Happy New Year! I trust that your 2018 will be filled with growth in the knowledge and grace of God. I pray that it will be your best year yet! As we start the new year, I want to share with you some changes in my life and ministry.

Episode 81: Examine Yourselves (2 Cor. 13)

Dec 29th, 2017 25m 40s

Part of maintaining a healthy confident walk with God is practicing self-awareness, examining ourselves, and doing regular spiritual health check-ups. They remind us that Christ does indeed live in us and they remind us that we are temples of t

Episode 80: God's Sufficient Grace for Human Weakness (2 Cor. 12)

Dec 28th, 2017 36m 15s

It is not always God’s will to heal. It is, however, always God’s will to bring about redemption and holiness in our lives. Sometimes, not healing serves the greater purpose of bringing that about. It is one of the ways that we can learn to tru

Episode 79: Boasting of Weakness (2 Cor. 11:30)

Dec 27th, 2017 26m 12s

If you have to boast, as Paul was forced to here, then boast of your weaknesses. The times when you were the most vulnerable and weak were the times that truly made you who you are.

Episode 78: Our Spiritual Battle (2 Cor. 10)

Dec 26th, 2017 26m 29s

We are all engaged in a battle. It’s a battle for our hearts and souls. It's a battle for the heart and soul of our nation, our world, our neighbors, our churches, and especially for our children. It's a battle for our minds and loyalties and d

Episode 77: The Grace of Giving II (2 Cor 9)

Dec 25th, 2017 17m 9s

As you are faithful in giving, you will be able to do greater and greater things through the power of God. Faithful farmers should be able to plant bigger and bigger fields every year because they harvest more and more seeds every year to plant

Episode 76: The Grace of Giving I (2 Corinthians 8)

Dec 22nd, 2017 29m 37s

Grace changes us from people who hoard to people who give. It changes us from people who worry about our own resources to people who recognize that our resources are from God. It changes us from lovers of money to lovers of God and lovers of pe

Episode 75: Repentance Versus Sorry (2 Cor. 7:10-11)

Dec 21st, 2017 25m 30s

Grief doesn't equal repentance. All it means is that you've had a change of emotions due to a change in circumstances. Being grieved because sin has demanded that you pay up is normal and natural. Any sane person is going to be grieved when the

Episode 74: Temple Cleaning (2 Cor. 6)

Dec 20th, 2017 29m 41s

Jesus did not save us to get only half of us while the other half grabs onto false systems of faith which tolerate behavior which can only bring condemnation, and death, and despair.

Episode 73: Transformational Love (2 Cor. 5:14-17)

Dec 19th, 2017 20m 39s

There are four results that stem from the transformational love of Christ that should impact our lives.

Episode 72: Do Not Lose Heart (2 Cor. 4:16-18)

Dec 18th, 2017 21m 44s

While difficult circumstances, afflictions, and trials may be taking their toll on us physically, they do not have to be wearing us down spiritually or emotionally. We can be internally resilient and even experience personal development and ren

Episode 71: Confidence in Christ (2 Cor. 3:4-6)

Dec 15th, 2017 17m 37s

We can serve God and others with confidence that we are competent because of the enablement and calling of God.

Episode 70: Be Smelly (2 Cor. 2:14-16)

Dec 14th, 2017 23m 10s

We each have a smell. Do we smell like Jesus? Do we smell like the world? Do we mask our smell? Do we smell like life? Do we smell like death?

Episode 69: Affliction, Comfort, God & Others (2 Cor. 3:3-4)

Dec 13th, 2017 15m 7s

As we experience different kinds of afflictions, we better understand the comfort and love of God. We also better understand the afflictions of others. If we have been comforted by God, then we can comfort others by sharing with them how we wer

Episode 68: Keep on Fighting and Loving (1 Cor. 16:13-14)

Dec 12th, 2017 19m 14s

Make no mistake about it, we're all in the arena. And it's not a football or soccer arena. It's a gladiator's arena. It's a life or death struggle. Will we rise victorious and experience life today in its fullness and abundance? Or will we suff

Episode 67: What Money Can't Buy (Isaiah 55:1-2)

Dec 11th, 2017 14m 34s

We cannot quench our hunger and thirst for a relationship with our Creator by trying to fill up on created things. We cannot eat enough, drink enough, spend enough, work hard enough to obtain that which God created us to experience in him for f

Episode 66: Bearing a Reproach (Psalm 69)

Dec 8th, 2017 30m 36s

As long as we bear the name of Jesus we will also bear the reproach that fell upon Jesus. As long as we call ourselves a sinner saved by grace we will bear the reproach of a sinner saved by grace. By naming the name of Christ we admit to the wo

Episode 65: The Greatest of These is Love (1 Corinthians 13)

Dec 7th, 2017 19m 2s

All of our actions should be motivated by and directed by love for one another. Regardless of our position and regardless of our gifting we should act in such a way that puts the highest good of others above our self. We must put the interests

Episode 64: All For One And One For All (1 Cor. 12)

Dec 6th, 2017 28m 17s

Like the Musketeers, the Christian community should support each of the individual members, and the individual members should support the community as a whole.

Episode 63: Waiting in Hope (Isaiah 40:26-31)

Dec 5th, 2017 20m 52s

Why doesn't God take action to right our situation? Doesn’t he know what we’re going through? Doesn’t he care?

Episode 62: God's Faithfulness in Temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Dec 4th, 2017 16m 46s

God knows exactly what you can and cannot handle. God also knows that in order to grow you he must stretch you and get you as close as possible to your tipping point without pushing you over the edge. He is faithful both in giving us exactly wh

Episode 61: Run to Win (1 Corinthians 9:24‭-‬27)

Dec 1st, 2017 17m 18s

Some people run in circles. Some people run after distractions. Some people run backward. We must run to win! This is to run with determination. It is to run with a clarity of goals, convictions, and vision.

Episode 60: Reminders for When Knowledge Gets in the Way of Love (1 Cor. 8:1-3)

Nov 30th, 2017 11m 36s

Instead of more knowledge, what we need is more love. We need to be more concerned about the person than our position. We need to be more concerned about winning the relationship than we are about winning our argument.

Episode 59: If I Cherish Sin in My Heart (Psalm 66:18-19)

Nov 29th, 2017 14m

It is unfathomable that we would profess love and devotion to God while at the same time loving and cherishing sin in our heart. We cannot love God and love what God hates at the same time.