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Date: May 11th 2025, Mother's Day SundayText: 2 Tim. 1:1-9OutlineWhat does a Godly Mother Look like?1. Have that quality of Jesus2. Put their Faith and Heart in Him3. Thanks God for what she HAS, not what she don't have4. She's Generous 5. Got a forgiving heart6. She carries the burdens of her children7. She Loves Unconditionally8. Never ask for anything in return

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The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – Brad Smith, living with ALS, has regained speech using Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant, typing thoughts directly into words. In a remarkable blend of faith and innovation, his journey highlights hope for neurological patients and sparks worldwide debate across cultural divides, celebrating human resilience and the transformative power of technology.

The God of "Bring Back," Not "Payback" God will often let us experience exaggerated consequences of our decision to tell Him "Thanks God, but no thanks" NOT to pay us back, but to bring us back.

Trying to Outrun God. We all run from God at some point. There is a conflict between what we want and what we perceive God wants for us, and our response is "thanks, God, but no thanks." In this message, we discover the reason why we do that and the irony that in our running, we run away from the very thing we desire most. Listen in!

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Top headlines for Wednesday, January 29, 2025In this episode, we begin with a contentious claim from The New York Times, accusing former President Trump of misrepresenting the Democrats' stance on abortion, a debate reignited as Democrats halted a born-alive infant protection bill. Switching to personal trials, we discuss former Pastor Steven Lawson, who, following a scandalous affair, takes a new path by relocating after his exit from Trinity Bible Church in Dallas. On a different note, we explore the legal and cultural implications of Canada's Supreme Court deliberating on Quebec's controversial ban on religious symbols for public officials. Lastly, we touch on a moment of relief amidst calamity, as actor Chris Pratt shares his gratitude for his home's safety during the devastating LA fires. Subscribe to this PodcastApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsOvercast⠀Follow Us on Social Media@ChristianPost on TwitterChristian Post on Facebook@ChristianPostIntl on InstagramSubscribe on YouTube⠀Get the Edifi AppDownload for iPhoneDownload for Android⠀Subscribe to Our NewsletterSubscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and ThursdayClick here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning!⠀Links to the NewsNYT says Trump lied about Dems' support for abortions after birth | PoliticsWebpage for changing sex on Social Security card removed | PoliticsPastor Steve Lawson moved out of Texas after resignation: friend | Church & MinistriesWorsening persecution in North Korea calls for change in strategy | WorldCanada's top court to rule on religious symbols ban | WorldPCUSA backs Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde who rebuked Trump | Church & MinistriesChris Pratt says by God's grace house was spared from wildfires | Entertainment

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Friday, 22 November 2024   “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. Matthew 5:17   “You, deem not that I came to disintegrate the law or the prophets. Not, I came to disintegrate but to fulfill” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus told the disciples to radiate their good works in order to glorify their Father in heaven. Now, He brings up words that are so misquoted and misapplied within the church that entire cults have used them to justify the unjustifiable. He begins with, “You, deem not that I came to disintegrate the law or the prophets.”   First, Jesus' words are to the people of Israel, to whom the law was given. No other people on the planet were given the Law of Moses. The law was not binding on any other people in the past, and it is not binding on any other people today. The context is Jesus, speaking under the law and to the people of Israel. Nobody else.   To remove this context is to form a pretext. It is unsound. Jesus is telling Israel that they should not perceive that His mission was to destroy the law or the prophets. That was not His mission, and nobody was to accuse Him of conducting His ministry otherwise. He was born under the law, and He had no design or intent to set aside Moses in His ministry.   But some may accuse Him of such, saying He was disobedient to Moses. No! He exclaims. That was not His mission at all. Because of these words, Judaizers, such as in Paul's time, and a myriad of cults in our time, such as the Hebrew Roots movement, seize on His words and avow that everybody must adhere to the Law of Moses. He lived under it, and so we are obligated to it too.   From there, they will take the words of the coming verse and build upon their terrible theology with those words as well. For now, it is absolutely certain that Jesus did not come to disintegrate the Law and the Prophets. He has clearly avowed that. However, He doesn't stop there. He next says, “Not, I came to disintegrate but to fulfill.”   You can't stop with half a verse and expect your theology to be complete and proper. Jesus did not come to disintegrate the law. The law is binding on Israel as much today as it was when Moses gave it to them at the foot of Mount Sinai.   However, Jesus' mission was to fulfill it for those who trust in Him, thus setting it aside and offering them His grace in place of it. And fulfill it, He did –   “So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished!' And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.” John 19:30   Jesus fulfilled the law, finishing the task set before Him. Paul speaks of this as well –   “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1-4   Paul is writing to both Jews and Gentiles, telling them that the law's requirements are fulfilled in Christ and they are set aside in Christ. This is explained, explicitly, many times in the New Testament epistles –   “For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.” Ephesians 2:14-16   Paul says the law is abolished through the cross for both Jews and Gentiles. He repeats this again in Colossians 2, using Christ's physical body as a metaphor for the law –   “And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.” Colossians 2:13, 14   The author of Hebrews says that the law is annulled –   “For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, 19 for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.” Hebrews 7:18, 19   The “former commandment” refers to the Law of Moses. The “better hope” is the fulfillment of the law by Jesus. He also says the law is abolished –   “In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” Hebrews 8:13   The words “ready to vanish away” refer to the time when Israel calls to the Lord, receiving the grace of Jesus Christ. At that time, they will no longer observe the law. He also says –   “Previously saying, ‘Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them' (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.' He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:8-10   The sacrifices of the Old Covenant were ineffectual to bring man near to God. Jesus, not coming to disintegrate the law but fulfill it, did this in accord with the will of God. In His accomplishment of that, the law is “taken away,” and the New Covenant is introduced for all who will come to Him through faith, being sanctified once and forever by the precious blood (meaning the life) of Jesus Christ.   Life application: Context matters. Know your Bible through and through. Properly divide what is being said. Attempting to earn God's favor through law observance is to set aside the grace of the cross – “Thanks God, I know you tried, but I will get this.”   It is a proverbial slap in God's face, and you will find yourself condemned when you stand before Him at the Great White Throne. All that effort... for nothing. Come to Jesus and be saved, once and forever. All His effort... for all things!   Heavenly Father, help us not to think more of ourselves and our deeds than we should. Christ did it all. Now, may our lives being lived for Him be a pleasing and acceptable offering back to You for what You have done through Him. May we never set aside the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Top headlines for Monday, November 4, 2024In this episode, former President Donald Trump's unconventional press conference from atop a garbage truck in Wisconsin. We delve into a new survey revealing that nearly half of Gen Z voters have lied about their electoral preferences, shedding light on the complexities of political expression among young Americans. Then, we turn our attention to the CatholicVote's call for Vice President Kamala Harris to denounce a controversial drag troupe she was photographed with, exploring the tensions between faith and public representation. Finally, we celebrate victory on the sports front as Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen attributes their World Series win against the New York Yankees to divine intervention. Subscribe to this PodcastApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsOvercast⠀Follow Us on Social Media@ChristianPost on TwitterChristian Post on Facebook@ChristianPostIntl on InstagramSubscribe on YouTube⠀Get the Edifi AppDownload for iPhoneDownload for Android⠀Subscribe to Our NewsletterSubscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and ThursdayClick here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning!⠀Links to the NewsTrump trolls Harris, Biden with garbage truck press conference | PoliticsJoe Rogan's interview with Sen. JD Vance: 4 key moments | U.S.Nearly half of Gen Z voters lied about their vote: survey | PoliticsTexas megachurch leaves Southern Baptist Convention | Church & MinistriesLauren Daigle releases end title track for 'Bonhoeffer' film | EntertainmentAd rips Kamala Harris for posing with anti-Catholic drag troupe | PoliticsDodgers player says 'God is good' after World Series win | Sports

It's Friday, September 20th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Pakistani Christian mother sentenced to death On Wednesday, a Pakistani Christian mother of four children received the death sentence after a judge convicted her under Pakistan's blasphemy laws, reports Morning Star News. Shagufta Kiran, age 40, was convicted under Section 295-C of Pakistan's widely condemned blasphemy laws for insulting Muhammad, the false prophet of Islam, which carries a mandatory death sentence. She was arrested in Islamabad by the Federal Investigation Agency on July 29, 2021, for allegedly sharing blasphemous content in a WhatsApp group in September 2020. Her husband and two sons were also taken into custody during the raid but were later released. Attorney Rana Hameed said, “The complaint against Kiran was registered by a Muslim named Shiraz Farooqi, who alleged that she had shared content disrespectful of Islam's prophet. However, Kiran has maintained that she has not authored the content and had forwarded it in the WhatsApp group without reading it.” Formerly a nurse, Kiran had joined several interfaith WhatsApp groups, where she proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ and defended her Christian faith. One such group, Pure Discussions, was administered by the complainant, Shiraz Farooqi. While the mother is hopeful of a positive outcome from the superior courts, she misses her family terribly. The verdict did not come as a surprise, as 99 percent of those charged under Section 295-C are convicted by trial courts under pressure from Islamists. According to the Center for Social Justice, nearly 3,000 people have been accused of blasphemy in Pakistan since 1987. Specifically, in the Punjab Province alone, 552 Christians are currently detained in prisons. Pakistan ranks seventh on the Open Doors 2024 World Watch List of the most difficult places to be a Christian. Trump objects to Kamala's lies and thanks God for sparing his life twice On the presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday at a rally on Long Island in Uniondale, New York. He took issue with the dishonest claims by Kamala Harris and the liberal media, reports RealClearPolitics.com. TRUMP: “It's time to stop the lies, stop the hoaxes, stop the smears, stop the lawfare of the fake lawsuits against me, and stop claiming your opponents will turn America into a dictatorship. Give me a break, because the fact is that I'm not a threat to democracy, they are. “They're doing things in politics that have never been done before in the history of our country. And worst of all, with their open borders and bad elections, they have made us into a Third World nation, something which nobody thought was even possible. Americans deserve a campaign based on the issues. We try and keep it on the issues.” And, Trump also expressed gratitude to God for sparing his life twice from recent assassination attempts. TRUMP: “God has now spared my life — It must have been. God, thank you. Not once, but twice. There are those that say He did it because Trump is going to turn this state around. He's going to turn this country around. He's going to make America great again.” Pro-abortion Republican Congressional candidate: A gutless wonder Republican Matt Gunderson is hoping to unseat incumbent Democrat Rep. Mike Levin of California's 49th congressional district. But his strategy is raising eyebrows by campaigning on a promise to keep abortion “safe, legal, and rare,” apparently hoping that his pro-abortion view will help him prevail in America's most liberal state, reports LifeSiteNews.com. Listen. GUNDERSON: “On a woman's right to choose, I'm pro-choice. I believe abortion should be safe, legal and rare. I don't want politicians dictating health care for my daughters. You might disagree, and that's okay. “But I bet there's more that unites us, like lowering housing, grocery, and gas prices, securing the border, and protecting Social Security. We can end the overheated political rhetoric and focus on fixing a broken Washington. I'm Matt Gunderson, and I approved this message.” Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, shifting public opinion and a wave of 10 pro-abortion ballot initiatives have led some in the Republican Party to conclude they must moderate the party's longstanding pro-life stance. Pro-life activists such as Lila Rose, founder of LiveAction, have forcefully challenged that conclusion, but because Trump has vocally sided with the moderation camp throughout his current campaign, other GOP candidates have been given cover to compromise as well. Psalm 119:1-3 says, “Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the LORD. Joyful are those who obey His laws and search for Him with all their hearts. They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in His paths." Good Samaritan saves trucker from fire And finally, a Virginia man is being hailed a hero after he saw a fire blazing under a tractor-trailer — and immediately took action, reports FaithWire.com. Akeem Dixon was on his way to a job interview this week in Norfolk, Virginia, when he noticed the blaze. DIXON: “I was in a tunnel. Beside me, I see a tractor trailer. And I see under the tractor trailer, I see a fire under the truck.” Recognizing the need to move quickly, he started honking to get the driver's attention, but to no avail. That's when Dixon decided to pull his car in front of the tractor-trailer, according to WVEC-TV. DIXON: “[As] soon as we get inside the tunnel, I just drive right in front of him, put my forward flashers on, and I slowed right down to a complete stop. Then he stopped behind me. So, when I got out of my car, I rushed straight to the truck. And I was, like, ‘Yo, there's a fire underneath your truck!” The driver got out of the truck and Dixon told him to get a fire extinguisher. But it quickly became evident time was running out. Due to the flames, the engine was going to explode at any moment. DIXON: “I tell him to leave the truck, because it's going to blow any minute. Just leave it and come to my car. Let's move to my car, far away from the truck. As soon as we move from the truck and close to my car, at the same time, we hear a boom.” Thankfully, Dixon and the driver remained safe — all thanks to his selfless actions. John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down his life for his friends.” Or, in the case of Akeem Dixon, for a stranger! Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, September 20th, in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

