Many Christians start a Bible reading plan at the first of the year … but we often miss one important thing while reading the Bible.

In this episode, Nathan gives a fresh reminder on the one thing we should be most aware of as we read through Scripture this year. 

Don't have a Bible reading plan? Here are some helps to get started:

• 5 Creative Ways to Read the Bible This Year That WON’T Be Boring
• Why This Is The Best Time To Start A Bible Reading Plan
• How to craft a plan to read the Bible
• 10 Ways to Read the Bible
• Spurgeon on How to Read the Bible

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 313

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Happy New Year!

Being a new year, many of us are writing down our resolutions and dreams for this year. Yet, as Christians, we need to rethink resolutions and goal setting and consider if there is a better way. 

In this special New Year’s edition of the Deeper Christian Podcast, my good friend Dan McConnaughey talks about new year resolutions and how we can resolve to live as Christians this year.

*This is a reprise of episode 141 from December 2019.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 312

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How can Christians live with continual peace, joy, and calm? How can we as believers NOT be anxious or worried about anything?

Paul reminds us in Philippians 4:6 that there is no reason for worry, fear, or anxiety and instead commands Christians to be “anxious for nothing.”

And Paul isn't the only one—hundreds of passages throughout Scripture exhort us not to fear, worry, be anxious, forebode, fret, or panic.

More than a reminder not to fear, Paul also gives us the secret to live without fear.

*This is a reprise of episode 240 from March 2022.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 311

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When the angels appeared to the shepherds, they declared that a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger was a "sign."

This sign was a declaration of what Jesus was going to do (and be) at the Cross.

In this episode, we talk about Luke 2 and the marvelous sign of Christmas.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 310

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The Christmas season is a wonderful reminder of how undeserving we are that the God of the universe came to dwell among and within us.

The picture of Jesus born in a stable is one of my favorite meditations during Christmas. Just as He was willing to be born in a place of muck and mire, so too, He is willing to come within the muck and sin of my life.

But the profundity of the Gospel is that while He is willing to be born in a stable known as humanity, He refuses to leave us that way. We are to be built up as a temple of the Holy Spirit, clean, pure, and holy—fit for His use.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 309

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While Jesus does give us life (eternal life!), the beautiful reality of Scripture is that the life He gives is not "something" but Himself.

He is our life, as Paul declares in Colossians 3:4 …and John goes on to write that we are to live through Him (1 John 4:9).

In this episode, we talk about what it means for Jesus to not merely give us life, but to be our life. I also mention a new series that has launched "Life in the Word" on the Daily Thunder Podcast as I walk through a study on our life in the Word—the living Word (Jesus) and the written Word (Scripture).

Join me in my new Daily Thunder series Life in the Word.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 308

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God gave Himself for us to showcase His marvelous redemption in our lives. He bought us out of captivity to sin and darkness and has purified us for Himself. And just as God is our inheritance so too we have become His.

In this study, we examine God’s grand redemption which Paul wrote about in Titus 2:14 and we discover that God wants to use us to showcase His life, love, and Gospel to the world around us … He wants to work the “poetry” of the Gospel through our lives and use us to once again be image bearers of Himself to the world.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 307

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Scripture makes it abundantly clear that the attitude, mindset, and language of a Christian is to be marked by thanksgiving.

While we as a culture may celebrate a day of thanksgiving once a year, the life of a believer is always marked by it.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 306

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Jesus Christ is returning soon.

While we patiently await His return, how are we supposed to live now?

In this fourth study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how to "look for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ" and give nine biblical ways we can practically “hope” and have an eager expectancy for the Lord's Return.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 305

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Christians have been radically transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. We are brand new creatures in Christ who are now to live completely different than the world around us.

And the amazing reality of the Gospel is that God’s grace, through His Holy Spirit, enables us to live as we ought – even in the present day in which we live.

In this third study from Titus 2:11–15 we talk about how God’s grace is training, disciplining, and enabling us to walk as genuine Christians – with self-control, righteousness, and godliness.

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Deeper Christian Podcast • Episode 304

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