Episodes

Second of three part, special and important Gospel Rant Valentine’s Day Series. This is for all of those lovers out there who want more, who aren’t feeling loved or lovable, or who have been hurt and feel like disappointments...

First of three part, special and important Gospel Rant Valentine’s Day Series. This is for all of those lovers out there who want more, who aren’t feeling loved or lovable, or who have been hurt and feel like disappointments ...

'Build your house on rock not sand', we are told. Building your house, your life, your identity and your faith on the principles that Jesus has been speaking about. Then you will be blessed when the storms come. So, don’t be ...

These three verses have been used as hammers to leverage good behavior from Christians for millennia. But is that what Jesus is talking about? At the crux of the three verses is the key question, Who enters the kingdom? Answ...

Who are the wolves? Who are the bad fruit? I wonder if we have gotten these confused. In the context of Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount, he is speaking about a specific heresy that still flourishes in the church today. See ...

Have you been taught that all you need to do to be a good Christian is to do the golden rule? I bet you have been taught that. Well, how’s it going? Do you get a B- grade or a B+? How much is enough? What if I were to tell yo...

Now Jesus has gone too far. Stop judging? I get the concept, but everyone judges. Everyone has been judged. It has ramped up since COVID, but it was happening long before that. Jesus, read the room. Those people on the hillsi...

So just stop being anxious! You are kidding me, right? Did Jesus just tell those hurting anxious people on the hillside to choose to stop being anxious? Is he suggesting that they just need to be reasonable? Wouldn’t that jus...

Did you know that no one had more verses about them in the Christmas story than the shamed priest Zechariah. And yet he is never part of the celebration. No Christmas Pageant gives him his due. So what is it about Zechariah t...

Who gave the very first Christmas sermon? Shockingly, it was the shepherds. Humanly speaking, no one would have come to hear them. But they were the ones God picked. He still uses them today. Do you know someone who feels ash...

What is Jesus saying? I have a choice either to serve God or Mammon? Am I good? Have I done enough? All Christians spend great deal of time worrying about tithing. We pastors make it even worse by implying guilt through such ...

Hey, it's Christmas again and time for Gospel Rant's annual Christmas podcast series. This year we want to expand our typical children's Christmas pageant stage to bring out some of the lesser known things about the story and...

So how are we to pray--really? Have you ever wondered if God is up in Heaven just yawning as you pray to him? In our Gospel Rant skit podcast, young tween Malcolm had learned the Lord's prayer and he was praying the heck out ...

Hey, it's Christmas again and time for Gospel Rant's annual Christmas podcast series. This year we want to expand our typical children's Christmas pageant stage to bring out some of the lesser known things about the story and...

In this Podcast we are in a three part series on the so-called Lord’s prayer. Is Jesus giving Christians a new pillar? Jesus is addressing the accepted three pillars of Judaism, almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Is he saying th...

Hey, it's Christmas again and time for Gospel Rant's annual Christmas podcast series. This year we want to expand our typical children's Christmas pageant stage to bring out some of the lesser known things about the story and...

In this Podcast we are in a three-part series on the so-called Lord’s Prayer. Is Jesus giving Christians a new pillar? Remember, Jesus is addressing the accepted three pillars of Judaism, almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Is he...

Hey, it's Christmas again and time for Gospel Rant's annual Christmas podcast series. This year we want to expand our typical children's Christmas pageant stage to bring out some of the lesser known things about the story and...

Welcome to Gospel Rant. Dr. Bill is continuing on this eye-opening radical journey through the Sermon on the Mount (not a sermon or a mount). It is not a sermon or a lecture, it is a dialogue. Feel free to agree or disagree. ...

Hey, it's Christmas again and time for Gospel Rant's annual Christmas podcast series. This year we want to expand our typical children's Christmas pageant stage to bring out some of the lesser known things about the story and...

Welcome to Gospel Rant. Dr. Bill is continuing on this eye-opening radical journey through the Sermon on the Mount (not a sermon or a mount). It is not a sermon or a lecture, it is a dialogue. Feel free to agree or disagree. ...

In this Gospel Rant podcast we are wrestling with one of the strangest, maddening and troubling verses in all the Sermon on the Mount, or anywhere for that matter. How you understand this will tell you how you understand the ...

Carrie Despres, a dear friend and a recovering addict tells her story. She was a leader in my church plant in the Vancouver region in 1995. Does the Gospel have the power to make a difference in the life of a addict? You may ...

Tough passage in the Sermon on the Mount. Historically, it has been the source of a lot of misunderstanding and harm. Is Jesus telling a rape victim to not resist? A black teen who is being treated unjustly that they shouldn'...