1010 Thrive

1010 Thrive -- Home of the 1010 Podcast

A daily podcast each weekday sharing Biblical truth designed to help listeners find hope, meaning and fulfillment in life. Each weekday we air a new episode that features a devotional grounded in our 10-10 principles. Many episodes include original music and dramatizations.

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 1485: Acts of the Apostles (Part 6, Chapter 5)

    Salome recalls the years between Pentecost and James's death, filling in the human story behind the few words Acts gives him. James remained the forceful, urgent man he had always been, but his encounter with the cross and resurrection had changed the direction of that strength. He preached in Jerusalem with the same intensity that once characterized his impulsiveness, while learning something that had never come naturally to him: to surrender the timing and outcome to God. Salome also recounts the later tradition that James traveled west to Spain before eventually returning to Jerusalem, where the growing Christian movement had become increasingly visible to those in power. Under Herod Agrippa, that visibility became dangerous. Seeking political advantage, Herod began persecuting members of the church and ordered James executed by the sword. Salome recounts an early Christian tradition preserved by Clement of Alexandria in which the man responsible for accusing James was so moved by James's testimony that he confessed Christ and asked James for forgiveness on the way to the execution. James responded, “Peace be with you,” embraced him, and the two were executed together. For Salome, the story reveals the completion of a transformation she had watched for years: the son who once wanted heaven's fire to consume those who rejected Jesus had become a man capable of offering peace to the person responsible for his death. Salome is left to confront something no mother expects to endure: she outlives her firstborn son. Her knowledge that discipleship could lead to suffering does not lessen the grief when suffering finally enters her own family. Yet grief does not destroy the faith born on resurrection morning. The empty tomb means that the sword cannot have the final word over James any more than the cross had the final word over Jesus. Salome remembers not merely an apostle or martyr, but her son: the boy who raced into the lake, the man whose thunder was transformed into mercy, and the child whose loss reminds her that the terrible cost of loving someone never makes that love less worth having.

  2. 2d ago

    Episode 1484: Acts of the Apostles (Part 6, Chapter 4)

    In the days after the crucifixion, Salome remains with the women while her sons hide in Jerusalem. Grief leaves her unable to comfort James and John, so she turns instead to the practical work of preparing spices for Jesus' body. Before dawn on the first day of the week, the women go to the tomb and discover that the stone has already been moved. There they receive the astonishing announcement that Jesus has risen, along with the specific instruction to tell “his disciples and Peter.” Salome reflects on the significance of Peter being named separately, seeing in those words an assurance that his failure had not excluded him from Jesus' invitation. Salome goes to the place where her sons have been hiding, but John has already run with Peter to the tomb after hearing Mary Magdalene's report. She finds James still overwhelmed by guilt, particularly because he had not returned to the cross. Rather than dismissing his failure with easy reassurance, Salome gives him the one truth she knows: Jesus is no longer in the tomb. When John returns breathless, his face confirms that something impossible has happened. Salome stays beside James as he struggles to reconcile his failure with the possibility that the man he failed is alive. During the weeks that follow, Salome watches the resurrection reshape both of her sons. James remains forceful and impatient, but his courage has acquired seriousness and humility after discovering that faithfulness is not always victory on the terms we expect. John develops a deeper stillness, as though the questions he had carried for years have finally found their center. At Pentecost, Salome watches James standing among the believers as Peter preaches and remembers Zebedee opening his hands when their sons first left the boat. She realizes that this, ultimately, has been her own calling as their mother: to let them go toward what they were made for, remain when they need her, and bear witness to the transformation they could not always see while they were living through it.