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On this full episode of LARRY, we discuss Donald Trump's first public comments addressing the assassination attempt against his life, one of the Trump shooter's classmates giving a detailed background of exactly who this guy was, the latest secret service failures, Joe Biden's disastrous interview in which he calls his Secretary of Defense a "black man," Joy Reid pushing conspiracies, and MUCH, much more! Watch LARRY LIVE — Monday-Thursday at 12PM Eastern EXCLUSIVELY on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-5769468 Find LARRY wherever you get your podcasts! SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7i8F7K4fqIDmqZSIHJNhMh?si=814ce2f8478944c0&nd=1&dlsi=e799ca22e81b456f APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry/id1730596733 Become a Townhall VIP Member today and use promo code LARRY for 50% off: https://townhall.com/subscribe?tpcc=poddescription https://townhall.com/https://www.facebook.com/townhallcom/https://www.instagram.com/townhallmedia/https://twitter.com/townhallcomBecome a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Dean's List with Host Dean Bowen – Roughly a two-millimeter distance is all that separated Trump from certain death. Many are calling it a miracle the shooter missed his target by such a small margin. The unthinkable did not happen because of the grace and protection of God. Trump's gratitude to “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening” is reminiscent of Washington's comments to his brother after the battle of...

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It's Wednesday, May 15th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark New Zealand churches might lose tax-exempt status Churches have enjoyed tax-exempt status in New Zealand for hundreds of years. However, the country's government is considering a plan to revoke the tax exempt status of churches. Not surprisingly, churches provide many forms of social and spiritual support to their communities for free. Removing their tax-exempt status would result in fewer people receiving help. International Christian Concern is circulating a petition to keep the church in New Zealand tax free. You can sign it through a link in our transcript today at TheWorldview.com.  76 million displaced people The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center reports more and more people are facing displacement in their own country. Conflicts and natural disasters led to 76 million internally displaced people last year. Violence caused 90% of the displacements, and over half of them were in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of internally displaced people increased by 50% over the last five years. And, over the last 10 years, the number has roughly doubled.  Brazilian flooding kills 143 people Speaking of displacement, flooding in Brazil has triggered landslides and flash floods, displacing over half a million people and killing 143 people. Electricity has been cut off to more than 1.4 million Brazilians. The flooding came after torrential rains at the end of last month in the country's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Churches across Brazil are providing shelter and care for those affected by the flooding. U.S.-based aid groups are also stepping in to help. On Sunday morning, May 12th, a DC-8 aircraft, funded by Samaritan's Purse, departed the Greensboro Airlift Response Center in North Carolina bound for Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil in a second airlift transporting relief to the flood-ravaged region. The flight carried shelter tarp and other relief supplies. Also on board were relief staff deploying to the area. Onboard the May 11th Samaritan's Purse flight were personal water filtration systems, hygiene kits, blankets, and solar lights. They also supplied ten community water filtration systems, each capable of supplying clean drinking water for up to 10,000 people per day. Franklin Graham, President of Samaritan's Purse said, “Please continue praying for all those whose lives have been devastated by this flooding as even more heavy rains are on the way.” You can make an on-line donation through Samaritan's Purse to help the people in flood-ravaged Brazil through a special link in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com. California school district agrees to pay FCA $6 million A California school district agreed to a nearly $6 million settlement with a Christian high school student group recently. A Fellowship of Christian Athletes student group had been operating at Pioneer High School in San Jose. The group required leaders to agree with its statement of faith which included saying that marriage is between one man and one woman. The high school stripped the FCA group of its official status.  Now, after years of litigation, Christian students are free to operate the group according to their beliefs.  Biden puts pro-abortion spin on Pregnant Workers Act Congress passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act back in 2022. Now, the Biden administration is trying to make the law pro-abortion. Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a new rule that would require employers to make accommodations for abortion. Multiple attorneys general from states across America are already challenging the rule. Louisiana's Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill said, “This new action ... is another example of bureaucrats rewriting acts of Congress to their own liking, and it's unconstitutional. We will continue to challenge this administration's overreach and protect pregnant women.” Isaiah 59:6-7 says, “Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood.” Trump is leading in five of six battleground states A new poll from The New York Times found that former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in battleground states. Ahead of the presidential elections this year, Trump is leading in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada. Of six key states, Biden was only leading in Wisconsin. He won all six states in 2020. The poll found young, non-white voters were not satisfied with Biden. And Trump received record support of 20% of black voters. Target eager to promote sexual perversion AGAIN Target, once again, announced its plans to celebrate sexually perverted lifestyles during so-called “Pride Month” this year. The retail giant will included “pride” merchandise at stores. However, it will only be a handful of stores based on “historical sales performance.” And Target won't be selling such apparel for children.  Target appears to be scaling back such merchandise after huge boycotts last year over the issue. Proverbs 16:18 says, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.” You can sound off against Target for promoting sexual perversion by writing a letter to the CEO, Brian Cornell, Target, 1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Pastor thanks God for sparing congregation in tornado And finally, a church in Pennsylvania is giving thanks to God after surviving a tornado during a worship service over the weekend. An F1 tornado struck the church building of Crossroads Ministries, tearing off the roof. Nearly 100 people were in the building, and no one was severely injured. Pastor Ken Barner  called it a miracle.  Listen. BARNER: “We had a tornado come and hit the wing of our church. The tornado came up the hill at about 6:14pm, and it took the roof off of that building, and it sent it into the woods. I just have to tell you: God was with us. The steeple got knocked out. Cars were damaged. Nobody was injured. “There's a few cuts and bruises and bumps, as you might imagine, but nobody had to be hospitalized, that we know of. We're just so thankful for that. And folks, I just want you to know that we're standing on the promises of God right now.” Close And that's The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Wednesday, May 15th, in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Title: Last Sunday Service together - Evidences of God's Grace Speaker: Pastor Gary Lee Date: Apr 28, 2024 This is our last Sunday service together. Thanks God for everyone who were blessed by our previous sermons. God blessed you. #onlinechurch #churchonline #rootedinchrist #carync Stay Connected Website: https://www.rootedrtp.org/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rootedrtp/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RootedRTP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rootedrtp/ Copyright Rooted Church 2024, all rights reserved

By end of the day we are humans and even that we are doing work on self and evolving and growing we still will experience human moments, emotions and experience. Thanks God! The good news is that when we are more healed and conscious the uncomfortable moments of humanness are less intense and shorter. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inthegoodcompany/support

Prayer Reflecting on 2023! Psalm 107:1 "Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever." Psalm 106 and Psalm 107 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wrappedinhiscomfort/message

Get your tickets TODAY to The Domino Revival by clicking here!Top headlines for Thursday, October 19, 2023In this episode, we examine the harrowing situation in Israel, where Hamas has released chilling footage of one of the 200 hostages, taken amidst a surprise attack causing vast unpredicted devastation. While religious faith fluctuates in the US with Northeast Catholics witnessing declining enrollment, a rapid resurgence is seen in certain states. We then turn focus to the shift in religious orientation among Asian Americans, exploring a study from Pew Research detailing how Christianity remains vital within this demographic. Lastly, we share an inspiring story of a football player expressing deep gratitude post serious burns sustained in a face accident, escaping blindness. Subscribe to this Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Overcast Follow Us on Social Media @ChristianPost on Twitter Christian Post on Facebook @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Get the Edifi App Download for iPhone Download for Android Subscribe to Our Newsletter Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! Links to the News Hamas releases first hostage video of 21-year-old captive | World News Fla. church tour group safely returns to US from Israel | Church & Ministries News Catholic Church seeing 'troubling' decline in attendance | U.S. News AI-generated church service lacked 'spiritual depth,' pastor says | U.S. News Christianity remains most common religion among Asian Americans | U.S. News Kat Von D slams 'judgmental' Christian critics of her baptism | Entertainment News Football star gives 'glory to God' after surviving burn injuries | Sports News

