Bill Vanderbush
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Episodes 210
Revelation Revealed Part 2
Revelation doesn't end with a beast or a dragon but with a Person. The Alpha and Omega, the Living One, the One who holds the keys, walks among His churches and is the Word who speaks. Everything else in the …
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Revelation doesn't end with a beast or a dragon but with a Person. The Alpha and Omega, the Living One, the One who holds the keys, walks among His churches and is the Word who speaks. Everything else in the book (seals, trumpets, bowls, woman, dragon, beasts, and harvest) is the unveiling of what Jesus Christ's death and resurrection have already set in motion. The right response and process for us is the same as John. Fall before Him, hear “Fear not,” and to receive the hand that raises us up back to beholding face to face. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.Revelation Revealed Part 1
Revelation doesn't begin with a beast or a dragon but with a Person. The Alpha and Omega, the Living One, the One who holds the keys, walks among His churches and is the Word who speaks. Everything else in the …
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Revelation doesn't begin with a beast or a dragon but with a Person. The Alpha and Omega, the Living One, the One who holds the keys, walks among His churches and is the Word who speaks. Everything else in the book (seals, trumpets, bowls, woman, dragon, beasts, and harvest) is the unveiling of what His death and resurrection have already set in motion. The right response and process for us is the same as John. Fall before Him, hear “Fear not,” and to receive the hand that raises us up back to beholding face to face. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.A Fixed Hope in the Savior of All
In this episode we sit with the closing words of 1 Timothy 4, where Paul looks at a young Timothy and refuses to let age become an excuse for a small life. Paul writes on of the most hopeful verses in the …
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In this episode we sit with the closing words of 1 Timothy 4, where Paul looks at a young Timothy and refuses to let age become an excuse for a small life. Paul writes on of the most hopeful verses in the entire Bible saying that Jesus Christ is the savior of all men, especially those who believe. Whether you dismiss or delight in those words, we certainly can't ignore them. Join me as we open these verses and discover what it means to live as living epistles whose very progress preaches the gospel of grace.Imago Dei
You were made in the image of God, not as a set of behaviors you must perfect, but as a capacity for love that has the very God of the universe as its source. But how can we know God? In the New Testament that …
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You were made in the image of God, not as a set of behaviors you must perfect, but as a capacity for love that has the very God of the universe as its source. But how can we know God? In the New Testament that image turns toward Christ. He is the image of the invisible God. The radiance of His glory. And the destiny God wills for every human being is to bear the image of the man of heaven. The Image Himself has come to dwell with and in us. Christ in you is the image restored. Holy Spirit is the very love of God now living in you, so that the love we were made for is no longer a distant command but the life we already share.False Teachers and Freedom in Christ
The Pentecostals and Charismatics will say the cessationists who don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit are false teachers. The cessationists and those who don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit will look …
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The Pentecostals and Charismatics will say the cessationists who don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit are false teachers. The cessationists and those who don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit will look at all the Pentecostals and Charismatics and say, look, they are the false teachers. And so the problem is that we grab this Scripture, lift it out of context, and only then do we define who the false teachers are based upon who we don't like or who who is somehow going against the teaching that we personally believe to be the absolute truth. And this is where we get messed up because Paul is about to actually tell us what false teaching looks like. And it's not what you might expect.Baptism in the Holy Spirit
We don't earn the Holy Spirit. We receive the Holy Spirit. The Baptism IS the Holy Spirit. Faith hears the message of good news and receives it with thanksgiving.
