Episodes

Can You Trust God for Just One Day? Six weeks after leaving Egypt, the food runs out. God answers with something that shows up fresh every single morning and can't be stockpiled, no matter how badly you want next month's provision today. 00:00 Can you trust Him for just one day 00:50 Welcome 01:50 Bread on the ground 06:22 Why the provision was daily 09:04 The hoarding instinct 11:29 The bread that came down from heaven 14:41 What to do this week 15:25 The choice in front of you 16:15 Prayer ...

The most dangerous person in America isn't the one who hates you. It's the one who's certain he's good. He didn't think he was a murderer. He thought he was the hero. So how does an ordinary person, someone with a job and a family and opinions, arrive at the conclusion that killing is acceptable? There's a machine that builds that conviction, and it runs on something you use every single day. I follow it wherever it goes. Into a Provo courtroom. Into a widow's inbox. Into research nobod...

Why Did the Miracle Wear Off So Fast? Three days after the Red Sea, the same people who sang with tambourines are standing at a well they can't drink from, already grumbling. God's answer wasn't a lecture. It was a tree, thrown into the bitter water. 00:00 Three days from the sea to the well 00:58 Welcome 01:56 Bitter water at Marah 05:46 Why God met complaint with grace 08:54 The whiplash between praise and panic 11:59 The tree that sweetens the bitter 14:44 What to do this week 15:32 The ch...

What Do You Do the Morning After a Miracle? By sunrise, most of us have already moved on to the next problem. Israel's first act on the far shore of the Red Sea wasn't planning. It was singing, specifically, immediately, out loud. My book, True Word, Faith for LIFE!, is available now: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/store/true-word-faith-for-life-the-book/ Just prayed that prayer? Let us know, we want to walk with you from here: https://www.truewordfaithforlife.com/contact/https://www.tr...

From the Doorpost to the Deep Five days. Three chapters. One continuous rescue that moved a people from blood on a doorframe to water standing like walls on either side of them, whether anyone watching could see it moving or not. Tonight, we step back far enough to see the whole shape of the week at once. 00:00 Doorpost to the deep, an entire week in one night 01:59 Welcome 06:35 Five chapters, one deliverance 15:22 What holds the whole week together 21:57 Which day was actually about you 28:...

What Do You Do When There's No Way Out? (Fair Warning: this is a very controversial episode. If you are easily triggered.... you have been warned.) The sea in front of you. Everything that's been chasing you closing in behind. No path forward, no way back that isn't worse. Israel stood in exactly that spot, and Moses gave them the strangest instruction anyone's ever received in a genuine crisis. My book, True Word, Faith for LIFE!, is available now: https://www.truewor...

Why Didn’t God Take the Short Way? | Day 68 You wanted the short way. God took you the long way instead. Day 68 of our chronological walk through Scripture lands in Exodus 13, where God deliberately avoids the fastest road out of Egypt to protect a people not yet ready for what that road would cost them. If you’ve ever resented how long your own road has taken, this one’s for you. Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open 1:22 Welcome 2:21 The Text — Exodus 13 5:19 The Theology 8:50 Deepening 11:38 Yeshua in ...

DAY 67 — EXODUS 12:29-51 — "430 Years, Then One Night" Did He Forget? Still Praying After All These Years? What if the thing you stopped expecting was never actually late? Israel waited four hundred and thirty years for one night. Not "a long time." Four hundred thirty years, to the exact day. In today's episode we walk through the night of the exodus itself: the last plague, Pharaoh's midnight surrender, the haste that left bread unleavened, and the plain number Scripture refuses to round of...

What If They Asked You Why You Believe? Somebody you love is eventually going to ask you why any of this actually matters to you. Do you have a real answer ready, or are you hoping you'll figure it out in the moment? Chapters: 00:00 The question you've never rehearsed 01:16 Welcome 02:12 The Scripture 04:26 What this passage really means 07:16 The question you're not ready for 09:46+ How this points to Jesus 12:33+ What to actually do this week 13:40+ The choice in front of you 14:44+ Prayer ...

How Do You Know You're Safe? You did everything right. You prayed. You obeyed. You made the change. So why does a quiet voice keep asking if it's enough? The night everything changed for Israel didn't depend on how anyone felt in the dark. It depended on what was actually on the door. In today's episode: 0:00 – What If It's Not Enough? 1:07 – Welcome 2:12 – The Night That Changed Everything (Exodus 12:1-13) 4:27 – Three Details Most People Miss 7:34 – Why Assurance Was...

You've prayed the prayer that meant it. Then Tuesday came, and you did it again. Nine plagues. Nine warnings. One heart, hardening one refusal at a time, chance after chance to bend instead of break. This week we watched Pharaoh live out every stage of a hardened heart, in order, chapter by chapter. Tonight we step back and see what all five days built together, and why it's not just his story. The storm was never separate from the sermon. The storm was the sermon. 📖 Get the book: https://www...

Mercy With a Clock On It There's a difference between a deadline you find out about after it's passed, and one somebody hands you in advance, on purpose, because they want you ready. God could've just sent the final plague on Egypt with no warning at all. He already knew Pharaoh wasn't going to yield. He announced it anyway. Out loud. In advance. Midnight, He said. This is exactly what's coming, and exactly when. That announcement wasn't a threat. It was mercy with a clock on it. You've got o...

