Wisdom for the Heart

Stephen Davey

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Verse-by-verse Bible teaching with weight.

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Wisdom for the Heart presents Stephen Davey’s Scripture teaching in a steady sermon format. Episodes move from close readings of Exodus, Romans, and 1 Peter into questions of faith, repentance, endurance, sin, and daily obedience.

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About Wisdom for the Heart

Wisdom for the Heart is a Christian Bible teaching program with the shape of a sustained sermon rather than a roundtable or interview show. Stephen Davey’s messages move carefully through Scripture, often asking listeners to turn to a passage, notice a phrase, and follow the argument across related texts. The pace is measured. The emphasis is conviction. Recent episodes work through Exodus, Romans, and 1 Peter, using Moses, David, Adam, Christ, and Christians as lenses for spiritual formation. The show is especially interested in what Scripture says about failure and what follows failure. Moses acts too soon. David hides guilt. Mark’s desert experience becomes part of a larger story of restoration. Davey returns to repentance, dependence, endurance, and obedience as practical consequences of the text. The teaching also spends time on Christian identity: being born again, belonging to a new family, craving God’s word, and living as visible witnesses to the gospel. It can be severe about sin and death, yet its severity is tied to a practical aim. Stories appear often. Some are biblical, some historical, and some drawn from ordinary observation. Lincoln’s integrity, Charles Spurgeon’s magazine, the Black Death, and Al Capone all appear as illustrations, but the passage remains the anchor. Wisdom for the Heart suits listeners who want Bible study with doctrinal clarity and direct application. It is not casual spirituality. It is structured, text-heavy, and unapologetically Christian. The show’s strength is its consistency: a teacher, an open Bible, a passage under examination, and a closing turn toward how faith should affect decisions, habits, worship, and repentance.

Made for: For Christians who prefer structured Bible exposition, doctrinal clarity, and practical application over conversational commentary. It also suits listeners studying Exodus, Romans, 1 Peter, or themes of repentance, faith, and endurance.

What sets it apart: The program combines close textual work with a preacher’s instinct for moral application. Its illustrations are varied, but they consistently return attention to the biblical passage rather than the speaker’s personality.

In their own words

Stephen Davey will help you learn to know what the Bible says, understand what it means, and apply it to your life as he teaches verse-by-verse through books of the Bible. Stephen is the president of Wisdom International, which provides radio broadcasts, digital content, and print resources designed to make disciples of all nations and edify followers of Jesus Christ.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Stephen Davey joins close biblical reading to direct questions about faith, conduct, repentance and spiritual formation.

Wisdom for the Heart follows Stephen Davey through biblical passages with the structure and conviction of expository preaching. Messages move through Exodus, Romans and 1 Peter, pausing over individual words, consulting parallel passages and tracing how a verse fits a larger…

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Moses needs forty desert years; your impatience gets a gentler but equally direct diagnosis.

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your Exodus study connected to Acts and Psalms without losing the thread
biblical failure treated as your classroom rather than your final verdict

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verse-by-verse Scripture expositionMoses and Exodusrepentance and guiltfaith under pressuresin and deathChristian identitythe authority of God’s wordpractical application

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Terminal! (Romans 5:12-17)Apr 15, 2026

A grave, clear look at Adam, death, and the rescue Christ brings.

Stephen Davey walks Romans 5 with a steady hand, keeping the line clear between Adam as the head of the human race and Christ as the new head believers enter by faith.

