How does God bring correction to His kids? After all, He is the Father God, the ultimate father in the universe. Some seem to think that God sends horribleness in the form of disasters and terrible diseases to bring His kids in line. Is that what God does? In this podcast, we examine the subject of the discipline of the Lord. Why You Need to Know about How God Corrects His Kids, that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Grieving the Holy Spirit. What is that all about? It's obviously not a good thing. But, how bad is it? How can we avoid grieving the Spirit in our everyday life? Why It's Vital Not to Grieve the Spirit of God - that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

In this podcast, we continue on with the thought of what's our 'next move' now that we have put on Christ. In a previous podcast. we took on two of these moves - this podcast is the continuation from Ephesians four, where we cover three more areas. More of Putting On the New Man in Christ: What's Your Next Move? that's our focus on this week's Light On Life.

If you read the New Testament, especially the epistles, you will run upon the phrase 'putting on the new man in Christ.' But, what does that mean? How does it work? And. how can it change our lives? All of these are great questions. And in this week's Light on Life Podcast, we take a look at this phrase in Ephesians four. "Putting On the New Man in Christ: What's Your Next Move?"

Learning Christ is Paul's admonition, by the Spirit of God, to the church at Ephesus in chapter four of his letter to them. Have you ever considered what it means to learn Christ? To understand this phrase, it's necessary to look at the use of these unique words in the New Testament in its setting. Why You Should Learn Christ and Understand It's Not Jesus Last Name, that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Robert Schuller relays this family story about the issue of total trust. In his words, he says, "One problem I remember was a time when our son Bob broke our trust and lied to his mother and me. There was a real scene between us. He had violated our trust; it was like a crack in a fine cup that marred its appearance. In the confrontation, I smashed a fine English teacup on the floor and told Bob that restoring our trust would be like gluing that cup back together again. He said, "I don't know if I can do that." And I said, "Well, that's how hard it is to build confidence and trust again." The outcome was that Bob spent weeks literally carefully gluing the pieces together until he finished. He learned a very important lesson. There are lessons here in this story that help us understand what it means to follow Jesus. Believing and then abiding in Him means total trust all the time. Robert's son violated that parental trust, and it caused a momentary 'crack' in their relationship. Continuing in the words of your Father God builds an intact trust.

Today, we look at Paul's last reference to the 'dark life' in Ephesians four, 'greedy to practice impurity.' There is a sobering element to unrighteousness. And we, as Jesus' followers, should learn to see things as He sees them. We must love what He loves and hate what He hates. Why God Despises Impurity and Why You Should As Well, that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

In a previous podcast, entitled 'Why Believing and Abiding Is the Key to the Happy Life,' [Part 1 of a 2-part series], we began to focus on what believing and abiding in Jesus really means. We saw that to 'believe' means to entrust oneself to God in complete confidence, with the implication of total commitment. We understood that 'abiding' means to continue in a certain state, condition, or activity. And, that when you weave these concepts together you come up with total commitment - total time. That is that God wants you to trust Him all the way, all the time throughout your entire life. In part two, we continue to hone in on what Jesus meant when He said, if you abide in me, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. More of Why believing and Abiding Is the Key to a Happy Life is our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Callousness in the spiritual life, what is it? Sensuality? why is it deadly? According to God, in Ephesians four, these are two traits that are not to be named among Jesus-followers. These two traits are part of the life you used to live and not the abundant life you should be that Jesus gave us. Why this is true is the focus of this podcast. Why Callousness and Sensuality Are Not Part of the Abundant Life of Jesus, that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Everyone is looking to be happy, but how do you get to that point. Jesus gave us a clue in John's gospel -- abiding in Him. Our job is to believe the words of Jesus and to work the Word until the Word works. That is, we should continue to look for ways to apply the Bible in our everyday situations. Why Believing and Abiding Is the Key to the Happy Life, that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.