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The Bible Provocateur
The Bible Provocateur
1552 episodes
2 days ago
Send us a text Ever been told “just be a good person” and felt the bar shift under your feet? We take aim at fuzzy standards of goodness and trace the question back to its source: if only God is truly good, then reconciliation with Him must start on His terms, not ours. That frame sets up a bracing walk through Job 11, where Zophar offers a correct-sounding remedy with a disastrously wrong diagnosis—and where many of us still stumble when we slap generic answers on specific pain. We talk can...
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Send us a text Ever been told “just be a good person” and felt the bar shift under your feet? We take aim at fuzzy standards of goodness and trace the question back to its source: if only God is truly good, then reconciliation with Him must start on His terms, not ours. That frame sets up a bracing walk through Job 11, where Zophar offers a correct-sounding remedy with a disastrously wrong diagnosis—and where many of us still stumble when we slap generic answers on specific pain. We talk can...
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Christianity
Religion & Spirituality,
Spirituality,
Religion
Episodes (20/1552)
The Bible Provocateur
"WHO CAN HINDER GOD?" (JOB 11:7-14) - PART 1/3
Send us a text What if the real center of Job isn’t human endurance but the absolute sovereignty of God? We open Job 11 and follow Zophar’s soaring words about God’s unsearchable wisdom to a hard truth: theology can be right and still wound if it’s applied without love, timing, and discernment. That tension drives a heartfelt conversation on how to handle Scripture carefully, especially when a friend is already in pieces. We walk through the text—higher than heaven, deeper than hell, broader...
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2 days ago
39 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
"WHO CAN HINDER GOD?" (JOB 11:7-14) - PART 2/3
Send us a text What if hell isn’t escape or annihilation but the terrifying reality of meeting God without a mediator? We dig into the book of Job to challenge fashionable doctrines that flatten eternity and soften judgment, exploring why scripture calls God’s knowledge higher than the heavens and deeper than hell. That only makes sense if hell is no metaphor but a bottomless reality—eternal in duration and weight—mirroring the very terms we gladly accept for heaven. We open the text and add...
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2 days ago
39 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
"WHO CAN HINDER GOD?" (JOB 11:7-14) - PART 3/3
Send us a text Ever been told “just be a good person” and felt the bar shift under your feet? We take aim at fuzzy standards of goodness and trace the question back to its source: if only God is truly good, then reconciliation with Him must start on His terms, not ours. That frame sets up a bracing walk through Job 11, where Zophar offers a correct-sounding remedy with a disastrously wrong diagnosis—and where many of us still stumble when we slap generic answers on specific pain. We talk can...
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2 days ago
39 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 11:1-7) "Then Answered Zophar - Part 3/3
Send us a text What if the harshest words in a crisis come wrapped in true doctrine but delivered with the wrong heart? We walk through Zophar’s blistering speech to Job and ask the harder question: how often do we make the same mistake—assuming, accusing, and calling it discernment? From the first minutes, we pull apart retribution thinking, show where it sneaks into everyday counsel, and offer a better way that pairs conviction with compassion. Together, we explore how Job holds two truths...
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3 days ago
39 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 11:1-7) "Then Answered Zophar - Part 1/3
Send us a text When a friend is crushed by grief, do we show up as comforters—or as prosecutors? We walk through Job 11 and meet Zophar, the most aggressive of Job’s friends, who treats pain as proof and volume as guilt. His opening salvo accuses Job of lying, mocking God, and hiding secret sin. That posture isn’t merely unkind; it’s a theological shortcut that mistakes mystery for verdict and replaces discernment with certainty. We unpack why Zophar’s “defense of God” falls short. Scripture...
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3 days ago
39 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 11:1-7) "Then Answered Zophar - Part 2/3
Send us a text What if being “right” never gives us the right to be ruthless? We dig into the tension between truth and tenderness through the story of Job and his friends, tracing how easy it is to weaponize doctrine, misread suffering, and crush a brother or sister when we should be restoring them. The conversation moves from personal wounds to practical steps, asking how a mature church confronts sin without humiliation and keeps compassion central when emotions are high. We share lived e...
