Him We Proclaim Podcast

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Jesus serves the church.  He is the lead worship leader - that is how he serves.  We can come safely and confidently before God the Father, because Jesus leads us in worship. Resources: Hope and Holiness: How the Gospel Enables and Empowers Sexual Purity https://www.moodypublishers.com/hope-and-holiness?fbcl...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! We are quite familiar with church services that have music, prayer time, scripture reading and a sermon.  But what are all these elements for?  And are they gospel-centered?   Resources: Hope and Holiness: How the Gospel Enables and Empowers Sexual Purity https://www.moodypublishers.com/hope-and-holiness?fbc...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Does God give up on His kids when they sin?  Will He turn away from His Children and ignore their prayers when they've failed?  According to John Fonville, God is faithful.  He's a God who disciplines His Children, but we can have confidence that's He's a God of mercy as we struggle with...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! If you had to make a list of the top three things that help you grow spiritually, what would you suggest?  Would you say prayer, listening to worship music and reading your Bible?  While these are good things, are they "means of grace" or "means of gratitude?" John says there are three th...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Where in the church is the gospel?  Today John tells us that the gospel is present in a church that teaches, us that we don't "work for" or "earn" our salvation.  Here's a solid litmus test: does your church teach that being justified before God is is by grace alone, through fai...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! There is overwhelming grace for someone who first comes to Jesus to find forgiveness of their sin, right?  But, what happens when a believer realizes they can't ever stop sinning this side of Heaven?  Do we lose God's favor?  Is the grace now gone?   Today is part 2 of our series "How to Keep...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Nobody's perfect, right? We've all heard that phrase. Because only God is perfect. Well, we face a dilemma, don't we? God demands perfection, and we simply are not able to deliver on that. There's a verse in Psalm 130 that brings this out, and I paraphrase. If the Lord were to keep track...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!!  Do you find this time of year makes you thoughtful about your relationship with others and your relationship with God? Well, you're in good company today. John is going to answer some thoughtful questions about why believers feel far from God. And one of those questions is, is God angry with me when I...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! How do you keep going in the Christian life when sometimes you find yourself walking in darkness, and you don't see any in light of your own. When about when we feel completely overwhelmed by our failures. Or when life is not working out the way we imaged or planned? We are going to look at several insi...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! This is the concluding message in our Lord’s Prayer study.  Today you are going to hear a lot about something called a “Doxology” which simply means an expression of Praise to God.  Which is how the Lord’s prayer concludes.  And it goes without saying, the Bible is full of Doxologies.  I won’t give you any m...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Forgiving others.  Wow, could we talk about something else?  This one is a little too much to deal with.  John is no stranger to living out what it means to forgive others.  If you want to hear that story, go back and listen to the last episode – it was pretty shocking story of what happened to John in high...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! We have a loving and forgiving God who is slow to anger.  Doesn’t that powerful fact make you just want to pray more?  In the Lord’s prayer we ask the father to please forgive us our debts.  You see, our sin stacks up pretty quick, and God’s one way for us to be delivered from the debt is to seek His forgive...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! In the Lord’s prayer we encounter this phrase, "Give us this day our daily bread."  This is a very clever part of the prayer.  It acknowledges the daily gift of food from God and it shows us that God is very interested in meeting all our daily needs, not just physical food.  And, in His generosity,...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Do you like when pastors give you a fly-by of the entire bible in one sermon? That’s among my top favorite things to listen to and it really helps me appreciate the big picture.  Today John gives us a Genesis to Revelation perspective to help us understand the Kingdom of God and why that is referenced in the...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Jesus called out scribes and pharisees back in the day for much of their distorted religious ways.  One example is they would use prayer as a platform and try to bring glory to themselves.  That’s not what prayer is for.  Instead, if you have your theology right, you’ll see that righteous prayer gives glory...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! When Jesus was giving the Sermon on the Mount, he was also calling out the self-righteous and hypocritical scribes and pharisees.  Their bad theology painted negative picture of God.  They made him feel unapproachable, angry & capricious.  But, Christ gave his followers that Lord’s Prayer, which showed u...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! In the Lord’s Prayer it reads, Your Will Be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven.  That’s a powerful thing to pray, isn’t it?  I have some big questions about Gods will.  For starters, what is God’s will?  Does he have a hidden will?  Do I need to worry or be anxious about trying to figure out what’s God’s will...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! What do you think the phrase, “Give us this Day, our Daily Bread” in the Lord’s Prayer.   Other than daily provision for food, is there more behind this phrase?  Absolutely!  It’s like asking, “Give me Jesus” who is the bread of life.  And, it’s a signpost reference to the Lord’s Supper or the Sacrament of C...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! What is the Kingdom of God?  Is that something that we can build and bring into the world?  Jesus taught us in the sermon on the mount and the Lord’s prayer, that the Kingdom of God is HIS GIFT TO US.  Why? Because, it’s simply impossible to get into God’s Kingdom apart from Jesus.  The Kingdom of God is God...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Just in time for Thanksgiving -- Forgiving others.  We know this is a tough topic, but we like to tackle tough topics on Him We Proclaim.  This is a special re-air of a message from the Lord's Prayer Series.  You may notice we reference an earlier episode.  Here's the link to that episode if you wa...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Lesson #2 in this prayer set is called Jesus Honors Righteous Prayer .  In contrast, he calls out and condemns unrighteous prayer. The good news is Jesus wants to make a way for us to be with the Father.  He not only gave us a model of how to pray -- as the adopted sons and daughters that we are -- but he al...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! Some of the most foundational messages we have in our library is a series called Pray This Way: The Divine Pattern of Righteous Prayer.  See, you are not alone of you think your prayer is not effective if it’s not filled with flowery language or complicated arguments to sway God.  As I like to say, Jesus kno...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 4) We are going through the New Testament book of First John.  The current series is about what it means to truly Know God.  That sounds simple and complicated all the same time doesn’t’ it?  Well, bear in mind that many people claim to Know God, but do they?  We have to ask, ourselves, how do we treat...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 3) We are going through the New Testament book of First John.  The current series is about what it means to truly Know God.  That sounds simple and complicated all the same time doesn’t’ it?  Well, bear in mind that many people claim to Know God, but do they?  We have to ask, ourselves, how do we treat...

Please text us your thoughts on this episode. We love hearing from you. Gospel Blessings!! (Part 2) We are going through the New Testament book of First John.  The current series is about what it means to truly Know God.  That sounds simple and complicated all the same time doesn’t’ it?  Well, bear in mind that many people claim to Know God, but do they?  We have to ask, ourselves, how do we treat...