The Talk My Credo crew opens up the episode realizing Monday, July 31 was National Orgasm Day and Donte couldnt wait to celebrate with wifey. After the opening shenanigans, break down updates of the kidnapping hoax of Carlee Russell, Mitch McConnell's freezes on National TV, a very interesting 'They Cloned Tyrone' movie review, Jamie Foxx's health condition, Florida "white washing" history, and a very funny 'Dope or DooDoo' segment. You WILL enjoy this episode! Tap in and lets get active!!!*** CHAPTERS ***00:00:00 -Intro00:01:10 - Its National Orgasm Day00:03:33 - A Carlee Russell kidnapping hoax update00:14:50 - Mitch McConnell's controller died...00:23:05 - They Cloned Tyrone movie review00:27:05 - A very INTERESTING perspective on They Cloned Tyrone...00:37:48 - Discussing Jamie Foxx's health...00:45:45 - Subway to reward free subs for life if you...00:53:32 - Mustard & Skittles collabs for National Mustard Day...00:57:00 - Discussing the Black History initiative in Florida.01:22:07 - Black pastor "Thanks God" for slavery saving her from Africa01:30:24 - THANK YOUSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/talkmycredo/exclusive-content

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I grew up snowboarding in Minnesota's version of mountains: Afton Alps, Trollhaugen, Lutsen, all that. And at some point along the way I'd learned that if you wanted to the real experience of snowboarding, the real thrill, you had to head west. It was in college that I got the opportunity to do it with a trip out to Vail, Colorado. The first morning I was there I woke up early, got my lift ticket, and headed over to the mountain. I'd already studied the map of the mountain and knew well which chair lift I'd need to get on in order to get to the very top-most peak. Exiting the chair lift at the top, having moved over to the very edge of the peak where nearly flat land meets a near 90 degree angle downward-land, I found myself absolutely swallowed up by my surroundings – sky, just gigantic blue sky, stretching all around behind me, the lines of trees and boulders down below that appeared almost toy-like in size from where I was standing. Mesmerized by what appeared to be miles of steep, cavernous, snow-covered space in between. There may have been other people around me, if there were I didn't notice them. There may have been sounds from people talking, snowmobiles driving, chair lifts running, if there were I didn't hear them. I was entirely engulfed by the situation. In awe of the awesome. In that moment the sense of wonder, fear, excitement, joy, and all of it in overwhelming amounts came flooding in. And though I felt totally inadequate for the situation, even more I felt fully invited into it all. And I had no words. I just stood there. I just stood there, mouth open, no words, just silence, and awe, and joy. “Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion.” To some it's a word that falls flat and feels stale. To some, praise is a word fit for mere preamble, a word soon to be drowned out by others more significant than it. Because of how often we see it in Scripture, even we can tend to skip over it like it's a mere formality. “Psalm 65:1, ‘Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion.' Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's move on and get to the point here.”Tread carefully brothers and sisters, praise has an object. Praise always has an object. And there is nothing ordinary about the word “praise” when it comes to its ultimate object, God himself. God turns praise into quite an intrusive word. With God as its object, praise cuts loose from all its civility and domestication. It's as if when God walks into the room, the word praise awakens from its slumber and reaches out to seize anyone and everyone around it, saying, “Look here, look at God, look at him, and be amazed! ‘Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion.'” It's a phrase fit for bowed heads and bended knees.And along with this word praise in the original is a word that connotes silence. Paired with praise it puts a sense of anticipation into the air – Praise is due to you, like praise is marked out for you, praise awaits you – praise is coming, we wait for it in silence. Even the silence itself, in a very real way, is the praise. The silence allows the awe and wonder of God to just hang there. It allows the reader to say, “slow down, slow down, slow down – I am a human being beholding my maker and I am in need of more time to take it all in.” Swallowed up by the reality of God, engulfed by all that he is, there's really no words fit for such a moment, at least not at first. Just silence, and awe, and joy. I got just a hint of that while atop a mountain in Colorado, we get it even fuller force here in psalm 65, and indeed it is the tone of this entire Psalm from beginning to end – “praise to God.” It's in that tone that the Psalmist moves through the rest of the Psalm testifying to God's working on behalf of his people, and it seems he does so according to three main categories: God supplies his people with life, he saves them from death, and he satisfies them with himself. That'll be our 3-part structure for the rest of this sermon, with the tone of “Praise to God” Lord willing, continuing to ring in our ears. God supplies his people with life, he saves them from death, and he satisfies them with himself.1) SuppliesGod supplies his people with life – it's our first major point within this Psalm and it's one that's relatively easy for us to spot, especially as we turn to the latter half of this psalm. In fact, verse 11 says it all, “You crown the year with your bounty.” From verses 9 to 13 that's really what we see – a year-long, God-supplied growing season from beginning to end. It begins with watering, verse 9, “You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it.” And there's this interesting phrase, “The river of God is full of water.” When I first read that I thought, what river is he referencing? The Jordan, the Gihon spring? On the map is it here, or here, or here? But many suggest, the “river of God”, may be better understood as the “fountain of God.” Not here, but up there. It's His heavenly storehouse in which water is always at a surplus. So the idea would be “You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it,” and the reason you can not only do that, but also (verse 10) soak the ground until its soft, pour forth rain upon the ridges until they give way, is because your river, your storehouse of water never runs dry. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and he also owns the water in a trillion clouds. Does he not possess enough to flood the whole world? So, part 1 of the growing season, God waters the earth.As the year progresses, and the months of planting and watering turn into the months of first growth, the Psalmist says of God (back to verse 9), “You provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.” But you say, what grain?Look to the wilderness (v 12), “The pastures of the wilderness overflow.” Look to the hills (v. 12) “the hills gird themselves with joy!” Look to the valleys (v. 13), “the valleys deck themselves with grain,” Look to the flocks gathered upon the meadows (v. 13), see the sea of sheep and goats as they gather to feed in so great a number that their sheer mass seems to cloth the land in white wool. And listen (v. 12, 13) as the harvest and flock shout together and sing for joy! Listen as praise to God and delight in his work bursts forth from every leaf and every lamb in the land.Lastly, past the days of water, past the days of first growth, now to harvest at the end of the year – here come the workmen to gather. (Verse 11), they gather so much that their wagon tracks overflow with abundance. Just picture a harvest piled up so high upon the wagons that it just keeps falling off the top all down the line leaving a kind of breadcrumb trail of harvest stretching all the way from field to barn. This is the abundant supply of God. This is his happy harvest in the world. And to a people living in a largely agrarian society, it meant life. God supplies his people, with life! So, imagine a timeline, we'll call it a timeline of God's working on behalf of his people. Spanning the entire timeline, a thick, consistent line stretching from beginning to end, is, point 1, God's consistent, year-to-year supplying of life for his people with life. Dotting that line then, at intermittent points throughout is, point 2, God's saving of his people from death. Don't think the more common causes of death per se – old age, more common illness, etc. – but large-scale, epoch-making, chapter in a history-book type causes of death. Think armies, plagues, natural disasters. Dotting the timeline at intermittent points is God saving his people from these kinds of threats of death. 2) God SavesWhere do we get that in this Psalm? Look at verses 5-8. The language is different here, is it not? The tame, picturesque view of grain fields and meadows is preceded, verse 5, “By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness” Some translations have it “By terrible deeds.” There's a sense of holy fear bound up here. We could say it this way: if God is the gardener who supplies in verses 9-13, then he is the warrior who saves in verses 5-8. We see this strength, this awesome power, exercised in God's creation of the world. Verse 6, It was “By his strength (God) established the mountains being girded with might.” The mountains – can your mind comprehend the sheer mass of even one mountain? Here we're talking all the mountains – The Andes, Rockies, Himalayas, all of them – to these billions of tons after billions of tons of rock God says, “Rise up, stand up straight, and don't move until I tell you otherwise!” We see his awesome strength in his continued rule over creation (verse 7). God is the one who stills the roaring of the seas, (God is the one who stills) the roaring of the waves. Why did the flood of Noah dissipate? Like what caused the water to recede? Why do flash floods, or tsunami's, or hurricanes ever give way to calm? Because to all those gallons of raging waters God says, “Peace, be still.” In his creation of the world, the Psalmist says, we see God's strength. In his continued rule over the world we see God's power. And - perhaps especially - we see his awesome deeds worked out through his sovereign rule over the kings and nations of the world. Don't miss this - Still verse 7, “Who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of the waves, the tumult of the peoples.” The tumult, the raging, of the nations. All throughout history kings have arisen, produced weapons, amassed armies, drawn up battle plans, taken over empires. And God has, and continues to, still every one of them. And here's where things get really cool. When God saves his people from death, particularly when it's the threat of death from enemy forces (Assyria, Babylon, Rome, whoever), he not only succeeds in saving them, but along with them, he wins the nations. He not only succeeds in saving his people from death, but in the train of these victories, he wins the nations. Back up to verse 5, “By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and the farthest of the seas.” Hold up. “By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and the farthest of the seas.” How does this work? He answers us, he is the source of hope for them. How?This is how, verse 7 into 8, “Who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the people, so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe of your signs. You make the going out of the morning [That's the east, the sun first rises in the east] and the evening [That's the west, the sun sets in the evening] to shout for joy.” See what's happening here? The land shouts for joy (verse 12), the flocks shout for joy (verse 13), and yes, the nations, even the nations, the result of their beholding of the awesome deeds of God, is that they, too, shout for joy! God's working on behalf of his people catches the eyes of the nations around them. Causes them to look and say, “The one who did that could only have done that if he were the God over this whole world. He must be the king of all. He must be the great sovereign. And I find my heart saying, “Behold, behold the one you've longed for. Behold the one you've been made for. Behold your God and I respond, ‘I must have him. I must be found amongst his people.'” You believe that? You think that could ever happen? The Jews had been slaves in Egypt – the powerhouse of the world at that time. God answered his people by awesome deeds, sending Moses, sending plagues, splitting a sea in half and then smashing it down upon Pharaoh and his army. A deed so awesome, that the inhabitants of Canaan - many miles away from Egypt - heard of it.As one of its own residents would come to say, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.” God saves his people and wins the nations in his wake.Breathtaking, right? And yet, there is still something here, a supplying of life that surpasses the grains and flocks, a saving from death that overshadows the glories of stilled seas and quieted nations.The Psalmist says, verse 3, “When iniquities prevail against me.” When they prove too strong for me, when they rise up above me, when they like a dark, menacing, merciless ocean wave grow far above my head and threaten to pulverize me into the ground. And now I want to ask that we not move on from here just yet, because its my fear that many of us rarely feel the threat of death that attends our sin, and we should. For many of us, sin is just a normal part of life. It's not our enemy, it's not our foe, it's akin to that extra slice of cake in the fridge that we probably shouldn't eat, and definitely have no plans to make a regular part of our regular diet, but every couple days or so, a slice here, a slice there, after all its only human to indulge every once and a while. To many, sin is the thing that knocks at our door and we look and say, “Oh You don't look that menacing to me, come on in, but you can only stay for a short while.” In our mind, the verse would go, “When sin gets a bit too attached, yet I still prevail over it.” Brothers and sisters, do you know that your sin could end up prevailing over you? On your own, if left to your own devices, just you in one corner, your sin in the opposite corner, the bell rings and you come out fighting – your sin would destroy you. Your sin would knock you to the ground with no intention of letting you up again. Your sin, if you were left to fight it all on your own, your sin would prevail over you. Do you think I'm exaggerating? Just look outside and see how many millions of men and women are being absolutely ruled by their sin. Go to any church and ask for the list of souls who have destroyed their relationships, destroyed their marriages, destroyed their souls by allowing their sin to prevail over them. “When iniquities prevail against me” – he's not exaggerating. He's not playing games. He's telling the truth – iniquities prevail against people. Picture that sin in your life right now that you think you've got a handle on. Picture that sin in your life that you think you've established a boundary with and will go no further. Brothers and sisters there have been plenty of others before you who felt similar and today have their sin standing over them with its foot upon their neck. Make no mistake, your sin aims, it always aims, to prevail over you. Now, having pressed all the way down on this spring, all the way to the floor, now is the time to hit the switch and let the spring launch and send us heavenward for, as David says, “When sin prevails against me, when sin thinks it's defeated me, when sin thinks it's got me down for the count, God says, “No More!” When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions!” God saves his people from death! God says to us, down on the ground, with sin upon our necks, “Rise up! Sin will not have the final say over you!” Rise up, for in my presence, death must flee! God atones for your sins, my brothers and sisters, God atones for your sins! He saves his people from death. And that's not all.God supplies his people, God saves his people, and God satisfies his people.3) God SatisfiesLook at that word atone, verse 3 – you atone for our transgressions. Atone is an old word that combines the concepts of “at” and “one.” Like, “Where are you at with God?” “Where do you stand with him?” Atone says, “Well, I'm “at” “one” with him.” Reconciled with him. He's my Father, I'm his child. Brothers and sisters, here's where things come together. To the one who'd say, “Great, I'm just going to go back to my normal with sin since God's just going to forgive me for it anyways.” To the one who'd say, “Thanks God, walk out of the courtroom with your stamp of not-guilty and go on with your life.” Brothers and sisters, don't make the mistake of thinking your salvation consists of you merely being saved. Like merely being saved from death, merely declared not guilty before God, merely not having to go to Hell when you die. Yes – to be saved from death, declared not guilty, and rescued from Hell – these are some of the greatest enjoyments of the Christian life, but not thee greatest. See God doesn't settle for merely saving his people. He atones for them. He makes them “at one” with him. See The greatest thing in all of life – the very point of it all – is to be brought near to God – At One with him. Not only being pulled up out of the grave of death but sat up to the feast of his very table. To enjoy God. To be “at one” with God. To be satisfied by God. That, and nothing short of it, is Christian salvation. Brothers, sisters, don't think yourself merely saved. Don't aim to be merely saved. I mean, don't you find your soul calling out for more than that? A gospel where freedom from death is the highest aim is a hollowed out gospel. Brothers and sisters, if nearness to God is absent from your picture of salvation, if at-one-ment with God is not at the very center. Oh don't you hear your hearts crying out for more? Don't you hear your hearts shouting, “that's not enough.” “I've been made to be filled with so much more than that!” I mean, if intimacy with God is not in the plans, if nearness to him is not in our future, if fellowship with Him, if satisfaction in Him is not at the end of all things – Oh how our souls would starve! What you need is not to be merely saved by God, but satisfied in God. What your spouse needs is not to be merely saved by God, but satisfied in him. What your children need is not to be merely saved by God, but satisfied in him. What your neighbors, and your co-workers, and all the people you pass by on the street need is not to be merely saved by God, but satisfied in him. Pastor Kenny and Malaina, we'll have more to say at the commission, but for now, do you know what Orlando needs? Orlando needs a church planting couple who are not merely saved by God, but satisfied in him.So I say thank you God, thank you Jesus, for Psalm 65:4, “Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your Temple.” That, my brothers and sisters, is what we set our sights upon. That, my brothers and sisters, is where we will finally find satisfaction. Now, and this is where I'll close, getting to preach this part of the Psalm, having just gone through both Leviticus and Hebrews as a church is just too cool. You put your Leviticus/Hebrews lens on this and it just gets so cool. The Table“Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts!” – David, who wrote this Psalm, was most assuredly referring not to the common Israelite, when he wrote those words, but to the Levitical priests at the Temple. As we saw in Leviticus, it was the priests who were chosen by God, due to their bloodline through Levi and Aaron, it was the priests who were brought near to dwell in the Temple courts. But note the change in grammar in the second part of verse 4: Blessed is the one you choose and bring near to dwell in your courts (the Priests), we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!”What's he talking about? The priests go near, they're blessed, And we (out here) shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house. Of the five major sacrifices prescribed in Leviticus carried out at the temple, the peace offering was the one that came at the very end. It came at the end because it depicted what the offerings before had accomplished – peace between God and man. That peace having been brought about through sacrifice, the priests take a portion of the sacrifice back to the people, and together they all eat it in the presence. The priests go near, offer the sacrifices, and then we sit up to the table of fellowship with God – satisfied with the goodness of his house, the holiness of his temple.And that is what brings us to the table. Here is where we, an assembly of the Royal Priesthood, celebrate that God has atoned for our sins, not by the blood of bulls and goats but by the blood of his very own son. And he has not merely saved us from death, but has brought us near, raised us up with him, where we will be ever-satisfied by the goodness of his house, where we sit down to the marriage supper of the lamb and feast for ages to come. We eat from this table in anticipation of that greater table. So if you're here today and you've trusted in Jesus, then we invite you to take and eat. If you've not put your trust in Jesus, we ask that you'd let the elements pass, you not partake, but we pray you would, in this moment, draw near, for the very first time, to him by faith.

