Leadership in Context

When you make a decision, you are stewarding the time, talent, and treasure that has been entrusted to you. If we are good stewards and walk humbly before the Lord, God will enable us to escape from our defeats and triumph in our victories in decision making. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

God wants people with fruitful lives that know how to make decisions. When you make a decision, you are cutting off the escape hatches of the other places you could go. Our decisions won’t make or break us, but our decisions will mark us. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

God has anointed all of us to lead in some respect, in some capacity, in some sphere. The most distinctive sign of a leader is decisiveness. Being a leader, however, does not mean that every decision made will be the right decision. To be effective at leading, we must be decisive and not fear the consequences of a bad decision. Don’t let the paralysis of analysis cause you to not move forward. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

There is a difference between Truth and fact. Facts are accurate, but subject to change. Truth is eternal. God invests in us and gives us the stewardship of preaching, teaching, and living that which is eternal. That is a very important understanding to have when discussing the issue of civil disobedience. If we are going to violate the standards of civil government by trying to remain true to God, the objective in our heart should not be defiance; it should be obedience. We should have a deep desire to obey God, be true to God, and stand against lies. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

We do not lose our civil rights when we stand behind the pulpit. We have the liberty, the authority, the responsibility to speak about anything to anyone, as long as we believe it is related to the gospel. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

We pay so much attention to the environment of worship that we tend to forget the content of worship. Worship should have a good environment (crisp sound, excellent in every way), but you can do all of that and still not have the right content in worship. We need to sing about the exploits of God. Sing about the gospel. Sing about the message. Sing the Word of God. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Worship should be bragging on God. And yet, so many of the songs focus on me. How I feel. What I think. What I want God to do. Scripture tells us again and again to sing praises to God. Our songs are to be adoration towards Him, not focused on us. We should be spending our time together in worship boasting on our God. In turn, we will find ourselves edified and encouraged. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

God revealed His character to us through His writings, the history, the prophets, and the law of the Old Testament. If we are going to preach the benefits and the abundance of grace—which we absolutely must, we also must preach responsibility of the hearer in the call to obedience and the consequences of disobedience. Grace is not divine slack. Grace is God’s divine empowerment. God is consistent in His nature and consistent in His character. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Today Keith continues the discussion of Hebrews. The writer of Hebrews had several opportunities to discount the law—to tell the readers that the law no longer applies to them, that it doesn’t count anymore. But instead, he affirms the law, showing that Abraham, Moses, and Jesus all preached the same thing. The book of Hebrews affirms the Old Testament. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Keith begins a series of conversations where he models a practical approach to applying the Word of God. He looks at the book of Hebrews in light of some of the arguments coming out of the hyper-grace movement. Jesus came to fulfill the law, not abolish the law. The book of Hebrews helps us understand what part of the sacrificial and ceremonial law was fulfilled by Christ and that the moral law, the criminal law, the applications of the law still stand today. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.