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Stephen Davey will help you learn to know what the Bible says, understand what it means, and apply it to your life as he teaches verse-by-verse through books of the Bible. Stephen is the president of Wisdom International, which provides radio broadcasts, digital content, and print resources designed to make disciples of all nations and edify followers of Jesus Christ.
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Share a comment What if prayer isn’t about prying blessings from a reluctant heaven, but receiving the Giver himself? We follow Oswald Chambers from a teenage surrender on a country path to a wartime awakening in Cairo, then turn to Luke 11 to rethink how Jesus taught us to approach the Father. Along the way, we meet Biddy—his brilliant stenographer wife—whose shorthand preserved sermons that would outlive them both and disciple millions. We open with the unsettling simplicity of Jesus’ prom...
Share a comment Fires, riots, and a mother praying under an apron—this is the untidy ground where a spiritual movement took root. We step into the world of Susanna Wesley, a pastor’s daughter who faced poverty, public hostility, and staggering loss, yet stitched her home together with steady practices and an unshakable trust in God. England sat in a moral fog, pulpits droned without conviction, and even executions sold like theater. In that setting, Susanna’s daily choices created a quiet cou...
Share a comment A street sermon in Akron. An attic prayer. And a life that wouldn’t make peace with a low view of God. We follow A.W. Tozer’s journey from a teenage conversion to a ministry that challenged the church to recover holiness, embrace lordship, and set our minds on things above. Drawing a line from Peter’s invitation at Pentecost to Colossians 3, we explore why a towering vision of Christ changes everything—from the way we worship to how we preach and live. I share Tozer’s fierces...
Share a comment The story starts with a stubborn five-year-old asking God for blue eyes and ends with a sanctuary where hundreds of children found a new birthday. Between those moments lives a fierce kind of obedience that refused to bow to fashion, caste, or fear. We trace Amy Carmichael’s arc from an Irish home marked by loss to a calling forged by Scripture—especially Paul’s warning that our work will face the fire—and a conviction that “go ye” is a command with a name on it. You’ll hear ...
Share a comment A God who cries at a graveside and prays through sweat and sorrow isn’t distant from our pain—and that truth frames one of the most breathtaking true stories of mission and redemption. We start where many believers secretly live: wondering whether tears are wasted and whether apparent failure means God has gone silent. From the compassion of Jesus at Lazarus’s tomb to the anguish of Gethsemane, we ground the journey in a Savior who validates grief and transforms it into hope. ...
Share a comment Stephen's latest book, Legacies of Light, Volume 2, is our gift for your special donation to our ministry. Follow this link for information or to donate: https://www.wisdomonline.org/mp/legacies Support the show Stephen's latest book, The Disciples Prayer, is available now. https://www.wisdomonline.org/store/view/the-disciples-prayer-hardback
Share a comment Stephen's latest book, Legacies of Light, Volume 2, is our gift for your special donation to our ministry. Follow this link for information or to donate: https://www.wisdomonline.org/mp/legacies Support the show Stephen's latest book, The Disciples Prayer, is available now. https://www.wisdomonline.org/store/view/the-disciples-prayer-hardback
Share a comment Stephen's latest book, Legacies of Light, Volume 2, is our gift for your special donation to our ministry. Follow this link for information or to donate: https://www.wisdomonline.org/mp/legacies Support the show Stephen's latest book, The Disciples Prayer, is available now. https://www.wisdomonline.org/store/view/the-disciples-prayer-hardback
Share a comment Stephen's latest book, Legacies of Light, Volume 2, is our gift for your special donation to our ministry. Follow this link for information or to donate: https://www.wisdomonline.org/mp/legacies Support the show Stephen's latest book, The Disciples Prayer, is available now. https://www.wisdomonline.org/store/view/the-disciples-prayer-hardback
Share a comment Stephen's latest book, Legacies of Light, Volume 2, is our gift for your special donation to our ministry. Follow this link for information or to donate: https://www.wisdomonline.org/mp/legacies Support the show Stephen's latest book, The Disciples Prayer, is available now. https://www.wisdomonline.org/store/view/the-disciples-prayer-hardback
Share a comment What happens after the shepherds go home? We pick up the story in Luke 2 and walk with Mary and Joseph into the temple, where obedience, irony, and revelation collide. Our aim is simple: show how the child who fulfilled Moses’ law also fulfilled the deepest hopes of Israel and the nations, and why that still changes the way we live and the way we face death. We start with the law. Jesus is born under it, and his parents present him through two ancient ceremonies—redemption of...