Les ventes de voitures neuves ne sont pas au beau fixe, en tout cas pour les particuliers, car ces derniers ne s'y retrouvent plus dans toutes ces différentes motorisations. Et comme en plus les réglementations fiscales changent, que le prix de ses voitures a méchamment augmenté, ou que simplement l'accessibilité à certaines villes est devenue impossible pour certaines motorisations, le résultat c'est que les particuliers s'abstiennent d'acheter une voiture neuve pour le moment. Pour le logement, la question ne se pose pas. Tout le monde a envie de devenir propriétaire, surtout les plus jeunes d'entre nous. Sauf que les derniers chiffres risquent aussi de susciter un début de réticence à l'achat d'un bien immobilier. Pour quelles raisons ? Parce que d'après les simulations réalisées par un consultant, il faut désormais deux fois plus de temps pour amortir un achat immobilier qu'il y a trois ans. Il faut, d'après cette simulation, compter six ans à Bruxelles et sept ans en Wallonie pour que le bien immobilier soit rentabilisé. Si vous êtes convaincu de la véracité de ces chiffres, mais que vous souhaitez malgré tout acheter un bien immobilier, vous n'avez plus le choix, vous ne pouvez plus divorcer de votre conjoint. Je dis ça parce que c'est bien connu des banquiers, les jeunes acquéreurs discutent parfois des heures et des heures pour savoir si leur prêt aura une durée de 15 ans, 20 ans ou 25 ans, alors qu'hélas, la durée moyenne réelle d'un crédit hypothécaire, elle est de l'ordre de sept ans environ. Principalement à cause du divorce. Et donc c'est l'autre leçon de cette étude, si vous avez une brique dans le ventre, comme la plupart des Belges, vous devez donc vous projeter davantage dans l'avenir. Et si vous envisagez de changer de logement pour avoir plus d'enfants, par exemple, ou si vous comptez tout simplement vous expatrier un jour prochain, mieux vaut rester locataire. En tout cas en l'état des choses. Si le marché immobilier devait baisser, il est clair, d'après les simulations, que le délai de rentabilisation sera encore plus grand en cas de baisse des prix de l'immobilier résidentiel de 10 % par exemple en 2024. L'amortissement de l'achat ferait qu'il faudrait 14 ans pour le rentabiliser, si vous habitez en Wallonie, et 12 ans à Bruxelles. Mais une telle chute de 10 %, par exemple, est improbable parce que le logement n'est pas une action cotée en bourse. Lorsque les prix baissent, les vendeurs refusent de vendre. Ce sont d'abord le nombre de transactions qui chutent et donc la chute des prix s'étale sur plusieurs années. Elle n'est donc pas aussi brutale que sur la Bourse. Et n'oublions pas qu'en Belgique, l'écrasante majorité des emprunts hypothécaires sont à taux fixe. Et quand l'inflation grimpe, c'est un gain de pouvoir d'achat pour ces ménages endettés, vu qu'ils bénéficient par ailleurs de l'indexation automatique des salaires. Nous ne sommes pas en Espagne, ni en Grande-Bretagne, où la plupart des prêts hypothécaires sont souvent à taux variable. Thanks God! --- La chronique économique d'Amid Faljaoui, tous les jours à 8h30 et à 17h30 sur Classic 21, la radio Rock'n'Pop.

