One Right Church

Preaching has been around since the beginning of the church; one could even say the prophets did it before that. Yet, it is viewed with suspicion. In this episode, we encourage you to listen to preaching.

We recorded this episode because we are having a special guest next week. He is a preacher who is so warm-hearted and truthful that he was influential in leading many to Jesus. Stay tuned...

"I'm not superstitious...I'm just regular-stitious."

It is easy for your beliefs or religion to cross over into superstition if you are not careful. In this episode, we discuss the difference between faith and superstition.

One of my key takeaways is that God loves you, and you don't have to do certain things to ensure you stay in his favor. I hope this is an encouragement to you.

Is leaving the church the same as leaving the faith? Have you left the faith if you've left Followers? Is there only one church that can get you to heaven?

In this episode, we talk about the relationship between the church and the faith. Are they necessarily the same thing? We hope this helps you find freedom in Christ.

We hear the same question about grace over and over. It may be worded differently. Is grace too easy? Will grace let you off the hook? Does grace mean you can do anything you want? In other words, can you abuse grace?

This is a great question because it recognizes God's generosity and kindness, but misses the effects of grace. Grace itself works in someone's life and will change the person who receives it.

We hope this helps you live by faith in God's grace. We hope this helps you give up on working for your own salvation.

Call it a hunch. Call it a bad feeling. Can you, should you trust it? Can you trust something more reliable than your intuition? Can you trust your feelings? Does God work through our feelings? That is our topic in this episode. I hope this helps you make good decisions.

We've talked about the characteristics of the One Right Church before. This episode addresses why you might want to reexamine continuing in a church with those characteristics. What might be the problem with continuing in the One Right Church? After all, why not One Right Church?

Bible study ended up being a big part of Mark's story. Several people are afraid of studying the Bible. They fear that studying the Bible might lead you away from the One Right Church. In this episode, we talk about why Bible study is a good thing. When other people join you in Bible study, you end up hearing from God in ways you wouldn't have by yourself. We do hope you will find people to study the Bible with.

In this episode, we discuss the difference between grieving with hope and without hope. Mark recently lost his nephew, Jake, in a tragic motorcycle accident. He and many others are grieving the loss. Jake had a strong faith in Jesus. As we reflect on it, his faith makes a huge difference in how we process our grief. We grieve with hope and find this to be another reason to commend genuine faith in Jesus.

In this episode, we answer two listener questions. One question is about parenting; the other is about what it means that a believer might make another family member holy.

A listener asked us to talk about propitiation. It's Christmas party conversation material, but propitiation is a very important word. In short, it means the satisfaction of wrath. Propitiation means Jesus has satisfied God's wrath and you don't need to. We hope this helps you trust Jesus.