Open Door Church Podcast

Send us Fan Mail After the miraculous announcement of the birth of Samson in chapter 13, we would expect some incredible Judge to come ikon the scene & deliver Israel from its enemies. Instead we are left in the remaining chapters with a fleshly, impulse driven, sex addicted scoundrel who is unreachable and out of control.  Yet the perplexing truth is that God has chosen Samson, He will inevit...

Send us Fan Mail As we begin to look at the final cyclical judge in the Book, God reveals some things about His desire both to know us, and give to us of His Spirit through the life of Samson. Whose eyes matter when determining right and wrong in our lives, and what has God given us that is better than rules whereby we can know Him? We find out together as we study Judges 13. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Even with the presence of God's Spirit in us we are still capable of terrible things. This was the case of Jephthah. With his beliefs about God heavily influenced by the culture he was living in, he foolishly promised something he should never have. Jephthah, though well intentioned, is the picture of what we look like when we try to allow truth and error to coexist in our li...

Send us Fan Mail Who we worship we serve. Who we serve owns us. Who owns us controls us. Choose who you will serve whether it be the gods of this world or the one true and living God, and His name is Jesus! From Judges 10:6-16 Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In Judges 9 we see the picture of a man in Abimilech that promotes himself, and lives a life to get all that his flesh desires. In contrast we see the trust in the Lord in Jotham, and the grace of God through Tola and Jair to save Israel from themselves. From this may we learn the destruction of self-reliance, and the corrupt nature of our flesh. To understand that our greatest ba...

Send us Fan Mail When we have a measure of success we often feel deserved of admiration. When we are given a position of power, we need to protect our hearts from using it to lift up ourselves and abuse others. These are the Lessons we need to learn from the failures we see in Gideon at the end of his career as a Judge over Israel. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail As we conclude chapter 7 of the book of Judges, we see God assuring His fearful servant through the reminder of His Word, the actions of others, and the circumstances that are facing him.  Like Gideon we are continual need of reassurance, so God gives us His Word, others, and the circumstances of life to assure us of His love for us, and the confidence we should have in Him.  If y...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue out study through Judges, we see through the life of Gideon that God wanted Israel to be certain who it was that would receive glory for their victory. He knew that if their salvation was by their works, they would have cause to boast in themselves and not in Him.  We too would have reason to boast if our salvation was in ourselves and not completely in Christ. Who...

Send us Fan Mail A message from Luke 10:38-42 Support the show

Send us Fan Mail A look into the questions we often ask God when we are facing troubles from Judges 6:11-40. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Are you stuck in a cycle of sin, regretful about your past, and unable to break free? Perhaps you have confused the “worldly sorrow” of regret with the “godly sorrow” that produced repentance.  At the Cross we find the balance of  Holiness and Grace without the compromise of either, and the key to breaking the cycle of sin.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail When we lay Judges 4 and 5 next to each other in study we get both the historical and theological perspective of what God is wanting to teach us about Faith and Glory.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail God brings deliverance to His people through unexpected people and in unexpected ways.  In this message we look at the "left-hander" Ehud. Was he handicapped, or just overlooked enough to accomplish the assassination of Eglon and bring 80 years of peace to Israel? Either way God used him in an unusual and unexpected way. A message from our study in Judges from chapter 3...

Send us Fan Mail God tells us in Judges 3:7 that doing evil involves forgetting Him, and serving other gods. When we forget God it's not that we have a loss in memory, but rather we fail to allow what we believe to be real to us, and therefore it has no control over us. Listen as we discuss how to cure this Heart Amnesia from Judges 3:1-11. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Listen in on the message from Judges 2:10-3:6. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Why does God call us together as a body to hear the preaching of His Word, and how does this habit of grace energize and edify the body of Christ? Listen as we discover the Grace of Preaching together through Ephesians. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail What does a truly idolatrous generation look like, and how does it become that way? Israel forgets God and then forsakes God. How can we prevent this from our own lives, and the generations to follow? Listen in on the message from Judges 2:10-3:6. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail How many of us have approached 1 John 1:9 without a proper Biblical definition of confession? Listen as we dig into the passage and discover what frees us truly from guilt and repetition in our sins. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail After hearing Israel's report from Judges 1 and their reasoning for not being able to obey God fully for all the difficulties they faced, we hear from God's perspective in Judges 2 as He speaks, and tells them their problem is not inability, but disobedience. How are our "can't"s really "won't"s? In what areas has our half-hearted disciplesh...

Send us Fan Mail A study in the book of Judges. In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25 God relentlessly offers His grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it . We discuss the half hearted discpleship approach, to God in this discussion. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail A study in the book of Judges. In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25 God relentlessly offers His grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it . God wants lordship over every area of our lives, not just some. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail 1st Corinthians 12 12-31 Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In the last message in our Easter series, we look at the Easter Story, and why what happened is significant to us today. Our text is Luke 24. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of our mini-series on Jesus, we look at Jesus' crucifixion from John 19:16-37. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Palm Sunday, a message from Matthew 21:1-11 Support the show