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3 days ago
39 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: Jude 1 "Intro/General Topics Treated" (Part 4/4)
Send us a text What if the rest you’ve been chasing is already yours in Christ? We open Scripture and conscience to challenge the fear that drives spiritual overwork, walking through Colossians 2 and Hebrews 4 to show how Jesus’ victory frees us from ritual scorekeeping. Along the way, we ask uncomfortable but freeing questions: is Sabbath primarily a date to keep or a moral reality to live? What did Sabbath look like before Levitical details and church calendars? And how do we resist legalis...
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4 days ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: Jude 1 "Intro/General Topics Treated" (Part 2/4)
Send us a text A single line can carry a lifetime of theology. When Jude introduces himself as a servant of Jesus Christ, he isn’t name-dropping a family tie; he’s confessing the Messiah’s authority and embracing a posture of worship. We slow down on that greeting to uncover how reverence, not familiarity, becomes the doorway to understanding the gospel’s depth. From there we trace the triune pattern embedded in Jude’s opening: the Father sanctifies and elects, the Son preserves and redeems,...
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4 days ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: Jude 1 "Intro/General Topics Treated" (Part 3/4)
Send us a text What if the decisive cause of salvation isn’t your choice at all? We press into a hard question many churches avoid: does God save because He foresees our faith, or do we believe because He powerfully saves? That starting point shapes everything—how we pray, how we pursue holiness, and how we set apart our week. We begin by testing the popular claim that free will is a special gift that secures salvation. If God merely reacts to our future decision, sovereignty shifts from Him...
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4 days ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: Jude 1 "Intro/General Topics Treated" (Part 1/4)
Send us a text Start small, think big: Jude’s single chapter carries a whole toolkit for modern discipleship. We open a new Sunday night study through this compact New Testament letter and uncover why its warnings and promises land so powerfully right now. Instead of trading on family status, Jude introduces himself as a servant of Jesus, setting a tone of humility that challenges platform culture and recenters identity in obedience, not proximity. From the greeting—“called, beloved, and kept...
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4 days ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: "When Even the Light is Darkness" Job 10:16-22 (Part 2/3)
Send us a text Pain can make faith feel like a thin thread—but that thread holds. We open with the comfort of Isaiah 57:1, a promise that God protects His people even in loss, then move into the raw honesty of Job’s lament: why be born to suffer? That question echoes through hospital corridors and midnight testimonies, where worship still rises and witness still happens. One voice shares a near-death night without insurance, another prays over abuse and confusion, and together we discover tha...
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5 days ago
30 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: "When Even the Light is Darkness" Job 10:16-22 - (Part 3/3)
Send us a text Pain has a way of stripping us to the truth. Walking through Job 10, we explore how lament can be loyal, how a cry for relief differs from a wish for distance, and why the worst fate isn’t suffering but being truly left alone. We sit with Job’s plea for “a little respite,” his image of the grave as a land where even light looks like darkness, and the unsettling clarity that God’s hand upon us in hardship is still a gift of presence. We also take aim at the myth of moral autono...
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5 days ago
30 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: "When Even the Light is Darkness" Job 10:16-22 - (Part 1/3)
Send us a text What if your hardest season is not random chaos but a tightly bounded battle with a guaranteed outcome? We open Job 10:15–18 and sit with language that cuts deep—affliction rising like a lion’s hunt, sorrows stacking like witnesses, and God’s dealings called “marvelous” even when they feel severe. That tension—honest lament with unflinching reverence—becomes our guide for walking through trials without losing our grip on hope. I share how Job’s suffering exposes a larger confl...
