Walking With Our Master

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We should want to be perfect but we know that the harder we try, the more we fail.  We just cannot attain perfection, especially as we try to on our own.

In this episode I look at focusing on progress rather than perfection and bring some encouraging words from scripture of how we can do this and why this is acceptable to God.

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Many of us are familiar with the parable of the wise and foolish builders.  It is a favorite parable of many.  So too is the song written by Edward Mote by the same title in which he declares, and so do we declare that we build on the foundation of Jesus Christ so that when the storms of life come upon us, we stand firm.

I invite you to join me in some thoughts about this wonderful parable that speaks to all of us in a very real way.  

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We know that as disciples, we must share our faith.  Doing so at work can offer some challenges.  In this episode I want to discuss this topic and present some ideas and considerations that will help us share our faith at work.  I hope you'll join me as we walk daily with our Master.  

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There are a lot of big words in scripture, especially the Old Testament.  And these words are hard to pronounce and understand.  There are also many words that are as clear as can be and very powerful.

In this episode I look at one of the biggest little words in scripture.  It only has two letters; "if".  This word is used a lot and always carries tremendous meaning.

I'm going to focus on the wonderful and hope filled words from 1 John 1:5-10.  John uses the word, "if" 5 times as he provides us with how we can have confidence in the faithfulness of God, even when we are weak.

This information is based on a sermon presented by Jack McNiel at the Oak Grove Church of Christ.  https://www.ogchurchofchrist.org/Sermons/the-biblical-word-if/

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If there is anything we share it is that all of us have experienced suffering at some level.  I often marvel at the resiliance and grace others express as I know the suffering they are enduring.  

A question that is often asked is why God allow suffering.  Isn't He all powerful and all loving?  How then can He allow suffering to happen to His greatest creation.

In this episode I try to present some thoughts about this question.  I don't have all the answers.  In fact, I continue also to have questions.  But this I know.  I serve a loving God who gave His Son Jesus to suffer so that one day I and others can see an end to all suffering as we stand in His presence.

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As we continue in the series of episodes featuring the original 12 apostles we now come to the final one, Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Christ.  He was chosen by Jesus and given every opportunity and lesson just as the other 11.  Yet he chose to put his own selfishness ahead of Jesus.  As a result he lost all for eternity.  

In this episode we will look at this tragic life so we can see that it is insanity to not follow Jesus.   Judas was a man who had given his life to Christ but not his heart.

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We get asked a lot of questions as Christians.  Sometimes a challenge is asked in the form of a question.  One such common question we might ask or be asked of us is, "Is it wrong?"  Quite often this question is asked as a way to justify behavior.

In this episode I look at this question from the perspective that there might be a better question to ask.  I'll also give some ideas of how to answer the question.

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Once I attended a professional basketball game at an arena that held more than 10,000 fans.  As I looked around, it occurred to me that, except for my friend sitting next to me, no one in this mass of humanity knew, or cared who I was.  

There may have been a time when there were hundreds, maybe thousands around you, yet no one was noticing you.  Perhaps you have seen others recognized for great things or promoted to higher levels of responsibility and wished you also could receive such recognition.  We might expect this to have been the feelings of the three men in this episode at some point in their discipleship.  Yet, as we study them, later we realize this likely never crossed their minds.

Not everyone can be recognized as a champion.  Not everyone will receive acclaim for his or her deeds.  But in the Kingdom of God, we receive our crown of glory by honoring the Lord and showing Him to others.  That is what marks these three men.  They might be seen as obscure and ordinary, among the obscure and ordinary, yet they are shining stars in the Kingdom.

These three men represent all the “silent saints” serving our Lord faithfully in obscurity.  We may not know of their service, but our Lord knows.  They are the ones using their talents in silent service as they feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty, welcome strangers, cloth the naked, and visit the sick and imprisoned.  Their names will ring out in eternity.

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The Prattville church of Christ family is made up of wonderful Christians seeking to honor our Lord and grow together with each other.  One such wonderful family is Russ and Ginger Knowles.  This couple has been an important part of our life for more than 23 years now.  They both are quick to serve and encourage others as together we walk with our Master.

I invite you to listen to this episode and get to know this special family.

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In the ongoing series, Twelve Were Chosen, we are looking at the apostles.  In this episode we review information about Matthew and Thomas.    

We’ve been emphasizing through these lessons that these ordinary men, with the exception of Judas, allowed our Lord to change their lives.  Because of their change, they were able to reach incredible levels of service to our Lord.  All of us have characteristics and traits in our life that we do not like.  Perhaps these were what drove us to Christ in the first place.  Just like Matthew and Thomas, the subjects of this episode, we can find a change and continue to grow into what we should when we turn to our Savior, Jesus.

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