328 – How do you quit being influenced by others?

Have you ever worked hard to quit making the same mistakes or committing the same sins and finally got your life cleaned up and straightened out, when someone, maybe even an old friend, tries to pull you back into that old life style? 

You feel negatively influenced by others to do things you don’t want to do.

It can be a pretty hard situation to deal with. But there are things you can do and new ways to think that will help you not to let others have a negative influence on you.

That’s what we’re talking about this week on Freedom Friday.

Show notes: thebiblespeakstoyou.com/328

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327 – What are you most hungry and thirsty for?

What do you want more than anything else in the world? To be successful, to have a great job and make lots of money, to have a loving family and good friends? 

Do you want to have a lot of power and influence? Do you want to make a difference in the world and help people who are less fortunate than you?

Maybe a better question is: What does God want you to do more than anything else? You may already have an answer for that and be working in that direction. 

But lots of folks these days are preoccupied with trying to get what they want and do what they want, without really thinking about what God wants them to do with their lives.

Then there are those folks who have all the outward signs of success but there’s still a hunger for something more meaningful, something more substantial. It’s a hunger that can only be satisfied by things of the Spirit.

In this episode, we’re going to talk about 

• What it means to be hungry for spirituality
• How this kind of hunger can be satisfied
• The blessing that comes as a result

What happens when you experience and are filled with the righteousness of God? You can’t keep it to yourself. You will be blessed and your light will shine and become a blessing to everyone you come in contact with. 

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Show notes:  For a full transcript of this episode and all Bible verses mentioned, go to thebiblespeakstoyou.com/327.

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326 – FREEDOM FRIDAY

How do you deal with judgmental people?

Have you ever been talking to someone who gets very judgmental of you because of mistakes you've made in the past, things you're not still doing, attitudes and actions that you have left behind, but they want to keep you in the past?

Do you know how to deal with judgmental people like this?

Maybe it's not on purpose, but they make you feel guilty all over again for something that happened a long time ago. 

In their mind they just can't see all the changes and progress in your life. And they don't see who you have become and where you're going now. This can be so frustrating at times. 

In this episode of Freedom Friday, we talk about a few things you can do when people get judgmental.

Let me know what works best for you.

Show notes: Full transcript at thebiblespeakstoyou.com/326

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325 – Does your life ever feel incomplete?

How often do you feel like there’s something missing in your life? 

It could be a relationship, a better job, enough money to pay the bills, better health. It could go deeper than that. 

You might feel like your life is incomplete because you don’t know what your higher sense of purpose is, and if you do, you’re not sure how to fulfill it. 

Why is it that most of us at some time or another feel like something is missing in our lives? We don’t feel complete or whole. Maybe even if you have all the outward signs of success, on the inside, you may still feel incomplete.

In this week’s episode, we’re going to talk about Jesus’s perspective on what it means to be whole and how to catch his vision to experience our wholeness, our completeness as children of God.

If Jesus was here today physically like he was 2,000 years ago, he would see your wholeness and show it to you.

The good news is Christ is here today revealing your spiritual wholeness to you through the Holy Spirit. 

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SHOW NOTES: Full transcript and all Bible quotes––thebiblespeakstoyou.com/325

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324 - What do you do when someone won't forgive you?

Have you ever apologized to someone, but they won’t forgive you? 

They're still feeling hurt or betrayed and they just can’t bring themselves to forgive you.

It’s a pretty lousy feeling. And sometimes it seems like you can’t get on with your own life until there’s some reconciliation and you get that relationship healed.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. 

So what do you do when that happens? How do you pray and what do you do someone won’t forgive you?

That’s what we’re talking about this week on Freedom Friday.

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Show notes: Full transcript--thebiblespeakstoyou.com/324

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323 – You’ve probably heard of the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem when the Roman army destroyed it in 70 AD.

But have you ever wondered how that event is relevant to us today? 

What can you and I learn from the destruction of Jerusalem, now almost 2,000 years later?

Well, actually there’s a lot we can learn and my guest this week, Ward Sanford, and I are going to dig into some important lessons we need to learn, individually and collectively as the church, that can make all the difference how we function in the world.  

Spoiler alert: 

What happened during the four years, and especially just the week before the Roman army destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple should open our eyes to what’s going on today.

Show notes: Full transcript – thebiblespeakstoyou.com/323

Ward's Website: www.cryforjerusalem.com

Books:

Cry for Jerusalem

• Book 1 63-66 CE: Resisting Tyranny*
• Book 2 66-67 CE: Against All Odds*
• Book 3 67-69 CE: Growing Anarchy*
• Book 4 69-70 CE: Final Siege*

Josephus: The Antiquities of the Jews- complete works*

Eusebius: The Church History*

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322 – It's time to accept God's forgiveness

Have you ever had trouble accepting God’s forgiveness for mistakes you made or sins you committed? 

And you still feel a burden of guilt even though you’re not making those same mistakes or committing those sins anymore?

That’s what we’re talking about this week on Freedom Friday. Here are a few key points to help you in this process.

• Forgiveness is a gift from God
• You are worthy to accept this gift
• Confess your mistakes and sins to yourself and God
• Be honest and specific
• You can't earn God's forgiveness, it's a gift. But you do deserve it because God loves you as His child
• Thank God for His forgiveness
• Take time for Bible study and prayer
• Nurture and deepen your relationship with God

 Show notes: Full transcript--thebiblespeakstoyou.com/322

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321 – If Jesus came to your home town, what would he do?

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Jesus came to your community? 

Who would he talk to? Who would he preach to? Who would he heal? 

Who would be receptive to his message? 

Who would oppose him and try to stop him or get rid of him?

In this week’s episode, we dig into

• The way Jesus ministered to people in their communities 
• How some people were receptive to him 
• How others were opposed
• What’s going on in our communities today to see how we can get a better idea of how to be more like Jesus in the way we interact with people

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312 FF – Have you ever struggled to forgive yourself?

In this week's Freedom Friday episode, we're going to tackle what is sometimes one of the hardest things to do, forgive yourself.

I share my friend Jim's story where he learned to forgive his father and himself for things that happened years ago.

The thing that helped him the most was an odd little exercise I had him try. 

It worked!

And it's helped a lot of folks since then actually forgive themselves.

I'd love to hear how you have been able to forgive yourself.

Show notes: Full transcript of the episode at thebiblespeakstoyou.com/320

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319 – It's time to get back to Bible basics

Have you ever been in a conversation about the Bible with someone who is so caught up in some minute detail of something the Bible mentions only once, maybe twice? 

But the way the conversation is going, it sounds like it's the most important thing in the whole Bible?

Maybe you’ve seen it happen when you’re watching a Bible-based video on social media where all the attention is focused on something very obscure or rarely mentioned in the Bible. 

But they’re acting like it’s the key that unlocks the mysteries of the universe.

Sometimes the human mind gets distracted by details that aren’t as important as we think they are, or try to convince others, they are.

In today’s episode, we’re talking about the deep need to stop getting distracted by peripheral bits of Bible information and to focus more on the overall and more important messages of the Bible.

How would you summarize the main themes in the Bible. At the end of the episode you'll hear the five things I came up with.

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Show notes: For a full transcript and all the Bible quotes in this episode: thebiblespeakstoyou.com/319

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