Episodes

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 6: I Tried Success What Happens After You Get There? Central idea: Success isn't the problem. Asking success to prove that your life mattered is. When I finally graduate. When I finally get married. When we finally have children. When the kids finally sleep through the night. When the kids finally go to school. When the kids finally leave the house. Apparently, children are involved in a surprising amo...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 5: I Tried Pleasure What Happens When You Finally Get Everything You Want? Q doesn't condemn pleasure. He does something far more interesting. He gives pleasure everything it asks for—and watches what happens. Let's conduct a highly scientific experiment. Tomorrow morning you wake up and discover that you have... $500 million. After taxes. We're not monsters. Then start dreaming. Mortgage? Gone. Studen...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! We all know this person. Whatever subject comes up... they've done the research. Nutrition? They've done the research. Parenting? Research. Politics? Oh, Lord. They've definitely done the research. Marriage? Research. Money? Why your knee hurts? Give them three minutes. Then: And somewhere around 2,500 years ago, one of these people apparently got hold of a pen. Enter Qohelet. “I applied my mind to study and to explor...

Welcome to Gospel Rant Podcast. Episode 3: Meet Lady Wisdom The Woman Who Gets the Joke Episodes 1 and 2 have been cerebral: Are we reading Ecclesiastes correctly? Where does wisdom come from? Episode 3 is beautiful. Qohelet is well-meaningly sweating, investigating, experimenting, trying to make the universe yield its secrets. Lady Wisdom is already there, delighting in God's purposes--dancing. She understand what Q cannot because she sees the larger meaning while Q—we-- peers through a keyho...

What if you believe God loves you… but you don't really feel loved by Him? What if you've spent years trying harder—praying more, reading more, serving more, trying to sin less—yet somewhere inside you still wonder: “Am I really enough for God?” That's the question behind my new book, Good Enough Christian: Experiencing the Love of Jesus When You Don't Feel Enough. For the entire month of October, I'm giving away 100 Kindle copies through Goodreads. It's free to enter. And if you've ever fel...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 2: Three Ways to Survive the World Where Does Wisdom Come From? The big idea: The first podcast creates the suspicion: “Wait—maybe I’ve been reading Ecclesiastes wrong.” Session 2 is designed to give you listeners the decoder ring they’ll need for the rest of the series. Everybody needs wisdom because everybody is trying to answer the same question: What should I do next? And there are essentially three ans...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 1: What If Ecclesiastes Is a Joke? The Joke We Missed in Ecclesiastes The Most Depressing Man in the Bible “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” Welcome to Ecclesiastes. Have a nice day. Seriously, what are we supposed to do with this guy? He looks at work: meaningless. Pleasure? Meaningless. Wealth? Meaningless. Wisdom? Eventually you're dead. ...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 13 — The Darkness Before the King (Finale) We’ve reached the end of the book of Judges. And it ends in one of the darkest stories in the entire Bible. A story of violence. Cowardice. Sexual brutality. And moral collapse. The narrator frames the entire section with the same haunting line: “In those days Israel had no king.” And what follows shows exactly what that means. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your ...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 12 — “No King in the Land” If Disney had written the story of Israel… it ends with unity, gratitude, worship songs echoing across the hills. But that’s not how it goes. Instead, the defining line of the book of Judges is this: “Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.” And here’s the uncomfortable truth— that doesn’t sound ancient. That sounds like us. Today, we’re going to watch something unravel— not just a person...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 11 — Samson, Part 2: Strength Without a Soul What happens when God raises up a deliverer… but the deliverer looks just like everyone else? Strong. Gifted. Chosen by God. But spiritually disconnected. That’s the story of Samson. And it may be the most unsettling story in the entire book of Judges. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Comment 👉 Subscribe Your interaction helps this me...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 10 – Samson: Strength Without Transformation What happens when God raises up a deliverer… but the deliverer looks just like everyone else? Strong. Gifted. Chosen by God. But spiritually disconnected. That’s the story of Samson. And it may be the most unsettling story in the entire book of Judges. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Comment 👉 Subscribe Your interaction helps this me...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 9 – Jephthah: When We Worship the Wrong God What happens when people use the name of God… but no longer know who He really is? They pray. They worship. They make promises to God. But the God they imagine looks more like the gods of their culture than the God of Scripture. That’s the tragedy we encounter in today’s story. The story of Jephthah. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Commen...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 8 – Gideon: Victory… and the Drift (Part 2) What happens when people who once knew God slowly forget Him? Not all at once. Not with open rebellion. But little compromises… quiet idols… and decisions that seem perfectly reasonable. Welcome to the world of Judges. The Book of Judges is the story of broken people, bad choices… and a God who refuses to walk away. Last time we met Gideon. A frightened man hiding in a winepress...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 7: Gideon – The Coward in the Winepress (Part 1 Today we arrive at the central narrative of the book of Judges. The story of Gideon. And if Judges has been showing us the downward spiral of Israel, Gideon represents something important. He represents Israel itself. Weak. Confused. Spiritually insensitive. Quick to blame God. And yet… still chosen. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share ...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 6: Deborah, Barak, and the Cup of Glory Today we come to one of the most remarkable stories in the entire book of Judges. The story of Deborah and Barak. And if we read it carefully, we discover that the real theme of this story is glory—the glory God delights to share with His people. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Comment 👉 Subscribe Your interaction helps this message reach more people! We’d love your fee...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series on the book of Judges, Breaking Badly! Imagine a nation collapsing. Violence spreads. Civil war erupts. Families betray each other. Faith disappears. And somehow… everyone still insists: “We’re God’s people.” That’s the book of Judges. But here’s what’s shocking. The collapse didn’t begin with war. It began with something much quieter. Something almost invisible. Throughout the entire book of Judges… Israel never goes to Shiloh. Not once. I will...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 5: Othniel and Ehud Today we finally arrive at the first stories of the judges themselves. But before we jump into those stories, it helps to remember how the book of Judges is structured. Judges is not random storytelling. It is carefully arranged narrative. The book begins with two prologues, which explain how Israel’s spiritual collapse began. At the end of the book there are two epilogues, which show the depth of corrup...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 4: The Generation That Forgot Today we arrive at the second prologue in the book of Judges. The structure of Judges is fascinating. The book begins with two prologues, which set up the problem. Then come the stories of the judges themselves. And finally the book ends with two epilogues, which show just how badly Israel ultimately breaks. Today’s passage explains how the unraveling begins. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like ...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Welcome back to Breaking Badly, our journey through one of the darkest—and most honest—books in the Bible: the book of Judges. The Seven Nations Over the centuries, powerful nations had filled the land. Seven of them. Each one militarily stronger than Israel. Each one capable of tossing Israel around the ancient Near Eastern sandbox without much trouble. But something remarkable had happened. The Celestial Judge—the God of heaven...

Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Welcome back to Breaking Badly, our journey through one of the darkest—and most honest—books in the Bible: the book of Judges. Last episode we talked about something surprising. The tragedy of Judges is not simply that Israel worshiped idols. It’s that they stopped seeking God. They stopped going to the place where God commanded them to meet Him—Shiloh. Instead, the book repeats one haunting phrase: “Everyone did what was right i...

Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch me also on DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. This, in my opinion, is the #1 prayer of not only the New Testament, but both testaments. It was among the final words of Jesus to the Apostle John, on the last page of the Bible, and he commands us to pray this. We are standing at the edge of the last page of the last book in the entire revelation of God. Ink drying. History trembling. Heaven leans close. And here, at the very end of everything written— we hear a vo...

Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch me also at DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. Let's walk with Jesus those final steps again. Whirlwind days: Hosanna crowds, waving branches, Jerusalem hope. Yet beneath cheers, fractured—they craved rescuer on their terms. King of imagination, not suffering Servant. Upper room: final meal heavy with meaning. Broken bread. Lifted wine. Betrayer named. Basin water. Son of God washing dusty feet. Departure words. Invisible kingdom. They didn't grasp. Loneliness fogge...

Welcome to Gospel Rant! The so‑called High Priestly Prayer is breathtaking—larger than our expectations, deeper than our usual prayers. We often ask, “What is God’s will?” The full answer is complex, but here we are handed two crystal‑clear desires straight from the Son’s lips. That must count. First, that we—Spirit‑filled followers of Jesus—would be one, even as the Father and the Son are one. Second, that we would know—really know—that the Father loves us even as He loves the Son. This is ...

Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch this also at DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. What do you do when the bottom falls out of your world? When the unforgivable happens, and you can’t do anything to fix it? Do you grieve honestly, or armor up and move on, using coping strategies that only cover the wound? This prayer is for hurting, angry, wounded people. There is a God who says you should feel outraged by what’s happened to you. You were created to hate dishonor and to long for real honor, love, and ...