Matthew 16:13–18 (NASB95) says "Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Jesus' disciples watched Him turn water into wine, heal people from blindness, lameness, and disease. They were eyewitnesses to the miracles He performed. The Bible is an...
Jun 29, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Jesus tells Nicodemus in John 3:1-7 that "unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus doesn't understand, because he is thinking in fleshly terms. "How can a man return to his mother's womb and be born again," he asks. Minister Anderson George explains Jesus' words to Nicodemus and what that means for us today. Are you born again? Be born again today!
Jun 22, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 24
The apostle John writes so that we may know Jesus. In John 3:14-16, Jesus continues to answer a question posed by Nicodemus: “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again? How are these things possible? (John 3: 4, 9)” The familiar verses in John 14-16 reveal to us that God loved us in such a way that He was willing to give His only begotten Son, His one and only unique Son, for us. Minister Anderson George reminds listeners that Je...
Jun 15, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 23
We humans could not fix the problem we created, but God could and did. The gospel is the story of who He is and what He has done. Minister Robert Peek challenges listeners by asking what place the gospel has in our lives. The apostle Paul expounds on the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15, and though Paul taught about many important aspects of life in the letters he wrote, the gospel was always preeminent. As Christians, we must keep the gospel in first place, not losing its significance, its urgency, o...
Jun 08, 2025•49 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Songs are powerful. Praise and worship songs are powerful. Sometimes, a song can help when nothing else can. Minister Anderson George uses text from 2 Chronicles 20:1-21 to show the power of song through the story of Jehoshaphat as he turned to God when he faced his enemies with no plan but to turn his face to God. While God is fighting for us, we still have to face the battle. He doesn't always make the difficulty disappear. Jehoshaphat worships before the victory because God is worthy of prais...
Jun 01, 2025•48 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Life is ordered in such a way that we cannot control it. We cannot always anticipate what is going to happen. The true test of faith comes when things get rocky, when we are forced to move outside our comfort zones. Using passages from the books of Matthew, Mark, and John that recount Jesus walking on the water, minister Anderson George gives listeners a new way to look at taking a step of faith.
May 25, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 20
We often take things for granted. We come to "church." We sing. We pray. We give. We partake of the Lord's Supper. We hear a message from the Bible. We go home. We call that worship, but is it possible that we can go through all of the motions and leave without having worshipped? Minister Anderson George admonishes listeners through Psalm 95 to look forward to gathering with the church well before we arrive with an attitude and disposition to give our gratitude and praise to God.
May 18, 2025•38 min•Season 4Ep. 19
God holds the chaos and confusion of this world in His hand. What we can't see, He has numbered. Our problems, while gigantic to us, are mere specks of dust in the hand of theCreator who maintains our universe. Yet, when we pray and don't see results, we begin to doubt, and we begin to question. Sometimes waiting is heavy and troublesome. We know who God is, but we are still anxious, so what do we do in the waiting? Minister Anderson George reminds listeners that our hope lies not in the what or...
May 11, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Given a choice between hearing bad news or good news, we may vary as to which we would rather hear first. In Ephesians 2, Paul starts with the bad news, telling us we were dead in our trespasses and sins. Fortunately for us, that's not the end of the story. He goes on to say, "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved (Eph. 2:4-5). God can cure the consequences of our sins...
May 04, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 17
The Kingdom of God has come in your life when God has total control over your will in your life. We are guilty. We need forgiveness. Jesus offers that forgiveness, but He wants something more. He wants to change us; He wants to sanctify us so that we will be what we need to be in the age to come. Martyrs believed in that age to come. They were so sure of God that they did not fear death. What do we have to fear if we don't have to fear death. Jesus has the power over death!
Apr 27, 2025•28 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Jesus is unique. He is our Savior. He came to earth, lived, was crucified, and He rose the third day. We celebrate that resurrection every week as we gather, but we especially remember on Easter Sunday that He is risen. The Old Testament is full of prophecies pointing toward that event. As Jesus walked on the earth prior to His death, He was a light for the world, a light to the Gentiles . . . US! We have His example to show us how to be a light in the world daily. We can help the helpless, list...
Apr 20, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Every scripture points to Jesus. As we read, we need to remember this is His story and not necessarily ours. We cannot bring the answer for our sin problem ourselves. God is at work even when we can't see it. We are free because God sent a seed to set us free. God worked through history to bring Christ!
Apr 13, 2025•43 min•Season 4Ep. 14
After the resurrection of Jesus, His followers were confused and wondered what to do next. Understandably, they returned to what had been familiar to them. For Peter, that familiar place was in a boat fishing, and that's where Jesus finds him and some of the other disciples in John 21. Out all night, Peter and his companions have caught nothing. At daybreak, a man stands on the bank and calls to them, asking whether they have caught any fish. When they say they haven't, Jesus tells them to cast ...
Apr 06, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Guest speaker Lee Henson reminds listeners that Jesus has entrusted us with a job. Our job is to do good to all, for we are treating Jesus in the same way we treat the least of those with whom we come in contact. Christ's love controls us! Good works don't save us, but we are saved to do good works. Jesus entrusts us to do good and expects us to be ready when He returns. Be ready!
Mar 30, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Life is full of twists and turns for most but the life of Joseph may have had more than most. Sold into slavery by his brothers, thrown into prison by his employer, and forgotten by the prisoner for whom he interpreted a dream, he eventually rose to power in Egypt, becoming a saving force for his family during a severe famine. Not all of us have to go through those kinds of trials, but guest speaker Lafe Caton reminds listeners that no matter the obstacles we face, God has a plan for our lives. ...
