Daniel
246The Naming of Christians
12 Oct 2026
13:57¶ 51
“Yeah, it’s a lot more complicated than that. The book of Daniel, of course, begins with Daniel deciding what he’s going to eat, and…”
192The Medo-Persian Empire
14 May 2024
19:57¶ 77
“Daniel says, “Let thy gifts be to theyself and give thy rewards to another, but I’ll read the writing.” He walks him down memory…”
18:30¶ 72
“Then the queen mother shows up. It’s the queen mother because all of his wives are already present, so she comes in and she…”
30:54¶ 107
“Remember, Daniel was just made third ruler of the kingdom of Babylon, and when the Persians come in they don’t kill him. They say…”
191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel
29 Apr 2024
18:42¶ 45
“This was the program that Daniel and his friends were up against. Some of it they accepted. There’s no record that they objected to…”
21:08¶ 50
“If the issue had been something else they could have said, “Could you give us some food that didn’t go before Baal and Marduk,…”
21:46¶ 51
“You can think of how the other young Jewish men would have reacted to all of this. “Daniel, what are you doing? First of…”
158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story
6 Mar 2023
3:18¶ 14
“With the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel had been not forced into retirement, but sidetracked into other work. We find him in one of his…”
3:53¶ 15
“He had to know what was coming and, interestingly enough, he didn’t leave. He knew the armies of Cyrus were out there. He seems…”
4:17¶ 16
“He knew that the Persians would win, but he didn’t know exactly on what terms or how long it would take or what would…”
157The Handwriting on the Wall
20 Feb 2023
20:03¶ 83
“Once upon a time he was pretty-near second ruler, and again, he so does not care. Belshazzar is offering everything he can, short of…”
20:31¶ 85
“I’m sorry, he’s about to survive the lion’s den. That’s the one thing left, isn’t it? But he’s been here for 70 years and…”
21:23¶ 87
“Daniel is more of the mindset of, “I know where this is going.” He’s read the prophecies of Jeremiah and Isaiah. He’s probably met…”
156Putting Down Kings
6 Feb 2023
24:14¶ 94
“Daniel has come to be fond of Nebuchadnezzar and to wish him well, despite the fact he’s still a pagan. He’s going to repeat…”
9:30¶ 38
“Okay, kind of like last time, but last time he met Daniel and this time he doesn’t go to Daniel right away, which is…”
13:28¶ 56
“So why didn’t he call Daniel? Probably because he had a pretty good idea of where this was going. There are some sorts of…”
148Through Fiery Trials
12 Dec 2022
14:49¶ 48
“Something might be coming here, so maybe God’s not done with us.” Everyone at this point usually asks, “Where’s Daniel?” We don’t know. We’re…”
15:45¶ 52
“But these guys couldn’t. He’s at a higher level than they are and he could not apparently rescue them. He couldn’t intervene, because if…”
37:41¶ 130
“Exactly. And toward the end of the historical part of the book, Daniel is going to go into the lion’s den and the imagery…”
147The Course of Empire
5 Dec 2022
4:29¶ 24
“So basically Daniel pokes his nose out the door just in time to realize that all the wise men are being rounded up and…”
5:01¶ 26
“Despite his junior statesman-hoodness here, Daniel is able to get an audience with the king and able to buy time. The earlier chapter had…”
5:29¶ 27
“Of course, we’re back to Daniel and his three friends. God has done one thing that amounted to a miracle. He enhanced their health…”
146To Gain the Whole World
28 Nov 2022
7:49¶ 20
“In fact, Daniel is one of those. Daniel has been taken by force from his community, his family, the people he knows and loves,…”
8:33¶ 22
“This is the king who’s making nice-nice with Daniel, and Daniel and his friends say, “We’re not okay with this. We understand that Jerusalem…”
15:09¶ 40
“And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which he drank, so nourishing them three years,…”
118Elijah and Obadiah
16 May 2022
25:32¶ 82
“And there was a little laughter but I think it may have stung a little bit, and I’ve certainly remembered it ever since. That’s…”
25:58¶ 83
“The three Hebrew children eventually drew that line, but only when they were asked to bow down to an idol. And Daniel served faithfully…”
26:14¶ 84
“These men all worked for pagan kings, or at least extremely compromised kings, and they didn’t quit. They didn’t walk away, and a lot…”
50Bonus - Panel Discussion on Christian Education
13 Dec 2020
1:10:23¶ 208
“So we acknowledge that, and I appreciate the desire to avoid legalism, but I think we can do that without any degree of throwing…”
1:10:59¶ 210
“Yeah, on a very particular issue, but it wasn’t that they had to go to a public school. It was that they would not…”
22The Sociology of Dominion
31 May 2020
29:12¶ 107
“Yeah, there’s a difference between--well, let’s think of Daniel here. Daniel and his friends are about 17 when they’re going through Babylon U, and…”
30:15¶ 111
“So rather than insist, rather than start a food strike, they said, “Let’s give God a chance to show his hand,” and they asked…”
30:45¶ 114
“But in the next chapter, Nebuchadnezzar the king has a dream. We’ve already been told at the tail end of the first chapter that…”