This is a sermon from guest preacher, Joseph Bianco.

“Mary was a mere Palestinian peasant girl, but God chose her as an agent through whom the divine promise would be fulfilled in the person of Jesus, the Son of God… She is blessed, not because she is pregnant, or because of any intrinsic holiness or merit but because God’s salvific purposes are being accomplished through her. Mary thus becomes one i…

“Christmas highlights for us the failures and the futility of all our kings, all our heroes, and even our own lives; which would make for a sad holiday if it weren't about the coming of a greater King, a greater David, Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings; everything David should have been and was not.” – Joshua Reitano…

“The forward-looking character of faith lends solidness to the realm of Christian hope. Faith celebrates now the reality of future blessings which are certain because they are grounded in the promise of God. For the Christian it is the future, not the past, that molds the present.” – William L. Lane, Hebrews: A Call to Commitment, 158-159.…

Pitt Class of 2025 defensive back Cole Woodson from Haymarket, Va. discusses signing with the Panthers on the PGHSN PULSE.Di Nathan Breisinger

“Despite the vicissitudes of history, God is keeping his promise to provide a seed to destroy the serpent.” – Bruce K. Waltke, Genesis, 101.

“The final verses of the book tell us that the mark of those who have been immersed in the grace of God is compassion and love, not contempt, for people who aren’t like them. God challenges Jonah for confronting profane, ungodly people without weeping and compassion. Certainly error and evil must be denounced. However, God is both just and loving, …

Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt football's loss against Clemson, recent recruiting news and the upcoming Louisville matchup.Di Nathan Breisinger

“A Jonah lurks in every Christian heart, whimpering his insidious message of smug prejudice, empty traditionalism, and exclusive solidarity. He that has ears to hear, let him hear and allow the saving love of God which has been outpoured in his own heart to remold his thinking and social orientation.” – Leslie C. Allen, The Books of Joel, Obadiah, …

On this episode of the PGHSN PULSE, Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt's tough loss against Virginia and the upcoming matchup with No. 20 Clemson.Di Nathan Breisinger

This is a sermon from guest preacher, Gavin Breeden.

On the latest edition of the PGHSN PULSE, Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt football's loss at SMU and how it will respond at Virginia.Di Nathan Breisinger

Sunday's open discussion.

On the latest episode of the PGHSN PULSE, Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt football's dominant defensive performance against Syracuse, along with its upcoming top-20 matchup against SMU.Di Nathan Breisinger

“Man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit for the grace of Christ. The proper preparation for the grace and goodness of Christ is the awareness that I need them.” – Martin Luther

Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt football's ACC matchup with the Syracuse Orange in primetime on Thursday night.Di Nathan Breisinger

“Jonah had come face-to-face with death, had experienced God’s grace toward an obstinate rebel, and had affirmed that ‘salvation comes from the LORD.’ Yet he still had the audacity to deny certain groups,… faced with the same reality of death, that same mercy. Thus chapter 2 plays a vital role in the author’s characterization of Jonah by showing, i…

Nathan Breisinger is joined by Brentaro Yamane to discuss a pivotal Week 8 of WPIAL football action.Di Nathan Breisinger

Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt football's victory over Cal, midseason MVPs and the upcoming schedule.Di Nathan Breisinger

“… if there is a God who cares about us, and who wants to reveal himself to us, and to use supernatural events as a pointer to his revelation (which is the most common purpose of these events in the Bible), it makes plenty of sense to suppose that he did so in such a way that there would be testimony, and there is no need to suppose that he would d…

ACC Network Analyst Eric Mac Lain joins the PGHSN PULSE to discuss Pitt football's success through five games and its upcoming matchup with the Cal Golden Bears.Di Nathan Breisinger

Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss Pitt football's victory at North Carolina, its first 5-0 start since 1991 and their new ranking at No. 22.Di Nathan Breisinger

"God is love. This means more than ‘God is loving’ or that God sometimes loves. It means that he loves, not because he finds objects worthy of his love, but because it is his nature to love. His love for us depends not on what we are, but on what he is. He loves us because he is that kind of God, because he is love.” – Leon Morris, “1 John”, in New…

On the newest edition of the PGHSN PULSE, Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig discuss the return of running back Rodney Hammond Jr. against North Carolina.Di Nathan Breisinger

“If we say ‘I believe in Jesus’ but it doesn’t affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven’t truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.” – Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God, 124.

Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig from Pittsburgh Sports Now talk Pitt football's first 4-0 start since 2000, along with biggest surprises and new expectations after four games.Di Nathan Breisinger

Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig recap the epic Backyard Brawl win for Pitt over West Virginia, recruiting impact, new season trajectory and Youngstown State matchup.Di Nathan Breisinger

The first episode of the Pittsburgh Sports Now Football Pulse features Nathan Breisinger and Karl Ludwig previewing all you need to know for the Backyard Brawl matchup between Pitt and West VirginiaDi Nathan Breisinger

“…individualism is a cultural system with many advantages. Yet recent culture seems to have crossed the line from individualism to hyperindividualism. For example, the self-focsued phrases are not just individualistic – they’re also, well, wrong. ‘Just be yourself’ sounds like good advice at first, but what if you’re a jerk? What if you’re a serial…

“Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.” – William Penn

“Money is like sea water. The more you drink, the thirstier you become.” – Roman Proverb

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” – John Bunyan

This is a sermon from the guest preacher, Gavin Breeden.

Today's open discussion.

This is a sermon from the guest preacher, Rodger Woodworth.

This is a sermon from the guest preacher, Rodger Woodworth.

“A Christian life in which we simply orient our lives around the teachings and example of Jesus with no real expectation of his bodily return to this earth is not the Christian life at all. The orientation of a Christian is leaning forward in anticipation of the next big event on the calendar of redemptive history: the second coming of Jesus Christ…

“This picture of the new creation as a garden keeps us from expecting that this world is ever going to fully satisfy us. We’re thirsty for the living water. We’re hungry for the fruit of the tree of life. We long for the full and complete satisfaction that awaits us in the new and greater garden to come.” – Nancy Guthrie, Blessed, 237.…

“…to be heavenly minded is to live in light of the age to come. To maintain a heavenly orientation is not to withdraw from the earthly creation but rather to view the earthly in light of the heavenly.” – Michael D. Williams, Far As the Curse is Found, 301.

“God is portrayed in Revelation, not as uncontrollably angry, but as inexorably just. God’s faithfulness to the creation, all humanity, and the church leads to the divine war against evil, Empire, and their lies, represented by the unholy trinity and named ‘Babylon.’ The three members of that unholy triumvirate together meet their final fate, along…

“Evil must be destroyed, not only for the sake of God’s justice, but for the sake of the purity of the new world.” – Vern S. Poythress, The Returning King, 175.

“Brides who are in love can’t stop talking about the bridegroom. This is how we know we are really prepared for the wedding: we find that we can’t keep from talking about our bridegroom.” – Nancy Guthrie, Blessed, 200.

"The proper response to the vision is not fatalism but 'an altered life'... When readers become aware of their own complicity in the practices of the empire portrayed as Babylon and distance themselves from its ways, the vision has the effect for which it was written." —Craig R. Koester

"Revelation as a whole is a call to patient endurance as we wait for our king, the Lamb, our bridegroom, to come. And inherent in that patient endurance is faithfulness. To wait is going to require that we refuse the advances of any other lovers who seek to seduce us." —Nancy Guthrie

This week's sermon on Revelation 15-16. We apologize for the cutoff sermon. There was an issue with the recording.

"This blessing is promised to those who 'die in the Lord.' And for a person to 'die in the Lord' requires that they lived in the Lord." — Nancy Guthrie

This week's sermon from guest preacher Derek Bates.

"We are not looking for figures by predicting specific persons in the future; rather, we are looking for images of dragon-like leaders at work in all societies and all times. They are puppets, whose strings are pulled by the dragon. Remember, these images are not about predicting the future, but about shaping our perceptions of the present.” – Scot…

Today's open discussion.

"It is possible that people can refuse to believe [the Bible's] testimony, functioning as if Jesus' tomb has a No Vacancy sign hanging outside it. It is also possible that we verbally affirm the resurrection and still fail to be changed by it. The Spirit's work is essential. But when he works... the resurrection radically transforms our lives. The …