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TBOC Bible Study
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This is the podcast for Hope City House of Prayer's campus outreach ministry at The Ohio State University: TBOC
Episodes
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The Destructive Nature of Sin
Modern culture—and often the contemporary church—frequently trivializes sin as an innocent mistake, a momentary lapse in judgment, or a bad habit to be managed. But Scripture diagnoses sin far more severely: not as a minor flaw, but as a fatal condition of the human heart that constitutes cosmic...
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The Importance of the Local Church
In an age dominated by digital livestreams, consumer-driven religion, and individualistic faith, what did Jesus actually establish when He declared, “I will build My church” (Matt. 16:18)? In this episode, Pastor Josh breaks down the biblical theology, structure, and irreplaceable role of the…
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Connecting with God: Scripture, Prayer, and the Secret Place
What does it actually look like to build a sustainable, everyday relationship with God? Too often, our spiritual disciplines get reduced to rigid checklists, duty-driven routines, or an endless search for emotional goosebumps. When dry seasons hit, we assume God is distant, silent, or…
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4 Building Blocks for Your New Identity in Christ
Who are you, really? When asked about our identity, most of us naturally default to our titles, roles, relationship statuses, or giftings—student, artist, mom, pastor, or leader. Even as believers, we often say our identity is "in Christ," yet still find ourselves feeling lost, insecure, or...
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God’s Desire to Be Known (The Character of God)
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the character of God? In the kickoff message of our Get Rooted series, Pastor Josh dives into the foundational truth of the Christian walk: the character of God and His intentional desire to be known. Eternal life is not merely about...
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Freedom from Entitlement
This episode examines the concept of spiritual rebellion, defining it not merely as overt sin, but as the failure to immediately hear and obey God. The sermon breaks down how believers often mask rebellion as confusion and challenges the entitlements that limit what God is permitted to ask of…
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Faith: Addressing Misconceptions and Biblical Foundations
Pastor Josh defines biblical faith as the active intersection of belief, trust, and obedience. The teaching clarifies that faith is not blind optimism, but a grounded conviction in the objective reality of the unseen. It emphasizes anchoring faith entirely in Jesus Christ rather than the amount…
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Teachability and Humility: Keys to Spiritual Growth
Minister Isis Underwood discusses how teachability is the key to accelerated spiritual development. The teaching contrasts the Western focus on gaining information with the Hebrew understanding of learning, which demands active, personal application. Referencing Matthew 7:24-27, the episode…
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Freedom from Defensiveness and Control
In this episode, we deconstruct the root of defensiveness, revealing how it stems from a desire for control and a lack of trust in God's sovereignty. When defenses are built against correction, it robs Jesus of His Lordship and blocks the Holy Spirit's ability to train and guide. The discussion...
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The Unoffendable Heart: Freedom from Accusation
Isis Underwood equips students to navigate relational conflict by exposing the destructive nature of an offended heart and the spiritual roots of accusation. This teaching distinguishes between a genuine offense and an unproven accusation, detailing how the enemy utilizes both to divide campus...
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Freedom from Unforgiveness and Anger
Pastor Josh examines the spiritual and relational costs of unforgiveness and anger, tracing their origins to unresolved rejection. The message highlights how unforgiveness opposes God’s nature, builds spiritual strongholds, and fuels a destructive cycle of bitterness. Freedom requires two…
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Freedom from Rejection
In this message, minister Isis identifies rejection as a primary spiritual root that distorts identity and fuels behavioral struggles. She distinguishes between the wound of rejection and the spirit of rejection, explaining how it traps believers in cycles of performance, rebellion, and…
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Breaking Strongholds
In this message, minister Isis Underwood addresses the barriers that prevent believers from functioning in their original design: spiritual strongholds. Based on 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 (NKJV), she defines strongholds not just as external behaviors, but as "arguments and every high thing that exalts...
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Freedom from Fear and Passivity
In this message, we continue our semester-long series on Freedom by confronting two major barriers to walking in spiritual authority: fear and passivity. While fear is often internalized as anxiety or anticipation of danger, passivity is frequently dismissed as a personality trait rather than...
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Biblical Freedom and Discovering Your Original Design
You are not an accident; you are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works (Ephesians 2:10). In this episode, Pastor Josh Underwood explores the vital connection between Biblical freedom and recovering your original design. While sin seeks to mar and ruin our potential, true...
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Stewardship: What Will You Do With What God Gave You?
After weeks of unpacking the weight of sin, the deception of idolatry, and the power of Jesus’ blood, this episode shifts our focus to what comes next: stewardship. Salvation is not the finish line—it’s the foundation. God calls us to build on what Christ has accomplished by faithfully managing...
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Why the Blood of Jesus Matters?
In this powerful follow-up to our recent episodes on sin and idolatry, we turn to the ultimate answer to humanity’s deepest problem: the blood of Jesus. This message unpacks why blood is not just a church cliché, but a central, biblical symbol of life, justice, freedom, and love. From ancient...
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Who’s Really on the Throne? Exposing Idolatry in Our Hearts
In this episode, we dive into the concept of idolatry — a term often associated with ancient statues and temples, but one that remains just as relevant today. Building from last week’s conversation on sin and the devil’s deception, we’ll explore how idolatry distorts our relationship with God and...
