7 - Steps to Take
Pastor Steve offers practical steps to help depression like worshipping often, watching nutrition and sleep, and quitting the masking of symptoms with caffeine, sugar and pain relievers.
Jan 09, 2023•34 min•Ep. 190
Life Lessons with Dr. Steve Schell
Pastor Steve Schell comprehensively teaches through entire books of the Bible pulling out the deep, eternal truths in each section of Scripture without skipping over challenging passages. These sermons will help foster true discipleship for the committed Christian, both young and old.
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6 - Soul Ties
A lot of healing from depression comes from healing in the soul. Pastor Steve discusses soul ties, a term that describes an inappropriate bond to another person at the emotional, psychological level.
Jan 05, 2023•29 min•Ep. 189
5 - Caring For Yourself
There is a complexity to someone being healed of depression. And all the problems with depression are not spiritually based. Since a person is made up of body, soul and spirit, the solution can be a lot of different things. Pastor Steve explains some different ways the Lord has directed people to deal with depression and gives some very practical ways to help their depression lift.
Jan 02, 2023•40 min•Ep. 188
3 - Expectations
Until the soul is healed, until the issues are attended to, a depressed person is still prone to depression. Pastor Steve shares his own experience with depression and how God healed him, and explains that God can indeed heal a person of depression.
Dec 29, 2022•35 min•Ep. 186
2 - An Overview
In addition to sharing his own experience with depression, in this series Pastor Steve offers some godly counsel and practical advice on understanding and overcoming depression.
Dec 26, 2022•22 min•Ep. 185
1 - Four Square Convention
In addition to sharing his own experience with depression, in this series Pastor Steve offers some godly counsel and practical advice on understanding and overcoming depression.
Dec 22, 2022•21 min•Ep. 184
113 - The Coming Kingdom
Over and over again the Bible presents us with snapshots of the world as it will look when the Messiah comes to establish the kingdom of God on earth. But until then, the world we live in is a badly damaged version of the one in which God intended us to live, but it has become so familiar to us that we forget it isn't normal. In fact, compared to what God originally designed, it's very subnormal. And we humans aren't functioning anywhere near the capacity God intended for us. Everything and ever...
Dec 19, 2022•56 min•Ep. 183
112 - Watching and Waiting
I’ve lived through seasons in which people were absolutely sure that Jesus was coming back any day. It was very exciting and, for some, particularly the young, very disturbing. Any thought of planning for the future went out the window because, after all, what was the use? The end of history, as we knew it, was at hand. It stirred evangelism and put the fear of God in some whose moral life had declined. No one wanted to be caught in a bad situation when Jesus returned. I’ve also lived through se...
Dec 15, 2022•55 min•Ep. 182
111 - Is God Fair
No two people are alike. God designed us that way. He loves variety. There aren’t two snowflakes, or blades of grass, or grains of sand that are alike. No two people have the same fingerprints, let alone the same personality. Everything about us is different, including the path He has planned for our lives. But those differences have nothing to do with favoritism. Everything God does, which is not the same as everything that happens, is just and fair, and flows out of His perfect love. He has de...
Dec 12, 2022•51 min•Ep. 181
4 - Walking In Faith
Some of us may think, "If I didn't have drive, ambition and fear motivating me, I'd do nothing." That's absolutely false. We trade in these attitudes to the Lord for something else: faith. We no longer walk by ambitions, drives and inner fears. We begin to walk in faith. As we walk with God and in His power, we will accomplish things far beyond what we are even capable of accomplishing. We will do the impossible. Faith will open up our life and expand it like nothing else.
Dec 08, 2022•34 min•Ep. 187
110 - Healing Painful Memories
Many of us are plagued with a memory of something we did in the past which we can’t seem to get out of our minds. Even though we may have confessed it to the Lord and are confident He has forgiven us, the memory of that event still lingers and every so often rushes back into our thoughts to torment us. For some reason we have not been able to free ourselves from it. It still influences our thinking, our decision-making, or the way we view ourselves. If we’ve let others know that we are strugglin...
Dec 08, 2022•59 min•Ep. 180
109 - He Will Come
When we say “yes!” to Jesus, He enlists us into His mission of saving, healing and loving people, and that can be hard, dangerous, tiring work. It can wear us out. But as we watch Jesus serve breakfast to a group of hungry disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee we learn something very important about our Lord. He is not indifferent to our sufferings. He is not passive or thankless. He knows when we grow hungry, weary, lonely or afraid, and He will come to comfort us. He will show us His lo...
