Do you have true peace in every circumstance and trouble and issue in your life? You can! As believers, Paul reminds us that we have a peace (God's shalom) that surpasses all understanding available in Christ that will guard our inner life. In this episode, Nathan talks about this incredible peace and what it means to find it amidst your troubles. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, article...
Jun 05, 2024•10 min•Ep. 326
Corrie ten Boom often said, "Beware the barrenness of a busy life." And if you've ever gone through a full season, you know the difficulty to be intentional in your spiritual life. But what if every season of life was used to press you all the more to Christ Jesus. That every situation and circumstance would deepen your love, intimacy, and trust in Christ. In this episode, Nathan talks about what it means to allow Christ to crowd (press) us ever more unto Himself. ----------------- » Join the D...
May 29, 2024•12 min•Ep. 325
As Christians, we often wait to hear what God tells us to do through His Word, and then decide if we want to obey or not. Yet, we as believers, are called to have a pre-decided yes and have a readiness to respond to anything God asks us, no matter what it is or the cost and inconvenience to our lives. In this episode, Nathan talks about the proper posture of our souls and a special Hebrew word that conveys our needed response to God. » Learn more about the upcoming Bible Study Tour with Nathan -...
May 08, 2024•19 min•Ep. 324
In this episode, Nathan invites you to join him and Stephen Manley at an upcoming conference this June. He also plays a short excerpt about what it means to be obsessed with God. » Learn more about Stephen Manley's Training Camp this June ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, articles, podcasts, and resources from Nathan and Deeper Christian from the week to help you grow spiritually. -------...
May 01, 2024•11 min•Ep. 323
All four Gospels declare the “good news” of Jesus Christ, but John’s account (written years after the other three) is seemingly more personal, relational, and filled with the richness of intimacy. In this episode, Nathan gives an overview and talks about the person, poetry, and passion of John’s Gospel. » Listen to the other book of the Bible overviews on the NRJohnson Sermon Podcast ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, w...
Apr 24, 2024•56 min•Ep. 322
The beauty of the Christian life is that we live in what scholars often call the “now and not yet.” In other words, while we have salvation and redemption NOW, there is also a waiting and longing for our future (completed) salvation and redemption. Throughout Scripture, salvation is used in all three tenses: we were saved (past), are being saved (present), and will be saved (future). In this episode, Nathan talks about the three tenses of our salvation and how we can find the beauty and profundi...
Apr 18, 2024•17 min•Ep. 321
Due to the continued conflict in Israel, we switched our November study tour to an Early Church Bible Study Tour in Turkey ("Asia Minor"). Consider joining me this November in a study tour in Ephesus, Colossae, Laodicea, and many other New Testament locations. » Learn more about the upcoming Bible Study Tour ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, articles, podcasts, and resources from Nathan a...
Apr 10, 2024•5 min•Ep. 320
Many Christians know that memorizing the Bible is helpful and important, but few of us do it. In this episode, Nathan talks about a few benefits of memorizing God's Word and gives some encouragement on how to get started. Also, check out Nathan's new book 30 Day Adventure to Know Jesus More! ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, articles, podcasts, and resources from Nathan and Deeper Christi...
Mar 27, 2024•20 min•Ep. 319
Joshua 1:8 commands us “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night , that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Biblical meditation is drastically different from New Age meditation. In biblical meditation, we are to fill up, ponder, consider, and think upon God's Word, His works, His life, the Cross, and the Gospel. In short, we should c...
Mar 20, 2024•17 min•Ep. 318
There is a two-fold reality and position in every believer's life—we are IN Christ and He is IN us. And this changes everything. In this episode, Nathan discusses the two positions of a Christian's life and how that relates to being a new creature in Christ Jesus and clothed with His garment of salvation and righteousness. Check out Nathan's new book 30 Day Adventure to Know Jesus More! ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday...
Feb 28, 2024•16 min•Ep. 317
The Christian life is supposed to grow, deepen, and mature in Christ over time. Yet, far too many believers have stalled in their spiritual lives and are unsure how to progress forward. In this replay of a webinar Nathan gave, he discusses five specific ways to grow spiritually and how you can thrive in Christ Jesus in this season of your life. Download the webinar notes Ellerslie Online – a “go at your own pace” online discipleship program that is available for a donation of any amount (...
