Britt David Podcast

Send us Fan Mail All February long we have talked about what the Bible says about love. We know that He loves us. And we know that we are to love others. In fact, Jesus said that people would know that we belong to Him when they see our love for one another. All that, and yet the Bible says that there is something I am not to love. God says explicitly, “Do not love the world nor the things in the...

Send us Fan Mail We know that the Bible says that Jesus will return literally, visibly, and bodily. One thing we want to know is His disciples back then also wanted to know: When? When is He coming again? Jesus said that’s not what we are to be looking for. Rather, there will be signs to look for, and there will ministry to engage in. Let’s get busy because His return is closer than it’s ever been...

Send us Fan Mail How do you think you would act if you were given a glimpse into the future? You may be thinking about making a fortune off technology upgrades or business deals. But what if it were a glimpse into tragedy? You say, “I wouldn’t want that.” What if we could have had such a glimpse prior to September 11th? Or what if you had a glimpse of a burglar attempting to break into your house?...

Send us Fan Mail In his First Epistle, John wrote 105 verses. And 46 times, he uses the word love. It is obviously an important word to the Apostle John. By the way, every time he uses that word, he always uses a form of the Greek term agape, the word for unconditional love. John says that’s how God loves us, that’s the way we are to love Him, and that’s the same way we are to love one another.

Send us Fan Mail Someone has said, “Love without action is meaningless; action without love is irrelevant.” When it comes to loving God, Jesus said that was the most important thing we can do: To love God by putting our words, our feelings, our commitments, our devotion into action. We are not to be weighed down by chronic busyness, but our relationship with God through Jesus Christ is to be a liv...

Send us Fan Mail Families are not perfect, and sometimes they can be hard to love. But when I understand that love is more about deliberate choice than a subjective feeling, I can choose to love them no matter the circumstances and no matter their response. And if you choose to love them anyway, you may discover that those circumstances change and so do their responses.

Send us Fan Mail As we focus on love this month, we need to cast the light on the most immediate group of people you should show genuine love. Who is that? It is your own family. If God has given you a spouse, and if God has given you children, then treat them like the precious gifts they are. If you will treat them the way God has prescribed, then they will treat you better than you deserve. I lo...

Send us Fan Mail A verse from the old hymn begins, “Take my silver and my gold; / Not a mite would I withhold.” Yet, when we get a little silver or gold, we hold it with all our might. Someone said, “When we get all we can, we can all we get, then we sit on the can.” The money God has entrusted you with is not to be hoarded or used selfishly; it is a tool He can use to bless others when we are wil...

Send us Fan Mail One of the surest tests in our relationship with God involves our money. Jesus told us clearly that we can’t serve both, and yet somehow, for some reason, we still try to keep both as priorities. My view of money and my handling of money goes a long way in clarifying where I am in my relationship with God. This can certainly be seen in Sacrificial Giving.

Send us Fan Mail Of course we all have Sundays when we wish we didn’t have to get out of bed, or get ready, or go to church, or serve in whatever capacity we serve. But we do. We get up, we go, we gather, we glory. Maybe we go because we have a biblical conviction to go. But one good reason to go is because we love it; we love our church. “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go into the house...

Send us Fan Mail In February, we focus on love. Valentine’s Day is right there in the middle of the month. But early and late we ought to express our love to one another. One of the objects of love in my life is the love I have for my church, for my church family. Jesus loves the church; so much so that He died for her; so much so that one day she will be His bride. If Jesus loves the church, then...

Send us Fan Mail The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians all took their shot at Jesus. Each one challenged Him in some specific way. Of course, Jesus handled them all perfectly. But one of the things we learn through these episodes is that there is the question, obviously. But behind the question is the person asking the question. And in these cases the questions tell you more about the person ask...

Send us Fan Mail Behind every action, behind every word, is some kind of motive. Why do we do what we do? Why do we say what we say? There is a reason. Sometimes the reason is bland. Sometimes the reason is being helpful. But sometimes the reason is being harmful, or just being mean. For all the questions thrown at Jesus in Luke 20, there is a motive behind each one, and Jesus uses the end of the...

Send us Fan Mail You will not always be applauded for living a life of biblical convictions, not even among the brethren. But, according to Hebrews 10, God will be pleased as you do His will. And wouldn’t we rather have a life that pleases God rather than others? Rather than self, even? It will take convictional decisions.

Send us Fan Mail Personal, biblical convictions are a necessary part of the Christian life, and they are a necessary underpinning for making good, godly, wise decisions. The life we live in 21st Century America demands that Christians establish convictions based on the authority of God’s Word that we may not be swept away in the flow of an anti-Christian culture.

Send us Fan Mail Wouldn’t it be sad if the miracles of the Bible were not true? In today’s passage we meet a group of people who deny the miraculous power of God and who demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the Bible. Where does their hope come from? What about God’s intervention in our circumstances? What about seeing our loved ones in heaven? What about our own salvation? Thank God, He is...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like you’re being ganged up on? Maybe it seems like everybody – at work, at home, even at church – like everybody is taking pot-shots at you? In Luke 20, each group of Jesus’ enemies have ganged up on Him trying to trip Him up and watch Him fall. The Pharisees and the Herodians have already taken a shot. Now it’s the Sadducees’ turn. But Jesus has had the right an...

Send us Fan Mail James chapter 3 ends with a contrast being basing decisions on worldly, godless, natural wisdom versus facing those same decisions with heavenly, godly, supernatural wisdom. One is from below; the other is from above. And they couldn’t be more different. And the results will be different as well. God has provided everything you need to make right decisions.

Send us Fan Mail Throw a rock in any direction and you’re likely to hit a TV show or a book that encourages you to “follow your heart.” But the prophet Isaiah was clear when he wrote, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Sometimes even church members – sometimes even preachers – offer the same worldly advice, and it is not from God. To make right decis...

Send us Fan Mail We would never think about questioning Jesus’ integrity. If there is anyone who can be said to have integrity, it’s Jesus. And that’s true in all matters. Here in Luke 20, however, we find a group of people bent on challenging His integrity when it comes to money. This makes me want to take inventory of myself. Am I as honest in my financial dealings as I should be? Listen to what...

Send us Fan Mail This classic teaching of rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and rendering unto God the things that are God’s is filled with profound truth against those who consider themselves better suited to run their own lives more than God. Just as Jesus corrected these people in Luke 20, He will correct us today.

Send us Fan Mail The American economy is in a mess. The national debt is reported to be over $35 trillion. Many of our family finances are also in a mess. The average total debt per person in America is now over $60,000, with the total household debt being over $17 trillion. Many of our Dollar Decisions have been bad decisions, but the Bible shows us how to be content and how to be missional with...

Send us Fan Mail Many of the decisions we make in life, even on a daily basis, deal with money. And many of us are convinced that if we just had more money that the decisions we have to make would be easier and that many of life’s problems would disappear. That’s not the case, though, is it? The Bible presents a different picture of money and gives us the proper perspective to make those Dollar De...

Send us Fan Mail Tucked away in this Parable of the Vineyard Owner is a truth that we need to be clear on. Jesus said of Himself as the Chief Cornerstone, “Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” We need to be broken before Him; He wants us to be broken before Him. But none of us wants to be crushed. Neither does He want to bring that jud...

Send us Fan Mail We would never think about questioning Jesus’ authority. Not out loud. But the religious leaders of His day did. They did it because His authority threatened theirs. And they were not willing to either lose their authority or bow down to His. We may not say it out loud, but we have a tendency to resist His authority over us too. Yield to Him. That which is for His glory is for you...