Burning Hearts with Rachel Herbeck

As we wrap up our week together, we hold onto the reality that in Christ, we have a destiny of supernatural love. Instead of eternal death, God has given us eternal life and a life of love in him.

Having wrapped up our conversation with Katie McGrady, we ask the Holy Spirit to speak to us about Ephesians 1. As we read, the Lord convicts us of how much blessing the Lord and giving him gratitude matters in our spiritual lives.

Today we wrap up our interview with Katie McGrady and we continue to go through the beginning of Ephesians 1. As we talk, the Holy Spirit leads us to a deeper reality that God is always thinking of us and has chosen us.

We continue our interview with Katie McGrady and we dive into Ephesians 1. In this conversation we focus on the reality of being adopted sons and daughters of God the Father, and what that means for us.

This week we begin a series of interviews with Katie McGrady recorded on the Good News Cruise. As we start our week, we hear about how the Lord transformed her own life and about her own approach to God’s Word.

Paul teaches us today that we must continue to press on toward the goal of Heaven and being with Jesus face to face. We learn from Him that mature disciples actually desire to press into the sufferings of Christ so that we may learn to live in the power of the resurrection.

Today we see Paul laying out for us his central desire in following Christ: to know Him, live in the power of His resurrection, share in his sufferings, and become like him through his death. This is a challenging word and we ask for the grace to desire to share in Christ’s sufferings so that we may obtain the resurrection from the dead.

Today we discuss the amazing truth that through are baptism, we are found in Christ. Not only do we belong to Him, but we are made a part of His body, so He is in us and we are in Him.

Paul continues to expound on the surpassing worth of Jesus. As we continue in Philippians 3, we reflect on the reality that the only thing of true worth and value is to gain Christ.

We begin this week by diving into Philippians 3, where Paul expresses to us that Jesus Christ is the only thing that will satisfy us. We ask for the grace of the Holy Spirit to see Jesus as worth giving everything up for.

Ultimately, we don’t walk in holiness on our own effort, but because of the blood of Christ. Today we reflect on the reality that Christ has ransomed us from a futile life.

As we walk on our spiritual journeys, we need more of the fear of the Lord so that we can see God and ourselves rightly and walk in righteousness.

Today we are encouraged to be holy as our heavenly Father is holy. This requires recognizing the holiness of God and the reality that we belong to a Holy God.

Continuing in 1 Peter, we are encouraged to walk in obedience considering our calling to set our eyes on Christ. This helps us during lent to walk in childlike obedience.

This week we dive into 1 Peter 1 and we see Peter communicating what the true end and goal of the Christian life is; the revelation of the Jesus who will come again in glory.

Finally, Jesus’ call to follow him asks for and requires total surrender. That total surrender asks for full gift of self, but in response, Jesus gives us His entire self as a gift.

One of Jesus’ most essential teachings on discipleship is following him to the cross. As we walk with him, we need to grow in our love for the wounded, crucified Christ.

A confusing yet powerful teaching of Jesus is the call to hate your life in this world. Today we discuss truly what it means to be detached from our lives here in a healthy way.

As we continue through Jesus’ teaching about following him, we see that true discipleship first helps us confront in us what is disordered and through encounter with Jesus, He reorders our loves.

This week we dive into Luke 14 and hear Jesus’ convicting words regarding His vision of discipleship. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us respond to Jesus’ words even when they are challenging.

Let’s look at the book of Galatians this week and see what St. Paul has to teach us about the Holy Spirit, freedom, and faith.

In Galatians, St. Paul makes a distinction between the flesh and the Spirit. What are three desires of the flesh particularly prevalent in today’s society?

The fruits of the Spirit need to be grown and experienced by those around us. What are three fruits in particular needed in the Church today?

What does it mean to live by the Spirit and to walk by the Spirit? What differences can we expect in our lives when we do?

Galatians 2:20 invites us to be crucified with Christ. What does that mean and how is that expressed in our lives?