Home » Podcast » Page 6

Archives: Episode

The End, Part 1

The end is coming! What matters most? Acting like Jesus, not being right on disputable details. We can’t know exactly when or how the end will come (Mark 13:32-33), but we do know Christ will return suddenly, visibly, and bodily (Acts 1:10-11, Luke 17:24, 1 Thessalonians 4:16). We are “on mission” to this broken world, and it matters how we act. God says to avoid quarrels (Romans 10:1) and “establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand” (James 5:7-8).

Read more

The Thread of Fellowship, Part 3

We must be like Jesus, who forgave the adulterous woman but said, “Go and sin no more”—and was killed unjustly yet forgave his killers. Like him, we can’t condone sin—yet we must learn to love. Similarly, especially with other believers, we must learn to recognize non-essential “meat-eating” issues (Romans 14) on which not all believers agree—issues like COVID masks and vaccines, how to run a Sunday service, and whether the charismata are still available today.

Read more

The Thread of Fellowship, Part 2

We must learn to compromise—not on God’s standard of right and wrong, which never changes, but on yielding to others in love. God is perfect, and would’ve been perfectly justified in wiping us out for our sin; yet instead he “compromised” by taking all of it upon himself in love. And since God loved us, we also ought to love one another (1 John 4:9-11).

Read more

In The Weeds

Jesus explains the problem of evil using the Parable of the Weeds in Matthew 13:24-30.  Jesus explains that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds, but whose crop was corrupted by an enemy planting weeds among the wheat. The weeds will always be with us here on earth, and will never be eradicated until the “fullness of the Gentiles has come in” (Romans 11:25)—that’s us! At that time, the “weeds” will be burned and all of the good seeds, Jews and Gentiles together, will be harvested. Evil is growing—but so is God’s kingdom! When Christ left earth, it held about 250 million inhabitants and only a tiny percentage were Christians yet, while now it holds nearly 8 billion, and about 2.3 billion practice some form of Christianity! God is building a kingdom containing billions of believers, and one day he will burn the weeds and harvest the grain. But until then, we live in a weedy garden!

Read more

When You Return

In our Christian walk, we may occasionally find ourselves taking steps away from Jesus just as Peter did when he denied Christ (Luke 22:54-62). Despite this, Christ welcomes each step we take back towards Him, not condemning us for our lack of faithfulness.

Read more

Fishing Trip

Whether we realize it or not, we are all called to be fishers of men. Scripture instructs us to make disciples of all nations - but how do we go about doing that? By growing the net!

Read more

Get Up & Thrive

Kids want “sweet,” but adults learn to appreciate “bittersweet” – a life of hopes and dreams, mixed with the death of those hopes and dreams. Satan steals our hope (Genesis 3:1-15), but God gives it back (Luke 8:49-56). Like a dying seed in the soil, hope fades slowly, as it did for Jairus and his daughter while they both faced her death. And like that dying seed, she did die. But after hope was dead, Jesus took her hand and gave her new life, saying, “Get up!” And he says the same to you.

Read more

What Arre You Asking?

As a loving father, God not only invites us to take our requests to him but also promises that he will provide what we need. In light of this, we should reflect on what we're asking God for - if we're even asking for anything, to begin with.

Read more