How do you grow as a disciple, or follower, of Jesus? What does it look like? Is there a secret to growing in our faith? I suspect I’m not alone in having asked questions like these, even if we have some knowledge of their answers. After all, many of us understand discipleship on some level as a process. It’s...

Does God ever lie? That’s the question we’re addressing on this episode of The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: How the Bible describes as being totally and completely truthfulWhy the Bible recording falsehoods isn’t the same as it being falseThe difference between omitting information and deceptionHow this doctrine relates to the gospel and how we live...

It’s a safe bet that none of us have ever met a person who has never told a lie. After all, we’re people; it happens, even if we excuse it as a “white lie”. But does God ever lie, and if not, how do we know He is always telling the truth? Let’s take a look at what the...

So often those who knew Jesus missed the fact that He was the Messiah because He did not come to earth in the way that they had envisioned. While they expected Him to throw off the yoke of their Greco-Roman society, He was crucified under its reign. By turning the Jews’ expectations of the Messiah on their head, Jesus...

One of the more important questions we can help our kids answer is this one: What does a follower of Jesus—one of His disciples—look like? This question should naturally flow from our sharing of the gospel. We start with who God is and what He has done for us in Christ, but we cannot stop there. We need to...

What does Jesus say it means to be a disciple? That’s the question we’re discussing on The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: The core ideas at the root of the entire message of Matt. 5-7The importance of the Sermon on the Mount beginning with the BeatitudesIf Jesus was contradicting the Old Testament in the back...