Feb 07, 2024•47 min•Ep. 316
Discipleship is not something we accomplish and then move on to the next thing; rather, biblical discipleship is a lifelong pursuit of Christ, growing in our understanding and relationship with Him, and being conformed to His image. The concept of discipleship is akin to an apprentice that takes on not just the knowledge but the lifestyle of the one to whom they are following – in our case, God Himself. We are to become Christlike … not through self-effort or talent, but th...
Jan 31, 2024•17 min•Ep. 315
I've been reading through Leonard Ravenhill's biography ( In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill by Mack Tomlinson) and have been deeply stirred by the life Ravenhill lived and the passion he had for prayer and revival. In this episode, I give several quotes from the book about Leonard's passion for prayer and examine what it means for us to be men and women of prayer in the days in which we live. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Di...
Jan 17, 2024•18 min•Ep. 314
Many Christians start a Bible reading plan at the first of the year … but we often miss one important thing while reading the Bible. In this episode, Nathan gives a fresh reminder on the one thing we should be most aware of as we read through Scripture this year. Don't have a Bible reading plan? Here are some helps to get started: 5 Creative Ways to Read the Bible This Year That WON’T Be Boring Why This Is The Best Time To Start A Bible Reading Plan How to craft a plan to read the Bible 10...
Jan 10, 2024•16 min•Ep. 313
Happy New Year! Being a new year, many of us are writing down our resolutions and dreams for this year. Yet, as Christians, we need to rethink resolutions and goal setting and consider if there is a better way. In this special New Year’s edition of the Deeper Christian Podcast, my good friend Dan McConnaughey talks about new year resolutions and how we can resolve to live as Christians this year. *This is a reprise of episode 141 from December 2019. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Chri...
Jan 03, 2024•23 min•Ep. 312
How can Christians live with continual peace, joy, and calm? How can we as believers NOT be anxious or worried about anything? Paul reminds us in Philippians 4:6 that there is no reason for worry, fear, or anxiety and instead commands Christians to be “anxious for nothing.” And Paul isn't the only one—hundreds of passages throughout Scripture exhort us not to fear, worry, be anxious, forebode, fret, or panic. More than a reminder not to fear, Paul also gives us the secret to live without fear. *...
Dec 27, 2023•19 min•Ep. 311
When the angels appeared to the shepherds, they declared that a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger was a "sign." This sign was a declaration of what Jesus was going to do (and be) at the Cross. In this episode, we talk about Luke 2 and the marvelous sign of Christmas. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, articles, podcasts, and resources from Nathan and Deeper Christian ...
Dec 20, 2023•12 min•Ep. 310
The Christmas season is a wonderful reminder of how undeserving we are that the God of the universe came to dwell among and within us. The picture of Jesus born in a stable is one of my favorite meditations during Christmas. Just as He was willing to be born in a place of muck and mire, so too, He is willing to come within the muck and sin of my life. But the profundity of the Gospel is that while He is willing to be born in a stable known as humanity, He refuses to leave us that way. We are to ...
Dec 13, 2023•13 min•Ep. 309
While Jesus does give us life (eternal life!), the beautiful reality of Scripture is that the life He gives is not "something" but Himself. He is our life , as Paul declares in Colossians 3:4 …and John goes on to write that we are to live through Him (1 John 4:9). In this episode, we talk about what it means for Jesus to not merely give us life, but to be our life. I also mention a new series that has launched "Life in the Word" on the Daily Thunder Podcast as I walk through a study on our ...
Dec 06, 2023•13 min•Ep. 308
God gave Himself for us to showcase His marvelous redemption in our lives. He bought us out of captivity to sin and darkness and has purified us for Himself. And just as God is our inheritance so too we have become His. In this study, we examine God’s grand redemption which Paul wrote about in Titus 2:14 and we discover that God wants to use us to showcase His life, love, and Gospel to the world around us … He wants to work the “poetry” of the Gospel through our lives and use us to once again be...
