Episodes

Jan. 21, 2024

Diseased Decision Making Complex (Power2Change 4)

Welcome to Gospel Rant.This is the fourth episode of our new series Power2Change (P2C). Do you really want to grow in Christ? Do you want to feel his love for you? Do you want to hear him say to you …

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Jan. 14, 2024

Free or Not-So-Free Will (Power2Change 3)

Welcome to Gospel Rant.This is the third episode of our new series Power2Change (P2C). I am about proclaiming God’s love for the unlovable, unloved and unlovely. It's a scale 0-10, you may be a 2 or an 8, but we …

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Jan. 13, 2024

Coach Nick Saban and the Book of Hebrews

A special one-off Gospel Rant podcast that compares and contrasts the coaching philosophy of newly retired Alabama football coach Nick Saban with the admonitions to the church by the author of the Book of Hebrews. We will, Go...

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Jan. 7, 2024

The Enemy Is You (Power2Change 2)

Welcome to Gospel Rant and this second episode in the Power 2 Change Series. Who benefits from this show, this series? Do you feel that every time you try to do good, to move forward in your Christian walk it …

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Dec. 31, 2023

You Can't Stop It (Power2Change 1)

BRAND NEW SERIES!!!! Addicts (and we are all addicts if we were just a little bit honest), welcome to Gospel Rant and this new series Power 2 Change (P2C). This is a good place to start at the beginning of …

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Dec. 24, 2023

God's Love for the Irrelevant Magi

Merry Christmas! So who were the Magi? What were they doing in Bethlehem and what does it mean for us today? What happened when the love of God for the irrelevant bumps into pagan irrelevant ambassadors? Support The Show: htt...

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Dec. 17, 2023

God's Love for the Irrelevant Tribe

Merry Christmas! What happens in the Advent story when God's love bumps into a disgraced and long cursed tribe? This is one of the best cold-case stories ever. Enjoy. Pass it on. The love of God can do it. Support …

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Dec. 10, 2023

God's Love for the Irrelevant Priest

Merry Christmas. You know the story of Zechariah, a faithful priest in the irrelevant temple of God in Jerusalem around 5 BCE? Or do you? What happens when God's love bumps into an irrelevant priest? Support The Show: https:/...

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Dec. 10, 2023

God's Love for the Irrelevant Priest

Merry Christmas. You know the story of Zechariah, a faithful priest in the irrelevant temple of God in Jerusalem around 5 BCE? Or do you? What happens when God's love bumps into an irrelevant priest? Support The Show: https:/...

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Dec. 3, 2023

God's Love for the Irrelevant Temple

Merry Christmas! The Temple of God in Jerusalem in the first century had become irrelevant compared to it's Old Testament counterpart. We will explain why. But what's going to happen when God comes and bumps into His irreleva...

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Nov. 26, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Widow of Nain

What happens when the love of God incarnate bumps into a woman who has lost everything--at the funeral of her only child? We will dig a little into the concept of Jesus 'seeing' her. Very powerful. It could change how …

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Nov. 19, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Rich Ruler

We know the story. A rich ruler comes to Jesus and asks what he must do to inherit eternal life. But there is so much more to the story than the way it is most often taught. What was he …

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Nov. 12, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Blindman

What happens when God’s love bumps into a man who would have been treated as an outcast, unclean, and likely cursed by God. Today we treat such people differently, but then, to be born blind carried a huge societal stigma. …

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Nov. 5, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Gomer

What happens when God’s love bumps into the perhaps most unlovable unworthy, unlikable person in the Old Testament? What happens when the love of God for the unlovable, the unloved and the unlovely bumps into the active unrep...

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Oct. 29, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Cain

On this Gospel Rant, we are going to look at God's relationship with the first murderer Cain. What if I told you that it is pretty clear in the story that God's really did love Cain and was offering him …

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Oct. 22, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Leper

What's going to happen when the fierce love of God for the unlovable bumps into someone whose unfortunate disease made them leave family and tribe and live in the shadows as untouchables. Does God's love pursue and embrace le...

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Oct. 15, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable Samaritan

Now that we've laid out a more biblical view and understanding of God's love, let's see it in practice. Our first case study is a really good one. It is hard to think of a more unlovable or more unloved …

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Oct. 8, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable 3: The Silencing of Eros

Did you know that the Greek word eros (where we get erotic) is not even in the New Testament? Only used twice in the Green Old Testament. And yet, we modern Christians, like the Ancient Romans are terrified of eros. …

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Oct. 1, 2023

God's Love for the Unlovable 2: The Ancient History of Love

I have come to believe, based upon a lot of research that our Western view of love, including our western Christian view of love, has much more in common with the Ancient Romans than Paul. Example? The Ancient Romans truly …

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Sept. 24, 2023

God’s Love for the Unlovable 1: Your Brain In Love

Welcome to our new series, God’s Love for the Unlovable . It’s the stark wonderful and frightening truth, God’s love is for the unlovable, the unlovely, and the unloved. That’s all of us on any given day if we were …

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Sept. 17, 2023

The Song Finale (SOS28)

In this show, Dr. Bill will read Movements 6-Epilogue from his Novella (available on Amazon). Support The Show: https://www.gospelrant.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising oppor...

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Sept. 10, 2023

Why Did Jesus Die For You? (SOS27)

The events in the Queen’s life—just like us-- relationships, choices, context had beat her up and sucked substance and identity away from her. Until the King. And the King’s powerful gaze. Now, she makes a splash. She is diff...

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Sept. 3, 2023

The Ancient Feminist (SOS26)

The Song of Songs is ridiculously modern. Have you heard of the female gaze in films and TV projects? These are the projects that present the POV of the woman, not from the lens of a male director or writer, …

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Aug. 27, 2023

Rebirth of the Queen (SOS25)

We are about proclaiming God’s love to the unlovable, the unloved and the unlovely. That’s all of us, if were only a little honest. Are you beginning to see changes in you? Your sense of worth, value, identity? Are you …

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