Narrowing Our Audience
Because Christ paid the ultimate price to redeem us, our love for him should compel us to put aside our old desires and live wholly for him.
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July 17, 2025
Questions in this episode: – I stopped going to church because I kept getting into weird situations, what should I do? – I was a surrogate mom, but I’m unsure if I this is biblical or not? – Can you provide a verse on how or why we pray to the Holy Spirit? – When …
June 5, 2025
Questions in this episode: – How do you approach the ESV verses that have been changed? – Does reading or watching unbiblical books or shows curse us in some way or put my salvation in doubt? – As a Christian, do we have to be friends with everybody? – What does it mean that the …
May 29, 2025
Questions in this episode: – I have OCD and lots of anxiety, is this idolatry? – Before Jesus came to the earth, what kind of body did he have? – Why did Jesus answer Pharisees with two commandments instead of just one? – What are your thoughts on church members receiving counsel from outside the …
May 7, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Jashobeam killed a different number of men in 2 Sam. 23 & 1 Chron. 11 can you explain this? – My Christian family is fragmented on earth. What will it look like in heaven? – Why does the church not spend enough time on caring for widows and orphans? – …
April 30, 2025
Questions in this episode: – What does it mean when it says we will be judged by every idle word that comes out of our mouth? – 2 Samuel 17 David’s sons are called priests, what does this mean? – How do we love someone who we don’t feel love toward? – Do you think …
The Unsettling Concerns of Love
We need to be ready for the challenges, sacrifices, and emotional discomfort that come with truly loving other Christians the way God calls us to.
The Joy of True Repentance
We should seek to find true joy in repentance – our own and others’ – as we celebrate grace and purpose to genuinely love other forgiven brothers and sisters.
March 27, 2025
Questions in this episode: – What does it mean to be delivered over to Satan to be saved in 1 Corinthians 5:5? – What does Paul mean by Love in 1 Corinthians 13? – How do we reconcile Revelation 2:20 in light 1 Corinthians 8 regarding idols and food sacrificed to idols? – John 3:16 …
Serving with Sympathy
To keep a clear conscience before both God and people, we must serve them with love and sympathy as God defines, not as we or they might prefer.
February 5, 2025
Questions in this episode: – What is your thoughts on churches celebrating Valentine’s Day? – What specifically are we supposed to be doing in order to make it to heaven? – Do you believe in a pre-tribulation or post-tribulation rapture? – When someone is possessed by a demon, how do they get set free? – …
Self-Serving
How are the decisions we make impacting those around us? Jesus said that we should seek to love others as we would love ourselves (Mt.22:39). Nothing could be more central to that command than for us to spend more time considering how our plans, actions, and words will either…
When the Price Tag is High
We must see the paramount importance of forgiving others always mindful of the far-reaching effects, even, or especially when it is difficult.
Glimpses of the Goal
We must understand our profound connection with each other because of our union with Christ.
Real Biblical Love
“Love” may be a word we hear every day, but it’s rarely employed to describe anything resembling the virtue the Bible calls us to emulate. While there is nothing wrong with feeling good about the things, places, or people who make us feel good, the biblical concept of “love” is something entirely different…
April 4, 2024
Questions in this episode: – What does Mark 13:30 mean? – Is it possible to not sin for a day? How often do we sin? – Is it possible for a believer to love God completely and at all times? – If God is our master, can’t He do whatever he wants with us …
Sacrificial Love
When we read the word “love” in the Bible we should always be careful to remind ourselves that it bears little resemblance to what passes for love in today’s world. When the people of our culture speak of “love” they are usually referring to something that impulsively springs from feelings of happiness, warmth, attraction, affection or pleasure. But the Bible uses the word…
God’s Justice
If God is not just, God is not good. If God does not respond justly to the unrighteous decisions of his creatures, then God cannot be holy, good or righteous. In the same way earthly judges cannot be good while perverting justice in their courtrooms, the perfect Judge cannot be perfect if he ignores sin. His perfect love does not negate…
Misunderstandings & Accommodations
Strategic accommodations and biblically allowable personal adjustments will be necessary as we face the painful misunderstandings sure to continue among God’s people, this side of heaven.
More than a Task
Our work for God’s people is more than our duty, or an expression of our love for Christ, it is also our loving service for the people we have every reason to affectionately cherish as our spiritual family.
Hate Evil
Psalm 97:10 says it as succinctly as it can be said: “O you who love the Lord, hate evil!” This terse exhortation may come as a bit of a surprise to many Christians. “Hate” after all is something we modern followers of Jesus never want to be associated with. We prefer to be described as loving…
The Kind of Love We Need Easter Service
By God’s grace, we can be recipients of Christ’s incomparable love that provides for our most profound needs by means of his life, death, and resurrection.
When It Motivates Sacrifice
Love and devotion to Christ motivates serious Christians to sacrifice much in their pursuit of being maximally useful to the Lord.
Valuing & Prioritizing Our Church Family
There are profound and desperately needed Christian benefits that come from being highly committed, selfless participants in your church family.
God’s Gracious Solutions
God has graciously provided Christians his enablement and a set of commands which when faithfully obeyed will safeguard us against the destructive sin of envy.
Love
Love is not as easy or pleasant as it sounds. It is effortless to say “I love you” but so hard to demonstrate in real life. The Bible calls Christians to love “not with words or speech but with actions and truth” (1Jn.3:18). It is not that the words are wrong, but they…
Shared Struggles & Mutual Aid
We ought to always be attuned to the practical needs of God’s people, ready to do what we can to demonstrate the love of Christ in tangible ways.
Jealousy of God
Jealousy is generally perceived as a human weakness. Few would want to be described as “the jealous type.” Perhaps that’s why many choose to ignore the fact that our perfect God has revealed himself to be perfectly jealous. Consider Exodus 34…