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Pastor Phil preaches through John 19 and explains how such a horrible event can be called "Good Friday.
If we're serious about being a disciple of Jesus, then we've must know9 what He's calling us to. What Jesus tells all of us is that as disciples of Jesus we are all on mission, must face real opposition, and are called to make hard decisions.
Jesus how given you an obstacle that is intended to lead you straight to him in all of your need. Your faith can be deflated. Your faith can be wearied, but God will not allow it to be extinguished. God won't shut that door and keep you out. He will let your faith stay alive. He's the one who keeps us; He keeps our faith going – so keep crying to Jesus, and follow him even if he is silent until he brings you to wherever he wants you to go.
"What was once a robust, vibrant, and expectant hope that the day would come for that one sick sinner would be saved. But today, we're not praying for him. Not because we don't love them or want God's best for them, but we are weary of praying for them. Does God care? Does care for the believer as we pray for strength to serve him well? What can we do to? What we learn today is that now that we know King Jesus has the authority to save all kinds of people, we must direct every sinner to Him.
When situations arise that are so fierce, so ominous, that our faith feels like its suffocating along with us, we can begin to doubt Jesus' authority and especially when faith is challenged by fear. Fear leads us to wonder whether the God that has demonstrated his sovereignty over physical creation has any rival among the metaphysical. Jesus is sovereign over the natural, but is he any match for the supernatural?
When situations arise that are so fierce, so ominous, that our faith feels like its suffocating along with us, we can begin to doubt Jesus' authority and especially when faith is challenged by fear. Fear leads us to wonder whether the God that has demonstrated his sovereignty over physical creation has any rival among the metaphysical. Jesus is sovereign over the natural, but is he any match for the supernatural?
“Have you underestimated the cost of something only to realize after that you might have bit off more than we can chew? When it comes to discipleship, Jesus doesn't want us to be surprised. How do you count the cost when you don't know what's coming in your life?” The answer is that Jesus requires, upfront, a commitment to the highest possible cost.”
While worry, fear, and anxiety were a huge struggle even before COVID craziness of a few years ago, they are enormous struggles right now. How will we enter the New Year? For some, they'll be fighting anxiety as the clock counts down. Yet, as the people of God, we can be assured that our Sovereign is in control even when we're overwhelmed with fear and anxiety.
Christmas isn't about us or even our happiness. It's about the man in the name – a man who is so much better. How does this better Adam give us a better understanding of ourselves, a better Savior, and a better hope for the future? If we are to have a better Christmas, we must receive the Better Adam
Who sees all of the excellent work every day? God does. As Christians, we should pursue excellence in our work not because we want to impress the boss, or to get a raise, we work first for Christ. He sees even when no one else does.
For many of us, there's an underwritten rule: what happens at home stays at home and nobody on the inside is really going to snitch, exposing me for being earthly or sinful. Work is another area of our life where it's easy to let our pursuit of Christ-likeness hide. Why not, right? If we can't tell people about Jesus at work, why bother living like Christ either. But if we are committed Christ followers, we must seek to display Christ even in difficult places.
Jesus is incomparable. He alone is sufficient to save us and keep us and because of this, if we are Christians, then Jesus must be your life; not just Savior, but also Lord. It makes no sense that after having been made clean to then go back and live a sinful life.
We have tendency, really a natural propensity to supplement salvation by adding in a little bit of us. Yet, salvation is a sovereign work of God – it does not need to be seasoned by us. That's why God gets the Glory Alone.
When it comes to your salvation and mine, it's not just faith alone in any old thing – it's certainly not the amount of faith, but who you place your faith in. The Protestant Reformers didn't fight for people to have faith; they insisted on what the Bible insists on: that salvation depends on Christ alone!
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that a sinner can be made right with God, not by the complete and fully pleasing sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but that grace requires additional merit. Today we find out whether Rome was right, or whether the Reformers, armed with the Bible, were correct in proclaiming salvation by Grace Alone.
If Satan can diminish the confidence that we have in the reliability, ability, authority and the profitability of the Scriptures, then Christianity is reduced to religion. The danger that the church has always faced and continues to face will define us and will either give us the confidence we need or will leave us as we slowly sink in the shifting sands of true today and wrong tomorrow.