Neither Do I Condemn You
Come and revisit an ancient story that still astounds the heart willing to engage with it. In this podcast discover this beautiful truth. Grace is the Father, made visible in the Son, giving himself to the …
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Come and revisit an ancient story that still astounds the heart willing to engage with it. In this podcast discover this beautiful truth. Grace is the Father, made visible in the Son, giving himself to the condemned. I pray that through this message you will find the saving grace that empowers true freedom to experience the love of God.Salvation is a Person
Salvation is not an event we attend. Salvation is the Man who was wounded for our transgressions and by whose stripes we are healed. The word that appeared nearly eighty times in the Old Testament as a promise …
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Salvation is not an event we attend. Salvation is the Man who was wounded for our transgressions and by whose stripes we are healed. The word that appeared nearly eighty times in the Old Testament as a promise now is the name of the One you can call in the night, Yeshua. Jesus. You do not achieve salvation. You receive the One who is Salvation.Drinking Out of the Water Hose
A Midwest childhood of open windows, no cellphones, and drinking from every water hose was the way I grew up. Then on a Tuesday twenty-five years ago the world changed. We lost an innocence and we suddenly …
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A Midwest childhood of open windows, no cellphones, and drinking from every water hose was the way I grew up. Then on a Tuesday twenty-five years ago the world changed. We lost an innocence and we suddenly needed a security we had never felt the need for before. In this episode, Bill Vanderbush names what is so hard to recover once it is lost, and draws the deeper parallel. Theosis was the early church’s ordinary way of life in union with Christ, slowly replaced by distance and separation until the power of the cross has been universally diminished in sermons today. This is a call to recover what was stolen, not by rebuilding an innocence we cannot get back, but by drinking again from the new covenant life God has never stopped offering.Resurrection Confessed, Conversation Ignored
A watching world already suspects that Jesus is a historical idea we inherited, a brand we defend, or a set of conclusions we police. Then they watch us fracture over the very questions we claim He died and …
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A watching world already suspects that Jesus is a historical idea we inherited, a brand we defend, or a set of conclusions we police. Then they watch us fracture over the very questions we claim He died and rose to answer. Jesus prayed for our unity. But we have delivered the opposite. Our divisions are not just an embarrassment. They are evidence. If He is risen, then the most compelling apologetic we have left is not another perfectly airtight religious system. It is a people who actually take their cares to Him and then live as if what He says is enough.Moses, Joshua, and Jesus
We have spent generations blaming the commandments for a problem they were never designed to solve. The Law is not your enemy. Your independent self is. The Law is a perfect mirror. A mirror can show you that …
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We have spent generations blaming the commandments for a problem they were never designed to solve. The Law is not your enemy. Your independent self is. The Law is a perfect mirror. A mirror can show you that your face is dirty. A mirror cannot wash you.The Open Hands of God - A Study of Romans 10
When you try to establish your own righteousness, you are still living in the old administration. You are still treating the law as a path rather than a signpost. You are still saying, “If I just try harder …
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When you try to establish your own righteousness, you are still living in the old administration. You are still treating the law as a path rather than a signpost. You are still saying, “If I just try harder, pray longer, perform better, God will finally be pleased.” But the Christic Covenant announces that the performance has already been rendered perfectly, once for all, by Another.Revival, Reformation, or Rehabilitation
The Holy Spirit is taking us through a rehabilitation by healing broken and dysfunctional views of God. We must return again and again to the face of Jesus. Every doctrine, every system, every inherited picture …
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The Holy Spirit is taking us through a rehabilitation by healing broken and dysfunctional views of God. We must return again and again to the face of Jesus. Every doctrine, every system, every inherited picture of God must be held up to the light of the One who is the exact representation of the Father’s nature. If it cannot survive that light, it must be refined or released.The Ache to be Known
This is not a Psalm about God’s controlling surveillance. It is a Psalm about God’s intimate, relentless, affectionate knowing. It is the song of a person who has discovered that the One who formed him in the …
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This is not a Psalm about God’s controlling surveillance. It is a Psalm about God’s intimate, relentless, affectionate knowing. It is the song of a person who has discovered that the One who formed him in the dark is the same One who walks with him in the light. The fact that God knows you is not a threat, it's the safest place in the universe.Matthew 13 - The Kingdom is Like...
