Higher Aim with Dr. Curt Dodd

The Lord wants to give us so much as His children. He wants us to experience His love, wisdom, freedom, and grace every single day. But in order for that to happen we have to listen to what He is saying to us. We must allow God to open our hearts and open our lives and ask that He would use these principles from His word to give us encouragement and point us to Christ. He wants us to take the next step to live in peace, joy and expectation. And He doesn’t want to just tell us how to do that, but He wants to show us through His Son.

When it comes to knowing how God works, knowing what God desires of our lives, and seeing what He’s doing in the lives in the others, sometimes we are confused as to which direction He’s moving. When we are feeling this confusion, we must take another look at John 1:18. That last phrase, “has made him known,” is what leads us to where we’ve been camping out for the last several weeks. It’s the descriptive phrase in the Koine Greek language that says, “to draw out in a narrative.” This verse is saying that the works of Jesus, the words of Jesus, and the life of Jesus are revealing to us who God is, what God thinks, how He wants us to relate to Him, and how He responds to us. And it is that phrase we are going to continue looking at in this message so we can better understand God’s character.

As we read the Word and allow the narrative of the story to unfold, we realize that one thing is built on another. Now remember, Jesus had just finished feeding 5,000 people with a sack lunch. He dismisses the crowd. The disciples have 12 baskets of food left over, one for each disciple. Jesus makes them get into the boat and He says, “I'll meet you on the other side.” Then He walks on water, rough water, and they see a miracle. He gets into the boat, and they go to the other side. That very same crowd has now realized when they wake up, that He is gone. Knowing that His disciples had left, they leave, and they head to the very same area where the disciples had gone in the boat. This huge crowd followed Christ and they found Him on the other side of the lake. They want another miracle and Jesus knows their hearts. And He basically says to them, “You are following Me because you want another miracle. You are following Me because of the bread I gave you.” But as they continue to follow Him, they’ll realize that He is the true “bread of life” that they need to be satisfied.

No one has ever seen God. His is an invisible God, but the one and only Son who is Himself God and is in the closest relationship with the Father has made Him known. This means, even if we can’t see God with our eyes, we can know a lot about Him by the way He is described in Scripture. There is so much to learn about the Lord’s character, and we’re going to take a look at two specific aspects of that character in this week’s message.

In this week’s message, Dr. Curt Dodd is going to teach us how to develop the passion to share Christ with other people. We all need to realize that the role we play in sharing Christ with others is more important than we could even imagine. It’s been said that sometimes the only Bible people will read is us. So it’s our job to use our life as an open book to point others to Christ and to be the heaven connection God wants us to be.

Do you need a miracle in your life? Are you in a situation where you’re going through some rough waters, some difficult times, and you need God to answer a prayer, intervene in a situation, and change the course of your life? If that’s you, then this message from Dr. Dodd is going to give you an encouraging and powerful word for your life right now. We’re going to take a look at the biblical account of Jesus walking on the water, and we’re going to look at how we can become water walkers and see God work in the midst of the rough waters in our lives today.

God will use all kinds of circumstances and situations in your life to point you Him, because choosing to follow Him is the most importance decision you will ever make in your life; now what you will do for a living, not who you will marry, but rather what will you do about eternity? One day, you’re going to die. That’s true for all of us. But there is hope in life after death, and that hope comes from the Lord. That’s why He sent Jesus, to give us that hope and to point us to Himself so that we might spend eternity in fellowship with our Heavenly Father.

Did you ever participate in show and tell when you were in elementary school? You were asked to bring in something interesting or unique to show the class, and you would get up and front of everyone and tell them about whatever it is you brought. Well, if you think about it, Jesus was the ultimate show and tell presented by God. Jesus came to tell us about God, to make Him known to us, and to show us how we can have a relationship with Him. Today’s message is the first of a breakout series called Show and Tell where we will look at how Jesus showed us God and told us about God in a way that would alter history and impact all of humanity.

Dr. Dodd speaks in front of the "Car-Henge" in Nebraska where he reminds us that even when life feels strange and our problems start piling up, God is there in the midst of it all.

As Christians who read God’s Word, it’s very easy for us to live with a black and white viewpoint of the law. This is where legalism comes in and threatens our understanding and offering of grace. Thankfully, god doesn’t want us to live in black and white under the law. Rather, He wants you to learn to live with grace and truth in Jesus Christ, because yes, truth is important, but so is grace. We can’t have too much of one and not enough of the other or an imbalance happens. In this message, Dr. Dodd will give you five actions you can take to help you understand how to go from black and white to living color in your Christian life.