Pearls of Biblical Wisdom for Believers and Fathers

Season 3     Episode    33   This sermon is a the FIRST in a three part series. All three sermons have as the goal to give father's wisdom as to not provoking their children to wrath.  Ephesians  6:4  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 

Season 1     Episode     14       In this podcast I have four men interacting with me about the dynamics of our Thursday Night Men's Discipleship Meeting over the course of ten years.   Those participating are: Jay Lufkin and his son Jason, Jack Johnston and Stephen Fessler.  The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the Grea...

Season One     Episode 15      In this podcast my son Joel and my son-in-law Jeremiah Paden join me. We interact with each other concerning the practical way God has worked in recent years in the godly companionships Joel and Jeremiah have established.  Notice the pinpointed certainty God declares in His word concerning positive blessings or negati...

Season 1     Episode     14       In this podcast I have four men interacting with me about the dynamics of our Thursday Night Men's Discipleship Meeting over the course of ten years.   Those participating are: Jay Lufkin and his son Jason, Jack Johnston and Stephen Fessler.  The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the Grea...

Series 1        Episode   13       John Howard joins me in this podcast. John and I have known each other for twenty-two years. He has helped me with my insurance needs and retirement investments. Over the years we have had an iron sharpening iron ministry with each other. Proverbs 27:17  "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a ma...

Series  3      Episode  32    In this message I share from Proverbs concerning God's Reproof and God's Correction (Proverbs 3:11,12) and how vital it is to experiencing the blessedness of the wisdom and understanding (Prov. 3:13,18) of God so that life can be lived the way God designed it to be in our life journey. Proverbs 4:7 declares: "Wisdom is...

Series 1     Episode  12 In this podcast I am interacting with my mom (Carlean Cole) and Judith Burgess on the subject of prayer.   These ladies have been prayer warriors for many years. In the podcast we interact on major aspects of what they have applied in their own prayer life as to the dynamics of effective praying and knowing God. When I was two years old I...

Series 3   Episode 31  This is a message taken from Proverbs chapter 3.   In it I seek to explain practically how to stand on the promises of God so it can be true in our lives as the hymn says     "we will never fail",     "we will never fall".   If we are to see God's promises fulfilled in our lives we need to understand...

Season 1 Episode 11  Wisdom and Reality This podcast is my son Josh and myself interacting on how the book of Proverbs explains to us the realities of life. We share our thoughts after reading some quotes from Raymond Ortlund Jr.'s commentary on Proverbs entitled "Wisdom that Works."  We contrast reality thinking with fantasy thinking.  2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the f...

Series   3    Episode   30 Luke 16:9-13

Series  3   Episode    29 Luke 16:1-13

Series  3   Episode   28 Matthew 8:5-13

Season 1   Episode  10      Proverbs 4:7  "Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom..."  Wisdom -- Seeing and responding to life situations from God's frame of reference.  This podcast is explains: 1) The Priority of Wisdom  2) Wisdom and Reality   3)   Wisdom and Pride   4)   Wisdom and...

Season 1    Episode  9      This is a message I preached this past Sunday concerning the critical vital need of prayer in our personal life, our home life, our church life in our married life -- in all aspects of life.     In order for mom and dad to be heirs together of the grace of life in parenting it is critical to to understand the p...

Season 1 Episode 8 When I was 6 years old (66 years old now)  I remember playing little league baseball. It was my time to bat and I remember hearing my dad in the stands affirming and cheering for me to get a hit. There is a lot I don't remember from my childhood but that was a golden moment I will never forget -- my dad cheering me on !!!!. All sons and daughters need their father's affirma...

Season 1  Episode 7 I encourage you to listen to this podcast with your family from Psalm 100 and have a discussion time as a family about the truth in Psalms 100. It would be good to memorize the chapter together as a family. Also there is a lot of wisdom in discussing together what it says about our God is our Creator.  God tells us in His Word that one of the first major concepts of t...

Season 1   Episode 6 When I was eighteen years old I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father in a personal way. I knew I had a personal relationship to the Creator God and the Redeemer God because of answers to prayer that only God and I knew about.  The Navigator Ministry in those days had a packet of five verses to memorize for the new believer. Each verse was an ass...

Series 1   Episode  1 better audio version Every father who has found his way to this podcast should listen to this message first. In this introductory podcast I explain the foundations of how I was led by God to begin this podcast ministry. Biographical Information – Pastor Randy Cook I was born in 1954 in Phenix City, Alabama and saved when I was 18 years old through Tom Tarvin sh...

Series  3  Episode 27 Matthew 20:1-16   This message is part of a series on the parables of Jesus.

Series  3  Episode 26 John 14:1-7

Series  3  Episode 25 John 14:1-7

Series  3  Episode 24 John 14:1-3

Season 3 Episode 23 Ephesians 2:8-10

Series 1   Episode  4 I am constantly praying that this podcast ministry will have a heart to heart connection with fathers.  One more sermon, one more Bible Study, a little more Bible knowledge etc. can all be given without real heart life transforming change. As John Rajan shared and interacted (from his heart)  with me about prayer and fathers I knew God was answering p...

Series 1   Episode  3 This message is taken from a parable in Luke 17:7-10.  We understand through this parable the whole concept of being a bond servant under the Lordship of Jesus Christ the Master. Rather than parenting or living being a drudgery as believers in Christ we have the marvelous blessing of parenting and living being a delight. As we delight ourselves in our Lord...