Podcasts about worldliness

Jesus said we should pray like children. Children don't think about how they approach, whether they are using the right words, or whether their parents are pleased with them. They just ask. Astoundingly, that's the beginning of learning to pray.

Worldliness enters the church through false teachers, driven by corrupt love and the exploitation of the vulnerable.

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Join Fr. Nicholas & Dr Roxanne as they continue with a five-part series on Practical Christianity Through the Book of James. This episode will be the fourth chapter on Faith that Submits -- Humility before God, Resisting Pride and Worldliness.

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Pastor Christian Powell preaches to the Faith Church congregation on Sunday night, November 30, 2025. This message is titled "The Love That God Hates". It comes from 1 John 2:15-17. This is part 3 of a 3-part message. Part 3 deals with defeating worldliness.

This episode is from our Next Gen Sunday service with Auburn University student, Allie Prescott, teaching.First Methodist Church of Opelika is an exciting, historic, and growing Methodist church that is inviting our community to find and follow the Spirit-led life in Jesus. Founded in 1837, First Opelika has a rich history of influencing and impacting families in the Opelika/Auburn and surrounding community. The church is currently in a season of revitalization and is laying the foundation for effective ministry in the next season of her life as an independent Methodist church.For more information, check us out at www.firstopelika.org or www.facebook.com/firstopelika

Northpointe Community Church

The central conflict of our lives orients around our relationship with the physical world in which we currently inhabit: the Torah teaches us that the objective of life is to optimize for the benefit and betterment of the soul, and to prepare for Olam Haba. The Yetzer Hara is engineered to make us believe that […]

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Pastor Christian Powell preaches to the Faith Church congregation on Sunday night, November 16, 2025. This message is titled "The Love That God Hates". It comes from 1 John 2:15-17. This is part 2 of a 3-part message. Part 2 deals with diagnosing worldliness.

Come to church with us this week! Sermon: Learning to Be Content - Philippians 4:10-20 True contentment is found only in Christ, not in our circumstances or what we own. Praise & Worship: Because He Lives, The Table, There's Something About That Name, Anchor of Hope

Come to church with us this week! Sermon: Learning to Be Content - Philippians 4:10-20 True contentment is found only in Christ, not in our circumstances or what we own. Praise & Worship: Because He Lives, The Table, There's Something About That Name, Anchor of Hope

Living Faith: "Warning about Worldliness" Ronnie Roberts Text: James 4:1-10 This world has nothing good for us. I. Our desires create hostilities. II. Our desires come from our friendship with this world. III. We can break our ties to this world through God's grace.

Pastor Christian Powell preaches to the Faith Church congregation on Sunday night, November 9, 2025. This message is titled "The Love That God Hates". It comes from 1 John 2:15-17. This is the part 1 of a 3-part message. Part 1 deals with defining worldliness.

In a world full of distractions and desires, it's easy for our hearts to drift. In this Thursday morning message, Evangelist Joe Mueller exposes the pull of worldliness from 1 John 2 and calls us to love what truly lasts. Learn how to keep your heart for God in a culture determined to steal it.This is the second sermon in a special series that will contain all of the sermons and workshops delivered at the 2025 Thee Generation Youth Summit at Falls Baptist Church in Menomonee Falls, WI this past October 8–10, 2025.Don't forget to make plans to join hundreds of other young people next October 14–16, 2026 for our annual meeting in Menomonee Falls, WI. For more information, please visit theegeneration.org/tgys. If you've been encouraged by this podcast, please take the time to give us a five-star rating and write a brief review. That would help tremendously in getting the word out and raising the visibility of the Thee Generation for others. For more faith inspiring resources and information about joining Thee Generation, please visit theegeneration.org.

Message Date: October 20th Location: Sandy Campus Life In The Abby “Spiritual Practices to Combat Worldliness” Pastor Jason Parrish

Worldliness is an infection in our spiritual lives. John addresses it heads on. All In Gospel Podcast is a chapter by chapter, verse by verse, in depth bible study where we seek to understand God's Word.All In Gospel is recorded live at Calvary Chapel with Pastor Seann Dikkers. You can support this study at anchor.fm/allingospel, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ccwhitebear.com.

