Beside Still Waters

The second greatest event in earth's history, on par with the Incarnation - Jesus' first coming, is The glorious re-appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ - The second coming. Every eye will see Him as he comes out of heaven to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth. The events surrounding His re-appearance are both glorious and startling. 

Noah was exclusive in that he his family lived in an evil society that refused to repent and prepare for a future judgement. The oddity was that the judgement was unlike anything they could imagine - the earth was watered by dew falling from heavens. So too, our present age is wholly unprepared for future prophetic events, of which the signs are in our midst.

Societal norms during the Tribulation Period will completely dissolve. The trigger event will be The Great Apostasy - a global rejection of exclusive, monotheistic, religions or any need for a savior. In its place will be a religion where the Antichrist will be the one that is worshiped. This trend spawns the complete disintegration of all societal norms unleashing anarchy.

The world wrestled with a two year pandemic and is now facing an escalating Eastern European war! Are we in the last of the Last Days? The Holy Scriptures provide insight and comfort to strengthen us in troubled times and teaches us how to walk with God in the midst of uncertainty.

Time alone in God's presence is the source of the Christian's power. This is the place where God's power and grace are experienced and appropriated; this is also the place where petitions are granted and we are sensitized to the voice and leading of the Holy Spirit.

What is the difference between doing good to another and God working in you to do good to another? Are they similar? How can I be assured that God is working through me to bring heaven sent blessing to anyone? Let's learn this difficult lesson together.

Christians attempt to "imitate" Jesus when they are maltreated. The motive is "do what Jesus would do". The God glorifying response is to entrust ourselves to the Holy Spirit that He might manifest Christ in us when treated poorly, disrespected, or taken advantage of.

This podcast addresses why God allows Christians to suffer. Suffering is not pointless but is used by the Holy Spirit to foster holiness and sacred communion with God into our lives, while simultaneously gracing us with enabling power to demonstrate good works towards others who are often the source of our suffering. 

Cross-bearing is simultaneously the cessation of the self life, be it beggarly or bounteous, and the gateway to a life full of God's grace and truth. Matthew 16:21-26 provides Jesus' summary statement on the way to living a full life or experiencing great loss

Why does God allow suffering? How would God respond if He suffered? Would God "change the rules" or lessen the pain if he experienced this common earthly phenomenon? Jesus, the perfect One, foretold, anticipated, and fully embraced this common human experience and revealed there is blessing at the end of every trial. 

When God delays in responding to our heartfelt needs and prayers is always a difficult spiritual experience. During the delay, God is in the process of creating and executing a noble purpose by integrating grace and Holy Spirit generated fruit into our lives. 

The Person of the Holy Spirit of God is He who hovered over chaotic earth, multiplied the widow's oil, hardened the waters under Peter's feet, and drove out Legion's demons. He will, if we yield to Him, manifest Christ in us, the Hope of Glory.

This is the final episode showing the result of misplaced faith. God intended trials to be the conduit for delivering and experiencing the blessing of his presence and the evidencing of his working. This episode addresses the negative effect that complacency, time, and other factors have on a single-hearted trust in God

This is the third episode revealing the thinking of the man whose heart is perfect toward God, and, the manner in which God manifested his glory to that man. God is willing, and wanting to apply providential, loving care towards all whose confidence is in him. This interchange between man's faith and God's willingness to respond is always glorifying to Him and life changing for us; this experience...

The ways of God are almost always mysterious except in answer to prayer. This is the second podcast episode showing how God reveals his glory when faith in his willing, providential, loving care is manifest and firmly fixed. This is the divine pattern evidenced in the lives of the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11. God's response to faith is always glorifying to Him and life changing for us. This expe...

The ways of God are almost always mysterious except in answer to prayer. God reveals his glory when faith in his willing, providential, loving care is manifest and firmly fixed. God's response to faith is alway glorifying to Him and life changing for us. This experience of his glory can be the norm in the believers' life, if we fulfill the requirements of faith.

Bereavement, loss are not unique experiences. It is humanity's common lot. Even Jesus in incarnate fulness was not immune from this experience. His response to loss demonstrates where and how the Christian's solace is provided, especially during times of bereavement: it is in the Presence of God. 

When you have a heart within which the Holy Spirit may cultivate robust spiritual growth, the results will astound you! Favorable conditions promote 'readiness' or receptivity to the Word of God, Christ-like transformation, and fruitful evidences of the Holy Spirit's regenerative power in a Christian's life. 

The spiritual life is ill affected by competing "loves" of increasing riches, pursuing novel pleasures, or overwhelming our lives with worry about circumstances we cannot alter. This podcast examines the dynamics of competing loves and the way they rob the spiritual life of its vitality

This podcast views spiritual development in the human heart from the starting point of 'intent to believe' to the end point where external forces influence believing and behavior - a brief examination of germination, growth, and decline in the spiritual life. 

This podcast examines the 'Wayside' human heart from the Divine, "top down view" - this heart's condition demonstrates a distaste for eternal themes or topics with no evident relish for spiritual matters. We will take a brief look at the reasoning process.

What if God gave a private view into the conditions affecting and influencing our hearts and our life decisions? What would you do with this privileged view so as to change the trajectory of your life? This podcast explains one of the the puzzling decisions that Jesus made during the peak of his successful ministry and how that decision impacts our success or failure in the spiritual life. 

Christ's followers aspire to foster cultural change while utilizing generic and modern methodologies. The Most High has but one method: a regenerated human being indwelt by, filled with, empowered by the Holy Spirit of the Son of God. 

What is cultural change in society? How is it effected? Is change fostered through traditional methods congressional communication storming of phones, emails, and offices? Is public picketing, and civil disobedience the most effective method? The early Christians impacted and fostered change without attempting to challenge and override the ruling authorities but rather by introducing one element i...

This podcasts addresses the need for having our hearts healed so as to see through spiritual darkness, and apprehend the glory of God and His presence in our lives