OneTwo Church at South Padre Island

Shawn Reinsel
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OneTwo Church is located in South Padre Island, TX.  We study the Word of God with passion and a deep commitment to the New Covenant of Grace.  Join us as we journey through the Bible verse by verse together.  

  1. 6d ago

    Cold Water on a Hot Day

    Send us Fan Mail Thirst is obvious in August, but spiritual thirst can hide under success, stress, shame, or the constant need for something new. We open John 4 at Jacob’s well and watch Jesus do something no one expects: he walks straight through Samaria, sits down tired and thirsty, and starts a gentle conversation with a Samaritan woman everyone else avoids. From the first request for a drink, he builds a bridge to a bigger offer, a free gift from God that can actually satisfy.  We dig into the real-world friction behind Jews and Samaritans, why religious confusion is not a barrier to Jesus, and why we have to be careful with bad theology by measuring everything against Scripture. Then the story turns personal. Jesus offers “living water” that becomes a spring inside us, pointing to the Holy Spirit and the kind of life you cannot buy, earn, or manufacture. We connect the promise of living water across the Bible, from Jesus’ public invitation to the final picture of the river of life in Revelation.  The warning lands hard: when we abandon the fountain of living water, we dig cracked cisterns that cannot hold anything, the empty fixes we run to when we stop trusting Christ. Jesus exposes sin without condemnation, calls us toward confession, and shows that worship is not about the right place or the right performance, but spirit and truth. The moment he says, “I who speak to you am He,” everything becomes clear: the gift is Jesus himself.  If you feel dry, distant, or done trying to hold it all together, listen through to the invitation and prayer. Subscribe, share this with a friend who is thirsty for hope, and leave a review so more people can find the story of the living water. Support the show

    Cold Water on a Hot Day

  2. Aug 24

    Out With the Old, In With the New

    Send us Fan Mail The silence right before a courtroom verdict is a special kind of dread and we use that image to name a fear a lot of people quietly carry about God: that He’s watching, waiting, and ready to declare us guilty. Then John 3 interrupts that storyline with a shock of good news. Jesus doesn’t arrive to condemn the world; He comes to rescue it, and that changes what church, faith, and repentance even mean. We walk line by line through John 3:17-21 and talk about why “light” can feel threatening when we’re protecting our secrets, our reputation, or our self-made righteousness. The problem underneath isn’t only behavior, it’s shame, and shame always tries to rewrite your identity. We talk about how the cross deals with sin so completely that you don’t have to hide anymore, and why confession is simply bringing what’s real into the light so grace can do what it does best: cleanse, restore, and rebuild a person from the inside out. From there we move to John 3:22-36 and John the Baptist’s joyful refusal to compete with Jesus. “He must increase, but I must decrease” isn’t a call to disappear; it’s the old covenant way of performance, scorekeeping, and striving stepping aside for the new covenant of grace. We also hit the phrase that changes how you think about spiritual power: God does not give the Spirit by measure, which means you don’t beg for scraps from a reluctant Father. If you’re tired of trying to earn what Jesus already offers, press play, share this with a friend who’s stuck in shame, and then subscribe and leave a review so more people can find the freedom of grace. Support the show

    Out With the Old, In With the New

  3. Aug 23

    Nick at Night Part 4: The Gift

    Send us Fan Mail John 3:16 is printed on signs, cups, and jerseys, but we wanted to sit with it like Nicodemus did, in the dark, hearing Jesus say it for the first time. “God so loved the world” isn’t sentimental language, it’s a worldview demolition for a man who assumed God’s love had a fence around it. We walk line by line through John 3:16–17 and ask the questions it forces: Who is included in “world,” what does God’s love actually do, and why does Jesus insist he came to save instead of condemn? From there we get painfully honest about sin and justice. If the standard is perfection, we all end up in the same sinking boat, and love can’t just look away. That’s where the gospel turns from guilt to rescue: forgiveness isn’t powered by how sorry we feel, but by the value of the blood of Jesus. We talk about what “believe” really means, why there’s no other lifeboat, and how everlasting life is more than duration, it’s a new kind of life with God. We also connect “only begotten Son” to Genesis 22 and the story of Abraham and Isaac, showing how surrender, sacrifice, and provision point forward to the cross. If shame has been used to keep you trapped, we end with the good news that condemnation isn’t the point, freedom is, and the right response is praise. Subscribe for more sermons through the Gospel of John, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Support the show

    Nick at Night Part 4: The Gift

  4. Aug 10

    Nick at Night Part 3: The Snake

    Send us Fan Mail A bronze snake on a wooden pole is not the kind of image you expect Jesus to use to explain salvation. Yet in John 3:14-15, He reaches back to Numbers 21 and says the way Moses lifted up the serpent is the way the Son of Man must be lifted up. We follow that thread and discover why the Bible treats unbelief as more than “having doubts” and why God’s rescue can look strange before it feels like love. We walk through Israel’s wilderness moment when discouragement turns into accusations, memory loss, and cravings for what slavery used to offer. The complaint sounds familiar: “no food,” “no water,” “this provision is worthless.” We unpack how unbelief distorts reality, how it keeps us wandering far longer than we need to, and why faith is not a private preference but a relational response to a God who is actually good. Along the way we talk about repentance, humility, prayer, and the hard truth that consequences can function like mercy when they wake us up. Then we zoom in on God’s remedy: a bronze serpent lifted up so that anyone who looks lives. Bronze, judgment. Serpent, sin. Wood, the cross. That’s the gospel in picture form, and it leads to real assurance of salvation, not the exhausting “I hope I’ve done enough” kind of religion. We also tell the Charles Spurgeon story where one repeated line breaks through a storm of fear: “Look to Me and be saved.” If this helped you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs peace, and leave a review so more people can find the message of grace. What does “looking to Jesus” look like in your life right now? Support the show

