Tim Glover
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Measured Scripture for examined obedience.
God's People - Then & Now works through Christian discipleship with a slow, corrective attention to Scripture. Recent episodes linger on Ephesians 5, asking how husbands, wives, and the home reveal either Christlike love or spiritual avoidance.
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God's People - Then & Now is a Scripture-centered teaching show with a patient, admonishing rhythm. It is not built around interviews, debate, or quick devotional uplift. The show favors extended moral argument. A familiar command is taken up, slowed down, defined, tested through household examples, and brought back to the claims of Christ. Recent episodes spend sustained time in Ephesians 5, especially the command that husbands love their wives as Christ loved the church. That command is treated as far more than marital sentiment. Love is described as disciplined conduct under pressure, not a romantic feeling or a temporary effort to make conflict disappear. The show is especially concerned with counterfeit love. Flowers, compliments, gentleness, and help around the house may be genuine, but the teaching asks whether they are being used to avoid confession, repentance, or a harder conversation. That concern gives the series its force. It looks beneath visible conduct and asks what the action is serving. Marriage becomes the recurring testing ground because the home exposes patterns that can remain hidden elsewhere. Husbands are pressed toward initiative rather than domination, servanthood rather than control, and restoration rather than vindication. Wives and husbands are also considered through the broader language of submission in Ephesians 5:21, with attention to what the word means and how the surrounding relationships fit together. The show sometimes borrows language from emotional safety, especially when describing how spouses misread confrontation, withdrawal, compliance, or distance. Still, its controlling framework remains biblical. Another recent thread warns against the deceptive comfort of inactivity. Passages about the rich man's neglect and Matthew 25 are used to argue that neglect can be a moral failure, even when it appears harmless. The show's pace is slow, sometimes repetitive, and intentionally clarifying. It suits listeners who prefer a grave, pastoral challenge over polished inspirational summaries. Its recurring question is simple and severe: when Scripture has made the good clear, what excuse remains for withholding obedience?
Made for: For Christian listeners who want slow, serious teaching on Scripture, marriage, repentance, and spiritual growth. It best suits those open to corrective application rather than light encouragement.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its sustained moral scrutiny of ordinary household behavior. It returns to biblical texts until motives, avoidance, passivity, and obedience are made difficult to evade.
Christianity is an old religion with multiple changes and divisions throughout the centuries. It is an organized religion that views change from the primitive church as a necessary improvement. But, are these changes improvements that glorify God or human beings? From the end of the first century until the third century AD, the “church” went from simple, home-based groups with a message of God’s love through His Son to an elaborate dictatorship that ruled a person’s life through fear of punishment - sometimes even death. The protestant movement may have dialed it back a bit, but did it go far e...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical teaching becomes a practical examination of marriage, church authority, personal motives, and the responsibility to act.
God's People - Then & Now works through biblical passages with a patient, sermon-like teaching style, moving from close textual interpretation to questions of Christian conduct.
Flowers and dishes get a motive check, and you may reconsider what counts as marital peace.
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A sharp test of whether marriage love is sacrifice or strategy.
This segment treats Paul's command in Ephesians 5 as familiar ground, then uses that familiarity to sharpen what love really means. It sets real love against easier substitutes: providing, staying calm, not yelling, staying married, bringing flowers, doing dishes, speaking…
Marriage, fairness, and servanthood are measured against Jesus Christ, not reciprocity.
The lesson moves transformation into marriage and the home, where character is treated as easiest to see and hardest to hide. It begins with a direct question about why relationships break down, then ties the answer to self-interest, fairness, and the habit of making obedience…
A scripture-rooted warning that doing nothing is still a choice.
The piece frames inaction as a moral choice, tracing a line from Satan's lie that doing nothing is safer to the contrast between sins of commission and omission.
A careful walk through Ephesians 5:21 and the weight it places on role, humility, and unity.
The teaching treats Ephesians 5:21 as the hinge for the chapter and uses it to trace mutual submission, the same word applied to wives in verse 22, and the role distinctions named across the chapter.
A Scripture-led case for elders and personal obedience.
The episode tracks first-century shepherds and how that role is carried into churches today. It returns to elders, to the Greek word oida as a way of knowing them, and to the picture of shepherds staying among the people, in homes and at meals, while doing the demanding work of…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Providing a house, food, and financial security does not satisfy Ephesians 5's call to cherish a wife; the speaker distinguishes provision from tender treatment.
The teaching opens with Paul's command in Ephesians 5, where husbands are told to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
James 1:27 defines “pure religion” through care for fatherless children and widows, alongside keeping oneself “unspotted from the world.” The speaker says “visit” means finding needs and helping meet them, not making a brief social call or leaving the work to a church collection.
The teaching starts with spiritual matters and transformation.
This episode explores the biblical blueprint for restorative love in marriage, focusing on Ephesians 5 and how husbands should emulate Christ's selfless, non-reactive, and restoration-seeking love.
This episode explains how emotional safety is crucial in marriage, as husbands often misinterpret their wives' protective nervous system responses as stubbornness or oversensitivity, leading to common communication breakdowns.
This episode explores the biblical command for husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church, focusing on Christ's model of disciplined love rather than emotion.
This episode explains how husbands often misinterpret their wives' reactions as attitude or sensitivity when they are actually protective nervous system responses to emotional unsafety, offering insights into common marital communication patterns.
This episode explores Ephesians 5:21, focusing on the concept of submission in Christian relationships and its connection to Christlike humility.
A warning about the moral cost of doing nothing.
The teaching opens on Ephesians 5:21.
The host reads Ephesians 4:11-12 and argues that 'equip' (a word used for setting a bone, mending a net and outfitting a soldier) means leaders prepare the saints to do the work of ministry.
This episode explores how prayer serves as the central practice for spiritual transformation by aligning believers with God's will through daily surrender to Jesus Christ.
This episode explores why religious rituals often fail to produce genuine transformation, emphasizing the need for heartfelt change through walking in the Spirit rather than mere church activity.
The episode returns to the work of first-century shepherds.
This episode continues a deep dive into the duration of spiritual gifts and the creation of the 'one new man' combining Jews and Gentiles, focusing on biblical passages like Ephesians 4 and 1 Corinthians 13.
This episode continues a study on Ephesians 4, focusing on the duration of Christ's gifts to his people and the unity of the faith in the context of the last days as understood in the New Testament.