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080 SNS: Psalm 12: When Friends Are the Enemy

A Monday Psalm just for you. This is an original presentation of Psalm 12, as heard in our podcast. The title comes from our podcast, where we chat about this aspect of this psalm. Here we simply hear the psalm. I hope you find it to be a blessing. If you would like to hear the discussion of this psalm, the link to the podcast episode is here.

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079 SNS: Psalm 11: Overwhelmed By Evil?

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078 SNS: Psalm 10: WHen God Seems Distant

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076 SNS: Psalm 8, A Beautiful Expression of God's Love

A Monday Psalm just for you. This is an original presentation of Psalm 8, as heard in our podcast. The title comes from our podcast where we chat about this Psalm. Here we hear the psalm, not the chatting. I hope you find it to be a blessing.

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067 SNS: Where Is God When I'm Hurting?

Have you ever asked yourself, where is God when you are hurting? Why is God hiding, why can't you feel his presence? These are what we are going to seek an a...

Scripture Passages referenced:

John 16:33 - In this world you will have trouble.

John 15:18-21 - The world will hate you because it hated me.

John 15:1-17 - Abide in Jesus and his love and joy will be complete.

Philippians 4:4-7 - Peace which passes all understanding.

Matthew 14:28-30 - Peter walking on water then sinking.

John 15: 14, 15 - Jesus calls us friends.

Mark 6:3, John 7:52; Matthew 26:65, 66; and possibly John 8:41 – Jesus is made fun of.

Luke 22:41, 42 - Jesus in pain and under stress.

Hebrews 4:15 - Jesus can sympathize with our weaknesses.

Matthew 27:46 – Jesus knows what it feels like to feel abandoned by God.

Romans 12:15 – To laugh when you laugh and cry when you cry.

Hebrews 13:3 – To remember those in prison as if you are bound and those mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

Matthew 28:20 – Jesus promises to always be with us.

Romans 8:39 – No one can drive him away.

Romans 8:11 – The Comforter, the Holy Spirit to dwell in us.

Job 38:3; 40:7 – God telling Job to play the man, to man-up.

Hebrews 5:12, 13 – Solid food is for grownups, milk is for infants. The need for us to be growing.

1 Corinthians 3:1 – Only being able to address folks as infants.

1 Corinthians 14:20 – We are told to stop being infants, we need to be mature.

1 Peter 2:2 – Milk given to help us grow up.

Psalm 1:2, 3 – study God’s word night and day.

Philippians 4:8, 9 – fill mind with noble, right, and pure things and the God of peace will be with us.

Philippians 4:4-7 The peace which passes all understanding.

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The video mentioned. If God Is So Relational, Why Does He Allow Evil in the World? https://youtu.be/WaHraqY-5HU

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066 SNS: How Loving God Authentically Involves Thinking Genuinely

So, here's the question, does having faith in Christ mean that you stop thinking? Does my emphasis on God's love and our love for him mean that I agree with ...

065 SNS: Christianity not Mere Religion

Christianity isn’t merely a religion. How can I say it isn’t one? That is not what I said. I said it is not merely one. For authentic Christianity is a relationship that leads to religious practice. While Christianity works itself out in religious practices, this is not all there is to Christianity. These practices are not even primary to the Christian faith. Christianity is primarily a relationship with Christ. This is what we discuss in the video.

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Scripture passages referenced:

John 15:9,10 ~ Jesus remains in the Father's love.

John 17:20-23 ~ Jesus and the Father are one and Jesus prays we will be one in them.

Matthew 15:14 ~ The Pharisees are the blind leading the blind.

Luke 22:40-44 ~ Jesus not excited at Gethesmane.

James 1:27 ~ What God considers pure and undefiled religion.

James 2:8 ~ The Royal Law is to love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:34-40 ~ Greatest commands and them being the basis for all biblical teaching.

1 Corinthians 13 ~ Lacking love we are obnoxious and worthless.

Matthew 5:20 ~ Our righteousness needs to surpass that of the Pharisees.

Matthew 23:27 ~ Jesus calling them whitewashed tombs.

Matthew 15:14 ~ Jesus calling them the blind leaders of the blind.

John 5:39, 40 ~ They diligently searched Scripture and missed out on Jesus.

1 John 5:1 ~ To believe equated to Loving.

1 John 4:7-21 ~ If we do not love, we do not know God, for God is love.

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054 SNS: Loving the Unlovely, an Example

Last time we spoke of what love may or may not entail. It has, since then, been on my mind to offer you an example of what loving the unlovable looks like in my own life. Anyway, that is what we are going to explore here in this video.

052 SNS: Breaking the Cycle of Sin

So, the other day I was talking to a friend about how living the Christian life can be a struggle. Particularly in overcoming consistent shortcomings, the sins we try to avoid but end up doing anyway. We began to kick around the question, is there a way to have this cycle broken in a Christian's life?

051 SNS: Who Are the Unlovable?

Last time, I mentioned that the increase in my ability to love the unlovable is a proof that God is real. Who are the first people that come to your mind when you hear the phrase, “the unlovable?” This is what we are going to explore here in this video.

012 SNS Video: Are You Sure

Conversationally reading the Bible is both informative and fun. Yet, we must not allow this to lead us to thoughts and ideas that fall wide of Bible truth. Here are some thoughts on how to make sure that your joy in reading the Bible will continue and that all new depths of insight gained are ones about true depths of the Bible and not simply strange thoughts, ones that are just plain wrong.  

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