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  • Drones Spying on Your Children

    3 Things You'll Learn

    1. A Vancouver neighborhood case shows how a camera drone at a child’s window can feel like a search even when police say no crime occurred.
    2. Drone privacy law is uneven. Oregon already allows a lawsuit for repeated low flights over a home without permission.
    3. Capability is not the same as permission. The Fourth Amendment still names a right to be secure in your house.

      4. Description:

      Picture a child inside playing a game, friends in the driveway, and a small aircraft hovering at the window. That is the Vancouver, Washington story Greg opens with. Seven-year-old Drew Sikorski heard a buzz while his friend played Minecraft and hid when he realized the drone had a camera. Outside, Landon’s grandfather Mike Meacham and friends watched it hover about ten feet over the garage. Meacham pointed a BB gun. The drone left. A confrontation down the block followed.

      Police said no crime was committed. The unnamed flyer said he stayed over the street at fifteen to twenty feet. Reporter Joe Douglas notes Washington and federal rules were thin on drone privacy, while Oregon lets a person sue for repeated flights under four hundred feet without permission. Greg widens the lens to Amazon researching drone delivery, talk of crowded skyways, ATMs, and windows. He asks what happened to privacy and points to the Fourth Amendment. Just because you can does not mean you should. He teases a later look at George Washington and prayer in Washington, then closes the short segment.

      Notable Quotes

      "Does this seem crazy? Well, it just happened."

      "Just because you can doesn't mean you really should."

      "What happened to privacy?"

      #Jesus #Faith #Privacy #CurrentEvents #GregLancaster #Family

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      Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

      You don’t want to miss this journey.

      Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

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      Find your place the Vine Fellowship Network Family, at Loving God, Loving Others, and Leading Others to do the Same @ https://VineFellowshipNetwork.org

      Subscribe for more, and explore resources @ https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

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      Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

       

      © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

      9 min
    4. College Student Failed Because She Refused to Speak Out Against Her Faith

      3 Things You'll Learn

      1. A Polk State College student in Winter Haven was failed on multiple essays after she would not deny God or call Christianity oppression.
      2. Academic freedom for a professor does not cancel a student’s freedom to stand for Jesus.
      3. The First Amendment bars government, including public schools, from making laws that prohibit the free exercise of faith.

        4. Description:

        CBN and Campus Reform report from Winter Haven, Florida. A Christian student at Polk State College says humanities professor Lance L. J. Russom, described as a self-proclaimed atheist, Marxist, and feminist, required essays that treated Jesus as myth beside Hercules and Apollo, called all religion human imagination, and asked students to agree that Christianity oppresses women. The student, a sixteen-year-old in advanced placement, refused to argue those claims. She received zeros on four assignments.

        Caleb Bonham of CampusReform.org says the course language invited alternative views, yet the student was failed when she actually took one. The college reviewed the work and said it found no bias. The segment also notes a California Assembly higher education bill meant to protect student ministry groups, including InterVarsity, after campuses derecognized groups that require Christian leaders. That bill failed. Greg’s close is pastoral, not only legal. He points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s conclusion that the church is Christ in community, cites George Barna’s figure of about 1.3 million dollars spent per baptized believer in American church structures, and says the true church will rise. Teachers cannot require students to deny Jesus. Believers must stand, stay loyal to the Bridegroom, and get ready for harvest.

        Notable Quotes

        "I'm gonna stand up for my faith, I'm gonna stand up for my belief in Jesus Christ."

        "The church is Christ in community."

        "I'm just not gonna deny Jesus Christ. I'm not gonna deny my faith."

        #Jesus #Faith #ReligiousLiberty #Discipleship #GregLancaster #ChristianPodcast

        Begin Your Journey Today!

        Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

        Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

        You don’t want to miss this journey.

        Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

        Sign of the Spirit-Filled Vine Seminar! Back to Jesus, Back to Being His Church @ https://VineSeminar.org

        Find your place the Vine Fellowship Network Family, at Loving God, Loving Others, and Leading Others to do the Same @ https://VineFellowshipNetwork.org

        Subscribe for more, and explore resources @ https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

        Social Links My Links:

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        https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster

        https://X.com/GregLancaster

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        https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries

        https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

        Call to Action

        Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

         

        © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

         

        11 min
      4. Christianity and Islam Are Polar Opposites

        3 Things You'll Learn

        1. Christianity and Islam can share names and places and still teach opposite claims about Jesus, the Messiah, and salvation.
        2. A caliphate ruled by Quranic law cannot be merged with a constitutional order that says rights come from God.
        3. The gospel stays the main thing. Jesus is the Son of God. He died. He rose. He alone forgives sin.