  3. 3d ago

    Episode 1483: Acts of the Apostles (Part 6, Chapter 3)

    Salome begins by confessing her part in one of the most uncomfortable moments in her sons' discipleship. After years of watching James and John sacrifice their livelihood and security to follow Jesus, she joins them in asking that they receive the places of honor at His right and left when His kingdom comes. Jesus responds not with a promise of status but with a question: can they drink His cup? James and John confidently answer that they can, without understanding what the cup will require. Jesus then teaches all twelve that greatness in His kingdom is measured not by position but by service. Salome later learns about the Transfiguration, when Jesus took Peter, James, and John onto a mountain and revealed His glory before them alongside Moses and Elijah. Yet even this extraordinary revelation did not prepare them for what happened in Jerusalem. As Jesus entered the city to cries of “Hosanna,” Salome and her sons believed the long-awaited kingdom might finally be arriving. Instead, opposition intensified. In Gethsemane, James and John failed to remain awake when Jesus asked them to pray, then fled when He was arrested. The confrontation James had long expected finally came, but nothing about it resembled the victory he had imagined. Salome remains when most of the disciples flee and witnesses the crucifixion alongside the other women. John eventually returns and stands near the cross, where Jesus entrusts Mary to his care, while James remains in hiding. Looking at the criminals crucified beside Jesus, Salome recognizes the terrible irony of her earlier request: places at Jesus' right and left exist, but they are crosses rather than thrones. At last she begins to understand Jesus' question about the cup. Her sons had asked to share His glory, but Jesus was preparing them for something deeper: to become like Him by learning the costly, self-giving love that defined His life.

  4. 4d ago

    Episode 1482: Acts of the Apostles (Part 6, Chapter 2)

    John's journey toward Jesus began at the Jordan River, where he became a disciple of John the Baptist. The Baptist understood that his task was not to gather followers permanently around himself but to prepare them for the Messiah. When he identified Jesus as “the Lamb of God,” John and Andrew followed Jesus, and eventually James and John left Zebedee's fishing business to become His disciples. Salome reflects on the quiet sacrifice of her husband, who watched his sons leave the life he had prepared for them without calling them back. Salome eventually joined the women traveling with and supporting Jesus' ministry because she wanted to understand both the remarkable stories she was hearing and what was happening to her sons. She saw that much of discipleship was surprisingly ordinary, but extraordinary moments revealed that Jesus was unlike anyone they had known. James and John witnessed His authority over nature, His compassion toward the rejected, and His attention to people others overlooked. More importantly, they listened as Jesus challenged their assumptions about greatness, mercy, enemies, and service. Yet their transformation remained incomplete. When Samaritans refused to welcome Jesus, James and John wanted to call down fire upon them, revealing how easily fierce devotion could become destructive when it had not yet learned mercy. Jesus continued patiently redirecting their intensity rather than extinguishing it. At the same time, Salome recognized another unresolved desire growing within them and within herself. They believed Jesus' kingdom was approaching, and after everything her sons had sacrificed to follow Him, she began wondering what place they might receive when that kingdom came.

  5. 5d ago

    Episode 1481: Acts of the Apostles (Part 6, Ch 1)

    Salome introduces her sons through the nickname Jesus would eventually give them: the Sons of Thunder. James was the more visibly forceful brother, decisive, ambitious, energetic, and naturally inclined toward leadership. John was more reflective and less predictable, willing to remain with a question until he understood something beneath its surface. Their temperaments frequently collided, but Salome recognized that beneath their arguments lay something they shared: an intense concern for what was right and a refusal to accept the world's brokenness without wanting to do something about it. Their fire was not itself the problem. It needed direction. The brothers grew up within the stability of Zebedee's fishing business on the Sea of Galilee. Their father was quiet, hardworking, and successful enough to employ hired men, while Salome describes herself as the source of much of her sons' intensity. The contrast is captured even in her name, derived from shalom, or peace: the woman named for peace became the mother of the Sons of Thunder. Yet the security of their upbringing matters. James and John would eventually leave a life that offered work, family, identity, and a future. Their willingness to follow Jesus would not come from having nothing to lose, but from discovering something they believed was worth leaving everything else to pursue. For John, that pursuit began with reports of a prophet preaching beside the Jordan. In a world filled with competing religious and political answers, John the Baptist offered something different. Pharisees emphasized obedience, scribes interpreted Scripture, priests represented the Temple, and others increasingly looked toward resistance against Rome. The Baptist instead turned the question inward: Israel must repent and prepare because God was about to act. John left Galilee, became his disciple, and learned to listen, pray, repent, and wait expectantly for God's promised intervention. He did not yet know what was coming. He simply wanted to be ready when it came.

