Episodes
Wednesday Nov 30, 2016
Command #120 - This is My Command: Love One Another
Wednesday Nov 30, 2016
Wednesday Nov 30, 2016
From The Commands by Michael Phillips. Read by Michael Kimball. More information on this and similar writings may be found at Father of the Inklings. Visit Amazon to purchase The Commands and other books by Michael Phillips.
Tuesday Nov 29, 2016
COA #80 - Speak Not to Flatter, Impress, or Please Men
Tuesday Nov 29, 2016
Tuesday Nov 29, 2016
Let us pose a probing question. The more personal layers of the onion we peel off in formulating an answer may reveal startling, even shocking, truths about ourselves.
How much of our speech is subtly laced with the hidden desire to impress?
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Command #119 - Practice My Words
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus urges obedience to his Commands in many ways and with a great variety of words, phrases, metaphors, and parables.
Friday Nov 25, 2016
Command #118 - Bear Fruit As My Disciples
Friday Nov 25, 2016
Friday Nov 25, 2016
What is the "fruit" we are to bear as the Lord's disciples? How will our lives "glorify" God the Father?
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016
Command #117 - Do As I Do and Become Like Me
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016
The debate is long standing in Christendom about what exactly "sanctification" is and how it comes about.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
COA #79 - Speak to Edify, Encourage and Bless One Another
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
The final two commands of this section are intrinsically related, yet they point in opposite directions. Speech will always build up or tear down someone. These last two commands identify the two objects of that building or tearing--others or ourselves.
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Command #116 - Don't Call Me Lord and Not Do What I Tell You
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 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.
Friday Nov 18, 2016
Command #115 - Don't Look Back On Your Past Life
Friday Nov 18, 2016
Friday Nov 18, 2016
The image Jesus is alluding to here is familiar from many sermon illustrations. The farmer guiding his single plow behind donkey or horse or ox desires to plough a precisely straight furrow from one end of the field to the other.
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
COA #78 - Do Not Quarrel
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
The injunction against quarreling is fascinating to find among the commands, not because it comes as a surprise, but because of how completely accepted it is in the body of Christ. Is there any more commonplace relational dynamic in the church than this?
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Command #114 - Count the Cost of Single-Minded Devotion to God
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Count the cost and Don't look back are in a sense two ways to say the same thing.