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Gospel Rant
by Bill Senyard
Straight talk on all topics religious or secular. Interesting and relevant issues that matter. If you are easily offended, welcome.
Episodes
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Chasing the Wind 5
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 5: I Tried Pleasure What Happens When You Finally Get Everything You Want? Q doesn't condemn pleasure. He does something far more interesting. He gives pleasure everything it asks for—and watches what happens....
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Chasing the Wind 4
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! We all know this person. Whatever subject comes up... they've done the research. Nutrition? They've done the research. Parenting? Research. Politics? Oh, Lord. They've definitely done the research. Marriage? Research. Money? Why your...
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Chasing the Wind 3
Welcome to Gospel Rant Podcast. Episode 3: Meet Lady Wisdom The Woman Who Gets the Joke Episodes 1 and 2 have been cerebral: Are we reading Ecclesiastes correctly? Where does wisdom come from? Episode 3 is beautiful. Qohelet is well-meaningly sweating, investigating, experimenting, trying to make...
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Good Enough Christian 100 Ebook Giveaway
What if you believe God loves you… but you don't really feel loved by Him? What if you've spent years trying harder—praying more, reading more, serving more, trying to sin less—yet somewhere inside you still wonder: “Am I really enough for God?” That's the question behind my new book, Good Enough...
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Chasing the Wind 2
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 2: Three Ways to Survive the World Where Does Wisdom Come From? The big idea: The first podcast creates the suspicion: “Wait—maybe I’ve been reading Ecclesiastes wrong.” Session 2 is designed to give you...
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Chasing the Wind 1
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Chasing the Wind! CHASING THE WIND Episode 1: What If Ecclesiastes Is a Joke? The Joke We Missed in Ecclesiastes The Most Depressing Man in the Bible “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” Welcome...
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Breaking Badly 13: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 13 — The Darkness Before the King (Finale) We’ve reached the end of the book of Judges. And it ends in one of the darkest stories in the entire Bible. A story of violence. Cowardice. Sexual brutality. And moral collapse. The...
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Breaking Badly 12: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 12 — “No King in the Land” If Disney had written the story of Israel… it ends with unity, gratitude, worship songs echoing across the hills. But that’s not how it goes. Instead, the defining line of the book of Judges is this:...
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Breaking Badly 11: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 11 — Samson, Part 2: Strength Without a Soul What happens when God raises up a deliverer… but the deliverer looks just like everyone else? Strong. Gifted. Chosen by God. But spiritually disconnected. That’s the story of Samson.…
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Breaking Badly 10: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 10 – Samson: Strength Without Transformation What happens when God raises up a deliverer… but the deliverer looks just like everyone else? Strong. Gifted. Chosen by God. But spiritually disconnected. That’s the story of Samson.…
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Breaking Badly 9: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 9 – Jephthah: When We Worship the Wrong God What happens when people use the name of God… but no longer know who He really is? They pray. They worship. They make promises to God. But the God they imagine looks more like the gods…
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Breaking Badly 8: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 8 – Gideon: Victory… and the Drift (Part 2) What happens when people who once knew God slowly forget Him? Not all at once. Not with open rebellion. But little compromises… quiet idols… and decisions that seem perfectly…
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Breaking Badly 7: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 7: Gideon – The Coward in the Winepress (Part 1 Today we arrive at the central narrative of the book of Judges. The story of Gideon. And if Judges has been showing us the downward spiral of Israel, Gideon represents something...
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Breaking Badly 6: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 6: Deborah, Barak, and the Cup of Glory Today we come to one of the most remarkable stories in the entire book of Judges. The story of Deborah and Barak. And if we read it carefully, we discover that the real theme of this story…
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Breaking Badly 1: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series on the book of Judges, Breaking Badly! Imagine a nation collapsing. Violence spreads. Civil war erupts. Families betray each other. Faith disappears. And somehow… everyone still insists: “We’re God’s people.” That’s the book of Judges. But here’s what’s...
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Breaking Badly 5: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 5: Othniel and Ehud Today we finally arrive at the first stories of the judges themselves. But before we jump into those stories, it helps to remember how the book of Judges is structured. Judges is not random storytelling. It is...
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Breaking Badly 4: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Episode 4: The Generation That Forgot Today we arrive at the second prologue in the book of Judges. The structure of Judges is fascinating. The book begins with two prologues, which set up the problem. Then come the stories of the judges...