Mar 23, 2025•37 min•Season 4Ep. 11
God is fully present in every place, but we occupy a place relationally, socially, physically. In those places we meet challenges. Guest speaker Kraig Martin uses the text of Psalm 23 to encourage listeners to lean on the Lord who is our shepherd, who protects and guides us, who has given us and will continue to give us all we need.
Mar 16, 2025•23 min•Season 4Ep. 10
It doesn't matter what we put up against God! God is better. Always! Guest speaker Anderson George uses Hebrews 12:1-2 to encourage listeners to keep the faith. We can say we have confidence in Jesus, but that's not faith. Just as one can have confidence in a chair, the confidence does not become faith until we sit in the chair and let it hold us up. When we believe and have confidence in Jesus, we will fully rely on Him to hold us up. Casting aside the weights that hold us back, we should run o...
Mar 09, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Consistency is a life skill that is important in all areas of our daily walk. In order to make the most of our lives, we must walk consistently in our relationships, our occupations, and most especially in our walk with Christ. Listen as guest speaker Gage Green discusses the essentials of consistency in our lives as Christians.
Mar 02, 2025•28 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Guest speaker Scott Dutile addresses a topic that is pertinent to every listener. In every aspect of our daily lives whether in person to person interaction, social media activity, or on television, we are bombarded with messages, some of which may be true, many of which may be lies. The Bible tells us that Satan is the father of lies and that he has been a liar since the beginning. He is daily on the attack, and we can be manipulated into sin, not even believing it is sin. We can miss the reali...
Feb 23, 2025•33 min•Season 4Ep. 7
The book of John gives readers additional insight into Jesus ministry, giving us snapshots of Jesus' ministry that are not included in the other gospels and revealing the difference Jesus makes in the personal situations of those with whom he interacts. Guest minister Robert Peek uses the text from John 5:1-18 to illustrate how Jesus does this in the life of one man, a man who had been unable to stand and walk for 38 years. Jesus renders an act of compassion by healing the man and suffers the ju...
Feb 16, 2025•42 min•Season 4Ep. 6
In 1 Samuel 17, we find David completing an errand for his father. He has been sent to take provisions to his brothers and check on their well-being. While there, he sees and hears the Philistine giant Goliath defying the Lord's people. Astounded, he questions why the Israelites are cowering before the Philistines. Of course, the rest is history. David slays Goliath with a sling and a stone because he knows that the God he serves is greater than any man no matter how big he might be. We, too hav...
Feb 09, 2025•21 min•Season 4Ep. 5
So often we fail to experience peace. It seems our lives are full of chaos, but just as Jesus calmed the storm for His disciples, He will calm the storms in our lives if we will call out to Him. Kraig Martin uses the storm that Jesus calms in Mark 4:35-41 to remind us where we can go for help when we face difficulties in our lives. If the winds and the waves listen to and obey Jesus' voice, why are we holding back?
Jan 26, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 4
What is it that makes people feel small, useless, or insignificant? Is it the way they feel about themselves or the way others feel about them? Maybe they feel that God feels that way about them. Maybe they think it's too late for them to change. Guest speaker James Beam leads listeners through Zechariah 3:1-7 reminding them that God is always ready and waiting for His children to repent and come back.
Jan 19, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Some of Jesus' last words were to "go and make disciples." What does it mean to make a disciple? What does it mean to be a disciple. In his message, Eddie Beene tells listeners about the process one must go through to become a disciple of Christ.
Jan 12, 2025•23 min•Season 4Ep. 2
What should we do when we encounter temptation? Do we stand and fight, or do we retreat? Guest speaker Scott Dutile discusses tactics we should use in our Christian walk to avoid the snares of the devil as we fight the fight of faith.
Jan 05, 2025•27 min•Season 4Ep. 371
In this world, there are no guarantees. While there are many things in life that we would like to have guaranteed, the truth is we don't have the ability to make all of our desires become reality. Through God, however, we have guarantees far more important than what we can have in this life. John Martin discusses the various struggles that we and well-known people in the Bible have had, and then shares a few of the guarantees we can count on: the promises of God.
Dec 29, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 370
Six hundred years before the birth of Christ, the prophet Isaiah foretells the coming of the Messiah. We find the God has been thinking of us much longer than we've been thinking about Him. Minister Robert Peek focuses on Isaiah 9:6 in today's message: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." He considers the prophet's description of the com...
Dec 22, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 369
This episode fits the title "The End" in more than one way. The podcast will continue, but today is minister Aaron Hill's last sermon for us as our preacher. He and his wife will be moving to a church nearer their families in New Mexico. The message itself is from the last chapters of Revelation signifying another end, a narrative about the end of an age given to us by the apostle John. Revelation is both a literal and symbolic depiction of what things will be like at the end of times. It is oft...
Dec 15, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 368
In the last lesson in his "Identity Politics" series (Episode 366), minister Aaron Hill focused on the church at Ephesus, a church faced with the possibility of losing its candlestick because of its lack of love. In today's sermon, he discusses the plight of the church at Thyatira, which faces a vastly different challenge. They are commended for having the love that Ephesus lacked, yet some of their body are admonished for following the teaching of a false prophet in their midst. This so-called ...
Dec 08, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 367
Continuing the series concerning how we engage with politics in our world, minister Aaron Hill discusses John's message to the church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:1-7. The church at Ephesus is of note here because it is the only one of the seven churches that is threatened with the removal of its lampstand. What could bring about such a threat? They work; they are patient; they are discerning of truth. What do they lack? The answer is love! The writer says they have abandoned the love they had at ...
Dec 01, 2024•26 min•Season 3Ep. 366
