Dewey Bertolini's Podcast

The picture that you are about to hear me paint in this PODCAST is my Single. Favorite. Scriptural. Snapshot of Jesus, second to none. Courtesy of our old friend, Peter, who was onsite and who witnessed this up close and far too personal in real time as it happened. I have a hunch that after hearing this, you will never think of Jesus in quite the same way again. May my stuttering and stammering words be a blessing in your life. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

You—YOU!!!—are being prayed for. Right now. Today. Every day. Every minute of every day. As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, you are being prayed for. What a glorious truth. What a soul-sustaining reality. What a blessed assurance. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

I mentioned it only briefly, in passing really, last week. Time to talk about it in earnest this week. As you will hear in this PODCAST, THIS is our hope. A bright and beautiful hope indeed! BTW, the cheering you will hear in the background are the precious high school students whom I met at Hartland Christian Camp in July. A better group of students you will not find. Anywhere. May it be a blessing, to you as it was to them. Enjoy. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

One final picture. As you will hear in this PODCAST, there is embedded within the pages of the Old Testament one standout picture (one among so many) that we must consider together. 50 chapters were devoted to the painting of this one picture. (By way of contrast, do you remember how many chapters are devoted to painting the picture of the creation of the world? Two!) When it came to painting the picture of Christ dying for our sins once for all time, God—forgive the cliché—spared no expense in painting this one. This podcast—my stuttering, stumbling, verbal depiction of this painting—is singularly dedicated to the enrichment of your soul. Enjoy! Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, there is no more precious a proclamation, made by Peter to us, in the entire Bible than this one. Nor is there a more precious a picture, painted by God Himself, of this proclamation, than this one. My earnest prayer is that this message may be a blessing in your life today. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

Once again, while I am away speaking (at my final conference of the summer), I have not left you Podcast-less! Welcome to Decision Night at Hartland Christian Camp. As you will hear in the PODCAST, even though this message was not delivered at Safe Haven, it is the perfect followup to last week’s discussion of Passover. I mentioned last week, and will remind you now, that before His arrest, Jesus had to keep a divine appointment in the Garden of Gethsemane. I didn’t explain that then; I do explain it now. If you want to know what it meant for Jesus to bear the weight of your sin (and mine), this is THE picture of exactly what that meant. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, a more precious and precise portrait of Jesus has never been painted. A picture worth thousands of words. Here you will hear a few hundred of mine. Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.” May we remember never to forget. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

“Once for all time.” As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, a more precious premise has never been written. “Once for all time.” What does it mean to you? What does it mean to me? If it’s meaning doesn’t send your soul singing, nothing will. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

It is without a doubt one of the weirdest passages in all of the Bible. As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, Peter’s words in 1 Peter 3 present to us a theological oddity, certainly a curiosity, an enigmatic phrase that focuses our attention on that time frame between Not-So-Good-Friday and Easter Sunday, and for good measure invokes the memory of Noah and the Flood. What in the world is going on here? And what does it mean to us today? Get ready for a fantastical journey from which Jesus emerges victorious. He wins! And when He wins, we win! Enjoy! Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

I’m coming off of an absolutely exhilarating week with some of the finest high schoolers you’d ever want to meet. This at a place near and dear to my heart called Hartland Christian Camp. For this week’s PODCAST, this is my Wednesday morning message from last week at Hartland. Enjoy!!! Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

While you are enjoying this PODCAST, I have the privilege of speaking to the greatest group of High School students you’d ever want to meet—the heaven-sent and happy campers at Hartland Christian Camp. Be encouraged. There is hope. Hope for anyone and everyone who has ever appeared to be beyond redemption. You are about to see a snapshot of Jesus that you will hopefully never, ever forget. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

You’re gonna love this!!! At least, I sure do. As you will hear on this PODCAST, Jesus’s words, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light” freed me from YEARS of enormous guilt. Think of this as Peter Puts on a Personal Evangelism Clinic, all in just two simple-yet-profound sentences. Oh, and for good measure, at no extra charge, we will reduce all of Jesus’ teaching regarding our character as Christ-followers to one salient soundbite of but a lean-and-mean four, one-syllable words. Trust me. You’re gonna LOVE this! Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

I am in Carson City this weekend, honored to perform the wedding of my beloved niece, Amanda. (CONGRATULATIONS Amanda and Andrew!) But as you will hear in this PODCAST, this encore message is as timely and needed and comforting and encouraging and hope-sustaining today as it was when I first gave it so many months ago. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

Do why DID Peter have to write this? As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, why do we need to read and heed this? We’ve hit a milestone in our 1 Peter in HD series. This marks the halfway point. 2 1/2 chapters down; 2 1/2 chapters to go! Four times in 2 1/2 chapters, Peter makes this heartfelt plea. He does so for a very good reason. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

As you will hear in this PODCAST, there is a myth so commonly taught that it has almost become cliché. So universal is this teaching that if I echoed it in this message, very few would even question it. Yet, it is one of the most exhaustingly exasperating, or self-exalting teachings we could ever hear. And in that sense, it can often be diabolically defeating for any Christian. Perhaps even for you. Give this a listen, and see what you think. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

While I am both honored and humbled to teach some precious people at camp, I have not left you PODCAST-less. THIS is one of the most powerful and profound messages in all of Scripture: How to Survive—Yeah, verily—to THRIVE in the desert. You are in for a life-altering, paradigm-shifting tour of the biblical stage that will change the way you read and understand your Bible. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

While I am speaking at a summer camp this week, I have not left you without a PODCAST. You are about to meet a most-remarkable woman, and a not-so-remarkable man. Most importantly, through this encounter, you will meet a gentle Jesus whose love is the most remarkable aspect of this story. Enjoy!!! Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

For reasons that you will hear in this PODCAST, this past week has arguably been the single most emotionally-challenging period in my precious bride’s and my 43 years of marriage. Consequently, in God’s good providence, Peter’s words in 1 Peter 3 came at just the right time. For my family. And very possibly, for yours. Enjoy. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

As you will hear in the PODCAST, I do have a dream. A modest dream. Yet modest though it may be, an increasingly illusive-if-not-impossible dream. Won’t you please help my dream to come true? Ironically, your response to this message will either nudge my dream to its fulfillment, or cast my dream upon the ash heap of impossible dreams. (No pressure!) Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST… It is today as it was then. Sadly so. Tragically so. Abusively so. BUT (I am thrilled to say) UNNECESSARILY so. May this much-needed change begin right here, right now, with us. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.