God's Word intends to provide the kind of reassurance that we need. He wants us to never wander too far from Him, but to depend on him – not just when we face the impossible, but also when we're confident that what we face is very possible for us to handle on our own
God has entrusted us with the privilege and the responsibility to serve the real Jesus by helping each other to become the people who are confident in their faith and spiritually mature. Yet, we can be deceived into embracing a false identity.
“As Paul prays, these Colossians will learn what will help them stay and succeed in the game of life. What we'll find is that It'll be what we need to accomplish all that God intends for each of us, but nothing we can find in ourselves.”
If Jesus Christ alone was not sufficient for salvation, then eternal life could be obtained by any sort of means, and the gospel would be reduced to just another path. Paul begins his letter the Colossians by introducing himself to those he'd never met, reminding them exactly how thankful they should be for the one who cannot be replaced.
“This whole sermon of Jesus comes on the heels of Jesus' first call to disciples to repent. To this Jesus essentially returns as he asks people like you and me, ”Do you know where you are going? How will you get there?”
You could imagine that Jesus, fully aware of every human heart would see this combination of desire to live for God and be successful in Kingdom living, and yet at the same time the look of “how are we ever going to be able to do this?” Is this not just a recipe for despair? Our effort to live for Him in His Kingdom is possible as Jesus points out in this well-known but often misunderstood passage.
Like the first disciples, fallen sinners exposed to a world of selfishness, will fight the temptation to focus on temporal wealth – things that do not bring glory to God. They'll collect earthly treasures as if they are better than anything Heaven can give. Jesus wants to wake us to reality and teach us that what we treasure tells us more about our relationship with Him than we may know.
Believers must remember that the things that we do must be solely for God and not for ourselves. The question is: will what we do be for God or for us. It might be a harder question to answer than we might think.
We understand justice, but as believers who want to be more of who God has remade us to be, what we share with Jesus' disciples is the need to be more like our King in how we respond when we are personally mistreatment by others. This will of course, also inform how we are to treat others as well.
We like loopholes and often look for them. So often we are like the Jews of Jesus' day, who valued convenient truth over absolute truth, we often rely on a “as you don't get caught mindset.” How much are we committed to truth, exactly?How does that relate to Oaths? In Matthew 5:33-37, Jesus continues to challenge the popular but false Jewish interpretations of the OT.
We get so caught up in doing, that we forget that God is the One who can make it happen and possibly without even realizing it, we jump up on the throne of grace – we grab the wheel of our life and exclaim – “thank you Lord, we'll take it from here.” Today we learn that if we're going to live for God by faith, it'll mean that we must be careful to let Him lead.
Naomi teaches us that we need to trust God even when we don't want to; when our theology is right, but our interpretation is wrong. What is God up to through our disasters?
Many of us know this story about “Doubting Thomas.” John adds this story to help sinners to believe in Jesus, but also as a reminder to believers to help them grow in their faith.
While the gospel accounts tell us everything we need to understand how Jesus died, Galatians 3:10-14 helps us to understand why it was needed. As Paul explains the Curse, the Christ, and the Cross, we'll see that Jesus Christ overcame our greatest problem, and provided for our deepest need.
Kingdom citizens have, in Christ, an exceeding righteousness that makes it possible for us to live as we should – the way that God intended with attitudes and desires that please him. This is possible all because Jesus came.
Salt and light has an unmistakable influence in life, and so they serve as a divinely inspired, and relatively easy-to-understand metaphor about the importance the role that believers play in the world.
To join Jesus in his Kingdom and on his mission into the darkness will mean that his people will have had to undergo significant transformation and the loss of everything the world considers essential
Every sinner is unable and unprepared to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is reserved for those who run from sin, and rest in Jesus. Matthew 3 is a reminder that God must change a person from what they are by nature if they are ever to meet God.
We can glorify God and be his obedient people in the strength that God provides. We can be a church that glorifies God, because before anything else, we know that God is able. Only he can provide the strength that we need. The question is, how does he do it?
