Jesus did not come to make religion more manageable. He came to make all things new.

In Mark 2, He forgives sins, calls the rejected, eats with sinners, confronts religious pride, and declares Himself Lord even over the Sabbath. The message is clear: "the new covenant will not be contained if it is poured into an old religious heart."

Religion asks, "Did you follow the rules?"
Jesus asks, "Do I have your heart?"

New wine requires new wineskins.

In this episode of Unskripted, we begin a journey through the Gospel of Mark, exploring the man behind the story, the world in which he wrote, and the explosive opening chapter that introduces Jesus with urgency, authority, compassion, and power. From the wilderness and temptation to demons, healing, leprosy, and the call to follow, Mark wastes no time confronting us with a question that still matters today: Who is Jesus and what changes when we truly recognize Him?

Along the way, we wrestle with the supernatural worldview of Scripture, suffering and the goodness of God, dying to self, spiritual authority, and why studying the Bible in context can uncover treasures we may have read past a hundred times.

This isn't just a study of Mark. It's an invitation to slow down, look closer, ask harder questions, and encounter the living story behind the words.

One year in, the Unskripted crew looks back on what God has done not just through the podcast, but in them.

What began as a handful of friends wrestling honestly with Scripture has become a journey of community, accountability, changed perspectives, and a deeper knowledge of Jesus. In this anniversary episode, the conversation moves from remembering the early days to confronting the question: Have we confused the organization of Christianity with the life Jesus actually called us to live?

Together, the group wrestles with reputation, religious expectations, judgment, church culture, grace, and what it means to follow the example of Christ among imperfect people. What happens when relationship replaces religion? When knowing Jesus matters more than appearing righteous? And when the Church begins to look less like an institution and more like a living body?

Through laughter, vulnerability, challenge, and gratitude, this episode celebrates a year of discovering that following Jesus is not about having everything figured out. It is about knowing Him, walking together, asking better questions, and trusting the faithfulness of God along the way.

What if the Psalms are more than a collection of ancient prayers, songs, and poetry? What if, taken together, they tell the story of a King who suffers, saves, judges, restores, and ultimately reigns?

In this episode , the conversation moves beyond reading individual Psalms in isolation and begins looking at the Psalter as a unified witness to God's redemptive plan. From David's deeply personal prayers of repentance and deliverance to royal and prophetic Psalms that anticipate the Messiah, the episode explores how the human experiences of fear, failure, worship, injustice, and hope continually point beyond themselves to Jesus.

Along the way, we return to a simple lens for reading Scripture: love God first and love your neighbor as yourself. Through Psalms 40, 82, 91, 103, and others, they ask two questions: Where is the two most important commands being revealed here, and where do we see Jesus? The result is an invitation to rediscover the Psalms not simply as poetry to admire, but as testimony, prophecy, prayer, and a story of redemption that ultimately leads to Christ.

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In the final episode of The Covenant series, we turn to the marriage supper of the Lamb and discover that the feast is about far more than a future celebration. It is the culmination of a covenant: deliverance, rest, restoration, and finally, unhindered union with God. From Isaiah's promised feast for all peoples to Jesus' parable of the great banquet and Revelation's Bride who has made herself ready, Scripture tells a story of a Bridegroom who is coming back for His Bride.
But the invitation carries a question: What does it mean to be ready?

This conversation challenges us to examine the difference between simply belonging to the religion of Christianity and actually living as the body and Bride of Christ; loving God, loving people, dying to self, resisting the idol of comfort, and allowing our lives to bear the fruit of the One whose name we carry. The table is being prepared. The invitation is open. And perhaps the most important question is not whether we know about the feast, but whether our lives reveal that we are waiting for the Bridegroom.

1. When you think about your relationship with Jesus, do you think primarily in terms of religion or covenant? How would viewing Him as Bridegroom change the way you relate to Him?
2. Revelation says that "the bride has made herself ready." What does readiness look like practically in your life right now?
3. The episode describes the biblical feast with two major ideas: deliverance and rest. Where do you currently need to trust God for deliverance? Where do you need to learn to rest in Him?
4. In Luke 14, people who had been invited to the banquet began making excuses. What good things, responsibilities, comforts, or preferences could become excuses that keep you from responding fully to God?
5. Revelation 19 connects the Bride's fine linen with the righteous deeds of the saints. What is your life currently "sewing into the garment"? What fruit is becoming visible because of what Christ is doing within you?
6. John the Baptist said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." What is one area where "self" needs to become smaller so Christ can become more visible?
7. The episode distinguishes between the organization of church and the organism the living body of Christ. Are you primarily participating in Christian activity, or actively living as part of Christ's body in the world?
8. How much of your time, money, energy, eating, entertainment, schedule, and decision-making is shaped by comfort and preference? Is there an area where comfort may have quietly become an idol?
9. Paul describes building a life with either gold, silver, and precious stones or wood, hay, and straw. What are you building right now that will matter eternally?
10. Jesus' banquet servant was told to go into the streets and bring others to the table. Who is your one? Who in your life needs to know that they have been invited?

What happens when God measures His people against His own standard?

In this episode of Unskripted, we take a look at the book of Amos, exploring one of Scripture's most sobering prophetic images, the plumb line.

Was God's judgment against Israel arbitrary, or was it the inevitable consequence of generations of injustice, idolatry, and spiritual compromise?

Together we examine the historical setting of Jeroboam II's prosperous kingdom, Amos' unlikely calling as a shepherd from Judah, and the covenant warnings God had already given through Moses centuries earlier. Along the way they discuss how prosperity can conceal spiritual decay, why God continually warns before He judges, and how His desire has always been repentance rather than destruction.

More than an ancient prophecy, Amos confronts every generation with the same question:

What happens when our lives are measured against the plumb line?

• Amos 1–9
• Amos 2:6–8
• Amos 3:7, 10
• Amos 4:1
• Amos 5:10–12, 21–24
• Amos 6:4–6
• Amos 7:1–17
• Amos 8:14
• Deuteronomy 28
• Exodus 32:11–14
• Genesis 18:23–33
• Isaiah 28:14–18
• Isaiah 57:15
• James 5:16–18
• Jonah 3
• Matthew 7:21–23
• Matthew 23
• Numbers 23:19
• Psalm 34:17–18
• Psalm 72:12–13
• Psalm 86:5–7
• Psalm 102:17
• Psalm 138:6
• Psalm 145:18–19
• 1 Kings 8:65
• 1 Kings 12:28–33
• 2 Kings 14:25

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