Discipleship Tape Ministries

Jesus took one day at a time. One interruption at a time. One crisis at a time. If while He was yet speaking, another crisis arose, He quietly dealt with what seemed to be most immediate, and left the long-range solutions in the hands of the Father. That is the key to the Christ-filled, joy-filled Christian life – letting God be Himself. If we do that, we won’t become frantic, even if while we are...

We have been called to serve one another. To do that, we’ve got to go where the people are. We have to accept, like Jesus, the tax collector’s invitation to have supper with the city’s ten most hated list. We have to go, bathed in the love of Christ, not to enjoy their sin or be attracted by their greed, but neither to condemn them by ignoring them or condescending to them. They need Jesus. We hav...

Is it possible to have peace in the midst of life’s storms? As the disciples faced the storm, they became afraid. They thought that Jesus did not care about them. Do we feel that way also in the midst of trying circumstances? Jesus, as always, was trying to teach the disciples through the storm to rest in Him. He wants us to take a deep breath and say to our anxious souls: “Peace, be still”. He ma...

Jesus said the key to the harvest is in the seed. We must be hearing The Word constantly. The soil must be ready for the seed. It must fall into an honest and good heart. We will take a look at what each of those words mean. We are then to turn the Word into understanding by personalizing the Scripture and applying it to our lives. Jesus also tells us we must be patient as the seed grows. Graduall...

The miracle of miracles is the message of multiplication. It is God taking soil from the likes of our hearts and using it. He takes the Seed of His Word and pours it into our lives, producing fruit adequate to feed the world spiritually. That’s the miracle. What are the methods God uses for this multiplication? There are a variety of ways, but this lesson will zero in on four of them. We need to t...

If we were to assume this was the year of the Lord’s return, how would it affect our lives? We are destined to choose at the start of each year whether or not that year will see our perspective broaden, and our walk with God deepen, or not. Do we get as excited about heaven as we do about a new house? Does the thought of spending eternity with Jesus captivate our hearts morning, noon, and night? I...

The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in – these things choke the Word. And when they do, no matter how much we study, no matter how much we hear, no matter how faithful we seem to be to the outward evidences of religiosity – little by little, the cancerous disease of compromise eats away at the fiber of our beings, and the Word becomes unprof...

This is a lesson about roots. It is a lesson on what makes a tree grow strong enough to weather life’s storms, and correspondingly what makes a man or woman grow strong enough to weather life’s storms as well. In both cases, it’s the same – roots. That is why we need to lay aside every other thing we consider important in this life, and place the process of developing roots as the top priority in...

The Scriptures give us a very balanced picture of Satan. He is described in great detail, but always to give us an understanding of his tactics, not a fear of his actions. We are admonished to be aware of his authority, but to be even more aware of the far greater authority of the indwelling Christ. Nearly every time we see the power of Satan mentioned in the New Testament, it is mentioned to draw...

The godly sower knows the seed. He knows it is precious. He knows it is pure. He knows it is powerful. He knows it is permanent. The godly sower sows the seed without wavering, without compromising, without complaining without doubting and without glorying. But above all, He sows the seed. He knows that it was not entrusted to him for him to start a seed museum, but to sow the seed. Perhaps it is...

This lesson centers around an important parable that Jesus taught concerning the seed-bearing fruit in certain types of soils. Many refer to this parable as the parable of the soils. It should rather be considered the parable of the seed. The seed is the Word of God. Only one thing will bring others to Christ, and that is the Word of God. That is why we must stay in the Scriptures day and night if...

God can deliver us from life’s unpleasantries, and He will, if that is all we have the faith to believe He can do. But, quarantined Christians don’t win many battles. Quarantined Christians don’t claim many victories. That is why mature Christians will constantly be passing through the fires of life. The men and women in the Word, who were men and women after God’s own heart, spent their lives doi...

