Episodes
Monday Feb 29, 2016
Command #3 - Love God
Monday Feb 29, 2016
Monday Feb 29, 2016
The Command to 'Love God' is at root vague and ambiguous. How are we to love God? Is such love something we feel? How many of us have read the words 'with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength,' and not felt that perhaps our love for God is not filled with the all-consuming level of devotion that Jesus spoke of. The practicality of it is hard to get hold of.
Friday Feb 26, 2016
Command #2 - Love
Friday Feb 26, 2016
Friday Feb 26, 2016
It is surprising at first approach to the Commands of Jesus to discover that the command to "love" is not the most frequently given injunction to fall from his mouth. But it is surely the most pivotal and central command laid upon his followers which summarizes and incorporates and draws up into it all his teaching, and all the Commands.
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
COA #2 - Present Yourself as a Daily Living Sacrifice to God
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
The next two apostolic commands come to us most succinctly in Romans 12:1-2. These verses represent one of the New Testament's foundational challenges in Christian discipleship.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
Command #1 - Obey My Commands
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
This is truly the first of the Commands. Its importance is self-evident. The nature of a command requires obedience. A "command" is not a "suggestion." A command is a command. Obedience is compulsory. And yet...there remains such a thing as disobedience.
Tuesday Feb 23, 2016
COA #1 - Yield Yourself to God
Tuesday Feb 23, 2016
Tuesday Feb 23, 2016
Having acknowledged God's existence, it can truly be said that the foundational appropriate response of any human being to God is to yield to him.
Monday Feb 22, 2016
Command #120 - This is My Command: Love One Another
Monday Feb 22, 2016
Monday Feb 22, 2016
Friday Feb 19, 2016
Command #119 - Practice My Words
Friday Feb 19, 2016
Friday Feb 19, 2016
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus urges obedience to his Commands in many ways and with a great variety of words, phrases, metaphors, and parables.
Wednesday Feb 17, 2016
Command #118 - Bear Fruit As My Disciples
Wednesday Feb 17, 2016
Wednesday Feb 17, 2016
What is the "fruit" we are to bear as the Lord's disciples? How will our lives "glorify" God the Father?
Monday Feb 15, 2016
Command #117 - Do As I Do and Become Like Me
Monday Feb 15, 2016
Monday Feb 15, 2016
The debate is long standing in Christendom about what exactly "sanctification" is and how it comes about.
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Command #116 - Don't Call Me Lord and Not Do What I Tell You
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Friday Feb 12, 2016
It was not until after much reflection that it slowly dawned on me what an intriguing and perhaps prophetic word this is from the mouth of Jesus.