[5 of 9] Community of Love

As we gather together to worship and fellowship during this Christmas holiday season, we realize that there is strength in numbers. And, there is love power when we build and operate in a community of love. That is what this week’s podcast is all about.

[4 of 9] Love Fu

Remember when Bruce Lee spoke about the art of fighting without fighting? Here is a Christian twist on that concept, our podcast on Love Fu.

[3 of 9] Quench Fires With Love

Have you seen cartoons of people who get so angry that steam shoots out of their ears? The fires of anger, hatred, murder and more can be extinguished with love. Check out this podcast to find out how.

[2 of 9] Resist Confrontation With Love

How do we resist confrontations with people who are just looking for a fight? We do that by walking in love. Listen to this insightful podcast (click here) to get the details!

[1 of 9] React to People With Love

What do you do when someone acts the absolute fool? They hurt you... they jump up in your grille... they wear out your very last nerve... what do you do? You walk in LOVE... that is what.

How?

Check out our podcast at http://bit.ly/76mNKV

Civil Disobedience?

It is interesting to hear about people who feel that they can quote Bible verses out of context as a way of getting a political point across.  Perhaps they should consider these verses:

¹FIRST OF all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men,
    ²For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way.
    ³For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior,
    ⁴Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth.

1st Timothy 2:1-4 [AMP]

http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/2009_16.mp3

God is our Daddy

Fourteen minutes of wisdom based upon the following scriptures:

For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.  Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].  (Hebrews 4:15-16 [AMP])

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.  For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!  The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.  (Romans 8:14-16 [AMP])

Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you.  For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.  Or what man is there of you, if his son asks him for a loaf of bread, will hand him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent?  If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him! (Matthew 7:7-11 [AMP])

To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God's sons].  And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!  Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.  (Galatians 4:5-7 [AMP])

http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/2009_13.MP3

Classic Podcast: Goodwill and Favor

http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/2009_16.mp3

Show me a sign of [Your evident] goodwill and favor, that those who hate me may see it and be put to shame, because You, Lord, [will show Your approval of me when You] help and comfort me. [Psalm 86:17 AMP]


Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice. [Isaiah 41:10 AMP]

Use What You Got

In this 14 minutes of wisdom, we look at two scriptures that tell us to use those gifts or talents given to us by God for His glory.

Podcast:  http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/2009_12.MP3

Don’t Do Things That God Hates

This podcast (http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/2009_11.MP3) provides seven minutes of wisdom on Proverbs 6:16-19:


 
¹⁶These six things the Lord hates, indeed, seven are an abomination to Him:
¹⁷A proud look [the spirit that makes one overestimate himself and underestimate others], a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸A heart that manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,
¹⁹A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord among his brethren.

Proverbs 6:16-19 (Amplified Bible)

Classic Podcast: Prayer

M.C. Hammer said, “We got to pray just to make it today.”   Word.

http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/Prayer.MP3

Classic Podcast: God is Real!

I saw atheist Christopher Hitchens on television revelling about the finding of bones that theoretically proves that man evolved and was not created in God’s image.  To that I reply, “Harrumph!”

God is real!

Listen to our Seven Minutes of Wisdom: http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/God_Is_Real.mp3

Classic Podcast: Perilous Times

The Apostle Paul tells us that perilous times will happen in the last days. Well, read today's newspaper or watch a half-hour of CNN and you will soon come to realize which days we are living in today!

http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/PerilousTimes.MP3

Schisms

1^st Corinthians 12:25 says, “So that there should be no division or discord or lack of adaptation [of the parts of the body to each other], but the members all alike should have a mutual interest in and care for one another.”

But how often do we see just the opposite within the church, the body of Christ?

Check it out: http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/schisms.MP3

Classic Podcast: Hot Stove

Here comes another blast from the past from the Powerhouse.  You can’t always get what you want... but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.  What are we tawkin’ bout?   Take a listen to these seven minutes of wisdom from the Powerhouse... and let them be a blessing to you.

http://www.link2power.org/podcasts/Hot_Stove.MP3

We Gots to Pray!

1 Timothy 2 (AMP)

¹FIRST OF all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men,

²For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way.

Classic Podcast:: Mission POSSIBLE

This seven minutes of wisdom will not self-destruct after playing... and you won’t self-destruct after listening... but hopefully satan will self-destruct. This classic podcast is a precursor to our upcoming book, “Please Don’t Feed the Athiests.”

Classic Podcast: Prick Kicking

This isn’t what you are thinking... you need to listen to this podcast to learn what it means to kick (or not kick) against the pricks...

Classic Podcast: Jesus is Coming Back!

Jesus will return to this earth in power and in majesty and in all of His glory. Does that excite you? Does that worry you? If His timing isn’t what you would like it to be, would it be an inconvenience?

Classic Podcast: Elimelech

Elimelech literally means “My God is King” or “God is my King.” Unfortunately, this man’s actions did not match up with what he was called. Hey, we are called Christians -- but do our actions match up with what we are called?

