Episodes
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
COA #48 - Raise Your Children in the Wisdom of the Lord
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
How one reads and responds to this command will almost entirely depend on where on life's spectrum one finds oneself.
Monday Nov 29, 2021
COA #47 - Manage Your Households Well
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
How do we define "manage?" What does it mean to manage a household? The word is fraught with misunderstanding.
Friday Nov 26, 2021
COA #46 - Practice Hospitality
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Hospitality as commanded of Christians in the New Testament does not mean throwing cocktail and dinner parties.
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
COA #45 - Children, Obey and Honor Your Parents
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
If it is a cliche to say that the family is under attack, it is because it is so desperately true. These are perilous times for the values that hold marriage and the family together. The assault is not primarily one of ideas, as important as that is, it is an attack against relationships.
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Command #15 - Repent
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
The Gospel does not come to us one-dimensionally. The teachings of Jesus, while epitomizing simplicity itself, are also intriguingly complex. The intertwining mix of "spiritual" and "temporal" commands is constantly in play. The moment we get too spiritual, Jesus hits us with the parable of the Good Samaritan, urging us simply to be good and take care of people. Not a word in the story about getting the man saved or taking him to church...just Go and do the same. Yet the moment we begin thinking that kindness toward our fellow man is enough, there is Jesus telling Nicodemus he must be "born again."
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
COA #44 - Wives, Respect and Submit to Your Husbands
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
If husbands have to recognize servanthood rather than authority as the foundation of their role, where does a wife's half of the servanthood equation begin?
Monday Nov 22, 2021
COA #43 - Husbands, Love, Honor, and Serve Your Wives
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Authority and submission, as they apply to masculine and feminine roles in marriage, were among the most discussed and argued about topics consuming the evangelical church during the 1970s.
Friday Nov 19, 2021
COA #42 - Honor Marriage
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
It has almost become a cliche in our time to declare that, "the institution of marriage is under attack." It is a cliche because it is true. An all out ware is on the destroy marriage as Christians understand it.
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
COA #41 - Christian Leaders, Live Exemplary Lives
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Though we have taken the two letters to the Thessalonians as our starting point for the next series of commands, Paul does not directly address home and family issues to a great extent in those letters. Most of his family-specific commands come later, notably in Ephesians and Colossians as well as, interestingly, in the letters to the two single men, Timothy and Titus.
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Command #14 - Be Patient, Enduring, Persevering
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
When Paul enumerates the characteristics of love in 1 Corinthians 13, the familiarity of his words obscures what an astonishing attribute he begins with: Love is patient.