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Trumix.com listings available of ChristianWalkOnline VoiceLog Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. His Resurrection Destiny Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life. His resurrection means that He has the power to convey His life to me. When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself. Christ’s resurrection destiny— His foreordained purpose— was to bring "many sons to glory" ( Hebrews 2:10 ). The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We never have exactly the same relationship to God that the Son of God has ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vacation/Holiday Through June 6th! Postings/Podcasts from ChristianWalkOnline will resume June 6th, 2005 based on holiday/vacation. Please visit www.christianwalkonline.com/resources.html for access to quality Christian teaching between now and June 6th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keep The Faith! Colossians 3:16 Have A Great Week!Out Of "Web Reach" Until Monday July 18, 2005..Keep The Faith! Colossians 3:16 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crowds, Compassion, Hunger, Thirst Crowds, Compassion, Hunger, Thirst Matthew 9:36-38: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." Matthew 25:35-36: For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legalism&Obedience? What is the Difference between Legalism and Obedience? By. Dr. C. Matthew McMahon There is an argument in the 20th century church that goes like this: Jesus came to fulfill the Law, thus, we do not need to keep the Law. The idea continues as such: And we do not need to keep the Law because we are under the grace of Christ; we cannot earn salvation for ourselves in any way, so the Old Testament is invalid for rules of life and practice. As a matter of fact, there are many people who would t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Revelation of Jesus Christ The Revelation of Jesus Christ Daily book of the bible overview from Ray Stedman provided in MP3 format via podcast from ChristianWalkOnline. Each daily podcast will cover one of the 66 books of the bible as well as a session on the period between the Old and New Testaments in a sequential presentation. This podcast series is presented on a continual rotating basis throughout the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Going To Heaven? A recent poll indicated that for every American who believes he's going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven. This optimism stands in stark contrast to Christ's words in Matthew 7:13-14: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."The truth is that according to the Bible, we don't automatically go to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does He Know Us? Does He Know Me? He calls His own ... by name... John 10:3 When I have sadly misunderstood Him? (John 20:11-18). It is possible to know all about doctrine and still not know Jesus. A person's soul is in grave danger when the knowledge of doctrine surpasses Jesus, avoiding intimate touch with Him. Why was Mary weeping? Doctrine meant no more to her than the grass under her feet. In fact, any Pharisee could have made a fool of Mary doctrinally, but one thing they could never ridicule was the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crazy About You? What God Does God is crazy about you. He's all over you like a glove. God waits for you, hanging on your every word. He loves to hear you call to Him. He has been relentlessly pursuing you since before you were born; He sacrificed His Son to remove the barriers to His love for you; and He has plans for you that go way beyond anything you can imagine. Appropriating God's unconditional love is not as given as it might seem. Jesus said we were to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, but wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why No Hurry? Why No Hurry?Have you ever considered how Jesus loved others? I don't mean what he did to demonstrate his love, but how he truly loved others? A great example of how Jesus loved others is presented in the beginning of the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead. 3So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick." 4When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." 5Jesus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spiritual Counterfeiters? Avoiding Spiritual Counterfeiters The Pathology of False Teachers By John MacArthur, All Rights Reserved. 3If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking It With You? Matthew 6:19-21 19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ The Prisoner Christ was a prisoner. He allowed himself to be taken a prisoner in the Garden, after His agony, to be bound a led away to a trial which was a mockery of justice. He endured torture after being unjustly condemned to death. His stay on death row was very short, followed by a public execution that lasted three hours. All of this to set us free. Part of being "free", is to go to the Father, through Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, as we bring our brothers and sisters along w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Is Our Focus? Look at the birds of the air . . . . Consider the lilies of the field . . . Matthew 6:26 & 28 Living Simply - Yet Focused Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin"— they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and the moon— all of these simply are as well— yet what a ministry and service they render on our behalf! So often we impair God’s designed influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Is Truth? "What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. John 18:38 Authority and the knowledge of truth. In exercising love for God with all of our heart, soul, and