Episodes
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Command #118 - Bear Fruit As My Disciples
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
What is the "fruit" we are to bear as the Lord's disciples? How will our lives "glorify" God the Father?
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Command #117 - Do As I Do and Become Like Me
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
The debate is long standing in Christendom about what exactly "sanctification" is and how it comes about.
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Command #116 - Don't Call Me Lord and Not Do What I Tell You
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
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.
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Command #115 - Don't Look Back On Your Past Life
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
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.
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Command #114 - Count the Cost of Single-Minded Devotion to God
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Count the cost and Don't look back are in a sense two ways to say the same thing.
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Command #113 - Love Me By Having My Commands and Words and Keeping Them
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
At first glance, this may seem but a restating of the command we considered previous to the last. Are we splitting hairs to differentiate between the two?
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Command #112 - Don't Separate What God Has Joined
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
It will be unpopular, in this time when obedience to the marital commands of Scripture has grown so lax within Christendom, to read this command from the mouth of Jesus as strictly forbidding divorce.
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Command #110 - Be Wise As Snakes and Innocent As Doves
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Here we encounter another of Jesus' well-known Commands. The parallel with snakes, however, is troublesome because we usually associate snakes with evil.