Something Worth Thinking About with Randy Todd

Episode 22 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today's podcast we explore the unexpected teaching from Jesus that not everyone who calls him Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. Why? Jesus explains what he means. We need to hear it and we need to take it to heart. It's all right there in Matthew 7:21-23.

Episode 21 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today's episode Jesus tells us how to spot a false prophet or religious leader from a mile away.  Even though they may look good on the outside, you can always tell who they really are by looking at the fruit of their life. 

Episode 20 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today's episode we will explore the heart of the courageous prayer of hope and faith in Psalm 51. Yes, it is a prayer seeking God's mercy and forgiveness. But it seeks more than this. It seeks healing, hope, and joy. Through this prayer we ask God to create in us a pure heart, and to give us a willing spirit to sustain us in this new way o...

Episode 19 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today’s episode we will hear Jesus warning us of the danger of simply going along with the crowd and doing what everyone else is doing. “Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” So it really should give us pause if our lives and our priorities are essentially the same as everyone else’s that we kn...

Episode 18 of Something Worth Thinking About.  In today’s episode we will explore the incredible and powerful prayer of hope and confidence found in Ephesians 1:15-23. It is a prayer that we should know, and it is a prayer that we should pray, because it is a prayer for our God to do amazing things to help us live faithfully and courageously in this world until Christ returns again in glory. It is...

Episode 17 of Something Worth Thinking About.  In today’s episode we want to take some time to hear a very familiar teaching of Jesus that we know simply as the Golden Rule. We all know it. In principle we all agree with it. But we don’t always live up to it. So let's spend some time today thinking more deeply about the Golden Rule. 

Episode 16 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today’s episode we continue in our journey through the Sermon on the Mount and will hear about what Jesus taught us about being persistent in our prayers with absolute confidence in the goodness of our Father to give us what we ask of him. Ask, seek, and knock!

In episode 15 of Something Worth Thinking About we will be hearing what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount about judging others, and the importance of dealing with our own sins first. For most of us this is a lot easier said than done. But Jesus said it and he clearly expects us to do it. 

Welcome to Episode 14 of Something Worth Thinking About.  In today’s episode we want to hear what Jesus about not worrying and how he connected this instruction to faith in God.  He didn't tell us not to worry because it is bad for your health. He told us not to worry because worry will keep us from storing up treasure in heaven. Worry will push us to store up treasure on earth. Don't wo...

Welcome to Episode 13 of Something Worth Thinking About. Today is a Wednesday episode, so that means we will be hearing an ancient prayer of faith and hope. Today’s prayer is one of my personal favorites and can be found in Psalm 25. It is a beautiful, courageous prayer of faith and hope that asks God to guide us in his ways while he forgives us of our sins and remembers us according to his great...

Welcome to episode 12 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today’s episode we will hear what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount about storing up treasure in heaven! How do you do that? Jesus told us how, as did the Apostle Paul. Today we want to think about the things that they said, and why it is so important for us to do this. 

Welcome to Episode 11 of Something Worth Thinking About. Today we will hear what Jesus said about fasting to the Lord. In addition to what Jesus said about fasting  this text, we will also take a few minutes to talk about the merits of fasting, especially for the sake of those of us who belong to a church that does not typically stress the practice of regular fasting. There are reasons for us to t...

This is episode 10 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today’s episode we will hear from Jesus on a few things we should keep in mind as we pray to God. This will include the famous Lord’s Prayer that Jesus gave us to show us how simple a prayer can be. Anyone can pray. Everyone ought to pray. 

Welcome to episode 9 of Something Worth Thinking About. In today’s episode we will consider what Jesus said about our motives for doing good.  Why are we doing the good things that we do? Jesus will tell us that our motives matter. Simply put, bad motives are bad. So Jesus gives us an antidote for what to do when we know that are motives are misplaced.

This is episode 8 of Something Worth Thinking About. It’s a Wednesday, so that means that in today’s episode we will be looking an ancient prayer of faith and hope to encourage us in the way we pray, and to shape the way we look at our world through eyes of faith with a heart that trusts and hopes in a faithful God of love and compassion. Colossians 1 shares with us a powerful prayer for God to be...

In today's episode we will hear what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount about loving our enemies. Jesus pointed out that if we love the people who love us, we are like everyone else, because everyone does this. But if we love our enemies and the people who mistreat us, then we are like God, we are like our Father in heaven. 

Episode 6 of Something Worth Thinking About.  In today’s episode we continue exploring the teachings of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5:38-42 Jesus said, among other things, that when someone slaps us on the right cheek, we are to turn the other cheek and offer it for them as well. When people do evil things to us, does Jesus want us to simply roll over and do nothing? What is it t...

In today’s episode we will hear what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount about being a person of integrity. 

In today’s episode we will hear what else Jesus said about “adultery.” It is not new to us, but this idea would have been brand new to God’s people who heard it long ago. So much so that the disciples responded in Matthew 19:10 that if this is how things are between a husband and wife, then it is better not to get married! No doubt everything Jesus said about adultery in the Sermon on the Mount wo...

In today’s episode we will briefly explore the final words of the short and simple prayer in the closing lines of Psalm 29, which includes this memorable line, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.” What might we learn from this ancient prayer about how we can pray to God today?

In today’s episode we will be hearing from Jesus on the matter of sexual purity. Jesus will challenge us to go beyond what we can see and touch. We need to realize that sexual purity involves our hearts and our thoughts regardless of what we are doing with our bodies. Sexual purity and immorality is a matter of the heart. This is where we must take the fight in this battle against the sinful desir...

In this episode we continue to explore the Sermon on the Mount. Everyone gets that murder is terrible. Most of us would never even consider murdering someone. At the same time, most of us freely give ourselves permission to harbor anger and use insulting language toward the people we know and encounter every day. Jesus tells us that we need to go deeper in our thinking and our interaction with one...