Elder Fred Smith on the "respectable sins" of ungodliness and worldliness.

James: Steadfast Life “nugzLn v|Lli6o hLjg”  James is supposedly the first epistle written (around AD 45-47). The Church was just being formed in Jerusalem. Christians were being persecuted. After the death of Stephen, churches were scattered across the region (Acts 11:19). Douglas Moo says, “James, [head of Jerusalem church] addresses a pastoral admonition to these believers from his home church who had been scattered abroad because of persecution.” So the audience at large (the twelve tribes scattered among the nations”  v1) lived lives as “refugees”.  The scattered churches were struggling against the pressures from the society and culture “worldliness” around them. They were suffering from trials and temptations that refugees would face in a foreign land without inherent identity, rights and liberty.  Worldliness is our problem as well. In a world where we live, we are pulled from every side, by the media, by society and neighbors around us, they speak volumes about what we should pursue, what is desirable, and how we should live our lives. Worldliness is right around us all the time, pulling us in different directions. Unless we choose to shut our eyes, seek God and his life for us, we'll easily buy into those values and voices of the “vision of good life”.  James, being the brother of Jesus, and having seen and heard, lived with Jesus and weighed his teaching against his own life and society around, he's a believer in what he's teaching as a reliable witness.  This series will help us study every section of the book of James, drawing parallels to our lives, and drawing lessons on how we must learn to stand firm and steadfast amidst circumstances we face in our life from the world surrounding us.

James: Steadfast Life “nugzLn v|Lli6o hLjg”  James is supposedly the first epistle written (around AD 45-47). The Church was just being formed in Jerusalem. Christians were being persecuted. After the death of Stephen, churches were scattered across the region (Acts 11:19). Douglas Moo says, “James, [head of Jerusalem church] addresses a pastoral admonition to these believers from his home church who had been scattered abroad because of persecution.” So the audience at large (the twelve tribes scattered among the nations”  v1) lived lives as “refugees”.  The scattered churches were struggling against the pressures from the society and culture “worldliness” around them. They were suffering from trials and temptations that refugees would face in a foreign land without inherent identity, rights and liberty.  Worldliness is our problem as well. In a world where we live, we are pulled from every side, by the media, by society and neighbors around us, they speak volumes about what we should pursue, what is desirable, and how we should live our lives. Worldliness is right around us all the time, pulling us in different directions. Unless we choose to shut our eyes, seek God and his life for us, we'll easily buy into those values and voices of the “vision of good life”.  James, being the brother of Jesus, and having seen and heard, lived with Jesus and weighed his teaching against his own life and society around, he's a believer in what he's teaching as a reliable witness.  This series will help us study every section of the book of James, drawing parallels to our lives, and drawing lessons on how we must learn to stand firm and steadfast amidst circumstances we face in our life from the world surrounding us.

James: Steadfast Life “nugzLn v|Lli6o hLjg”  James is supposedly the first epistle written (around AD 45-47). The Church was just being formed in Jerusalem. Christians were being persecuted. After the death of Stephen, churches were scattered across the region (Acts 11:19). Douglas Moo says, “James, [head of Jerusalem church] addresses a pastoral admonition to these believers from his home church who had been scattered abroad because of persecution.” So the audience at large (the twelve tribes scattered among the nations”  v1) lived lives as “refugees”.  The scattered churches were struggling against the pressures from the society and culture “worldliness” around them. They were suffering from trials and temptations that refugees would face in a foreign land without inherent identity, rights and liberty.  Worldliness is our problem as well. In a world where we live, we are pulled from every side, by the media, by society and neighbors around us, they speak volumes about what we should pursue, what is desirable, and how we should live our lives. Worldliness is right around us all the time, pulling us in different directions. Unless we choose to shut our eyes, seek God and his life for us, we'll easily buy into those values and voices of the “vision of good life”.  James, being the brother of Jesus, and having seen and heard, lived with Jesus and weighed his teaching against his own life and society around, he's a believer in what he's teaching as a reliable witness.  This series will help us study every section of the book of James, drawing parallels to our lives, and drawing lessons on how we must learn to stand firm and steadfast amidst circumstances we face in our life from the world surrounding us.