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Episodes

Every Reason to Judge (Luke 6:37)

A Different Bill of Rights Part 2 (Luke 6:27-36)

A Different Bill of Rights Part 1 (Luke 6:27-36)

Warning Signs (Luke 6:24-26)

Appetites and Attitudes for Kingdom Citizens (Luke 6:21-23)

Pulling Back the Kingdom Curtain (Luke 6:17-20)

Remember to Remember! (2 Peter 1:12-15)

Seven Guarantees for Life Part 2 (2 Peter 1:8-11)

Seven Guarantees for Life Part 1 (2 Peter 1:8-11)

The Finishing Touch Part 2 (2 Peter 1:7b)

The Finishing Touch Part 1 (2 Peter 1:7b)

How to Treat Your Relatives (2 Peter 1:7)

On the Playing Field of Life (2 Peter 1:6)

Keep Swimming! (2 Peter 1:6)

Getting a Grip on Life (2 Peter 1:6)

The Right Kind of Gold Rush (2 Peter 1:5a)

The Passionate Pursuit of Excellence (2 Peter 1:5a)

Rafting On Whitewater (2 Peter 1:3-4)

The Crowded Life (2 Peter 1:2)

What to Remember With 30 Seconds to Live (2 Peter 1:1b)

The Real Thing! (1 Peter 1:1)

The Final Song Part 2 (1 Chronicles 28-29)

The Final Song Part 1 (1 Chronicles 28-29)

Do Babies Really Go To Heaven Part 2 (2 Samuel 12:14-23)

Do Babies Really Go To Heaven Part 1 (2 Samuel 12:14-23)

Telling The Truth To God (Psalm 51)

Caught Red Handed Part 2 (2 Samuel 12)

Caught Red Handed Part 1 (2 Samuel 12)

The Cover Up Part 2 (2 Samuel 11:6-27)

The Cover Up Part 1 (2 Samuel 11:6-27)

Governed By Lessor Passions Part 2 (2 Samuel 11:1-5 )

Governed By Lessor Passions Part 1 (2 Samuel 11:1-5 )

At The Table Of Grace Part 2 (2 Samuel 9 )

At The Table Of Grace Part 1 (2 Samuel 9 )

When The Answer Is No Part 2 (2 Samuel 7)

When The Answer Is No Part 1 (2 Samuel 7)

The Last Meal Part 2 (1 Samuel 28 & 31)

The Last Meal Part 1 (1 Samuel 28 & 31)

Misled By A Misguided Heart Part 2 (1 Samuel 27, 29, 30)

Misled By A Misguided Heart Part 1 (1 Samuel 27, 29, 30)

Beauty and Two Beasts Part 2 (1 Samuel 25:1-44)

Beauty and Two Beasts Part 1 (1 Samuel 25:1-44)

The Cat and the Mouse Part 2 (1 Samuel 23-24)

The Cat and the Mouse Part 1 (1 Samuel 23-24)

The Original Robin Hood (1 Samuel 21-22)

Storm Clouds Part 2 (1 Samuel 19-20)

Storm Clouds Part 1 (1 Samuel 19-20)

Behaving Wisely Part 2 (1 Samuel 18:1-30)

Behaving Wisely Part 1 (1 Samuel 18:1-30)

David and the Sitting Duck Part 2 (1 Samuel 17)

David and the Sitting Duck Part 1 (1 Samuel 17)

An Unlikely King Part 2 (I Samuel 16:1-13)

An Unlikely King (I Samuel 16:1-13)

One Nation Under Greed (Exodus 20:17)

Cosmetics for the Tongue! (Exodus 20:16)

A Thief in the Light (Exodus 20:15)

Caging the Beast Within (Exodus 20:14)

The Industry of Death (Exodus 20:13)

A Parent's Bill of Rights (Exodus 20:12)

Sunday . . . Holy Day or Holiday (Exodus 20:8-11)

Posting Guards . . . Seasoning Words (Exodus 20:7)

No Props, Please! (Exodus 20, Romans 1)

Ten Commandments and the 21st Century (Exodus 20:1-6)

The Sinai Summit (Exodus 19)

Meekness . . . Synonym for Moses (Selected Scriptures)

Burnout (Exodus 18)

Grumbling at God (Exodus 15:22-17:7)

On the Bank of the Deep Red Sea (Exodus 13-14)

Life or Death . . . At Midnight (Exodus 11-12)

The Battle Between the Gods (Exodus 7-10)

God's Best . . . When Things Couldn't Be Worse! (Exodus 4:27-7:7)