#becomingabiblenerd by Carrie Hunt

In this episode we will remember the OT testimonies of Cain, Balaam, and Korah and see how today’s false teachers share similar characteristics. We must have spiritual eyes to see and recognize them.

In this episode we finish up the signs of identifying false teachers.

Jude gives us three examples from Israel’s past of God bringing judgement on people for their sins. In these stories we can clearly identify what signs to look for in false teachers.

Jude writes a letter to the early believers warning them to contend for the faith because their were ungodly among them posing as believers. This section sets up the entire letter.

In this episode we will discuss three markers of spiritual maturity. As followers of Christ we MUST mature so that we can go out as the body of Christ and meet needs and minister effectively.

In this episode we primarily discuss our role as Christians in meeting the financial needs in our community! Let’s get involved and make our communities great by serving with our time and our money.

In this episode we discuss many things of the world slip into the church. We all should grab our mirror and explore our hearts listening to what the Holy Spirit is speaking.

In this episode we learn about a very serious sin, the sin that comes from not taming our tongues!

In this episode we will discuss a serious sin that often goes unnoticed. The sin of favoritism or partiality. There is no room in the church for it. James says it is an evil that divides.

Is this episode we will discuss that true faith takes actions. It’s not just listening, but it is putting what we hear to action.

In this episode we will discuss how to have a perspective change in trials to receive joy that builds perseverance. In the midst of trials we can still have a supernatural joy that strengthens us for the event and matures us in our walk. It silences our emotions and causes us to see the riches we have in Him.

We close today by looking at how God uses His disciples in all their unbelief to change the world. We are left with the same commission… As we go about our lives we are to tell about the wonderful good news that there is a King and His Kingdom is like no other.

In this episode we discuss all the events that took place on the day of Jesus’ death and burial.

Join with us as we continue through Chapter 14.

Today’s episode takes place on the Thursday of Passion week. This even Jesus be anointed by a close friend, will have the Last Supper, Pray in the Garden, and be betrayed. Tune in as we talk about each of these events and so much more.

We continue our discussion of end times and what exactly our job is in the waiting.

Jesus warns his disciples to Stay Alert in the days to come. He wants all disciples able to recognize the signs of the time and to be spiritually prepared to endure. We are called to anticipate His return. So instead of being fearful we are to be excited that His return is near.

In this episode we will unpack 3 different traps that the entire establishment tried to set for Jesus. His wisdom and discernment seems to effortlessly stop them in their tracks and makes the crowd even more enamored with Him. We end this episode with what He truly is looking for… the person who gives it all to Him and leaves none for themselves. That person ends up gaining it all.

In this episode Jesus rides in on a colt revealing publicly who He is! He also curses a fig tree out of love and grace exposing Israel’s roots and giving her time to repent. He teaches His disciples not to put faith in their own might, like Herod and the entire religious system does, but they too can move mountains by placing their faith in HIM as provider!

In this episode we will discuss the third time Jesus tells His disciples about what He will suffer and their insane response! Are we just like these disciples when it comes to ego, power, and position! We have to root that out! We will end the discussion by discussing a bling man they encounter on the way up to Jerusalem and see what we can learn from him. He may be physically blind but He sees spiritually exactly who Jesus is!

In this episode we begin to discover that the Lord is compassionate towards the marginalized and how those who have to be dependent on Him enter the kingdom easier than those who are self sufficient.

In this episode we talk about how Jesus is sharing with his closest disciples that soon he will die and be resurrected. In His pain and anguish they don’t get what he is saying and they don’t ask him to explain. While he is walking to Jerusalem like a lamb to the slaughter the boys are arguing who is the GREATEST. Lol. Human nature always wants to be the best! We want to be powerful and great. Jesus spends some time explaining that in His kingdom the one who serves is the greatest. It’s an upside down kingdom.

In this episode we discuss the transfiguration and a healing that the disciples were not able to do.

In this episode we talk about how Jesus was revealing WHO he was but how his disciples were still blind to that. We must realize that we can also be as blind and hard hearted as they were and humbly approach our King asking for sight to see and ears to hear!

In this episode we will discuss the Pharisees blindness. They elevated their own man made laws above God’s law. We do the same thing today! It’s called legalism. We will also discuss two healings in gentile territory. As the Jews grow in rejections the gentiles grow in faith. Jesus is definitely showing us he doesn’t use formula to heal and deliver. Each healing was to teach, challenge, and reveal something about God’s kingdom, faith and salvation to those who had eyes to see.

