Ancient Truth for the Modern Heart
A place to consider God’s voice in the old familiar stories and find how those ancient words still speak into our lives today. Here we will explore history, themes, candid thoughts, messages, and generally celebrate the bible being alive! Each episode will have a slightly different flavor!
Episodes
31 episodes
S2 Ep.20-"Follow Me" Part I: Matthew
Two words can expose what we’ve been hiding behind for years. When Jesus looks at Matthew sitting at a tax booth and says, “Follow me,” he isn’t offering a lecture or a checklist, he’s offering himself. I walk through Matthew 9:9-13 and why thi...
S2 Ep.19-Summer Joys!
Summer has a way of making everything feel more alive, and that includes the parts of us that have been running on empty. From open windows and birdsong to gardens, thunderstorms, and fireflies at dusk, we lean into the question many of us quie...
S2 Ep.18-Everyday Faith
Nobody talks much about Anna, the wife of Tobit, and that’s exactly why I can’t stop thinking about her. She doesn’t part seas or stand before kings. She works, worries, carries a household through financial strain, and loves her family with th...
S2 Ep.17-The Miracle Was Not The Wine
Mother’s Day can feel like a celebration and a wound in the same breath. If you’re carrying gratitude, grief, distance, longing, or all of it at once, you belong here.I reflect on biblical motherhood as something far bigger than biology...
S2 Ep16- Stepping In and Making It So
When everything feels uncertain, most of us reach for a map. I reach for something steadier. John 14 opens with words that don’t shame our anxiety, they name it: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.” From there, I reflect on what faith looks li...
S2 Ep.15-The Good Shepherd
You can do everything “right” and still not know what’s next. That’s the tension I sit with today: our deep desire for a clear plan, and the reality that life with God often feels like walking forward without a map. Rather than forcing quick an...
S2 Ep14.-Locked Doors And A Peace That Enters
Locked doors can be physical, but most of ours are emotional: fear we can’t shake, grief that still feels close, questions that keep circling even after we’ve heard good news. We start with John 20:19–29 and step into the room with the disciple...
S2 Ep.13-Peace Behind Locked Doors
The empty tomb is only the beginning, and that’s what makes the days after Easter so honest. Fear doesn’t evaporate overnight. Questions don’t instantly resolve. The disciples gather behind locked doors, trying to make sense of what changed, an...
S2 Easter-The Love That Returns
Easter doesn’t always land like fireworks. Sometimes it shows up before the day gets loud, while grief is still in the air and the questions haven’t loosened their grip. We sit with that honest edge of the resurrection story where the tomb is o...
S2 Good Friday-The Love That Does Not Leave
Good Friday doesn’t ask us to understand everything. It asks us to stay. When the road grows quieter and the story turns toward the hill and the cross, we face a moment that feels heavy, honest, and strangely important for the modern heart....
S2 Maundy Thursday-A Table, A Towel, A Command
The loudest day of Holy Week gives way to the quietest kind of power: a shared meal, a simple cup, and a towel in the hands of Jesus. I’m Steve Pozzato, and this reflection lingers with Maundy Thursday, where faith isn’t performed in a crowd bu...
S2 Palm Sunday: Hosanna! Peace Comes Home
Hosanna is a beautiful word until you realize how much you’re loading into it. When the crowd welcomes Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they’re not clueless, they’re desperate for change. And if we’re honest, so are we. We want the breakthr...
S2 Ep. 8-Who Are You Becoming On The Road
The road you’re on is doing more than carrying you forward, it’s changing you. Lent begins with walking, but it keeps going until it reaches something most of us both want and resist: transformation. I’m Steve Pizzato, and I’m inviting you to s...
S2 Ep.7-Sheep Are Bad At Relaxing And So Are We
Psalm 23 is everywhere, but we often hear it at the one moment it was never meant to be limited to. I’m Steve Pizzato, and I want to sit with this psalm as a companion for the middle of life, when the road stretches longer than we expected and ...
S2 Ep. 6- "Will you give me a drink?"
A hot noon, an empty jar, and a question that disarms: “Will you give me a drink?” We walk to Jacob’s well and linger there, not to rehearse a scandal but to face the ache we recognize in ourselves—thirst that keeps returning no matter how ofte...
S2 Ep.5 When Faith Begins In The Dark
Questions tend to show up after dark, when the noise fades and honesty has room to speak. We step into that quiet with Nicodemus—respected, thoughtful, and unsure—who meets Jesus at night and leaves with a reimagined path to change. Instead of ...
S2 Ep.4 Bread Isn’t Bad, But It’s Not The Point
Start where few of us would choose: the wilderness. We open Lent by tracing Jesus’ path through hunger, power, and the urge to demand a sign—and we discover why these same temptations stalk modern life through quick fixes, control, and certaint...
S2 Ash Wednesday: Ashes And Honesty
A smudge on the forehead can feel small, but it opens a wide door. We explore Ash Wednesday as a truthful beginning to Lent—less about performance, more about presence—drawing on the ancient use of ashes as signs of grief, humility, and honest ...
S2 Ep.3 Where God Waits: Inside The Work Of Mercy
What if the fast God desires looks less like somber faces and more like shared bread, loosened yokes, and mended relationships? We open Isaiah 58 and let it reframe Lent from private sacrifice to public love, from spiritual mood to concrete mer...
S2 Ep.2 Give Up? Nah...Give Out!
What if Lent isn’t about subtracting pleasures but adding presence? We open our hearts to a gentler, braver path into the season by sitting with Matthew 25 and its plain, searching vision of faithfulness: feeding, welcoming, clothing, visiting....
S2 Ep.1 When God Feels Quiet
What if the quiet you’re hearing isn’t absence, but invitation? We open season two by stepping into 1 Samuel 3 and the tender moment God calls a sleepy apprentice by name. The word was rare, the lamps were still lit, the rituals kept going—yet ...
S1 Ep. 10- I Am Making All Things New
Greetings, Friends!Welcome to Episode 10 of the podcast, and I hope you are all well. In this final episode in the "In the Beginning...Again" series, we look into Revelation a little bit. Revelation is a book filled with so man...
S1 Ep. 9- Go, and Begin Again
Friends, welcome back to Ancient Truth for the Modern Heart!! I am thrilled you are here once again! This week we look further into God's beginnings...into freedom, justice, and peace. This week we look at how Rev. Dr....