A direct call to press on toward holiness.
This episode keeps coming back to Philippians 3 and asks a plain question: does life look any different, and has the listener moved toward holiness?

Biblical teaching with pastoral urgency.
Today with Jeff Vines is a sermon-centered Christian teaching show built around Scripture, moral challenge, and practical faith. Recent messages move from Joseph and Jesus to Job, Malachi, and Philippians, pressing ancient passages into questions of trust, endurance, generosity, and spiritual growth.
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Today with Jeff Vines is a Christian biblical teaching show shaped around sermon-length argument, practical application, and a strong sense of spiritual urgency. It is not built for detached religious commentary. It teaches from the pulpit outward. Recent episodes work through Joseph, Jesus, Job, Malachi, and Philippians, using those passages to ask how faith survives pain, pressure, temptation, and ordinary distraction. The show often begins with a concrete biblical scene. Joseph is placed inside famine, family rejection, betrayal, and divine purpose. Job becomes the figure for grief that cannot be explained with neat philosophy. Malachi opens the uncomfortable subject of money, ownership, obedience, and worship. Philippians becomes a call away from mediocrity and toward a more faithful Christian life. The pace is brisk. The register stays conversational, even when the ideas get dense. Greek words, Old Testament narrative, New Testament theology, and personal stories can sit close together in a single teaching arc. That mixture gives the show its texture. It feels accessible without becoming lightweight. The teaching style is direct enough to challenge listeners on finances, holiness, prayer, busyness, guilt, contentment, and trust in God during tragedy. It also makes room for warmth and humor, especially when a hard topic needs to be named plainly before being pressed further. Short Vision Christian Media introductions frame each episode and point to the series context. After that, the sermon does the real work. The strongest episodes turn familiar Bible stories into present-tense questions: what suffering means, what God is doing, what obedience costs, and what spiritual growth should look like when comfort is not enough. The show is best suited to Christians who want robust pastoral teaching rather than a quick inspirational thought. It rewards attention. It also assumes Scripture has authority over private habits, public choices, money, grief, ambition, and hope. That makes Today with Jeff Vines both encouraging and confrontational, often in the same stretch of teaching.
Made for: For Christians who want sermon-centered Bible teaching that connects Scripture to suffering, money, prayer, and daily obedience. It especially suits listeners who prefer direct pastoral challenge over casual religious conversation.
What sets it apart: The show stands out for its long-form pulpit cadence: biblical scenes, Greek words, personal memory, and practical challenge are woven into one continuous teaching arc. It treats familiar passages as urgent present-tense claims rather than background devotional material.
Author, Pastor, Apologist and Bible teacher Jeff Vines delivers a straight talking message from the Word. Pastor Jeff spent twenty years on the mission field in Zimbabwe and New Zealand planting churches and training leaders. From 1998-2005 he was the featured speaker on the American weekly television broadcast, “Questions of Life,” and frequently debated agnostic and atheist alike on US radio.For two years Jeff served as the Teaching Pastor at Savannah Christian Church in Savannah, GA. In 2008, Jeff became the Lead Pastor of ONE&ALL California. Jeff is the author of Dinner with SKEPTICS: Defending God in a World that Makes No Sense, and Unbroken: 8 Enduring Promises God Will Keep. Jeff and…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jeff Vines turns biblical passages and ancient Jewish observances into direct Christian teaching with clear consequences for belief and daily conduct.
Jeff Vines builds each message around a biblical passage, then keeps pressing until its theological claim becomes a practical demand. Today with Jeff Vines moves from Jacob's disappointed marriages to Christian dependence on God, and from Paul's language of striving toward the…
A scapegoat leaves the building, and Jeff Vines asks what that means for your guilt.
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A direct call to press on toward holiness.
This episode keeps coming back to Philippians 3 and asks a plain question: does life look any different, and has the listener moved toward holiness?
A pulpit reading of azazel, the scapegoat, and Christ's crucifixion outside the city.
This episode frames an Easter-season reading through the Jewish feasts, with the Day of Atonement's scapegoat as its central image. It follows azazel through the demand that Jesus be taken away, the crown of thorns, and the movement outside the city to Golgotha.
A Yom Kippur sermon that turns temple ritual into Christian meaning.
The episode frames Yom Kippur as a day for quiet work, solitude, introspection, and atonement, then widens the view to the high priest, the temple, and the large crowd gathered around the tent of meeting.
A forceful feast study that ties resurrection hope to present identity.
This sermon treats the fifth feast, Rosh Hashanah, as a frame for memory, resurrection, and belonging to Christ now. It moves steadily from the feasts given to God's people toward the believer's present identity, asking whether the old life is truly dead and the new one alive in…
A grounded teaching on Rosh Hashanah, gratitude, repentance, and identity as a royal priesthood.
Jeff Vines frames Rosh Hashanah through the everyday pressures of an agricultural people: rain, food, first fruits, and the steady awareness that life depends on God's provision.
A direct sermon on tithing, first fruits, and the spiritual honesty of putting God first with money.
Money becomes a test of spiritual honesty in this episode of Today with Jeff Vines, as Malachi 3's promise of overflowing blessing leads into the uneasy subject of preaching about finances.
Genesis 29 becomes a searching account of what marriage reveals when human love is asked to save.
Marriage is framed here as a test of where people look for rescue. Through Genesis 29, the episode follows Jacob's hope that Rachel will save him and Leah's search for healing, tracing the harm that comes when a spouse or family is asked to provide meaning, restoration, and…

Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
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This episode features Pastor Jeff Fiennes discussing how to recognize God's voice in our lives, based on biblical teachings from Genesis, Hebrews, and 2 Peter, as part of a series on prayer and spiritual revival.
This episode concludes a series on 'The Blessed Life' by emphasizing that following Jesus requires loving him above all else, based on teachings from John chapter 21.
Pastor Jeff Vines discusses the biblical principle of tithing in part one of a series on living dangerously with finances.
Pastor Jeff Vines uses the biblical story of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel to analyze marriage problems rooted in unrealistic expectations.
This episode explores how personal insecurities and misconceptions about God can hinder one's ability to hear God's voice, offering biblical insights and practical advice for improving spiritual communication.
This episode continues a sermon exploring the parallels between Joseph and Jesus, focusing on how God uses adversity for divine purposes.
This episode explores the biblical story of Joseph from Genesis, connecting it to Jesus and God's plan to use adversity to fulfill promises to Abraham.
Pastor Jeff Fiennes continues a series on living dangerously, focusing on lessons from Job's trials and the importance of trusting God's sovereignty and design in chaos.
This episode features Pastor Jeff Fiennes discussing the biblical book of Job to explore how to maintain faith and trust in God during personal tragedies and unexpected life challenges.
This episode continues a Christian teaching series on biblical financial principles, focusing on tithing and obedience to God's commands in Malachi chapter 3.
This episode features Pastor Jeff Fiennes discussing the biblical perspective on finances, focusing on tithing and the spiritual implications of money management from a Christian worldview.
Pastor Jeff Fiennes continues a Christian message about surrendering to God, pursuing holiness, and rediscovering spiritual vitality through prayer and Bible study.
Jeff Fiennes opens by naming the pull of failure, guilt, and the devil’s accusations.
Today with Jeff Fiennes continues the "Eat and Remember" series with a message from Leviticus 16 on the Day of Atonement.
Jeff Vines stays with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Jeff Fiennes takes up the fifth feast, Rosh Hashanah, and uses it to show why God set these appointed times among his people.
The teaching arrives at Rosh Hashanah after tracing how the biblical feasts helped God's people remember what God had done and what would happen near the end of time.