And His answer— as it did then— still turns the world upside down.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew—
as Jesus sits down
and begins to teach
the citizens of His kingdom.
And what He says
is not what the world expects:
Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are the gentle. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Blessed are the merciful. Blessed are the pure in heart. Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Deacon David Teves continues our study in Galatians,
where Paul recounts his visit to Jerusalem
with Barnabas and Titus.
And there, the question becomes unavoidable:
Is Christ enough?
Must circumcision be added?
Must works of the law be required?
Must anything stand beside the finished work of Christ?
Paul’s answer is clear.
He would not yield. Not even for a moment.
Because to add to the gospel
is to lose the gospel.
Titus stood as living proof:
Salvation is not by works of the law, but by faith in Christ.
And welcome to the Scandia Bible Church Sunrise Service for 2026.
This morning, Derek Orn — Scandia attender, fellow brother in Christ, and chaplain at a nearby Christian school — brings us a message shaped around a powerful idea.
When storms come, most run from them.
But buffalo do something different.
They turn…
and charge straight into them.
He reminds us that as Christians,
storms are not something to escape…
they are something God uses
to build endurance,
to shape character,
and to lead us to hope.
Because the story of Easter itself…
turns on a moment.
It is one of the darkest scenes in the early life of Christ.
A new King has been born in Bethlehem.
But the throne in Jerusalem is already occupied.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study in the Gospel of Matthew,
where we see the kingdom of man collide
with the kingdom of God.
For on that throne sits
a ruler hardened by power,
a king consumed by fear,
and a man determined to destroy
anything that threatens his crown.
That man is Herod the Great.
And when word reaches him
that a child has been born
who is called “King of the Jews”—
he rages.
A family flees into Egypt
under the cover of night.
Soldiers march into Bethlehem.
Doors are forced open.
Mothers cry out.
And children are murdered.
It’s a scene filled with sorrow,
exile,
and loss.
And yet, even here,
God is not absent.
The Child is preserved. The Scriptures are fulfilled. And redemption advances exactly as promised.
Because even when the kingdom of man rages against heaven —
Have you ever noticed how pressure reveals what’s really inside a person?
Put someone in a crisis… Put someone in a moment of decision… Put someone face-to-face with authority…
And the heart is exposed.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues our study in the Gospel of Matthew in which we enter a courtroom.
Not a courtroom of marble columns and wooden benches —
but a courtroom in Bethlehem.
The King has been born.
And now the witnesses step forward:
The Magi travel from the nations to worship.
Herod plots to destroy.
Jerusalem trembles.
And the religious leaders quote Scripture —
yet never move an inch toward Christ.
We’ve all heard it before…
It’s the Christmas story.
But this passage goes far beyond
a familiar wintertime scene.
It’s a revelation.
A revelation in which the King of Kings is revealed…
and the human heart is exposed.
A virgin conceives. A righteous man trembles. An angel speaks. And everything changes.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues our study through the Gospel of Matthew — where we are pressed to consider whether the greatest problem we face is not our circumstances… but our guilt before a holy God.
We try to close the gap with effort, education, religion, and a clean reputation.
But Matthew declares that none of this reaches heaven.
The only bridge across this chasm comes from God Himself:
Jesus — conceived by the Holy Spirit, named because He will save His people from their sins, …and called Immanuel — because He — God — is with us.
The King has come —
to cross the chasm
we never could.
What if the most “boring” part of your Bible is actually a blazing announcement that the King has come for people just like you?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao begins a new study
through the Gospel of Matthew —
a disciple’s journey through
the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Matthew doesn’t open with angels.
Shepherds.
Or a manger.
He opens with a list of names.
A genealogy.
A family tree filled with kings and cowards,
outsiders and adulterers,
faith-keepers and failures.
This is the line of Abraham.
The throne of David.
The road through exile.
And this — Matthew tells us —
is the family the Son of God chose to enter.
In the first seventeen verses,
Jesus is revealed as the Christ,
the Son of David,
the Son of Abraham —
the promised King who fulfills every covenant, steps into our crooked history, and brings a kingdom big enough for sinners and bold enough for the nations.
As this Gospel begins,
we are invited to bow before the King,
to trust His sovereign grace,
and to follow Him into the story He is writing.
It was a revelation. From the risen Christ Himself.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Deacon David Teves continues our study in the book of Galatians,
where the Apostle Paul defends both the source of the gospel
and the authority with which it comes.
Paul was not shaped by the message he preached— he was overturned by it.
For only God’s grace
could turn an enemy of Christ
into a bold proclaimer.
And that same gospel
continues to do its work today—
not by human effort,
but by divine power.
The gospel doesn’t merely inform us. It transforms us.
Even when we know what’s right…
why is it so hard to change?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao takes us to the book of Proverbs as we continue our Wisdom and Worship study — where Proverbs 4 confronts one of the great misunderstandings of the Christian life: that lasting change comes through behavior modification.
Here, Solomon teaches that the real issue lies deeper than behavior — it lies in the heart.
The heart is the command center of life, and everything we say, do, and pursue flows from it.
Consequently, this passage calls us to carefully guard what we allow into our hearts, to recognize how our words and actions reveal our inner condition, and to seek true transformation at the source.
Ultimately, this proverb — and the others in this book of wisdom — point us beyond self-effort to the gospel, where God promises not merely better habits, but a new heart, given through Jesus Christ, who alone makes real and lasting change possible.
When the pain is real… when the cry is desperate… and when life feels closer to the end than the beginning…
What kind of God listens?
Today on the Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our Wisdom and Worship series
with Psalm 116 —
a song of suffering, deliverance, and grateful devotion.
The psalmist reveals a God who hears the voice of the lowly,
rescues those at the edge,
and dares to call the death of His saints precious.
But the psalm does more:
It points us forward to Jesus —
God’s own Son —
who sang these words
on the night He was betrayed
and went to the cross,
transforming death itself
from an ending… into a doorway to life.
Here we learn what it means to trust the Lord in suffering,
to offer a sacrifice of praise,
and to live — and die —
with the confidence that we are precious in His sight.
Because the very God who hears your cry
is the same God who holds your life…
and your final breath.
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Currently on the workbench:
The Jim Allen Gospel of John Study (1997-1998) is now complete and in our SBC Classic Edition collection!
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