Episodes

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, repentance, mercy, forgiveness, family pain, and the wisdom of boundaries. Genesis 33 is not a shallow “hug it out” story. It shows us that God can bring mercy into the place guilt told us would dest...

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, repentance, mercy, forgiveness, family pain, and the wisdom of boundaries. Genesis 33 is not a shallow “hug it out” story. It shows us that God can bring mercy into the place guilt told us would dest...

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 who can change the person before He changes the circumstance. 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 ...

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 through Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 31:55, where Leah feels unseen, Rachel keeps striving, Jacob works under unfair conditions, God calls Jacob forward, and Laban pursues him into conflict. This episode shows how God sees the overlooked, hears the wounded, provides in unf...

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. In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn walks through Genesis 31:22 to 55 and shows how God can restrain what you cannot manage. If you’re facing conflict...

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 this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn walks through Genesis 31:1 to 21 and shows how God leads Jacob out of Laban’s control and back toward covenant promise. ...

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 controlled the blessing of God. If you’ve ever felt trapped by an unfair boss, an unfair system, an unfair family situation, or an unfair season, Genesis 30 has something powerful to say to you. In this ...

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 exhausted from comparison, waiting, envy, or trying to make life happen by force, this episode is for you. Question for your heart: Where are you forcing what God is asking you to trust Him with? Watch ...

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 family, but still unloved. This passage speaks to anyone who’s ever felt overlooked, compared, dismissed, or treated like second place. Leah’s story reminds us that God sees what people miss, hears...

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 deceives Isaac. Esau despises the birthright. Rebekah manipulates the outcome. Laban deceives Jacob. Leah aches to be loved. Rachel wrestles with comparison and longing. This is not ancient family dra...

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 through Genesis 29:15 to 30 and shows how Jacob’s deception comes full circle in Laban’s house. Jacob fooled his father in the dark. Now Jacob is fooled in the dark. But this isn’t just punishment. It’s formation. This passage speaks directly to real life because God doesn’...

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, his conversation with shepherds, Rachel’s appearance with the flock, and one stone rolled away become part of God’s quiet covenant guidance. This passage matters because many of us are waiting for ...

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. That’s often how the Lord works. Not always through thunder. Not always through spectacle. Not always through something that feels “spiritual” in the moment. Sometimes He leads through a road. A conve...

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 deception, fear, favoritism, and appetite never stay private. They always cost more than they promised. This isn’t ancient family drama locked in the past. This is the mirror of real life today. Jaco...

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 scenes in the Bible. Isaac is blind. Rebekah is scheming. Jacob is pretending. Esau is about to be displaced. And somehow, God’s covenant purpose still moves forward through a house full of favoritism, ...

ARE YOU LIVING BY COVENANT OR IMPULSE? What if your problem isn’t that you don’t believe God, but that fear still gets your mouth, appetite still gets your choices, opposition still gets your emotions, and compromise still gets your excuses? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 25:1 to Genesis 26:35 and ties the entire week together with one direct question: are you living by covenant, or are...

Are biblical miracles ancient fairytales, or has the modern world been trained to sneer before it studies? In this special Saturday Morning LIVE event, Dr. Shawn M. Greener confronts primitive bias, modern skepticism, Ancient Near Eastern context, divine sovereignty, historical testimony, and the resurrection of Yeshua. This episode shows why biblical miracles are not random magic tricks, but purposeful signs of the Creator King acting in history. This is also an invitation to join Through the ...

DAY 24: small choice. BIG PAIN! What are you calling small that God is calling serious? Genesis 26:34 to 35 shows Esau making a decision that looks personal, quiet, and ordinary, but it brings bitterness into the home of Isaac and Rebekah. In Day 24 of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener explains why small compromises create generational pain, why covenant alignment matters, and why spiritual drift often feels harmless before it becomes destructiv...

What if opposition isn’t proof God left you, but proof the blessing became visible? In Day 23 of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener teaches Genesis 26:12 to 25, where Isaac obeys God, sows in famine, receives a hundredfold harvest, and immediately faces envy, hostility, and blocked wells. This episode connects the Ancient Near Eastern world of wells, water, survival, inheritance, and covenant future to real people today who are trying to stay faithful un...

Why do we repeat what broke us? Genesis 26 shows Isaac, the son of promise, repeating Abraham’s fear driven failure. He carries covenant blessing, but under pressure, fear still gets into his mouth. In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 26:1 to 11 and shows how famine, fear, family patterns, and compromise still speak directly to real people today. This isn’t just ancient history. It’s the story of what happens whe...

Why would God choose Jacob when Esau looked like the obvious heir? Genesis 25 isn’t just ancient family drama. It’s a mirror. It exposes how easily we trade tomorrow for whatever we’re hungry for today. In Day 21 of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener walks through Genesis 25:19 to 34, where Rebekah’s barrenness, Isaac’s prayer, the twins struggling in the womb, and Esau’s birthright all collide in one unforgettable question: Are you living by covenant,...

Why doesn’t the Bible rush past Abraham’s ending? Genesis 25:1 to 18 slows down to show something most people miss. God chooses Isaac for the covenant line, yet still blesses Ishmael. That tension reveals the true character of God. In this episode, Dr. Shawn M. Greener unpacks the closing of Abraham’s life through Ancient Near Eastern context, covenant inheritance, and generational identity. This is about more than history. It is about how God works in your life right now. You will learn: • ...

Is your faith evidence or just words? In this Sunday Summary and Deepening episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener brings Genesis 21 through 24 together in one powerful message on visible covenant faithfulness. This episode asks a direct question: if your life were put on trial, would there be enough evidence to convict you as someone who truly belongs to God? From Hagar in the wilderness, to Abraham on Moriah, to Sarah’s burial cave, to the serv...

DAY 19: WHY DOES ISAAC’S FUTURE DEPEND ON THIS MISSION? Why would Genesis spend one of its longest chapters on finding Isaac a wife? Because this is not romance first. It is covenant stewardship. It is a battle over the future of the promise. In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn M. Greener takes you through Genesis 24 and shows why this mission mattered so deeply for Abraham, Isaac, and the covenant line. This matters because many people still ma...