Dewey Bertolini's podcast

Of all of the things that Peter could have told his unsettled refugee readers, why in the world would he challenge them to "be holy"? Oh my friends, as you are about to hear in this PODCAST , the answer is far more profound than we could ever imagine. Seriously. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play...

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What you are about to hear in this PODCAST is Peter's most powerful appeal. One born in Peter's greatest failure. It is true that our most powerful life-message comes not out of our spectacular successes, but rather out of our epic failures. So be encouraged. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. G...

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Peter wrote that the prophets "searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances (of the predicted) sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow." That time had now come. And as you are about to hear in this PODCAST , it was amazing! Last week, we made the point that the portrait of Jesus painted in the Old Testament, by the Old Testament pr...

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As you are about to hear in this PODCAST , eight times in only three verses—1 Peter 1:10-12—Peter draws our focused-attention to "the Prophets." Referring, of course, to the Old Testament Prophets. Individuals—many of whom paid for their prophecies literally with their lives. Individuals to whom we owe our heritage as committed followers of Jesus. Individuals who painted a stunningly complete port...

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If you want to watch in wonder as God brings beauty out of someone's ashes, you've come to the right PODCAST . Her name was Tamar. And oh what a story she has to tell. Another talk from my Hartland High School Camp this past summer. (1 Peter in HD will resume next week!) Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begi...

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May I ask you a personal question? As you will hear in this PODCAST , the exact same question that I asked of a couple of hundred of the best high school students you'd ever want to meet. Here's my question: Do you want to live your life in the midst of God's blessing? If your answer to that question is "Yes," THIS is what God's blessing means; THIS is what a God-blessed life looks like. Please re...

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If you have ever wondered how I present the Gospel to a camp filled with some pretty precious High School students, you can hear it for yourself in this bonus PODCAST . This message was delivered just one month ago at Hartland Christian Camp. Please join them and me at the foot of the cross, listening to Jesus' final seven sayings from that cross. THIS is what a gentle Jesus sounds like, even whil...

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As you are about to hear in this PODCAST , it is one of the most, if not the-most-blessed, doctrines in all of the Bible. So naturally, theologians have to come along and muddy it all up to the point where today it is MUBAR—Messed Up Beyond All Recognition. I'm talking about the blessed doctrine of—fancy name— imminence . As in the imminent return of Jesus. As in the clear and (as you will hear in...

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Paul wrote to the believers in Rome, "Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity." Never was the need for Paul's plea more evident than in what you are about to hear here in this PODCAST . Please r...

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As you will hear in this PODCAST , Peter will write this extraordinary sentence: "In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials." Trials, I will remind you, that cost Peter's readers everything. How did they do it? How was it possible for them—How is it possible for us?—to rejoice when they/we are experiencing the crushing we...

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I am coming off of an exhilarating week with the BEST high school students you'd ever want to meet. In this PODCAST , you will hear my opening night message at Hartland Christian Camp. Believing that "openness begets openness," I get very open, very real, very fast—with them, and now with you. May my words be a blessing. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it...

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Think of it. As you will hear in this encore  PODCAST … (An encore because I am speaking at one of my all-time favorite places in the world, Hartland Christian Camp)... Promptly at 3 PM… Exactly at That. Very. Moment when Jesus breathed His last… Precisely to the second when Jesus exclaimed, "It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit"… This happened: "Then the veil of the temple w...

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As you are about to hear in this PODCAST , the time has come for us to have a sensible discussion about an issue that has been grossly misunderstood, and consequently grievously mis-taught, in far too many Christian settings. All of this causing so much harm spiritually, mentally, and emotionally to so many. Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Oh, my dear friend...