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Breaking Badly 3: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Welcome back to Breaking Badly, our journey through one of the darkest—and most honest—books in the Bible: the book of Judges. The Seven Nations Over the centuries, powerful nations had filled the land. Seven of them. Each one militarily...
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Breaking Badly 2: The Book of Judges
Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly! Welcome back to Breaking Badly, our journey through one of the darkest—and most honest—books in the Bible: the book of Judges. Last episode we talked about something surprising. The tragedy of Judges is not simply that Israel worshiped...
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #1
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch me also on DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. This, in my opinion, is the #1 prayer of not only the New Testament, but both testaments. It was among the final words of Jesus to the Apostle John, on the last page of the Bible, and he commands us to pray this. We are...
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #2
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch me also at DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. Let's walk with Jesus those final steps again. Whirlwind days: Hosanna crowds, waving branches, Jerusalem hope. Yet beneath cheers, fractured—they craved rescuer on their terms. King of imagination, not suffering Servant.…
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #3
Welcome to Gospel Rant! The so‑called High Priestly Prayer is breathtaking—larger than our expectations, deeper than our usual prayers. We often ask, “What is God’s will?” The full answer is complex, but here we are handed two crystal‑clear desires straight from the Son’s lips. That must count....
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #4
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch this also at DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. What do you do when the bottom falls out of your world? When the unforgivable happens, and you can’t do anything to fix it? Do you grieve honestly, or armor up and move on, using coping strategies that only cover the wound?...
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #5
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch this and more on our DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. But how do we pray when someone crushes, betrays, abandons, abuses, or robs us? Our gut screams for God's righteous wrath. It's human—even for believers. We Christians tsk-tsk vengeance from a safe distance. Yet...
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #6
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch this also on YouTube DrBillSenyard. Top Ten Prayer #6 comes from Paul, the very heart of his important letter to the Ephesians. If you want to understand Ephesians, you need to have digested this prayer. It is that important—and life changing. What if we've made…
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #7
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch me also on DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. Top Ten Prayer #7 comes from a young woman who has just heard from an angle of all beings that she is pregnant. “I am the Lord’s servant. May it be to me as you have said.” One sentence. No sermon. No bargaining. No delay.…
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #8
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Watch me also on DrBillSenyard YouTube channel. “What? The Lord’s Prayer is #8--not even top 5? Irreverent?” I get it. It’s Jesus’ words—familiar, revered. But spoiler: Top 5 are also Jesus’. After decades studying its context, its genius isn’t the script—it’s why Jesus...
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #9
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Also watch me on YouTube (DrBillSenyard) The Spirit’s Groan (Rom 8:22–27) This one’s different. It’s technically not our prayer at all. It’s the Spirit’s prayer, uttered when we can’t form words. But that’s exactly why it belongs in the list. This is God praying for you…
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Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #10
Top !0 Prayers of the New Testament #10 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Also watch me on YouTube (DrBillSenyard). Whenever I speak about prayer, there are always a few in the room who are riding a wave—bright, wind-filled, sun-splashed. Prayer feels natural to them. Intimate. Dynamic. Answered. They…
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How To Complain To God 2
How to Complain To God 2 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Also check out my YouTube Channel (DrBillSenyard). Happy Easter Sunday 2026. Most are spending this season on the Cross, Jesus’ powerful bold choice to suffer, and redemption, atonement and resurrection—as it should be. I am going to fill in one of...
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How To Complain To God 1
How to Complain To God 1 Welcome to Gospel Rant! (Also check it out on YouTube (DrBillSenyard) Happy Palm Sunday 2026. Most are spending this season on the Cross, Jesus’ powerful bold choice to suffer, and redemption, atonement and resurrection—as it should be. I am going to fill in one of the...
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The Gospel According to Job 9
The Gospel According to Job 9 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to wrap up this series on the book of Job. There are still so many unanswered questions, including the one he asked at the very beginning. If Job was the only book you had, what would your image of God be? It is time to shape...
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The Gospel According to Job 8
The Gospel According to Job 8 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to look at the enigmatic Elihu and his important message to Job and to us today. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Comment 👉 Subscribe Your interaction helps this message reach more...