Share a comment Headlines shouted about emperors, decrees, and peace from the point of a sword. We turn the camera 1,500 miles away to a dusty road, a tired couple, and a manger that upends everything we assume about power, timing, and hope. By walking through Luke 2, we explore how a taxing order from Caesar becomes the unlikely path that lands Mary and Joseph exactly where an ancient promise said the Messiah would arrive—Bethlehem. What looks like political control is actually providence in...
Share a comment A bleak world. A silent heaven. Then—astonishingly—music. We open on Israel’s long night, four centuries without a prophet, and watch the first rays of dawn spill into ordinary lives: a teenage girl in Nazareth who sings scripture by heart, an old priest who writes “His name is John” and finds his voice, and a village stunned into awe. This is not a story about spectacle at the center of power; it’s about grace arriving where no one’s looking and turning quiet rooms into choru...
Share a comment A messenger bypasses palaces and arrives in a forgotten town. That’s where the story turns. We walk through Luke 1 with fresh eyes, meeting Mary not as a stained-glass icon but as a poor teenager who receives a staggering promise and answers with a brave, uncluttered yes. Gabriel’s greeting reframes the moment: grace received, not merit earned. From there, eight prophecies cascade—conception, birth, the name above names, divine Sonship, David’s throne, Israel’s restoration, an...
Share a comment Start with the claim many never hear in church: Christianity does not ask you to turn off your brain. We walk through Luke’s opening lines to show how a Gentile physician set out to build certainty, not wishful thinking—an orderly account anchored in eyewitness testimony, historical markers, and the patient rigor of a doctor who performs an “autopsy” on the facts of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. From there, we drop into the harsh days of Herod the Great, where politi...
Share a comment What if the name you carry changes everything about how you face fear, loss, and ordinary days? We explore the surprising claim that Christians don’t steal an identity; they receive one—an identity gift in Jesus that opens access to grace, strength, and a future that outlasts every headline. Drawing from 1 Peter, we walk through why scattered, marginalized believers are called profoundly privileged and how that perspective reshapes daily life. First, we look back to the proph...
Share a comment A smear campaign can travel faster than truth, and the first Christians felt it—accused of treason, atheism, immorality, even cannibalism. We open that history not to chase outrage, but to ask a harder question: what profile should the world see when it looks at followers of Jesus today? Rather than staging a public-relations blitz, Peter writes to scattered believers with a steadier strategy—endure with joy, live with integrity, and let the gospel rewrite minds one person at ...
Share a comment When the day feels like a blizzard—cold, bitter, and disorienting—gratitude can sound unrealistic. We open 1 Peter 1:3–5 and discover why praise becomes our most honest response: mercy meets us, the risen Jesus anchors us, and an unfading inheritance steadies us for the long road. This isn’t about positive thinking or spiritual spin. It’s about certain hope tied to a living Lord. We walk through Peter’s doxology and unpack four pillars that carry weary people. First, God’s gr...
Share a comment Start with the headlines if you want, but the deeper story is bigger than outrage. We explore how scattered believers can live with courage and clarity by seeing salvation through the lens of the Trinity: the Father who foreloves and places us, the Spirit who sanctifies and empowers us in the present, and the Son who commands our obedience while cleansing our failures. Instead of treating exile as an accident, we reframe it as assignment. We walk through 1 Peter’s opening lin...
Share a comment The ground under our feet is shifting, and pretending otherwise only makes us dizzy. From Russia’s anti‑missionary law to rising pressure in workplaces and schools, we’re watching the culture say out loud what it actually believes—and that clarity, while costly, can be a gift. We step into that reality with 1 Peter, written to people called aliens and scattered, people who lacked legal standing, social welcome, and safety, yet carried a living hope that made idols look small. ...
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