          4. Description:

          Greg starts with a hard campus statistic. Send a Christian student to a secular university and around seventy percent leave the faith. Send that student to a Christian university and the reports he cites still put the loss near fifty percent. From there the program turns to the public narrative he says leaders are pressing: atheism, Islam, or Christianity. He notes that a large majority of Americans still identify as Christian, cites about two million Muslims in America from Ben Shapiro, and argues that a Quran-based caliphate is the opposite of a Judeo-Christian nation whose rights come from God.

          A teaching segment traces Jews, Christians, and Muslims back to Abraham and Jerusalem, then sets the claims side by side. Christians await the return of Jesus. Islamic teaching awaits the Mahdi. The clip compares Daniel and Revelation with Islamic teaching on the Temple Mount, beheading, a false prophet figure, a mark, and a seven-year reign, arguing the stories run as photographic negatives of each other. Greg then preaches the gospel without blending the two. God so loved the world that He gave His Son. Jesus lived without sin, died on the cross, was buried, and was raised. Sins are removed as far as the east is from the west when a person makes Jesus Lord. What the Bible calls bad, he says, Islam calls good. The two cannot merge.

          He plays portions of a Cairo speech, a line that America is no longer just a Christian nation, a United Nations line that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam, and Homeland Security comments about speaking for Muslims worldwide. Rick Warren’s Senate testimony is used to say other governments are less afraid of the church than Washington has been. Greg invites listeners to MeetMyFather.org, prays for Egypt’s President Sisi, and asks God to send revival and a third great awakening. His close is simple. As for me and my house, I choose the Lord.

          Notable Quotes

          "The Quran is the antithesis. It's the opposite of the Bible."

          "These two can never merge. They can never be one."

          "As for me and my house, I choose the Lord."

          "Our God forgives, our God loves, and our God is merciful, and His Son's name is Jesus Christ."

          #Jesus #Gospel #BibleTeaching #Faith #GregLancaster #Discipleship

          Begin Your Journey Today!

          Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

          Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

          You don’t want to miss this journey.

          Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

          Sign of the Spirit-Filled Vine Seminar! Back to Jesus, Back to Being His Church @ https://VineSeminar.org

          Find your place the Vine Fellowship Network Family, at Loving God, Loving Others, and Leading Others to do the Same @ https://VineFellowshipNetwork.org

          Subscribe for more, and explore resources @ https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

          Social Links My Links:

          https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks

          https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster

          https://X.com/GregLancaster

          https://Facebook.com/RealGregLancaster

          https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries

          https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

          Call to Action Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

           

          © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

          27 min
        4. Dear God Hear Our Cry of Repentance: An Appeal to Heaven

          3 Things You'll Learn

          1. Several voices in this episode describe a two-minute warning. Time is short to tell people about Jesus.
          2. God has turned judgment when people humbled themselves with real repentance, not polite words.
          3. A prudent person sees danger and prepares, and still cries out to God.

            4. Description:

            This is a sober program. Greg calls it a two-minute warning, like the pause before a football game ends, and he stacks prophetic warnings the ministry has been walking through for years. Pastor John Kilpatrick describes seeing “the United Apostates of America,” looking up apostate as abandonment of the faith once delivered, and hearing that the apostates have united while God’s people are in the minority. He compares the nation to a ship that has taken new coordinates and is turning into a storm.

            Casey Sweet shares a dream of a bomb with two minutes left, then a train where Jesus asks who knew Him and why she did not tell the person beside her. Rick Wiles recounts his daughter Carissa saying Jesus stood at her bed and would speak about the end times through dreams and visions. In her dream, skeletons circled the family crying, “If you knew this was going to happen, why didn’t you tell us?” Steve Kaliszewski describes a night vision of a car with no brakes flying down a hill through falling animal carcasses, then merging into racing traffic. When he called, the word was, “Don’t panic. This is what God has allowed to happen to bring in the harvest.” Greg still believes the greatest harvest is ahead, but only if the church prepares, tells someone about Jesus, and cries out.

