Cross Light Bible Study is a verse by verse study through God's Word with Rob Harston and also home to the show "The World Crisis Chronicles" with hosts Elijah Braggs and Rob Harston.
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Worry has its negative effect on our lives, physically and spiritually so today we will see four ways to defeat worry and they are Be Prayerful, Be Positive, Be Purposeful, and Be Productive.
The Psalmist in Psam 118 had some sort of distress, he called out to the Lord and the Lord answered him. We must call to the Lord in our distress, we shall not fear but we shall trust the Lord.
Today"s deco is out of Psalm 32:8, we will see that it is God that instructs us and teaches us the way we should go.
Today we discuss the that the trial you are in while not fun has a reason, we nee to know a couple things, be attentive, be teachable and know God is with you.
When facing trials there some things to understand, first is trials vary in size intensity and length. Today we understand that we are valuable to God and He is refining our lives and strengthening our faith, question is are you letting Him?
Today on the The World Crisis Chronicles we will discuss the issues in America and the world today.
Are you in a trial? If so there is something you need and that is faith! Today we will discuss 4 ways to have faith in trying days.
Paul is telling his audience that they and we should stand fast in the freedom Christ has given us and that we cannot do anything to receive justification this only comes from Christ!
On this Memorial Day we remember the lives of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom but more importantly we also remember a Savior who sacrificed His life for us, Jesus laid His life down for His friends. That is the greatest love of all!
Paul will wrap up his case on Law vs Grace and once again use an Old Testament story of Abraham, his two wives, his two sons, two covenants, and two mountains. Paul lays it all out and at that point the choice is their's.
The Bible is an important part of a Christians life, it is a book we need every day a book to be studied daily. Today we will learn the What and the why's of the Bible.
Paul is now pleading with his readers not to go backwards, they are in danger and Paul will tell them to continue towards the truth. They have liberty in Christ and Paul doesn't want them to forsake that and go back to bondage.
Today Paul will remind his readers that the way they were going was backwards, this is where the Judaizers were taking them if they believed what was being told to them. They were being taken back to their spiritual infancy, this can also be viewed as a warning!
Today Paul in his writing to the Galatian readers will remind them the law was only a tutor and now that's faith had come the tutor was no longer necessary.
Today Paul will give his Logical Argument about the law and what it cannot do, he continues his example through Abraham.
Many things happen on Sunday's like birthday parties and even the Super Bowl. But the events that took place on History's Greatest Sunday are nothing short of amazing. Today is Resurrection Sunday and today we will look at 6 Great things.
Today is Good Friday and we need to spend time in remembering the things Jesus had done and gone through. So we will look at 7 things to remember that happened at Calvary.
Today we will study Jesus' Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem on this Palm Sunday. Why did Jesus get all this attention? Why not just walk into town? Today we will read why!
Today we will read Paul is ending His Scriptural argument, we see that anyone living by the Law is a curse, Jesus became that curse for us.
Today we will see The Scriptural Argument by Paul, he dips back into the Old Testament to prove his argument. God had the perfect plan for salvation and it started with Abraham. We will cover Galatians 3:6-10 today.
Paul is done with his defense of his apostleship, done with defending the gospel given to him. He now is moving on to the reason the Galatian churches were struggling it was because they were being bewitched and Paul was now starting his interrogation to find out why.
Today Paul ends his confrontation with Peter and is showing Peter, the Jews, and anybody else that Jesus is the only one who justifies. The Law condemns and Jesus loves, the Law cannot justify only Jesus can.
Today we find Paul continuing to defend the gospel, and now it is against Peter, Peter pulled away from the Gentiles in fear of the Jews and that started a confrontation with Paul. We will be in verses 11-14 in chapter two of Galatians.
Paul continues his fight for the gospel this times it was the contents within the gospel!
Today in our time we will read about the storm that Jesus calmed and we will learn to know who Jesus truly is and how we need to trust Him, Jesus makes the difference!
Today we read Paul is called to apostleship and the gospel came from God not man.
Today we will be in Galatians 1:1-10 as we start our new series Freedom In Christ. Paul will greet the people he is writing to and then begin to warn them of believing in a false gospel.
Today we have our good friend Pastor Trevor Cooper of First Baptist Cypress here in California on the show. We will discuss the happenings going on right now.
Today we will start our new series in the book of Galatians titled "Freedom In Christ" we will do a quick intro to the book.
Do you realize what we do for God matters? Today you may have a fear of speaking to people about God, well we can find out how to be A Confident Christian in that area.
Merry Christmas! Today we take a minute to look at the titles of Jesus.
Today on the show we discuss the future of the church in America in todays world.
Today we will break down some lyrics found in the Christmas Carol, Hark, The Herald Angels Sing. In this carol we will find out,Who Jesus is, What did He come to do and how we can have a life of freedom.
In a world with little to no peace, we will find out that God wants to give us peace, it brings Him joy to do so. There are things we can do as well.
Today we discuss who God wants to bless, that would be the godly and who will be judged, that Is the ungodly. There are things a godly person must not do............
We are testing the waters of this show! Bare with us. We are speaking today of the political world and the church.
What are you thankful for today? There is a lot, today we talk about thanking God, in the good times but also the bad times. Also we need to show gratitude to others as well.
Believers have a story to tell and today I want to share mine. Testimonies can be a good tool, we all have a story to tell.
Paul closes out his letter with thanking the Philippians for their generosity and we continue to see the power we have in Christ.
Today we read that Paul is reminding the Philippians that they as believers have a power source in Christ. Also Verse 6 says, Be anxious for nothing but pray about everything, wise words for today.
Today we are finishing chapter 3, we are in verses 12-21, here we see Paul writing that he has not attained anything, but he is pressing on. I look at it like a race, we will see some things we need to finish our Christian race.
Today we will be in Philippians 3:1-11, we will see that Paul is warning the Philippians that there are people out there that were trying to say that religion is the only way to God which needs to be lost. And when you lose it, we see that the blood of Jesus is the way to righteousness. Paul knew all about that.
We see in our text today God gives blessings in 3 areas Forgiveness, Redemption, and Satisfaction. Have you received those today?
Paul uses two more examples of humility and service to the Lord, Timothy and Epaphroditus. He sends these two men out to continue the work and bring messages to the Philippian church.
Today we start chapter 2 in our series JOYOUS our study in Philippians and Paul is encouraging the believers in Philippi to be humble and he uses Christ as an example.
Today we finish chapter 1 with Paul having the dilemma of staying with the Philippian believers or departing to be with the Lord.
Today Pastor Elijah Braggs brings us his message in 2 Timothy 1 titled, For Purpose On Purpose.
Today we read that Paul is explaining his current circumstances and what looked like doom n gloom was actually advancing the gospel.