Prayer Requests
Be careful what you repeatedly ask of God. You can’t always judge a prayer by its answer. While it’s true that many times in his kindness God withholds granting what we foolishly or selfishly request…
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Preparing for God’s Word
Responding appropriately to God’s word, whether it is being read or it is being preached, requires an important preparatory step that is often neglected. God’s word is said to be “living and active” and sufficiently able to have a transforming…
April 1, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Should we have our children circumcised? – When we pray to God is it okay to call Him Father? – Did John the Baptist and Jesus spend time together growing up? If so, why would John ask Jesus if he was the One? – Is it okay for a young …
March 20, 2025
Questions in this episode: – How can a demon or a person with a Jezebel Spirit inhabit a person when they are not omnipresent? – How should I respond to a family member who is having a same sex marriage ceremony and is sending harsh and hateful messages to us for not agreeing with it? …
March 18, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Did the Nephilim exist before and after the flood? – Is John MacArthur a good source for biblical knowledge? – As we prepare our hearts for Easter, what does Scripture say about prayer and fasting and how to incorporate them into our lives? – How do we counsel someone who …
Praying Well
We may imagine it an easy thing to pray a simple prayer. But it turns out to be an incredible challenge to pray often and pray well. Even so, God calls his people to a kind of continual and thoughtful communication that saturates every…
The Practical Requirements of Comfort
We must employ the divinely sanctioned means of comfort modeled by the Apostle Paul to experience God’s strength and hope in the midst of difficult times.
January 16, 2025
Questions in this episode: – What is the difference between spirit and soul? – If I don’t have a church, but give to a Christian organization, is that okay? – How should married couples approach prayer? – Can you explain the difference between a moralist and a Christian? – What was the benefit or result …
Precarious Paths
In the model prayer that Jesus provided to guide us into the kinds of prayer concerns we ought to habitually bring before the Father, he included the request: “lead us not into temptation” (Mt.6:13). I would hope this recurring appeal for God to direct us around sinfully enticing…
Plan Big
We, as Christians graciously saved by God’s grace, ought to sincerely and resolutely aim at living a life that pleases the Lord.
December 26, 2024
Questions in this episode: – What should we do if we hear someone twisting Scripture? – Is there Scripture that speaks to family planning: marriage, birth control, etc? – My son-in-law has a YouTube platform and he twists the Bible, what is my responsibility to my grandson to educate him correctly about the Bible? – …
September 3, 2024
Questions in this episode: – Is there biblical precedence set anywhere in the Bible about what a women should do when she feels she is being emotional or physically abused? – In regards to giving to the poor, is the poor considered anyone less fortunate financially than myself or is there a hard and fast …
Prayer Perspective
We need to remember the greatness of the God to whom we pray. We often pray small prayers for small things because we’ve forgotten…
Prayer Perspective
We need to remember the greatness of the God to whom we pray. We often pray small prayers for small things because we’ve forgotten…
Drawing Near to God
When life is hard we must purposefully seek the Lord, knowing he is responsive to our pain and that he will give us the hope and courage that we need.
May 9, 2024
Questions in this episode: – Should we fast and pray for unsaved family members? What is appropriate to fast and pray for? – If God needs nothing why did He create us? – Why would God want to create something to enjoy and praise Him if He’s self sufficient? – How am I supposed …
Facing God’s Plans with Courage
Being a Christian will require unique courage and boldness because of the unavoidable clash of our theology, values, and identity with so much of the rest of the world.
Distracted Prayer
We live in a “noisy” world. It seems that every waking hour is filled with an onslaught of clamoring sights and sounds that relentlessly bombard our eyes and ears. Around the clock, something is always vying for our attention. New Testament times weren’t as different as you might think, particularly for Jesus. Luke records that he had to…
Empty Phrases
Jesus said that when we pray we should “not heap up empty phrases” (Matthew 6:7). Later he lamented a hypocritical form of worship by quoting the indictment that first came through Isaiah: “These people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me” (Isaiah 29:13; Matthew15:8). We must be so careful
Needful Lessons for Life’s Ups & Downs
We must revitalize our engagement in prayer, knowing we have access through Christ to bring our requests to a holy and omnipotent Creator.
Seeing God’s Gifts as We Should
God is the source of all good things, which are designed for and gifted to his people to be gratefully received, enjoyed, and fully appreciated.
Dealing with Demons
We must be mindful of the spiritual opposition we face when we attempt to serve Christ so that we might aggressively pray and dependently trust in the Lord to curtail our adversaries.
Victories & Vindication
Our prayer lives ought to be an exercise in bolstering our confidence in God’s plan, power and purposes amid this seeming chaotic world.
Suffering & Solidarity
We must never forget that the church is destined for violent opposition from earthly authorities, but we can gain the necessary strength and patient endurance through a fervent prayer life.
Privileged Access
The priests of the Old Testament held a special and privileged position among their contemporaries. They lived as those who were granted an exceptional depth of access to God’s presence and God’s blessings. As such, they were held to a higher standard as compared…
Prayer and Peace
Prayer and peace – they go hand in hand. If we want to retain the peace that “transcends all understanding” then we need to pray. God’s instructions are profoundly simple: if we want to be anxious for nothing, we must…
Being Thankful
Being thankful to God is the essence of worship. To be specific and thoughtful about our gratitude is not only well-received by the Godhead, it is expected (Lk.17:17). We owe him nothing less than to catalog our blessings and prompt our own hearts to…
Saul: A New Purpose
We must never let fear or pain distract us from boldly following God’s revealed will for our lives, knowing that the Lord’s fruitful plan for our lives is always best.
Time for Prayer
Few would disagree that life is busy and cluttered with activity. Even so, it is imperative that we follow the pattern set for us by Christ, regularly shutting out everything to quietly spend time in communion and fellowship with God. This was the habit…