What binds believers together is not just to a community of enthusiasts bonded by similarity for a season. The church is God's design for a transcendent community. The gospel creates a devoted community of people who commit themselves to life together as the people of God, and that community we will find has certain characteristics.
We need direction. What we find is that God has provided us with a strategy that will equip us to be everything God has saved us to be as a church.
When people can't distinguish between real and fake news, it creates confusion and misunderstanding about what matters most. When people can't distinguish between real and fake worship, it creates confusion and misunderstanding about who matters most.
We want to continue to be a gospel-centered church striving for the Glory of God. What could possibly support the weight of our ambition. Where do we start? We start at the center where God started with us and finishes with us. It's at the center – at the power plant of God – the gospel.
Christmas is an invitation to every human being to respond to the Savior. So, what will it be? Will you oppose him, or will you trust him. The choice you make will not only determine what Christmas will mean for you in time, but what Christ will mean to you for all eternity.
The world doesn't need a human remedy. Mankind cannot help mankind in the way we need it most. Only God can rescue us from our greatest problem.
We don't always find it easy to do the right thing even if it's for the right reason, and especially when it involves people we love. Our commitment to Godliness in Godless Days will impact the kind of relationships that we have with others. From Titus 3:9-15, Paul will help us to see how our commitment to Godliness will impact our relationships.
We know that God's grace is an absolute priority in each of our lives as believers, but we can forget that grace fits us with the extravagant means to be good toward others. Grace has not only transformed us in heart, the promise has readied us for life among believers, and even in an ugly world. So far in this book, with the exception of a brief reference to slaves to masters, Paul has focused in on family business – church stuff – the believer in relation to other believers. Today, he makes us uncomfortable as we learn about our call to be Christians toward those who we may not naturally like, and who may not like us in return.
We often get discouraged in our effort to be godly because we fail to realize the power that is available to believers in not in our ability, but in the grace of God. The result is that believers in Crete, believers in Windsor and all points in between will find it not only impossible but discouraging in their effort to be who God has saved them to be. In the grace of God, we find all that we need to be who God has called us to be.
Our greatest need is the transforming refreshment of God's Word/sound doctrine if godly life is to be our reality. The sad result of neglect in this is a generation of professions without resemblance. God addresses 4 basic categories of people in terms of gender and life experience to bear fruit in their personal context – as God sovereignly has placed them. When men and women are committed to this kind obedience, the result will be a discipleship environment that produces pleases God.
As those who are pure in heart, we want to live pure lives for the glory of God. Like the Cretans of Titus' day, we are surrounded by and susceptible to doctrinal error that cannot be left unaddressed because sinners are still going to hell, Christians still want to please the God who saved them and Satan is still seeking to rob God of Glory through us. It's game on, and the stakes could not be higher! The consequences of refusing to fight error is unacceptable for a people who are called to be light in the dark and salt in a tasteless age.
We all have different impressions of what makes a good leader, even what makes the best church leaders. While we may advocate for the appointment of leaders based on a variety of abilities, talents, or skills, we may be inclined to advocate for those who don't actually qualify. In this passage, we learn what God's priorities are in the selection of Elders in the local church.
The godless days are days when we ready ourselves and seek to be like Jesus – to live out the gospel. What we find is that the godless days have more conforming power than we may realize. Paul sends a letter to challenge Titus about issues that are as relevant to the Cretan believers as they are all of us – that challenge is that godliness is better.
God encourages us to be thankful even in adversityWhen we forget this, we forget that God is with us and for us and in us.
In our own real worlds of real grief, and real loss, and in real death, and real evil, and real injustice, and real sin, the question is this: What is our hope for real hope for resurrection?
For us who find life in Jesus' death, seeing Jesus' humiliation teaches us what our sin deserves and what great lengths Jesus went to save us. At the same time, we need to see Satan's hand at work here, so that we can recognize his accusations as those who continue to carry with faith the cross God gives to us. Today, on this Good Friday, we will look at the humiliation of the Lord Jesus.
How does the King of Heaven get to the cross? Matthew wants us to understand that Christ's death is not accidental – it is calculated and strategic. It's for the purpose of accomplishing God's rescue mission – the redemption of His sinful people who deserve death. Jesus' death and resurrection a statement that demands a response. Jesus died in the place of sinners, did Jesus die for you?
