The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast

At its heart, the Bible is a book about relationships – how we relate to God, and how we relate to each other. Main Points: 1. You need to know this about God.  He is concerned with your aloneness.  2. I believe God is calling the church to be a place of hope.  A place of life.  A place of love.  A place of honesty and genuine friendships and relationships.   3. You can’t read the New Testament an...

From generation to generation, the Word of God endures. It is timeless in its relevance. It speaks to the hearts of men, women, teenagers, boys, and girls. Seasons come and go, but the Scripture is still powerful in its application to the human condition. Main Points: 1. The Word of God we have is precious. God has spoken and we have it in print and in digital form. It cannot and will not be destr...

Our relationship with God is like no other. In our relationships with people, there may be a thousand things they don’t know about you, especially as it is related to the heart. Your friend doesn’t know your thoughts, your desires, your motives, and your feelings, but God does. Main Points: 1. Think about this truth: God knows absolutely everything about you and he loves you. You are fully and com...

As we read the four Gospels, we see Jesus modeling prayer and teaching His disciples to pray, but did you know that Jesus gave us only one prayer request? Yes, Jesus himself asks us to pray for something. Main Points: 1. As Jesus speaks about the lost, those who have not put their faith in God, he uses the metaphor of a field of crops that are ripe and ready to be harvested. He said the harvest is...

You never know the impact of your kindness, your love, and your words of encouragement. I believe people around you today are desperate for encouragement. Everyone around you is fighting a battle you know nothing about. What a difference you could make in someone’s life by encouraging them to trust the Lord, to keep believing, and to not give up. Main Points: 1. Have you ever had an encourager in...

I want to assure you today that no matter what you are experiencing or what you feel, God’s face is turned towards you. He does know what you feel and He cares. Main Points: 1. Perhaps you feel down today, thinking all your hope is gone, that even God has abandoned you. Yes, you may feel those things, but that doesn’t mean your feelings are true. The God of Heaven knows what you are feeling. He un...

I love the words of Jesus. I’ve discovered that most people do, even non-believers. You can even purchase Bibles that only have the words of Jesus printed. It’s been said that no one speaks like Jesus and I would agree. His words have power and they have life. These truths are encouraging, uplifting, inspiring, and challenging. They changed people’s lives in the first century, and they are still c...

God loves a cheerful giver. I believe this is because God himself is a giver. God loves to give. Every blessing we have is because God has given them to us. When we give with joy we are being like God. Main Points: 1. God blesses those who give. He said if we give sparingly, meaning in a small amount, we will receive a small blessing, but if we give generously, the blessing will be generous. 2. Pa...

As Christians, prayer is always a whisper away. Prayer is communication with God, and we can live each minute of the day in a constant, flowing, conversation with God. You don’t need a special appointment to talk with God. You can do so, anywhere, and at any time.  Main Points: 1. There is significant value in making a specific time for prayer. I think that if we are not intentional about a time a...

The Big Idea:  We hear it said all the time.  People don’t change.  Who they are….is who they are.  It’s seems like a hopeless statement.  But Christianity is about change. The Bible is full of stories about messed up people who changed by the power of God.  God takes what people see as useless, worthless, ruined, and broken and makes them new. Main Points: 1. Jesus defeated the curse of sin by hi...

The Big Idea:  Fear of the Lord is deep respect, awe, and reverence for God.  We give God the glory, honor, reverence, gratitude, and praise, he deserves.  God holds this preeminent position in our hearts and lives.  We regard his desires over and above our own. Main Points: 1. We should fear or respect the Lord as one who has authority over us. It is a recognition that we are accountable to Him. ...

The Big Idea:  Jesus paid our debt on the cross. He bore our sins upon his body. He suffered and died in our place, as our substitute. Jesus took the shame, condemnation, and pain we were to bear. He carried our cross and paid the ultimate price. It was a very high price to pay for our forgiveness. Main Points: 1. Forgiveness comes at a cost. If you forgive someone, you bear the cost rather than i...

The Big Idea:  Any attempts at finding joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment apart from God always leave us empty. Yes, there may be temporary moments of happiness and perceived satisfaction, but it is never lasting. Millions of people can testify that they never knew real joy until they knew Jesus as Savior and Lord. Main Points: 1. As real as our physical hunger is, we have another type of hunger t...

