Light on Life Podcast

Josh McDowell told this great story. An executive hirer, a "headhunter" who goes out and hires corporation executives for other firms, once told me, "When I get an executive that I'm trying to hire for someone else, I like to disarm him. I offer him a drink, take my coat off, then my vest, undo my tie, throw up my feet and talk about baseball, football, family, whatever until he's all relaxed. The...

Dreams played an important part in the lives of God's people. Of the 116 references to dreams listed in Young's Concordance, 52 come in Genesis during the early patriarchal period and 29 in the Book of Daniel.  The book of  Zechariah is about eight special dreams that God gave to the prophet Zechariah, so he can tell God's people what they mean. The dreams are all about God's people rebuilding the...

W hile on vacation, Bethany was speeding down a California freeway with three teenage friends. One of them, Jody, said she had dreamed the night before that they were in a serious wreck and that she, the only one with a fastened seatbelt on, had survived. Hearing that, everyone fastened their seat belts. Later, their car swerved into the grass median and rolled. The investigating officer looked at...

Many times people seek guidance from the Lord in ways He did not intend. An example is fleecing. It is scripturally incorrect for born-again believers to put out fleeces in order to determine God's will. It's always best for 'new creation' men to stay with God's Word in these areas. In the pages of the Bible, the Lord Himself gave us clear instruction about how New Testament children of God are to...

Are you sensitive in your heart to the promptings and the urges of the Spirit of God? Are you hearing  Him? Are you easily moved by His gentle manner? Developing sensitivity of heart opens you to the life of God found in Jesus. For, the Spirit of God will lead you and guide you into all the truth about Him.

In close connection with listening to God is the idea of waiting on God. People are hindered from receiving direction from God simply because they are not waiting around long enough to hear what He has to say. We are religiously praying instead of spiritually listening. Waiting to hear is part of the prayer discipline.

Miracles, we see them in the Bible, a book which spans 4000 years of recorded history. From the very first book of the Bible where God healed Abimelech in response to Abraham's prayer in Genesis 20:17 all the way through to the leaves of healing from the Tree of Life in Revelation 22: 2, we see God's desire for man to be 'every bit whole.' Yet there are those who say it's all in the past. That the...

Are you able to pick out God's voice from the load and roaring sounds of the world system? Here are three secrets to help you know God's voice so you can walk out His perfect will in your everyday life.

Throughout the course of divinely spiritual history, God has chosen to walk among men in power. At times, these visits are very focused and powerfully penetrating. Especially when men have fallen and slipped into perpetual carnality and carelessness. We saw in last week's podcast that revivals of religion are scriptural. We looked at an Old Testament example with King Asa. What about the New Testa...

What is a revival? According to Ron Mcintosh, former chaplain of ORU, the term 'revival' means several things. For one, it is a divine attack on society. It is the marshaling of forces fatal to the kingdom of darkness. It is the enlisting, training, and empowering of believers as a prelude to evangelism. Revival is God's military tactic which concentrates His resources for a vital blow at a crucia...

Strength is always found in true humility. Meekness is not weakness; rather it is the proper way to demonstrate strength and resolve. But how do you develop in humility? How do you put it on?

Have you met people in your world who make themselves out to be candidates for the title "Smartest Man in the World?" People who possess an innate overestimation of themselves? What you will find as you study the truth of God's Word is that pride is an absolute downer. Overrunning pride always leads to a severe fall. The way of humility is the right way, the normal Christian life. How do you dimin...

Hesed is God's very mercy which flows out from His Throne. His instructions to us, as His children, is to boldly come to receive it when we need help.

What is the concept of clean and unclean in the Old Testament? We need to see it as God sees it. We will continue to look into this idea as we pick-up where we left off in last week's podcast on the ritual cleansing of the leper in Leviticus fourteen.

In Season Four Episode Sixteen, we continue to take a more extensive look at the healing of the leper especially centering on the healing ritual surrounding the leper in Leviticus chapter fourteen.

In last weeks' podcast, we looked at some healing words used in the New Testament. We ended the podcast just touching on the healing word Jesus used when ministering to the leper. This week, we take a more extensive look at the healing of the leper especially centering on the healing ritual surrounding the leper in Leviticus chapter fourteen. All this on this week's Light on Life.

You can be healed by reading the Word. Doesn't that match the scripture in Proverbs 4:20-22? Proverbs 4:20–22 (KJV) — 20 My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh. Get ready to be healed today. We are going to be reading s...

This is the New Years edition of Light On Life. This is the time of the year where people think about things like resolutions, goals, and vision for the upcoming year. Soon after the completion of Disney World, someone said, "Isn't it too bad that Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" Mike Vance, creative director of Disney Studios, replied, "He did see it—that's why it's here." Vision is seeing t...

God's plan was thought up and set in motion before the foundations of the world (Eph. 1:4). Particular courses of events and situations, at times, align to bring into a focus a particular aspect of God's wisdom and plan. Today, we are going to look at the birth of Jesus in this way. We are going to look at some of the events that came into view and we are going to ask a rather startling question a...

Proverbs 6:12-15 shows some of the areas which cause sickness and disease to flourish on planet earth. Knowing what they are and determining to avoid them will help us live our lives in health and wholeness.

In the Word of God, there is absolutely a strong and solid connection between health and healing, between sin and sickness. You will find, as look at the Word, that there are verses which reference being healed and being saved both in the same verse. We are going to look at Proverbs six today and look at the connection between a sin and incurable diseases. One of those connections is crooked speec...

Incurable diseases are on the rise on planet earth. So says a September 2017 report. Why are they increasing? Is there any clue? Yes, thank God there is. The Word of God helps us to know why and also clues us into how to effectively close the door to them.

Thankfulness is more than a seasonal sentiment — it's a life-shaping attitude that determines how you see God, yourself, and the world around you. As we enter another Thanksgiving season, Scripture calls us to give thanks always and to recognize that gratitude reflects the condition of our hearts. Ephesians 5:20 reminds us that thankfulness isn't circumstantial; it's a posture of faith rooted in G...

Often times we can tell what something is by looking at what it isn't. There is some confusion on what divine healing is. Some have taken the 'beef stew approach' and lumped it all together in the same pot. In this podcast, we separate the pieces. 

What does the Bible mean by the fifth commandment of the Law, Honor your father and mother'? Is it more than just giving them respect?