James: Steadfast Life “nugzLn v|Lli6o hLjg”  James is supposedly the first epistle written (around AD 45-47). The Church was just being formed in Jerusalem. Christians were being persecuted. After the death of Stephen, churches were scattered across the region (Acts 11:19). Douglas Moo says, “James, [head of Jerusalem church] addresses a pastoral admonition to these believers from his home church who had been scattered abroad because of persecution.” So the audience at large (the twelve tribes scattered among the nations”  v1) lived lives as “refugees”.  The scattered churches were struggling against the pressures from the society and culture “worldliness” around them. They were suffering from trials and temptations that refugees would face in a foreign land without inherent identity, rights and liberty.  Worldliness is our problem as well. In a world where we live, we are pulled from every side, by the media, by society and neighbors around us, they speak volumes about what we should pursue, what is desirable, and how we should live our lives. Worldliness is right around us all the time, pulling us in different directions. Unless we choose to shut our eyes, seek God and his life for us, we'll easily buy into those values and voices of the “vision of good life”.  James, being the brother of Jesus, and having seen and heard, lived with Jesus and weighed his teaching against his own life and society around, he's a believer in what he's teaching as a reliable witness.  This series will help us study every section of the book of James, drawing parallels to our lives, and drawing lessons on how we must learn to stand firm and steadfast amidst circumstances we face in our life from the world surrounding us.

Crystal Rivers | Kingdom Mysteries | Sep 24, 2025 The teaching presents a framework for understanding spiritual life through the lens of exclusive devotion to God, drawing heavily on biblical passages about worldliness and the priesthood of Melchizedek. The central premise is that believers exist in a state of spiritual warfare between two competing influences: the spirit of this world (characterized as Babylon) and the Holy Spirit. Worldliness is portrayed not merely as sinful behavior, but as a form of spiritual adultery - an intimate communion with forces opposed to God that creates enmity between the believer and the divine. This worldly influence is described as intoxicating, making believers "drunk" and "deranged" in ways that prevent them from receiving answers to prayer or experiencing God's power. The solution offered centers on the model of Melchizedek, presented as someone who mastered righteousness by completely separating from worldly influences and maintaining unbroken communion with God. This involves making binding spiritual "oaths" to God that formally end agreements with worldly spirits. The teaching suggests that believers must wage war against their own heritage and genetic predispositions toward sin through deliberate spiritual practices. Practical application focuses on creating an "ecosystem" of spiritual discipline through accountability partnerships, extended periods of prayer and fasting, careful curation of media consumption, and surrounding oneself with spiritually-minded community. The approach emphasizes building spiritual capacity gradually - starting with manageable disciplines and incrementally increasing intensity until deeper spiritual realities become accessible and desirable rather than burdensome. The framework positions regular Christian struggles not as normal human experience, but as evidence of ongoing spiritual adultery that must be aggressively confronted through sustained spiritual warfare and radical separation from worldly influences. Zoom every weekday : http://www.caveadullam.org/zoom

1 Peter 1:16, False Teaching and Worldliness

James: Steadfast Life “nugzLn v|Lli6o hLjg”  James is supposedly the first epistle written (around AD 45-47). The Church was just being formed in Jerusalem. Christians were being persecuted. After the death of Stephen, churches were scattered across the region (Acts 11:19). Douglas Moo says, “James, [head of Jerusalem church] addresses a pastoral admonition to these believers from his home church who had been scattered abroad because of persecution.” So the audience at large (the twelve tribes scattered among the nations”  v1) lived lives as “refugees”.  The scattered churches were struggling against the pressures from the society and culture “worldliness” around them. They were suffering from trials and temptations that refugees would face in a foreign land without inherent identity, rights and liberty.  Worldliness is our problem as well. In a world where we live, we are pulled from every side, by the media, by society and neighbors around us, they speak volumes about what we should pursue, what is desirable, and how we should live our lives. Worldliness is right around us all the time, pulling us in different directions. Unless we choose to shut our eyes, seek God and his life for us, we'll easily buy into those values and voices of the “vision of good life”.  James, being the brother of Jesus, and having seen and heard, lived with Jesus and weighed his teaching against his own life and society around, he's a believer in what he's teaching as a reliable witness.  This series will help us study every section of the book of James, drawing parallels to our lives, and drawing lessons on how we must learn to stand firm and steadfast amidst circumstances we face in our life from the world surrounding us.