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The Gospel According to Job 7
The Gospel According to Job 7 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to look at five worldviews of why bad things happen to good people. Important overview. You may be surprised. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Comment 👉 Subscribe Your interaction…
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The Gospel According to Job 6
Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to look at Job’s frustration with God and how he tries to deal with Him. We will see what you think. Here’s my rough translation of 7:20, So, Man-Watcher- so let’s say hypothetically that I did fall short of perfection (which I am not pleading guilty to…
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The Gospel According to Job 5
The Gospel According to Job 5 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to look at the supposed three friends of Job. In the end, he will suggest that we should new able to relate to them more than Job. We will see what you think. And now, it’s your turn… 👉 Like 👉 Share 👉 Comment 👉 Subscribe...
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The Gospel According to Job 4
The Gospel According to Job 4 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to suggest that a helpful way to look at the book of Job is a dual sting, a two way con. Satan is trying to con God using Job—but in a bigger sense God is conning Satan—using Job. Messy? Yep. Unnerving? Yep—not the way we...
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The Gospel According to Job 3
The Gospel According to Job 3 Welcome to Gospel Rant! Dr. Bill is going to suggest that we have misunderstood how we are to ‘win’ in our Christian walk. It is not about the Retributive Principle at all. In fact, the clue is found all the way back in Genesis. Here’s one very provocative quote in...
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The Gospel According to Job 2
The Gospel According to Job 2 Welcome to Gospel Rant! The book of job has unnerved, frightened and confused Christians for millennia. I wonder, maybe, just maybe, if we get the core message? You just may be surprised. We’ll talk about it. Welcome to Gospel Rant Podcast and DrBillSenyard YouTube...
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The Gospel According to Job 1
The Gospel According to Job 1 Welcome to Gospel Rant! The book of job has unnerved, frightened and confused Christians for millennia. I wonder, maybe, just maybe, if we get the core message? You just may be surprised. We’ll talk about it. Welcome to Gospel Rant Podcast and DrBillSenyard YouTube...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #7
This is Part 7 of our series: The Church the Holy Spirit Built. Luke continues to highlight the powerful themes shaping this early movement—based on legitimate eyewitness accounts. There was a surprising unity, a deep sense of shared purpose, radical generosity, and undeniable power. So what was...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #6
Remember how this whole series began? Luke is writing to Theophilus—likely to explain what got into those original disciples of Jesus… and what kept driving the movement over the next 30 years, transforming it into an international phenomenon unlike anything the world had ever seen. And now, Luke...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #5
This is Part 5 of our series: The Church the Holy Spirit Built. I’m continually amazed by the transformation of Peter. Who told him he could heal a crippled man? What if it hadn’t worked? What if he became a public joke? Wouldn’t it have been safer—and more practical—to just start a GoFundMe for...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #4
This is Part 4 of our series: The Church the Holy Spirit Built. What we see here is the visible DNA of Jesus and His Spirit—actively moving through and motivating ordinary people. Because of His presence, these regular folks—people just like us—began to show signs of something radically new: A…
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Before the Couch PODCAST 3
This episode features Chapter 4 of my new book, Before the Couch—specifically Tip #3: “You Can’t Do It!” Before the Couch is now available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. It’s not another “try harder” marriage book—the kind you’ve probably already read if your marriage has been struggling. And...
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Before the Couch PODCAST 2
Thanks for the great feedback from the last show on Chapter 2 of my newest book, Before the Couch. It is available now on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. It is not meant to take the same approach as so many other books that, if you are a struggling marriage, you;’ve probably tried. And how’s that...
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Before the Couch Podcast 1
I’m taking a quick pause in our current series to share some exciting news: my brand-new book for struggling Christian couples, Before the Couch, launches October 1st on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. Over the next three episodes, you’ll actually hear three of the most practical and encouraging...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #3
This is the third in our series “The Church The Holy Spirit Built.” The 120 Jesus-followers each individually had some entity that looked to eye-witnesses like tongues of fire come upon them as they were praying at the first of three daily prayer times, during the annual feast of Pentecost. They...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #2
This is the second in our series “The Church The Holy Spirit Built.” Theophilus has contracted Luke to document from living sources what was it in the first thirty years of this new Jesus-movement that caused it to explode throughout the known world in a variety of cultures, demographics, and...
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The Church the Holy Spirit Built! #1
Dr. Bill is beginning a new series on the very important first five chapters of the book of Acts. We call it "The Church The Holy Spirit Built.” Luke is writing the historic overview of the church likely under a commission from a wealthy supporter, Theophilus (God-Lover). Why was Theophilus...
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Straight talk on all topics religious or secular. Interesting and relevant issues that matter. If you are easily offended, welcome.
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