Reflect on This

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 30 - Have you ever heard the phrase "the trap of integrity?"  It is when your attention turns to maintaining personal righteousness.  But isn't that what followers of Jesus are supposed to do?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotion...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 29 - We have often heard the verses from the Bible that state that God is love.  But what does that really mean?  What is genuine love?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am learning about the ways and nature of God,...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 28 --  Nature is an important way that God communicates to us.  In fact, the Bible is full of verses that amplify this truth.  This is made very clear in a new book, "The Language of Rivers and Stars," that I read recently.  What are the main ideas from this book?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This&...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 27 - What spiritual lessons can a person learn from the breakdown of a cherished, decades-old riding mower?  Listen and find out! Please consider supporting Manufacture Good, an amazing Christian ministry described in a recent bonus episode.  www.manufacturegood.org  "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 26 - Sometimes, it seems that God will repeat something in our lives, because there is something very important for us to learn in it.  Listen and find out "the rest of the story" -- how a second broken car experience helped me understand a principle in a deeper way. Please consider supporting Manufacture Go...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 25 - Are there spiritual lessons we can learn from a broken car?  I sure did!  Listen and find out the lesson I learned from my broken car, and see how this lesson applies to all of life. Please consider supporting Manufacture Good, an amazing Christian ministry described in a recent bonus episode.  www.manufacturegoo...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 24 - What is the "advantage" that followers of Jesus have been given?  What are the purposes of this "advantage?"  What are the benefits to us of this "advantage?"  And what is this "advantage" anyway?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short dev...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 23 - In this bonus episode, I interview the Chairman of the Board of Manufacture Good, a unique Christian ministry in Birmingham, Alabama.  Manufacture Good is a Christian ministry that offers apprenticeships to men that need a second chance.  These apprentices learn biblical principles, character, and valuable woodwo...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 22 - I think we all recognize that we should embrace the principle of forgiveness - the "why" of forgiveness.  But the actual process of forgiveness - the "how" of forgiveness - is often harder to understand and implement.  Want to know a very practical way to extend and receive forgiveness?  Liste...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 21 - Why is giving and receiving forgiveness important?  What are some truths (and some misunderstandings) about forgiveness?  Listen and find out! (Some of this episode is inspired by an article by Sam Storms, originally posted on the Enjoying God Ministries web site on May 4, 2011.) "Reflect on This" is a...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 20 - What is the "fear of loss?"  And what does it have to do with biblical principles for living?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am learning about living life with God-given purpose and meaning, through...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 19 - In today's episode, we take a quick look at the life of Jacob from the book of Genesis.  I had not noticed until recently that, for the first 40 years of Jacob's life, Jehovah was never referred to as Jacob's God, but always as "the God of Abraham and Isaac."  Why is this significant?  Wh...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 18 - In today's world, the prevailing culture is one of focusing on amassing as much "stuff" as possible - for fun, pleasure, and prestige.  This prevailing trend is easy for even followers of Jesus to be influenced, to the point that we are tempted to be greedy and to covet what others have.  But this...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 17 - Are there examples in the Bible of people who experienced waiting periods in their life?  Can we learn anything from them that helps us in the waiting periods of our life?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am le...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 16 - How can the reading of the Old Testament law to the Israelites from two mountains give us a glimpse into the God's plan for redemption?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am learning about the ways and natur...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 15 - This episode concludes our quick look at the book "Boundaries" by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.  In episode 13, we saw how  God’s creation is filled with many examples and analogies of establishing healthy boundaries. So, if boundaries are indeed a biblical principle, then what things should I consider...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 14 (Bonus 1) -- How do cows and sheep illustrate the biblical principle of meditating on Scripture throughout the day?  Listen and find out!   And remember that today's episode is released on April 1st.  (Hint, hint!  Wink, wink!) 😊

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 13 -- Is this concept of healthy emotional boundaries actually a biblical principle?  In other words, do we see any examples of this principle in the Bible, or in God's creation around us?  But even if this principle is indeed biblical, wouldn't the setting of healthy emotional boundaries keep us from experi...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 12 -- Spiritual knowledge is a good thing, right?  After all, it helps us to learn about the ways and nature of God.  But Jesus warned about a serious consequence of putting our spiritual knowledge ahead of virtuous character in our spiritual development.  What is that consequence?  Listen and find out! "Reflect...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 11 -- What was the "knowledge" that the apostle Paul was referring to when he wrote to the believers in Corinth that "knowledge puffs up" (1 Corinthians 8:1)? And what important principle does God want us to see and embrace from this verse?  So many questions!  But you are in luck -- today's e...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 10 -- What can we learn about giving attention to God and others by observing a herd of elk?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am learning about the ways and nature of God, in what I hope are practical and meaningful...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 9 -- Have you ever struggled to avoid succumbing to a sinful thought or action, something that you continue to tell yourself not to do, but then find yourself caving to the temptation?  Even with determination and willpower, it is very hard to avoid these besetting sins.  What if I told you there is a better way?  Jus...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 8 -- In the parable of the weeds, I recently discovered a powerful application to my life, that goes beyond the obvious understanding of how the harvest time in this parable is referring to the end of the age.  It also has an important application to our everyday life.  What is that application?  Listen and find out!...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 7 -- What insights can we learn about our relationship with God from the verse in Genesis that states that "Enoch walked with God?"  And what additional insights does the New Testament offer us about Enoch?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 6 - How does the early church question of whether or not to eat meat sacrificed to idols relate to how we interact with other believers within the body of Christ?  Listen to this episode and find out. "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am...