Reflect on This

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 44 - In this episode, we look at how the Bible defines the heart (also known as the soul), and its relationship to the spirit and the body.  We also see that the Bible declares that both good treasure and bad treasure can come forth from our heart.  If that is the case, then what are we to do as believers?  Listen to...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 43 -- In this episode, we continue our look at a wonderful (and challenging) word picture of our heart, and our interactions with Christ as we take Him on a tour of the rooms of our heart, symbolic of the areas of our lives.  Today, we will look at the playroom (the room of amusements, friendships, and activities), an...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 42 - In this episode, we continue our look at a wonderful (and challenging) word picture of our heart, and our interactions with Christ as we take Him on a tour of the rooms of our heart, symbolic of the areas of our lives.  Today, we will look at the drawing room (the quiet and secluded room), and the workshop (the r...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 41 - What does the Bible mean by "the heart?"  I have found a wonderful, modern-day parable that offers many helpful insights into the various facets of the heart.  In today's episode, I begin sharing this word picture.  Listen, and see if you identify with the illustrations presented. "Reflect on...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 40 - We see the word "heart" frequently in the Bible.  We can tell that it almost never refers to our physical heart.  So, what is it referring to?  And how does it relate to how I live my life?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 39 - On the evening before Christ's crucifixion, Jesus spent time with His disciples, sharing with them important principles that He wanted them to embrace.  He used an illustration of fruitful and fruitless branches of a tree to illustrate an important spiritual truth.  Listen to today's episode, and find o...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 38 - In this episode, we explore the concept that reading, studying, and meditating on the Scriptures are not the end, but the means to the end.  And what is that end?  Listen and find out! Link to the song “Mrs. Phillip’s Prayer” by Chuck Sugar (mentioned in today's episode):     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 37 -- The mind does not get renewed simply by reading and studying the Bible.  "Wait!  Did I read that right?"  You did!  It has to do with how God designed the mind.  So, how does God renew our minds?  And what part do reading and studying the Bible play in this renewal process?  Listen and find out! "...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 36 - If we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that there is a tendency in our times of Bible study to merely accumulating Bible knowledge, rather than continuing on to the real purpose:  to actually apply these biblical principles to our lives.  In this episode, I share some insights on how to avoid this pitfall...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2, Episode 35 - In this bonus episode, I interview author and church planter Seth Lewis.  We discuss the work that he and his wife do in Ireland as missionaries and church planters.  We also discuss his two books "Dream Small" and "The Language of Rivers and Stars," which are available at all major bookstore...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 34 - Have you ever been in the middle of a challenging situation, and you did not know what to do?  That is actually a common experience for all of us, at one time or another.  Did you know that the Bible gives us some wonderful and very practical principles for just such situations?  Listen and find out what they are...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 33 - Why does God tell us in James 1:2 to "consider it all joy... when we encounter various trials?"  That seems counter-intuitive.  My first reaction to challenges in life is not usually joy.  I once asked God to help me understand this verse better.  What did He show me?  Listen to this episode and find ou...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 32 - What does the Bible say will be the results of listening attentively to others?  In the previous episode, I shared my ah-ha moment of discovering my total lack of attentive listening, and how I began the process of learning.  I then shared 3 results of attentive listening, based on the Scriptures.  In this episod...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 31 - In this episode, I share a very personal illustration of what can happen when you do not follow the biblical principles of listening attentively to others.  I found 6 such principles in the Scriptures.  What are they?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 30 - Have you ever heard the phrase "the trap of integrity?"  It is when your attention turns to maintaining personal righteousness.  But isn't that what followers of Jesus are supposed to do?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotion...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 29 - We have often heard the verses from the Bible that state that God is love.  But what does that really mean?  What is genuine love?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am learning about the ways and nature of God,...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 28 --  Nature is an important way that God communicates to us.  In fact, the Bible is full of verses that amplify this truth.  This is made very clear in a new book, "The Language of Rivers and Stars," that I read recently.  What are the main ideas from this book?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This&...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 27 - What spiritual lessons can a person learn from the breakdown of a cherished, decades-old riding mower?  Listen and find out! Please consider supporting Manufacture Good, an amazing Christian ministry described in a recent bonus episode.  www.manufacturegood.org  "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 26 - Sometimes, it seems that God will repeat something in our lives, because there is something very important for us to learn in it.  Listen and find out "the rest of the story" -- how a second broken car experience helped me understand a principle in a deeper way. Please consider supporting Manufacture Go...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 25 - Are there spiritual lessons we can learn from a broken car?  I sure did!  Listen and find out the lesson I learned from my broken car, and see how this lesson applies to all of life. Please consider supporting Manufacture Good, an amazing Christian ministry described in a recent bonus episode.  www.manufacturegoo...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 24 - What is the "advantage" that followers of Jesus have been given?  What are the purposes of this "advantage?"  What are the benefits to us of this "advantage?"  And what is this "advantage" anyway?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short dev...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 23 - In this bonus episode, I interview the Chairman of the Board of Manufacture Good, a unique Christian ministry in Birmingham, Alabama.  Manufacture Good is a Christian ministry that offers apprenticeships to men that need a second chance.  These apprentices learn biblical principles, character, and valuable woodwo...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 22 - I think we all recognize that we should embrace the principle of forgiveness - the "why" of forgiveness.  But the actual process of forgiveness - the "how" of forgiveness - is often harder to understand and implement.  Want to know a very practical way to extend and receive forgiveness?  Liste...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 21 - Why is giving and receiving forgiveness important?  What are some truths (and some misunderstandings) about forgiveness?  Listen and find out! (Some of this episode is inspired by an article by Sam Storms, originally posted on the Enjoying God Ministries web site on May 4, 2011.) "Reflect on This" is a...

Click this link to send feedback or suggestions directly to me! Season 2 Episode 20 - What is the "fear of loss?"  And what does it have to do with biblical principles for living?  Listen and find out! "Reflect on This" is a once-weekly, short devotional podcast. In these devotionals, I share the things I am learning about living life with God-given purpose and meaning, through...