Today we talk about the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 and the one of Jesus walking on water. Both miracles had to do with Him revealing who He was to his disciples! And they still don’t get it. This one got me thinking. If they are blind and have hard hearts then could we be blind heart hearted followers too? What can we learn to avoid this issue? Tune in to find out.

In this episode we will discuss how unbelief can stop miracles and more in a region. We will also learn who the Herod dynasty was (the puppet kings) and talk about John The Baptist’s unfair death! So much to unpack!

In this favorite chapter of mine we will discuss the demoniac, the woman with the issue of blood, and Jairus’ daughter. Each healing unique, each healing teaching us that God’s compassion moves outside of a formula. He works with the faith that each individual has regardless of their misguided belief systems! We will also explore the world of the Decapolis, of synagogue leaders, and the marginalized.

In this episode we will discuss the parable of the sower, the parable of the mustard seed and what the Kingdom of God is like. Jesus wants us to partner with Him. We do a little and He can do a lot with our obedience!

In this episode we will discuss what the sabbath is, who the Pharisees and Herodians were, a little about true worship to begin a conversation about worshipping in Spirit and Truth.

IN this episode we will discuss how provocative it was for Jesus to forgive a lame man’s sins, what exactly eating with sinners meant (He gets us), and what Biblical fasting is exactly. Have we been doing something else but calling it a fast?

In this episode we begin to see that many suffered with unclean spirits. Jesus does just as many exorcisms as healings. Let’s learn more about it.

In this episode we will discuss a lot of common NT words and dig into the meaning of them. We learn about John the Baptist and his ministry and what making a disciple is.

The most responsible thing we can do before to tackle Mark is to provide a good context. In a world where Caesar is lord and savior of the world and a divine son of god, Mark’s message is an affront to that system.

In this episode we discuss what scripture says about false teachers and prophets and lean in to discover why Jesus, Peter and Paul had so much to say about them!

In conclusion Paul urges the Corinthians to really examine their own lives. Each of us will be responsible for our own walk with the Lord. We too must inspect our lives against God’s Word.

In this episode we will discuss the thorn in Paul’s flesh and why God allowed it. In our weakness He is made strong.

In this episode we compare the super apostles of Paul’s day with modern day charlatans.

In this chapter we will look at the super apostles (aka false teachers) in Corinth and compare it to those today.

Is this episode we will discuss walking in the Spirit verses walking in the flesh.

In this episode we will look at all the benefits from giving generously and what generosity really is.

In this episode we see the efforts Paul makes in being transparent with the Corinthian church about the money that has been collected.

In this episode we will discuss the grace of extravagant giving. The extravagance is in the heart and not the amount you give. We operate in this grace through first spending time with Him, and the overflow of that grace is joy!

In this episode we will look at repentance and the process of speaking the Truth in Love to someone.

In this episode we will really discuss the hardships that come along with saying YES to God and walking in obedience! But we are given the Spirit of God who dwells in us and empowers us to keep running with the assignment.

In this episode we will discuss more about how temporal our life is here verses how glorious eternity is. Paul makes it clear that the path to reconciliation with God is through Jesus! Once we submit to that we become ambassadors to the world to minister reconciliation.

In this episode we will discuss the appointed feast, Rosh Hashanah, and how is it lines up with biblical prophecy.

In this episode we talk about how each of us are called to be ministers of the gospel and to make disciples. This doesn’t mean enforce behavior modification. It means to share Christ is deity and resurrected. Under the New Covenant the Holy Spirit will indwell new believers and then transform them into images of Christ. The route to this is the road of suffering but we will be victorious in that we won’t be destroyed!

In this episode we will discuss the new covenant. Christ came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it and now the glory of God radiates in us to all mankind just like it did for Moses. But with us it’s not a fading glory, but an everlasting one. It is clear from Paul’s letter that the only path to God is through Jesus.

In this episode we will discuss forgiveness, joy, parenting, and how our lives poured out in service to Jesus is a sweet aroma to God.

In this episode we will continue to discuss how character and trust is built during suffering.

In this episode we will discuss how as Christian’s we are called to share in Christ’s sufferings but He promises His comfort and compassion.

In this episode we will discuss the background to the letter that Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica.  Paul encourages them because they have imitated him and the Lord?  Wait, what?  We are supposed to find a person to imitate in this Christian adventure?  Yes this is the system of discipleship!  Join us as we unpack this book.