            Scripture examples of humility fill the second half. Mordecai in sackcloth in Esther chapter 4. Nineveh believing Jonah’s forty-day warning and fasting, even the animals. Ahab humbling himself after Elijah’s word. Hezekiah weeping so that the death sentence was reversed before Isaiah left the house. Greg points to the Appeal to Heaven flag from the founding era and calls the church to the same cry. Humility here is total dependency on God. Repentance is not merely saying sorry. It is becoming a disciple, learning His ways, and leaving a life of sin. He also urges practical readiness and points listeners to vftv.com for the Torch newsletter message “Prudent Preparation.”

            Notable Quotes

            "The apostates have united, and there's a majority now, and my people are in the minority."

            "Why didn't you tell the person next to you when you were about to die about me?"

            "If you knew this was going to happen, why didn't you tell us?"

            "Don't panic. This is what God has allowed to happen to bring in the harvest."

            "Repent doesn't mean saying I'm sorry. We begin to become disciples of Jesus."

            #Jesus #Repentance #Prayer #Prophetic #Discipleship #GregLancaster #Faith

            Begin Your Journey Today!

            Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

            Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

            You don’t want to miss this journey.

            Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

            Sign of the Spirit-Filled Vine Seminar! Back to Jesus, Back to Being His Church @ https://VineSeminar.org

            Find your place the Vine Fellowship Network Family, at Loving God, Loving Others, and Leading Others to do the Same @ https://VineFellowshipNetwork.org

            Subscribe for more, and explore resources at https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

            Social Links My Links:

            https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster
            https://X.com/GregLancaster
            https://Facebook.com/RealGregLancaster https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

            Call to Action Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

            © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

            36 min
          4. Humor: Top Ten Police Law Enforcement Agencies in the World

            3 Things You'll Learn

            1. Rankings of the world’s largest police forces mean little unless Greg and the studio work from number ten to number one on the world’s largest police forces, using a Jerusalem Post list and a lot of unscripted laughter. Pakistan opens the countdown. Notes get shuffled. Nicaragua turns into Nigeria. Siberia makes a cameo. The cameraman ends up on the floor. Then the numbers finally land.

              2. They walk officer counts beside population. Pakistan, more than 354,000 officers and about 179 million people. Nigeria, near 380,000 with about 174 million. Turkey, more than 412,000 with about 76 million. Brazil, about 478,000 with about 198 million. Mexico, about 544,000 with about 120 million. Indonesia, 579,000 with 264 million. Russia, 782,000 with 143 million. The United States, 794,000 with about 317 million. India, 1.58 million officers with 1.24 billion people. China first, about 1.6 million officers and 1.3 billion people. Greg breaks the jokes long enough to say small nations cannot be stacked against America as if the scale were equal, and he thanks the Lord for getting them through the list.

              This is lighter than most Greg Lancaster programs. Listen for the rankings, the asides, and his reminder to support reporting on Israel at jerusalempost.com.

              Notable Quotes

              "If you have twenty people in your nation and you have nineteen police officers, that's not good for that one person."

              "They could fit in Jersey some of these countries."

              "I just want to thank the Lord for helping me get through that."

              #Jesus #Faith #GregLancaster #CurrentEvents #Israel #Humor

              Begin Your Journey Today!

              Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

              Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

              You don’t want to miss this journey.

              Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

              Sign of the Spirit-Filled Vine Seminar! Back to Jesus, Back to Being His Church @ https://VineSeminar.org

              Find your place the Vine Fellowship Network Family, at Loving God, Loving Others, and Leading Others to do the Same @ https://VineFellowshipNetwork.org

              Subscribe for more, and explore resources at https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

              Social Links My Links:

              https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster

              https://X.com/GregLancaster

              https://Facebook.com/RealGregLancaster https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

              Call to Action Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

               

              © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

              12 min
            2. Deep Dive - House Church vs. Church in a House

              3 Things You'll Learn

              1. Meeting in a living room does not make a group a church. Biblical order, shepherding, and accountability do.
              2. A house church without covering can become an echo chamber. A church in a house keeps the same blueprint as any faithful congregation.
              3. New church plants reach new people faster than large churches that mostly grow by transfer.

                4. Description:

                Close your eyes and picture church. A stadium with smoke machines? A stone cathedral? A worn couch? This deep dive strips the packaging and goes back to Acts. Jesus told the disciples to wait for dunamis power. Pentecost happened in a house. After Stephen was stoned, Saul dragged believers from house to house. Priscilla and Aquila hosted the church that met in their house. The argument from greglancaster.org/thevine is simple. Geography does not change God’s expectations. Mega, community, or living room is only the box. Obedience is the product.