How aware are we of the greatness of God? The centurion with the sick child understood. His faith touched the heart of God as he cried out, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you even come under my roof.” Is it only as we adopt the mindset of this centurion that we will ever truly adopt the Mind of Christ? Is it because, when we look in the mirror, we do not like ourselves? No, it is because when we l...

The Word of God has a lot to say about cause and effect. At the outset of Matthew 7 and the corresponding passage in Luke 6, we find our Lord explaining some spiritual laws that appear to have even more direct cause-and-effect results; results that would always come back to the Christian in exact measure and in exactly the same area of the Christian’s life. Jesus took four of the most crucial area...

To seek first the kingdom is to have the Mind of Christ as our only priority in life. We should have as our only goal in life to see life from God’s perspective. What are the characteristics of a church which is seeking first the kingdom? What has happened to the Church today? Where has all of the power gone? Maybe we have confused the kingdoms. Which kingdom are we really seeking? We will take a...

Jesus did not come to teach us how to take what was ours – Satan had already taught us that! Jesus came to teach us how to give away, how to turn loose of everything we have. He came to teach us how to give in order to teach us how to live. He came to demonstrate how to give a life away! That is where we will take up in this lesson. Read lesson: 986A

How anxious are you? How fretful? How much of your idle time is spent in answering “what if” questions in your mind to a makebelieve stranger? How tense do you get when life empties its clouds of doom over your house, and the world has no answers? Beloved, consider the lilies. They toil not; neither do they spin. If our precious God, clothes the grass of the field, which is present today and gone...

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Is our treasure in heaven or on Earth? What do we treasure? In this lesson, we are asked three questions concerning our treasure. The answers to these questions may well help us determine where our treasures are. We need to examine ourselves to see where our hearts really lie. Read lesson: 985A

As we conclude this series of lessons on the Lord’s Prayer, we will look at our concept of eternity. Are we living for the here and now; or are we living for eternity? As we seek to answer that question, we will see how our perspective will change, our pursuits will change, and our concept of praise will change. Read lesson: 984B

Just what do we know of God’s glory? Do we know what it is? We can hardly ask for it unless we do. Is glory something we give to God? If so, why does He need it? Isn’t He all-sufficient? Or is glory something God reveals to us? If so, can we handle it? Or is glory a place we will someday enjoy. If so, then how can we experience it now? Just what is God’s glory? And if “the glory belongs to God”, t...

All power belongs to God. He is the omnipotent, all-powerful God of creation. There is nothing He cannot do. Therefore, there is nothing we cannot trust Him to do. We can trust His Word, because He has the power to keep His Word. We can trust His love, because He has the power to demonstrate His love. We can trust His righteousness, because He has the power to defend His righteousness. His is the...

When we pray “Thine is the Kingdom”, we are bowing before the One Who owns us and acknowledging His ownership. This world is His; He owns it. Our life is His; He purchased it. Eternity is His; He will reign over it. Is He our King at the altar of worship? Is He our King when the bullets begin to fly, and the bombs begin to fall? Our will needs to surrender to God’s for His is the Kingdom. Read les...

Every day we are tempted and every day we must pray that God will deliver us from falling into the hands of Satan. The battle goes on and the enemy will attack. God can remove the conflict, and God can remove us from the conflict. Usually, He does neither. He wants us to be tested that we might come forth as gold. In that flaming furnace of old, God desires that the world around us see us go throu...

We need to learn to pray as Jesus prayed and forgive as He forgave. We have been loosed from the prison house of sin by a gracious God. We have been forgiven. We can make a mockery of that forgiveness by refusing to forgive others, and thus willingly enter again into bondage, or we can walk into the sunlight of a new life. Because of the great forgiveness we have received, we are to pour that forg...

Give us this day our daily bread. Our God wants us to ask Him to meet our needs, not because He does not know what they are; He knows long before we ask. He knows, but in all likelihood, we don’t. Therefore, He insists that we ask. It will exercise our faith; it will make us dependent; and it will multiply His glory. Every day we must come before Him and ask. Read lesson: 981B