We Keep Rejecting Jesus When We Should Ask Him To Stay

About this episode

The episode explores the consequences of moral chaos and emphasizes the importance of prayer and seeking God through Scripture.

A single line from Judges still lands like a punch: when there’s no king, people start doing whatever seems right to them. We open there, with a sober look at what moral chaos produces, then we turn our attention to something steadier: prayer, Scripture, and the daily choice to seek God instead of trusting our own understanding. From Song of Solomon to the Gospel of John, we read passages that pull faith out of the abstract and into the heart. John 4 takes center stage as we walk throu...

People in this episode

Host: Jesse

Topics covered

• moral chaos
• prayer
• Scripture
• faith
• seeking God

Keywords

• Judges
• moral chaos
• prayer
• Scripture
• faith
• Gospel of John
• John 4

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Judges, Song of Solomon, Gospel of John, John 4

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