Matthew tells us that from this point on, Jesus taught the crowds only in parables. He is not hiding truth from the hungry. He is protecting it from the hard hearted, and at the same time giving it in a form …
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Matthew tells us that from this point on, Jesus taught the crowds only in parables. He is not hiding truth from the hungry. He is protecting it from the hard hearted, and at the same time giving it in a form that only the humble can receive. Parables are not riddles for the clever. They are doors for the teachable. Which one are you?Deconstructing Desperation Part 2
The prophets of Baal show us what worship looks like when you believe god is distant. The New Covenant shows us what worship looks like when you know the living God has made His home within you. We do not harm …
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The prophets of Baal show us what worship looks like when you believe god is distant. The New Covenant shows us what worship looks like when you know the living God has made His home within you. We do not harm ourselves to get His attention. His blood has already been shed for us. We do not scream to wake Him. He lives in us as the hope of glory.Deconstructing Desperation Part 1
Global movements built on consistent desperation were flowing from the headship of a person who was in compromise. And that profound compromise was masked as prophetic zeal and then projected shame onto an …
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Global movements built on consistent desperation were flowing from the headship of a person who was in compromise. And that profound compromise was masked as prophetic zeal and then projected shame onto an entire generation. And what was proclaimed as spiritual hunger suddenly became a cry of guilt disguised as spiritual depth. And that culture taught hundreds of thousands of young people that perpetual desperation equals health and surrender before God. And it was wrong.The Descent of God
Your salvation is not primarily in believing a set of propositions about what Jesus did on the cross. Your salvation is Christ Himself. The entire sweep of His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and the …
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Your salvation is not primarily in believing a set of propositions about what Jesus did on the cross. Your salvation is Christ Himself. The entire sweep of His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and the outpouring of the Spirit is the objective reality into which you have been brought into by sheer grace.Believe Into Jesus
The eternal Son descended so we could ascend in Him. The Bread once broken now lives unbroken in us. This is the revolution of grace, the forgotten heart of the Gospel restored. This is Christic Covenant grace …
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The eternal Son descended so we could ascend in Him. The Bread once broken now lives unbroken in us. This is the revolution of grace, the forgotten heart of the Gospel restored. This is Christic Covenant grace where we are not striving for bread, but feasting on the Bread who has already given Himself. The life He imparts is not earned but received. It is His resurrection life flowing into ours.The Artist and the Void
The story of Genesis opens with God and a dark, formless void. Yet the apostolic witness declares, “God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.” The eternal Son, through whom all things were made, is …
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The story of Genesis opens with God and a dark, formless void. Yet the apostolic witness declares, “God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.” The eternal Son, through whom all things were made, is the uncreated Radiance with no shadow of turning. So how do we hold these two realities in the same heart without breaking? In this podcast we'll explore this tension and reveal the mystery that makes it all beautiful.The Wedding and the Wounds of the Bridegroom
Don’t rush to conclusions about what you think I’m about to say, and don’t barricade yourself behind some doctrine you brought into this podcast like a fortress. Wander some meadows with me, of a theology that …
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Don’t rush to conclusions about what you think I’m about to say, and don’t barricade yourself behind some doctrine you brought into this podcast like a fortress. Wander some meadows with me, of a theology that dares to believe God is for us and not against us. A theology, a theophany, and a theosis that insists the story cannot end in tragedy because the Author is Love, and Love does not script a bad ending.The Cosmic Christ and the Distraction of Shadows
You don't need to fear blurry lights in the sky. You don't need to fear disclosure or cover-up or deep-state secrets or alien invasions. The worst they can do is kill the body, and even that has been swallowed …
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You don't need to fear blurry lights in the sky. You don't need to fear disclosure or cover-up or deep-state secrets or alien invasions. The worst they can do is kill the body, and even that has been swallowed up in victory. The same power that raised Christ from the dead is at work in you. The same love that reconciles the kosmos is the love that holds you this very moment.The Fire That Heals
