Burning Hearts with Rachel Herbeck

We end this week hearing from Jesus that those who have faith will do greater works than He did on this earth. As we discuss, we ask for more of the Holy Spirit so that we can live and walk in our God given authority as sons and daughters.

Jesus teaches his disciples that He has come to reveal the Father. Today, we dive into the incredible reality that, through Jesus, God the Father is revealed to us, and through Him we see his nature and character as a good Father.

In today’s show, we discuss Thomas’ relatable question to Jesus: “How will we know where you are going?” Jesus shows us in his answer that He is the way, the truth, and the life.

One of the most intimate promises of Scripture is that Jesus goes to his Father’s house to prepare a place for us. Today, we ask for the faith to live in the reality that Jesus desires to be with us and wants us in his Father’s house forever.

We begin our week diving into John 14, and immediately we see Jesus’ invitation to not be troubled. Even in the circumstances in our lives, Jesus is continuously inviting us into a life of peace because of our belief in Him.

Paul shows us that for the Thessalonians, they were in affliction immediately after receiving the Gospel. Through our reading, we see that a normal part of the Christian life is affliction, and we discuss how to live in that affliction in joy.

As we read about the Thessalonians following Paul, we see the importance of the fact that Paul was imitating Christ. Today, we explore the questions: are our lives truly accessible to others, and who are we imitating?

Paul continues to encourage the Thessalonians, sharing that the Gospel he preached was not only in power, but with complete and full conviction. Today, we talk about how this challenges us to truly believe with our whole heart that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the answer for every human heart.

The Gospel that Paul preached to the Thessalonians was a Gospel of power. Today, we are encouraged to preach and share the Gospel with the power of the Holy Spirit, not in our human means.

This week, we dive into Thessalonians 1, and see Paul’s encouragement and invitation for them to enter deeper spiritual maturity as they prepare for the coming of Christ.

Through this passage in Hebrews, we are encouraged to live our lives in light of eternal life. Today, we read the passage from Hebrews, along with Revelation 19, where we see the promise of Jesus’ return when He will make all things new.

As we endure for the day that is to come, Jesus promises us not only salvation, but eternal reward with Him forever in Heaven. Today, we discuss these eternal rewards and the crowns that we will receive in eternal life.

In today’s episode, we discuss how the Lord sees all and will repay each and every person for their deeds. Although this can be scary, we discuss the comfort it brings that justice is truly in the hands of God.

Today, we ask the Holy Spirit to help us examine any places in our hearts that are persisting in sin. The passage in Hebrews shows us that if we persist in our sin, we will not be able to endure to the end.

This week, we continue diving into Hebrews 10. We begin by seeing how necessary it is to live our lives considering the day of judgement that is to come when Jesus returns.

In Hebrews, we see the encouragement to stir one another up in love and good works. Today, we discuss how we do that in our own lives and our own families, and we receive the challenge to stir one another up more and more!

The gift of faith grows through a radical encounter with the person of Jesus that draws us into a life-giving relationship. Today, our guest, Annie, shares about her own life-giving encounter.

In today’s episode, we dive into the gift of faith – how do we get it? What does having faith mean? We see through Scripture that faith begins as a gift and continues as a choice to believe and receive that God is who He says He is.

We continue through Hebrews 10 as we discuss that what Jesus has done for us gives us confidence to approach the throne of God. We discuss how the foundation of our lives is confidence and trust in who God is.

This week, I have a guest join me as we open up God’s Word together. We begin in Hebrews 10 by discussing the reality that Jesus has given us access to the Father through His flesh, but sometimes we need to wait on Him in order for our faith to grow.

Today, we see how Paul suffers for the gospel and communicates to the Romans that the thing that will give us a crown in Heaven is suffering with Christ. Each of us is called to learn how to suffer with Christ. 

As we strive to put to death things of the flesh, we need to root ourselves in our true identity as sons and daughters of God. Paul shows us how to internalize this truth each and every day.

Paul instructs the Romans to put to death the things of the flesh and to live a life in the Spirit. Today, we examine how to put to death our flesh in order to live lives under the reign of Jesus.

