Reflect on This

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 3 Episode 2 -- It's that time of year when we are often motivated to create goals for the year.  Is there a way to get God's perspective in this process?  You bet!  Listen and find out some helpful biblical principles related to this endeavor. "Reflect on This" is a once-a-week, short devotional podcast, whe...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 3 Episode 1 -- Have you ever heard the following statement?  "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever."  What exactly does "enjoying God" mean?  What does it look like?  I asked the Holy Spirit to guide me to Bible passages and biblical principles that offered insights into the answer...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 53 -- Over the centuries, in various ways, many people have asked the question, “What is truth?”  For some people, truth has become relative, instead of absolute.  For example, you might hear people say, “That may be true for you, but not for me.”  In the Bible, Jesus gives a clear answer to this question.  What is th...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 52 - In this episode, I review a familiar part of the Christmas story, to emphasize one character quality in Joseph that we sometimes overlook.  I then use this as an example of one part of the two-part biblical mandate for godly men.  What are those two aspects of biblical mandate?  Listen and find out. "Reflect...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 51 - For some, the holidays are wonderful times, filled with joy.  But for others, they are anything but joyful. If you are one of those people who find little joy in the holidays, listen and see if the discoveries I share in this episode will be helpful. "Reflect on This" is a once-a-week, short devotional...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 50 -- In the last episode, I shared the "what" of salvation -- that we are God's masterfully created workmanship.  In this episode, I continue this discussion by sharing the "why" of salvation, and offer some practical applications to these powerful principles.  Listen and see if these applica...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 49 -- What do you think about when you are admiring beautiful outdoor scenery?  I think about how creation is a giant display of God's works of art.  In this episode, I share an "ah-ha" moment I had recently about God's supreme work of art:  the human being.  And I share a great word picture given...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 48 -- I recently came across something that I wrote and gave to my children many years ago.  I was passing along to them 4 key truths that I wanted them to embrace.  In today's episode, I share with you that writing.  Want to know what I said?  Listen to today's episode and find out! "Reflect on This&qu...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 47 - As we approach Thanksgiving, it seems appropriate to reflect upon the biblical principle of giving thanks.  Did you know that the New Testament encourages us to employ two methods of giving thanks?  Listen and find out what they are. "Reflect on This" is a once-a-week, short devotional podcast. In these...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 46 -- In Galatians chapter 5, we find a list of wonderful characteristics that the indwelling Holy Spirit freely produces in the lives of followers of Jesus.  But have you ever noticed that hope is NOT in this list?  In today's episode, we explore a possible explanation for this, which comes from exploring anothe...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 45 -- Proverbs 4:23 reminds us that everything we do flows from our heart.  Because of this, it exhorts us to "guard our hearts."  In the previous episode, we explored what that means.  In this episode, we explore the best way to do that.  What is the best way to guard our hearts?  Listen and find out! &quot...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 44 - In this episode, we look at how the Bible defines the heart (also known as the soul), and its relationship to the spirit and the body.  We also see that the Bible declares that both good treasure and bad treasure can come forth from our heart.  If that is the case, then what are we to do as believers?  Listen to...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 43 -- In this episode, we continue our look at a wonderful (and challenging) word picture of our heart, and our interactions with Christ as we take Him on a tour of the rooms of our heart, symbolic of the areas of our lives.  Today, we will look at the playroom (the room of amusements, friendships, and activities), an...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 42 - In this episode, we continue our look at a wonderful (and challenging) word picture of our heart, and our interactions with Christ as we take Him on a tour of the rooms of our heart, symbolic of the areas of our lives.  Today, we will look at the drawing room (the quiet and secluded room), and the workshop (the r...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 41 - What does the Bible mean by "the heart?"  I have found a wonderful, modern-day parable that offers many helpful insights into the various facets of the heart.  In today's episode, I begin sharing this word picture.  Listen, and see if you identify with the illustrations presented. "Reflect on...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 40 - We see the word "heart" frequently in the Bible.  We can tell that it almost never refers to our physical heart.  So, what is it referring to?  And how does it relate to how I live my life?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 39 - On the evening before Christ's crucifixion, Jesus spent time with His disciples, sharing with them important principles that He wanted them to embrace.  He used an illustration of fruitful and fruitless branches of a tree to illustrate an important spiritual truth.  Listen to today's episode, and find o...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 38 - In this episode, we explore the concept that reading, studying, and meditating on the Scriptures are not the end, but the means to the end.  And what is that end?  Listen and find out! Link to the song “Mrs. Phillip’s Prayer” by Chuck Sugar (mentioned in today's episode):     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 37 -- The mind does not get renewed simply by reading and studying the Bible.  "Wait!  Did I read that right?"  You did!  It has to do with how God designed the mind.  So, how does God renew our minds?  And what part do reading and studying the Bible play in this renewal process?  Listen and find out! "...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 36 - If we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that there is a tendency in our times of Bible study to merely accumulating Bible knowledge, rather than continuing on to the real purpose:  to actually apply these biblical principles to our lives.  In this episode, I share some insights on how to avoid this pitfall...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2, Episode 35 - In this bonus episode, I interview author and church planter Seth Lewis.  We discuss the work that he and his wife do in Ireland as missionaries and church planters.  We also discuss his two books "Dream Small" and "The Language of Rivers and Stars," which are available at all major bookstore...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 34 - Have you ever been in the middle of a challenging situation, and you did not know what to do?  That is actually a common experience for all of us, at one time or another.  Did you know that the Bible gives us some wonderful and very practical principles for just such situations?  Listen and find out what they are...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 33 - Why does God tell us in James 1:2 to "consider it all joy... when we encounter various trials?"  That seems counter-intuitive.  My first reaction to challenges in life is not usually joy.  I once asked God to help me understand this verse better.  What did He show me?  Listen to this episode and find ou...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 32 - What does the Bible say will be the results of listening attentively to others?  In the previous episode, I shared my ah-ha moment of discovering my total lack of attentive listening, and how I began the process of learning.  I then shared 3 results of attentive listening, based on the Scriptures.  In this episod...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 31 - In this episode, I share a very personal illustration of what can happen when you do not follow the biblical principles of listening attentively to others.  I found 6 such principles in the Scriptures.  What are they?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In...