The God who is a consuming fire is the same God who is Love. The wrath that abides on the disobedient is the same Love that abides on the believer, only experienced differently according to the disposition of …
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The God who is a consuming fire is the same God who is Love. The wrath that abides on the disobedient is the same Love that abides on the believer, only experienced differently according to the disposition of the soul. The energies that judge are the energies that heal. The God who is impassible in essence is the God who weeps in Christ, who bleeds in Christ, who rises in Christ, and who now fills all things with His presence through the Spirit.Revival and Rest
We've all seen waves of revival come and go. So why is does world is still seem so dark? What we need is not another spiritual high, but deep, lasting transformation by the living Jesus. In the New (Christic) …
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We've all seen waves of revival come and go. So why is does world is still seem so dark? What we need is not another spiritual high, but deep, lasting transformation by the living Jesus. In the New (Christic) Covenant, everything flows from relationship, not rule-keeping. The Holy Spirit doesn't just visit. He indwells. He doesn't command from a distance. He empowers from within. Holiness is no longer a heavy burden but the natural fruit of intimacy with Jesus.When Jesus Tells You to Leave the Room
A heart posture of mockery, cynicism, or hardened unbelief may cause the Lord to say, in effect, “Leave the room.” Not out of rejection, but because resurrection power flows where faith is present. Faith …
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A heart posture of mockery, cynicism, or hardened unbelief may cause the Lord to say, in effect, “Leave the room.” Not out of rejection, but because resurrection power flows where faith is present. Faith creates intimacy, mockery creates distance. Jesus is gentle and compassionate, but He is also holy and sovereign. When faith is required for a miracle, He creates an atmosphere where unbelief cannot remain.How to Control Your Mind
Do not be pressed into the world’s mold. Instead, be metamorphosed by aligning your thinking with the Truth of the Word who is Christ. This produces discernment to “prove” God’s good, acceptable, and perfect will.
The Identity of Holiness
The revelation of holiness as identity and holiness as experience cuts to the very heart of the Gospel’s scandalous beauty and danger. It is not merely a theological nuance. It is the difference between freedom …
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The revelation of holiness as identity and holiness as experience cuts to the very heart of the Gospel’s scandalous beauty and danger. It is not merely a theological nuance. It is the difference between freedom and subtle bondage, between resting in the grace of sonship and striving from thoughts that still whisper, “You are not yet enough.”The Week That Changed the World
Holy Week is not a call to reenact or earn, but to behold and abide. In the Christic Covenant, every event shouts, "It is finished." You are not striving toward union; you are united with Christ. His entry …
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Holy Week is not a call to reenact or earn, but to behold and abide. In the Christic Covenant, every event shouts, "It is finished." You are not striving toward union; you are united with Christ. His entry, cleansing, supper, agony, death, burial, and rising are yours. Go forward in new life from this reality. "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).Reckless Grace Podcast Episode 25 - Grace and Eternity
When you accepted Jesus (assuming you did) when you said “yes” and gave your life to Christ, was it in response to an invitation born out of love for God and gratitude for what Christ did for you on the cross? …
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When you accepted Jesus (assuming you did) when you said “yes” and gave your life to Christ, was it in response to an invitation born out of love for God and gratitude for what Christ did for you on the cross? Or was it driven primarily by a fear of hell? That’s a big question. Because I preach such a strong message of grace, I often get labeled as someone who doesn’t believe in hell. When people ask me, “Do you believe in hell?” my answer is simple: “Yes, I do.” But then I like to turn the question back to them: “Tell me, what is hell?” What usually follows is a flood of ideas (many of them dramatic, terrifying, or even grotesque) but far too often, those ideas aren’t grounded in the Bible at all. And that’s a problem we need to address.. This replay from the old Reckless Grace Podcast is by request from listeners who asked that it be reposted. Over time I expect to release every old episode of the Reckless Grace Podcast so they will all be available to you.FIve Benefits of the Cross
King David was a poet and a prophet as well as a warrior king. So many of the words of the Psalms were prophecies pointing to what could only be fulfilled in Christ. In this podcast, Bill Vanderbush explores …
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King David was a poet and a prophet as well as a warrior king. So many of the words of the Psalms were prophecies pointing to what could only be fulfilled in Christ. In this podcast, Bill Vanderbush explores Psalm 103 and a parallel of the words of King David to the five aspects of the finished work of the cross.
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