How Close Can You Get to the Dark and Still Walk Away? | Day 63 Pharaoh's own officials saw it before he did. They told him to his face: Egypt is already destroyed. He still wouldn't move. Three days later, darkness fell so thick the text says you could feel it. Nobody could see their own hand. Here's what nobody tells you about that kind of darkness: it doesn't fall out of nowhere. It's built one declined warning at a time, until the refusing starts to feel like inability, and you genuinely ...

Who Are You the Morning After the Storm? | Exodus 9 | Day 62 Pharaoh meant it. Hail still falling, thunder still shaking the sky, he looked Moses in the eye and said: I have sinned. The LORD is righteous. I'll let you go. He meant every word. In that moment. The sky cleared. And the man who meant it was gone by morning, replaced by the same man who'd refused nine plagues running. This happens three times in one chapter. Three storms. Three confessions. Three mornings after where nothing actua...

Pharaoh had the frogs in his own bed. Moses gave him the easiest opening in the whole book: name the hour, and God will end it. Pharaoh said: tomorrow. Not now, with relief sitting right in front of him. Tomorrow. One more night with the very thing he wanted gone, rather than bow today. Three plagues. Three open doors. Three times the same word out of his mouth. What are you telling God tomorrow to, right now? CHAPTERS: 0:00 Cold Open: Tomorrow 1:45 Welcome 3:15 The Text: Frogs, Gnats, Flies ...

What Won't Let You Go? Something in your life won't move. You've prayed. You've obeyed. You've gone back again, and it's still there. Exodus 7 has an answer, and it isn't gentle. When God moves against what's held His people captive, He doesn't send a suggestion. He picks a fight. And He picks fights He intends to win. We're back today after a short break, picking up right where we left off in our chronological, verse-by-verse journey through Scripture. 📖 Get the book: True Word, Faith for LI...

You obeyed God. The door stayed closed anyway. The system pushed back harder. And the people you went to help started blaming you for their pain. Somewhere in that silence, a question forms: did God know what He was asking you to walk into? Exodus 2 through 6 answers that question. Not with easy comfort. With covenant. This week we watched a fugitive shepherd meet the I AM at a burning bush on an ordinary workday. We watched him go back to the place he ran from. We watched him obey completely...

When God Doesn't Answer Your Why | Exodus 6 | Day 59 You obeyed. Things got worse. Now what? Moses did exactly what God told him; and the Israelites ended up making bricks without straw. So he went back to God with a raw, honest question: Why did You send me? And God didn't answer the why. He answered something deeper. Seven times He said: I will. Not I might. Not I'll try. I will. Exodus 6 is one of the most concentrated declarations of covenant identity in all of Scripture; and ...

You obeyed. You said yes. You did what God told you to do. And things got worse. That's not a sign you got it wrong. That's Exodus 5 - and it may be the most important chapter in the Torah for anyone living inside an active calling right now. Moses walked into Pharaoh's court with God's word in his mouth. Pharaoh escalated. The people suffered more. And the very people Moses came to rescue turned on him. So Moses did something most of us don't do - he took the raw, unpolished pain directly to...

The Bush is burning where YOU are! WHAT IF GOD MEETS YOU IN THE ORDINARY? | Exodus 3 | Day 56 Moses wasn't praying. He wasn't fasting. He was just doing his job. And God showed up in a bush. Exodus 3 is one of the most important chapters in all of Scripture. Today we're in the text where God calls a stuttering fugitive shepherd by name, refuses to answer his question about qualifications, and says instead: I AM is with you. That's all you need. If you're in a wilderness season that doesn't fe...

WHAT IF GOD SEES YOU EVEN WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE HIM? | Exodus 2 | Day 55 You've done everything you can do. And now the basket is in the water. Exodus 2 doesn't open with a burning bush or a rescue plan from heaven. It opens with a mother who couldn't keep her son safe, so she made a basket, put him in the river, and let go. And God used the empire's own house to raise the man who would bring it down. Today we're in the text where God hears, remembers, sees, and knows, four verbs that change eve...

WHO GETS TO NAME YOU? | Genesis 47 through Exodus 1 | Sunday Summation Days 50 through 54 Your job has been naming you. Your diagnosis has been naming you. Your fear has been naming you. And the Egypt you're living in has been getting louder for a long time. This week Genesis ended and Exodus began. Five days. Five chapters. One question underneath all of it that won't let go. Does God still know who I am? Is the covenant still standing? Or did Egypt finally get me? Today we find out wh...

You Can Be Inside God's Promise and Still Suffer | Exodus 1 | Day 54 You're doing everything right. You're trusting God. You're living in the promise. And it's still hard. The bricks are still heavy. The pressure keeps increasing. Exodus 1 doesn't flinch. God's people were multiplying in covenant and being crushed under forced labor at the same time. Both were true. And God had not forgotten a single name. In this episode of True Word, Faith for LIFE!, Dr. Shawn opens the book of Exodus with ...

ARE YOU STILL TRYING TO PAY FOR WHAT'S FORGIVEN? | Genesis 50 | Day 53 You've heard the gospel. You've said the prayer. You know what the cross means. So, why are you still living like the hammer is coming? Genesis 50 closes the book of Genesis with grief, burial, fear, forgiveness, and one of the most powerful declarations in all of Scripture. Joseph has already forgiven his brothers. He fed them, housed them, wept over them. And the moment their father dies, they fall on their faces and off...