    Nick at Night Part 3: The Snake

  5. Aug 3

    Nick at Night Part 2: The Wind

    Send us Fan Mail Nicodemus shows up at night with the kind of questions many of us carry in the daylight: What do I do? How does this work? What’s the step-by-step? Jesus answers with a line that cuts through every performance plan: you must be born again. Not improved. Not upgraded. Made new.  We dig into John 3:4–15 and follow Nicodemus as he tries to solve spiritual reality with natural logic, only to discover the hard limit of the flesh. We unpack “born of water and the Spirit,” why the flesh can only produce flesh, and why the gospel is not a religious self-help program. Then we connect it to the burnout so many Christians feel when we try to manufacture a Spirit-led life by willpower, rules, and constant striving. Galatians 3:2–3 becomes the gut check: if we received the Spirit by faith, why would we think growth happens by grit?  Jesus’ wind illustration brings the whole message home. The Holy Spirit is real, personal, and powerful, but not controllable or engineerable. That means the doorway into life with God is humility and trust, like a child taking a Father’s hand. We also talk about Jesus’ authority as the one who came from heaven, using a vivid “astronaut who’s actually been there” picture to show why his testimony deserves our trust.  If you’ve been asking, “Why am I so tired?” or “Why can’t I make this work?” press play and let this reset your framework. Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review with the biggest question you’re still carrying. Support the show

    Nick at Night Part 2: The Wind

  6. Jul 27

    Nick at Night Part 1: Born Again

    Send us Fan Mail You can do everything “right” and still miss the point, and that is exactly the tension driving our walk through John 3. We start with the fallout from Jesus flipping tables in the temple and show why his anger targets religiosity, not honest seekers. Then we zoom out to the world Nicodemus lives in: Rome’s oppression, the pressure to prove you belong, and the endless theories about what the Messiah should do.  Nicodemus shows up at night with real curiosity and real stakes: Who are you, Jesus, and how does someone get to heaven? Jesus bypasses the checklist and drops a line that still offends our inner rule keeper: unless you are born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God. We talk about what new birth means, why it is not self improvement, and how salvation by grace through faith undercuts every identity built on birthright, effort, tradition, or religious performance.  From there we get painfully practical. We unpack “born this way” as a universal human condition in Adam, not a one issue argument, and we separate identity in Christ from the flesh patterns we learned to cope with shame and pain. We also camp on assurance: forgiven once for all, repentance as a mind change, and new creation as the only credential that counts. If you’ve ever wondered whether you are truly saved or felt trapped in the cycle of trying harder, this one is for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs clarity on the gospel, leave a review, and tell us: what keeps people stuck in performance religion today? Support the show

    Nick at Night Part 1: Born Again

  7. Jul 20

    Cleaning Day

    Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever heard the story of Jesus flipping tables and thought, “So is God angry at me?” we go straight at that fear and let the Gospel of John answer it. We’re in John 2, where Jesus walks into Passover and finds worship buried under business, money changing, and gatekeeping. The shock isn’t that Jesus is intense. The shock is what the temple had started saying about God: that access is purchased, that grace has a price tag, and that the house meant to welcome the nations can be crowded out by transactions. We slow down and connect the moment to Passover, where God rescues people through substitution. The blood of the lamb covers a home, not because the family is impressive, but because God provides a way to satisfy justice without destroying the sinner. That thread runs through the gospel, the “glorious exchange,” and the truth that God is a giver. We also call out the modern version of the same lie: using spiritual pressure to sell blessings, turning generosity into a bargain with God. Then we bring it home. Scripture says we are now God’s dwelling, the temple of the Holy Spirit, which means our lives represent what God is like. Jesus doesn’t confront us to crush us, but to remind us we’re not slaves to the old system anymore. When leaders demand a sign, Jesus points to the ultimate proof: his death and resurrection, the end of the old temple system and the opening of real access to God. If this helps you breathe again, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s tired of performance-based religion, and leave a review so more people can find it. Support the show

    Cleaning Day

  8. Jul 13

    The First Miracle: Water to Wine

    Send us Fan Mail Life can look fine on the outside while something essential goes missing on the inside. We start by naming that loss of joy, not as a mood, but as a deep hunger that can slide into numbness, coping, and even a cold kind of religion that says “do the right things” while the heart stays dry. Then we open John 2 and sit at a wedding in Cana where the celebration runs out of wine, and we argue that this is not mainly a story about party logistics. It is a story about what happens when the world runs out of the joy it was made for. We walk through why weddings carry so much meaning in Scripture, how shame and dishonor hang over the moment, and why Jesus chooses this exact setting for his first sign. We also slow down at a key detail: Mary tells the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it,” then steps back. That leads into a direct conversation about prayer, mediation, and why the New Testament presents Jesus as the one mediator who brings us straight to the Father. From there, the miracle gets even sharper. The six stone water pots used for purification rituals are empty, and we treat them as a picture of law-based performance that cleans the outside but cannot cleanse the heart. When Jesus fills them to the brim and turns water into the best wine, we see the shift from law to grace, from rituals to reality, from forgiveness alone to a whole new life. Wine points to blood, blood points to life, and the new covenant of grace offers union with Christ that restores real joy. If you feel dry, tired, or stuck in spiritual performance, hit play and come back to the “good wine” that lasts. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Support the show

    The First Miracle: Water to Wine
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OneTwo Church is located in South Padre Island, TX.  We study the Word of God with passion and a deep commitment to the New Covenant of Grace.  Join us as we journey through the Bible verse by verse together.  

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