Kurt and Kate Mornings

Our good friend Rebecca Klein is the Executive Director of A Woman's Choice - Lakeland.We love it when she drops by to talk about the fight for life. So many aspects of this! This morning, she stopped by to share the spiritual and biblical ramifications at stake when it comes to Florida's Amendment 4 vote coming up on Election Day, November 5th!

The Facts on (Amendment) Four; Free Educational Event - Lakeland
Oct 8, 2024

https://www.moodyradio.org/stations/florida/community/community-calendar/2024/10/geneva-classical-academy/

Here are the links to A Woman's Choice:

https://yourchoicelakeland.com/  
https://supportawc.com/
863-683-2341 

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Follower of Jesus, have you ever asked this question: What is sanctification? Good! It’s important! Pastor Bryan Schneider joined us and shared what it is...and isn’t.

https://gentlereformation.com/2024/08/21/sanctification-explained-simply/

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To make God-glorifying decisions, we will often need to reject the world’s wisdom. Our guest this morning put it this way: “Saying that we don’t know how to make everyday decisions that glorify God does not mean Christians never make such decisions. Instead, it means that the decisions we make are often informed by cultural conventions; stories that distort, if not deny, the triune God. Our decision-making cannot depend on such conventions.” Dr. James Spencer from the D.L. Moody Center stopped by and helped us zero in on this!

https://usefultogod.com/decisions  -- enter your name and email address, then download the free resource!

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Some Christian doctrines are weightier than others. When discussing Christian theology, many of us have heard the helpful quote attributed to Augustine, “In the essentials, unity, in the non-essentials liberty, and in all things charity.” There is much to be learned from this quote, but did you know that many Bible teachers identify four different categories of doctrinal weight? Our good friend Doug Eaton helped us with this when he stopped by this morning.

https://fightoffaithblog.com/2024/08/20/4-categories-of-doctrinal-weight-in-christian-theology/

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After five years, Kurt and Kate took to the road and returned to Lighthouse Ministries Family Store in Brandon! They've recently renovated that location, and it was wonderful to reconnect with the ministry to get an update on all their services that include residential programs, feeding and sheltering the homeless, and outreach centers within their thrift stores to assist low-income and at-risk families in West Central Florida. The Lord is on the move in and through this ministry, as lives are being touched in powerful ways with the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

https://www.lighthousemin.org/

You can check out Deron's music here: https://www.youtube.com/@derongregg1156 and here: https://unitedmasters.com/a/deronbgc 

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Why would a person take his own life, especially a young person who has so much to live for? When our natural instinct is to do everything in our power to preserve and protect our personal well-being, why would anyone kill himself? Suicide, though, doesn’t end all pain because it is never a solitary act with a single consequence of a life ended. When one person takes his/her life, a host of other lives are sucked into the vortex. Every person who commits suicide leaves others behind lamenting the loss, sometimes for the rest of their lives—colleagues and friends, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children. Jon Noyes, from the ministry Stand to Reason, joined us and shared that suicide has impacted his own family and explains how this topic goes far deeper than an academic conversation.

https://www.str.org/w/suicide-when-hope-runs-out

CRU: Suicide Prevention Resources

Dial 1-800-273-TALK (8255) to talk to someone now https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/life-and-relationships/hardships/suicide-prevention-resources.html

Focus on the Family: Suicide - Resources 800-232-6459 https://www.focusonthefamily.com/resources-suicide/

If you need to talk, the 988 Lifeline is here. At the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, we understand that life's challenges can sometimes be difficult. Whether you're facing mental health struggles, emotional distress, alcohol or drug use concerns, or just need someone to talk to, our caring counselors are here for you. You are not alone. https://988lifeline.org/ 

 

 

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Remember Christian singer/songwriter Keith Green? Here’s a line from the song How Can They Live Without Jesus: “…he’s not just a religion/With steeples and bells/Or a salesman who will sell you/The things you just want to hear..”That first line in particular. It was clear that Green – born in 1953 – had that Boomer suspicion of all things structured about the faith. For him, sincerity lay in a lack of structure.

The more structure the less real. The less real the less likely to be how Jesus would have done it. By stating that Jesus is not “just” a religion with the familiar markings of a church building, and the calls to worship that bells ensued, he was seeking to distance the gospel from the conservative formalism that so many Boomers had rejected in the culture, not just in church. Green gave tens of thousands of his albums away for free, and refused to charge for his concerts. He practiced what he preached.

Note an irony about those two lines I just quoted.The rejection and removal of the former was often accompanied by the uncritical adoption of the latter. Enter the “seeker sensitive movement” in the church. How did this play out? Blogger and pastor Stephen McAlpine joined us to explain.

https://stephenmcalpine.com/keith-green-bill-hybels-and-the-loss-of-steeples-and-bells/

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Forgiveness. It is so much easier to talk about forgiveness, if you don't have someone in mind to forgive. The truth is, how can we withhold forgiveness from others, when those in Christ have been forgiven much? Listeners weighed in with stories of how they have been hurt.....and how God has helped them to forgive.

https://revdaveharvey.com/2024/07/23/3-questions-to-ask-about-forgiveness-2/

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Pastor, author, and church planter, Christopher Ash, writes this: “For some years now I have been on a voyage of discovery in the book of Psalms. In particular, I have wanted to know how we, as new covenant believers today, ought to read and sing the Psalms.” Isn’t that great? He joined us and shared four Psalms you didn't realize point to Christ!

https://www.crossway.org/articles/4-psalms-you-didnt-realize-point-to-christ/

https://www.crossway.org/books/the-psalms-hcj-5/

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God used George Sweeting in amazing ways! He went home to be with the Lord at the age of 99 a few days ago. We wanted to set aside some time to honor Dr. Sweeting. Longtime Moody Radio personality, Ruth Dinwiddie, joined us in studio to reflect on a life well lived for the glory of God!

Dr. George Sweeting (1924–2024) | Moody Bible Institute

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