{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily + Weekly by Vince Miller","slug":"the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491","podcast_index_feed_id":525491,"rss_url":"https://resolute.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://beresolute.org/vincemillerspeaker","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/5/1/7/9517476838cac621d959afa2a1bf1c87/Vince_Libsyn_Square.jpg","author":"Vince Miller","episode_count":997,"summary":"Get ready to be inspired and transformed with Vince Miller, a renowned author and speaker who has dedicated his life to teaching through the Bible. With over 36 books under his belt, Vince has become a leading voice in the field of manhood, masculinity, fatherhood, mentorship, and leadership. He has been featured on major video and radio platforms such as RightNow Media, Faithlife TV, FaithRadio, and YouVersion, reaching men all over the world. Vince's Daily Devotional has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of providing them with a daily dose of inspiration and guidance. With over 30 years of experience in ministry, Vince is the founder of Resolute. www.vincemiller.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T14:18:48.245715+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491"},"episode":{"title":"When Faith Becomes Performance | Hosea 11:12","slug":"when-faith-becomes-performance-hosea-11-12","published_at":"2026-07-25T05:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491/when-faith-becomes-performance-hosea-11-12","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491","url":"https://resolute.libsyn.com/when-faith-becomes-performance-hosea-1112","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/resolute/When_Faith_Becomes_Performance__Hosea_11_12.mp3?dest-id=387547","summary":"Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:12: Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. — Hosea 11:12 One of the most dangerous things about performative faith is that it can look spiritual on the outside while your heart quietly drifts from God underneath. That is Hosea's warning in this last verse. \"Ephraim has surrounded me with lies.\" This is not atheism. These are still religious people. They still carried the identity of God's people. They still maintained appearances. But underneath it all was deceit. They were close outwardly but distant inwardly. And honestly, modern Christianity struggles with this greatly. We call ourselves Christians, but often do not live surrendered lives. We celebrate Christmas and Easter without stopping to consider the weight and wonder of what those days actually mean. We avoid hard biblical truths when culture drags them into politics. We stay passive about sin, passive about truth, passive about surrender, while still wanting the comfort of religious identity. That is performative religion. It looks faithful without needing surrender. And the unnerving part is that you can do spiritual things for years without actually walking closely with God. Folks, there is a massive difference between serving God and surrendering to God. Serving can sometimes be done out of obligation, duty, routine, or even image management. But surrender happens when you finally realize there is nowhere else to go. Surrender is dependence. Surrender is honesty. Surrender is living open-handed before God, rather than merely performing spiritual activities around Him. And, honestly, this is someth…","meta_description":"Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 11:12: Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":301,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491/episodes/when-faith-becomes-performance-hosea-11-12/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491/when-faith-becomes-performance-hosea-11-12.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}