Protecting Your Children

In Titus chapter two, Paul gives instructions on how mature and experienced Christians are to give support and guidance to our youth. Get off your pew and get in some faces!

Don't Die. Live!

It is not worth killing yourself over. Whatever it is going on in your life... change your mind and your circumstances will follow!

Don't Look Back -- Part 2 of 2

Part Two of “Don’t Look Back” -- we continue with a look at Isaiah 43:10.

Don't Look Back -- Part 1 of 2

Part One of “Don’t Look Back” -- we investigate how rejection becomes a big problem for people and then study about how Lot’s wife is a cautionary tale for those of us who fail to move forward!

Jesus is the Way Out!

Suicide is not the way out of your problems... it is a way into big trouble if you don't know the Lord. No, JESUS is the way out. Follow Him as your pathway to success and enlightenment.

Cement Shoes?

In Matthew 18:5-7, Jesus uses what some might call Mafia language, in suggesting that anyone who would lead a young child into temptation should receive the equivalent of Cement Shoes. Today, there are so many pressures put upon the youth... just don’t be a person who is responsible for tempting a young person into sin... or else!

Casting Your Cares Upon the Lord

Why worry and lose sleep?

Why worry and lose peace?

Why worry and lose your mind?

Cast your cares and worries on the Lord and He will take care of everything.

Psalm 55:22-23 (AMP) says:

“Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail). But You, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in, lean on, and confidently rely on You.”

1^st Peter 5:7 (AMP) says:

“Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.”

How do you do this?  How do you cast your cares on the Lord?

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ALSO:

Read our blogs on the subject of casting your cares upon the Lord.  They provide comforting scriptures that will help you cast your cares and walk burden-free and worry-free.

1. Cast Your Cares - Part 1
2. Cast Your Cares - Part 2
3. Judypie: Cast Your Care
4. Strength in Difficult Times
5. Spiritual Strength
6. Suicide Ain’t Painless
7. Having Done All... Stand
8. Perfect Peace
9. In The Time of Trouble
10. No Condemnation
11. Hope, the Anchor of the Soul
12. Worry
13. In the Midst of the Storm
14. Psalm Eight
15. How Much Do You Really Trust God
16. Perfect Peace
17. Joy and Gladness
18. Being Rejected

It Ain't Worth Dying Over

People are killing themselves as a result of the tough times we are living in... but there is a way out of these troubles. The way out is through the door. The DOOR is Jesus Christ (John 10:9-10).

Part one of our album, “Never Give Up... Never Surrender.”

Abortion

The murder of an abortion provider has exploded the topic across America. But does murdering doctors fulfill God's will? Does picketing abortion clinics really advance the Lord's agenda, or is there perhaps a more proactive stance that the church might take?

Faith - Part 7

The final podcast in our seven-part series on faith.

Faith - Part 6

By now, you should be a faith giant...

Faith - Part 5

Faith continues...

Faith - Part 4

Midway through our series of podcasts on faith...

Faith - Part 3

Our series on faith continues...

Faith - Part 2½

Faith in our being children of God, and in the soon return of Jesus Christ, will carry us through these difficult economic and tragic times.

Faith - Part 2

Part two in our seven part series of podcasts on faith...

Faith - Part 1

Our 7-part series of podcasts on faith begins...

Walk in Love and Avoid Strife -- God Will Defend You!

We know that people are often used by satan to cause problems for us. We also know that God is a mighty defender Who will fight our battles. The next important point is to remember that when we walk in love and avoid strife, we may with confidence leave all conflicts in God's hands... where they will be far better dealt with than in your own. Click here to listen to this podcast.

Debt of Love

We owe an ongoing debt of love.  One more episode from our “Meditations on Love, Volume One” series.

Unity of Love

The next-to-last segment in our series, “Meditations on Love, Volume One.”

More Love... More Power!

The church doesn't have the power today that it had in the olden days... even though we have greater accessibility to scriptural resources today than ever before. To have power, we must walk in love. When we walk in love, we can experience the joy of the Lord, which is our strength.

Community of Love

Meditations on Love, Volume One continues...

Love Fu

Our “Meditations on Love, Volume One” continues with more on the art of fighting without fighting, Love Fu.

Work Out Your Salvation

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Philippians 2:12 (Amplified Bible) says:

Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).

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Quench Fires With Love

From our “Meditations on Love, Volume One” series, learn how to put out fires by loving people.

Resist Confrontation With Love

From our “Meditations on Love, Volume One” series, on resisting confrontations with people by walking in love.

React to People With Love

The first in our series, “Meditations on Love, Volume One.”

From Jihad to Jesus

Joel Rosenberg told us about a man in Iraq who transformed from a Jihad leader to a Christian Pastor.

2009: Doing God's Will?

Will we do the Lord's will in 2009, or will it be business as usual?

2009: A New Year

A new year with a new focus... and a renewed urgency to share the gospel with this world.

Teen Suicide, Part 3

The holiday season is one of depression and suicide for many. The final part of this series of Seven-Minutes-of-Wisdom includes scriptures to help those tempted by thoughts of suicide.