Hermeneutics is the art and science of scriptural interpretation. In my years of ministry, I have discovered that most people do not even realize there are differing schools of biblical interpretation, let alone understand them. In this study I will attempt to educate you on today’s major hermeneutical schools and help you gain a rudimentary understanding of each. After all, how you interpret Scripture shapes your worldview. For public servants, worldview is crucial because it informs the constr...
Dec 29, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Paul’s practice pertaining to this question led to at least one political leader’s coming to Christ (Acts 17:34)!
Dec 22, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Christmas is a time you can build your family culture: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord , says Joshua in Joshua 24:15.
Dec 14, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Are you spending, wasting, or investing your life? Are you having the maximum impact on the maximum number of people for all of eternity? Answering these huge, sobering questions with integrity requires solitude, introspection, prayer, and sobriety. Gather your courage and immerse yourself into these passages. How will you adjust or refine your life’s direction as a result of digesting what follows?
Dec 07, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 33
"Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Choose the right guides in life. Here's how...
Nov 30, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 32
If the trajectory of our country is going to change, it must begin with our hearts. We must first steward our own hearts and the hearts of our families before speaking about changing the direction of our country. May God use the following thoughts to aid in crafting a special, constructive day centered in our love for Jesus. Let us give thanks for all He has done for us!
Nov 23, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 31
You can't expect someone who rejects the author of Scripture to accept the precepts of His book. The greatest need—new life in Christ!
Nov 16, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Contemplate the sobriety of King Solomon and what he has to say about a sense of normal living — one that garners blessing, spiritual, mental and physical health, and meaningful relationships.
Nov 09, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Only when there is a cost to our faith—when God allows us to be tested—do we learn our true level of spiritual maturity, our level of faithfulness.
Nov 02, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Before we step into the voting booth, let's consider the Book of Proverbs—specifically Solomon's advice to his son, Rehaboam.
Oct 26, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 27
How do you respond to tribulation in your personal life? Does Scripture inform your mind and emotions when you are faced with seeming setbacks? Is your mind permeated with Scripture so as to be able to combat the fleshly responses of our inner person? This week I would like to explore one particular passage in the book of Ephesians that can greatly aid you when you are faced with trials and tribulation.
Oct 19, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Herein are the explicit details related to your assurance that you are at peace with God. The book of Romans provides a precise, progressive outline of God’s plumb line relative as to how a person is saved. Once digested, they are also profoundly illuminating! The writer of Hebrews put it this way: so great a salvation! (2:3).
Oct 12, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 25
What does it mean to pray effectively? The Bible provides the answer.
Oct 06, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Who is qualified from a biblical perspective to be in leadership in God’s institution of the State?
Sep 28, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Coach Wooden’s teams routinely achieved the highest pinnacles of success, in part, I believe, because of our attitudinal consistency. May I suggest that learning to control your thinking—and the emotions that stem from your thinking–will greatly benefit you too.
Sep 21, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 22
The November elections are quickly approaching, and everyone on the Hill has skin in the game which means emotions are running high. It’s so easy to express love and hate in a wrong way—especially in the context of an election. What do the Scriptures say you should love and hate?
Sep 14, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Justice, blamelessness (not sinlessness), prayer, wisdom: let’s take a deep dive into how we can delight God.
Sep 11, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Listen as we talk through the importance of weekly discipleship Bible studies with local political leaders across the nation. We look at issues they deal with continually, through the lens of Scripture. We aid them in their personal growth, mature them in their faith, and help them go forward with confidence, knowing they were called to their positions. Do you sense God’s call to evangelize and disciple your local leaders? Learn more at capmin.org/local ....
Aug 10, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Dr. Dan DeShong, CapMin's Local Government global director, taught our very first Bible study to local leaders. He talks with Ralph and Frank about the impact that knowing more about the Bible has had on his city and county office holders. Political leaders desperately need to be grounded in God’s Word and yet they are one of the most neglected mission fields when it comes to evangelism and discipleship. For more than 25 years Capitol Ministries has planted discipleship Bible study ministries fo...
Aug 03, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 18
"If you have this habit of letting the Word of Christ richly dwell within you on a daily basis, you will find the empowerment of the Holy Spirit is going to eclipse your proclivities to sin just because you’re so filled with that force that is already positionally implanted in you when you bowed the knee and came to Christ."
Jul 27, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Proverbs has much to say about being a good steward of your heart. May we make time to take inventory and survey our hearts, motives, passions, pursuits, and future desires.
Jul 20, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 16
It stands to reason that spiritual leaders who minister to our government leaders are critically important to the health of the nation.
Jul 13, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Paul states in the opening portions of 1 Corinthians 13, without love I am nothing . What then are the defining aspects of love that both you and I need to be continually working on and growing in?
Jul 06, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 14
One of the most profound character qualities a man or woman in office can possess is truthfulness –even when it affects him or her negatively. Truth is the bulwark of personal integrity.
Jun 29, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In the same-sex marriage debate, there is increasing reluctance by believers to mention the book of Leviticus. In this study, I will attempt not only to familiarize you with this book, but also explain how it impacts the debate.
Jun 22, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 12
When America denigrates God’s ordained institution of husband-wife marriage, our nation loses one of His primary means of heralding His nature to our country.
Jun 15, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 11
The book of Joshua provides God’s example of leadership under fire!
Jun 08, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 10
What does the highest authority in the universe have to say about this matter—that authority being God Almighty as revealed in His Word?
Jun 01, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 9
If you don't see the world through the lens of Scripture, then you're headed for a downfall. Let's take the Truth of the Gospel to public servants: “Right actions begin with right thinking. Right thinking begins with thinking right about God.” Listen as Ralph talks through the following questions: How do you explain the dual nature of man? Does sin infect and affect more than just the person? Does sin infect and affect the whole world?...
May 28, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Appropriate, edifying, delicate, gracious—Let’s look at Ephesians 4:29 and learn what God has to say to us in regard to our speech patterns.
May 18, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 7
