Rinse and Repeat with Carol Eskaros

Follow your heart...

To your own heart be true...

You have my whole heart...

The heart is the subject of many cliches and much sentimentality. Today on Rinse and Repeat, we learn how the breastplate of righteousness is designed to protect the core of our being, especially the heart! In particular, we learn how God's righteousness (doing things God's way) protects us from sin and cleanses us from sin when we fail to do things God's way!

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"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

C.H. Spurgeon's quip holds true, especially in our age of social media and sound bites. Truth can seem outdated and old-fashioned, and upholding Biblical standards may seem out of sync with the times.

Ephesians 6:14 tells us, "Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness." Truth is not relative or subjective. Truth is a Person - Jesus Christ - and is knowable.

Today, we explore the belt of truth and how girding our waist with truth allows us to stand firm at all times and in all seasons.

This episode also features my personal and recent testimony and God's faithfulness as El Roi, the God who sees me.

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"The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy" -- Corrie Ten Boom

Today, we embark on a new series for a new year, exploring the armor of God as described in Ephesians 6. We will learn how to recognize the enemy's tactics and how to be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. Most of all, we will learn how to strengthen ourselves in the Lord, that we might STAND in the battle!

With so much that we pray to do and to change in 2025, what a great way to be prepared for the battles ahead!

In the first episode of 2025, we complete our series on surrender by understanding what it means to submit to one another in the fear of God (Ephesians 5:21).

Looking at various human relationships, like our relationship with authority, parents, and within marriage, we learn God's design for godly submission. Understanding what such submission is and what it isn't is remarkably important to not misrepresenting God's Word and His heart for His people and His design for society and the family.

As we begin 2025, join me with a fresh look at some of our most fundamental relationships and how we can best understand them through God's Word.

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What makes a good man a GREAT good man?

On this special Christmas episode, we look at Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, a man called by God to do the impossible. How do you father the very Son of God? How do you provide for Him and His mother?

Today, we will explore Matthew 1:18-25, when Joseph hears from the angel about the coming of Jesus, a passage that isn't most commonly taught at Christmastime. I explore Joseph's faith-filled response to the angel's pronouncement and what it means for us this Christmas. In studying the brief passage of this "Great Good Man," we learn how to obey God simply and watch Him work powerfully in our lives.

Join me for this special Christmas episode of Rinse and Repeat, and Merry Merry Christmas from each of us at Rinse and Repeat!

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God never asks us to surrender anything unless He has something greater in store, either in this life or the one to come.

This simple principle of surrender is proven over and over again in Scripture.

We see it in Hannah surrendering her son, to see God turn him into a priest before the king and in God giving her sons and daughters.

We see it in Jesus, surrendering His life for the salvation of the lives of the whole world.

And we will see it in our own lives, as He says, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life." (Mark 10:29-30).

Join me as we explore how God gives greater, today on Rinse and Repeat.

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What are we willing to do in our surrender to Christ?

Will we sacrifice time? Talents? Money? Relationships? Comfort?

Jesus commanded that all who would come after him would need to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Him. Today, we examine what a life of that kind of surrender looks like, which one young missionary described as a life with "No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets."

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Today, we embark on a brand new series here on Rinse and Repeat, a series exploring what it means to live fully surrendered to Christ.

So often, I am asked, "I don't feel anything in my Christian life. I don't feel what I once felt in my walk with the Lord." The Christian life is so often NOT about what we feel, but rather about a life of deep, abiding surrender.

In this first message in the series, I explore the various stages of our surrender, drawn from the life of Peter and his interactions with Jesus in Luke 5. Turn there with me now, as we learn how to “Trust the One You Believe In.”

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For all who are hard on yourselves...

For all who are over-achievers or perfectionists...

A word on Biblical self-care and above all, mercy!!

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The Bible refers to us as MORE than conquerors (Romans 8:37).

Have you ever wondered what makes us MORE than conquerors?

In today's episode, we conclude the book of Esther, as we see the Hebrew people MORE than conquering their enemies within the Persian empire. The Hebrews defeat their enemies with the means their enemies had devised for the Jews' destruction! That is just one example of being MORE than a conqueror!

Join me today as we explore how we are more than conquerors, no matter how daunting our circumstances appear today!

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