We're surrounded by people. What does God expect of you in relation to them? What does God expect of you in relation to the people behind you in the drive through at Tim Hortons today? What does God expect of you in relation to your next-door neighbors? What do we owe each other? Am I My Brother's Keeper?
We're all tempted in some way to deviate from what God says about us in His Word. The battle is and will always be to believe God' sovereign purposes for us are good, including those who wrestle with sexual identity. The question at the heart of this issues is, what does it mean, if anything, to be a man or a woman, and is our biological assignment fundamental to who we are and what God purposes for our lives?
We are tempted every day to love everything else but God. Yet for the believer, we must love above all else. Today, we'll learn that God wants to teach us something important about how to authenticallylove like him.
Having described love in verses 4-7, Paul picks up where he left off in verse 8, and again begins to contrast love and the three most elevated spiritual gifts in the Corinthian spiritual gift arsenal: prophecies, tongues and knowledge. Paul will give us two reasons why love must be what we are known for.
Things haven't changed since the first century because the nature of sin hasn't changed. We still live in a selfish, sin-cursed world that doesn't understand what agape (God-like) love is. If we're going to be the kind of people who are motivated by love, then we need God to show us what that agape love looks like in his Word. What does love do, and what does love not do? We find out this week from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
The question that this chapter asks us is, when it comes to the character of our service for God, what should that look like? What pleases God about what we do? What ingredient, if it were missing would, would empty our service of any value from God's perspective?We find out this week from 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
One of the longings of humanity throughout all ages has been peace. Is peace possible? The hope of Christmas is that the peace with God, the peace of God, and peace with others. Can all of these be ours?
Doctrinal error is always a legitimate and significant threat to the spiritual health of every believer. To ignore this danger is to set ourselves up for spiritual derailment and guaranteed misery; from the path of God's blessing in our lives; and the inability to be part of the movement of the gospel here. How can we be faithful under fire? We find out this week from Romans 16:17-23.
In light of the gospel, what should my priorities be? From the life of Paul to the experience of every believer, Romans 15:17-29 helps us to appreciate what God's people care about: they let the gospel define them, they submit themselves to God's Leading, and they want to give like God.
Despite the many kinds of people in the world, God calls His people to strive to love them. This week in our study of Paul's letter to the Romans, we'll find out how to love others.
Much more than body type goes into becoming an elite athlete. But performance psychologists who work with Olympians of all sizes tell us that some physical characteristics can provide an edge in one sport or another. Yet, one writer is confident that every body has Olympic qualities. Paul continues to show us that if our lives have been transformed by the gospel, we should be shaped by it. The gospel has equipped every body with a born-again nature – Divinely-given qualities that equip us to live life for God.
Truth Matters. “Wikiality” is a poor reality, especially when we're searching for answers about how to live the Spirit-filled, fruit producing, Jesus-only life that cost God his only Son. Amputating any false doctrine from gaining any further ground is not only the only option, but it is a matter of urgent action. Because the truth matters, Christians must make some important choices.
These final three verses (Gal. 5:24-26) are crucial in our study of the fruit of the Spirit because they explain what we, like the Galatians, are called to do to cultivate growth in our lives and in each other. Our spiritual DNA determines the production of fruit, but that doesn't mean that we are passive. When we decide to cultivate a life that encourages spiritual growth, it can make the kind of impact that will cause us to grow!
Today we are carefully removing two slices of that one fruit of the Spirit and examining joy and peace. Does your joy and peace look like the biblical description? When we take joy and peace and match that with what our current understanding, it's very possible that you'll come to see joy and peace might not be what it should be.
What was so inconceivable to think, was soon embraced in the Galatian church– that acceptance by God was no longer all about Jesus but needed something added to. What happened to them and why? Could it also happen to us?