mind (reasoning), and in following guidance from Peter that we are to always be ready to give an answer to every man who asks the reason for our hope, it is important that we understand what is truth and by what authority do we do we chose to believe what we be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take My Yoke! Take My Yoke!Taken From A Slice Of Infinity By Jill Carattini The young David did a peculiar thing as he faced a formidable enemy. The scene was undoubtedly tense: Israel stood poised on one mountain, the Philistines on another; the valley of Elah was positioned between them. His tormentor, Goliath, stood over nine feet tall, and was fully clothed in armor of bronze. He held in his arms an enormous spear. David was hardly fit for the challenge. He was the smallest and the youngest of brot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power Of Incentives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ideas Vs. Vision Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith Vs. Works? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100% Ourselves? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Titus: A Pig In The Parlor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poor Women, Rich Man Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This is hard teaching! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Him At His Word? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fries With That Verse? 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If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We Have A Resurrection! We Have A Resurrection! Jesus claimed to be the Son of God... He said to the Pharisees,"I and the Father are one". Their reaction was to try to kill Him saying that Jesus was describing Himself as equal to God. Jesus made many statements and did many things that were shocking to the people of His day. He threatened their systems...not so much by disrespecting leaders as by serving and respecting all people equally. Jesus displayed the true character of God. God is not so interested in st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sabbath: Saturday? Sunday? Anyday? Why Do We Worship On Sunday Instead Of Saturday? By Matthew Slick Of The Christian Apologetics & Reseach Ministry (CARM) In the Old Testament, God stated, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six day you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you" (Exodus 20:8-10, NASB). It was the c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living As A New Creation? Living As A New Creation?Writer Eldon Degge Turns Paul's Writings Into Daily, Powerful Prayers, With This Prayer Being Inspired From Paul's Letter To The Galatians (Galatians 6:12-18). Dear Father, creator of new creations, Far be it from me to glory except in the cross of Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. For neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation! Let your peace and mercy rain down upon all of us who wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hollywood, Wall Street, Heaven? The Lost Sense Of The Eternal Taken From The Book The Law of Rewards By Permission From Randy Alcorn. A startling thing has happened among Western Christians. Many of us habitually think and act as if there were no eternity - or as if what we do in this present life has no eternal consequences. How many sermons about heaven and hell have most of us heard lately? How many modern gospel booklets even mention the words heaven and hell? The trend is to focus on our present circumstances i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assured Of Salvation? Guarded Through Faith: Assurance and the Doctrine of Perseverance By R. Albert Mohler Jr. Traumatic world events and nagging questions of belief sometimes cause Christians to be troubled in spirit and to question their assurance of faith. In every generation, believers have struggled with the question of assurance in salvation. As always, the church confronts this issue as both a pressing theological question and as an urgent pastoral concern. Answering these questions anew, we are reminde ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Overlooking Offenses? Overlooking Offenses A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense. Proverbs 19:11 I have a friend who tells a story of a lesson the Lord taught him through his wife. It seems that every time he and his wife would get in the car to travel somewhere, his wife had a strong need to direct his driving. She would tell him where to turn and when to turn, even in their own subdivision. It was such a horrible habit that it drove my friend crazy and became the source ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sprinting For Samara? Looking Through Eternity's Lens - Taken From The Book The Law of Rewards By Permission From Randy Alcorn. An ancient story goes like this: A slave travels with his masters to Baghdad. Early one morning, while milling through the marketplace, the slave sees death in human form. Death gives him a threatening look. The slave recoils in terror, convinced Death intends to take him that day. The slave runs to his master and says, "Help me. I have seen Death, and the look in his eyes tells ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Canon At Carthage? Understanding The Canon Of Scripture Are we to accept the premise that 300 years passed with confusion while believers waited for the church to decide in 397 A.D. what was to be the Scripture? The truth is that we can produce almost the entire New Testament we have today from early church writings in the first three centuries A.D.