Advancing Word Podcast

If you had to produce a "spiritual receipt" validating your relationship to the Lord, would that receipt survive the scrutiny of an examination?  

Spiritual maturity and advance can be measured and quantified by the basic mathematical  principles of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.  The Christians at Corinth exhibited all these dynamics.  

Rather than being the source of devastation, disappointment or despair, the "dark night of the soul" becomes a blessing in disguise that deepens one's relationship to God.  

The silence and submission of His Son, the Lamb of God, is the compelling conduit and corridor through which God channels His amazing grace to anyone who will receive it by faith.  

According to Isaiah 53, God speaks ultimately to humanity through the voice  of a Silent Sufferer and Sacrificial Savior who redeems us from our sin.  

Jesus heals a man born blind from birth.  His disciples learned that God's purposes always transcend our problems and that day and night belongs to Him.  

Jesus ordered the man who had been tragically separated from his family, possessed by a legion of demons and living in a cemetery to "go home."  This is perhaps the greatest commission of all.  

In the wilderness, Israel complained about bitter water.  Moses's response reminds us that no situation is beyond the transformative power of God.  

An axe head floating in water reminds us that God's power is greater than any trial we face in life.  The Old Testament prophet Elisha acts in faith and shows his generation and ours what to do when life loses its edge.  

In Psalm 51, "then" is a spiritual location that should be the goal of every believer.  Because of sin, David had taken a detour from his destiny, but through confession and repentance reached his destination.