OneTwo Church at South Padre Island

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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

    No Power In The Pool

    Send us Fan Mail Waiting for the “right moment” can become its own kind of prison. We open with a story about a famous baseball curse and the way people cling to rituals, lucky breaks, and repeatable formulas when they feel powerless, then we turn to John 5 and the Pool of Bethesda, where a man has been stuck for 38 years hoping the water will move at the perfect time. We walk through the text and name the deeper issue: the pool is a picture of performance-based Christianity and religious solutions that promise change but cannot supply life. We talk about how rules expose sin without defeating it, why self-imposed regulations can actually feed pride and shame, and how legalism leaves people exhausted. Then we pivot to the heart of the gospel: Jesus does not tell the man to try harder or wait longer. He asks, “Do you want to be made well?” and He gives a command that requires faith for the impossible. From there, we dig into grace, identity in Christ, and the Holy Spirit as the real source of transformation. If you feel condemned, stuck in a cycle, or convinced you are not “good enough,” this is a practical reset toward relationship over religion, trust over luck, and rest over striving. If this encouraged you, subscribe, share it with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review so more people can find the message. What “pool” are you tempted to trust instead of Jesus? Support the show

    No Power In The Pool

  2. Sep 14

    If You Know, You Know

    Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever wondered, “Do I really believe?” or “Why won’t God just give me a sign?” you’re not alone. We start with the uncomfortable reality that a lot of us treat prayer like a transaction: if we say the right words, with enough emotion, God will finally deliver the miracle we want. But Jesus refuses to be handled like a vending machine. And strangely, the crowds who demand the most signs often end up missing Him entirely.  We walk through John 4 and the sharp contrast between two groups: the Samaritans who believe Jesus simply because of His word, and the Galileans who “receive” Him because they’ve seen spectacular works. We pull in Matthew 13, Mark 6, and Luke 4 to show how hometown familiarity turns into offense and unbelief, and why Jesus’ humility doesn’t match people’s expectations of power. Along the way, we tell a fresh story from our friend Brett about praying through intense eye pain and experiencing real relief, not as a formula, but as a glimpse of grace and trust.  Then we slow down on one of the clearest pictures of faith in the Gospels: a nobleman who walks about 30 miles to Cana because his son is dying, and Jesus heals the child without traveling anywhere. One sentence carries the whole message: “Your son lives.” We talk about why Jesus’ word is enough, why belief is a present-tense “continue,” and how the Bible becomes the place where faith grows strong. If this challenged you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s chasing answers, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. What are you asking Jesus for right now? Support the show

    If You Know, You Know

  3. Sep 8

    Forget Your Waterspout

    Send us Fan Mail Forget the safe, careful version of faith that always keeps a backup plan. We open John 4 with a blunt question: what happens when Jesus goes all in for us and then asks us to stop clinging to the “water pot” we keep dragging around? The Samaritan woman’s story is not just a Bible scene about a well, it’s a map of spiritual thirst, living water, and the moment a guarded heart finally lets itself be satisfied by Christ. We talk about why the disciples nearly miss the biggest revelation in the passage because they are distracted by culture, religion, and what feels acceptable. From there we get honest about prejudice: who do we avoid, who would we secretly feel relieved to never talk to about the gospel, and what boxes have we put people in? We also push back on modern relativism and make the case that truth matters, that Scripture can be trusted, and that we can love everyone without pretending every belief is equally true. Then the cross moves to the center. Colossians 2:14 names what grace does with the record of charges against us, and we connect that to Jonah’s struggle with mercy for enemies. When the cross lands in the heart, it produces what programs cannot: real love, real joy, and a kind of witness that sounds like, “Come and see.” We close with the harvest imagery, salvation by faith in Jesus, and 2 Corinthians 5’s call to live as ambassadors of reconciliation. If this stirred something in you, subscribe for more, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review so more people can find the message of living water. What “water pot” do you need to put down this week? Support the show

    Forget Your Waterspout

  4. Aug 31

    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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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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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