Dec 05, 2022•53 min•Ep. 179
108 - Breakfast In Galilee
It’s impossible to do what our Lord asks us to do unless He provides for us. His miracle of provision must undergird every form of ministry no matter how large or small. You may have heard the saying, “Where God guides He provides,” but the fact is, where God guides He must provide because if He doesn’t we won’t be able to do what He asks us to do or go where He sends us. When Jesus calls a person to follow Him it is always inconvenient, and it’s always too expensive. We will always need His hel...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 178
107 - What Faith Sees
Faith, by its nature, involves risk. That’s what makes it faith. I’m committing myself to something I can’t prove. I’m believing that something exists which hasn’t arrived. I’m seeing something with spiritual eyes that I haven’t seen yet with my physical eyes. And if that faith is going to last until the promise is fulfilled, I must make a long-term commitment to that decision because no faith goes untested. I must press past obstacles and nurture my faith so that it will endure over time. Some ...
Nov 28, 2022•52 min•Ep. 177
106 - Sunday Evening
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was not the end of His ministry; it was the end of a chapter. One stage of His assignment was now complete, and it was time for the next stage to begin. So when He appeared to His disciples on that Sunday evening, Jesus had much more in mind than simply convincing them that He was alive. He walked through those locked doors to announce the beginning of a new chapter in God’s great plan of salvation. He had fulfilled His earthly part of that plan, and now it was t...
Nov 24, 2022•56 min•Ep. 176
105 - Why Do We Weep
As Mary stood outside the tomb weeping it had already started. The miracle had begun. The first child had been born into the huge eternal family that the Father had always desired. The devil had tried to stop it, and for a time it appeared he had succeeded. He tempted the human creatures to sin and they did, and their sin would surely hold them in the grave. But now one had escaped. He had been sinless, so death couldn’t hold Him in its grip, and when He arose a secret was revealed. Before anyth...
Nov 21, 2022•54 min•Ep. 175
104 - The Empty Tomb
The disciples’ response to the empty tomb proves how little they understood about the most essential truths that Jesus had taught them. What He said was so different from what they had been taught as children, His words only confused and frightened them. He repeatedly told them He must suffer, die, be buried, and rise again on the third day, yet not one of His disciples responded with even the slightest trace of expectation. They simply didn’t believe He would physically rise from the dead until...
Nov 17, 2022•50 min•Ep. 174
103 - God’s Hidden Wisdom
Before God created the universe; before He breathed life into a human being; before the first man or woman rebelled against Him bringing death upon themselves and their descendants, there was already, hidden in God’s heart a plan to save us. He knew what we would do before we did it, and He knew what He must do in order to rescue us. But He didn’t tell anyone else exactly how He would accomplish His plan; not the angels, nor even the prophets to whom He dictated great portions of that plan. List...
Nov 14, 2022•57 min•Ep. 173
102 - Fully Convinced
To someone who didn’t know the Bible well, what happened to Jesus that afternoon would have seemed to be nothing more than a tragic series of events. That person would have seen only an innocent man being badly mistreated. But if someone did know the Scriptures, he or she would have been shocked as they watched key prophecies being fulfilled in front of their eyes, especially the way Jesus’ body was treated after He died. Certain things were done to Him by people who had no idea of the spiritual...
Nov 10, 2022•51 min•Ep. 172
101 - What John Saw
Even though Jesus was crucified like a common criminal, if someone knew what to look for there were signs all through that terrible event that pointed to the truth about Him. John alone among the eleven disciples was present at Jesus’ side while He was dying on the cross, so he personally saw and heard the events he reports. He also had the spiritual capacity to recognize those signs in the midst of all that horror. He knew that God was still bearing witness to His Son. As Jesus was dying, the o...
Nov 07, 2022•58 min•Ep. 171
100 - The Courage to Lead
Pilate knew Jesus was innocent. He said so many times. And yet, in the end, the Roman governor sentenced an innocent man to death. Why? What was it that changed his mind? No new evidence was produced. Nothing Jesus said created suspicion. In fact, as the trial progressed Pilate discovered the truth: Jesus was there because the religious leaders were jealous of His influence. He could see for himself that God was with this Rabbi from Nazareth. That’s why huge crowds were following Him everywhere ...