The Big Idea:  There is one key that is necessary for a relationship to be restored. It requires forgiveness. I’ve never seen a broken relationship restored without forgiveness.  Main Points: 1. A relationship can break down from neglect.  A relationship can break down from conflict.  A relationship can break down from misunderstanding.  The world is filled with broken relationships.  We see it al...

The Big Idea:  We understand that those who don’t believe in Jesus, can’t see the immense value of the cross of Jesus. But there is also a danger for the believer. There is the danger of the cross and the gospel message becoming so familiar to us that it loses its value, its meaning, and its impact in our lives. Main Points: 1. The message of the cross must be the central truth we believe and proc...

The Big Idea:  I don’t believe there is anything that causes our spiritual roots to grow deeper than suffering. Most of us listening today have experience with reaching out to God in hard times. It’s here that we grow in our faith, we experience God’s grace, strength, and peace. In times of suffering, we learn that the promise is true. God will never leave us or forsake us. Main Points: 1. No one...

The Big Idea:  I’m convinced that most of us listening today would say we have been blessed by God. In fact, many would say that we have been greatly blessed and blessed beyond what they deserve. God has been so good to us. So what do we do with our blessings? Main Points: 1. Jesus teaches us that the blessing is found in the giving. The blessing is found in the serving. The blessing is found in m...

Where do we find absolute truth? We find truth in the Bible.  What God says is true, and it is true absolutely.  There is no wavering in God’s truth.  Truth does not change according to polling data or by decisions handed down by Congress or the Supreme Court.  Why?  It is God’s truth.  Truth is what God says. Main Points: 1. We don’t usually think of a belt as a piece of armor, but the belt was i...

God has ordained that His Word would last forever. No man can destroy the Word of God. It remains throughout every season and every generation.  Main Points: 1. Scripture has never been more available than it is today. As of September 2020, the full Bible has been translated into 704 languages, and the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,551 languages. Now, through the means of...

Out of all the prayers we pray, there is one prayer that is more difficult than all the others. It is the prayer of surrender. The prayer of submission to God is harder than all other prayers. It requires great trust in God. It demands a letting go of our control. It’s releasing the situation in God’s hands and trusting Him to meet the need as He sees best. Main Points: 1. The reason this prayer i...

Satisfaction apart from Christ is an elusive search. Our flesh craves more and more. More everything. More anything. No matter what we have, whether it’s money, possessions, recognition, sex, accomplishment, or experiences, we still want more. Yet, like Rockefeller, we have discovered that more doesn’t satisfy. Main Points: 1. What is satisfaction anyway? The dictionary defines satisfaction this w...

Jesus leaves the glory and majesty of Heaven and takes on flesh and blood. He becomes one of us. He doesn’t leave his deity behind, but he takes on humanity. He is fully God and fully human at the same time. Yes, it is miraculous. Main Points: 1. Not only does Jesus take on humanity. He moves into our world, our neighborhood, our very lives. He experienced what we experienced. He knew joy, happine...

It’s so easy to become distracted and to turn our eyes to other things. Whether it’s other people, mistakes or failures, or simply the cares of life, we are tempted to look away from Jesus. We don’t usually do this intentionally, we just become distracted. Main Points: 1. The scripture likens the Christian life to a race that is to be finished. We must keep our eyes on Jesus. It’s the only way we...

Can I give you a word of encouragement? Your unsaved family members are on the mind of God. While He won’t force anyone to believe in Him, He is actively pursuing them through His Holy Spirit. In fact, scripture tells us this is the reason God has delayed the return of Christ. Main Points: 1. First, let me encourage you to pray faithfully and consistently. Resist the temptation to give up. Don’t l...

Obedience comes down to simply taking God at his Word and doing what he has said. We bring ourselves to this obedience because we fear the Lord. He is God and we are not. We submit to his lordship and leadership in our lives. Main Points: 1. I want to take Him at His Word. I want to readily obey the instructions of Scripture, simply because God has said so. 2. Obedience is not always easy. Our fle...