- exclusive of the actual books included in the Canon of Scripture. What does "Canon" mean? The Greek word for "standard" or "rule", kanon, was used in early C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fan Club Member? Don't Be Just A Fan Club Member! There you are, a bona fide and certified member of a very important person's (VIP) Fan Club. And finally, after all of these years of being a Fan Club member you have the chance to meet the Fan Club's object of adoration, the VIP himself, in person. Yes, you have an opportunity after all of your reading, study, discussions, club meetings, and joint adoration activities with other Fan Club members, to finally get an opportunity to get to know and spend an i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberalism As Atheism? It Takes One To Know One--Liberalism As Atheism By Albert Mohler And Taken From Albert Mohler.com. "It takes one to know one," quipped historian Eugene Genovese, then an atheist and Marxist. He was referring to liberal Protestant theologians, whom he believed to be closet atheists. As Genovese observed, "When I read much Protestant theology and religious history today, I have the warm feeling that I am in the company of fellow nonbelievers." Genovese's comment rang prophetic when Gerd Lude ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luther Lite? Luther Lite and Reformation Schmooze By Craig Parton Craig Parton, a graduate of California Polytechnic University, Simon Greenleaf School of Law and Hastings College of Law, is a member of the law firm Price, Postal and Parna in Santa Barbara, California. He has written, lectured and debated on United States constitutional law. C. S. Lewis, we all know, came "kicking and screaming" into the kingdom. My family has recently also come "kicking and screaming" into the Reformation. It ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It All Depends on Me It All Depends on Me Part 8 of a 19 part series covering Abraham's Life And His Faith from ChristianWalkOnline featuring Ray Stedman's strong insight and guidance from the pulpit of the Peninsula Bible Church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonah And The Other Fish? Following God's Will? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Including Peter? Two Little Words: "...including Peter..." When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. As they entered th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are Your Ears Open? Ears Attuned? By Betsy Childs I live a stone's throw away from a railroad track. Trains pass by throughout the day and night, blowing their whistles as they approach the crossing. Although the blast shakes my house and rattles the dishes in my cupboards, most of the time I sleep through it or ignore it. It is not that I am hard of hearing; rather, it has become such a familiar part of my day-to-day life that I tune it out. Jesus ended many of his sermons with the puzzling little charge " ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Destined For Holiness? Destiny Of Holiness Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16 Continually restate to yourself what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. Nowadays we have far too many affinities, we are dissipated with them; right, good, noble affinities which will yet have their fulfillment, but in the meantime God has to atrophy them. The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all costs a man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does Trust Look Like? What Trust Looks LikeWhat does trust look like when we can’t explain our trouble, or see beyond it? Listening to others as they try to show faith in crisis can be confusing. Some say they are “believing God” for a job, restored health, a reconciled marriage, or the return of a prodigal. Others say reliance on Him means accepting that His ways are not necessarily our ways. In the waiting room of prayer and helplessness, I’ve concluded that questions about what it means to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soli Deo Gloria! For the Glory of God Alone The Reformation reclaimed the Scriptural teaching of the sovereignty of God over every aspect of the believer's life. All of life is to be lived to the glory of God. As the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." This great and all consuming purpose was emphasized by those in the 16th and 17th Centuries who sought to reform the church according to the Word of God. In contrast t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Safest Road "The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." C.S. Lewis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lies #1 and #7? Lies That Go Unchallenged Taken From From Lies That Go Unchallenged In Popular Culture By Charles Colson Lie #1 - We have the freedom of choice to be who we want and to do what we want. Underlying World View: Individuals are responsible to no higher authority, and are free to pursue their own destinies as long as they don't hurt others. When moral guidelines are not based on the holy character of our Creator, we think that we are free to set our own agendas. Apart from our inheren ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Against the Flow? Are You Going Against the Flow? But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Numbers 14:10a Have you ever had to stand up against the majority for a cause that wasn't popular? God brought the Israelites out of Egypt and promised He would lead them into a land of milk and honey. The process of moving out of Egypt was difficult. They could no longer do things the old way, for the old ways didn't work in the desert. God provided for them during this journey. But there came a point in whi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too Late To Speak Up? Do We Fear Speaking Out? All in all, we focus too much on ourselves. Whether because of fear, or complacency, or indifference, we fail to look up and notice the suffering of others. And when we do, we find ourselves unready to question