The Higher Calling by Avondale Church of God Podcast

God’s grace is sufficient in weakness when it pertains to something that is within our control or influence, and other things that are outside our personal responsibility are mostly distractions. If you can’t put thee, thou and thine in front of that concern, the grace for that concern is going to be minimal. And it’s a good clue that when the anxiety levels are rising, when there is a lack of sle...

Welcome to Episode 37 titled Shards and Patches, a phrase pulled from John 8 where the concept is reinforced by imagery of an old garment being patched up and still attempted to be used, or an old bottle or wineskin that is not fit for service is put to use storing fresh new liquids. You cannot refinish new furniture over the top of chipped and damaged paint. It is necessary to strip and purge awa...

In Episode 36 we discuss Romans 5: 1-5 and how experience works hope, which is never disappointed, rather always results in an outcome that helps us stay saved and draw closer to God. We learn that experience means to test, try, prove, and have practical application of experiment. We learn to run a clean experiment without contamination so that we can always have the positive results in our trials...

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We trust that you will find the discussion both challenging and encouraging. We will explore what it means to be attracted to the light of the kingdom, to discover your potential royal inheritance, and to keep the spiritual ground that you gain when you get saved. As always, thank you for listening, and if...

What happens to the genetic code after spiritual transformation? When a person becomes a new creature through salvation, they become one with Christ, and one with the body of Christ. One Christian is representative of the general assembly of Christians, on a spiritual level, even with those Christians that have passed on to their final reward. The faith that is passed on from generation to generat...

Welcome to Episode 33, a conversation with Bro. Seeley of the Church of God in Birmingham, Alabama.

Welcome to episode 32, where we have a real-life conversation about growing up in church, tests of faith, and working in God's kingdom.  

Welcome to Episode 31 discussing activities that are habit forming, and our routine is to turn to those things in moments of boredom or sadness, in search of happiness or fun. Those activities that are available to us are not all spiritually good for us and not all healthy. In fact the easiest sources of dopamine are likely those things that are actually not permitted under the perfect law of libe...

Episode 30 is the 2nd part of Fighting Unbelief Through Trust and Confidence in the Word of God, a continuation from Episode 29. We are putting together some of the concepts from the fighting unbelief series here and isolating a factor or characteristic of truth and wisdom that we uncovered last episode that could work in favor of unbelief. We trust that you'll find the discussion both challenging...

Welcome everyone to Episode 29 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! During the last couple of episodes we have been talking about an objective reality that we don’t always see due to illusions, or non-real things that we perceive, which can turn into delusions which are non-real things that we believe. In this episode we are putting together the concepts all the w...

Welcome to Episode 28 where we sat down for an hour-long conversation about life's trials, and the faithfulness of God. If you are in the Pacific Northwest, be sure to stop by! Learn more at www.northidahochurchofgod.com .   

Welcome everyone to Episode 27 of The Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! During the last couple of episodes we have been talking about an objective reality that we don’t always see due to illusions, or non-real things that we perceive, which can turn into delusions which are non-real things that we believe. Demonstrating spiritual maturity means having attributes of ca...

Welcome everyone to Episode 26 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! During the last couple of episodes we have been talking about an objective reality that we don’t always see due to illusions, or non-real things that we perceive, which can turn into delusions which are non-real things that we believe. It is not possible to believe the lie, and also believe the tr...

Welcome everyone to Episode 25 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! During the last couple of episodes we have been talking about an objective reality that we don’t always see due to illusions, or non-real things that we perceive, which can turn into delusions which are non-real things that we believe. The bible teaches us that to prevent unbelief we need to see a...

Enjoy this remastered audio of Episode 24 of the Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! In this episode we had a conversation with the pastor of the local Church of God conversation about current events, living by faith, and maintaining a close relationship with God!  We trust that you'll find the discussion both challenging and encouraging. As always, thank you for listen...

Welcome everyone to Episode 23 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! During the last couple of episodes we talked about the great lengths that God can go to in helping us to see reality. We know that where there is no vision, the people perish, so we’re going to keep studying there. A theme that has been present through all of this is that there is an objective rea...

Welcome everyone to Episode 22 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! During the last couple of episodes we talked about the great lengths that God can go to in helping us to see reality. We know that where there is no vision, the people perish, so we’re going to keep studying there at least one more session. A theme that has been present through all of this is that...

Welcome everyone to episode 21 of The Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! The last episode covered some types of the delusions that we can suffer from, and how those delusions shape our perceptions and become our personal reality. This episode is going to speak to the great lengths that God can go to in helping us to see Him and His truth and explore the antidote to del...

Welcome everyone to Episode 20 of The Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We left off our last episode covering the idea of the church’s mission of bringing needy people to Christ, and the subsequent decision that they make to accept help or not. Part of that podcast had an observation that those in need don’t always know how bad off they really are. This episode is goi...

Episode 19 of The Higher Calling Podcast covers: the mission of the church in terms of bringing our neighbor to Christ for healing, both spiritual and physical needs, and the personal choice to accept the help that is being offered.  As always, thank you for listening, and if you have any comments or would like to contact us for any other reason please visit www.avondalecog.org or email us at bibl...

Welcome everyone to Episode 18 of The Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We left off our last episode concluding the letter to the Hebrews, with themes such as: the establishment of the Church, the necessity of a God called pastor, brotherly love, holiness in the home and abroad, endurance, and self-denial. This episode is going to cover our personal responsibility in...

Welcome everyone to episode 17 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We left off our last episode talking about the great cloud of witnesses, the heritage of faith, and keeping faith in God's plan.. Hebrews 13 is a conclusion of the letter to Hebrews, and includes themes such as: the necessity of a God called pastor, brotherly love, holiness in the home and abroad,...

Welcome everyone to EP 16 of The Higher Calling podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We left off our last episode talking about Jesus Christ and the new covenant perfecting, being the end of, resolving, or fulfilling the faith of those who lived at the beginning of, and during the old covenant, or the Law. Hebrews 12 is a chapter of self-reflection, and we’re going to spend some time t...

Welcome everyone to Episode 15 of The Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We left off our last Episode 14 talking about the Just shall live by Faith which sets up the Faith Chapter which we’ll cover now, Hebrews 11. Some key points included in Hebrews chapter 11 are: Definition of faith The founding fathers of our faith Receiving the promise We trust that you'll find th...

Welcome everyone to episode 14 of The Higher Calling Podcast presented by the Avondale Church of God! We left off our last episode talking about Jesus Christ as our high priest. We’re using Hebrews 10 as a transition from establishing the Christian faith in general, to establishing our personal, individual faith. Some key points included in Hebrews chapter 10: Benefit of the second covenant made p...