Sponsor: Click here to learn more about Medi-Share, the most trusted name in health care sharing.Top headlines for Monday, June 5, 2023In today's podcast, we dive into the meaning of community care, as recent research from the Barna Group reveals a disagreement between pastors and the general population about church responsibilities. We also discuss Gov. Kim Reynolds' controversial measure that bans discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in Iowa classrooms, aimed at putting parents in control of their children's education. You'll also hear about a Georgia woman's harrowing experience when her car caught fire on the highway and the good Samaritan that saved her life. We'll touch on The Daily Wire's recent apology for criticizing the Christian web series The Chosen and finish by examining the potential cancellation of iconic Monty Python film Life of Brian due to its blasphemous themes.Subscribe to this Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Overcast Follow Us on Social Media @ChristianPost on Twitter Christian Post on Facebook @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Get the Edifi App Download for iPhone Download for Android Subscribe to Our Newsletter Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! Links to the News Most Christians believe churches should provide counseling, care | Church & Ministries News Iowa bans LGBT instruction in elementary schools | Politics News Alabama bans biological males from female college sports | Politics News Pastor, son arrested for turning church into drug house | U.S. News Woman thankful for 'God's timing' after escaping car fire | U.S. News 23 churches in Maryland, West Virginia can disaffiliate from UMC | Church & Ministries News Daily Wire CEO apologizes for 'The Chosen' hit piece | Entertainment News Monty Python star denies reports of dropping 'Life of Brian' scen | Entertainment News 'Shooting Stars' LeBron James film goes beyond basketball | Entertainment News

Sometimes we all have those moments… Thanks God but please send someone else. Moses said the same thing…

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A new MP3 sermon from Institute of Biblical Defense is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1 Thessalonians part 2-Paul Thanks God Subtitle: 1 Thessalonians Sermon Series Speaker: Dr. Phil Fernandes Broadcaster: Institute of Biblical Defense Event: Sunday Service Date: 3/5/2023 Length: 61 min.

One man is a hero after he acted quickly and decisively and without regard for his own safety in order to protect his children.   AND   Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson's mom, Ata Johnson, was in a car accident that completely mangled her vehicle. Miraculously, though, she survived.   To see videos and photos referenced in this episode, visit GodUpdates!   https://www.godupdates.com/dad-protects-family-dave-miln/ https://www.godupdates.com/ata-johnson-car-accident/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A weekly podcast exploring stories at the intersection of faith and culture through an inclusive Christian lens. This week: Mitch and Missy celebrate their wedding anniversary by sharing memories ... and new vows. Rev. Starlette Thomas drops by with her new Lenten podcast series. Guests: Marta Fioriti and Mandy Todd, co-hosts of the podcast "Jesus Has Left the Building." "Good Faith Weekly" is produced out of Norman, Oklahoma. Music is by Pond5. Learn more at www.GoodFaithMedia.org and @GFMediaOrg Links: "Jesus Has Left the Building" podcast ~ https://www.jhltb.com/ "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3" podcast with Starlette Thomas ~ https://goodfaithmedia.org/the-raceless-gospel/

Will, Grant and Jeremiah discuss Grant and Jeremiah's favorite albums of 2022.

Rapper #Takeoff was taken out by a stray bull3t at a dice game, and now Blackistan is in shock and awe, although this happens regularly within the community. Although this is a common occurrence, I think there are some takeaways here, as it illustrates the importance of divesting to avoid becoming a casualty as well. So let's examine several stories that illustrate this, including one where a dusty artist thanks God that the bull3t meant for him hit his gf instead, and another story about a woman who had her life taken by her best friends' boyfriend. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lexus-exodus/support

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Happy Thursday Bitties! We open up todays episode discussing the slow, dragged out month of August and all the terrible things that come with it. What's the deal with EB wearing jerseys on the beach? Also, Valdez made his triumphant return to Ocean City over the weekend with a smashola photo that got Drab & The Stallion sized. Then, the boys behind the glass are bitter about John The Intern getting an intro after being on the show for a few weeks. Lastly, what should the punishments be for running late to the show? 

Happy Thursday Bitties! We open up todays episode discussing the slow, dragged out month of August and all the terrible things that come with it. What's the deal with EB wearing jerseys on the beach? Also, Valdez made his triumphant return to Ocean City over the weekend with a smashola photo that got Drab & The Stallion sized. Then, the boys behind the glass are bitter about John The Intern getting an intro after being on the show for a few weeks. Lastly, what should the punishments be for running late to the show? 

Eric Adams pats himself on the back for being Mayor of New York declaring 'Thank God I'm Mayor' while pushing for gun scanners in the subway.