                Jack Hollis draws the line that organizes the whole episode. There is a big difference between a house church and a church in a house. A house church, as the phrase is often used, can lack leaders, drift toward the loudest voice, and mutate into a social hangout. A church in a house may use the same couch, but it keeps biblical order, shepherding, and external accountability. Average U.S. congregation size is cited at about sixty-five, a group that can fit in a home. Many large ministries began in houses, including names like Morningstar, Saddleback, and Life.Church, but they did not stay an ungoverned circle of friends.

                Covering is described as care, not control. Pastors need to be pastored. Vine Fellowship Network is offered as an autonomous family that serves and equips without owning the local gathering. Peter Wagner’s research is cited. New plants win souls faster than churches stuck in maintenance and transfer growth. The seminar accounts include a lemon-sized tumor gone, a teenager waking from a coma, a dying man sitting up to plan a fishing trip, and a dream that kept a young man from arrest. Paul lowered his own cleverness so faith would rest on God’s power, not hype. The last question is not where you sit on Sunday. It is who you are fathering, and whose covering you are under.

                Notable Quotes

                "There's a big difference between a house church and a church in a house."

                "The building, the size of the crowd, the zip code, that never defines the church."

                "If it takes your hype to bring people in the door, it wasn't God doing the drawing, it was you."

                "The true church was never meant to be a production you attend. It was always meant to be a family you belong to."

                #Jesus #Church #Discipleship #BibleTeaching #GregLancaster #VineFellowship

                Begin Your Journey Today!

                Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

                Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

                You don’t want to miss this journey.

                Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

                Sign of the Spirit-Filled Vine Seminar! Back to Jesus, Back to Being His Church @ https://VineSeminar.org

                Find your place the Vine Fellowship Network Family, at Loving God, Loving Others, and Leading Others to do the Same @ https://VineFellowshipNetwork.org

                Subscribe for more, and explore resources @ https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

                Social Links My Links:

                https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks

                https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster

                https://X.com/GregLancaster

                https://Facebook.com/RealGregLancaster

                https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries

                https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

                Call to Action

                Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

                 

                © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

                23 min
              4. Partnering with Government Instead of Submitting to God

                3 Things You’ll Learn:

                1. Why submitting to God is fundamentally different from depending on human government. Government, leaders, pastors, and institutions can never replace a personal life of hearing, trusting, and obeying God.
                2. Why difficulty does not necessarily mean you missed God. Scripture repeatedly shows God’s people facing resistance, opposition, and spiritual battles precisely while obeying Him.
                3. Why God calls every believer to participate rather than hire someone else to fulfill their responsibility. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers are given to equip God’s people for works of service, not to replace the believer’s personal responsibility to follow Christ.

                  4. Episode Description

                  What happens when we begin trusting human systems to accomplish what only God can do?

                  In Episode 460, Greg Lancaster challenges believers to examine where their confidence really rests. When trouble comes, opposition rises, the economy shakes, or circumstances become uncomfortable, it does not automatically mean we have missed God. Jesus Himself warned His followers that obedience would bring opposition. Scripture reveals again and again that God demonstrates His power in the middle of circumstances that appear impossible.

                  Greg explores the difference between relying on "hirelings" and personally submitting to God. Drawing from John 10:12-13, James 4:7, Luke 4:5-6, Ephesians 6:12, and biblical examples including Abraham, Moses, Pharaoh, Jehoshaphat, and Jesus, he reminds us that our ultimate battle is spiritual. Government cannot produce righteousness, and leaders cannot take the place of our own responsibility to know God's Word, hear His voice, pray, repent, trust Him, and obey.

                  The question ultimately becomes deeply personal: Do we really trust God enough to let Him lead? God is trustworthy. He loves His people, speaks to His people, and has good plans for them. Rather than trying to control circumstances and people, believers are called to submit themselves to God, resist the devil, and follow the Lord wherever He leads.

                  Quotes:

                  “The goal should be to finish what God has called us to do so we can leave this earth saying we have finished the work that He called us to do.”

                  “You can’t hire somebody to do what you’re called to do.”

                  “The God of the Bible is the God of today. It’s not a history lesson. It is a practicum.”

                  #Faith #TrustGod #Jesus #Church #Government #Obedience #SpiritualWarfare

                  Begin Your Journey Today

                  Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

                  Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

                  You don’t want to miss this journey.

