Pioneer Memorial Church Audio Podcast

Another ominous summit. Another courageous climber. Another set of lessons from the White Spider bear the empowering invitation: “Come up after Me.” Respond to that invitation, and once again your obstacles become His opportunities, and yours!

The ascent to Europe’s “White Spider” represents the appeal of one of the Bible’s most unsung hero’s: “Give me this mountain.” Four lessons from the White Spider can convert your most difficult obstacles into divine opportunities.

The Sacrifice Factor

The Issachar Factor – 3

When your doctor tells you that you have only a few more months to live, priorities have a way of coming into clear focus. Reviewing Jesus’ prophecy of global trends signaling the end can have a similar effect. Which makes the seven simple steps to make the greatest difference so vitally important.

Fear and apprehension will characterize the last days. So said Jesus. Fortunately, He pointed us to seven characteristics of a discerning spirit that can overcome fear.

Secret #4 – Turn Your Surviving into Thriving

Economic hard times and good times contain the same divine invitation, and the same promising potential.

It's a story hard for a skeptical world to believe, but a story filled with power. Tap into the message of the empty coffin to a generation filled suffering from empty coffers.

It's not the $11 trillion national debt that bothers the majority of us most, it's our own personal debt: credit cards, student loans, etc. If you're in this camp, there are steps you can take, an attitude you can adopt and a promise you can trust that will make all the difference.

The fires of purgatory are the same as the fires of hell, only the purpose and the result are different: so goes the classical doctrine of hell. The debate over purgatory isn't simply a matter of differing interpretations of Scripture. There's much more at stake here.

The traditional teaching about hell "raises the problem of evil to impossible heights." Is there any way to reconcile "eternal fire" with a loving God? The difference this makes in how God is portrayed is enormous.

Jesus warned against a hell that is very real and very terrible: fire, darkness, sword, weeping and gnashing of teeth. Which makes the cross all the more shocking, for at Calvary Jesus entered the very hell he warned us away from.

The Midnight Blitz

It's one of the most debated mysteries in history. Where does a loved one go at the moment they die? To heaven? To hell? To purgatory? The answer is one of the clearest teachings in Scripture.

God said Adam would. Satan said Adam wouldn't. He did! What happened next has been debated ever since. The Bible reveals the foundational issues in the debate.

"Twas the night before primetime and all through the earth, every creature was stirring except for the Church. Donned in their kerchiefs and wrapped in their gowns, the Church was asleep as the curtain came down." Why, "God of heaven, wake us up!" is a prayer peculiarly applicable to the Prime Time Generation.

Everybody suffers sometimes. Everybody suffers many times. Ever notice how this seems especially true of God's friends? The Bible does. Welcome to the truth of the pearls and the powers.

Theodicy: If God is both all-good and all-powerful, then why is there so much suffering? It's an intellectual barrier to belief for many. But it's more than academic. Everyone will confront it personally and emotionally at some point. Best to be prepared.

All atheists and Christians who discuss their convictions about God would do well to humbly consider these seven guidelines for their conversations; four specifically applicable to Christians, three to atheists.

Is politics a kingdom ordained by God for the administration of social justice or the realm of pied pipers leading the naive to an unsuspecting end? How to be spiritually faithful while seeking to be socially responsible.

For the follower of Jesus, it all comes down to this: "Just walk across the room." Seven principles that can make the journey most effective.

If you are a follower of Jesus, Satan fears you because he knows that you have the one truth that cannot be argued against. And no one can share it but you.

Four strikingly similar parallels mark the generations of Pentecost 1 and Pentecost 2. A reminder that God can change the world once again through a small group of praying, committed Adventist Christians.

Is it possible to be a Christian in belief but an agnostic in practice? What if prayer really did change things but we practiced it so sparingly? Consider 5 ways to pray most effectively for lost people.