Walking With Our Master

Send us Fan Mail We know that as disciples, we must share our faith.  Doing so at work can offer some challenges.  In this episode I want to discuss this topic and present some ideas and considerations that will help us share our faith at work.  I hope you'll join me as we walk daily with our Master.   I invite you to follow our podcast and share it with others as together we walk with our Ma...

Send us Fan Mail There are a lot of big words in scripture, especially the Old Testament.  And these words are hard to pronounce and understand.  There are also many words that are as clear as can be and very powerful. In this episode I look at one of the biggest little words in scripture.  It only has two letters; "if".  This word is used a lot and always carries tremendous meaning. I&a...

Send us Fan Mail If there is anything we share it is that all of us have experienced suffering at some level.  I often marvel at the resiliance and grace others express as I know the suffering they are enduring.   A question that is often asked is why God allow suffering.  Isn't He all powerful and all loving?  How then can He allow suffering to happen to His greatest creation. In this episod...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue in the series of episodes featuring the original 12 apostles we now come to the final one, Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Christ.  He was chosen by Jesus and given every opportunity and lesson just as the other 11.  Yet he chose to put his own selfishness ahead of Jesus.  As a result he lost all for eternity.   In this episode we will look at this tragic life...

Send us Fan Mail We get asked a lot of questions as Christians.  Sometimes a challenge is asked in the form of a question.  One such common question we might ask or be asked of us is, "Is it wrong?"  Quite often this question is asked as a way to justify behavior. In this episode I look at this question from the perspective that there might be a better question to ask.  I'll also gi...

Send us Fan Mail Once I attended a professional basketball game at an arena that held more than 10,000 fans.  As I looked around, it occurred to me that, except for my friend sitting next to me, no one in this mass of humanity knew, or cared who I was.   There may have been a time when there were hundreds, maybe thousands around you, yet no one was noticing you.  Perhaps you have seen others recog...

Send us Fan Mail The Prattville church of Christ family is made up of wonderful Christians seeking to honor our Lord and grow together with each other.  One such wonderful family is Russ and Ginger Knowles.  This couple has been an important part of our life for more than 23 years now.  They both are quick to serve and encourage others as together we walk with our Master. I invite you to listen to...

Send us Fan Mail In the ongoing series, Twelve Were Chosen, we are looking at the apostles.  In this episode we review information about Matthew and Thomas.     We’ve been emphasizing through these lessons that these ordinary men, with the exception of Judas, allowed our Lord to change their lives.  Because of their change, they were able to reach incredible levels of service to our Lord.  All of...

Send us Fan Mail When we receive the promise of salvation from our Lord we are a new creation.  I want to look at this and how it applies to us as children of God. In this episode I will look at a well known passage from Paul and how he takes a root word and changes it to encourage us as we continue to grow in our spiritual maturity.  By having a better understanding of God's will as Paul spe...

Send us Fan Mail In the ongoing series, Twelve Were Chosen, we are looking at the apostles.  In this episode we review information about Philip and Nathanael.  As we’ve noted, quite often the best way we bring others to Christ is by our personal relationship with them.  We have friends and acquaintances that we can be open with about our faith.  We have seen that already in Andrew and Peter.  In t...

Send us Fan Mail In the ongoing series, Twelve Were Chosen, we are looking at the apostles.  In this episode we review information about James and John.  As I introduced this series I stated that the men chosen to be apostles give us characteristics we can learn and use in our walk with our Master.  This is true with James and John, the Sons of Thunder. If you are interested in further study, I in...

Send us Fan Mail Of all the characteristics God created in us, the one that lasts through eternity, and is therefore the greatest, is love.  In this episode we will look at some of what Paul teaches about this great characteristic.  Like the concept of grace, love was taught and demonstrated by Paul throughout his letters.   Please join me as we look at this incredible gift.  I published a book ab...

