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The Mystery Made Visible: Living From God’s Eternal Purpose
Jan. 26, 2026

The Mystery Made Visible: Living From God’s Eternal Purpose

What if your life is part of something far bigger than your circumstances, your struggles, or even your personal faith journey? In Ephesians 3, the apostle Paul pulls back the curtain on God’s eternal plan, a plan hidden for ...

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How To Go From Dead to Alive, Stop Striving, and Walk in the Life God Already Gave You
Jan. 25, 2026

How To Go From Dead to Alive, Stop Striving, and Walk in the Life God…

Most Christians believe in grace, but still live like everything depends on them. In this teaching through Ephesians 2, we walk step by step through what it actually means to be made alive by God, not improved, not fixed up, ...

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How to Build Your Life on What God Finished
Jan. 22, 2026

How to Build Your Life on What God Finished

What if the most important things about your life were decided before you ever took a breath? In this teaching we step back into eternity to discover who God is, who we are in Christ, and why security, clarity, and courage ar...

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When the Gospel Shakes the Marketplace
Jan. 20, 2026

When the Gospel Shakes the Marketplace

What happens when faith stops being theoretical and starts changing real lives? In Acts 19:23-41, the gospel does more than spark debate, it disrupts an entire city. As idols are exposed and economic systems feel the pressure...

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Staying Faithful Between the Headlines
Jan. 18, 2026

Staying Faithful Between the Headlines

Acts 18:18-28 reveals how God advances His kingdom not only through dramatic moments, but through steady obedience, quiet devotion, humble correction, and faithful discipleship. This teaching explores Pauls submission to Gods...

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Faithful Where You Are, Fearless When It Counts
Jan. 16, 2026

Faithful Where You Are, Fearless When It Counts

In this episode, we walk through Acts 18:1-17 and discover how God advances His kingdom through ordinary obedience, quiet courage, and long faithfulness. Paul arrives in Corinth weary and opposed, yet God meets him in the wor...

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Awakening to the God Who Is Not Far
Jan. 14, 2026

Awakening to the God Who Is Not Far

Athens was full of idols, brilliant minds, and endless conversation, yet something was missing. In Acts 17:16-34, Paul steps into a culture saturated with ideas and draws a line that still confronts us today. This episode exp...

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LIVE A National Day Of Prayer & Healing For Our Land
Jan. 14, 2026

LIVE A National Day Of Prayer & Healing For Our Land

Join Chad Prather live from the Before the Noise studios for a powerful, heartfelt National Day of Prayer and Healing for Our Land. As Franklin Graham and believers across the country unite at noon to seek God's face, Chad le...

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Turning the World Right Side Up, Living Faithfully in a Hostile Culture
Jan. 13, 2026

Turning the World Right Side Up, Living Faithfully in a Hostile Cultu…

In Acts 17:1-16, Paul and Silas step into cities shaped by power, philosophy, and idolatry, and the gospel immediately creates tension. This teaching walks through how truth confronts culture, why resistance often follows fai...

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How to Trust God When Doing Right Goes Wrong
Jan. 12, 2026

How to Trust God When Doing Right Goes Wrong

Acts 16:16-40 reveals what happens when the gospel collides with spiritual deception, cultural systems, and personal suffering. This teaching series walks through the clash point by point, from discerning voices that sound ri...

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How to Trust God When Doing Right Goes Wrong
Jan. 11, 2026

How to Trust God When Doing Right Goes Wrong

Acts 16:16-40 reveals what happens when the gospel collides with spiritual deception, cultural systems, and personal suffering. This teaching series walks through the clash point by point, from discerning voices that sound ri...

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When God Says No, and Means Go
Jan. 8, 2026

When God Says No, and Means Go

What do you do when the Holy Spirit shuts doors you were sure God wanted open? In Acts 16:6-15, Paul learns that divine guidance often comes through restraint before redirection. This teaching explores how God leads His peopl...

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How God Forms You Before He Uses You
Jan. 7, 2026

How God Forms You Before He Uses You

This episode walks slowly through Acts 16:1 to 5 to uncover a forgotten rhythm of the Christian life, formation before platform, obedience before recognition, and strength before growth. Through the relationship between Paul ...

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How to Move Forward When Godly People Clash
Jan. 6, 2026

How to Move Forward When Godly People Clash

What do you do when godly people disagree, restoration takes time, and separation feels like failure? In this teaching from Acts 15:36-41, we explore how discernment works when there is no villain, no scandal, and no clear ri...

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How to Have Spirit Led Wisdom in Times of Disagreement
Jan. 5, 2026

How to Have Spirit Led Wisdom in Times of Disagreement

In this teaching from Acts 15:22–35, we explore how the early Church navigated deep disagreement without fracturing the body or compromising the gospel. This message unpacks the difference between essential truth and cultural...

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How to Live Free Without Compromising Truth
Jan. 5, 2026

How to Live Free Without Compromising Truth

Faith was never meant to feel crushing. In this teaching from Acts 15, we get practical about why grace can feel uncomfortable, how fear quietly turns faith into performance, and where we unintentionally add weight that God n...

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When Faith Hurts and God Is Still Faithful
Dec. 23, 2025

When Faith Hurts and God Is Still Faithful

What happens when obedience costs more than you expected? In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas preach boldly, face fierce opposition, reject false glory, and endure real suffering, yet the mission never stops. This episode walks thr...

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Knowing When to Speak, When to Turn, and When to Trust God With the Outcome
Dec. 22, 2025

Knowing When to Speak, When to Turn, and When to Trust God With the O…

Acts 13:13-52 captures a decisive turning point in the mission of the early church. Leadership shifts, courage is tested, and Paul delivers a gospel message rooted in Israel’s history and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. As hunger ...

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The Cost of Calling: Why Some Leave and Others Rise
Dec. 21, 2025

The Cost of Calling: Why Some Leave and Others Rise

What do you do when someone walks away? Acts 13:13 is only one verse, but it exposes a truth every leader and believer eventually faces. Not everyone who starts with you will finish with you. In this episode, we walk through ...

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Hearing God, Confronting Deception, and Walking in Spirit-Filled Authority
Dec. 18, 2025

Hearing God, Confronting Deception, and Walking in Spirit-Filled Auth…

What happens when the church stops chasing strategy and starts listening to the Spirit? In Acts 13:1-12, we see a church that worships before it plans, leaders who are set apart by God, and a gospel that advances in the face ...

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How God Governs History
Dec. 17, 2025

How God Governs History

Acts 12:19-25 pulls back the curtain on how God truly governs history. As King Herod reaches the height of his power and accepts glory that belongs to God alone, his rule collapses in an instant. Yet while thrones fall and ru...

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How to Recognize When God Has Already Answered Your Prayer
Dec. 16, 2025

How to Recognize When God Has Already Answered Your Prayer

Many believers pray faithfully yet struggle to see when God has already begun to move. Acts 12 shows a praying church asking for deliverance while the answer stands outside the door. This teaching offers practical insight int...

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When Life Pushes You Out of Place
Dec. 15, 2025

When Life Pushes You Out of Place

Acts 11:19-30 reveals a truth the modern church often avoids, God advances His mission through pressure, not comfort. What looked like persecution and disruption became divine placement. If your life feels disrupted, displace...

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When God Moves Past Our Comfort
Dec. 14, 2025

When God Moves Past Our Comfort

In this episode, we walk through Acts 11:1-18 and confront a truth the early church had to learn the hard way, God often moves beyond our expectations, categories, and comfort. Peter is challenged, criticized, and forced to e...

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