Trying to figure out someone’s reasons for what they do is tough business.

Often we think we know, but more often, we’re guessing. Trying to figure out our own motives isn’t much easier.

Of course, as Christians, we want to do all we do for the glory of God. That’s great. But our walk with God can come to a standstill when (in truth) we chase our own interests in the name of Jesus.

In this episode of the podcast, Live the Bible, Jesus teaches His disciples (and us) that our Christian life is not about personal ambition, but it’s about something far more satisfying.

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Have you seen the carrot and stick routine? It’s how you get a mule to keep moving by dangling a carrot two inches from his face. Always moving but never getting there. Sounds like us sometimes, doesn’t it?

We chase our dream of what we’d like life to be (now), but it so often never comes. Why is that?

In this episode of Live the Bible, Jesus helps His disciples make sense of what they’re chasing. He gives them a literal mountaintop experience to remind them what’s for now and what’s for later. We need that same reminder right where we are today.

There is always a next step in our relationship with God. But how do we know what next step to take?

In this episode of the new podcast, Live the Bible, we see that Jesus reveals that no matter how well we know Him, He still has much to teach us about Himself. He shows us what it takes to take the next step.

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Why do you do what you do? Our motives are the fuel in our tanks. That’s why, when some in Jesus’ day did things with false motives, He warned them of the dangers of hypocrisy.

In this episode of Live the Bible, we’ll look at two questions that can help us avoid the dangers of hypocrisy in our personal lives— and help us have motives that honor God.

How will you answer?

Your Christian life isn’t hard. It’s impossible. So impossible, in fact, you cannot do it on your own. But that’s okay. In this episode of the Live the Bible podcast, we see Jesus gave His disciples some impossible commands, and then taught them (and us) how to do them with His help.

One of the miracles Jesus performs is the only miracle included in all four gospels, except for the resurrection. Its application for us is that important.

God’s greatest work in your life is not what He does through you— but what He does in you.