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How should we understand promises that God makes to a person or group in scripture? Micah 4 takes us to predictions God makes about the "latter times." This topic is the most difficult in scripture because, of course, the end hasn't occurred yet. It's always easy to look back and understand a prophecy in light of its fulfillment, but what about those that are still to come? In today's study, we'll consider some basic principles of scriptural interpretation to draw conclusion that Micah (and the other prophets make) about future remnant of Israelites who will believe on the Lord Jesus as their savior. We hope you are blessed, encouraged, and instructed by this episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

Why would anyone preach about God and claim to follow him when they actually don't? For true believers who understand the genuine pattern of Christian living, this might seem odd at first glance. However, scripture is full of examples and condemnation of the motives and methods of false prophets and rulers. Micah 3 condemns the prophets, priests, and government leaders in Micah's day for behavior that we still find parallels with in our own religious context today. That's the focus of this episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

Recorded for Impact Radio Broadcast week of Wednesday, November 4, 2026.

The book of Ecclesiastes describes that when evil is not punished immediately, people sometimes misconstrue that to mean that God isn't really paying attention to right and wrong, or perhaps God is not truly there at all. In today's study of Micah, we'll see how God actually says he is the witness against all wickedness and just how far his record of people's wrongdoing goes. We'll also consider the consequences God promises await all those who reject his truth and live in unrighteousness. We hope you are blessed and challenged by this episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

The prophet Micah ministered through troubling times for the kingdom of Judah. There were invasions from Syria, the northern kingdom of Israel, and Assyria. These troubles came about because of Judah's continued failure to obey God and carefully adhere to his commandments. Like many of God's prophets, Micah preached of immediate coming judgment for the people's behavior, predicted final judgment coming against the whole world, and issued the hope for God's true followers - that God will pardon our iniquity and shepherd us in true faithfulness. In this study, we do a brief survey of the historical context Micah ministered in to prepare ourselves to understand the book better. We hope you are blessed by another episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

Recorded for Impact Radio Broadcast week of Wednesday, October 28, 2026.

What is truth? That's the famous question Pilate asked Jesus when Jesus told him that all those who were of the truth who listen to his voice. How should Christians examine truth claims? What's the highest authority and source of evidence they must always appeal to? In recent times, there is more and more pressure for believers to use extra-biblical areas, like history and science, to prove their views are valid. But what happens when we make man's observations of the natural world and man's "educated guesses" about the past the authority that scripture must agree with? This question and more are the focus of today's episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

The conclusion of Malachi looks ahead beyond Malachi's immediate audience to the first and final comings of Christ. In chapter 4, God promises he has a great and awesome day where he will fulfill his promises of justice and salvation. There's been much talk of "justice" and "human rights," one could almost say, since the period referred to as the Enlightenment. But though it's a common topic people think over and discuss, does life experience give us evidence to show we can ever expect to receive true justice in this world? How do these things point to the need for the gospel, and even the final judgment of the world the Bible predicts? Consider this and more in another episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

Recorded for Impact Radio broadcast week of Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

V16 of Malachi 3 gives us the first moment in the book where some of the people of Israel respond by agreeing with God of what he said to them. God was in the right and they acknowledged they were wrong. God looked with pleasure on these people's response and the text tells us that he wrote "a book of remembrance" of them. What must a person do to be "remembered" or "known" by God? The Bible describes a simple pattern, but one that proves very difficult for the arrogance of we sinners. That's the focus of this episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

In Malachi chapter 3, we find the Israelites asking themselves what purpose there was in serving the Lord. In their minds, they hadn't reaped personal benefits for their professed service. This dialogue presents us with an important self-examination. What's our true motive in serving Christ? In Jesus' life, there were several people who came and said they would follow him anywhere, but then gave conditions that must be fulfilled before they would commit to actually beginning to follow. From these examples, we'll focus on how self-interested service is actually no service at all. We hope you are blessed and challenged by this episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

In Malachi 3, God accused the Israelites of robbing him by failing to bring the lawful tithe. As usual in this book, the Israelites initial reaction was to defend themselves and ask "how are we robbing you?" From this narrative, we will consider what the NT says Christians owe God and how we might also be robbing God of what belongs rightfully to him. We hope you are blessed challenged by another episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

Recorded for Impact Radio broadcast week of October 7th, 2026.

What is the only hope in life and death for sinners? That question is the focus of our study today from the book of Malachi. After years of hard lessons, we find in Malachi a generation of Israelites that still hadn't learned their lesson and whose hearts were still distant from God. How could anyone put up with such people? And what does God's patience towards Israel teach us about the hope that all sinners have in him? Consider these things in another episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.

In response to Israel's continued profession of innocence, and their accusation against what they perceived as God's failure, God made a promise of a coming purification of his worshippers and judgment against the ungodly. Time and again, the behavior of people demonstrates we are hopelessly unable to change ourselves. Though we can rightly identify what we should do, we prove unable to do that which would lead to our own flourishing and that of our neighbor's. Malachi's message and placement in the Old Testament perfectly leads the reader to readiness to receive the message of the gospel. We'll consider these things and more in another episode of transforming our thinking through the power of God's word.