This week we are starting the Fruits of the Spirit series, the first ever series on Sunday Scripture! We start with the first fruit listed in Galatians 5:22-23; Love. GALATIANS: 5:16-26 ROMANS 3:25-26 EPHESIANS 5:1-2 JOHN 12-17 1 JOHN 4:10-12 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7
Today, I'm discussing the story of the rich young man from the gospel of Matthew. (Matthew 19:16-30) We are called by Jesus to sell what we possess in order to place God above everything. In the case of the rich young man, it's money. In your case, it is whatever you put above God in your personal hierarchy.
This week, I am reflecting on a person's heart that I resent; my own. From when I was just getting married, that is. I am learning to forgive the old me, the person that didn't understand emotion and how to love, but has been shown how to love, what that means and where it comes from. I covered a few verses today; Ezekiel 36:26-32 Ezekiel 11:18-21 Acts 2:37-41 Acts 2:42-47
Today I am reading and discussing Jeremiah 17:1-11, as well as my new song that it's based on, "(Deceitful) Above All Things", which is out now. Our hearts are etched with sin, like the tribe of Judah that Jeremiah was prophesying to. We can't trust that heart, rather the regenerated heart that is only given through Christ.
Staying connected to the vine is the truth for a Christian. The outgrowth of the truth and connection is prayer, and the visible expression of that is love and joy.
This week we discuss the vine dresser, and I have a special "late October" friend stop to tell us what real sacrificial love is, and how we know it.
God will not waste his follower's suffering. This week I discuss Paul's description of being a good solider for Christ, in his second and final letter to Timothy.
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing...
Talking about one of the first major statements by Paul in his first letter to Corinth. In it, he explains to the rich and immoral city of Corinth just what the cross looks like to those who understand it's essence, and those who don't.
Foolishness Podcast w/ Brian Sumner: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foolishness-podcast-with-brian-sumner/id1453477359
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How do we know love? How do we show our love for God? How important is obedience?
We're all sinners. Not one of us can or will ever achieve sinless perfection. The question is not if we sin, it's when we sin and how we respond to it; do we follow the path of darkness, or do we repent and turn back towards the light?
Faith without works is dead? Yes! Salvation comes to us a free gift, but if a faith is truly active and alive within the body of the believer, the fruit of the spirit will produce works that glorify God as a result.
This is the 6th episode, although the first posted in podcast format.
This week, we discuss Paul's before and after understanding of his own sin nature in Romans 7:7-20.
"The Law and Sin What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. "
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2016. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