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5 days ago
30 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 10:13-15) "If I Be Wicked or Righteous" (Part 2/4)
Send us a text What if the hardest things in your life also come from a good God—and are meant to fortify you? We dive into Job 10 with open Bibles and honest voices, tracing how suffering, justice, and mercy weave through one of Scripture’s rawest prayers. Job refuses the easy answers. He won’t blame fate or the devil. He stands before a perfect Judge who marks every sin and still calls that Judge good. That tension becomes a doorway to deeper trust, not shallow denial. We press into a hard...
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1 week ago
33 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 10:13-15) "If I Be Wicked or Righteous" (Part 3/4)
Send us a text What if the biggest threat to your peace isn’t sin but a small view of the cross? We take on the fear-soaked idea that salvation can be lost and walk, step by step, through the scriptural logic of assurance. If you’re saved today and believe you could lose it tomorrow, what explains your security right now—your effort or Christ’s finished work? That question becomes a doorway into a deeper truth: we’re saved by works, just not ours. Across the hour, we map the meeting point of...
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1 week ago
33 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 10:13-15) "If I Be Wicked or Righteous" (Part 1/4)
Send us a text Start the year with a conversation that doesn’t flinch. We return to Job 10 and sit inside the tension many of us feel: deep hurt, unhelpful opinions, and a stubborn belief that God still holds our lives together. Job says God “granted me life and favor” and that divine “visitation” preserved his spirit. Those phrases become our roadmap for understanding sovereignty, grace, and the mystery of purpose when nothing makes sense. We unpack what it means for life and favor to be gr...
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1 week ago
33 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 10:13-15) "If I Be Wicked or Righteous" (Part 4/4)
Send us a text Plans are good, but people come first. We set aside a neat study outline to meet real questions head-on, and what followed was a candid, life-giving look at how church can feel when love drives the pace. We talk about choosing edification over efficiency, letting sincere seekers shape the flow, and why clarity beats cleverness when souls need light, not smoke. Together we unpack the limits of debate culture and why “winning” means nothing if no one is built up. You’ll hear us ...
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1 week ago
33 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: 2 Pet 3:10-14) - "The Day of the Lord" - (Part 2/3)
Send us a text Fire is coming—and so is renewal. We walk through 2 Peter 3 and make the case that the future God promises is meant to rewire how we live right now: our ethics, our courage, our hope. Not as a niche debate, but as a daily compass. We challenge common end-times assumptions, reject secret rapture narratives, and argue for one public return of Christ, one resurrection, and one judgment that reveals what we truly loved. Along the way, we talk about how fear-based rapture culture ha...
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1 week ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: 2 Pet 3:10-14) - "The Day of the Lord" - (Part 3/3)
Send us a text A single idea sits at the center of this conversation: expectation changes ethics. We open 2 Peter and let its urgency interrogate our routines—if the day of the Lord draws near, then watchfulness is not paranoia, it’s love that refuses to sleep on duty. Together we trace how vigilance, holiness, and hope belong together, not as a chart of dates but as a way of life that reshapes speech, choices, and courage. We grapple honestly with tribulation. From Acts 14:22 to the stories...
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1 week ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: 2 Pet 3:10-14) - "The Day of the Lord" - (Part 1/3)
Send us a text Fireworks fade; some futures do not. As we close a bruising year, we open 2 Peter 3:10–14 and ask a sharper question than “What’s your resolution?”—What kind of person should you be if the world as we know it will be dissolved and replaced by a world where righteousness lives? We walk through Peter’s stark imagery of the Day of the Lord, cut through common misconceptions about a stealthy return, and focus on his real warning: the surprise is in the timing, not the execution. Th...
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1 week ago
37 minutes

The Bible Provocateur
Send us a text Ever been told “just be a good person” and felt the bar shift under your feet? We take aim at fuzzy standards of goodness and trace the question back to its source: if only God is truly good, then reconciliation with Him must start on His terms, not ours. That frame sets up a bracing walk through Job 11, where Zophar offers a correct-sounding remedy with a disastrously wrong diagnosis—and where many of us still stumble when we slap generic answers on specific pain. We talk can...