                  Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

                  Subscribe for more, and explore resources at

                  https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

                  Social Links

                  My Links: https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks

                  https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster
                  https://X.com/GregLancaster98
                  https://Facebook.com/RealGregLancaster
                  https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries
                  https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

                  Call to Action

                  Download the GLM APP — text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage

                  We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card: https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

                  © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

                  36 min
                4. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism Chair Robert Pittenger Warns Americans to Prepare

                  3 Things You’ll Learn:

                  1. Why prudent preparation is biblical wisdom, not panic. Scripture teaches that the prudent recognize danger and take appropriate action rather than ignoring what is in front of them.
                  2. What Congressman Robert Pittenger urged American families to do to prepare. Pittenger discusses practical preparations including water, food, medicines, first-aid supplies, emergency communications, and having a safe place for your family.
                  3. Why spiritual preparation matters even more than physical preparation. Greg Lancaster calls believers to turn to God, abide in Him, understand the times, care for their families, and remain focused on Jesus Christ and eternity.

                    4. Episode Description

                    What does biblical wisdom look like when the world around you becomes increasingly uncertain? In this episode, Greg Lancaster examines the importance of spiritual and practical preparedness, reminding believers that preparation does not have to come from panic. It can come from prudence, wisdom, and a desire to care responsibly for those God has entrusted to us.

                    The episode features an interview with then-Congressman Robert Pittenger, who discusses concerns about terrorism and encourages American families and small businesses to make practical emergency preparations. Pittenger talks about keeping water, canned food, prescriptions, first-aid supplies, emergency radio equipment, and other necessities accessible. Greg connects this practical advice with the biblical principle expressed in Proverbs 22:3: “A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” He also draws from his own experiences with hurricanes and emergencies to explain how quickly electricity, water, transportation, food supplies, and other things we routinely depend upon can be disrupted.

                    Yet the central message reaches beyond storing supplies. Greg urges listeners to prepare spiritually, turn wholeheartedly to God, remain close to Jesus, care for their families, and recognize that earthly security can never replace dependence upon the Lord. As Jesus taught concerning troubling events, believers are ultimately called to lift their eyes toward Him because their redemption is drawing near. The message closes in prayer for protection, peace, preparedness, America, its leaders, and Israel.

                    Quotes:

                    “It’s not enough to know the news. You need to know what to do with the news.”

                    “You can’t help anybody if you don’t help yourself and take care of your family.”

                    “Prepare them in their hearts, prepare them in the natural sense, prepare them in the spiritual sense.”

                    #Preparedness #Faith #Jesus #Prayer #Wisdom #America #Bible

                    Begin Your Journey Today

                    Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

                    Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

                    You don’t want to miss this journey.

                    Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

                    Subscribe for more, and explore resources at

                    https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

                    Social Links

                    My Links: https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks

                    https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster
                    https://X.com/GregLancaster98
                    https://Facebook.com/RealGregLancaster
                    https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries
                    https://Instagram.com/GregLancaster98

                    Call to Action

                    Download the GLM APP. Text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage.

                    We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card:

                    https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

                    © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

                    42 min
                  4. Has Leaving God’s Order of Family Increased the Rate of Suicide?

                    3 Things You’ll Learn:

                    1. Why God designed us for relationship and family. We were never created to live isolated, disconnected lives. God designed us to know Him and to walk in meaningful relationships with others.
                    2. Why relationships, trust, and belonging matter more than individual achievement. Research into successful organizations shows that healthy relationships, cooperation, and what researchers call “social capital” can accomplish what a collection of individual superstars cannot.
                    3. Why the Church must rediscover what it means to be the family of God. When believers merely attend gatherings without truly knowing, loving, supporting, and walking with one another, we can miss an essential part of God’s design for His people.

                      4. Episode Description

                      What happens when a culture increasingly trades family, relationship, and belonging for individual achievement, competition, and isolation? And what happens when the Church begins functioning more like an organization than the family of God?

                      In this episode, Greg Lancaster examines the powerful connection between relationship, belonging, purpose, and hope. Drawing from research on successful teams and the famous “super chicken” experiment, Greg explains why groups built around individual superstars can become unhealthy, while communities characterized by trust, cooperation, helpfulness, and genuine relationships can flourish. The lesson reaches far beyond business. Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches” (John 15:5). God designed His people to live connected to Christ and connected to one another.

                      Greg then turns to the tragedy of suicide and the devastating consequences that can accompany hopelessness, isolation, loss of meaning, and broken relationships. His message is ultimately one of hope: your life has purpose, God has a future for you, and you were created for relationship with Him and His family. As Psalm 118:17 declares, “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done.” Rather than accepting isolation as normal, believers can rediscover biblical community, build genuine relationships, encourage one another, and once again experience what it means to be the family of God.

