Just a short episode today, musing on an intriguing verse from Zephaniah

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/07/01/from-unclean-to-pure-lips-2/

Understanding the Discipline of Fasting (Biblical Foundations for the Christian Faith)

Why Should I Fast? (Cultivating Biblical Godliness) Kindle Edition, by Daniel R. Hyde. $2.99 Kindle, $4.78 booklet

Blog series at GTY.org by Don Green-

The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 1: Fasting in the Old Testament

Fasting, Prayer, and Humiliation for Sin by Arthur Hildersham, $9.99 kindle version only at Amazon, but available as hardcover book at Reformation Heritage Books on sale for $8.00.

Other resources I have not read but can recommend are:

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Don Whitney. Chapter nine deals exclusively with fasting.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ book on his sermon series from Matthew deals quite a bit with fasting. Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. You will find lots of online quotations from Lloyd-Jones from his sermon on fasting

Ligonier has a devotional on New Testament oaths.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/30/fasting-what-is-it-should-i-do-it-and-how-should-i-do-it/

It's summer time, and a lot of people head to the beach. Did you ever try to stand in the sand when the waves come up and wash over your feet? You can't stay, your feet sink into the sand too fast.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/28/standing-in-the-sand/

Pastors have a greater responsibility and a greater judgment, says James 3:1. Jesus called woe unto the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 23:14, saying they make long prayers for a pretense, and therefore will endure a greater condemnation. What do we think Jesus would think about making a pretense of His word in sermons? Woe unto them who make a pretense of preaching!

SHOWNOTES

Greear's 'whisper' sermon from Romans, "How the Fall Affects us All"

Ed Litton's sermon "Born to Be Wild"

Sermon mashup comparing Greear's Romans sermon with Litton's

Paul David Tripp's recounting a scene in the Hindu Temple, called "Idol Worshipers"

Side-by-side comparison of the Hindu scene of Greear and Tripp: https://theendtimedotorg.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/hindu-scene.jpg

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/26/jd-greear-and-ed-littons-sermons-on-homosexuality-a-mashup-that-exposes-eerie-similarities-updated-w-new-info/

What do they forget? this SAME Jesus is coming back, and he will judge the living and the dead, and we believers will be evaluated on the one job we had as Ambassadors.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/25/this-is-what-they-forget-2/

I use proper interpretation, scripture and commentaries from noted theologians to explain answers to prophecy questions and more. Prophecy is the ultimate encouragement because it demonstrates the faithfulness of Jesus and His sovereign control over all things, including the history of man.

My eBook, Prophecy in Grace, is available at Amazon

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/24/my-ebook-prophecy-in-grace/

Three years ago this week, a group of Christian men gathered in Texas to hammer out a Statement to affirm the Gospel and to deny the social justice movement. The Social Justice Movement (SJ) and its philosophies had been infiltrating into evangelical churches. The result was a published "Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel". Three years later we see that their warnings were correct.

Click on the link below for lots of links to the resources mentioned.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/23/they-were-right-now-you-know-who-to-follow/

Praising God for the innumerable graces he bestows upon us daily.

Links:

Providence And Common Grace by RC Sproul

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/22/summer-one-of-the-common-graces-of-life/

In the audio I'd said that in the gospel of Matthew Jesus tells Matthew to throw out his hook and line, but of course I meant Peter.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/21/short-shots-fish-barley-mustard-seed-sycamore-tree/