EveryManComplete Podcast

Faith! Is it real? Is it changing my life? Is it impacting the lives around me? 

Scripture calls us to examine our faith. But how do you do that? What determines if my faith is real or just manufactured by my self-righteousness. 

Scripture again paints a vivid picture of what real faith looks like. 

Take the test and see!

We are saved by grace through faith and it's not of ourselves lest any one of us should boast. But Scriptures warn us that our faith can rest on the wisdom of men (1 Cor. 2:1-5). 

Could it be that your faith is based upon the persuasion of some pastor or teacher and not from the Holy Spirit coming in power to bring grace and life through the power of the gospel?

When God's word speaks, gives us a warning, or asks us to give an account for the faith we have, we should listen!

How do we serve as men in the world we live in? If we believe that the coming of Jesus Christ is near how urgent and passionate should we be in our serving?

If Jesus would come at the end of this day what would He find you doing? Would He find you faithful to what He has called and gifted you to do?

We say, Lord Jesus, come, but are we really ready to give an account of our faithfulness right now? As dark as the world is becoming are we being the light of the world He has commanded us to be?

Will you have a faith that endures to the end that you might have salvation?

If we are living in the last days how are you serving in the last days?

It's a couple of days from Christmas and people are still busy buying last-minute presents. There are times when we receive gifts that we are not so sure what to do with them. The heart was right but we're not really sure if the gift we've been given we will ever use. 

The gift of eternal life that has been given to us by our Heavenly Father is a gift many times never really fully experienced or understood. It's more than the forgiveness of our sins and going to heaven someday. 

Join with me as we discover the fullness of this gift and whether or not you may have left it unwrapped all these years.

Loneliness is not a respecter of persons! Whether you are CEO or the janitor, rich or poor, valedictorian or school dropout, we all struggle with loneliness. Especially during these holiday seasons, we struggle even more so with the memories of our losses and the loneliness they bring into our lives.
When we suffer loss or disappointment God has given us the capability to grieve that loss.  It's when we are unable to let go of our pain that loneliness takes us to places that we do not believe we can recover. We deeply question God's love for us or even if God truly exists. 
Our salvation and God's grace and love are not guarantees against suffering. 
Overcoming our loneliness is not about ignoring or pretending we haven't suffered loss. God is not offended by our crying out to Him concerning our loneliness, the Psalms are a picture of His people voicing their hearts complaint. 
During this Holiday Season, voice your loneliness to God and then find your comfort and refuge in His love.

All of us have struggled with unbelief in our lives, sometimes several times in a short period of time. 

When our faith is tested and our circumstances seem to be more than we expected or understand, what we say we believe can fade away before our eyes.

There is always grace for us in our struggles with unbelief, but we need to understand what the gospel has to say about it, and the dangers of where it can lead us too unexpectedly and dangerously. 

Join me in this journey of growing in faith and overcoming our doubts and unbelief.

We make all sorts of preparations for things we are committed to and responsible for. Especially during this holiday season, we are overwhelmed at times with all the preparations.

But as followers of Jesus Christ, we are missing out on the most important things in life; the things that God has prepared for us. He tells us that these things are what the eye has not seen, nor the ear has heard, or even what the heart can comprehend.  

So, are you prepared for what God has prepared for you? Let's open up the gospel and find out!

God's richest blessing to you all this Thanksgiving! 
My prayer for you this Thanksgiving is that you will discover the power of a thankful heart. In spite of your circumstances, God's will for us is that we live in the center of His sovereign grace and glory. 
Just as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God from the depths of a dark dungeon and experienced the power of God shaking the prison foundations and setting them free, may God bring us into that kind of freedom every day!

Unity! What a wonderful world it would be if we all could live in unity together.  But the sad reality is, even the church desperately struggles with any semblance of unity. 
The first thing we must acknowledge is that we are not called to create unity. Unity is something that Jesus Christ brought into our lives through the cross and His bloodshed on Calvary. He has reconciled us back into a relationship with the Father bringing peace and unity with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 
God has called us to preserve the unity that we have through Jesus Christ. We are to grow in our faith with one another until we all attain that unity of faith. 
As the church worships and celebrates the unity we have in Christ, it reveals to the watching world that Jesus is who He says He is. The glory that He has given us manifests itself to a world living in corruption and starving for unity and wholeness!

The word "manifestation" means to make visible. Many things about our lives can be seen by the watching world we live in. When we are angry, happy, joyful, or grieving our body language can reveal so much about what we are feeling without saying a word. 
But Scriptures tell us that we are to manifest the presence of Christ to a watching world. We are a new creation in Christ, the old things are passed away, and behold new things have come.  We are to be continually transformed into the image of Christ from faith to faith. God is working out the fullness of His presence in our lives if we are truly followers of Him. 
This manifestation of Christ is not accomplished by human effort but by human surrender to the Holy Spirit in us.  He must increase and we must decrease. We are not to seek self-exaltation but die to ourselves that Christ may be exalted in us and through us. 
We are not to seek our kingdom but the Kingdom of God in which Christ rules and reigns in our hearts and manifest Himself as a sweet aroma to  God!