Christian Living

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How do you respond when someone tries to correct you? Your reaction is one of the telltale signs of whether you are truly a wise person or not. From the wisdom literature of Proverbs, this episode provides four reasons to listen well to words of rebuke.

Scriptures Referenced: Prov 9:8-9; 12:1; 13:18; 15:31; 17:10; 25:12; 27:6; Jam 3:17; 5:19-20

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Mar 26 2023

PP111 Using Your Spiritual Baloney Detector

Christian Living, Truth

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We’re bombarded daily with messages and spiritual truth claims from every direction. How can we distinguish the true from the phoney? In this episode we work through 1 John 4:1-6 and learn to activate, calibrate, and comfort our spiritual baloney detectors.

Scriptures Referenced: 1 Joh 4:1-6; Joh 16:33

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Mar 12 2023

PP109 Restoring a Fallen Friend

Christian Living, Restoration

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What should I do when my friend has fallen into sin? The work of restoration is a valuable and much needed ministry, but it cannot be attempted in a self-confident, mechanical manner. With sensitivity and very helpful insight from Galatians 5-6, guest contributor Stephen Grant teaches us to help up, hold up, and build up one another.

Scriptures Referenced: Mat 18:15-17; Gal 6:1-6

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Jan 29 2023

PP103 4 Truths to Make You Sing Again

Christian Living, God's Love, God's Promises

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What would it take to make you sing again? If you could hear what God calls you, that would do it. If you could know how God feels about you, that would do it. If you could see how he clothes you, that would do it. And if you could see what he’s promised you, that would do it too!

Scriptures Referenced: Ps 149; Mar 1:11; Luk 15; 1Joh 2:25

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Jan 15 2023

PP101 Of Course You Feel This Way!

Christian Living, Depression, Joy

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For many of us, our joy can take a hit in January and February. Often we assume that negative emotions are a sign that we have done something wrong in our relationship with God. But what if the opposite was true? What if we could learn to hear a different message from our emotional struggles, a message that (strangely enough) would bring us comfort? For Christians, our negative emotions can actually serve as affirmations of the legitimacy of our faith.

Scriptures Referenced: Ps 139:11-12; Gal 5:17; Rom 7:23; Eph 6:12; Rom 8:23

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Jan 8 2023

PP100 Our Ever Faithful God

Christian Living, Faith, God, Goodness of God

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We don’t know what changes 2023 will bring, but we do know one thing that won’t change – God will still be faithful. We can be up and down, but God’s faithfulness to us doesn’t hinge upon whether we are up or down. The church in Corinth had more than one issue that needed cleaning up, but God was faithful to them because God always sticks by His people. And as Matthew shares from his own experience, sometimes it is in our “downs” that we really learn the faithfulness of God.

Scriptures Referenced: Neh 9:18-19; Lam 3:22-23; Isa 48:21; 1Cor 1:8-9; 1Cor 10:3-4; 1Cor 10:13

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Nov 13 2022

PP094 What Does It Mean to be Blessed?

Blessings, Christian Living

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“I’m so blessed.” “God has really blessed me this year.” We use blessing language a lot, but does our understanding of blessing need recalibrating? Jacob’s did. And we have guest contributor Jeswin Jeyasurya with us to help us understand what it means for us to be blessed.

Scriptures Referenced: Gen 25-30

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Oct 30 2022

PP092 What to do when you find the Bible culturally embarrassing

Bible, Christian Living

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Sometimes Christians come across passages in the Bible that they find culturally embarrassing. Passages that talk about slavery or the conquest of Canaan, for example. When we give a secular friend a Bible, these are the passages we hope they skip over on their way to one of the gospels. In this episode we go through 6 steps you can take in reading these passages. And if you take them, who knows? Maybe you’ll go from embarrassment over an OT text to worshipping the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ!

Scriptures Referenced:Nu 5:11-31

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Oct 16 2022

PP090 What Do We Expect from Government

Christian Living, Government, World

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“God is King of the whole earth” (Psa 47:7), but obviously the world currently functions under human governments, ordained by God. What should we expect from governments led by sinful men and women, many of whom possess little fear of God? And how do these failing governments direct our hearts to Christ? Vincent Kember (Episodes 37 & 39) returns to the podcast to give us three key lessons in a two-part theology of government.

Scriptures Referenced: Dan 2; Dan 7; Rev 11:15

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Oct 2 2022

PP088 Deconstructing Deconstruction

Christian Living, Deconstruction, Discipleship

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Why do people who once seemed like stalwarts of Christian discipleship leave the faith? What leads them to deconstruct what they once professed and defended? In part two of our three-part series on deconstruction, we look at four contributing factors and are reminded again that people questioning their faith – and sometimes, sadly, walking away – is nothing new.

Scriptures Referenced: John 6:60-69; 1Tim 4:1; 2Tim 2:17-18; 2Tim 4:10

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