Taught by Grace

Taught by Grace

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  • 142 - The Ten Commandments: An Introductory Episode
    You hear the word commandment and begin to cringe a bit. Oh yeah, I like hearing about the cross and resurrection, but do we really have to talk about the Ten Commandments? They’ve been fulfilled in Jesus anyways, haven’t they? Yes, Christ has fulfilled it, but He didn’t destroy it. There is still much to learn and much to be applied to us from these. 
    At the outset, however, I hope to remove any notion that these are just a stodgy, cold set of rules and regulations. That God is trying to take away all of the fun from our lives. The Ten Commandments do not enslave God’s people. They don’t attach a ball and chain to our feet, keeping us away from freedom. In reality, the Ten Commandments come from a gloriously, holy God who had redeemed Israel from bondage and wanted them to live as His peculiar people. 
    If we’re going to get all we can out of studying these, we must be properly introduced to them. So, this week, I want to introduce them by showing you what we must know about God, why we should study the Ten Commandments, and how we will go about studying them.
    17 min
  • 141 - What we Learned in Bible College with Jonathan Snow
    Jonathan Snow and I started at Calvary Baptist Bible College four years ago. On the day of our graduation, we sat around a mic and reflected on some lessons we've learned during our time at Calvary.
    There are a wide array of lessons mentioned in this episode:
    Suffering - Jon speaks about God's sufficient grace through his wife's sickness and recovery in 2021.
    The greatness of God - We've both learned that God is bigger and better than we can imagine
    The Sufficiency of Scripture - We both graduate more confident than ever in God's Word.
    In addition to this, you will hear two friends reflect on God's grace in our lives. We mention everything from time management to being overwhelmed by assignments to the brevity of life. If you listen to the end, you'll even hear about our funniest moments from college. One includes Jon joking and the other includes Jon falling asleep.
    48 min
  • 140 - Why An Ugly Cross Is So Beautiful

    The cross is fundamentally not beautiful. The cross was the Roman version of a gas chamber, electric chair, or any other executionary tool. How could that be beautiful? Yet, Christians sing hymns with words like “I will cherish the old rugged cross.” Cherishing an ugly cross seems like a foolish notion, doesn’t it?  No one is going to say “I will cherish the sword that cuts off a criminal’s head!” No one would say “I will boast in the electric chair!” But that’s precisely what Christians are saying when we rejoice in the cross. 

    What makes this instrument of death beautiful? It isn’t beautiful because of the cross itself, but because of what happened on the cross. We cherish the old rugged cross because the greatest event in history happened on the cross - God the Son took the place of sinners and died for our sins.


    10 min
  • 139 - The Thief on the Cross: Luke 23:39-43

    What did the thief do to make him worthy of Jesus saying “Today, thou shalt be with me in paradise.”

    He didn’t have anything to give Jesus. 

    He couldn’t get baptized. 

    He didn’t have theological jargon. 

    The only thing this man had was faith in the man on the middle cross. He knew that the one there was totally different from everyone else. He turned to Jesus alone for salvation and Jesus alone was enough. 

    Friends, this is all that matters still. The second saying of Jesus points us to the sufficient, free grace of our Savior. The thief on the cross reminds us that our salvation is not about us. It’s about Jesus! He got in because Jesus received him. He got in because Jesus died for him. He got in because Jesus would bring him in. This is the only way we get in as well. 


    15 min
  • 138 - Father, Forgive Them: Luke 23:34

    We are just a few weeks out from Easter Sunday. I hadn’t originally planned on doing an Easter series, but my attention has recently been drawn to the seven sayings of Jesus on the cross. I hope to help you prepare your heart for Easter by studying these sayings over the next several weeks.

    On the cross, you see the love of God and the love of Christ in what Jesus did. We learn the depth of His love by seeing how Jesus lived and died for us. However, that’s not the only way we see His love for sinners. Jesus didn’t say much while He was on the cross, but what He said reveals much about the kind of Savior He is.

    He only spoke seven times, but these seven statements show us much about who Jesus is.

    We see His heart for those who hate Him in Him praying, “Father, forgive them”. We examine this statement in this week's episode. 

    15 min
  • 137 - This is Our Father's World: Matthew 6:13

    Why did Jesus command us to pray what He commanded us to pray? 

    Why do we pray what the Lord's Prayer teaches us to pray? 

    We pray it because of what the last phrase says - For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever, amen. 

    This last phrase shows us two reasons why we pray this way:

    1. It all belongs to Him
    2. It all belongs to Him forever!

      3. We pray this prayer because this is our Father’s world. 

      The Lord’s Prayer shocks us back ] into reality. It reminds us again and again that we are praying to an all-glorious, all-wonderful God and that this God is our Father! The kingdom, power, and glory belong to Him forever. We pray this way because this is our Father's World!

      16 min
    3. 136 - Bringing Our Needs to the Father: Matthew 6:11-13
      Jesus teaches us to pray for our needs and shows us what our needs are. These last three petitions teach us that we are to bring our needs to the Father and show us what our most fundamental needs are. Jesus taught us to pray for these things to show us that these are what we most truly need.
      So what does the child of God need? What requests does our Father want us to make?
      For Him to Meet our Daily Needs - “Give us this day our daily bread.”
      For Him to Forgive our Regular Sins - “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”
      For Him to Keep us from Sinful Situations - “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”
      Your Father wants you to bring everything to Him in prayer, whether small or insignificant. The same Father who calls us to pray for His name to be hallowed, kingdom to come, and will to be done is the same Father who wants us to recognize our need for His grace to make it through the morning. And He delights in meeting us in these most basic needs.
      20 min
    4. 135 - The Kingdom and Will of God: Matthew 6:10
      The Lord’s Prayer begins with a petition for God’s name to be hallowed. God receiving the glory, honor, and worth He deserves is to be the goal of our praying and living because it is the goal of everything. However, we are immediately confronted by a hurdle we must jump over to understand this. His name is not hallowed in the earth as it should be.
      God’s name is hallowed when His kingdom comes and will is done. However, what are these about anyways? Join me in this week’s episode as we explain and explore these truths.
      20 min
    5. 134 - Hallowed Be Thy Name: Matthew 6:9

      What should be the priority of our prayers? 

      What should be the priority of our lives? 

      The priority of our praying and living must be the glory of God. 

      Jesus sets this as the priority in the model prayer. The priority is God and His glory.  Jesus wants the priority of our praying to be the glory of God because the glory of God must be the priority of our lives. We pray hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, and thy will be done because God's glory is the priority. 

      16 min
    6. 133 - Our Father: Matthew 6:9

      Before Jesus gets into the what and why of prayer, He is clear about who we are praying to. We are not praying to a distant deity or weak person, but to a good and glorious Heavenly Father. This is where we must begin in our study through the Lord's Prayer. Our prayer lives are often weak, anemic, and cold because we don't view God as we ought.

      This week, I show you two truths about who we are praying to from Matthew 6:6. 

      • God the Father is our Father. 
      • God the Father is our God. 


        • We must know and be reminded of who we are praying to again and again. 

        16 min

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      Taught by Grace is a podcast set upon descending into the mine of the Bible to pull out the gold within the pages of Scripture so that Christians may know how to live by God's grace and for His glory.