Series  3   Episode    29

Luke 16:1-13

Series  3   Episode   28

Matthew 8:5-13

Season 1   Episode  10      Proverbs 4:7  "Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom..." 

Wisdom -- Seeing and responding to life situations from God's frame of reference. 

This podcast is explains: 1) The Priority of Wisdom  2) Wisdom and Reality   3)   Wisdom and Pride   4)   Wisdom and the Lord Jesus Christ

My son Josh and myself (Pastor Cook) interact with each other concerning how do we practically trust God for the impossible situations of our lives.   Through understanding the wisdom and power of the life of  the Lord Jesus Christ we can trust God to work miracles of grace in our family and marriage.  

Season 1    Episode  9      This is a message I preached this past Sunday concerning the critical vital need of prayer in our personal life, our home life, our church life in our married life -- in all aspects of life.    

In order for mom and dad to be heirs together of the grace of life in parenting it is critical to to understand the points of this message.     1 Peter 3:7      Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them [your wife] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. God gives grace to the Father and God gives grace to the Mother in parenting.  In the home when God gives grace (to father and mother) He is giving the desire to do His will and the power to do His will.  Parents are equipped in the parenting and shepherding of their children by the divine enabling of grace. Grace parenting is vitally linked to the constancy of praying.     

 Psalm 127:1     Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 

 Through prayer we cooperate with God in the house (family) He is building by His power and divine enabling. The house must be built by God, hence there must be the constancy of praying to God.  Parents need wisdom from above in the daily parenting.   situations that arise.  James 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Each one of these qualities is essential in parenting.  How is it that we are to have this wisdom and these qualities?   James 1:5     If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 

The key to Parenting Wisdom is praying.  

Season 1 Episode 8

When I was 6 years old (66 years old now)  I remember playing little league baseball. It was my time to bat and I remember hearing my dad in the stands affirming and cheering for me to get a hit. There is a lot I don't remember from my childhood but that was a golden moment I will never forget -- my dad cheering me on !!!!. All sons and daughters need their father's affirmation desperately. That is the focal point of this podcast. I mentioned in this podcast the critical need to emphasize character qualities in the home. Every father needs to have a list of character qualities and their definitions at his disposal that he can use to properly praise his sons and daughters. 

Here is a beginning list:  truthfulness, obedience, sincerity, virtue, boldness, forgiveness, persuasiveness, alertness, hospitality, generosity, joyfulness, flexibility, availability, endurance, self-control, reverence, diligence, thoroughness, dependability, security, patience, wisdom, discernment, faith, discretion, love, creativity, enthusiasm, resourcefulness, thriftiness, contentment, punctuality, tolerance, cautiousness, gratefulness, orderliness, initiative, responsibility, humility, decisiveness, determination, loyalty, attentiveness, sensitvity, justice, compassion, gentleness, deference, meekness.

 If you would like to have a pdf copy of these character qualities with definitions emailed to you please email me at [email protected] and I will send you a pdf attached file with definitions. 

Season 1  Episode 7

I encourage you to listen to this podcast with your family from Psalm 100 and have a discussion time as a family about the truth in Psalms 100.

It would be good to memorize the chapter together as a family.

Also there is a lot of wisdom in discussing together what it says about our God is our Creator.  God tells us in His Word that one of the first major concepts of truth that children need to learn has to do with Him being our Creator. 

Remember the Creator in the days of your youth   Ecclesiastes 12:1

Season 1   Episode 6

When I was eighteen years old I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father in a personal way. I knew I had a personal relationship to the Creator God and the Redeemer God because of answers to prayer that only God and I knew about.  The Navigator Ministry in those days had a packet of five verses to memorize for the new believer. Each verse was an assurance of some aspect of truth about God. The five verses I memorized then have been the bread and butter time and again in my journey with God in this life.                   Here are the five assurance verses.

# 1     Assurance of Salvation 1 John 5:11-13     # 2    Assurance of Forgiveness of Sins   1 John 1:9          # 3    Assurance of Overcoming Temptation             1 Corinthians 10:13     #  4  Assurance of Answers to Prayer    John 16:24      # 5 Assurance of Guidance   Proverbs 3:5,6

I would encourage you to memorize these verses as a family so that each member of your family can have the assurance and reality  of the truth in each one constantly manifested in your lives in practical tangible ways.

Series 1   Episode  1 better audio version

Every father who has found his way to this podcast should listen to this message first.

In this introductory podcast I explain the foundations of how I was led by God to begin this podcast ministry.

Biographical Information – Pastor Randy Cook

I was born in 1954 in Phenix City, Alabama and saved when I was 18 years old through Tom Tarvin sharing the gospel with me. He continued to teach and disciple me for two years -- to grow in my relationship and fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ and to know God, love God and worship God.

I attended Columbia Bible College 1974 -1976.  I attended  Philadelphia Bible College  (from 1976-1979) and graduated  in 1979.

I attended Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield PA for two years before God called me to pastor the Greenwich Baptist Church.

My wife (Vicki) and I met at Columbia Bible College and were married in Bridgeton NJ in 1976.  She was born and raised in NJ.

God blessed us with ten children and 19 grandchildren (as of June 26, 2020) and there is one other grandchild on the way.

I have been in pastoral ministry for 44 years in  4 different churches.

# 1   Pearl Street Baptist Church in Bridgeton NJ (Associate Pastor 1976 - 1979)

# 2 Calvary Baptist in Bethlehem PA  (Associate Pastor 1979-1981)

# 3 Greenwich Baptist in Greenwich NJ (Senior Pastor 1981 - 1996)

# 4  Greenville Christian Fellowship in Greenville S.C. (where I presently have served since 1999).

Vicki and I were able by God's grace to home-school all ten of our children (6 sons and 4 daughters).

When I was pastor of  Greenwich Baptist Church we also had a home school ministry in South Jersey

that provided a support group for other home-school moms and dads.

I am so thankful to God for all the believers he has brought into our lives (as a family)  over the years. They have come alongside of our family and have had a strong spiritual impact upon us to spur us on to become more like our Lord Jesus Christ.   I am also thankful for all the families God has joined us to through the marriage of our sons and daughters. Together we all have one single purpose -- to know Christ and make Him known.

I mentioned in this foundational podcast the critical importance of God's mercy in our lives. None of us have a success story to tell. We all as believers have a mercy and grace story to tell. How faithful God has been in our lives based on His mercy and grace.

His goodness and mercy must follow us all the days of our lives.

Series  3  Episode 27

Matthew 20:1-16   This message is part of a series on the parables of Jesus.

Series  3  Episode 26

John 14:1-7