Mineral Springs Church of Christ Podcast

Steven Morris of River City Ministries in Little Rock, Arkansas, talks about the importance of letting ours lights shine in our daily life. Using scriptures from Matthew and Ephesians, he reminds us that we as Christians show the world who we are through our words and actions.

Harding University professor Kraig Martin uses the text of Philippians 2 to outline the keys to joyful living. Connection to others, creative work, obedience and humility on the way to the cross, conformity into the likeness of Christ, and completion of our obstacles and struggles will help guide us on the path of a joyful Christian life.

Matt Carter, the Director of Admissions at the Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tenn., uses the story of Bessie Coleman and Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 to discuss how we use the various times and seasons of our lives. Asking what we can pour our lives into right now that has never come  before and will never pass this way again, he concludes by urging listeners to live well and wisely in the present...

Brent Franks, minister from the Antlers, Oklahoma, church of Christ, shares thoughts about faith: what it is, and what it is not. Using Ephesians 3 as a text, he shows how Paul ties faith and love together, praying this prayer in Eph. 3:14-21 (NIV): "For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.   I pray that out of his glorious ric...

Dale Manor, a professor at Harding University in Searcy, uses examples of Bible lands archaeology to explain how understanding ancient times can deepen our understanding of the stories we read in the Bible.

Speaker Ken Dye encourages listeners to have hope and relates an Old Testament story to our covenant with Christ. He recalls the story of the covenant between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul, and how that covenant affected the future treatment of Jonathan's son Mephibosheth following Jonathan's death. Like Mephibosheth, we experience better treatment than we deserve because of our co...

In and following the model prayer that Jesus gives His disciples he emphasizes forgiveness. Gary Jackson reminds us that there are things Jesus wants us to pay attention to, and this is one of those things. If we are unwilling to forgive, God will be unwilling to forgive us. God's mercy is not based on my sorrow for my sin, my potential future behavior, or whether I have a good excuse for wha...

Is God just a chapter in your story? Or, is He more than that? God's story is a story of our salvation. Our greatest obligation is to share our testimony with others, but if our Bibles are barely, rarely, or never read, how do we know what God's will is? Stan Little of Flippin, Arkansas, discusses the role of God's story in the Christian life, explaining why it is so important. 

Mike Ireland, retired from Harding University, uses Ephesians 1:3-14 to explain what God has done for us through His son Jesus. He has chosen us. He has adopted us. He has accepted us. He has made known the mystery of His plan regarding Christ. He has given us a purpose to bring praise and glory to Him. He has given us assurance, and he has purchased us; we are possessions of God. 

How are we to pray?  Besides the Beatitudes, Jesus talks more about prayer than anything else in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Gary Jackson of Harding University discusses principles of prayer based on the perfect example of Jesus.

Gary Gregg of Harding University bases his lesson on Luke 7:36-50 concluding that Jesus is concerned with kingdom building for God while religious people can tend to be concerned with personal building of personal kingdoms.

Jerry Barber, author of the book Between Preachers , discusses what it means to be a normal Christian using the lives of the apostles Peter and Paul for examples.