Nov 03, 2022•44 min•Ep. 170
99 - The Right Question
People ask questions for different reasons. One person might ask a question as a way of attacking an opponent in a debate. That question is meant to confuse their opponent or expose their lack of understanding. Another person might ask a question because they genuinely want to know the answer. But there is also a third reason people ask questions. Someone might ask a question in order to help someone else discover the answer for themselves. At the right time the right question can lead someone i...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 169
98 - Escaping the Trap
When we read the account of what happened to Jesus after He was arrested, we encounter an element that is very hard to explain. It’s the furious hatred some people felt toward Jesus. They hated Him with a ferocity that is just not reasonable. After all, He was a good man, the kind mothers want to have bless their babies. He wasn’t a violent criminal or a thief. He was a rabbi who taught in the synagogues and courts of the temple. He didn’t do things in secret. Anyone could come and watch and lis...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 168
97 - Failed Resolutions
There comes a time in most people’s life when they discover how weak they are. How soon that happens varies from person to person. Some learn the lesson when they are very young, others not until much later. Some discover it by a series of small events, others only after a massive failure. Some easily admit their weakness and seek help, others are deeply ashamed of their weakness and try to hide it. But the fact remains that all of us encounter temptations and situations which have the power to ...
Oct 24, 2022•56 min•Ep. 167
96 - The Cup of Suffering
Unfortunately, it’s not possible to rescue people out of the darkness of this fallen world without suffering. Forces that hold people down won’t let them go without a battle, and people are wounded, and even die in battles. Which explains why suffering is necessary. But not all forms of suffering have the power to rescue people, only a certain kind. Most have no redemptive power at all, they are just the tragic fruit of our own wrong choices or of living in this sinful and broken world. Yet ther...
Oct 20, 2022•47 min•Ep. 166
95 - Our Greatest Gift
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. I suspect the Magi, the wise men who came from the east, may be the inspiration behind it. They brought gifts to Jesus fit for a king while He was still a very small child in Bethlehem. They gave Him gold, frankincense and myrrh because they believed He was Israel’s promised Messiah who would bring God’s kingdom to earth. On December 25th many of us will give gifts to one another as a way of celebrating Jesus’ birthday. I’m not sure how that tradition of givin...
Oct 17, 2022•46 min•Ep. 165
94 - Filled With His Joy
Possessions don’t bring joy. They break, get stolen, or we grow bored with them. Pleasure doesn’t bring joy. The more we seek it, the less we find. Entertainment doesn’t bring joy. Much of it leaves us feeling violated or sad. Trying to isolate ourselves from people or problems doesn’t bring joy. The more time we spend alone the more angry we become. We end up thinking far too much. So when Jesus prayed that we would be full of His joy, He was asking the Father to give us a source of joy that is...
Oct 13, 2022•51 min•Ep. 164
93 - Thankful For Truth
Do we realize what a treasure we hold in our hands when we open a Bible? The very words of God were written down and preserved for thousands of years so that, today, we can hear them afresh and believe. Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible during Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, probably between 1446 B.C. and 1406 B.C. His writings and then those of all the others who wrote the books that are included in the Old Testament, were written over a period of a thousand years. During all those cent...
Oct 10, 2022•57 min•Ep. 163
92 - His Deepest Desire
What would you pray for if you knew you were going to be executed tomorrow morning? A legion of angels? The rapture? A good lawyer? I think most of us would be fervently pleading for a miraculous change of circumstance, which is what makes Jesus’ prayer that evening so amazing. He didn’t ask to be rescued at all. He quickly acknowledged that the time had come for Him to die, but then began to pray that God would give Him the deepest desire in His heart. This is what He said, “Father, the hour ha...
Oct 06, 2022•55 min•Ep. 162
91 - Faith Under Pressure
Jesus’ disciples keep surprising us. You would think that by the final evening prior to His arrest they would have developed a strong, unshakable faith. After all, they had been watching Him minister and listening to Him teach for the past two and a half years. What greater miracle did He need to perform, or how much clearer could He be in telling them who He was and why He’d come? They had seen things no human eye had seen in all of history. And yet, as Jesus’ ministry on earth was drawing to a...
Oct 03, 2022•53 min•Ep. 161
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