things, and to speak out. Whenever this happens on a large scale—and it is happening now—we are in trouble. In the well known words of Martin Niemoeller, a pastor in Nazi Germany: First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too Small A Price Too Small A Price by Don Francisco I awoke to hear the jailer turn the key and push the door "Get out here!" he shouted, but I stayed there on the floor Frozen in the terror that rose and filled my brain For I knew what they intended; I could not face the pain Then soldier's came into the cell and they dragged me to the yard They threw me down before a cross and brought the whip down hard "Carry it!" they shouted as I struggled to my feet I put my shoulder under it; dragged it to the str ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have A Fear Of Stumbling? Have A Fear Of Stumbling? Is it not great that we can have confidence as believers that if walk in step with God he promises that we will: Not Be Utterly Cast Down Not Be Hurled Headlong Not Down For Long Check out the three translations of Psalms 37:23-24 below - as they each convey this promise in a unique way: Psalm 37 (NIV) 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Things Only God Can Do Things Only God Can Do God draws people to Himself. God causes people to seek after Him. God reveals spiritual truth. God convicts the world of guilt regarding sin. God convicts the world of righteousness. God convicts the world of judgment. Taken From Experiencing God By Henry Blackaby And Claude King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Commanded To Think Different! Repent: Commanded To Think Different! Do you know one of the first commands Jesus presented to his followers in his public ministry? After being baptized by John the Baptist and after spending forty days in the wilderness being tempted by the devil, Jesus left his home in Nazareth and moved to Galilee to base his ministry in Capernaum. It was while in the area of Capernaum that Jesus began to preach - and his message was one of the need for repentance - with one of his first commands ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have Pharisaitis? The Pharisaitis Self-Diagnostic Test Caution: This test is intended for self-diagnosis only! The following test may help identify the possible presence of Pharisaitis. Self examination can be difficult due to blind spots - proceed carefully. Most Christians display hints of Pharisaitis, so do not become prematurely alarmed. Consistent presence of symptoms may suggest advanced Pharasaitic infection. To take the Pharisaitis Self-Diagnostic Test, Click Here. Taken From Don Francisco (He's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Pressure Washing Important? The Importance Of Pressure Washing! Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Casting The First Stone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judging Others? Are You Judging Others? Question: "What does the Bible mean that we are not to judge others?" Answer: It seems that whenever one person confronts another person over an issue, the statement "Do not judge!" comes up. Christians are often accused of "judging" in contradiction to what the Bible says whenever they speak out against a sinful activity. However, that is not the meaning of the Scripture verses which state, "Do not judge." When Jesus told us not to judge (Matthew 7:1), He was te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spent And Crushed Psalm 38 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath! For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me. My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness, I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning. For my loins are filled w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vacation - Back Online 9/15/05 Currently On Vacation - Returning September 15th, 2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Stuff Of Scars The Stuff Of Scars By Jill Carattini / Ravi Zacharias International Ministries I have always found it immeasurably comforting that Jesus gave Simon the name "Cephas," or Peter, before Cephas had done much of anything. Before Peter had even determined to follow Jesus, let alone serve him and love him as the Christ, before Peter had muttered his denials of knowing Jesus or had one of his moments of blurted insight, before Jesus had reason to call Peter "Satan," Jesus called him the "rock" (Jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have A Fear Of Stumbling? Have A Fear Of Stumbling? Is it not great that we can have confidence as believers that if walk in step with God he promises that we will: Not Be Utterly Cast Down Not Be Hurled Headlong Not Down For Long Check out the three translations of Psalms 37:23-24 below - as they each convey this promise in a unique way: Psalm 37 (NIV) 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fathers Instruct Your Children Fathers Instruct Your Children By Kim Riddlebarger. Rev. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is a graduate of California State University in Fullerton (B.A., Westminster Theological Seminary in California (M.A.R.), and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph. D.). Kim is currently the pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Placentia, California. Growing up in American fundamentalism, as I did, the very word "catechism" brought to my mind images of the liberalism of mainline Protestant denominations, or some myste ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wheat&The Tares The Wheat & The Tares By Martin Luther (1483-1546) The following short sermon is taken from volume II of, The Sermons of Martin Luther, published by Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI). It was originally published in 1906 in english by Lutherans In All Lands (Minneapolis, MN), in a series titled The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, vol. 11. The original title of this sermon appears below. The Parable of the Tares Which An Enemy Sowed in the Field: Matt. 13:24-30: Anot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imagination v. Inspiration Imagination v. Inspiration The simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear, you have to obey it clear. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will think yourself into cotton wool. If there is something upon which God has put His pressure, obey in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is your "Golden Yak"? The Golden Yak. The Sin of the Golden Calf (New English Translation Of Exodus Chapter 32) 32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered together around Aaron and said to him, "Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!" 32:2 So Aaron said to them, "Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Case Study In Apostasy King Saul - A Case Study In Apostasy Saul, son of Kish, Israel's first king, stands as a solemn warning to all who followed thereafter. He was the ruler born of Israel's wishes -- that the Hebrews might "be like" the heathen nations nearby (1 Samuel 8:5). In the providence of God, he was appointed their king. Yes, allowed by the Lord, but later removed by the same Sovereign (Hosea 13:11). A consideration of the forty-year career of the striking young ruler (1 Samuel 9:1-2; Acts 13:21) repre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Starting A Revolution? Start a Revolution -- Eat Dinner With Your Family By R. Albert Mohler Jr. "What if I told you that there was a magic bullet--something that would improve the quality of your daily life, your children's chances of success in the world, your family's health, our values as a society? Something that is inexpensive, simple to produce and within the reach of pretty much anyone?" Miriam Weinstein begins her book The Surprising Power of Family Meals (Steer Forth Press, 2005) with those two questio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Confessing Sins To Others? Cases And Directions About Confessing Sins And Injuries To Others. By Richard Baxter (1615-1691) Tit. I. Cases about Confessing Sins and Injuries to others. Quest. I In what cases is it a duty to confess wrongs to those that we have wronged? Answer. 1. When in real injuries you are unable to make any restitution, and therefore must desire forgiveness, you cannot well do it without confession. 2. When you have wronged a man by a lie, or by false witness, or that he cannot be righted till yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Struggling With Sin? "Why Do I Struggle With Sin? The Answer May Surprise You!" Romans 7:9-15 In this section of the letter to the church at Rome, which we call chapter 7, Paul brings the law of God into the picture and describes it in a variety of ways, so as to help us understand its inability to make us just and holy, and its function to show God's holiness, His standard and its purpose of directing us to Christ. Paul also emphasizes that the law is not the source for our ungodly behavior, but our sinf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Triumphant Lives And Deaths Foxe's Book Of Martyrs A History Of The Lives, Sufferings, And Triumphant Deaths Of The Early Christian And The Protestant Martyrs "After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification." -- James Miller Dodds, English Prose. To Check Out The Complete Online ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doing It Yourself? Do It Yourself Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. 2 Corinthians 10:5 Deliverance from sin is not deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, which the saint has to destroy by neglect; and other things which have to be destroyed by violence, i.e., by the Divine strength imparted by God's Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but to stand still in and see the salv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fearing Not? Fear Not Facing a firing squad is a pretty good test, I guess, of your theology of death. I didn't exactly pass the test with flying colors. Perhaps it all just happened too quickly, without any warning. There had been a revolt of the prisoners at Camp 5 in Norilsk, and when troops were called in to put down the revolt they divided the prisoners up into small groups and marched them off. I was rounded up in a group of thirty, one of the first groups herded out of the camp and led down to a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ready For Preparation? The Way of God If My people would but listen to Me.... Psalm 81:13 God has a specific training ground for leaders. There are three patterns of preparation that have been common among most of God's leaders. First, there is a time when the leader is separated from his old life. Consider Moses, Joseph, Abraham, and Paul. In order for God to mold and shape them into His nature, it appears that He had to remove them from the life of comfort. A teacher once said, "You cannot go with God and rem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Astray? Are You Going Astray? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Other Name But Jesus? Jesus As The Only Way. Interesting article on considering Jesus as the only way to salvation. By Dr. Howard Snyder, Professor of the History & Theology of Mission, Asbury Theological Seminary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten Theses For Vital Churches Keys to Vital Churches The following ten "Theses on Renewal" from Liberating the Church summarize my most basic convictions about the nature and calling of the church—and what is needed for its renewal. In more recent books I have amplified some of these points and added other accents (for instance, the importance of a Trinitarian perspective), but virtually everything I have written on the church and the Kingdom of God is contained at least embryonically in these ten theses: The fun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Feel Safe? Are You Comfortable? "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing," (James 1:2-4, NASB). Are you comfortable? Do you feel safe in the Lord? I hope so. You should. Comfort and peace are great blessings from the Lord. He loves us so much that He gave His Son and sent the Holy Spirit who is called ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spending The Day With God? How To Spend The Day With God By Richard Baxter (1615-1691) A holy life is inclined to be made easier when we know the usual sequence and method of our duties - with everything falling into its proper place. Therefore, I shall give some brief directions for spending the day in a holy manner. Sleep Measure the time of your sleep appropriately so that you do not waste your precious morning hours sluggishly in your bed. Let the time of your sleep be matched to your health and labour, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Considering A New Church? Don't Forget about Love, Servanthood and Relationships!Sometimes people feel unhappy about their church and wonder if they should leave. Here's some wise counsel from a fellow believer (Don Francisco) whose life appears to confirm his consistent and serious walk with Christ.As long as you attend a fellowship, be servant-hearted. Never criticize, complain or spread gossip. Don't try to change your church or "rise to leadership" or climb any ladders. Serve. Appreciate the effort that has gone ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Causing Wreck&Ruin In Your Church? God's Purposes Not Our Plans!To live a God-centered life, you must focus your life on God's purposes, not your own plans. You must see to see from God's perspective rather than from your own distorted human perspective. When God starts to do something in this world, He takes the initiative to come and talk to somebody. For some divine reason, He has chosen to involve His people in accomplishing His purposes.God was about to destroy the world with a flood when He came to Noah (Genesis 6:5 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Message About The Message From The Apostle Paul's Letter To The Church At GalatiaI, Paul, and my companions in faith here, send greetings to the Galatian churches. My authority for writing to you does not come from any popular vote of the people, nor does it come through the appointment of some human higher-up. It comes directly from Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. I'm God-commissioned. So I greet you with the great words, grace and peace! We know the meaning of those words becaus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hebrews: All About Faith Hebrews: All About FaithDaily book of the bible overview from Ray Stedman provided in MP3 format via podcast from ChristianWalkOnline. Each daily podcast will cover one of the 66 books of the bible as well as a session on the period between the Old and New Testaments in a sequential presentation. This podcast series is presented on a continual rotating basis throughout the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It All Depends on Me It All Depends on Me Part 8 of a 19 part series covering Abraham's Life And His Faith from ChristianWalkOnline featuring Ray Stedman's strong insight and guidance from the pulpit of the Peninsula Bible Church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presenting The Word? Present the "Word" with the "word"!Have you ever wondered why some people do not believe in a God whose characteristics are the same as the God as represented in Scripture? And have you wondered why some people many times totally bristle at the mention of God's "commands" or "judgment" or "statutes" or "laws" - things which God called out in Scripture with our absolute best interest in mind? Well, I might suggest that two of the major reasons that people believe and bristle in the manner ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 400 Years Between The OT&NT The 400 Years between the Old and New TestamentsDaily book of the bible overview from Ray Stedman provided in MP3 format via podcast from ChristianWalkOnline. Each daily podcast will cover one of the 66 books of the bible as well as a session on the period between the Old and New Testaments in a sequential presentation. This podcast series is presented on a continual rotating basis throughout the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And Your View Of The Bible Is? A Statement Of Scriptural And Confessional Principles On Holy Scripture The Inspiration of Scripture We believe, teach and confess that all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit and that God is therefore the true Author of every word of Scripture. We acknowledge that there is a qualitative difference between the inspired witness of Holy Scripture in all its parts and words and the witness of every other form of human expression, making the Bible a unique book. We ther ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fables, Deception And Itching Ears? Considerations from the Apostles Paul and Peter concerning biblical teaching. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: sodo. 1 Timothy 1:4 fables and endless genealogies - Legends and fanciful stories manufactured from elements of Judaism (Titus 1:14), which probably dealt with allegorical or fictitious interpretations of OT genealogical lists. In reality, they were "doctrines of demons" (1 Timothy 4:1) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Narrow Road The Narrow RoadBy Ken Ham Via Answers In GenesisA pastor’s wife called me to plead with us not to, as she put it, ‘alienate people in the church’ with our stand on the ‘non-essentials in Genesis.’ She explained that her husband would love to bring his people to our seminar to hear the message of creation. However, because we insisted on six literal days, a young Earth and so on, even though they agreed with our stand against evolution, they could not support our sem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Against The Flow? COPYRIGHT © 2005 Answers in Genesis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus On True Freedom Jesus Speaks On True Freedom "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth*, and the truth* will set you free." "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave** to sin. Now a slave** has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. Jesus Of Nazareth / John 8:31-32;34-36. * "Truth here has reference not only to the facts surrounding Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bible - From Spurgeon The Bible: A Sermon Delivered On March 18, 1855 By C.H. SPURGEON"I have written to him the great things of my law; but they were counted as a strange thing."-- Hosea 8:12This is God's complaint against Ephraim. It is no mean proof of his goodness, that he stoops to rebuke his erring creatures; it is a great argument of his gracious disposition, that he bows his head to notice terrestrial affairs. He might, if he pleased, wrap himself with might as with a garment; he might put the stars aro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Word From James But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:22-25 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Whale Of A Story Stuffed Fish? A Whale Of A Story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can We Deny The Virgin Birth? FIRST PERSON: Can a Christian deny the virgin birth? By R. Albert Mohler Jr. (President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.) Can a true Christian deny the virgin birth? This question would perplex the vast majority of Christians throughout the centuries, but modern denials of biblical truth make the question tragically significant. Of all biblical doctrines, the doctrine of Christ's virginal conception often has been the specific target of modern denial and attac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Never Heard Of Jesus? John 14:6: Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.While it may be a stretch, I am going to guess that you are one of the many who has had the opportunity hear of the good news of Jesus Christ. However, as we move into the third millennium A.D., there are still many people, tribes, and language groups who truly have never heard of the saving grace of God made available through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chaff And Grain! The Imperishable Word See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. - Colossians 2:8-9 When I was growing up on the farm, we ran grain through a threshing machine. I can remember watching the wind carry the chaff away, and no one cared. Why? Because chaff is worthless. God says that human opinio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spurs Are Important! Spurs Are Important! When was the last time we truly considered how to "spur" one another toward love and good deeds? And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Hebrews 10:24 Prayer: Lord, as we seek to please you by following you, help us today to be keenly aware of our need to "spur others on toward love and good deeds". Help us to see clearer the opportunities we have to encourage others and help us through your power to translate those opportun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Doctrine Of Scripture - Part 3 The Doctrine Of Scripture - Part 3 - By John MacArthur Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Critical To Not Be Critical? Beware of Criticizing OthersJudge not, that you be not judged. Matthew 7:1 Jesus’ instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don’t." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized. The Holy Spirit is the only one in the proper ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Big Fish Stories! Big Fish Story #1 - Jonah In The Whale The book of Jonah--is it history, allegory, or romance? Was he really swallowed by a great fish as Scripture records? Or was he even a real person? Did he really go to Nineveh and preach so effectively that an entire city repented and escaped divine judgment? These are important questions that not only involve the integrity of Scripture, but that of our Lord Jesus Christ, who referred to Jonah as a real person. Like the Sadducees of Jesus' day who rej ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WhichLaw Are We To Follow? The Law Of Moses And The ChristianWhat parts of scripture are we supposed to obey? While the entire Old Testament is inspired by God, it appears that all of it's guidance is not imposed on Christians. An example of this truth can been seen through considering both the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. Are the 10 Commandments as authoritative to Christians as the Sermon on the Mount? The Sermon on the Mount does not nullify the Ten Commandments, it amplifies them. Through the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A+ARDVARK? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mythology Or History? Mythology Or History? Considering Genesis Chapters One Through Eleven. In considering the first eleven chapters of the Bible in Genesis (from the creation to the introduction of Abraham) many have tried to portray this content as purely instructive myth and have tried to use it as a basis for discrediting the factual accuracy of the Bible. However, in looking at how Jesus spoke of some of the stories within the first eleven chapters of Genesis, we do well to consider otherwise. Why? ... Listen <