                      Quotes:

                      “The world is figuring out what we as the Church have to re-get again, because everybody was created in the image and likeness of God.”

                      “The goal of this whole thing that God’s created is that He wants family. Ever since the Garden, He wants family. And the reward is family.”

                      “You’ve got to get where you’re connected. You’ve got to put yourself in there. You’ve got to break off the orphan spirit that would tell you you’re there, but you’re not there, and say, ‘I’ve got the Spirit of adoption on me. I am part of the family of God, and I’m going to participate.’”

                      Scripture

                      Psalm 118:17

                      “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done.”

                      Jeremiah 29:11

                      “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

                      John 15:5

                      “I am the vine; you are the branches.”

                      Colossians 3:14

                      “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

                      #FamilyOfGod #BiblicalCommunity #Jesus #Church #Faith #Hope #Relationships #Vine

                      Begin Your Journey Today

                      Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

                      Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

                      You don’t want to miss this journey.

                      Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

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                      © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

                      37 min
                    4. LIFE in the WORD

                      3 Things You’ll Learn:

                      1. Why Jesus said we cannot live by bread alone. Life is more than what we can acquire, achieve, eat, wear, or possess. Jesus points us to the Word that proceeds from God as essential to truly living.
                      2. Why there is life and power in the Word of God. God’s Word is not merely information. His Word reveals His will, gives wisdom, strengthens faith, directs our relationships, and teaches us how to live.
                      3. Why owning a Bible is not the same as living by it. Many people recognize the Bible’s importance and even own one, yet far fewer consistently engage with Scripture. Life changes when we begin aligning our lives with what God has actually said.

                        4. Episode Description

                        What if the life you have been searching for cannot be found in another job, another relationship, another purchase, another move, or another accomplishment? Jesus revealed something profound: “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).

                        In LIFE in the WORD, Greg Lancaster explores what Jesus meant when He connected truly living with hearing and receiving the Word of God. The episode features Denzel and Pauletta Washington discussing their participation in an audio Bible project and why they believe Scripture remains relevant, accessible, and powerful. Their conversation points to something millions recognize: the Bible speaks to marriage, relationships, purpose, faith, and the deepest questions of life.

                        Greg also examines research on Americans’ relationship with Scripture, revealing a striking difference between recognizing the Bible’s importance, owning a Bible, and actually reading and living by it. Jesus is the Word made flesh, and when we fill our hearts with His Word, His truth begins shaping what comes out of us. Rather than trying to survive on the natural “bread” the world continually offers, discover the fullness of life that comes through knowing God, hearing His Word, and bringing every area of your life into alignment with what He says.

                        Quotes:

                        “You need the Word to live because there’s life in the Word.”

                        “Life begins to happen in every aspect of our life when we say, ‘I’m going to line my life up with what the Word of God is saying.’”

                        “To live is to actually be in relationship with the One who gives life.”

                        Scripture References: Matthew 4:4; John 1:1, 14; Matthew 10:16-20; Matthew 12:34; Proverbs

                        #WordOfGod #Bible #Jesus #Faith #Scripture #ChristianLiving #BiblicalTruth

                        Begin Your Journey Today

                        Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.

                        Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.

                        You don’t want to miss this journey.

                        Start today: https://GregLancaster.org/StartHere

                        Subscribe for more, and explore resources at

                        https://GregLancaster.org and https://GregLancaster.org/Books.

                        Social Links

                        My Links: https://GregLancaster.org/MyLinks

                        https://YouTube.com/@GregLancaster
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                        https://Facebook.com/GregLancasterMinistries
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                        Call to Action

                        Download the GLM APP, text "GLM" to 77977 where we Connect & Engage.

                        We’d love to connect with you. Please take a moment to complete a connection card:

                        https://glministries.cls.co/YjDQ

                        © 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

                        24 min

                      About Greg Lancaster

                      From the publisher's feed

                      Ready to fight for the life you’re meant to live? Greg Lancaster—pastor, speaker, and author of I Will Fight—brings you a podcast packed with grit, grace, and God-sized vision. Drawing from his global ministry and media work, Greg delivers bold strategies, biblical truth, and real-world encouragement to help you conquer obstacles and claim your purpose. Each episode is a call to action for anyone hungry for hope and ready to rise. Tune in, get equipped, and let’s carry ”The Light” together!