The Biltmore Church Podcast

James 4:13-5:1 13  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—  14  yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  15  Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”  16  As it is, you boast...

Episode 8 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be discussing James 4 and how to actually practice humility.

James 4:4-10 4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gi...

James 3:13-4:3 13  Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.  14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.  15  This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.  16  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will...

James 3:1-12   Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.  2  For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.  3  If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.  4  Look at the...

Episode 7 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be discussing hope and healing in the wake of the devastation here in Western North Carolina and applying the truths from James 2.

James 2:14-26 14  What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?  15  If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,  16  and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?  17  So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, i...

Episode 6 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be discussing James 1:19-27 and the right way to read the bible. (00:00) Introduction (01:16) Scripture Reading (02:21) Sunday Recap (07:17) The Right Way to Read the Bible (32:29) Put It Into Practice

James 1:19-27 19  Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;  20  for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.  21  Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ...

Episode 5 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be discussing James 1:13-18 and getting victory over temptation! (00:00) Introduction (01:06) Scripture Reading (01:46) Sunday Recap (08:35) Victory Over Temptation (31:22) Put It Into Practice

James 1:13-18 13  Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.  14  But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.  15  Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. 16  Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.  17  Every good...

Episode 4 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be discussing James 1:1-12 and learning from our trials! (00:00) Introduction (01:07) Scripture Reading (02:23) Sunday Recap (07:19) Learning to Pray (29:05) Put It Into Practice

James 1:1–12 (ESV): James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,  for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.  If any of you lacks wisdom, let...

Episode 3 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be answering some of your questions! (00:00) Introduction (03:30) Ask Pastor Bruce (31:24) Prayer Practice

John 17:9-19 9  I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.  10  All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.  11  And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.  12  W...

Episode 2 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be talking about learning to pray. (00:00) Introduction (01:16) Scripture Reading (01:46) Sunday Recap (06:01) Learning to Pray (30:14) Prayer Practice

Matthew 7:7-11 7  “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  8  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.  9  Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?  10  Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?  11  If you then, who are evil, know how...

Episode 1 of Season 5 of the Biltmore Church Podcast, where each week we'll be having helpful conversations to help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. In this week's episode, we’ll be talking about learning to pray! (00:00) Introduction (01:07) Scripture Reading (02:52) Sunday Recap (07:29) Learning to Pray (26:12) Prayer Practice

1 Kings 18:36-46 36  And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.  37  Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned t...

Acts 9:1-6, 18-22 ESV 9  But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  2  and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.  3  Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.  4 ...

John 21:1-19 21  After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.  2  Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.  3  Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the...

Luke 24:13-27 13  That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,  14  and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.  15  While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.  16  But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.  17  And he said to them, “What is this conversat...

Luke 23:32-43 32  Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.  33  And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.  34  And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.  35  And the people stood by, watching, b...

Luke 18:18-30 18  And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  19  And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.  20  You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”  21  And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.”  22  When Jesu...

Luke 19:1-10 1 He entered Jericho and was passing through.  2  And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.  3  And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.  4  So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.  5  And when Jesus came...