  6. Aug 21

    Episode 1480: Come, Lord Jesus, Come

    The final episode of this week, featuring inspirational music, looks forward rather than backward, beginning with the historic Advent hymn “Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending.” Originating with John Cennick and later substantially revised by Charles Wesley, the hymn draws particularly upon Revelation 1:7 and its vision of Jesus returning with the clouds where every eye will see Him. The Savior who first came in humility and was wounded at Calvary will return in unmistakable glory as the victorious King. The modern song “Come, Lord Jesus, Come” turns that expectation into a soaring prayer. The skies open, Christ appears surrounded by the heavenly host, and the One once slain upon the cross is revealed in majesty. The song builds toward the proclamation “He is coming!” and envisions what His arrival ultimately means: no more sorrow, death, darkness, or night, but the beginning of eternal life in the presence of Christ. The episode ends with the hope that Christ’s return means our present world is not the end of the story. Sin, suffering, injustice, and death will not endure forever, and every promise God has made will ultimately be fulfilled. That hope calls Christians not to passive waiting but to faithful living, keeping our hearts fixed on Jesus, sharing His love with others, and preparing with joy for the day when we can finally say, “Come, Lord Jesus, Come.”

  7. Aug 20

    Episode 1479: At the Cross

    Today’s episode introduces Isaac Watts, the “Father of English Hymnody,” and his 1707 masterpiece “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” Rather than simply recounting the crucifixion, Watts invites the worshiper to stand before Calvary and consider what Christ’s sacrifice demands of us. Earthly accomplishments, possessions, and pride diminish before such extraordinary love, leading to the hymn’s unforgettable response: “my soul, my life, my all.” The modern retelling, “At the Cross,” makes that response intensely personal. The singer sees not only Christ’s suffering but the depth of His love and mercy, finding forgiveness and freedom from shame beneath the cross. The song gradually moves from contemplation to surrender: because Jesus gave everything to rescue us, the appropriate response is to give Him our hands, our days, our dreams, and ultimately our entire lives. The closing reflection reminds us that Calvary simultaneously reveals the terrible cost of sin and the immeasurable love of God. Genuine contemplation of the cross cannot leave us unchanged or allow worship to remain merely verbal. Christ’s amazing love calls for a life of grateful surrender in which our choices, gifts, priorities, and days become an offering back to the God who gave everything for us.

  8. Aug 19

    Episode 1478: Crown Him!

    Today’s episode traces the history of “Crown Him with Many Crowns,” a hymn created through the work of two nineteenth-century writers, Matthew Bridges and Godfrey Thring. Inspired by Revelation’s vision of Christ with many crowns, the hymn celebrates Jesus as the Lamb upon the throne, the Lord of love, and the Lord of life. At its heart is a dramatic reversal: the Jesus whose head was once crowned with thorns now wears the crowns of eternal victory. “Crown Him!” transforms that historic hymn into an exuberant modern gospel proclamation. Lead vocalist and choir move through Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection, and eternal reign, repeatedly answering the story of Calvary with the declaration, “But He reigns!” The song builds through call-and-response worship, proclaiming Jesus King of kings, Lord of lords, Prince of Peace, Risen King, Lamb of God, and Lord of all, before culminating in the confession that He reigns forever. The devotional challenges us to understand crowning Jesus as more than something we do in song. If Christ truly is Lord, His reign should be evident in our choices, priorities, relationships, and service to others. The episode therefore moves from heaven’s worship to personal surrender, inviting us to live each day as though Jesus truly is Lord of all.

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A daily podcast each weekday sharing Biblical truth designed to help listeners find hope, meaning and fulfillment in life. Each weekday we air a new episode that features a devotional grounded in our 10-10 principles. Many episodes include original music and dramatizations.

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    1010 Thrive -- Home of the 1010 Podcast
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    2020 - 2026
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