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The Deceptive Reality of Sin: Exposing the Enemy of God’s Mission
In this powerful episode, we uncover one of the most misunderstood and under-taught aspects of the Christian faith: the true nature of sin. Sin isn’t just breaking rules—it’s rebellion, corruption, guilt, and deception. Pastor Josh walks through the biblical definitions of sin in both the Old and...
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Contending for Truth in a Culture of Counterfeit Faiths
In a world filled with competing worldviews and spiritual beliefs, how do we effectively share the gospel? In this episode, we explore how to defend biblical Christianity in a pluralistic culture—where many believe all religions lead to God, yet struggle with the concept of absolute truth. We’ll...
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Contending for the Only Gospel That Saves
In today’s episode, we continue our discussion on the gospel by addressing a crucial question: Why is there only one gospel that can save sinners? Many people reshape the gospel to make it more appealing—often by minimizing or removing the wrath of God. But understanding God’s holiness, justice,...
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The Uncomfortable Gospel: Why Jesus Had to Die
The gospel is good news—but only when we first understand the bad news. In this episode, we tackle the uncomfortable but essential truth of why Jesus had to die. Many today reshape the gospel to make it more appealing, often downplaying the wrath of God. But Scripture makes it clear: humanity’s...
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Standing in the Gap: The Power of Partnership and Purity in Prayer
In this episode, we explore how God’s desire to act is often tied to our willingness to pray. Through passages like Ezekiel 22, Exodus 32, Amos 5, and Psalm 51, we examine the vital role intercession plays in fulfilling God’s purposes on earth. We’ll uncover the importance of purity in our…
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Prayer and Partnership with God’s Plan in the Last Days
In this episode, we explore the powerful connection between prayer and God’s mission, diving deep into how the Church is called to partner with His purposes in the last days. Building on last week’s teaching on the spirit of prayer, we’ll focus on how prayer transforms our hearts and aligns us…
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The Spirit of Prayer: Transforming Hearts for God’s Mission
In this episode, Pastor Josh introduces a new series focused on the profound connection between Prayer and Missions. Pastor Josh explains 3 key takeaways: 1. The Spirit of Grace and Prayer transforms our hearts, leading us to grieve over sin and intercede for the lost with God’s compassion,...
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Fall 2024 - Week 9 - Ambassadors of the Kingdom of God
In this episode, Pastor Josh discusses how Christians can faithfully carry out the mission of the Kingdom of God as His Kingdom’s ambassadors. He discusses the profound role that believers have in partnering with Christ in His mission to destroy the works of the devil and advancing God’s kingdom…
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Fall 2024 - Week 8 - The Gospel of the Kingdom of God
In this episode, Pastor Josh explores the profound message of the Kingdom of God, a theme central to Jesus’ mission and vital for a biblical worldview. Pastor Josh discusses the contrast between God’s kingdom and earthly systems, highlighting how human efforts alone can’t resolve issues of...
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Fall 2024 - Week 7 - God’s Will for Your Life: Sanctification through the Spirit and Suffering
In this episode, Pastor Josh helps us explore how God’s unchanging purpose for our lives is fulfilled through the transformative work of the Holy Spirit and the refining process of suffering. Discover how sanctification, rather than life’s circumstances or outcomes, is central to God’s will.…
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Fall 2024 - Week 6 - Transformed Understanding of Our Purpose
In this episode, Pastor Josh gives a biblical response to the age-old questions like: “What is my purpose?”, “Why do I exist?”, “What was I made for?”. He speaks about the ways the culture we live in has mislead us into thinking that our purpose is defined by our Vocation or Gifting, and he gives...
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Fall 2024 - Week 5 - Shift from Pursuing Happiness to Pursuing Joy
In this week’s episode, Pastor Josh emphasizes the need to prioritize achieving joy in our relationship with God. He states how joy and finding the most pleasure and satisfaction as possible is the way to give God the most glory and to endure through any circumstance, and overcome any sin issues....
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Fall 2024 - Week 4 - Transforming Our View of Surrender
In this message, Pastor Josh addresses the need for a new standard in how we value the things of God vs. the things of the world, and how we determine our willingness to surrender based on how we value Christ. He discusses: 1. What Causes Us to Value the Wrong Things? 2. Clinging to Our Rights…
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Fall 2024 - Week 3 - Transformation by the Abiding Presence of the Holy Spirit
Pastor Josh discusses the need to understand who the Holy Spirit is so that we can understand how we are initially and continually transformed by the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. He demonstrates three things: 1. The need to acknowledge, know, and value the Holy Spirit 2. Humanity’s need…
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Fall 2024 - Week 2 - How to Sustain Transformative Encounters
Pastor Josh follows up the prior message about forming a biblical worldview, by explaining the necessity of forming the right definitions of encounters with God in a biblical worldview. He explains how the only encounter we have with God isn’t at our salvation moment, altar call, or worship set…
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Fall 2024 - Week 1 - Forming a Biblical Worldview
Pastor Josh begins the semester by introducing the need for Christians to experience Transformed Living. He communicates that whatever we view about the world around us and our role in it will guide how we live our lives. This frames the discussion about how we need to test to see if our…
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Spring 2024 - Week 11 - Building a Firm Foundation in Christ pt. 3
Pastor Josh concludes the series by discussing what it means to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ vs. a false one. More specifically, he addressed 1. Abiding in Christ’s word 2. How His word serves as an anchor for our faith 3. The cost of true discipleship.