Worldliness is not a matter of how much money you make or how many things you have. It's a matter of what your heart is actually in love with and what you are attached to. Pastor Ray Bentley points out, A heavenly perspective takes us to the bounty of God's blessings. The future is even better than what you've had up until now, and everything that God has blessed you with up until now has been merely preparation for the great blessings he has in store for you tomorrow.

James: Steadfast Life “nugzLn v|Lli6o hLjg”  James is supposedly the first epistle written (around AD 45-47). The Church was just being formed in Jerusalem. Christians were being persecuted. After the death of Stephen, churches were scattered across the region (Acts 11:19). Douglas Moo says, “James, [head of Jerusalem church] addresses a pastoral admonition to these believers from his home church who had been scattered abroad because of persecution.” So the audience at large (the twelve tribes scattered among the nations”  v1) lived lives as “refugees”.  The scattered churches were struggling against the pressures from the society and culture “worldliness” around them. They were suffering from trials and temptations that refugees would face in a foreign land without inherent identity, rights and liberty.  Worldliness is our problem as well. In a world where we live, we are pulled from every side, by the media, by society and neighbors around us, they speak volumes about what we should pursue, what is desirable, and how we should live our lives. Worldliness is right around us all the time, pulling us in different directions. Unless we choose to shut our eyes, seek God and his life for us, we'll easily buy into those values and voices of the “vision of good life”.  James, being the brother of Jesus, and having seen and heard, lived with Jesus and weighed his teaching against his own life and society around, he's a believer in what he's teaching as a reliable witness.  This series will help us study every section of the book of James, drawing parallels to our lives, and drawing lessons on how we must learn to stand firm and steadfast amidst circumstances we face in our life from the world surrounding us.

In this classic episode we define what we mean by extremism, its dangers and delights. Plus, what are those safe places of worldliness that have found a home in the church?

Text: Genesis 13:14-14:16   God Reaffirms His Promise to Abram (Gen. 13:14-18) God unfolds His grand promise to Abram to multiply his offspring and expand his people's dwelling place. Abram responds with a heart of worship before God.   Abram Rescues Lot and His Family from Captivity (Gen. 14:1-16) Lot's decision to walk by sight proves costly to him and his family. Lot and his family are taken captive by wicked, warring kings. Abram walks by faith in God, rescues Lot's family, and defeats the wicked kings in battle.

Today, Sonia and Noah are joined by Discipleship Pastor Robby Flack for a follow-up discussion on the respectable sin of worldliness, which Robby addressed this past Sunday. As a reminder, each week this summer, the team will interview the pastor or resident who preached the previous Sunday, diving deeper into the specific respectable sin and biblical text that he covered. This will be an excellent opportunity to identify and explore "hidden thorns" in your life, as we prepare to revisit HPC in the fall.Respectable Sins, by Jerry Bridges: https://amzn.to/44RQ4ATHow People Change, by Paul David Tripp and Timothy Lane: https://amzn.to/4dzOeGXIn case you missed it, please see below for links to the figures mentioned in previous episodes:Figure 6.1: https://bit.ly/42jsR7vFigure 6.2: https://bit.ly/3Ee1d3TFigure 6.3: https://bit.ly/3G0fnq4X-Ray Questions: https://bit.ly/4jg216Q

Genesis 13:1-13   Abram Renews His Faith in God (Gen. 13:1-4) Abram returned to Bethel and prepared an altar of worship before God. Abram surrendered himself to God and renewed his walk of faith before Him.   Lot Reveals His Pursuit of Worldliness (Gen. 13:5-13) Abram and Lot's material wealth led to familial conflict. Abram walks by faith in God's promises and chooses a path of faithfulness to God. Lot walks by sight and chooses a path of worldliness and self-advancement.

