Episode 49: Saul: Looks Like a King, Thinks Like a Slave (Threads series, part 16)

Episode 52: Solomon: Crowned with Wisdom, Crushed by Idols (Threads series, part 19)

Identifying disbelief as a core flaw, Pastor Mark Cress provides an overview of the start-well, end-bad third king of Israel, challenging listeners against spiritual compromise.

Episode 51: David: Imperfect But in Pursuit (Threads series, part 18)

How was David a man's after God's own heart (1 Sam. 13:14, Acts 13:22)?  Pastor Mark Cress details aspects of David's walk with God, even amid his sin and failures. Do our lives reveal the same root embrace of the supremacy of God?

Episode 50: Jonathan: Biblical Friendship (Friending for Dummies) (Threads series, part 17)

Flaky friendships abound in contemporary culture. The friendship of Jonathan and David, by contrast, models what friendship ought to be. Pastor Mark Cress examines its features to provide a biblical model for being a friend.

Episode 49: Saul: Looks Like a King, Thinks Like a Slave (Threads series, part 16)

Pastor Mark Cress unfolds the selfishness, jealousy, and desperate wandering of King Saul into the occult, and challenges listeners to turn to God and flee whatever in our lives runs on the same doomed track.

Episode 48: Barabbas: I Am He and He Is Me (Threads series, part 15)

One was guilty and released, one was innocent and sacrificed. Which one are we? In this message from Easter, Pastor Mark Cress helps us grasp our sin, Christ's obedience, and the marvel of freedom through substitute.