Britt David Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Few messages are as polarizing as those on the subject of divorce. Divorce is an epidemic that occurs in nearly half the families in America. Although divorce rates have declined over the last decade, America still has one of the highest divorce rates of any country in the world. And the church is not immune. We seem to suffer as much as unbelievers. Is there any hope for marriage...

Send us Fan Mail Back in 1974, country musician Freddy Fender released a song called Wasted Days and Wasted Nights . Sounds like that could be the subtitle to the Book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon seems to be expressing the regret he feels for the foolishness of wasting time being carnal. Now he just wants to find the one thing that gives meaning to life. And he finds it in obedience to God.  

Send us Fan Mail  If you’ve ever been asked to volunteer for a project or if you’ve ever been hired for a new position, the first question you probably had was, “What am I supposed to do?” Many people have this same question about life: What am I supposed to do? Those without a relationship with God will often seek the answer to that question from a variety of sources. Like the old song says, they...

Send us Fan Mail  I’ve heard someone say that we need to make the Bible relevant to today’s culture and times. The truth is that the Bible is already relevant. It speaks clearly and comprehensively to every subject in every generation. It is as fresh today as the day it was first penned. Your Bible is the greatest treasure you could have. And unlike the dollar, it will never ever fail.

Send us Fan Mail Almost half of the United States’ Gross Domestic Product – our GDP – is impacted by the sale of products and services based on weight or another measurement. So it is vital that we have a standard. No matter who you buy from, a pound ought to be a pound, an inch ought to be an inch, a gallon ought to be a gallon. When it comes to righteousness, there needs to be a standard for who...

Send us Fan Mail It’s not a surprise to read in our passage that the people of this world are more shrewd than the people of the Kingdom. What is strange is to hear Jesus say to His disciples that they ought to be more like that. As we investigate this passage we see how Jesus wants us to invest our lives and resources into those things that yield eternal benefits.

Send us Fan Mail The most beloved of all of Jesus’ parables, the Parable of the Prodigal Son, is followed by one of the strangest of Jesus’ parables, often called the Parable of the Unjust Steward. Jesus actually commends the servant for his shrewdness. That’s not a quality we would expect Jesus to applaud, but He does. And there are lessons for us as His disciples to learn and practice.

Send us Fan Mail This section of Deuteronomy is so important. Little Jewish children learned the repeatable refrain called the Shema in this passage: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one! And where were they to learn this important truth? At home, from mom and dad. Being trained at home to be a follower of Christ is of utmost importance. And we can apply these ways of Jewish Home Trai...

Send us Fan Mail Dorothy clicks her ruby red slippers together and says, “There’s no place like home.” And she repeats it again and again. She’s correct: there really is no place quite like home. It’s where you are the safest; it’s where you are freest; it’s where you are loved; it’s where you belong. And it is the first place you should learn about God, about Who He is and about What He has done....

Send us Fan Mail You may hear someone say that science or history invalidates the Bible. There is not one reason to believe that. And The Vision of the Seventy Weeks is a great example. With precise timing, God details what He is going to do. So if you hear someone ask, “What is this world coming to?” you can point them to Daniel’s prophecy.

Send us Fan Mail Of all the prophecies of Daniel, none may be more important than The Vision of the Seventy Weeks. It is detailed and difficult. But Daniel was commanded to know it and understand it. Therefore, we need to know it and understand it, too.

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the Parable of the Prodigal Son is called the Parable of the Faithful Father. The focus really is on how loving and forgiving the Father is. Whether it is the shepherd seeking out the sheep or the woman searching for the coin or the dad anxiously awaiting his son, our Heavenly Father wants us found – returned and restored.

Send us Fan Mail Maybe the most beloved of all of Jesus’ parables is the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Actually, that one is one of three parables told back-to-back-to-back in Luke 15. And each one delivers the same message. Whether it is the Parable of the Lost Sheep or the Parable of the Lost Coin or what we could call the Parable of the Lost Son, each one reminds us that without Christ we are al...

Send us Fan Mail You hope that you learn a lot BEFORE an exam, but you are sure to learn a lot BY WAY of an exam. It is the great revealer. Pretending time is over, and who you are and what you know will be evident. So, take a deep breath, steady yourself, and do this spiritual check-up.

Send us Fan Mail Exams are not the most looked-forward-to things. Kids get nervous stomachs on the way to school, and adults dread to the point of “white coat syndrome” having to go to the doctor. But exams are necessary, and in the end, they are for our own good. Spiritual exams make people uneasy. Like any other exam, we are afraid of what might be found out. But there is a spiritual check-up th...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve always felt like the hymn I Surrender All is the hardest song to sing in the whole hymn-book. It’s not hard because the melody is difficult, though. It is hard because the message is difficult. All to Jesus I surrender / All to Him I freely give . All? That’s what Jesus demands: all. These are His Demands of Discipleship.

Send us Fan Mail The path to discipleship is not an easy path. Rather than highlighting the benefits like a good salesman, Jesus focuses on the difficulties people who decided to follow Him would face. In this passage, He actually talks more about what kind of person cannot be His disciple more than sending around a sign-up sheet and boosting His membership. These are the Demands of Discipleship.

Send us Fan Mail The cross is so important to us. We sing about it – The Old Rugged Cross, At the Cross, The Beauty of the Cross, The Power of the Cross. We preach about it – from passages like Romans chapter 5, 1 Peter chapter 3, or this one today from 1 Corinthians 1. We Preach Christ Crucified.  

Send us Fan Mail We seem to have emojis and icons for everything. If there is any one symbol that represents Christianity, then it has to be the cross. The cross of Jesus is central to everything that we believe. We know that Jesus hung on a cross because of us and for us. Therefore, as Paul said, We Preach Christ Crucified.

Send us Fan Mail An RSVP works both ways. The most expected RSVP tells your host that you are glad to attend their event. But sometimes with the RSVP you have to send your regrets. Maybe you’re genuine in your regrets and maybe it’s just an excuse. Either way you are going to miss out on something someone wants you to be a part of. What if we got genuinely excited about being invited?  

Send us Fan Mail There is something special about an invitation. No matter your age or the situation, an invitation means that someone who is hosting a special event, and who obviously wants that event to be a great success, thought of you and wanted to include you. They believe that your presence will make their event better. That’s pretty amazing. And it’s all the more amazing when you realize t...

Send us Fan Mail The enemies of Jesus went to all lengths to try and trap Him, in His words and in His actions. The setting as Luke 14 opens is that kind of trap. But Jesus reveals their hearts and reveals His seriousness to His mission.

Send us Fan Mail  In the old spaghetti westerns, the showdown was called for in the middle of Main Street at high noon. I’m not sure that it was high noon, but on a particular Sabbath, right after church we might say, at lunch, there was a showdown at the ruler of the Pharisees house. What appeared to be an ambush, Jesus answered.  

Send us Fan Mail Wonderful things really do happen when the glory of the Lord fills the house of God. It’s not business as usual, that’s for sure. When God’s manifest presence becomes the hallmark characteristic of a church or an individual (who himself IS the temple of the Holy Spirit), God does an amazing work.

Send us Fan Mail Last week we studied King David preparing the blueprints and the financing for the Temple to be built. He set his son up for success since God had called Solomon to be the actual builder of the Temple. As we get into 2 Chronicles, chapter 5, we find that the Temple has been completed and is ready for dedication. But it is the final phrase of this chapter which has become our atten...