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Spring 2024 - Week 10 - Building a Firm Foundation in Christ pt 2
Pastor Josh continues the series by discussing how the centrality of the gospel of Jesus Christ never ends even after we are saved. He highlights its importance in living a stable and unshakable life in Christ. He focuses on three specific topics: 1. The Gospel of Christ Saves 2. The Gospel of...
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Spring 2024 - Week 9 - Building a Firm Foundation in Christ pt 1
Pastor Josh begins a new series emphasizing the need for students to have a firm foundation in Christ before times of trials, testing, and temptation arrive and can cause their faith to collapse. This week, he begins by explaining the parable of the sower, describing the 4 different types of…
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Spring 2024 - Week 8 - Longsuffering
Minister Isis Underwood shares with us the necessity of Longsuffering for Christian maturity. She explains how the term frequently gets limited to either patience or waiting for something, but she unpacks the details of the concept. Then, she explains the connection between: 1. the Christian's...
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Spring 2024 - Week 7 - The Revelation of Presence
Pastor Josh teaches about the importance for Christians to understand the access to God’s presence that they have been offered through the sacrifice of Jesus. He highlights 3 topics: 1. Access to God’s Throne as the Hope of the Gospel 2. The Most Holy Place: From Behind the Curtain to Behind…
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Spring 2024 - Week 4 - Intercession
Apostle Valarie and Minister Isis lead a teaching and discussion with students about the multi-facets of intercession. They discuss how intercession is effective for spiritual warfare, powerful for maintaining unity in the Church, and a way in which we partner with God. They also help students…
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The Idolatry of Greek Life: Denouncing the Divine Nine Testimony Part 2
OSU student India follows up Courtney's testimony from Part 1 by confirming how much Courtney's testimony influenced her to end her pursuit of becoming and AKA, as well as contributing to her friend being saved from that path as well. Her testimony may be most beneficial for other women or men…
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The Idolatry of Greek Life: Denouncing the Divine Nine Testimony Part 1 (Spring 2024 Week 6)
Courtney Moore, former AKA, publicly denounces from AKA and testifies about the idolatry of ALL Greek Life that many are unaware of. Courtney testifies about the ungodly compromises required for entrance, membership, sisterhood/brotherhood into Greek organizations (e.g., the Divine Nine…
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Spring 2024 - Week 6 - The Power of Community
Pastor Josh provides a biblical foundation for both the need for and the power of godly community. In doing so, he also demonstrates ways that ungodly community can have power over us as well.
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Spring 2024 - Week 5 - Pruning
Pastor Josh teaches on four topics: 1. Pruning: Moving Forward by Cutting Back 2. Abiding in Christ and Bearing Fruit 3. The Love Behind the Lord’s Discipline 4. Fruitful Growth in God.
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Spring 2024 - Week 3 - Living Out the Gospel
In this episode, Pastor Josh teaches how believers should live. Believers should be transformed and living lives that are obedient to Jesus. We should want to live holy because God is Holy! Having a fear of the Lord is necessary to be sober-minded and live the way God desires for us. We should in...
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Spring 2024 - Week 2 - Compassion vs. Compromise
Pastor Josh preaches on the difference between compassion and compromise. He discusses how true love and compassion do not rejoice in sin but in TRUTH. Biblical love is not giving someone false assurance and promoting compromise– even if it is unpopular. Compassion comes from true doctrine. He...
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Spring 2024 - Week 1 - Repentance
In this episode, Pastor Josh helps to clarify what the biblical definition and process of repentance is. He identifies several ways that the concept of repentance has been tainted or ignored, and he desires to realign our view of repentance biblically. He preaches on 1. A Biblical Definition of...
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Fall 2023 - Week 11 - The Heart of Worship
Pastor Josh wraps up the semester long journey of understanding the various attributes of God by reminding us what understanding is all unto worshipping God in spirit and in truth. He discusses the difference between True seeking and False seeking of God’s face, and he introduces an acronym to...
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Fall 2023 - Week 10 - Holy Spirit the Witness
Pastor Josh teaches on the Holy Spirit’s role as a Witness throughout Scripture. He primarily teaches about the Holy Spirit’s witness to the World of Sin, Righteousness, and Coming Judgment. Then, Pastor Josh begins to dive deeper into the Holy Spirit’s witness about the Second Coming of Jesus…
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Fall 2023 - Week 9 - Holy Spirit the Baptizer
Pastor Josh teaches about the Holy Spirit’s role as Baptizer through a non-traditional lens. Whereas many people know about the Holy Spirit’s role in producing power to be witnesses, and for the gift of tongues, Pastor Josh highlights the “Power for the Practical vs. The Power for Public…
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