The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in each one of us. Today, we discuss what happens when God’s resurrection power is at work in us.

This week, we continue through Romans 8 and discuss what it truly means to be justified through faith and sanctified through the power of the Spirit.

Today, we discuss that Jesus has made us alive through his righteousness and ask how we can live in the righteousness he has won for us.

In this episode, we examine our thought lives so that we can be transformed by renewing our minds in the Spirit.

In this spiritual battle, we need to be awake and sober. We focus today on setting our minds on the Spirit so that we walk in life and peace.

Today, we dive into the reality of what Jesus has done for us on the cross and discuss what it means that the just requirement of the law has been fulfilled.

This week, we begin to study Romans 8. In this episode, we see Paul declaring that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and we discuss how to live in that truth.

Jesus teaches us how to give the full Gospel, and we see that his words are confronting. Jesus’s teachings are meant to confront and shock us as we take up the reality that, without faith in Him, we are eternally condemned.

In today’s episode, we discuss John 3:16. We ask the Holy Spirit to give us renewed grace to receive with awe and wonder the greatest news ever given: that God loves us and has saved us through his Son.

In answering Nicodemus, Jesus refers to Himself with two Old Testament references. This draws Nicodemus into the reality that Jesus is truly the One he has been waiting for.

Jesus is clear with Nicodemus that there is a way to salvation: Baptism. Today, we discuss the need to be born anew by water and by Spirit.

This week, we dive into some of the most famous passages in all of Scripture: John 3. We see on today’s episode how Nicodemus is searching for answers about Jesus. These questions echo into the depth of every human heart: Who is He? Could He be the One?

An important yet overlooked sign of resurrected life is persecution. Today, we examine Peter’s preaching under the persecution of the high priests, and we see great courage as he is emboldened by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the centrality and exclusivity of Jesus for salvation.

Through God’s work in Peter and John, the people are astonished and amazed. Today, we see that God wants to use each and every one of us to bring people to faith. We see that Peter uses the miracle as an opportunity to again preach the name of Jesus.

Today, we see Peter and John perform their first miracle: healing a lame man. Through their witness, we see that resurrected life means walking in confidence in the power God has given us, not just for our own lives, but to touch and heal the lives of others.

In today’s show, we see that one of the signs of resurrected life is preaching and proclamation of the Gospel that is fruitful. We see through Peter’s ministry that, when Jesus is alive in us, our witness moves people to respond.

This week, we discuss the readings that we had the week following Easter. The Church immediately takes us into Acts 2, where we read about Pentecost. We see as we begin today that the Church is trying to instruct us on what it means to live life after Jesus rises from the dead.

When the bones lives, they become a vast army, living, moving, and multiplying. Today, we discuss how the Holy Spirit makes us alive, moves us, and makes us multiply for the Kingdom.

Today, we take a look at salvation history and see how the Holy Spirit, the agent of creation, created Adam and now recreates and renews the earth through the mission of Jesus.

In the passage we discuss today, we see how the dry bones had flesh, joints, and skin come upon them, but they still were not living. We need the Spirit of God to really become alive again!

In today’s episode, we talk about the need to speak the truth about who God is and who we are to ourselves. We see that God wants to give us fresh faith to believe what He calls us to prophesy.

This week, we take some time to unpack the passage of the Valley of the Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37. We examine the dryness of our own lives and see how far Israel was from God.

Paul makes this prayer from prison under the rule of Caesar. In today’s episode, we examine the cultural context in which Paul was preaching and how powerful it was to proclaim Jesus as Lord.

We have received the same power that raised Jesus from the dead: the power of the Holy Spirit. Today, we discuss how this power transforms us into the image of Christ.

Along with a new hope, we have been given a new inheritance as children of God. Today, we dive into what belongs to Jesus through his sonship, and therefore what belongs to us through grace.

As we walk as new creations, Jesus has given us a new hope through his life, death, and resurrection. We talk today about walking in the hope of the resurrection.

This week, we begin a discussion on Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians and for us in Ephesians 1. We see in today’s episode how Paul’s heart for us is that we would know Jesus truly and deeply through the power of the Holy Spirit.