The learning-to-thrive Podcast

The learning-to-thrive Podcast

By David HigginbothamReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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The learning-to-thrive Podcast episodes

  • Episode 5: You Can Never Disappoint God

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    "God's love for you has nothing to do with how you've acted today, yesterday...or ever. His love for you has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with Him. He loves you because of who He is.

    He IS love!"


    The unsettled issue isn't on God's side—it's on ours. Will I believe/embrace this truth? Will I stop striving to earn his love and acceptance and receive it as His gift to me? Doing so makes all the difference in life.

     

     Disappointment is an emotional response to an unexpected event or

    outcome. Does God ever encounter unexpected events

    or outcomes in your life?

     

     

     

     

    20 min
  • Grace Thought #4- God Invites Us To Join Him On An Adventurous Journey...

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    Our Father invites us to join Him on an adventurous journey of learning to partner with Him as He impacts the world around us and through us through His Love!

    I had been on a decades-long journey of learning how to follow a series of religious rules and trying to act like Jesus or doing the best I knew how. That eventually brought little more than frustration and burnout because there is NO LIFE in following a Religious System! Life only comes from Him and through learning to cooperate with Him!

    2 Cor 5:15 He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but live to Him who died for them.

    Jn 14:20 In that day [after the HS has come to you] you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

    • Read the whole chapter Jn. 14. See the emphasis on obeying MY NOTE: not THE Commandments, as in the Big 10, but MY Commands…as in LOVE ONE ANOTHER!
    • This is the focus of partnering with God…learning to Love others as He loves us and them!
    • Paul talked about being a co-laborer with Christ



      • 21 min
    • God Is Your Gracious Heavenly Father Who ALWAYS Sees You As His Beloved Child!

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      NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE…

      You have ALWAYS been the object of the love which flows from God’s Father Heart toward His creation. (John 3:16)

      Does God still love the world today as much as when He gave

      “His only begotten Son” to become the savior of the “World?”

      The parable of the prodigal son is a snapshot of God’s loving heart for His creation. This POV provoked the religious people of Jesus’ day, and STILL provokes the religious crowd of our day.

      All creation is held together in Christ, and if separated from Him, would cease to exist. (Col. 1:17)

      Our religion has taught us that only some people are actually loved & accepted by God; those who have jumped through the right hoops. The others can become loved by God if they jump through the right hoops too. This sets up a barrier that those who are addicted to religion can hide behind. “I’ve jumped through the right hoops to gain God’s love & acceptance…they can jump through the right hoops too to gain God’s love & acceptance too.”

       

      Becoming a child of God (through believing/trust/faith) speaks about the “Way of your being”(expression of your life) not the “Truth of your being” which is the Core Truth of your Identity.

       Existential Experience (the Expression of your Life- which is how you act in the moment) compared to Ontological Reality (Your Core Identity which God establishes).

      What about “you’re of your father the devil?”  Was Jesus saying they were demons? Or was it similar to when He said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan?” Was he saying Peter wasn’t a child of God? Was He saying the religious leaders were NOT children of Israel and God’s people? No, I don’t think so. He was saying, “The way you are acting is more like Satan’s children than God’s. Get your stuff together!”

      27 min
    • What About The Church?

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      Some Books Related To The Early Church 

      Pagan Christianity- Frank Viola & George Barna

      Reimagining Church- Frank Viola

      Finding Organic Church- Frank Viola

      Paul's Idea of Community- Robert J. Banks

       

       

       

       

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