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Send a text God disciplines those He loves, but it's better not to have to be disciplined in the first place. Support the show

Send a text A lot of us, especially new Christians, want to focus on the things that we get out of Christianity. What is in this for me, almost like we're interviewing God for a position, right? “If you want to be my God, I need to know your position on financial increase.” And don’t get me wrong, God wants to bless you, and the more you understand about Him, the more you’ll realize He can’t...

Send a text You might think that forgiveness and mercy are basically the same thing. They are related, and there's a lot of overlap, but there is a distinction. Mercy is specific to when the person in a position to forgive also has power over the other person. And make no mistake about it, God calls us to be powerful. He wants to give you power. We are not here to be weak, to be victims. The...

Send a text In 2 Corinthians, Paul says “Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying t...

Send a text Today we're starting our relationship series. There is a strong parallel between our relationships with other people and our relationship with God. In fact, I would suggest that God uses our personal relationships with each other in order to teach us what our relationship with him should look like. Support the show

Send a text The Bible says “pride comes before the fall.” Few things stand in the way of God elevating you more than pride, because God wants to elevate people who will exalt Him, not themselves. Support the show

Send a text God loves a cheerful giver, and He also loves a cheerful receiver. If you want to pray effectively, the Bible says "enter His gates with with thanksgiving in your heart, enter His courts with praise." When we give someone a gift and they're glad to receive it, it makes us want to give them even more. God is the same way. Be thankful in the big things and the small things...

Send a text Jordan and Kristen invite you to take communion with them. So get your bread or cracker or cookie and juice ready, and join us for this special communion episode. Support the show

Send a text The book of James has two great verses in it that impress upon us the importance of not just receiving the Word, but also acting on it and spreading it. James tells us "Be ye not just hearers of the Word, but doers," and reminds us that "Faith without works is dead." So don't just listen to our messages, be bold and spread the good news of Christ. Support the s...

Send a text The Bible says "The joy of the Lord is our strength." Without joy, we lose praise and we lose thanksgiving, and those are essential to answered pray. That's why the enemy wants to steal your joy, and why it's essential that you not let him. Support the show

Send a text None of us like it when we're generous to someone and they're not thankful. It makes us not want to give to that person anymore. On the other hand, when someone is thankful, especially in the small things, it makes us want to be even more generous. It's no different with God. Be thankful in the small things so He will bless you with big things. Support the show

Send a text The Bible says "to whom much is given, much is required." That's a good thing. The extra responsibility is part of the blessing, because that's what gives life meaning. Support the show

Send a text Don't treat any day as "routine." The Bible says this is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. And also it continuously impresses upon us that we're supposed to be diligent. In Psalms 39, David says “LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered–how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer...

Send a text The Bible says "A fool says in his heart there is no God." We need always to be ready to defend our faith on a rational basis, to explain in real terms why we believe what we believe. Support the show

Send a text If pride serves to keep God from elevating us, then humility must be the key to God raising us up. Indeed, the Bible says "Humble yourself before the Lord. And he will lift you up in honor." Support the show

Send a text Tonight's message is about how to read the Bible, especially for a new believer. Even if you've been a Christian for a while, it's important to understand how to bring new people to the faith, and set them on a strong course. Simply handing someone a Bible and telling them to read it probably won't get them very far. Start with the Book of John, and go from there. S...

Send a text Tonight's message is about how to distinguish God's voice from all the other noise in your mind. For a lot of believers, the challenge isn't so much hearing God's voice, but distinguishing it from all the other thoughts and distractions in their head. Support the show

Send a text Tonight's message is about taking communion as part of your prayer for healing. When you drink the blood, you're symbolizing Christ's cleansing power over your sins and along with it, the laws of sin and death, which by extension are what lead to sickness in the first place. It's the cleansing blood of Christ that your using to cleanse out really your body and your...

Send a text The enemy doesn't have to get you to sin to defeat you. We think of the enemy as always trying to get us to lie, cheat, steal, to lust, give into anger and temptation, that sort of thing, and to generally get us to do things that we know we shouldn't do. And certainly, he's in that business also, but he also knows that if he can just knock off course by even one degree,...

Send a text Jesus said “judge not, lest you be judged.” And that’s something I take to heart.  But the other part of that was Jesus saying “remove the plank from your own eye, before you complain about the speck in your brother’s eye.” He never said “live with the plank in your eye,” he said “remove it”! In other words, don’t judge other people, but govern yourself and your own actions, and unders...

Send a text Many of the titans of the Bible were terribly flawed people: God used Moses to speak to Pharoah, even though he was "slow of speech." Gideon was a coward, but God called him a "mighty man of valor" and used him to conquer Israel's enemies. David committed adultery and arguably murder, and God called him a person who "had a heart after God like no other.&qu...

Send a text We tend to think of being discontented as being a bad thing: in fact, the word itself means you’re dissatisfied with something.  But it can be good or bad.  God doesn’t want you to become comfortable where you are, because he always wants you to grow. He wants you to progress.  He wants you to go outside of your comfort zone.  And what'll happen is sometimes is he’ll put a healthy...

Send a text If you become a Christian, you're going to have a lot of people not like you. And not just that, you’re going to start to feel excluded by the world.  The world is going to reject you. That's how it is.  But Jesus said that you’ll get a great reward for all of this in this life and in the next: “Truly I tell you, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or fa...

Send a text Nobody likes a closed door. We hate losing a job, not getting into the school of our choice, or getting rejected by someone we like. But the Bible says "All things work together for the good of them who love the Lord, for those who are called according to His purpose." So that closed door is just God's way of stopping you from missing your blessing! Support the show

Send a text Jesus said "In this world you will have trouble, but take heart because I have overcome the world." In other words, you're going to go through some tough times, we all do. Overcoming the world isn't about avoiding those times, it's about those times not defeating you, but instead working together for your good. Support the show