The Austin Stone Podcast

What role do other Christians play in your faith? It’s significant, but not enough to get you to the end. Tyler David explores King Joash’s reign and how proximity to faithful people should not be mistaken for a true, personal relationship with Jesus.

Following Jesus means joining the resistance. Will Bostian examines the context of Queen Athaliah’s reign to demonstrate the true marks of faithful resistance in the life of a believer.

Which voices are you listening to? Matt Blackwell explores the brief yet tragic reign of King Ahaziah to better understand the inevitable avalanche of sin and disobedience.

Wanna know how to waste your life? Live a life like Jehoram. Ross Lester explores King Jehoram’s reign to show what we miss out on when we disobey, disbelieve, and deny God and His grace.

What are your prayers like when you’re afraid? Halim Suh explores King Jehoshaphat’s prayer of weakness to point to the God who fights our battles.

The race only matters if you finish it. Matt Blackwell explores King Asa’s reign—one that started in faith and dependence, only to end in self-reliance and a dulled heart toward God.

Have you ever felt divided in your heart? Do you try to follow Jesus, but sin still feels persuasive and tempting? Halim Suh explores the reign of King Abijam, a ruler like us in divided devotion to a God who is unlike us in undeserved faithfulness.

Did the kingdom split because of Rehoboam? Yes. Did the kingdom split because of God? Yes. Matt Blackwell explores Rehoboam’s foolishness that changed the kingdom for generations, and God’s faithfulness that will bring redemption to His people forever.

What do you want? Success, power, wealth? Solomon beat you to it, and it still wasn’t enough. Ross Lester explores King Solomon’s rise and fall, demonstrating our need for a heart devoted to the Lord and steadfast obedience and humility.

What if being closer to God meant feeling sorrow and conviction for sin? Tyler David explores prayer and fellowship as tools for confessing and repenting, receiving grace, and moving forward in obedience.

“I just keep falling into sin; why can’t I just get my act together?” Tyler David explores prayer and fellowship as tools to combat sin and reflects on the grace of Jesus that covers it all.

Practicing spiritual disciplines is not earning God’s grace—it’s receiving it. Join us as Ross Lester kicks off our sermon series on Holy Habits!

God’s mercies aren’t new every January—they’re new every morning. Matt Blackwell explores this poem of lament to model how we reflect on the past year and approach the year ahead.

Who are you? What is your purpose? Why do you matter? Matt Blackwell explores how John the Baptist’s response to the religious leaders reveals his (and our) identity in Christ.

Our God is special. You know why? Because He chose to come and dwell among His people. Ross Lester explores the humility of Christ this Christmas and how an unseen God can be seen and known.

Why do we like Christmas lights? Halim Suh explores the true Light of this season and how we often miss it.

Matt Blackwell kicks off the Advent season by remembering Christ’s eternality, omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience.

There’s more to a greeting than “hello” and “how are you?”. Will Bostian explores how the God of grace sees us so that we can make others feel seen.

Money, money, money. Halim Suh explores the gift of giving and how radical generosity is evidence of our salvation in Christ.

Want to learn the secret to contentment? Ross Lester explores Paul’s experience finding satisfaction in any circumstance.

Tyler David explores what it means to live with the God of peace. (Spoiler alert: it changes how we think and what we do.)

Ross Lester walks through the antidote for anxiety and how we can experience a life of joy and peace.

Halim Suh explores Paul’s call for Christians to pursue unity with one another and their responsibility to help others in conflict.

Ross Lester explores what we should know and do to finish the race of the Christian life well.

Matt Blackwell compares the vanity of our earthly efforts with the supreme worth of knowing Jesus.

Halim Suh examines Paul’s praise of two ordinary Christians who showed great concern for others and took great risk for the gospel.

Ross Lester explores the kind of integrated life of joy and freedom that faith in Jesus produces.

Tyler David explores how following Jesus leads to radical humility and sacrifice within us, enabling us to reflect the mind and life of Christ.

Halim Suh explores how unity and fearlessness when faced with suffering mark a life that’s worthy of the gospel.

Tyler David explores how cultivating the imagination can fuel our faith and endurance in Jesus.

Ross Lester examines how our greatest opportunity to proclaim the gospel may come in the seasons we don’t always expect.

Halim Suh explores the kind of deep community that we were made for.

Matt Blackwell kicks off our sermon series on the book of Philippians by examining the author, audience, and aim of Paul’s letter.

Matt Blackwell examines what God’s blessing entails and the reason for His blessings.

Scott Hekman examines how God’s promise of eternity comforts, continues, and compels His people.

Walt Lengel explores the purpose, process, and product of God’s testing in our lives.

Bob Gutekunst examines what the Bible says is the antidote to anxiety.

Matt Blackwell explores what the Bible says about being an elder at the church.

Habakkuk’s questions don’t have a simple resolution. His prophecy ends with a view of God’s awesome wrath, with the crops barren, a day of calamity coming, and a song of praise on his lips. What does that mean for you and me when we’re stuck in traffic and when we get the diagnosis?Episode Transcript

Will Bostian explores how our invincible joy comes from God’s ultimate strength.

Tyler David explores the pain of loss and what it reveals about God and our own hearts.

A mailbag episode! You’ve got questions about doubt, suffering, evil, and how Christians can persist in faith and worship in a broken, painful world.Do you have a question you'd like us to answer? Email us at [email protected] Transcript

Matt Blackwell explores Habakkuk’s song of trust, calling us to remember God as our Creator, Savior, and Judge.

Tyler David explores how anchoring our worldview in God’s power, rather than in ourselves, gives us confidence in chaos and fuels our prayers for revival.