Common Sense Conversations

As a Christ follower we know that God is faithful, but if we are honest, there are times when we struggle with really believing that and trusting that. It could be numerous things that cause us to doubt, struggle, and wonder if God’s promise are true, especially for ourselves. Abram struggled with this and we will look at his life to begin this conversation about God’s faithfulness.

Sometimes having the right perspective makes all the difference. When we don’t see clearly we can make poor and uninformed decisions that impact our lives. What if our perspective on sin was more clear? Would that make a difference in how we see and view temptation, sin, and God? That’s the conversation we will have and Adam and Eve will be the example to talk about.

We usually don’t see suffering as providing blessings in our lives. Yet that is what we will see as we conclude having a conversation about Joseph. The way we see the blessings in the suffering is with right perspective. That’s the conversation we will have today.

Suffering is not something we like or want to be part of our day. Yet, because we live in a fallen sinful world, suffering is something that is inevitable. But does suffering come from God, or does suffering come more from others around us? That’s the conversation that we will be having in this podcast.

In our culture, and even our humanity, the idea of suffering is not one that is viewed as something good. This translates over into our Christian walk as well. We seem to have a mindset that God wants good for my life and that suffering is a punishment, consequences, for doing wrong. If we are suffering, if our circumstances aren’t good, then we often times begin to view God in a different perspective. As long as things are going good, God is good. But is God still good in the suffering? That’s the conversation we will start today.

In this episode we will look at an example of spiritual warfare, the temptation of Jesus. What can we learn from this? How does this teach us real spiritual warfare and how we are to act and respond? That’s what we will have a conversation about.

In this episode we will look at a biblical example of someone who wasn’t being attacked spiritually, but just made a really bad choice that had lasting impact. What we will see is we make these bad choices, not because of spiritual warfare, but because we are walking in the flesh and not the spirit. Let’s have a conversation about David in this episode.

In this episode we will look at the example of Abram and Sarai and see how their situation was making bad decisions in the midst of spiritual warfare that had significant consequences and how we can learn from that in our daily walk. We will see what caused them to make the decisions they did in spite of God’s promises and look at how we do not fall into the same trap they did.

The idea of spiritual warfare has been so overused and muddied in today’s culture that we seem to use it to describe everything. But could it be that we aren’t facing spiritual warfare but simply dealing with the consequences of bad decisions and choices that we have made? Let’s tackle this conversation in the first part of a multi-part podcast discussing this.

Should Christians celebrate Halloween? What about Christmas? What about Valentine’s Day or Easter? And if so, how? What does the Bible mean when it says we [as believer’s] should abstain from every appearance of evil? How do we do that in a fallen world? That’s what this podcast is going to discuss.