Title: Worldliness - Revelation 18:1-19:5 Preacher: Mark Dever Series: What Will Finally Happen? Passage: Revelation 18:1-19:5

Series: 1 John: That You May KnowPreacher: Pastor Anson McMahonThis sermon from 1 John 2:15-17 provides a crucial examination of the Christian's relationship with the world. Anson powerfully unpacks the seemingly paradoxical command to "not love the world," carefully distinguishing this from a hatred of people or creation. Instead, he illuminates "the world" as a Satan-influenced system of values and desires that stand in opposition to God. Through a detailed exploration of the "devil's trinity" – the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life – the sermon reveals the core temptations that lure believers away from a life devoted to God. Ultimately, it contrasts the fleeting nature of worldly satisfaction with the eternal significance of loving and obeying God, urging listeners to choose a path of lasting value.Key Points:The Command Against Worldly Love: An explanation of 1 John 2:15 and the call for believers to resist loving the world and its allurements.Defining "The World" Biblically: Clarification that "the world" in this context refers to a system of values opposed to God, not people or the created order.The "Devil's Trinity" of Worldly Temptations:The Desires of the Flesh (Lust of the Flesh): The pursuit of immediate, sensory gratification that disregards God's will.The Desires of the Eyes (Lust of the Eyes): The temptation towards materialism and coveting based on visual appeal and societal trends.The Pride of Life: The arrogant self-sufficiency that rejects dependence on God and seeks validation through worldly success.The Transitory Nature of Worldly Pleasures: An emphasis on the temporary and ultimately unsatisfying nature of sin and worldly pursuits compared to eternal joy in God.Choosing a Love with Eternal Significance: A strong encouragement to prioritize loving and obeying God, investing in what has lasting value beyond the fleeting nature of the world.Reflect & Discuss:In what specific ways do you see the "desires of the flesh," "desires of the eyes," and "pride of life" manifesting in our culture today?How can believers practically distinguish between enjoying God's creation and loving the world's system?What are some areas in your own life where you might be tempted to love the world or the things in the world more than God?How does understanding the temporary nature of the world impact your priorities and decisions as a Christian?Discuss practical steps you can take to cultivate a greater love for God and resist the allure of the world.Scripture:1 John 2:15-17Genesis 3:62 Samuel 11:2-4Joshua 7:20-21Proverbs 27:201 Timothy 6:9-10John 12:42-432 Timothy 3:2-4John 3:16Psalm 24:1Genesis 2:9James 1:14-15Proverbs 14:12Hebrews 11:25Matthew 16:26John 15:18-191 John 5:19Colossians 3:2Philippians 3:20Keywords:Love, World, Worldliness, Desires of the Flesh, Lust of the Flesh, Desires of the Eyes, Lust of the Eyes, Pride of Life, Temptation, Sin, Eternal Life, Temporary, Values, Culture, God, Obedience, Discipleship.

We often ignore flaws in our body until they demand attention, but flaws in the soul are even harder to see—the deeper the damage, the less aware we are of it.Today's episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss' Audio. Get the free PDF at tim.blog/senecaListen to other letters from Seneca:Seneca on Despising DeathSeneca on Conquering the ConquerorSeneca on Philosophy and FriendshipSeneca on Practicing What You PreachSeneca on The Reasons For Withdrawing From The World Seneca on Master and SlaveSeneca on Worldliness and Retirement

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In this letter, Seneca talks about intentionally pulling back from societal pressures to find real fulfillment and contentment. He talks about living a life away from the spotlight, but also recognizes that our past achievements can't be erased.Today's episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss' Audio. Get the free PDF at tim.blog/seneca