Seminole Students Podcast

Send us Fan Mail As we continue in Genesis and begin branching out, we're looking at why murder is so egregious to God. Remember, image bearers have tremendous value and murder disregards all of that! Not just physical murder either, but also spiritual murder, which Jesus talks about in the Sermon on the Mount. In this message, we'll talk about both physical murder and spiritual murder t...

Send us Fan Mail Last week, I mentioned how difficult it was to carry out all of what being an image bearer entails. As you were hearing "Look in the Mirror," you might have noticed that many of the image bearing gifts were really hard to do! Why? Because of what happened in Genesis 3... Grab your Bible and tune in to find out more! 

Send us Fan Mail When you look in the mirror, who do you see? Do you see someone who has no value? Do you see someone who has some value if you do enough right? Or do you see someone who has intrinsic value because you are an image bearer of God?  Grab your Bible and tune in to find out more! 

Send us Fan Mail In Genesis 1, God made EVERYTHING good. Scripture tells us that. But He made one thing that stands above the rest. One of His creations stood taller, was considered the creme of the crop, the crown jewel that displays His glory better than anything else. Got any guesses?  Grab your Bible and tune in to find out! 

Send us Fan Mail The Israelites were in the wilderness for three days and already they were encountering trouble. The Egyptians were coming for them and hot on their heels. But God didn't bring them this far just to turn back now!!  Grab your Bible and tune in to find out more! 

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever started something new in your life? Whether it's a new school, new job, new house? If you're of dating age, maybe a new relationship? As exciting as these things might be, there's also a real sense of fear. That's how the Israelites felt as they were being shoved out of Egypt! They would have been excited, ready to start something new, but also te...

Send us Fan Mail Every seasoned Christian has been there: you finish your devotion time and you feel nothing. You feel the same way you did before you opened your Bible. We hate to admit this to anybody, but it bothers us that we feel this way. I want you to know that what you're feeling is common and I hope to offer some solutions in this episode. So tune in to find out more! 

Send us Fan Mail If you want to locate the sermon, it's posted privately since one of our awesome students preached the sermon. I want to protect my students' identities so this sermon will only be available to family, church members, and close personal friends of the student. If you are interested in accessing it, send an email to Pastor Luke at: luke@seminolebaptist.org and let him kno...

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Luke wasn't present while our students were taught on this passage so featured is his commentary that was available to his students and adult leaders. Feel free to open your Bible to this passage and follow along while you listen! 

Send us Fan Mail Once more, Pastor Luke wasn't present to preach this so he provided his commentary and sermon structure for his leaders and students. He has recorded it for your benefit, so grab your Bible, follow along, and be encouraged! 

Send us Fan Mail Pharaoh had been locked in a battle against Yahweh God (one that he would surely lose) but God is going to deliver the final blow. This final plague will be the worst one. What we see in these passages is that God blesses His people in the midst of the wicked's judgment. Grab your Bible and tune in for more! 

Send us Fan Mail I don't know about you, but I love my comfort zone. It's well....comfy! The problem with it is that I won't ever grow, change, or increase my dependence on the Lord there, so God will thrust me from comfort. He did the same for the Israelites, though their situation was far from comfortable.  Grab your Bible and tune in for more! 

Send us Fan Mail Every once in awhile, we just need a good reset. Whether it's a reset of your room or just starting over on a project, it's occasionally necessary to keep focused. When we encounter discouraging obstacles, a reset is necessary. For Moses, God reset him after his obstacles with Pharaoh and the Israelites. You might need a spiritual reset in your walk with God after encoun...

Send us Fan Mail The more important the task, the more preparation is required. Anything important you do in your life, you need to do some prep work for. Graduation, marriage, career, projects, YOUR CALL FROM GOD all require work to be done to prepare! Moses knew that there were things needed to be done before he could tell the Israelites God's plan and demand Pharaoh let them go. What kind...

Send us Fan Mail At the end of chapter 5, it seems as though Moses had an expectation for how his meeting with the Pharaoh should have gone. Maybe he expected instant success or at least for it to not have gone as awry as it did. He might have thought "this wasn't the plan!" He had discouraging obstacles in his way. The reality is that anything worth doing, especially your call from...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been confident in making a choice only to find out you completely blew it? I know I have! Did you know that God has never done that? In our study of Moses's call from God, Moses begins accusing God of making the wrong choice of calling him to service. Did God make the wrong choice? Grab your Bible and tune in to find out! 

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever read about God's call for your life in the Bible and wondered how on earth you would ever pull it off? Moses felt the same way when God called him to speak to Pharaoh and the Israelites in order to be freed! Moses would find out that when God calls, He promises to provide. Grab your Bible and tune in for more! 

Send us Fan Mail Up until this point of Jonah, we're not told what his motivation was for running. He finally obeyed in preaching to the Ninevites and they actually repented! That's wonderful news! This should have been a joyous occasion for Jonah.... but it wasn't. Why???? Grab your Bible and tune in to find out! 

Send us Fan Mail The subtitle to this sermon series is "And the God of Second Chances." We saw Jonah's second chance, but there's another second chance offered to the entire nation of Nineveh. This message focuses on the king of Nineveh and his response to Jonah's message of impending judgment if they don't repent. Even a believer in Christ can be reminded of the nece...

Send us Fan Mail The title of this message is a play off of the phrase "once learned, twice burned," or perhaps you know it as "once bitten, twice shy." Either way, it's a way of saying that you learned your lesson well. If you burned your hand on the stove once, you're now going to take twice as many precautions to ensure you don't do that again!  Jonah did the...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been at "rock bottom?" It's never fun, but the beauty of it is it always gives us a chance to repent. That was the case for Jonah. In Jonah 2, Jonah gives us a model for repentance that we can use in our own lives when we're helpless.  Grab your Bible and tune in for more! 

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever ended a snow day or a free day and thought, "man, that could have been spent better." Yeah, me too. What if there was a way to make it better? What if before the video games and show binging, you spent some extra time devoted to the Lord?  Tune in to find a few ways to spend your snow day better and grow in your walk with Christ!  Episode referenced - 5 Fav...

Send us Fan Mail In crime movies, when the bad guys are caught and the police are busting up their operation, they might say "the jig is up, boys." In other words, "we've been caught." When it comes to our own sin, we like to hide it and cover it up, but God will reveal our sin if it means accomplishing His will.  In our passage, Jonah gets caught in his disobedience, his...

Send us Fan Mail Are you required to obey your parents? What about God? Surprisingly, the answer is both yes and no. Yes, you absolutely are required to. God doesn't give you an alternative, you're commanded to obey Him and your parents. Also no, you have a sense of independent will and you can refuse to serve the Lord and disobey your parents. It's not a wise choice, to say the lea...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever asked for a favor from someone that wasn't for you? As in, you went on someone else's behalf to ask for a favor. Using your own social capital to pull in a favor for someone else is a really good thing to do. But what happens when that person doesn't hear your request? Or maybe they forgot to do it? That's the worst! Thankfully, we don't have...