wounds, grief, comparison, buried idols, and the strange mercy of walking away from God’s touch with a limp. This Sunday Deepening is for anyone who thought healing would mean …

Genesis 36 looks like a genealogy, but underneath the names is a wound most people know well. Esau’s family looks settled. Chiefs. Clans. Kings. Land. Power. Visible success. Jacob’s family still looks messy, wounded, delayed, and unfinished. But visible success is not the same as covenant destiny.…

What are you still carrying that God told you to bury? In Genesis 35, God calls Jacob back to Bethel after fear, family failure, violence, grief, and spiritual compromise. But before the household moves forward, the idols have to be buried. This episode speaks to anyone who knows something in the s…

What if shame has been telling you the future, but shame is not a prophet? In Genesis 33, Jacob finally faces Esau, the brother he deceived. He cannot run. He cannot undo the past. He cannot control Esau’s heart. He can only walk forward, limping, humbled, and changed. This episode looks at fear, r…

What if shame has been telling you the future, but shame is not a prophet? In Genesis 33, Jacob finally faces Esau, the brother he deceived. He cannot run. He cannot undo the past. He cannot control Esau’s heart. He can only walk forward, limping, humbled, and changed. This episode looks at fear, r…

What if fear doesn’t leave just because you obeyed God? Jacob escaped Laban, but now Esau is coming with four hundred men. The past he ran from is standing in front of him. In Genesis 32, Dr. Shawn walks through Jacob’s fear, his honest prayer, his wrestling at the Jabbok, his new name, and the God…

What if the pressure you want God to remove is actually where He is forming trust, obedience, and shalom? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn walks ...

What if the thing you cannot control has already met the boundary God set? Jacob could not stop Laban. He could not control the pursuit. He could not control the accusation. He could not control the story Laban wanted to tell. But before Laban ever reached him, God had already spoken in the night. …

What if staying feels safer, but God is the One telling you to move? Jacob stayed in Laban’s house for years. Family, wages, pressure, pain. But the season was over, and God said, “Return, and I will be with you.” If familiar pain feels safer than unfamiliar obedience, Genesis 31 is for you. In thi…

DAY 32: CAN GOD BLESS YOU WHEN LIFE IS UNFAIR? What do you do when someone else controls the terms, changes the rules, and still can’t stop what God intends to bless? Jacob worked under Laban’s unfair control. The wages changed. The rules shifted. The manipulation kept coming. But Laban never contr…

Trying harder can look faithful. But sometimes it’s just fear with religious language. Genesis 30 exposes what happens when wounded people try to force what only God can give. Rachel wants a child. Leah wants to be loved. Both are striving. Both are hurting. And God is still working. If you’re exha…

What if the pain you thought nobody noticed is the very place where God is already working? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 29:31 to 35 and the story of Leah, the woman who was present in the house, fruitful in the…

What if the consequence you hate is the mirror you needed? In this Sunday Summation and Deepening of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 27 to Genesis 30 and shows why bad choices do not simply disappear after the moment passes. Jacob de…

What happens when the deceiver gets deceived, and God uses the mirror of consequence to expose what still needs to change? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks t...

DAY 28: Is God Guiding You Right Now? What if God is guiding you right now, but you keep missing it because it looks too ordinary? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 29:1 to 14 and shows how Jacob’s arrival at a well,…

What if God has been guiding you through ordinary steps you almost dismissed? Today’s episode walked us into Genesis 29, where Jacob arrives tired, displaced, uncertain, and carrying the weight of his past. Yet at a well, in what looks like an ordinary moment, God’s providence is already moving. Th…

Why Does Sin Always Cost More? What if sin doesn’t just break rules, but quietly drains your peace, your family, your future, and your ability to hear God clearly? In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 27 and shows how d…

DAY 25: Are You Forcing What God Promised? What if your problem isn’t that God hasn’t spoken, but that fear has convinced you to force what He already promised? What if God’s promise is real, but your fear is still trying to force the outcome? Genesis 27 is one of the most uncomfortable family scen…