Nov 29, 2023•23 min•Ep. 307
Scripture makes it abundantly clear that the attitude, mindset, and language of a Christian is to be marked by thanksgiving. While we as a culture may celebrate a day of thanksgiving once a year, the life of a believer is always marked by it. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, articles, podcasts, and resources from Nathan and Deeper Christian from the week to help you grow spiritually. ---...
Nov 22, 2023•20 min•Ep. 306
Jesus Christ is returning soon. While we patiently await His return, how are we supposed to live now? In this fourth study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how to "look for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ" and give nine biblical ways we can practically “hope” and have an eager expectancy for the Lord's Return. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all...
Nov 15, 2023•24 min•Ep. 305
Christians have been radically transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. We are brand new creatures in Christ who are now to live completely different than the world around us. And the amazing reality of the Gospel is that God’s grace, through His Holy Spirit, enables us to live as we ought – even in the present day in which we live. In this third study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how God’s grace is training, disciplining, and enabling us to walk as genuine Christians – with self-co...
Nov 08, 2023•18 min•Ep. 304
For Christians, it is far too easy to live, think, and talk like the world around us—yet Paul tell us those are the things we are to deny and reject. As Christians, we are called to live set apart and different than the world around us. In this second study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how God's grace is training, disciplining, and enabling us to reject ungodliness and worldly desires and now genuinely live as Christians. We have been born again and we are brand new creations in Christ Jesus...
Nov 01, 2023•17 min•Ep. 303
When we truly understand the depth and richness of God's grace, it no longer becomes a cliché to call it "amazing." In part one of a new series examining Titus 2:11–15, we talk about the missing aspects of God's manifold grace and specifically discuss three things Paul tells us about God's grace in Titus 2. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest each Saturday, which includes all the quotes, articles, podcasts, and resources from Nathan an...
Oct 25, 2023•15 min•Ep. 302
With all that is going on in Israel the past two weeks, here are seven key ways we can pray: 1. Pray for peace Psalm 122:6 reminds us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem 2. Pray for protection 3. Pray for comfort 4. Pray for the furtherance of Gospel 5. Pray for the repentance of the terrorists 6. Pray for hostages Click here to get a list of the names of the hostages that we know of so far 7. Pray for leadership and wisdom ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the&n...
Oct 18, 2023•7 min•Ep. 301
For many believers, we have become distracted from what Paul calls the "simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:3). In short, we are too easily preoccupied with everything but Jesus … even if it is good and godly things. As we celebrate our 300th episode, we talk about the single most important thing—the truth that Jesus is all and He is to preeminent and first place in our lives. ----------------- » Join the Deeper Christian community and receive the Deeper Digest &n...
Oct 04, 2023•16 min•Ep. 300
As Christians, we are called to be image bearers of the Living God — we are to showcase His life to the world. In short, we are to bear His Name well. In Scripture, there are two critical passages concerning what it means to bear God's name—the Ten Commandments and the command to not take God’s Name in vain, and Jesus’ model prayer to “hallow” the Name of God. In this episode, we listen to a portion of the final study in my "Behold Our God" series, looking at the majesty and loveliness of Christ...
Sep 27, 2023•39 min•Ep. 299
Leonard Ravenhill once said, "As long as we are content to live without revival, we will." And Ravenhill was not content to live without it, so he exhorted the Church to prayer. He once said, "The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known." This same passion and earnestness was seen in J. Edwin Orr, a preacher who was earnest for revival and prayer. In this episode, we listen to a powerful message Orr preached on the role a...
Sep 06, 2023•29 min•Ep. 298
In our day, it is seemingly difficult to risk everything for the glory and Gospel of Jesus Christ. We hold back. We shy away. We desire to live "all out" for Jesus but it tends to be all about ourselves rather than all about Him. Henry Varley once said, “The world has yet to see what God can do through a man who is totally yielded to Him.” Those words captivated D.L. Moody and he declared, “By the Grace of God, I will be that man!” Yet I strongly believe that the world has STILL yet to see what ...
Aug 30, 2023•22 min•Ep. 297