In hour 2, Chris talks about Biden embarrassing America on the world stage this past weekend, saying things that his team had to immediately walk back or correct, as some like Jennifer Rubin and Joe Scarborough praise him as the greatest president ever. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 5:00am-9:00am Monday-Friday. To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors along Pastor Shane, Pastor Andy. Thank you so much for coming to worship. If you're new or visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the connection card and the worship guide to fill it out legibly, just redeem it at the welcome center. They'll give you a gift and we'll get in touch with you over the course of the week as well. One quick announcement for the members of the church and for those who have been notified that you were becoming a member, we have our first quarterly members meeting next Sunday. It's at 1:00 PM. It's right after church. One. Yeah, 1:00 PM. It's a potluck. This is important. This is important. Are you even in the church, if you don't have the potluck?If you are new, it's new for everyone. I forgot. Potluck is where you actually bring food and enough for you and enough to share. The goal is to have food left over to bring people, to bless people with the food. Chips don't count as a meal. Cupcakes don't count as a meal either. If you're like, I don't know what to cook. Rotisserie chicken, Whole Foods. That's what I say. They have other stuff too.With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Heavenly Father, we thank you for the incredible Book of Romans, the Mount Everest, so to speak, of the epistles. We thank you for your choice servant, Paul, the apostle, who saw the resurrected Christ. Lord, we thank you for his zeal, for his love for you. We thank you for his desire to impart spiritual blessings to other Christians. And as we look at this incredible text in chapter one verses eight through 15, give us a vision as believers to become selfless, like the example of Paul, to care about others, to pray for others, to pray for the faith of others, to do everything we possibly can to strengthen their faith and to encourage them. Make us people who have a vision for ourselves to become seasoned, mature Christians, godly saints with years and decades of faithfulness from which we can draw upon and share and bless others. Bless our time with the holy word and make us a people who truly are strength by your spirit.And as we are strengthened, may we strengthen others. Teach us to be a people who love the gospel, who worship you in the gospel, who receive the gospel, preach the gospel to ourselves, and then preach the gospel to other Christians, to remind ourselves of our identity, of our place in you, of our eternal blessing that is to come. Holy Spirit, we come to you and we ask, come to the service, prepare us, take this text, illuminate it, and let us receive it, not just with our minds, but burn it into our hearts and then activate our will to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We pray all this in Christ's holy name. Amen.We started a sermon series through the Book of Romans last week. One thing I want to point out from last week's text, and this is one of the beauties of swimming in the richness of a text like this is you study and preach and then I keep meditating. Then we have community group. My community meets on Tuesdays and we had this revelation that in verse one St. Paul introduces himself, and he says, Paul, a servant, or doulas, a slave of Christ Jesus called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God. We had this meditation of, how do you learn about what God's call is, his specific will on your life? What he wants you to do, what your purpose is? Whom to marry? What kind of job to pursue, career to pursue, where to live. A lot of people want the specifics. God, what's your specific will for my life? Well, the specific calling comes after the submission. This is important. Paul, before he talks about his calling, he talks about his submission of Christ, that he is a servant, a doulas.He submitted his whole life and then God reveals the calling. If we are not obedient in submission to God in this revealed word, and then we come to him and we're God, can you reveal your will? He's like, once you submit to my revealed will, my explicit will, then you'll be ready to steward more. That's important. It brings us to the introduction. One of the greatest joys in life, my greatest joy in life is listening to the testimony of seasoned believers, mature believers. People who have been following the Lord faithfully for decades. Do you know people like this? We don't have enough people like this at Mosaic. I pray for people like this. I pray for seasoned saints in their forties and fifties and sixties. I pray for God to ... Amen. Hallelujah, praise God, praise. We have some representation.I pray for more. I don't know of any other churches that ... I pray for this all the time. I pray that God sparks of movement of people that retire, that I say I want to retire to Boston. I know it's expensive. I know, I know, I know. Retire on the north shore. Just be close enough because there's people coming from all over the world to Boston. Young people coming here to train, get educations, university, college, grad school. They're tremendous at their one little niche in life, but they have zero life skills. We're praying for more seasoned believers. One of the things that I noticed, I've had conversations like this with seasoned believers. One of the things that you see after having hundreds of these conversations is the emphasis on the basics of Christianity, on reading scripture every day, on praying to the Lord. And not just praying for material needs, seasoned mature believers, they pray for spiritual needs not just for themselves, for others.They pray for the faith of others. They have a desire to strengthen and encourage other states, and they have a love for gospel ministry, for sharing the gospel with those who are still far from the Lord. And in our text today, what we see is Paul, as a spiritual father, he hasn't met the Roman Christians yet, but he cares for them. He has a desire to see them, and he has a desire to come and minister to them, to encourage them, be mutually encouraged by their faith. As we look through the text, I pray that you catch a vision as well to live as a spiritual parent, where you begin to notice younger Christians and you seek to mentor them in the faith. We see the building blocks for that in Romans 1:8-15. Would you look at the text with me.First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. I want you to know, brothers, that I often intended to come to you, but thus far have been prevented, in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. I'm under obligation, both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also, who are in Rome.This is the reading of God's holy and infallible authoritative word. May you write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Three points to frame up our time. First, thank God for the courageous faith of saints. Second, strengthen and mutually encourage the saints and preach the gospel to reap a harvest of righteousness. First, thank God for the courageous faith of saints. That's verses eight through 10. Paul begins here, in the way that you have to begin everything, if you're going to do anything of kingdom consequence, he starts with prayer. At this point in every single one of his letters after he greets the church to whom he's writing or whoever's writing to, he gives a greeting, and usually in that greeting, he gives a prayer and he prays for the Christians to whom he's writing. The prayer is always about spiritual needs. He does this in every single letter, except for the letter to the Galatians, because the letter of the Galatians is a little unique because he is dealing with the church that is playing with Heresy.At this point, instead of praying for them, he just says, I am shocked. I am surprised that you would so quickly turn to another gospel. You're deserting the gospel. It's different here with the Christians in Rome. Paul is thrilled that though he has not been in Rome, he hasn't done gospel ministry, he's heard that the Christian community in Rome is thriving and people all over the Mediterranean are hearing this report, that there are Christians in Rome. And first of all, he's so shocked by the fact that there are any Christians in Rome, he just pause. He says, I thank God that God saved some Christians. There's Christians who are pledging allegiance to Jesus Christ as Lord, as κύριος, politically charged term, because Caesar wanted everyone to pledge allegiance to him as Lord, as κύριος. Here under Caesar's nose, so to speak, in his backyard, there's Christians pledging allegiance to a higher authority than to the government.Paul is thrilled about that. In Romans 1:8, he says, first, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. The first thing I want to point out is that Paul has a personal relationship with God. He doesn't view Christianity as just a mere religion. He views it as a relationship. He says, I thank my God. I thank my God. It's personal pronoun, possessive pronoun. God is my God. Friends, can you say that? This is really a difference between a Christian and a non-Christian. Paul, doesn't say, I pray to the God of the universal, though that is true. He doesn't say I pray to the king of Kings, though that is true. He doesn't say I pray to the God of my fathers or the God of my grandparents. He said, no, I pray to my God. He's my Lord. He's my savior.Do you have this personal relationship with God? You can go to him and you are on a personal basis. He knows your name. You know his name. Are you known by him? Does he know you? You say, well, how can I know that God is my God? Well, it begins with repentance. And repentance is where you lay down your I. To get to that, my God is my God, you got to lay down your I. You got to get to the point where you realize, oh, I'm not God. I'm not the God of my life. This was the temptation in the garden of Eden with Satan going to Eve and Adam, he's you can be your own gods. That's really the religion of the day. People say, oh, people aren't very religious.No, no, no. People are more religious than they've ever been. The religion is just myself. I do whatever I want. I am God over my life. Well, that's what repentance is. Repentance, you get to the point where it's like that actually is insubordination to the God of the universe. Because of that, I am under condemnation and I need to repent. I need to submit to God, and through Christ, be forgiven, reconciled with God. Now God can be my God. Paul also knows that God is his God because of the work of Jesus Christ. He says, I thank my God through Jesus Christ. If Paul's so supremely aware of Christ's current and his actual intercessory work, that Jesus Christ right now is seated at the right hand of God, the Father, and he is interceding for us. When we come to God, we do not come to God on our own merits.Paul doesn't do that. Paul could have come to God and be like, I thank my God and I come to him because I've done a lot of great things for him because I have followed him so faith ... He doesn't do that. He understands that the only merits on which he can come to God are the merits of Jesus Christ. We can't do a thing apart from God. We can't do a thing about ... Jesus Christ said, you can't do a thing apart for me. Once in a while, I'm reminded of this in silly ways. I have a 2007 Highlander and my Highlander doesn't have the little sensors on the side, like when there are cars, you shouldn't probably merge. But I had a rental like a week and a half ago, a Yukon and it was brand new. I just got used to not checking my blind spot because they had the little sensors and I'm oh, this is tremendous.I'm driving down the road yesterday on Route 9 and I forgot, I'm not in my rental. I just forgot, as I'm merging to the next lane, I forgot that I should probably check my blind spot. In my blind spot, there was a massive truck right behind me, lays down the horn. I felt terrible. I'm oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. God just prevented me from a terrible car accident. You can't do a thing apart from Christ. We can't even worship God apart from Christ. Hebrews 13:15. Through him, Jesus, then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God. That is the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. When we worship God with our mouth, when we sing to God, we're offering a fruit of prayer, but it's only through Christ that that's even accepted.Paul begins with prayer, but the prayer is specifically a prayer of Thanksgiving. If you study the prayers of Paul, he always, always doing this. Before he asks God for anything, he's thanking God for the blessings that he already sees. I would submit to you that this is a discipline that each one of us can cultivate more deeper, live a life of Thanksgiving. Do you want to grow in satisfaction? Do you want to grow in enjoying life? Do you want to grow in noticing God's good gifts? This, in the secular world, they call this presence, like to be present, it's a practice of mindfulness. Do we want to grow in joy and happiness? Well then grow in Thanksgiving. Start prayer with worshiping God and thanking God for who he is and what he's done for you. Paul, here, uses the thanks.It's a very particular Greek word. There's several words for Thanksgiving, but here he uses eucharisteo, which is, we get the word Eucharist from it. It's Thanksgiving for God's sacrifice, for God's blessing. The word also assumes obligation. When we think of thanking someone, we don't usually think of obligation like, I'm obligated to. But when it comes to God, we are obligated to say thank you to God. Then he goes on in the next passage. He's this is the problem with all of humanity, everything that's wrong in the world is really because people will not thank God, will not glorify God for all of his abundant blessings. We are obligated to say thank you to God and that's where Paul starts. He starts with prayer and a prayer of Thanksgiving, in particular for the faith of these Christians. He says, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.he uses the word cosmos. What he means is, the then known world. When we think of world, we think the planet and we think everything everywhere. That's not how they thought about the word world. He says, your faith is proclaiming all the world. He's talking about the Mediterranean world. What he's surprised about is, hey, this church has a reputation for being faithful to God all around the Mediterranean world. People couldn't believe it. People when they heard, oh, there's Christians in Rome, of all places. Why were they so surprised? Because Rome was notorious for being the capital of the world's debauchery. This is where you go to sin. Then sin, egregiously. in this there's den of wickedness, there's Christians. There's Christians who are public about their personal relationship with God. That's how people learned about their faith because they were public about it.A lot of people think personal relationships should be private. No, those are different words. A personal relationship with God should be public. People in our lives should know that we profess the name of Christ, that we follow Christ, that we love God. There's no such thing as a closeted Christian. We live in a world where people are very proud of their sin, very public about their sin. And my prayer is for Christians to be at least as public about their following Christ. Imagine if people are like, oh, the faith of Christians in Boston is proclaimed in all the world. And it's all already beginning. Chloe is our finance and admin person. She sends a power BI dashboard every once in a while so we see how many clicks on the website from other, from where.People are tuning in from all over the world which is incredibly encouraging, because people come from all over the world. They come here, they're in the church and then they go to other places and they still keep up with the ministry here. In our membership, our current membership is 225 members. We have over 34 languages spoken in our current membership. That's how global, that's how diverse of a church this is to show how