This month's series is unlike anything we've done before. Over twelve episodes, we'll be walking through the most formative lessons I've learned over my fifty-plus years in ministry – and the stories of the mentors who planted them. Some of these were long, close relationships. Others were people whose teaching landed so deeply it never left, even without much personal contact. Join me throughout the month of July as we dive into these powerful lessons – you won't want to miss an episode!

This episode's mentor is my uncle, Keith Johnson — the pastor who took in a newly saved teenager with no work ethic and no idea what he was getting into, and spent two years teaching him to clean toilets, haul hay, and never quit. The lesson he planted has never left: if you're going to do it, do it right, and finish what you start.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

This month's series is unlike anything we've done before. Over twelve episodes, we'll be walking through the most formative lessons I've learned over my fifty-plus years in ministry – and the stories of the mentors who planted them. Some of these were long, close relationships. Others were people whose teaching landed so deeply it never left, even without much personal contact. Join me throughout the month of July as we dive into these powerful lessons – you won't want to miss an episode!

First on the list is evangelist James Robison — the man who led me to Christ on February 19, 1970, in a Baptist church in Irving, Texas, and whose fearless, unashamed confidence in the gospel set a standard I have never forgotten.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

In this final week of our special best-of month, we're revisiting one more standout series from the Faith Roots archive — Four Things Every Leader Needs to Know. Whether you lead at home, at church, or on the job, this series lays out essentials that apply anywhere leadership is required.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

In this final week of our special best-of month, we're revisiting one more standout series from the Faith Roots archive — Four Things Every Leader Needs to Know. Whether you lead at home, at church, or on the job, this series lays out essentials that apply anywhere leadership is required.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

This week in our best-of look-back we're moving into another standout series from the Faith Roots archive — The Children's Ministry of Jesus. If you work with children, lead a family, or simply care about the next generation, this one is for you.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

This week in our best-of look-back we're moving into another standout series from the Faith Roots archive — The Children's Ministry of Jesus. If you work with children, lead a family, or simply care about the next generation, this one is for you.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

This week in our special highlights month, we're revisiting one of the most compelling series in the history of the Faith Roots Podcast — The End from the Beginning. We'll be walking through a prophetic study that shows how God has woven patterns all through Scripture, and how the events of the past reveal what is still to come.

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

Faith Roots was created to help you build a deeply-rooted, unshakeable faith. Listen or watch each week to grow your knowledge–and confidence–in God's Word. Support Faith Roots with a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation here: https://bit.ly/3ByACel

God created you in His image and in His likeness, therefore, you are first and foremost a spirit. You possess a soul, and both spirit and soul live in a body. Your physical body was never intended to dominate your decisions and priorities. Your body was created to serve your spirit and soul, not to dominate them.

In our first lesson, we learned that we are more than flesh and blood beings. We were created in the image and likeness of God, so we are spiritual as well as natural. If God is a Spirit, we, too, must be a spirit in order to communicate with Him. When we receive Christ,  He comes to reside in our spirits—the innermost part of our beings.