End of Week Encouragement Podcasts – Magnify Him Together

In Ezra 7, we have a really beautiful description of the way that Ezra considered the word and then built his life on it. And I think this is really something for us to think about, to keep in our minds, and to use to inspire us to learn, to apply that learning, and then to share it with others. 

End of Week Encouragement Episode 76 by Jason Hensley is taken from Ezra 7.

How good of a listener are you? I can tell you, I’m a much better talker than I am a listener. This is the struggle, isn’t it? We always want to talk, we always want to share our ideas and if people don’t understand our ideas then we want to explain it further and make sure that they understood our point. And we don’t want to be interrupted because we are conveying an important idea. An important thought. But you know what’s fascinating, scripture tells us to listen. Yes, to listen to God. But I think the idea here is that when we get use to listening to God we become listeners. We become people who listen to each other.

End of Week Encouragement Episode 75 by Jason Hensley is taken from Proverbs 10:19; James 1:19.

End of Week Encouragement Episode 74 by Jason Hensley.

“Today, we are going to discuss the burnt offering. Now, that might seem a little bit random – but I think it’s helpful for us to look at things under the law of Moses, like the burnt offering, because we know that those things were a schoolmaster. The law is meant to teach us about the Lord Jesus Christ…”

End of Week Encouragement Episode 73 by Jason Hensley is taken from Romans 12.

“This verse seems to be saying that, an effective prayer is effective! See you look at that and you think yes prayer is powerful, yes prayer is effective but what exactly does James mean here? What is James trying to tell us?…”

End of Week Encouragement Episode 72 by Jason Hensley is taken from James 5.

“Today, we want to think about humility. I think humility is often characterized by this idea of playing down yourself and saying well, you know, I’m not as good at that as you might think I am. Or, Oh it was nothing! Humility often gets confused with modesty. And yet, that’s not necessarily how it’s suppose to play out with us. Instead, let’s consider these verses from the Apostle Paul…”

End of Week Encouragement Episode 71 by Jason Hensley is taken from Philippians 2.

“Today I want to talk about giving up, actually, it’s more the opposite of giving up. This idea of not giving up, of keeping on even when things are hard. Now, do you ever find that sometimes it feels like you put out the extra effort and you’re able to keep going and you’re able to keep your attitude good? You’re able to stay happy, you’re able to rejoice even though things seem hard, and then something else happens? One more thing just lands on you and it’s this extra thing you have to deal with and you just say, you know, I just can’t do it…”

End of Week Encouragement Episode 70 by Jason Hensley is taken from 1 Cor. 15.

“What we are going to discuss today is rejoicing. I know we have touched on that before, but I feel like its something we need to  constantly be reminded of. We need to be told and commanded by God to rejoice. So often we can just get dragged down by whatever things are happening around us; things that are on the news, politics, and of these kinds of things that people talk to us about or just other people who are frustrated. And we have to remember that in fact we have a strong, powerful reason to rejoice…”

End of Week Encouragement Episode 69 by Jason Hensley is taken from Hab. 3.

Imagine a world without light – no sun, no moon, no stars, no fire, no candles, no flashlight, no technology that produces light. This is like a world without God. Light is foundational to life and its operation. Like light, God is foundational to everything we think, say, and do. 

“Today we are going to be discussing scripture. Now you might think, well that’s always what we talk about and that’s true. But we’re going to take a little bit more of a direct route here in this consideration of scripture because what we want to talk about is the value of scripture itself. Here’s what I mean by that: in the gospel of John, we read that “the word became flesh and dwelt among us……”

End of Week Encouragement Episode 68 by Jason Hensley is taken from John 1, Acts 14.