For many years I was absolutely convinced that God didn't speak to me, He only spoke to a select few people in my lives, my pastor, my parents, my friends who were especially passionate Christians. But not me. I was spiritually deaf.

As I grew up I found out that I wasn't spiritually deaf, I had spiritually wedged my fingers in my ears! I had decided I couldn't hear from God and I was tasting from that fruit.

Over the years I started to realise that God spoke to me in a multitude of different ways, some more obvious than others but all just as valid. Not only that but I've found that most people who think God doesn't speak to them have on some level or another experienced at least a few of these ways.

There are so many but I've decided to share a few of the main ones He's used to speak to me over the years and how you can hear Him in those ways too.

Hope you enjoy the podcast!

This week in my weekly newsletter I discussed a book I had been reading and how I was trying to be more intentional with my priorities. I got a huge amount of positive feedback and figured I would make a podcast going into the topic in a bit more depth.

I've always lived with a strong understanding that every time we say yes to something we ultimately say no to everything else.

We find ourselves saying yes a lot more than no more often than not because we hate to hurt people's feelings or seem disinterested in helping them.

However in saying yes we commit to one thing and also commit to not doing anything else at that time.

When we say yes to working late we say no to playing with our kids.

When we say yes to an impromptu dinner with our friend who is in town for a visit we say no to a date night with our partner.

Only in establishing strong, healthy priorities in our lives to do make sure we are saying yes to the right things.

That's what this podcast is all about. I hope you enjoy it :)

Many of us in Christianity today hold the Bible in such high regard that we have managed to make it an idol. We value the book over the person who gave it to us.

In fact many still insist on calling the Bible - the "Word of God" which of course it isn't.

I frequently get asked questions about the process of sanctification and how it fits into the Christians' life in light of the message of the New Covenant.

The truth is it doesn't.

Sanctification is not a process.

Sanctification fits into our lives... it is in fact a very central part of what Christ has done... but the process is not something that fits into the Christian life. It's something we get to enjoy the fruits of.

Today we are going to unpack sanctification, what it means and what the Bible has to say about the process.

This week I want to talk about the importance of works.

I know what you are thinking… really? Phil Drysdale is going to talk about the importance of works?

Really?

Well buckle up because I sure am and I’m not going to sugar coat the topic either.

This week I'm taking a break from the usual podcast show and will be sharing with you a recent sermon from my trip to the States.

It's all about the topic of Faith... something we all know to be very important to the believer.

But I want to challenge you to listen to this sermon with an open heart to hear a very different perspective on an age-old topic.

What I want to propose to you in this podcast is that we as Christians are not called to grow our faith... rather we are called to lose it!

This week I'm going to tackle the topic of Tithing!

That's right. After the very successful blog I wrote on Tithing I figured I should really have an audio resource on that topic as well.

This is a topic many are deeply invested in so I'll try to tread as gently as I can and look in depth at the different aspects in which tithing is taught, through pre-law, the law, Malachi, Jesus, the Apostles and history.

With no stone uncovered it'll be a great resource if you've ever wondered what Christian giving should look like under the New Covenant.

This week I'm with my good friend Dan Heroy and we are going to be talking about 5 things that make many Christians mad.

If there's one thing I've noticed in my blogging and posting on social media it's that there are certain things that really make many Christians mad.

But why? Today Dan and I will be looking at some go these topics, what we can learn from this and how we can reach out to people with the good news in spite of our differences of opinion.

I don't know about you but I was brought up in a flavour of Christianity that didn't celebrate who we were as God's children.

Rather we put ourselves down, called ourselves sinners - would even say things like "I'm just a worm in God's sight."

This to me is crazy, I mean we are made in God's image and likeness - so how do we think talking poorly of ourselves in anyway glorifies Him?

We all occasionally do things that aren’t healthy, they aren’t good choices, they are damaging to ourselves and others around us.

So why if we are free from sin as Christians do we find ourselves struggling with sin so much?