Send us Fan Mail As we walk with our Master we might wonder if there is value in our efforts.  Certainly we have value as God's children in much the same way our children have value to us. In this episode I look at the question "Does God Need Me?"  Of course He does, but I'd like to look briefly at why this is so. I invite you to listen and share with others.  I most of all hop...

Send us Fan Mail Of all the gifts God gives us, and the one that is the most important, is God's grace.  In this episode I talk about that gift and how we find eternal hope because of it and through it. Please join me as I look at this incredible gift.  I published a book about various teachings of Paul. This information about God's grace was part of that book.  If you would like to obta...

Send us Fan Mail The Prattville church family is made up of so many people from different walks of life.  There is a lot about them we don't know.  Best of all, so many of our members are dedicated servants who go about walking with our Master in quiet but effective ways. That is at the heart of this podcast.  I am thrilled to get to know these silent but effective saints.  One example is the...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why most images of Calvary show three crosses when truly only one cross is important?  I thought about that recently and came to understand the symbolism of not only our Lord's cross, but also the relevancy to remember the other two. In this episode I share with you my thoughts on why it is important to remember all three crosses.  I hope you listen to...

Send us Fan Mail Quite often when a member of a ministry team leaves there is a bit of trepidation about what comes next.  Jason and Cassie Green recently departed to take on a new ministry effort.  They were very successful with our congregation's spiritual growth, especially among our youth.  They will be missed. Recently we added Jared and Whitney Kelly to become our new youth minister.  T...

Send us Fan Mail It is exciting to find someone living their passion in life. My guest on this episode is Dr. Steve Wages, Director of the Cloverdale Center for Youth and Family. You can hear the passion in his voice for his work with families as he has made it the focus of his life. I challenge you to listen for it as well. Steve uses the word legacy in his comments. It is a wonderful goal for us...

Send us Fan Mail Scripture is full of short and seemingly insignificant events.  Yet these events, like the more well-known events also teach us valuable lessons. One such event was when Jesus healed Peter's Mother-in-Law.  It isn't by accident that this event is included in God's word.  It teaches us something important about Jesus and also our reaction to blessings. I invite you t...

Send us Fan Mail In the ongoing series, Twelve Were Chosen, we are looking at Andrew, the brother of Peter.  As we introduced this series I stated that these men give us characteristics we can learn from.  This is no less truer than with Andrew.  Although there is little in the scripture about him, he stands as a wonderful example that we must follow.  Although many identify with Peter, we probabl...

Send us Fan Mail At the cost of repeating myself, the Prattville church of Christ has an incredible group of young adults.  Alex and Raegan Saucedo are perfect examples of this.  Their excitement as a young married couple, their incredible vision of the future ahead of them as active members of our church family, and their desire to faithfully serve our Master are just some of the qualities they b...

Send us Fan Mail This is the second episode in Twelve Were Chosen, a series of presentations about the 12 original apostles. When asked which of the apostles we most associate with, many will say, Peter.  This is because Peter has the reputation of saying the wrong thing in the wrong way, and often in the wrong time.   In this episode I will discuss how there is much more to this remarkable yet or...

Send us Fan Mail It is an absolute thrill for me to interact with our church family at the Prattville church of Christ.  I am continually blessed by their presence and association.  One of the special blessings of the Prattville family is our young adult group.  This dynamic group of upward mobile Christians are well represented by so many.   In this episode I have a wonderful conversation with Jo...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 1 of a 10 part series on the apostles. This episode in an introduction to the series.  In it we will gain insight into the difference between a disciple and apostle.  We briefly look at how Jesus prepared Himself to call the 12 and what these remarkable men had to overcome as they grew in their faith.   The intent of this study is to look briefly at the lives of th...

Send us Fan Mail It is natural that we want to please those we love and that love us.  We give gifts, do special things, pay attention, and other ways to express our love and devotion. It is important that we seek to know and do the things that please God, our heavenly Father.  Certainly it is important because we want to avoid punishment.  But as we grow spiritually we understand that we seek to...