ALC Daily Podcast by Abundant Life Church

September 30, 2022 What would Jesus say?: Will people want relationships in heaven?

"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.”

- Matthew 7:21-23 ESV

12 min

September 29, 2022 4 Practical ways to have a good marriage relationship in Jesus - Respect

“This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

- Ephesians 5:32-33 ESV

13 min

September 28, 2022 4 Practical ways to have a good marriage relationship in Jesus - Forgive

“For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

- Ephesians 5:29, 31 ESV

11 min

September 27, 2022 4 Practical ways to have a good marriage relationship in Jesus - Love

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

- Ephesians 5:25-28 ESV

13 min

September 26, 2022 4 Practical ways to have a good marriage relationship in Jesus - Submit

“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.”

- Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV

14 min

September 23, 2022 What would Jesus say? How will we know that we are growing Godly relationships?

John 13:34‭-‬35 ESV

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 15:12‭-‬13 ESV

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14 min

September 22, 2022 How do God's precious gifts help us work together properly in our relationships?

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

13 min

September 21, 2022 How do God's precious gifts help us speak the truth in love in our relationships?

Ephesians 4:11-15 ESV

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

13 min

September 20, 2022 How do God's precious gifts help us become unified in faith in our relationships?

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

13 min

September 19, 2022 How do God's precious gifts help us build each other up in our relationships?

Ephesians 4:8-12 ESV

8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”

9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?

10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

12 min