Common Sense Conversations

We can learn so much about faith in this story of the friends that carried their paralytic friend to Jesus. But we also see how Jesus used this to declare His status as Messiah.

There is so much in the story and miracle of Jesus casting out the demon named Legion into the pigs. Jesus shows His power, but Jesus also shows the importance of indigenous witness.

Jesus is going to be teaching the disciples a very important lesson when a storm shows up and the disciples think they are going to die.

In this healing miracle, we will see a Roman centurion approach Jesus and intercede for the healing of his servant. But we learn so much more in the story.

We are going to see so many things in Jesus’ healing of the leper about how to walk daily in seeing brokenness and hurting. Jesus is going to show what it means to truly have compassion on the broken.

Today we will look at John 15 and show how this passage sums up what our prayer life is supposed to be, look like, and how and what bring s glory to the Father.

When talking with people the concept of listening and hearing from the Lord in their prayer life is one almost everyone struggles with. Why? That’s what we will dive into in this podcast.

When looking at American Christianity and the churches in America, prayer is what you do in the middle of announcements and songs. It’s a simple “thing” we do in the service to check a box. But that’s not biblical prayer. I share personal experiences from Honduras on how one mission trip changed my life and view of prayer forever.

In this podcast I will be looking at sports analogies to show perspective of our growth as a Christian in prayer and faith.

Often times we find it hard to pray because we don’t know what to pray for. In this podcast we take a look at our present lives and present needs to spend time in prayer.

We cannot have a productive and fruitful prayer life with both faith and obedience. These two feed off each other to provide proper balance in our Christian walk.

Too often we think we have to be strong and that weakness, brokenness, or being vulnerable is not strength. This episode will help us see Jesus doesn’t need you to be strong to validate who He is.

We can’t truly pray properly or powerfully apart from our prayers being centered on Jesus.

Prayer is not asking God for things but connecting and conversing with Him. We should spend as much time listening to the Father as we do talking with the Father.

Jesus doesn’t pray for Peters trial and suffering to be removed. Jesus simply says “I’m praying your faith doesn’t fail.” What did Jesus mean by this?

We need faith for salvation, but we also need our faith daily to grow, to be tested and tried, and to guide our character.

Could the reason that so many struggle with their faith fall to the fault of pastors and leadership and the example they lead by? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

E.M. Bounds states: “How great is the power of faith.” This episode will help us see that our power in faith is only as strong as our belief in God, who our faith is in.

This episode will focus on this statement from E.M. Bounds: “He (the believer) must believe where he cannot see.”

We need to have less celebrity, high profile, and high status pastors and more God called God obedient men like John the Baptist.

It is embarrassing to see where the state of the SBC is and many who call themselves pastors. I believe that we can learn much from what the Bible says about John the Baptist and how we can contrast him with the modern pastor.

This mute man was demon possessed and Jesus cast out the demon, but that’s not the real story here.

Jesus shows here that He cares more about a persons faith than in the healing itself

This is a story with twists, turns, emotional roller coasters and Jesus moving and changing the lives of two individuals.

Jesus heals a paralytic but the story just starts there. Jesus uses this opportunity to reveal His true nature to the scribes and crowd.