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Your phone might be the biggest discipleship battle in your home - and you don't even realize it. In this episode of Discipleship for Dads, Kevin Swanson, Todd Strawser, and Danny Craig put their phones down long enough to ask the hard question: what is that little screen actually doing to your walk with God and your relationship with your family? They dig into the heart behind the habit - diversion, escapism, the "tyranny of the urgent," FOMO, and the love of pleasure over the love of God - and open the Word to find real answers (1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, Psalm 1, Galatians 5). What you'll hear: • Why "providential proximity" should change how you use your phone • Redeeming the wasted "cracks" of your day with Scripture and prayer • Practical guardrails - leave it in the car, leave it in the office • When (and how) to give your kids a phone • Building a family culture worth putting the phone down for Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls (Proverbs 25:28). Let's build the walls back up. Got a topic you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected] Subscribe for more God-centered family discipleship from Generations. #DiscipleshipForDads #ChristianFatherhood #Generations #KevinSwanson #ScreenTime #ChristianParenting #FamilyDiscipleship

Hosea was the prophet of God's zero hour. For their rebellion against God and their awful sin, the Northern Kingdom was about to be overrun by the Assyrians and its people taken into captivity. Hosea, the 8th century BCE prophet, whose painful personal life was like a metaphor for God's relationship with a straying Israel, once again appeals to them to come to repentance. Note the text "O Israel you have destroyed yourself. But in Me is your help." The nation had dug its own grave. But there was still help. That help was only in God himself. We can see ourselves here. Our sinfulness has brought us under God's wrath. But there is help in Him. In love, He sent His own Son. Our salvation is through Him becoming our substitute and through the Spirit gift of the Son, giving us power to be different.

The sermon explores the theme of Jesus Christ's superiority as presented in Hebrews 1, contrasting the fragmented and temporary methods of God's past communication with the complete and final revelation found in His Son. It argues that while God spoke through various means such as prophets, angels, and theophanies, these were insufficient compared to the ultimate truth embodied in Jesus. The preacher emphasizes that the current era is defined by this singular voice of Christ, accessible through the Incarnation, the inspired Scriptures, and the indwelling Holy Spirit who glorifies Jesus. Rejecting the desire for renewed miraculous signs or prophecies, the text asserts that believers possess a complete and sufficient revelation in the Bible. The message concludes with an urgent call to listen to this final voice of God and recognize believers as Christ's eternal inheritance.

Paul tells the Church in Corinth they were not taking advantage of the Spirit of God ​H​e had been given to them​. He calls them Babes in Christ because they are behaving like normal humans, rather than ​people endowed with the power of the Holy Spirit. the spiritual people God wants them to be. He then moves to the responsibility of the leadership in Corinth​. He tells them to build the body on the foundation Paul laid—Jesus the Messiah! Jesus, alone, is the sole foundation of the church, ​a​nd they need to be careful to build on that foundation​ with eternal values, rather than human values, converting their boasting away from men and toward God alone.

This devotional explores the Heidelberg Catechism's teaching on the Lord's Supper, clarifying that believers partake in Christ's body and blood spiritually rather than physically. It emphasizes that true faith, empowered by the Holy Spirit, unites the believer with Christ, making his sacrifice personally effective for salvation. The sermon uses the analogy of marriage to illustrate that just as vows require consummation, knowledge of Christ requires a vital, spiritual union through faith. This participation provides assurance that Christ's righteousness is imputed to the believer, contrasting this truth with mere intellectual assent or physical ritualism. Ultimately, the sacrament serves as a tangible pledge of the invisible reality of salvation and eternal life found only in Christ.

What does it mean and NOT mean for a man to have "no rule over his own spirit"? We will look to Scripture and the teachings and examples of Jesus and Paul. Also Reference: 2 Corinthians 13:10, John 2:15, Titus 1:7, Galatians 5:22-23 https://bbfohio.com

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This sermon examines the sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer, focusing on the plea to be led not into temptation but delivered from evil. The preacher clarifies that while God never tempts anyone to sin, He sovereignly ordains circumstances where believers may face trials, requiring constant reliance on His grace. The text highlights three key aspects: understanding the pervasive nature of spiritual warfare against the world, the devil, and the flesh; fearing the destructive power of sin more than external afflictions; and seeking deliverance through Christ's intercession and the Holy Spirit's strength. In closing, the message urges believers to actively avoid sinful opportunities, support one another in accountability, and look forward to final glorification where sin is entirely removed.

We are reminded that true worship must be offered to God in spirit and in truth, or it is not acceptable to Him. The message teaches us from John 4 and Isaiah 1 that not all religious activity, emotion, prayer, praise, or outward worship pleases God, especially when the heart is disobedient, unfaithful, or hiding sin. We are shown that real worship is not a performance, emotional excitement, tradition, storytelling, or self-focused religion, but honest reverence, love, obedience, and adoration directed toward the true God revealed in Jesus Christ and His Word. The sermon calls us to be open and honest before God, reject false and fleshly worship, know Christ personally, and worship the Father with a clean heart, in the truth of Scripture, and by the Spirit of God.