Unshaken: Chapter a Day
Pastor Chris Plekenpol and his guests explore the Bible together one chapter at a time. They offer practical insights, theological depth, and real-life applications. Dive in for engaging discussions that bring God’s Word to life, one chapter at a time!
Episodes
Money can buy options, but it can’t buy peace, and Paul doesn’t let us pretend otherwise. We (Pastor Fleck and Ruben Campos) open 1 Timothy 6 with a clear outline, then slow down to observe what the text exposes about motives, teaching, and the quiet ways greed reshapes a soul. If you’ve ever felt your emotions rise and fall with your bank balance, or you’ve wondered why “Christian deba...
One line in 1 Timothy 5 hits like a thunderclap: if someone won’t provide for their own household, they’re “worse than an unbeliever.” We take that seriously and work through what Paul actually means, because it forces a question most churches and families would rather dodge: who is responsible for care when life falls apart?
We start with the big frame Paul gives Timothy, treating the...
Some of the most dangerous ideas don’t sound evil. They sound spiritual, disciplined, and just true enough to slip past your guard. We dig into 1 Timothy 4 and Paul’s blunt warning about false teaching, deceitful spirits, and “teachings of demons,” then ask what discernment looks like for normal Christians who live, work, and raise families in a noisy world.
We talk about how deception...
The fastest way to damage a church is to put the wrong people in charge, even if they look gifted. We open 1 Timothy 3 and let Scripture set the standard for church leadership qualifications, then we get honest about how “normal life” exposes what’s real: self-control, humility, sobriety, gentleness, and integrity that holds up under stress.
We spend time on one loaded line about the home. S...
Your prayers might be more political than your votes, and 1 Timothy 2 makes that uncomfortable in the best way. We sit down as pastors and work line by line through a chapter that starts with an urgent command: pray first, and pray specifically for kings and everyone in high positions. Not because leaders deserve it, but because God uses authority, laws, and public examples to either hinder or help the spread of the...
Speculation is easy. Sound doctrine is harder and far more life-giving. We open 1 Timothy 1 by tracing Paul’s relationship with Timothy, a “true child in the faith,” and we ask what spiritual fatherhood, mentoring, and discipleship should look like in a healthy church today. From the first lines, you can feel the urgency: grace and peace are real, but so is the need to guard the message that forms ...
A church can survive a lot, but it starts to crack when people stop pulling their weight and start pulling everyone else into their chaos. We open 2 Thessalonians 3 and follow Paul’s flow from prayer, to a hard warning about idleness, to a closing benediction that’s full of peace and grace. Along the way, we slow down and do a simple outline, then move through observation, interpretation, and application...
Rumors about the end times are not new, and 2 Thessalonians 2 is Paul’s direct answer to Christians who feel rattled. We sit down with 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and ask the question everyone eventually runs into: if Jesus can return at any moment, what do we do with Paul’s claim that a rebellion must come first and the man of lawlessness must be revealed? The conversation turns into a careful, Bible-firs...
Hell is not a topic most people want to touch, but 2 Thessalonians 1 doesn’t flinch and neither do we. Paul praises a pressured church for growing in faith and love, then he pivots to the sobering reality of final judgment “away from the presence of the Lord.” We slow down and read the text carefully, because a clear Bible study should shape how we think, how we suffer, and how we speak about the g...
The phrase “like a thief in the night” gets quoted a lot, but it rarely gets handled with the mix of clarity, disagreement, and practicality it deserves. We open 1 Thessalonians 5 by asking what Paul means by the Day of the Lord and how Christians should think about readiness without living in fear. Along the way, we compare our end-times frameworks, including premillennial pre-tribulation rapture langua...
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