On this episode, we sit down with Megan and Jay Maynard to talk about their journey through pregnancy loss. A topic that effects so many people. Listen to their honest and candid conversation on how they processed, grieved the loss of their daughter and what recovering from this loss looks like. If you have experienced pregnancy loss and are feeling alone or searching for hope or you're a loved one who is trying to support someone going through pregnancy loss, this is the episode for you.Megan's Blog: A Violet Grows in Heavenhttps://violetsinheaven.wordpress.com/Instagram:@meganmaynard09@avioletgrowsinheaven
Jay Maynard, the bassist from the 90s band Brik, talks about playing a show in Las Vegas with Snot, headlined by Machine Head, and how System of a Down was not received by the audience AT ALL. Find Jay Maynard and all his podcast links: IG: https://www.instagram.com/gr8beard_/ NFHC Podcast: http://nfhcpodcast.com/ Find us on Social Media: IG: https://www.instagram.com/obitwan66/ https://www.instagram.com/bryanmcclay/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebogcast Get some Bogcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/the-bogcast All Natural CBD from Mellow By Design: https://bogcastcbd.com/
We sit down with are very good old friend Jay Maynard! We talk about his podcast, maintaining a beard, when we can buy and grow cannabis in AZ, mushrooms and micro-dosing, midget bowling, The Mandalorian, plus much more! Find Jay Maynard and all his podcast links: IG: https://www.instagram.com/gr8beard_/ NFHC Podcast: http://nfhcpodcast.com/ Find us on Social Media: IG: https://www.instagram.com/obitwan66/ https://www.instagram.com/bryanmcclay/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebogcast Get some Bogcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/the-bogcast
Pastor Jay continues our series on, "Life Verses." He draws our attention to Galatians 6:14, which was the life verse of famed preacher, Billy Graham.
Although the Gospel is foolishness to the world, it is the power of God for the believer; it is essential for our journey to Christ, and for our life in Christ.
Live from Casa McClain we get the better brother as a guest star. Jay Maynard tells us all about wrestling psychology. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/5wisemarks/support
The 2 Wise Crew and also Nate are delirious from lack of sleep and react to the 2020 Royal Rumble and Jay Maynard wrestling. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/5wisemarks/support
Our friend Jay Maynard joins us while Brad is away, and looks at Paul's adversity as shown in Phillipians 1 - with a challenge for us to look in our own lives and adversities and find opportunities to share the Gospel this Advent.
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Jay Maynard -- "The Tron Guy" -- is one of the first celebrities born of the internet. AJ, Joerg, and special chat host Sven Voessing, talk to him LIVE at the Film Museum of Frankfurt.
Jay Maynard -- "The Tron Guy" -- is one of the first celebrities born of the internet. AJ, Joerg, and special chat host Sven Voessing, talk to him LIVE at the Film Museum of Frankfurt.
Jay Maynard – "The Tron Guy" – is one of the first celebrities born of the internet. AJ, Joerg, and special chat host Sven Voessing, talk to him in their first LIVE podcast at the Film Museum of Frankfurt, hosted by Olymptronica.
With Gary only just returned from Spokane and the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, we sit down to discuss the success of Sasquan, the successful site selection for Helsinki in 2017, congratulate our friends at Galactic Suburbia for their big win, and touch on some of the many and varied issues surrounding the 2015 Hugo Awards. During the podcast we:encourage you to join both MidAmerican II (Kansas City) and WorldCon 75 (Helsinki); mention io9s list of alternate Hugo Awards nominees; and discuss Jay Maynard's article at Black Gate about conservatives in the SF field . This episode was recorded the day after Sasquan and is being sent out early. We expect to return to our usual schedule this coming weekend. Till then, we hope you enjoy the episode!
“Tron Guy,” Jay Maynard, joins us to review “Tron: Legacy.” A grown man dresses like the 80’s video game star “Tron” and becomes one a viral star. What does he think of sequel? Does it live up to the spandex? Adam Felber (NPR’s “Live from the Poundstone Institute”), Paul Sullivan (“Sully Baseball” podcast) and Eric “Danger” Nienhaus join […] The post “Tron: Legacy” Reviewed by The Tron Guy, Jay Maynard appeared first on Proudly Resents: The cult movie podcast.
With all the hype around Tron:Legacy, we thought we would check in with one of the Internet’s most notable Tron icons, Jay Maynard – better known as Tron Guy. This interview isn’t just about his costume and the movie. We explore Jay’s got his own “legacy” of computers and skills to match. And if you […]