strategic of a place Boston is. That's how Paul thought about Rome. They were public about their faith. Here Paul says, your faith is proclaiming all the world. He uses the Greek word pistis, which is important because the semantic range of the word, faith or pistis, faith is just a small part of it. Faith is like the beginning of the word pistis. But it has to grow into something a lot greater, and that's faithfulness. True faith always grows into faithfulness and that's usually how the word is used.If you look at Galatians five, is the fruit of the spirit. He says the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. It's the same word as your faith is proclaimed. The idea, and we talk about this, that Paul is given the mission to bring about the obedience of faith. We talked about that last week. A faith without works is dead. When Paul thinks about, it's not just intellectual ascent as like I agree with the facts of the gospel. No, it's, is your life transformed by it? Does your life mirror that you believe in the gospel? True faith must be a response to God's faithfulness. God is faithful to us and the gospel. And my response to his faithfulness is a personal faithfulness of following him. Why does Paul thank God for the faith of Roman Christians?He here is planting, he's building the foundation for the theology of election and salvation, justification, glorification that he's going to expressly speak on later. But here he just wants everyone to know, I'm thankful for your faith. The reason I'm thankful is because your faith is a gift. And you see that all throughout scripture. Philippians 1:29, for it has granted to you. It's been gifted to you, that for the sake of Christ, you should not only believe in him, but also suffer for his sake. What he's getting at is, you've been giving a double gift. The first part of the gift is to believe in Christ, that faith is a gift. Then also, it's a gift to suffer for the sake of Christ.Ephesians 2:8, a similar theme. For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing this. This, that's the faith part, is not your own doing it. The antecedent to it is faith. Faith is the gift of God. Christians, we should be public about our personal relationship with Christ because of the gift of faith he's given us, but we should be publicly humble about it. Because a lot of people who are public in their faith are also very arrogant and jerks. We pray not to be like that. We want to be humble because our faith is a gift. It's a gift from God. How do you reconcile that with the fact that we said faith is an act of the will? It is an act of the will. It's the act of a will to receive the gift. God is giving the gift of faith.It's available to everybody. You have to receive it. That's the act of the will is, yes, I want faith. Yeah, I want to believe in Christ. I want to believe in God and I'm going to submit my life to it. So it is an act of faith. Then as you exercise your faith in believing in God, then God tells you, yeah, I gave you grace to do that. He gets all the glory and we grow in humility. Paul here, he thanks God for the gift of the faith that he sees, hears of the Roman Christians. He says, your faith is known in all the world. Then in Roman 6:19, just to show you once more that when he thinks about faith, he thinks about faith that leads to obedience, uses the same phrase, except instead of faith uses the word obedience. For your obedience is known to all so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent, as to what is evil.We, as members of Mosaic, and as followers of Christ, we should be thankful for one another's faith. But when you see a brother or sister growing in faith, and when you see them growing in faith, let's let them know, and you say, you know what? I thank God. I see God growing your faith. I thank God for that gift of faith. I thank God for the growth that I see. He continues in verse nine. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing, I mention you always in my prayers asking that somehow by God's will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you. A lot's going on here, but you see Paul's desire to be with them.You also see Paul at peace with the fact that God has not yet opened the door for his desire to be fulfilled. He says, look, I want to come, but I'm going to wait for the opportunity to come from God, in God's way, in God's timing. Paul, when he wrote these words, he had no idea in what manner he would go to Rome and he went to Rome, he got to Rome, but he got to Rome in chains and he was enslaved to Caesar. God did answer that call, but you see that he's at peace here. In verse nine, he says, I serve of God with my spirit in the gospel of his Son. The word for serve here is a powerful word because it shows how far the American church has actually drifted from an understanding of true worship.Jesus Christ, when he thought about worship and the Old Testament, New Testament, worship is so much more than what we have diffused. We think of worship as just singing songs to God. That's compartmentalized. Like this is my worship. I'm going to get my worship on. I'm going to go to church. I'm going to listen to some worship music in my car. When Paul thinks about worship, yes, that's included in singing Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs. When he thinks about worship, he thinks about this word in the Greek, λατρεύω, which means serve and worship. To worship God, in Paul's mind is to serve God and to serve God is to worship God. He says in my spirit, starts in the heart, I am worshiping God, serving God in my own soul with the gospel. Then from an overflow of worshiping God for the gospel of a Son, I then minister out of the gospel.Service to the Lord is part of being a faithful Christian and faithful worship to God. Then he says, it's the gospel of his Son. I serve with my spirit and the gospel of his Son. Here, this is possessive. The gospel belongs to whom? It belongs to God. It belongs to Jesus Christ. Paul didn't invent the gospel. God invented the gospel. Paul's authority doesn't stem from his own person. It comes from the authority that God has infused the gospel with and commissioned Paul to preach it. What's my authority? What's the authority of the leadership here at the church? All our authority is rooted in holy scripture. Everything we do, everything we preach, everything we say, we point you back to the holy scriptures and not ourselves. There is no authority. The authority comes from God.It comes from his word. It comes from his gospel. The gospel though, the word for gospel is εὐαγγελίζω and comes from two parts. Eu means good or pleasant and angelous or angelion, we get the word angel from it, but it angel is just a messenger. Angelous is just the message. It's the message of what Christ did. And in ancient days, it was a military term. If a kingdom went to battle against another kingdom, you send your army. Then one in that town, everyone in the city, they want to know how's the battle going. What they would do is, they would send a runner to the battlefield. Once the runner has some news about how it's going on the battlefield, the runner would run back. This is the very first marathon runners. They would run back to the town to bring news about how it's going on the battlefield.And the watchmen in the towers of the city, what they would do is, they'd watch for the person running. If they see the person running, and as soon as they see the person sprinting, if feet, the legs propel, like that's good news, this person is excited about whatever news he's bring. If the person is jogging, just lethargic, that's usually bad news and the watchman is yeah, I'm going to wait, let that guy share the bad news. But that's really what the word gospel means, it means great news. The great news has to do with the work of Jesus Christ. In scripture there is three ways that the gospel is used. If you're not familiar with Christianity, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, those are the gospels, but that's a form of literature. That's not what Paul is talking about here.Then when Jesus Christ came, the word gospel meant the news about the coming of the king. Jesus Christ is the king. The kingdom of God is at hand. John, the baptizer would preach, repent and believe because the kingdom of God is at hand. That was the gospel message. Then after Christ death, his burial, his resurrection, his ascension, now, the gospel has to do with his life and his work. The gospel is about what he did in life in perfect obedience to God, the Father. And then in perfect obedience, he goes to the cross and dies in atoning death. He didn't just die for the faith, he died for our sins. He bears the penalty for our sins, atones for our sins. Then he is resurrected from the dead, ascended to heaven and he pours out the Holy Spirit upon his church.That's the objective truth of the gospel. We proclaim that. We explain that. That's the objective truth, that it doesn't make any difference unless a person personally accepts it, subjectively accepts it. That I, yes, I am a sinner. Yes, Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins order to redeem me. That's when you begin to benefit from the gospel. Evangelical Christians, this is an important conversation. When people ask you, what Christian are you? What's your answer, especially in Boston? What Christian are you? They always want to know. I hope you're not one of those evangelical types. Because the word evangelical, it's a derogatory term right now. That's like a bad word. It's like those deplorables out there. Those are terrible, terrible people. You're evangelicals. So whenever anyone asks me, are you an evangelical Christian?I always stop and I say, what do you mean by the word evangelical? Because no one knows, no one has any clue what the word evangelical means. Well now, so I don't use that word anymore. I'm just going to start using the word gospel. I'm a gospel Christian. Well, what is the word gospel? You say, the good news of Jesus Christ. That's the kind of Christian, that's who we are as believers. We're good news Christians. This is the message that we proclaim that anybody, any sinner anywhere, no matter what you've done, no matter where you are in life, at any moment, if you submit your life to Christ, you repent of your sin, that Jesus Christ forgives you of all your sin, now you are a child of God forever. Repent and believe. That's what Paul starts off with. Thanks God for the faith of the saints. The faith in what? The faith in the gospel.Then he has the desire to come and strengthen them. This is point two. Strengthen and mutually encourage the saints. And this is verse 11. For I long to see you that may impart to you, some spiritual gift to strengthen you. That is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. He uses the most powerful Greek word he can to talk about desire. He says, I long, I long to come and be with you. It's the same word that's used in First Peter 2:2, like newborn infants long for the spiritual milk that, by it, may grow up into salvation. He says, as an infant longs for nourishing food, he said, I long to be with you. For what? For what purpose? He says, I want to impart something to you. I don't want to just get something for me.I don't want to just be served by you. I want come and serve. This is, as you mature as a believer, this is how you begin to understand that other people need you. Other people need encouragement from you. It's not just you coming and taking, it's you coming and serving. As you grow in the faith, you long to impart something. How can I help you? My parents are my grandparents 10 times over. My dad is really owning the granddad role. He's getting better and better at it. One of the things he does now, anytime he goes to visit his grandkids, he's got pockets full of what? Candy. He loves coming to my place. I got four daughters. He gives them so much candy, huge sugar rush. Doesn't even tell them, brush your teeth right after.Just leaves me to deal with the emotional fallout of their crashes. But he just wants to give them something. How can I bless you? How can I guide you? What can I share with you? This is what Paul wants. He's like, I want to come. I want to impart this. He uses the same word in First Thessalonians 2:8. being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you. That's the same word as impart. Share with you, not only gospel of God, but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us. He said, I want to come. I want encourage you. I want to impart some spiritual blessing, spiritual gifts, he says. The word for spiritual is pnevmatikós. It comes from the Holy Spirit, characterized by the Holy Spirit.He says, I want to come and I want you to experience more of the Holy Spirit. I want you to experience the greatest gifts that there are, and that's the gifts of God's presence. I want to do everything I possibly can to help you learn to walk in step with the spirit. That's the same word that's used in Ephesians 1:3. Blessed be the God and father, our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. The greatest blessings that God can offer you are never material. Therefore, our greatest prayer request should be not for material blessings, but for spiritual blessings, to get more of the Holy Spirit, more of the spiritual gifts that the Lord longs to give. The word for gift here is the word, in the Greek, it's charisma. It's used for particular gifts, like explained in Romans 12, we'll get into that.That's gifts of prophecy, gifts of tongues, gifts of miracles, gifts of healing. This word includes all of that and includes just the basics of Christianity, like salvation. Roman 6:23. For the wages of sins is death. But the free gift is the word charisma. Charisma, charisma. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. The greatest gift that we can receive is salvation. Then the greatest gifts after that are strengthening in the Holy Spirit. he says, I want you to be strengthened, grounded, rooted, built up in the Holy Spirit. Then he says, I want you to be mutually encouraged. I want to encourage you. He said, I want you to encourage me. This shows incredible humility on the part of the great Apostle Paul. He says, I need encouragement as well.There will never come a time, dear saints, that you grow out of a need for encouragement in the faith. There will never be a time where you're you know what, I am self-sufficient, I'm just going to encourage myself because once in a while, you need someone else to encourage you. No matter how strong you are in the faith, no matter how long you've been a Christian, every once in a while, you need someone to be like, you know what, how can I encourage you? Paul says, that's what I want. I want to come and I want you to be encouraged by me. I want to strengthen you. I want to be encouraged by you as well. Christians, do you long for Christian community like this? In a place like Boston, you have to long for it and you have to work for it.Christian community does not happen by accident in a city like this. It just doesn't. It has to be a commitment. I personally, my favorite fellowship all week with my fellow believers is for us in staff meeting, incredible time of encouragement. Then with my CG. On Tuesdays, we have a wonderful time. We don't have any space. I've run out of chairs already a long time ago. People are like, how many people are in your CG? I was well, we start with six eternal souls. They're that's a lot. I'm like, that's just my family. The six eternal souls, that's a full couch. And then we have guests. Every time, every time I walk out of community group with just incredible peace in my heart, joy in my heart, incredible encouragement. And it's not nothing, we read scripture, we pray together. We talk through the text and we encourage one another.Regarding the spiritual gifts here, we'll get into this. He includes, yes, includes salvation. Yes, includes just the blessings of being a Christian. But the gifts, the spiritual gifts also include the ones in First Corinthians 12 and Romans 12, the gifts of healing, gifts of miracles, speaking in tongues, prophecy, teaching. It's all included in that. The darker a place, the more you see of those spiritual gifts at work. As I was studying in this text this week, this is what I was praying for. You can pray with me if you'd I'm praying for more of that at this church. We've seen it, the evident work of God, where God shows up, and that is a miracle, and that is a healing. And you see prophetic visions and prophetic.I'm praying for more of that. I'm praying for more of that. I'm praying for God's spirit to just pour out on Boston, just like he did in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. Why not? Why not? Why not? That's what I'm praying for. I know it's scary. Everyone gets freaked out whenever you talk about any spiritual gifts and speaking in tongues and things like that. Whatever. That's what I'm praying for. It's in the Bible. Paul says, I want to come and bring it to you. That's what we go for. But this is what I want to say, it's the same thing that I started the sermon with. It's not until we start exercising the current spiritual gifts that God has given us, if we don't steward what we currently have, if we don't steward that well, we are in no position to ask for more.Whatever gifts that God has given us, let's steward that well and then when God sees that we are good stewards of his good gifts, he's going to give us more. Here, I just want to talk about the basics real quick. First Peter 4:9 through 11, in which he talks about the gifts. He starts with hospitality. He says, show hospitality to one another without grumbling. Why, because hospitality's hard, and as each has received a gift. That's in the same thought. His thought is hospitality, that's a gift. Then he brings in other gifts, each has received a gift, use it to serve one another. Hospitality is a gift. Service is a gift. As good stewards of God's very grace, whoever speaks proclaiming the gospel, God's word, that's a gift, as one who speaks oracles of God. I like that.Maybe I want to stop calling them sermons. It's my oracle of God, my Jan Vezikov. It's in the Bible. Whoever serves as one who serves by the strength that God supplies in order then everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ to him being glory and dominion forever and ever. That's just the basics. Showing hospitality to another, serving one another, speaking God's word to one another. Those are spiritual gifts that we can use to strengthen one another's faith. Then 3 is, preach the gospel to reap a harvest of righteousness. This is verse 13. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, but thus far have been prevented in order that I may reap some harvest among you, as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. He is talking about the Roman Christians as Gentiles, meaning non-Jewish believers.The reason why he doesn't include Jewish believers here is because a few years before he writes this letter, Emperor Claudias actually banned Jews from Rome, including probably Christian Jews. Paul is writing predominantly here to Gentiles, and that's why he grounds everything he says in the holy scriptures because the holy scriptures aren't just for Jewish people, they're all for all Christians. He says, I want to come and reap some harvest among you. And God, all throughout the scriptures, uses agricultural metaphors, metaphors of farming in order to talk about spiritual fruit. Here, the harvest is the spiritual fruit produced by Christians by the power of the spirit, the fruit of the spirit. Then also, that includes souls, a harvest of souls. The first step to producing such a harvest of righteousness is abiding in Jesus Christ. He talks about this in John 15, Jesus said, I am the vine.That's the image of, he's the vine we're the branches. You are the branches, whoever abides in me and I in him, he, it is that bears much fruit for apart from me, you can do nothing. We're not the ones that bear the fruit. Our job is to remain in Christ, walk in him and be in him, and be rooted in him. That's what abide meant in the Greek. Then as we're close to him in proximity, he bears the fruit through us. James 3:18, a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those is who make peace. St. Paul wants to come. He wants to cultivate the ground of the Christians and the hearts in Rome. As he does, he wants to bear a harvest of righteousness from them, then together, bear a harvest of souls from the unbelievers. Jesus' words in Matthew 9:37-38. He said, the harvest is plentiful. He says to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.I challenge you to pray this prayer. I challenge you this week to start praying, Lord, there's a harvest in Boston. Lord, I believe there's a great harvest in Boston. The only thing we're lacking is more laborers. I challenge you to pray that. Would you take up that challenge? And I'm going to tell you what's going to happen, the same thing that happened in Matthew 10. You take Matthew 9 and he says, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers. The very next verse Jesus says, go. So I challenge you to pray this. as you pray this, God's going to be like, oh yeah, yeah, good thing you asked, you're the laborer. I'm sending you. He has sent us to produce, to reap a harvest for him. How can you be more fruitful in your own life? How can you be more fruitful as a Christian?Well, it takes discipline. Any athlete knows this. Any musician knows this. You know this. If you've accomplished anything, it takes sacrifice to accomplish anything. Same thing, spiritually. It takes work. Hebrews 12:11, a text where he talks about God the father disciplining his disobedient children who aren't disciplining themselves. He says this. For the moment, all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Discipline is, it's painful. It's always painful in the beginning, but through the discipline, there's a fruit of righteousness, a harvest of righteousness when, when it comes to training. When discipline, a lot of people have a negative understanding of discipline, he's not talking about discipline as in punishment. He's talking about discipline as in strengthening, like every athlete needs to have discipline in their life to discipline them.I'm not punishing myself when I discipline myself in following Christ's spiritual discipline. It continues in verse 14. I am under obligation, both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I'm eager to preach the gospel to you also, who are in Rome. Brings in the Greeks here. The Greeks are supposed to be, in that day and age, they were the pinnacle of humanity. This is the pinnacle of progress, their language, their culture, et cetera. And he's talking about like ethnically, these people are Greeks. Then he talks about barbarians. It's not a derogatory term. Barbarian just meant a non-Greek. That's everybody else. Both to the wise and to the foolish. He's talking in worldly terms, the uneducated and educated. What he's saying is everybody needs the gospel. Everyone needs the gospel.Every human being needs the gospel because we are all equal in our need for grace. He uses a very interesting term to explain his responsibility to preach the gospel. He says, I am under obligation. The word for obligation is a financial term. He says, I am in debt to Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and the foolish. I am in debt to God. I am obligated. I owe it to these people to preach the gospel. He's not talking about financial obligation. He's talking about this in a moral sense. This is how he viewed his faith. He viewed his faith in the sense that he understood what it cost God to save him. It cost God the sacrifice of his son. It was the blood of Jesus Christ that redeemed us from sin that through which we are purchased. Every person, every human being is in debt to God because God created us.We're not our own. But Christians are in debt to God twice over because we're in debt for being created, and we're in debt to God for being recreated through the blood of Jesus Christ. In Romans 8:12 through 14. So then brothers, we are debtors. That's the same word that he uses under obligation. We're debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh for if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live for all who are led by the spirit of God or sons of God. What he's saying is, we're not in debt to the flesh. We're not enslaved to sin. Now we are in debt to the Holy Spirit. We're in debt to God and because we're in debt to God, we are obligated to proclaim the gospel, to preach gospel.He says, I am eager. I'm more than willing to preach the gospel to you. He starts with Christians. There's two flows here. In verse nine and 10, he talks about serving in the spirit of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And what he is talking about, he's worshiping God for the gospel. Then he's serving God with the gospel by preaching the gospel to believers. The gospel isn't just for unbelievers, the gospel is for believers as well. And then together, the believers, after they've preached the gospel to themselves, to each other strengthening, then they preach the gospel to others. Here, the practical lesson that we can draw to ourselves is, everybody's called to preach the gospel. When we think about preaching, you're probably thinking about like a pastor getting up and preaching a sermon. That's not what Paul's talking about. The word for preaches means to proclaim. It means to articulate the gospel.Paul gives us the example that he himself thanks God for the gospel. He preaches the gospel to himself, and then he wants to preach the gospel to Christians and then we preach the gospel to non-Christians. And that's really the flow. If you want to get really good at evangelism, if you want to get really good at proclaiming the gospel, articulating the gospel, you know who you start with, start by preaching the gospel to whom? To yourself. This is really important. You see this all throughout the Psalms, because you don't know that no one talks to you more than you talk to yourself. The voice in your head is just always going. Are you like that, because I'm like that. There's at least one voice in my head all the time, at least one.I'm talking to myself all the time, even as I'm preaching right now, I'm like, you know what? Super Bowl's today. I'm bummed out. Tom Brady's not playing. The Pats doesn't make it. I shouldn't be thinking about that right now. I should be preaching the sermon. Then I switch over. I'm going to start preaching the gospel to myself. Like Jan, you are a wicked sinner. That's where I start every time. You know how I go? I'm oh, you got to repent. I do that to myself, 10 times over, but I can scream at myself and I don't get freaked out because I know I'm doing it love. So I got to preach to my gospel. Every day I wake up, it's like spiritual amnesia, you forget you're a child of God. I preach to myself, when I get worried about whatever, just whatever. you're hey God is sovereign.Predestined me before the foundation of the world to be a child of God. He saved me radically. Justified by grace through faith. Jesus Christ died for the sins of Jan Vezikov on the cross. When I sin, I accept the grace and I repent, turn from sin, follow Jesus and just preaching the gospel to yourself. If you do this on a daily basis, I'm telling you, you get stressed out, go spend some time in prayer and preach the gospel to yourself. Worries, burdens, anxiety, whatever it is, if there's sin in your life, preach the gospel to yourself. When there's temptation in your life, preach the gospel to yourself. Then once you get this, because you see this all throughout the Psalms, David, the Psalmist, he's like he's writing a Psalm and then all of a sudden he turns to himself and he's like, why are you downcast on my soul? He's talking to himself, like hope in God.Stop hoping in your circumstances, hoping in yourself. Stop hoping and trusting in people, trust in God. Preach the gospel to yourself. Then we as believers, we have to remind ourselves of the gospel. You preach it to ourselves, and now we're in a position to be sharing the gospel and preaching the gospel to people in our lives who are not yet Christians. We need to approach gospel articulation to our non-believing friends with the perspective of its obligation. Paul says, I am obligated to do this. I owe it to people. Very turn these at stake. I owe it to my unbelieving friends and neighbors to articulate the gospel to them. I owe them that debt because I'm not my own. First Corinthians 9:16, for if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting, for necessities laid upon me, necessity. Woe to me, if I do not preach the gospel. That's for each one of us. Woe to us, if we do not preach the gospel, publicly, out loud, using words.In conclusion, a shared testimony of a spiritual father named Augustine of Hippo. Augustine of Hippo was a church father in the fourth century AD. Just an incredible man of God, prolific. One of the greatest minds that have ever served the church. A theologian wrote confessions of Augustine. One of the more readable of his works. His testimony was, he grew up in a Christian family, wasn't raised by a dad. His mom, Monica, loved God and she would pray for him all the time. He was just incredibly talented, even as a child, really precocious, destined to become one of the greatest Latin fathers of the early church. He was born on a small farm in what's now Algeria. During his turbulent youth, he was enslaved to sexual sin, nothing new. He was enslaved to it in all his teens and his twenties. He studied literature and rhetoric and moved from Carthage to Rome, to Milan and then finally came under the preaching of Bishop Ambrose.As he would go to church, God would just convict him of sin. Sunday after Sunday, after Sunday, convict him of sin. And he couldn't free himself from the shackles of sexual sin. It was during the summer of the year, 386, when he was 32, he went into a garden next to where he lived seeking solitude. He writes this in the confessions. He says in the tumult in my heart, it took me into the garden where no one could interfere with the burning struggle with myself in which I was engaged. I was twisting and turning my chains. I threw myself down somehow under a certain fig tree and let my tears flow freely. Suddenly, I heard a voice from the nearby house chanting as if it might be a boy or girl saying and repeating over and over again, pick up and read, pick up and read.I interpret as solely as divine command to me to open the book and read the first chapter I may find. By the book he was talking about the Book of Romans.. He said, so I hurried back to the place where I had put down the book of the apostle when I got up and I seized it and opened it. In silence, read the first passage on which my eye lit. He just opened the Book of Romans and he is whatever the first verse is, that's a word from God. The first verse that he read was Romans 13:13 through 14, where it says not in riots and drunken parties, not in eroticism and indecencies, not in strife and rivalry, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh in its lust.Then he says, I neither wish nor needed to read further at once with the last words of the sentence, it was as if a light of relief from all anxiety flooded into my heart. All the shadows of doubt were dispelled. He was converted, then he devoted himself to a life of prayer, strengthening the saints and preaching the gospel and lived a worthy life of service to God as a spiritual father. How to grow into a spiritual father, a mother. Three points. If you missed them, thank God for the courageous faith of saints to strengthen and mutually encourage the saints and then preach the gospel to reap a harvest of righteousness.If you're not a Christian, or you're not sure of where you are in your faith, or if you can't say that God or Jesus is my savior, Jesus is my Lord, today we plead with you. We will call you to repent of sin, submit your life to Christ and follow him.Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time in the holy scriptures. What a rich book, the Book of Romans is. We thank you, Lord, for this reminder. I thank you, Lord, through Jesus Christ for the faith of the saints of Mosaic Boston. I pray strength in their faith. Pour out spiritual gifts by the power of the spirit upon this church, not for our glory, but for yours and for many to know how great of a God you are, for many who are far from you to be able to say yes, thanks to Jesus Christ, my Lord and savior. God is my God. I pray all this in Christ's name. Amen.