Episodes
Monday Dec 19, 2022
COA #86 - Do Not Be Covetous, Greedy, Or a Lover of Money
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
If we are brutally honest with ourselves, our response to the commands reveal the state of our spiritual condition.
Friday Dec 16, 2022
COA #85 - See Through God Eyes By Developing the Mind of Christ
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
To see though anyone else's eyes requires looking in the same direction they are...When Jesus said, "Behold,"...he was talking about another kind of vision--inner vision.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
COA #84 - Be Pure
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
It would make an interesting experiment to attempt to identify the single principle of spirituality that the world vilifies, mocks, and rejects more than any other. Many options leap to mind: righteousness, authority, obedience, humility. Another possibility may surprise us--purity.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
COA #83 - Pray for Wisdom and Walk in Wisdom
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Of the many commands we have considered, which are those at the top of the list? Which are those that incorporate all the others into them? We immediately recognize Christlikeness as a recurring signature tune of the commands. Obviously, obedience is the doorway into the Christlikeness God desires to develop within us.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
COA #82 - Seek God’s Will and Live by It
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
The question we are about to pose may at first glance seem simplistic, almost a cliche, like something from an old-fashioned salvation tract. Let us try, however, to listen to the words with fresh insight, and bring the question all the way inside. Let us see what it might have to tell us about ourselves. What are you living for?
Monday Dec 12, 2022
COA #81 - Put On the Character of Christ
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
There are many secondary aspects of God's will that are good, right and scriptural elements of spirituality with which we should be concerned. We do well to understand these, and to pray for God to develop them within us... But what is God's primary will for his people...What is it that God wants to do in your life, and in mine, above all other things?
Friday Dec 09, 2022
COA #80 - Speak Not to Flatter, Impress, or Please Men
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
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?
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
COA #79 - Speak to Edify, Encourage and Bless One Another
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
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.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
COA #78 - Do Not Quarrel
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
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?
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
COA #77 - Do Not Swear
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
The words the mouth speaks are one of the most accurate measures of what lies deep inside. Careless speech reveals careless character.